1955

The Yaktrax on my shoes help as I spread the Snow Melt. I think about the 80 happy people heading to Savannah, Georgia, for our April 3 reunion led by Bob Garver, Sandy Phillips and Dave Walton. Nineteen are first-time attendees.

February will find Lee Spelke in national and international squash tournaments playing doubles in the 75-plus category. Lee traveled to Mongolia and the Gobi Desert with the Massachusetts Audubon Society. Ulan Bator, the capital city, has one-third of the 3 million population. The rest are scattered over the 1.5 million square miles of this vast country. The objective was primarily to see the birds, plants and animals. They saw wild camels, wild horses and ibex. Lee found the people to be very friendly and sociable. Eight nights in tents, temperature in the 30s, no showers. His next trip is to Uganda to see the birds, gorillas and beautiful tropical vegetation.

Johnny and Pat Dell Isola are in Winter Haven, Florida, for the winter. They attended the wedding of their son Bobby'83 in England. One hundred friends gathered, many from Dartmouth. John and Pat have 10 grandchildren, with only two of them girls, and good hockey players among them. They keep up with Jim and Betty Jo Nelson, Pete and Annie Teal, Ralph and Carol Sautter, Larry and Patti Veator, Web and Rosemarie Wilde and Jill Hennigar (we all miss "Red").

Bruce Alexander is chairman of the capital gifts campaign at the Milton (Massachusetts) Hospital. He is also chairman of the Cunningham Foundation with its 110-acre property of ball fields, the largest outdoor filtered swimming pool east of the Mississippi and walking trails. The Town of Milton runs programs of various types, including helping the special needs population. The trust restricts use for the benefit of Milton residents and is run 100 percent by volunteers. Next September we hope to listen to Bruce sing in an all-male choir of more than 200. They are expected to perform in Carnegie Hall.

Lynmar Brock continues as treasurer and his son Andrew has become CEO and president of the 82-year-old Brock & Co., which provides contract food services for schools and institutions from Virginia to Vermont and out to Colorado. He is chairman of the promotions committee at the International Rotary meeting in Los Angeles in June. You may remember Lyn was chairman of the International Rotary Committee from 2001 to 2004, helping to enable survival of 50,000 Afghan refugees from the Taliban. Lyn traveled many times to the Baluchistan area of Pakistan. The elders asked that their people be taught English and wanted to hear news of and be connected to the wider world—not true of the Taliban.

He continues on the board of Pierce College, now a healthy school of 2,700 with students from 43 states and six foreign countries, and as chairman of the Kendal Corp., a notfor-profit leader in the continuing care retirement community industry, founded "on a tradition of Quaker values and respect for the individual."

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