1934

First of all, thanks so much to you guys and dolls for your lovely Christmas cards and your letters and get well cards to Nina. She has been improving, even though slightly, from the stroke that she had 21/2 years ago. She is still on a walker but is able to dress herself, get meals and go out for dinners once in a while, but her travel days are over.

Jim Shea Jr., grandson of our classmate Jack Shea, who won two speed skating gold medals in the 1932 Olympics, will probably not be in the coming Olympics. We haven't heard how he made out in the final two heats of the national skeleton team trials in Calgary in late October but he was in 10th place after the first two heats held in Lake Placid, New York, in early October. He needed to finish third or higher to make the U.S. World Cup Team. If anyone knows how he made out, please let me know.

Received a nice letter from our classmate Boardman Veazi, who attended our soth-year reunion but hasn't been able to make any others. He enjoyed reading the article "Running Uphill" in the DAM about Ellie Noyes. "Board," if you recall, won a gold medal in 1932 at the BAA games in Boston for the mile relay—he ran the second leg but modestly claims the race was really won by the anchor—Ellie Noyes.

Sadly we report the deaths of Jeff Jackson, Witten McConnochie, Gardner Brown and one of the stalwarts of our class who never missed our mini-reunions, Oscar Cohn.

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