1912*
Your Secretary received the usual amusing program for the O'Connor peerade to Dartmouth vs. Princeton. It deserves to be printed in toto, but on account of lack of room, your application will have to be to Doc in person. Your Secretary noticed, however, among "The Squad" the names of Harrie B. Chase, Harold H. Freund, Doc, and Heinie Urion. It is to be assumed that they were there in person.
At the University Club in Boston, the night before the Harvard game, the following sat down to eat: Bug Knight, Eddie Luitwieler, Ray Cabot, Doc O'Connor, Hal Fuller, Bud Hoban, Lyme Armes, Puddle Pond, Caesar Young, Tubby Morrill, Ken Foster, Wally Wallburg, Clyde Norton, Pett Pettingell, Mark Allen, Rollie Linscott, Quech French, Gee Bullard, Ben Adams, and Van Dyne. Pett writes that he also saw Alvie Garcia, Wally Jones, and Pike Childs later, but when your Secretary saw Pike at the game, he was under the impression that he was at the dinner. Ray Cabot is to be congratulated on the arrangements for the dinner, and the notices which he sent to all members of the class within reach.
Ben Adams' oldest son, Benjamin Clark, graduated from Annapolis last June. It is assumed that he is now on the briny deep, and that Ben will keep us in touch with him.
Cap Allen, Esquire, of Allen, Yerrall, & Bellows, 1013 Third National Bank Building, .Springfield, has a daughter in Wellesley.
Lyme Armes writes that the hegira of Mark Allen to the Harvard game deserves separate treatment. Mark and Lyme were freshman roommates in Wentworth Hall, so they reuned for the first time at Lyme's house before and after the University Club dinner, and discovered that although they had ordered their stadium tickets 3000 miles apart, and hadn't seen each other but once in a quarter of a century, they had again been seated together by the College.
"Mark came all the way from Seattle, and for him this event added all the uplift of our Twenty-fifth Reunion (which he had to miss) to the enthusiasms of an old-time "Harvard peerade," during which he was destined to see Dartmouth win for the first time in his life. Spurred by all the eagerness that climaxed here, Mark, Mrs. Allen, and their two husky sons (Albert, 22, University of Washington '38, and Robert, 20, U. of W. '41) drove over 3,000 miles from Seattle to Boston in less than five days. With the three men driving in relays, they prodded a new Pontiac into making as high as 1,080 miles without stopping except for food and fuel. Mark's aged mother and a host of Bay State relatives welcomed them with a two-week program of gala events, but if you could have seen Mark diving into his handshakes the night before the game with a table full of classmates, .near classmates, and the Beta Theta Pi's of all time, you'd know where our 1912 news scout got the idea of giving Mark's enjoyment of the evening top rating.
"Mark is one of the officials of the Washington State Tax Commission. Both sons had to leave before the game, Albert to take the airways back to Seattle and Robert to make some mysteriously important call in Cleveland. Mark expected to pick him up there, give Chet Newcomb and one or two others a ring, and then return to Seattle via the southern routes through Texas. What a peerade!"
Local officers of the Boston Loft of the Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers, Northwest Mounted Cod and Cabot District, include H. Lyman Armes as Vox Humana.
Don Augur is in advertising with the Crowell Publishing Company at 250 Park Ave., New York City. He is living at 3 Wykagyl Terrace, New Rochelle, N. Y.
Beans (H. T.) Baker is a paper mill engineer with H. K. Ferguson Company, Hanna Building, Cleveland, Ohio, living at 18320 Kinsman Road, Shaker Heights, Ohio.
The only report of the Yale game comes from Billy Baxter, who saw there Jim Erwin, Chief Wheeler, Mert Baker, Rollie Linscott, Honey Brooks, Charlie Gately, and Otto Bresky. He also reports having seen Stan Weld and Ed Daley on the street, and a visit to that mecca of good-fellow-ship, Lyme Armes.
Commander Jimmie Boak can be reached c/o U. S. S. Phoenix, c/o Postmaster, New York City.
John D. Brewster 3d, oldest son of John Brewster, is a member of the class of '42 at Dartmouth.
Cupe Clark's oldest son Hugh is a senior at Oberlin and studying to be a chemist. The next son, Gene, is a sophomore at Hanover. Both are high rankers.
