CLASS OF 1912

They can talk all they want of the wonderful changes at Hanover and of this new building and that, but if you want to get the real thrill of the Old Hanover as we knew it best you have got to be there in its winter time. It's the same fine, snappy dry air and the clean white snow that makes you feel "just the same."

The Alumni Winter Carnival held over Washington's Birthday affords a great opportunity to enjoy Hanover. The hospitality of the Hanover Inn, with its generous supply of all sizes of skis and toboggans for the use of guests, affords accomodations which make one feel most grateful and certainly very reluctant to leave. We heartily recommend for your February next-year calendar the week-end at the Inn for the Alumni Winter Carnival.

Besides all of the above, which in itself is enough, you will run into "Gee" Bullard, who although reticent as usual, reports all well with the family and the promise that Mrs. "Gee" will act as Hanover agent for the class. You will also meet up with Mauritz Hedlund, probably coming from his quarters at Hallgarten. "Babe" Hartshorn is at present on leave and is in Europe.

Reports from distant parts are still coming in, and by next issue will, we hope, be on hand.

Locally there has been no news. Each and every request for interview has been curtly turned down by efficient secretaries with the excuse "too busy" or "in conference."

We are going to get into one of those conferences one of these days and see what kind of a game they play.

Mar. 7, 1931

Dear Garcia: The 1912 news in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE is all too scarce, and I presume one reason is that folks don't send you any to put in. As I rarely see any classmates, I like to read news of them in the MAGAZINE. However, I have recently seen two, besides a non-grad, that being about all the Vermont delegation.

On a trip up state I had lunch with Nipper Knapp in a restaurant in Rutland. He is receiver for the West Rutland Trust Co., one of the two Vermont banks which had to close within two years. In this case the necessity arose from malicious rumors which caused the foreign residents to make a big run. It seems that receivers have varied duties. The day I was there the young women assistants in the bank were packing pecans. Knapp was fighting a case in court, and incidentally selling pecans to the judge and others, the pecans having been grown on some of the Southern property of the bank.

Horace Colburn of Rutland keeps on in his job at the Patch Company, makers of quarry working machinery. He says business is very slack, but he seems to keep a private office in the works. I don't know just what his official job is in the company, but he was re-elected an alderman of Rutland at the city election March 3.

I also called on Archie Haven of Vergennes, who had to drop out junior year. He is postmaster, and also continues as proprietor of a clothing store. He also complains that business is slack, and says the cement road to Burlington takes trade away which Vergennes merchants used to get when roads were not so good.

I keep on as heretofore, still unmarried, and with the same variety of jobs, school superintendent for four small towns (only twelve teachers in all), town clerk and treasurer, farmer, and columnist once a week for the Brattleboro Reformer. I live at an altitude of 1940 feet, supposed to be the highest village in New England, and doubtless the smallest town in which any Twelve man resides.

If you can gather any items from this you are welcome, though you will want to do some editing and condensing. We scattered folks back in the country don't get into college doings like the New York and Boston bunches, but those of us who take the ALUMNI MAGAZINE like to read news of any classmates.

Sincerely yours, PAUL P. JONES

Windham, Vt.

Mar. 9, 1931

Dear Manuel: The following men were present last Saturday night at the annual Dartmouth dinner of the Boston Association:

Lyme Armes, Hal Belcher, Joe Boylan, Gee Bullard, Fletcher Clark, Huskie Faraum, Windy Gale, Chubby Hitchcock, Bud Hoban, Ben Hunt, Bug Knight, Buster Kennedy, Mont Kyle, Eddie Luitwieler, Pett Pettingell, Pud Pond, Connie Snow, Louis Thomas. I heard no startling or particularly interesting news about the class.

Yours very truly, PETT

Secretary, 1452 Broadway, New York