Plaudits to piano-player par excellence Skip Unger, who recently retired after many years as the Forty-Niner newsletter editor. Skip told me his health was good but it was “just time for a change.” Maybe he ran out of limericks. In Skip’s honor, here’s my favorite from all-time limerick champ Ogden Nash.

“There was a young man from Japan

Whose limericks never would scan

When asked why this was

He replied with a buzz

Because I always try to jam everything into

the last line that I possibly can.”

Skip’s successor is the San Francisco foghorn—initials Q.K.—who likes to write as well as vocalize. Make his life easier by sending in your Green Cards.

Charlie Russell called in from his townhouse opposite NASA headquarters in Houston, where he continues to live independently. Almost 96, Charlie still drives and has no major ailments. Charlie earned his master’s and Ph.D. from Columbia and spent his career teaching and administrating in smaller colleges and universities in New York, New England, and Texas.

Paul Woodberry sent me an article from the Brunswick (Georgia) News about his great adventure during multiple missions on a B-26 bomber during the Korean War. That aspect of Paul’s life was the springboard for an illustrious business career.

Joel Berson has relocated to Sarasota, Florida, from his 65-year residence in New York City. Battling Alzheimer’s disease, he is in the same assisted-living facility as Tom Towler, who is dealing with Parkinson’s.

George Willard Piper died on April 10 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he was raised and where he returned after graduating from Dartmouth. George spent his career as a sales executive with Mueller Co., a Chattanooga-based manufacturer and distributor of fire hydrants, valves, and other water-related products. He is survived by four daughters and a son.

—John Adler, 75 Silo Circle, Riverside, CT 06878; (203) 622-9069; (203) 637-3227 (fax)