Class of 1912

At the noonday luncheon of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of New York, held at the Bankers Club, 120 Broadway, on Monday, March 6, a remarkable turnout to hear President Hopkins included a fine representation of 1912 with the following men:—Doolittle, Eiseman, McCaffrey, El cock, Les Snow, Wally Jones, Plumer, Lee White, Remsen, Freund, Burns, Biery, O'Connor, Garcia, Bruner, and Fred Day. The alumni dinners of Westchester county held that same night and of the Dartmouth Club of Northern New Jersey held on the following night were reported in fine attendance, but details have not as yet been received. At the meeting of the Northern New Jersey alumni, Dick Plumer was elected the new president. In line with certain political theories to the effect that Staten Island should belong to New Jersey and not to New York City, this active Northern New Jersey body have annexed unto themselves the Dartmouth alumni residents of Staten Island.

Announcement has been received of the retirement of the Honorable Franklin D. Roosevelt as a member of the firm of Roosevelt and O'Connor. The firm continues the general practice of law under the same name and at the same address, 120 Broadway, New York City.

News has just been received o£ the passing away of another of our classmates, Malcolm Rodney Buck. His death was due to heart failure on March 7. While Buck was a graduate of Amherst, he was in college with us during the year 1909-1910. The obituary column will in the next issue give full details and the sympathy of our class is extended to his widow, Mrs. Norman Buck, and three children.

Bob Belknap is reported as residing at 136 So. Madison St., La Grange, Ill.

Ried Stone appears to have moved into the Far West, and his new address is 4 Locust Lodge, Council Bluffs, lowa.

Thanks to Eddie Luitwieler, we are at last able to cash in on some free medical advice from none other than the famous Boston neurologist—our own Doctor Henry (Dutch) Viets. It comes in the report of an address on "Nerves" made by Henry before the Harvard Medical School. The headlines of the article as it appeared in all the leading papers in the country—read NEW HAT OR ANNIVERSARY PRESENT MAY CURE "NERVES" SAYS DR.VIETS, followed by—"a new hat, music, abowl of flowers,.or remembrance of an anniversary often serves as an aid to digestionand a corrective for upset nerves, not takeninternally, but e?ijoyed quietly," followed by further explanation of a highly technical nature. Now this editorial department has made it a lifelong habit to refrain absolutely from criticizing any man's business or personal conduct. This is too much. For Dutch to invade our upstairs homes in times like these with a collection of ladies' hats every time the children try to bite each other's ears off makes a trip to Europe look like a bargain. What a fine lot of stock Dutch must have in some hat factory. We may be brought to trial for slander, but we have plenty of witnesses to conclusively prove that Dr. Viets hasn't a nerve in his body and never had any. It took most of us four years of intensive college training to hold a simple pair without showing it all over ourselves. Dutch from the day he arrived in Hanover had and kept that nerveless stolidity equaled only by the original Hanover Indian. Can it be that he was even in those days practicing his art on us and teaching us how to control our nerves? If he was, then we his victims certainly paid plenty for the tuitionenough at least to hardly warrant—as the result of our education—the necessity to "buy a new hat." It's worth trying anyway, and tomorrow we are going to get a bunch of flowers for the "nerves" at home, a phonograph record to calm the nerves on some unpaid bills, and a new hat for one of our long past due customers.

Treasurer Dick Plumer reports that he is holding off sending out bills for class dues until after the collection of the Alumni Fund, which is of course under present conditions a matter of supreme importance to the College. It is natural that we want in no way to interfere with the efforts of Ralph Pettingell, so give him every possible co-operation.

Jim Erwin in addition to his extensive law practice also appears in the role of a banker in Jersey City. We haven't found out whether it is in liability as a stock owner or assisting the campaign toward reconstruction, but the news filters out that he is very busy at several board of directors' meetings.

There has been a noticeable interest in sending in clippings and news, and it it not only appreciated but a valuable help in keeping our column in existence.

Secretary, 1452 Broadway, New York