Syd Clark sailed in September on the Swedish American Line for Sweden. His address for ten months will be care Guaranty Trust Company, 4 Place de la Concorde, in the Sorbonne, and his son Donald in the American High School of Paris. He hopes to enter Dartmouth in the class of '43.
Eddie Daley, of 124 Oxford St., Manchester, Conn., works for the Capital Motor Car Cos. in Hartford, Conn., selling the Dodge and Plymouth line.
Walter B. Elcock Jr., Jogger's son, is also a member of the class of '42 at Dartmouth.
Ralph E. Farnum Jr., Husky's son, is a member of the class of '42 at Dartmouth.
Chip Farrington's son Dick graduated from Dartmouth in June. Chip lives at Fort Washington, Pa., and lunches every Tuesday with the Dartmouth Club of Philadelphia, at Connell Club, 1219 Spruce St.
Doc O'Connor had a nice visit with Ken Foster on October 26. Ken spent two years at M. I. T. in an architectural course after graduation, and then went into building construction. He enlisted as a private, Ist class, Aviation Section, Signal Corps during the war, and in 1919 was one of the founders of S. C. Sperry Cos., Inc., general contractors, specializing in concrete construction and industrial building. In the eight years of his association with the company, some 400 contracts were done, ranging from minor repairs to $300,000 buildings. In 1927, Ken sold his interest in the company, and for a few months was with Leslie R. Porter Cos., handling bank and residential construction. In 1928, he went with R. H. Baker Company of Cambridge, as purchasing agent, and had a hand in the setting up of the physical plant of the Baker Supply Company, and affiliated company to serve the needs of the trade in heating, piping, and steam supplies. Late in 1933, he started with the newly instituted Civil Works Administration, and served as examiner and auditor through the year 1934. In January, 1935, he became purchasing agent for the Emergency Relief Administration in Massachusetts, with monthly purchases made up of a multitude of small items running up to a half million. In July, 1935, he became state procurement officer for the Works Progress Administration. The monthly volume rose to nearly $800,000, and the personnel, to 150. Changes in the organization in May, 1938, led to the abolition of the title, and to Ken's resignation.
Charles D. French, Art French's second son, is Dartmouth '42. His oldest boy, Arthur F. Jr., graduated this year.
On the San Francisco Pow-Wow Committees appear the names of Roy Frothingham and Bill Butler.
Boss Geller is looking forward to a reunion at the Cornell game in Ithaca. He is living at Oswego, N. Y.
Richard R. Goss, son of Fro (I. J.) Goss, is a member of the class of 1943 at Dartmouth.
Bill Harlow has left the Grand Coulee Dam at Mason City, Wash., and is in the employ of the Bonneville Power Commission, with an office at Raymond, Wash. He is making transmission line surveys running 30 miles north and 30 miles east. Bill is senior draftsman and has three men with him. He gets home week-ends to Route 1, Box 148, Gresham, Oregon, and he owns two acres of land and a bungalow on Birdsdale Ave., Rockwood District, about 12 miles east of Portland, Oregon.
Hitch (G. N.) Hitchcock has a new address at 219 Central Ave., Cranford, N. J.
Peep Jones is maintaining the old homestead at Windham, Vt., where he is looking after his mother. She has not been well, but is improving.
Bug Knight is with J. H. Goddard & Company at 85 Devonshire St., Boston, selling bonds.
Guy Lewis has a new address at 1538 Olive St., Gulfport, Miss.
Stan Lovell is president of Castex Laboratories, Inc., of Watertown, Mass.
Eddie Luitwieler has been elected president of the American Stay Company, of which his father, Clarence S. Luitwieler, is treasurer.
Alfred R. Miller Jr., son of Al Miller, is Dartmouth '42.
Hal Mosier has a new address at 504 Federal Building, Cleveland, Ohio. When your Secretary was in Cleveland this summer at the meeting of the American Bar Association, he heard some very fine things said of Hal's recent term in Congress.
