Pete andAnne Foster took a three-week trip last May sightseeing, absorbing Indian lore and collecting artifacts throughout the Southwest. Driving from Albuquerque, New Mexico, through numerous national parks they stopped at Navajo headquarters in Window Rock and drove through the Canyon de Chelly, where they took “scads of pictures of rock formations and ancient cliff dwellings.” They went through the Painted Desert, petrified forest and, en route to the Red Rock Monoliths of Sedona, Arizona, stopped at the Meteor Crater, which is 500 feet deep and large enough for 20 football fields. Their main event in Colorado was the Canyon of the Ancients, Mesa Verde, with its collections of huge cliff dwelling groups, where sizeable tribes prospered until a few hundred years ago. The finale of their trip was a 23-mile historic steam train through the mountains to visit an old mining town in Silverton maintained in its original setting. Pete entered Yale in 1944 and then spent 12 months in the V-5 naval air training program at Yale, the University of North Carolina and Saint Mary’s College of California. He was sent to Memphis Naval Air Station in August of 1945 to get his wings, but when the Navy decided they no longer needed new pilots he was discharged before coming to Dartmouth in 1946.


To those of us who are tired of maintaining homes and considering retirement communities, catch these excerpts from Ray Richard’s e-mail explaining why he missed a class meeting: “Apparently Thetford, Vermont, had the heaviest rainfall in the Upper Valley. Despite all efforts to wet vac the water out I failed because the down spouts were down and couldn’t be restored because of broken gutters. Water was coming in via the foundation in four places.” And he lives on top of a hill! 


A couple of months ago we left Bob Herrick with an ongoing EKG monitoring. He’s now doing fine and planning a cruise to Hawaii this spring. He says if he is disembarked again, everyone will speak English.


Bud Thorne advises that he and Jane are now living full time in Vero Beach, Florida, and go back to New Jersey every summer to visit family and friends. John Hatheway and Marv Axelrod have visited for golf and groceries.


—Dave Kurr, 4281 Indian Field Road, Clinton, NY 13323; (315) 853-352; djkurr@verizon.net