** Here’s a note to me from Terry Blanchard written on July 24, 2021 — His full name is Walter Scott Blanchard .. We called him
” Terry ” at Deerfield .
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We are doing well – at least as well as can be expected at our advancing years and coming out of this horrible year plus of Covid. I suspect that it will color and etch itself into all our beings for some time to come. The isolation, the fears, the desperation to get vaccinated, the relief when that second needle came out – these are occurrences which we all will share. Currently, Wanda and I are happily ensconced in a 55+ Condo community in Byfield, MA not far from where we lived for the previous 20 years. I can still play golf locally with a group of guys who just like to be out in the open air and for whom nine holes is plenty. One of our children lives in Salem, only 1/2 an hour away, but the other lives in St. Paul, MN. We go out there a couple of times a year and they come here to rent a house near the beach for a week in August. We really love it when we can all be together. We are still trying to travel – hopefully Switzerland this September and Florida for about 6 weeks in the winter to get out of the worst of it here. Increasingly the memories of youth come back to call – generally with a great deal of joy. I certainly hope that we will be able to revisit Western Massachusetts again when the magic 70th takes place.
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Tom L’Esperance ’55