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H/6/1975 -1-

THE
GREAT EASE - June 3, 1975.

Following a delicious dinner, which we enjoyed
in the spacious breezeway at Great Ease, our President
Robert Miller called the meeting to order. The minutes of
the last meeting were read and approved.

Our guests included Wm. and Corinne Hartshorne
and the two young sons of the Bullards, Jim and
Gregory.

Elizabeth shared with us her trip last year to
Russia, Finland and Austria. We were shown slides of
views in Leningrad (which before World War I
was St. Petersburg): views of the Neva River;
a picture of the Aurora, the naval ship
signaled the start of the
Russian Revolution in March, 1917; and several views
of the HermitageWe glimpsed many street scenes,
a number of beautiful churches (including St. Isaacs
and a church on a bridge), statues of Peter the
Greatand many monuments of Soviet achievement.
Also we saw some slides of Vienna, including the
Opera House, a toll station on the Danube River route
to Budapest, a boat on the Danube, etc.

Elizabeth was impressed by the fact that there
fewer automobiles in Russia; by the greenery to be
seen on the balconies of apartment buildings, par-