Of all the family newsletters we receive, one of the more interesting is that of honorary classmate Peggy Downie Banks . If our bylaws permit, I would nominate Peggy to carry on the 1933 notes after I hang up my typewriter. If a Hall of Fame for Hamilton Merchants of our day were established it would surely enshrine the names of Carl Baum, Jack MacQueen, Les Flower, the Theo-philus brothers, Stub Mooney, Frank Church and others of their ilk. Founded in 1924 by our Tony Rausa 's father, it had been run continuously by Tony's brother Zing and since 1957 by Tony, wife Jo and their son John. Thanks for a useful job well done, Rausas, and good luck in retirement.
Physician physick thyself.
That's what our prexy Jack Root MD did when he learned in December he had pneumonia. A course of antibiotics did the trick and Jack's already resumed his barbershop quartet schedule. Sounding as young as springtime, Bud Strobel called from Rochester to wish us well in the new year. He and Marian decided to sell their boat but Bud continues law practice at a diminishing pace. Very next call, also from Kodak City, came from Harriet and Red Gramlich who said they'd be in our old building, The Palms at Santa Rosa Beach, FL, in February.