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paying jobs to me originally.  She should not be working for the University & must resign in June, to everyone's regret, when a qualified man steps in; for three years one couldn't be found.  Due to the nepotism rule here she can't work -- her husband is a professor.  I don't much like that rule.

This week end we and two other couples -- including the DeWits -- are going out to Kickapoo State Park, which is about 30 miles from here.  It'll be about the first signs of spring by then, I hope.  We have barely had crocuses here as yet and robins and grackles have only recently become numerous.  Before long there'll be another picnic at Kickapoo -- when Rossi, Jack's sub-boss, leaves in about a month or two weeks.  Kickapoo was an old strip mine, which resulted in small hillocks and numerous ponds over several hundred acres.

Your hairy woodpeckers sound interesting.  Did we ever tell you of watching the confused woodpecker?  The elm he had his hole in was removed, & for days afterword he would come gliding in, find no tree, & try again & again.

Love,
Doris