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says, for moving. He wanted to be nearer his married daughter and family (only 100 miles to Reno), and he wanted a warmer climate in the winter (average there in January is 46°F). Before they moved there, they had seen the town several times and took the local paper for five years, checking on real estate ads. He is two miles from the center of town, has an acre of land with a fine view, and gets an inch of water, 11.5 gpm from the Pacific Gas and Electric Company to ditch--"70 lb. static pressure at the house." He has all the work he wants gardening, pruning fruit trees, and keeping up the house. He and his wife are enjoying retirement very much. As he put it, it rains there in the winter but not in the summer; the low humidity and cool nights from the summer are ideal. With no rain from the last of April until October they have to water lawns at least once a week.

And so the column comes to a close. It's now just about a month until the 45th Reunion. Remember: one of the reasons Steve Brophy sent you a 1916 Geographic Register was to aid you in calling or writing to, say, five others and urging attendance at the reunion, June 9, 10, 11, Oyster Harbors Club, Osterville. Finally, many thanks to the many who have written in, and if it just happens that you have not been quoted in the column during the last 12 months, now is a good time to send in that little written contribution. See you in June.--Harold F. Dodge, Secretary, 96 Briarcliff Road, Mountain Lakes, N.J.; Thomas D'A. Brophy, 45th Reunion Chairman, 470 Park Avenue, New York 22, N.Y.; James M. Evans, 45th Reunion Secretary, 451 Van Houten Street, Paterson, N.J.

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Will you join the secretary in a salute to Regional Vice Presidents of the class whose efforts in contacting every member of the class over the next few months will bring news items from many whom we have not heard from for a long time. These Regional V.P.'s are: Tubby Strout for New England; Ken Lane for New Jersey; Tom Meloy for the Southeastern states; Dick Lyons for the Texas area; Frank Peacock for the Middle West; and Neal Tourtellotte for the West Coast.

An Allied Chemical news release from February reads: "C. C. Coakley, Director of Operations for Allied Chemical's National Aniline Division, has retired after 43 years with the Company. Mr. Coakley began his career with Allied Chemical at the Marcus Hook, Pa., plant as a chemist in 1917. In 1923 he transferred to National Aniline's Buffalo, N. Y., plant as operating superintendent. Between 1923 and 1946, Mr. Coakley was promoted to other positions including superintendent of maintenance and assistant plant manager in charge of Engineering, Maintenance, Construction and Power. In 1946, he was promoted to plant manager of the Buffalo plant, a position he held until 1955 when he became director of operations and transferred from Buffalo to the general offices in N. Y. City. Two years later, Mr. Coakley was moved to the Chesterfield, Va., plant in the same capacity. He is a former director of the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce; member of the Buffalo Club, Buffalo, N. Y.; the Rotunda Club, Richmond, Va.; the American Chemical Society; American Institute of Chemical Engineers; and was one of the organizers of the Technical Societies Council of the Niagara Frontier. A licensed engineer in New York State, Mr. Coakley and his wife Claudia, reside in Richmond, Va." Coak advises that he has no particular plans for the present and will continue to live in Richmond, Va. ... Warren L. Tapley, who lives in West Falmouth, Mass. says: "My wife and I are living a life of ease on Cape Cod. I have been retired since January, 1960. I have a daughter living in Connecticut who has three hectic children; two boys and a girl. We are able to stand the racket for an occasional visit, and they all come to the Cape for a month during the summer. My health is O.K. Outside of a 'plumbing job' which was not serious, I am still in good operating condition."

Stuart Gurney of Stoughton, Mass., has an interesting retirement story: "I have been retired now four years and have not found it a particularly painful experience. Knowing this retirement business was coming up, I bought, about 14 years ago, a piece of land on the outskirts of Stoughton of about 20 acres, within reasonable commuting distance from Boston where my office was located. I was always interested in growing things, and I had already exhausted the possibilities of the usual background garden and had even gone somewhat into hydroponics for lack of space. The land I bought was varied in character; in fact it proved to be a veritable museum of eastern Massachusetts soil types, all the way from deep rich loam to pure sand and gravel. It is mostly wooded with a pond and swamp and a couple of good hay fields.

"I put in a few fruit trees, and tried out in various locations about every fruit and vegetable crop that will grow in this climate, and a few that will not. In the past several years I have developed a program that supplies all the fruit and vegetables that we can use each years, making use of processes of freezing and preserving, and storing enough in the cellar to cover the whole year. Since it is impossible to limit such a program to our own small personal needs, I sell the excess, which some years is considerable, locally at retail. With experience, it is no particular trick to beat the quality of the supermarket fruit and vegetable departments. The cash pays for seeds, fertilizer, insectides, power equipment, etc., and leaves a little over. Strawberries are the biggest cash crop but the trouble with them is that I haven't found a variety of quality that doesn't interfere with class reunion time. With one exception I have avoided farm animals because they demand daily attention. The exception was a pair of toulouse geese. They produced very efficiently, but the original gander and the male offspring developed the habit of chasing off everybody, with no discrimination at all between friends and itinerant salesmen. They became so obstreperous that we finally ate them. In retrospect they were so delicious that I think they were worth the trouble. I would do it again if I could find a fearless man who would undertake to feed them when we wanted to go away for a week or two. Animals are out unless you want to stay home all the time. In the winter, there is plenty to do when the weather is suitable; cutting out trash trees, brush, fence poles, tomato stakes, firewood, etc. When the weather is too foul, I find more satisfaction than I thought possible in reading subjects that were not, for perfectly good reasons, included in the curriculum at M.I.T. in our day. I limit my nights out to district representation and the new public school building problem."

Tharratt G. Best writes: "My own record can be made rather brief. Mrs. Best and I are rapidly approaching our ruby anniversary. We have two daughters, both married, and three grandsons. I am supposed to be retired but find my days very full, being chairman of the Board of this bank, now nearly 100 years old. (First National Bank of Boonville, N.Y.) I am also chairman of the Municipal Commission for Light, Power and Water. I do a moderate amount of engineering and surveying locally, for towns, villages, school districts, corporations and individuals, but am now inclined to farm out the heavy jobs, where an acme of stamina is indicated. My hobbies are fishing, golf, gardening, travel, and also historical writing. The latter requires a lot of research but is intensely interesting. The days are simply too short, even at 68. Incidentally, I interview candidates for M.I.T. and ran the local campaign one year for the Annual Giving."... John Harper advises us: "I am still alive and toiling. Working for yourself is good job insurance, if you can maintain enterprise (Harper Oil Co., Long Island City, N.Y.) is a very small segment of the petroleum industry, and distinguished for its lack of romance and affluence."

John M. Martinez of New Haven, Conn., brings us up to date as follows: "I am a bachelor of long standing and have been retired from business for three and one-half years. I keep busy doing some committee work for the United Fund and also indulging in some of my hobbies: aviation, photography, and figure skating. I also like to go to concerts and attend lectures on interesting subjects. I do a moderate amount of reading and some library research on various subjects that crop up from time to time."...Clair E. Turner, who on the letterhead of the "International Union for Health Education of the Public" is listed as "Haut-Conseiller" sends the following: "I send this news note before taking off March for two months with the World Health Organization and UNESCO for a consultant assignment. Recent and current interests and activities are a third grandchild, the eleventh edition of 'Personal and Community Health,' advisory services to the International Union for Health Education, and

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