1912*
The news of the month for 1912 is that the class is to have 100% subscription to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Each member of the class who is able and willing to subscribe at the usual rate of $2.50 per year is requested to do so. An anonymous benefactor of the class will see to it that the MAGAZINE is sent to the rest of the class. Please see to it that the burden is made as light as possible by attending to your own subscription.
Harold Belcher is treasurer of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, with office at Boston. He recently reported that the Board had cut its expenses $24,000, to $984,511. Even at that, it is apparent that Belch has a sizeable fund to administer.
Cupe Clark, all the way from Elizabethton, Tenn., called on Lyme Armes in Boston the other day, and Lyme is now lamenting that he happened to be out on Cupe's first visit in 26 years.
Joe Doe has a new business address at 420 Lexington Ave., New York City, and is living at 11 Woodlawn Ave., Great Neck, Long Island, New York.
Hughie Eaton fractured his leg and hip by an accidental fall one rainy night at the end of June, and has been recuperating all summer at Great Barrington, Mass. He is now back at work again.
Ev Gammons is treasurer of the Franklin Savings Bank at Park Square, Boston, and living on Highland Ave., Cohasset, Mass. He is so busy that Drusilla has to answer his class correspondence. Both of their daughters are married,—Mary to F. Faxon Ogden, and Edith J. to Roy E. Litchfield Jr. Mary lives at Braintree, Mass., and has a daughter, Marcia Faxon Ogden, born August 17, 1937.
Boss Geller and his two boys, Frederick S. and William R., visited Hanover in September, and then took a swing through Boston, where they called on Ev Gammons. Frederick hopes to enter Dartmouth a year from now, and William has three years to go before college.
Charlie McCarthy has been with the Marine Transportation Department of the International Paper Company for the last eight or ten years. He has now been transferred to Montreal, Canada, where he is in charge of the loading of the ships transporting the products of that company from Canada. He expects to take his family to Montreal, but we haven't the address.
Basil O'Connor had a trying time during the hurricane. His summer home, which is called "Snug Harbor," on Westhampton Beach, Long Island, was stormswept. Bettyanne was away at college—the University of Arizona—but Elvira and Sheelagh were at home, and had a bad mental experience. They lost a lot of beautiful trees, and 300 feet of ocean rushed across the property within 20 feet of the house. In the morning they found in the front yard the third floor of a house that belonged two miles up the beach, and was owned by Russell Livermore, Dartmouth '15. Doc went down to Westhampton the night of the storm, and was immediately put in charge of organizing rehabilitation. Following this, Doc attended the meeting of the New England governors with Harry Hopkins, W. P. A. administrator, and then accompanied Postmaster General Farley, state and national Democratic chairman, to the New York Democratic State Convention at Rochester, N. Y. It is no wonder that Doc writes that he has decided to live to be 95 years old, to see as much as possible of the time he lives in.
A recent article in The Forum starts as follows: "Fifteen years ago a now famous young Harvard psychologist named Johnson O'Connor began to test aptitudes and potential abilities in employees and applicants at General Electric. His work widened and has evolved into the Human Engineering Laboratory now located at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N. J., with branches in Boston, Chicago, and Washington and field activities covering most of the United States.
"The aim of the Laboratory is not vocational guidance but rather to give to a person, through a series of ingenious tests, a conscious inventory of his natural aptitudes and potential capabilities." Director O'Connor is described as a "smallish, dark, wiry, kinetic, pleasant man, with a thick, black beard of the sort occasionally worn in the French Academy but seldom seen in America or on anybody named O'Connor anywhere." 1912 men will remember Johnson who" was with us from 1908 to 1909.
Joe Richards of Doll & Richards, Inc., dealers in fine arts, is at 71 Newbury St., Boston, across the street from Lyme Armes. Lyme says he always takes in Joe's shows, which are free.
A welcome letter from Tracy Sanborn reveals that he is with the Eddy-Rucker- Nickels Company at Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass., and still living at 79 Pleasant St., Marblehead. He has been in the advertising business for 25 years, as copy writer, advertising manager, production manager, and account executive. He has been with the above named company three years, and is happy as a merchandising, sales, and advertising counsellor. Tracy married Sarah M. Randall, sister of Jack Randall, Dartmouth '11, and they have a daughter, Evelyn Porter, who graduated from Radcliffe and is now married to a Harvard man. During the World War, he was in New York City on the advertising staff of the Government Loan Organization. He is now a member of the Marblehead school committee, a director of the town Y. M. C. A., and a Thirty-Second Degree Mason. He takes his vacations in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, particularly at Jefferson Highlands, and knows every peak, ravine, and ridge from Chocorua to Dixville. Last summer they varied matters by going to the Green Mountains and Adirondacks, where they drove over 1800 miles. Last summer also, they drove to Hanover, and Tracy got into his old college room at No. 1 Wheeler, the room on the right of the front door, where he and Bob Brown held forth.
Buster Sawyer has a new business address at Box 177, Orange, Mass., and is living at 252 North Main St. He is superintendent of schools of Union No. 39.
Jimmie Steen arrived in New York after Labor Day and will be there permanently in charge of sales for Long Island for Stromberg Electric Company.
The Secretary has been catching up on Heinie Urion's history. Heinie married Irma W. Goetz on June 11, 1936. Heinie's oldest son, Paul, graduated from Dartmouth last June, and is now at the University of Virginia Law School. His second boy, Henry Kimball, is in his third year at Vermont Academy, Saxtons River, Vt. The youngest son, Philip Allen, was born April 26, 1927. Heinie and Irma have a combined family of five boys and a married daughter. Heinie is practicing law with Basil O'Connor at 120 Broadway, New York City.
Dutch Waterbury is reported by Eddie Luitwieler to be having some minor repairs made by Dr. Stanley Weld of Hartford, Conn. Dutch came all the way from Porto Rico to have Stan do the job.
Red Whitney (R. H.), who has been a sales representative of the B. F. Goodrich Company of Akron, Ohio, for many years, was in New York recently on business. Last July he went to the Cape for a weekend and was married. The report comes from Heinie Urion, who describes the bride as most attractive, and says they spent a week-end with him, but omits the name of the bride. If Red sees this, I hope he forwards this forthwith, with the date and place of marriage. Congratulations are extended.
Secretary, Rochester, N. H.