Your Secretary has forwarded to the MAGAZINE a snapshot of the Presidential party taken on the Presidential cruise this summer, at the very center and apex of which appears our good Doc O'Connor. If it doesn't appear with this issue of the MAGAZINE, it is expected soon. On October 20, Doc delivered a speech at "The Pines" at Berkeley Springs, W. Va., on the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc., of which he is president. Your Secretary has a copy, and also a copy of a brochure published by Doc on October 1 as a measure of -assistance to the sufferers from the hurricane, indicating the federal agencies through which assistance can be obtained. The speech above referred to was delivered at the dedication of the new hospital building at the Infantile Paralysis Treatment Center of the West Virginia Foundation for Crippled Children. For twelve years, Doc has been chairman of the Executive Committee of the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation.
An article in the New Yorker for October 22, headed "Man in the Middle," is entirely concerned with Doc. It refers to his uphappy predicament, due to the fact that his brother, Congressman J. O'Connor, was simultaneously purged by President Roosevelt and nominated by the Republicans at the primaries. Fortunately, Doc does not vote in his brother's district, and is thus able to adopt a strong neutral attitude.
Doc is distinguished in several other ways. He is a persistent bicyclist, has seven bicycles, and claims to have covered as much as twenty-five miles in a day. Recently, while mourning the uprooting of sixty of his shade trees at Westhampton, Long Island, Doc was called from the White House to make an airplane survey of New England with Harry Hopkins and Governor Quinn of Rhode Island. Doc will fly to Palo Alto, Calif., to keep up with his record of not missing a single major game since 1912. The closest Doc ever came to being personally active in politics was when Lehmann tried to draft him for attorney general of New York in 1930. He begged off. He goes occasionally to the White House for week-ends, and sometimes takes his two daughters, Elizabeth Ann and Sheelagh.
Bill Remsen, son of Dick, has been selected leader of the Sixth Form at Choate School, where he has had a notable career. He is captain-elect of the hockey team, a debater and a singer, as well as school editor.
Richard Remsen Jr., son of Dick, is in the class of Dartmouth '42.
Your Secretary had an unexpected but very welcome call from Parkie (J. R.) Park, who, with his wife, Elizabeth M. (married October 9, 1937), was on a holiday to Pemaquid, Maine. Parkie is selling chemicals used in food products to the wholesale and manufacturing trade.
Ted Lampee is salesman for MacKenzie Motor Company at Cambridge, Mass. Puddle Pond's daughter, Lilla Marion, is attending Boston University.
Brian Robie is at 3821 Effie St., Los Angeles, Calif.
Jimmy Steen is a salesman for Stromberg Electric Company, at 109 Lafayette, New York City. He is living at 144-64 Sanford Ave., Flushing, N. Y.
Tuck Tirrell has a new residence address at 92 Evans St., East Weymouth, Mass.
Shorty Tyler of Dixon, 111., expects to be on the Dartmouth-Stanford special train in November.
Douglas Stowell, Em Stowell's son, is Dartmouth '42.
Guy A. Swenson Jr., Guy Swenson's son, is Dartmouth '42.
Dutch Waterbury's son, Holden N., is at Kent School. Dutch came up from Porto Rico to see him at school, and visited his old home at Oriskany, N. Y.
Stan Weld, who is practicing medicine at 179 Allyn St., Hartford, Conn., is editorin-chief of the Journal of the Connecticut State Medical Society. He writes that his three "spring-offs" are all away at school and college. Barbara, the eldest, is at Colby Junior College, New London, N. H. Bob, the next, is at Tabor Academy, a strong Dartmouth school at Marion, Mass., where he made his varsity football team. Dave, the youngest, is putting in his first year away from home at Choate School in Wallingford, Conn., where Dick Remsen's son Bill is president of the senior class. Tabor took an awful licking from the recent hurricane, but fortunately there were no casualties among the boys.
John T. Worcester, Doc Worcester's second son, is Dartmouth '48.
Carle Rollins has been elected secretary of J. M. Mathes, Inc., the New York advertising agency founded and headed by J. M. Mathes 1911.
Joe Russell's oldest daughter graduated from Mt. Holyoke College last June. The second daughter begins college this fall. There is another aged eleven, and another aged ten. They live in Nashua, N. H.
Bill Shapleigh travels for his firm, Sloan and Cook, consulting engineers, of 130 South LaSalle St., Chicago.
Mark G. Snow, Esquire, of Paynter and Snow, has offices at 773 Trust Building, Cleveland.
Your Secretary was delegate from New Hampshire to the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association, and has been elected to the American Law Institute.
Secretary, Rochester, N. H.
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