The long winter days in Hanover are slowly yielding to the bright sunshine of March. For some of us, this means fine spring skiing. Still heading downhill regularly is Monk Bancroft; he’s been patrolling the slopes for injured skiers at Mad River Glen since prep school days. Monk says that he’s the only one left from our generation who is certified to bring folks down the mountain. Schuss!


Gary Gilson’s one-man show of memoir and humor, called You Don’t Have to Be Jewish…But It Couldn’t Hurt!, was presented recently at the annual Minneapolis Jewish Humor Festival. It’s based on Gary’s childhood with his father, a former carny, and the Damon Runyon characters who hung out in his father’s back-room bingo parlor, plus his mother’s family of show-business folk. Coupled with the zany characters he worked with (and against) in his years in television, Gary says, “How could I not have great stories to tell?” His goal is to create a second career and take the show around the country. Watch for it in your area!


You can find love anywhere. Bob McCollom met his wife, Judy, a retired schoolteacher, at a Vermont Animal Rescue fundraising event where they were volunteers. When they both realized it was more than puppy love, they got married. They now live in Massachusetts with their two Shih Tzu rescue dogs.


David B. Keith keeps busy with the Kiwanis Club, particularly the Reading is Fundamental literacy program for young children. They have supplied each of the five elementary schools in the Ocala, Florida, area with five books each for the past 10 years. Pilot David says, “Florida has nice flying weather but this is becoming irrelevant. I miss the four seasons since moving here in 2001.”


Drive-through surgery isn’t totally here yet, but it took Happy Griffiths, spouse of Clark Griffiths, just three hours in and out of the hospital to have her gall bladder removed. Is this a world record?


Word has been received that Harry Padgett III has passed away.


—Bruce Sloane, 124 Hull School Road, Sperryville, VA 22740; (540) 987-8859; bsloane@wildblue.net