Gordo Graham sent the following note along to Bill Coughlin and your Class Secretary:
"You may recall that in my dotage I defy mortality in many ways including swimming on Christmas Day in the Irish Sea and New Years at Boston's L Street Beach. Got a pretty consistent record which, alas is in jeopardy tomorrow (January 1st) due to errant son in law who has the family car in New Jersey and won't get it back til Thursday. I will be with daughter Rachel overnight and prepared to T it to South Boston by eight to get my ha ha wet and another certificate. It is really a fun occasion with Fire Dept band and all and is over by ten when I get noon train back to Worcester. Surely there is enough life left in yet another H-55 old codger to get me there and back. Reward I offer is 500 years remission from stay in purgatory. Happy New Year! "
(To the best of my knowledge nobody took him up on it.)
George Swanson continues cancer treatment at Dana Farber . Last June he was told he had about a year to live. In October a CT scan showed the two melanomas in his liver had shrunk 30% so he told the undertaker, “Forget it.”
See Higher Power and My Cancer at: https://medium.com/p/6d4d2baa1d69.