Class of 1912
Christmas brought sorrow to Billy Baxter. Dolly Baxter, the life of many 1912 gatherings, died on December 21, 1937. Billy and Dorothea Fraser were married at West Hartford, Conn., on June 15, 1929, and they have a little girl named Mary Jane. Your Secretary knows that all those of the. class who were at either of the last two reunions will remember Dolly, and join in admiration at the grit of Billy as he faces the years alone with his little girl, and writes the following letter:
" 'Chins up' in time of hardship makes it possible for me to write today, however later this may be mailed.
"This is the hardest Christmas I ever hope to see, for my wife, Dorothea, known to many of the class of 1912 as Dolly, was laid to rest today after a short illness.
"Afflicted with a cold and cough, and exhausted from a shopping tour, she remained in bed Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of last week, apparently improving till Saturday afternoon. Taken to the hospital Saturday evening, she passed away Tuesday morning with pneumonia, leaving little 314-year-old Mary Jane and me.
"My sister's husband was buried yesterday, and Dolly died three years later to the day that her maternal grandmother passed on.
"Altogether it's a sad, strange, and inexplicable series of events. Seven years ago Dolly was in the hospital with an appendectomy during the holiday season. Two years ago Mary Jane was in the hospital through the holidays with a mastoid, confined there for six or seven weeks, and now this year!!
"Least of all things do I think of myself but primarily of our little girl. Don't imagine I'm looking for pity. The quicker the events are accepted, the better and easier for those who are left. That's why tonight with chin up and courage and faith in my heart I feel like writing to you.
The obituary of Hike Dana published in the January number of the MAGAZINE was written on the slender information available when your Secretary learned of Hike's death. A revised obituary appears in this number of the MAGAZINE.
A1 Eiseman's name appears as secretary of the Sterwood Motor Sales Cos., Inc., which is selling Chrysler and Plymouth cars at 137-53 Northern Boulevard, Flushing, L. I.
With one exception, the two oldest living graduates whose names appear on the roster of the Dartmouth Outing Club of New York are Barrow Lyons and Heinie Urion, 1912. How do they do it?
Mark Snow is practicing law under the name of Paynter and Snow at 773 Union Trust Building, Cleveland, Ohio. On December 17, Mark and Mrs. Snow saw the Dartmouth basketball team defeat Western Reserve, 45-42, at the Cleveland Arena. Mark says that the Dartmouth team was more superior than the score indicates.
A chatty Christmas card from Henry
Bailey Stevens and his wife Agnes at Mill Road, Durham, N. H., is filled with information. During the past year, Henry and Agnes have added to their normal family of Peter and Patsy, two children from abroad,—Elmer Neary, an American youth of Irish extraction, who looks like' a Viking, and has become a freshman at New Hampshire University, and Susanne Hirschfeld, a German girl of good old Berlin ancestry, who flees from the edicts of the tyrant, and comes as a special student to learn English. In order to accommodate this addition to the family, they have put an addition on their house, consisting of two rooms and a bath over the ell. To eke out the food supply, Henry has had to develop the orchard and increase the garden. Henry and Elmer together spray the fruit trees, harvest and market: Mcintosh and Baldwin apples, and wield the hammer and the saw in house construction. They put in metal casement windows, and installed lightning rods. Agnes assisted by putting up about 350 quarts of apple, quince, rhubarb, crabapple, tomato, pickle, and grape whatchamacallit. Between times, they went on trailer trips to mountain or beach for the week-end. The orchard yielded about 500 bushels this year, and so Henry had to buy an aluminum-painted, garage-constructed tractor with a Dodge front and White truck rearend, boasting of 16 different shifts and dual rear wheels,—all for the sum of $125, which, fitted with chains, managed to pull the spray-rig, mowing machine, tractor, and trailer over the New Hampshire rocks and hills, with Peter at the wheel and Elmer at the spray gun. Patsy now plays tunes on the piano, and she and Peter are learning to dance and speak French. One sorrow came to Henry's family this year with the death of Agnes' mother, aged nearly 80.
Stan Weld's daughter Barbara is a stu- dent at Colby Junior College along with Janet Fuller and the Luitwieler twins. Last November, Stan attended a conference of state medical society secretaries and journal editors in Chicago. While there he took in the Notre Dame-Northwestern football game, and then had dinner and spent the evening with Dorothy and Bill Shapleigh.
Heinie (H. D.) Allen is in the advertising business with Gimbel Brothers at Milwaukee, Wis., and lives at 5241 North Idlewild Ave., Milwaukee.
Ray Cabot went skiing with his ten-yearold boy in the storm on New Year's Day. He writes that he was more often in a horizontal position than otherwise, and. indicates that life does not begin at forty,, as far as skiing is concerned. Ray apparently enjoys the Outing Club at Groton.
Syd Clark's recent book, "Golden Tapestry of California," is his nineteenth. He sojourned in Carmel, Calif., prior to his trip abroad last summer.
Dave Dorward has a new residence address at 581 Page Ave., N. E., Atlanta, Ga.
Jack Fox recently blew in on Ray Cabot from Harrisburg, Pa. He is still living the Reunion over again, and had a little book with him containing a complete set of pictures of the baseball game, taken by Fordham Russell.
Ev Gammons is bearing up well under the strain of being a grandfather.
Bill Harlow has been employed in the engineering department of the Columbia Construction Company on the Brownville dam on the Columbia River. He has now been transferred to Ilwaco, Wash., which is on the north side of the mouth of the Columbia River, where he is office engineer for the same company. They are building jetties and sea walls on the north side of the mouth of the river. His transfer was effective December 26, 1937. The Secretary learned this from Bill's father, George R. Harlow of the class of 1878.
Wally Jones was another of those fortunate enough to toast the New Year with Alvie Garcia. Wally's son is a freshman at Hanover, and returned home for the holidays with a good report of his first year.
Harry McCaffrey is transportation consultant at 471 11th Ave., New York City, and is living at 172 West 77th St., New York City.
Charlie McCarthy writes from 324 Griggs Ave., Teaneck, N. J., that he went to the Dartmouth-Yale and the Dartmouth-Columbia games last fall, but missed jthe Princeton game for the first time in five years.
Ray Cabot had a call from Roland (John R.) Park the other day, and says that he looks ten years younger and not half so serious. Apparently Roland has been married, but the Secretary has no further information, and calls for a bill of particulars.
Dick Remsen toasted the New Year with Alvie Garcia. His oldest boy Richard is finishing at Choate School this year and enters Dartmouth next year. He and his brother Bill are both playing on the hockey team at Choate.
Come across with more news, you loafers!
Secretary, Rochester, N. H.
