Winter 2015

Pat Moran (now deceased):

Greetings from the "central highlands,”  the high chaparral country of northern Arizona.  At this writing a few weeks be­fore Christmas, we are enjoying moderate 50s-60s weather with low 20s in the mornings.  Pretty nice weather for those of us who don't particularly like the cold.

Have you noticed as we age that everything seems to either shrink or leak?!

When the people fear the government, it's called anarchy.  When the government fears the people, it's called liberty.

I received a very pleasant phone call and subsequent letter from Fred Arnold (deceased), who with wife, Bert, lives in a 55 and older community in Upper Gwynedd, Pa.  I used to travel that area (Lansdale, Blue Bell) when I was selling.  I remember it well.  Fred says his main pastime is painting (watercolors), mostly landscapes and wildlife.  He plays tennis occasionally, when he can find three "healthy seniors”  for doubles.  Fred and Bert travel annually to some region of the world (Bert has been to over 108 countries).  So, how many new places are left to visit?!  Bert just completed her first book, Somewhere Out There:  A Memoir, the story of her 15 1/2 years in an orphanage in the Depression and WWII years and the trauma and pain she endured.  The book is get­ting good press and is available at Barnes & Noble or through Amazon.  Thanks, Fred, for a great update.  Good luck to you and Bert.  See you at our 65th.

Latest update from the traveling Erdmans, Bill and Kay.  They have been to Puerto Morelos, Mexico, 30 miles south of Cancun.  They snorkeled on a coral reef, toured several Mayan ruins, swam in the Cenote Boca del Puma (fancy name for seven sinkholes).

Speaking of traveling, Dick Schmidt (deceased), my Arizona "neighbor,”  recently completed an odyssey that took him and Carolyn to Maine, PA, and NJ.  Part of the PA segment was to honor the 1950 undefeated Lehigh football team at the Penn game.  What a hoot it must have been, to see those "olde”  footballers, all of them in their mid-80s, trot or shuffle onto the field!  God bless them!  In the NJ  part of the trip, Dick got back to his old hometown, Bound Brook, and to "the shore"—Manasquan, Point Pleasant and Normandy Beach.  Those names bring back memories to your correspondent.  Then they traveled back to Maine, where Carolyn has many relatives.  They made a trip to L.L.  Bean and spent some time in the Maine mountains.  Dick, you get high marks for stamina.  What a trip!

Thanks, '52'ers, for your letters, emails and phone calls.  I love hearing from you and passing it on to the class.  Keep them coming in 2016!

Deceased

• Daniel A Jenks
• Samuel R McClure
• John C Miller
• Donald Patterson Jr
• J Thomas Quigg
• J W Reynolds
• William E Wilson
• Robert S Youry