For years Mrs. Phillips baked hundreds of Christmas cookies, borrowing space in friends' freezers (including the DeGanges') to store batches of maple meltaways and chocolate crinkles until they were ready for mass distribution just before the holiday.I happen to have one of those booklets and I will treasure it always. ...
"She gave boxes of them to everyone," (Jack) DeGange said. "God knows how many people she gave cookies to."
Eventually, it got to be too much and one year she gave her friends a booklet titled "One of these years you're going to have to make your own damn cookies," a collection of her trademark recipes.
That certain Hanover High sophomore and her 8th grade brother have been to more college football games than most kids their age. Seldom, however, do they get to sit with their dad, who is always up in the press box on Saturday afternoons. If this very sad week has reminded up of one thing, it's that the times we can spend together we should spend together. So for the second year in a row, we're packing up some charcoal and something to cook up and headed to a football game to watch it from the stands together. The kids and I will be at the UMass-Fordham playoff game today, so look for us on ESPNU if you get it -- we don't ;-).
Please keep those remembrances of "Slats" coming. I can tell you that a lot of people who knew her and loved her are checking back frequently and getting solace from the renewed appreciation of just how many lives she touched. The remembrances will be updated as soon as we get back from UMass.
Not much time for links this a.m., as the kids and I are trying to get out of here by 7 a.m., so we can have a tailgate down at Amherst. ... Justin Cottrell gets a nice mention in this story. ... The high-tech helmet Dartmouth wears to help detect possible concussions is the subject of this story the International Herald Tribune reprinted from the Boston Globe..
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