Class of 1912
The class of 1912 has presented to the College a fund amounting to $200, being the proceeds with interest, of a $100 Liberty Bond given by Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Johnson of Overhill, Molden, Mass., in memory of their son, Edward Phelps Johnson, who died September 24, 1918. At the Twenty-fifth Reunion, a committee consisting of Les Snow, Dick Remsen, and Dick Plumer was appointed with power to dispose of the fund in an appropriate manner. After corresponding with Francis J. A. Neef, chairman of the Committee on Scholarships and Loans, the committee decided to use the money for the purpose of establishing a "Class of 1912 Loan Fund," to be administered according to the procedure followed by the College at any given time. The College was pleased with the decision, and Professor Neef wrote on February 11, "It is very fine of your class tobe ready to turn this money over to uswithout restrictions, and we certainly shallnot abuse the trust. The unrestricted loanfluid fills the most pressmg need in ourfinancial aid program at the present timeand helps to supplement most efficientlythe other assistance that is at our disposalfor undergraduates at the present moment." The fund was forwarded on February 14. If any members of the class have any loose funds that they would like to employ for the benefit of the College and the credit of the class, they might well be added to this beginning.
Cap (Horace E.) Allen of Springfield, Mass., has been elected treasurer of the Massachusetts Bar Association. This makes him even with the Secretary, who is serving as secretary-treasurer of the New Hampshire Bar Association.
Buster (Bishop) Brown, who is director of Research Bureau for Retail Training, at the University of Pittsburgh, was recently elected vice-chairman of Personnel Group of National Retail Dry Goods Association at its convention in New York City.
Syd Clark has a new address at R. F. D. 1, Box 48, Carmel, Calif.
Husky Farnum is living at 12 Lake Ave., Lynn, Mass., and is assistant principal of the Lynn English High School. Ralph E. Jr. will be 18 this summer, and is a senior in high school, and is just now entangled in the Dartmouth Selective Process.
Jimmy Oneal is living at 1940 Lombardy Road, Pasadena, Calif. He sold out the Melba Mfg. Cos. in 1926, and since going to California has engaged in several lines, principally oil. His hobby is golf, and his club handicap is 6. When he wrote on February 12, he was in the finals of the club's championship. His son, William J., born June 17, is now 23 years old, and is a first-year medical student at Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif. He went to Dartmouth his freshman year.
Hi (C. I.) O'Neill writes from the Illinois Basin Oil Field, where his residence address is apparently 201 Lawrence Ave., Effingham, 111. He sends greetings from Hi and Dorothy and little Dorothy, who is about 10 years old.
Dok Palmer (Russell Jr.) writes from 2885 Tanoble Drive, Altadena, Calif. He is operating a business in London, one in New York, and another in Los Angeles, and spends a great deal of time abroad, but can generally be reached at the above address. He recently spent a very interesting summer at the Spanish war, about which we hope to hear more.
Parky (John R.) Park was married last October to Elizabeth Bent of Wayland, Mass., which leaves Quech French the only claimant for bachelor honors among the Boston Twelvers, at least, so Parky says. They are now living very happily at 51 Brattle St., Cambridge, Mass., and would like to have some Twelvers rattle the doorbell. They attended the Yale Dartmouth game in New Haven, but your Secretary is unadvised whether or not this was part of the honeymoon. Parky writes that the "Twenty-Fifth" brings warm memories.
Henry Viets has just published "A BriefRule to Guide the Common People ofNew England by Thomas Thatcher," which consists of facsimile reproductions of the three known editions of the above entitled work, with an introductory note on the life of Thomas Thatcher, and on smallpox and other epidemic diseases in England and New England. In the course of an interested perusal of this new publication, your Secretary discovered that Henry is already an author, having published "A Brief History of Medicine inMassachusetts" in 1930, and an article published in "Isis 23/' pages 389-405, 1935, on "Some Features of the History ofMedicine in Massachusetts During theColonial Period, 1620-1770." Doc Viets has recently taken on the following honorary jobs: librarian of the Boston Medical Library and secretary of the History of Science Society, which is a national organization. He has a new residence address at Court Lane, Dedham, Mass., but maintains his office at 6 Commonwealth Ave., Boston. Your Secretary has several times enjoyed the hospitality of his bachelor quarters.
Doc (Cleon B.) White was with National Broadcasting for five years, and is still servicing the program of WBZ and WEE I, although he is running his own entertainment bureau with headquarters at Hotel Bradford, Boston. He lives on Conant St., Danvers, Mass. His son Herbert, aged 19, is in New Hampton School, and Lucy Bell, aged 8, is at home. Your Secretary had the pleasure of witnessing a very fine program supplied by Doc, with Doc himself as the master of ceremonies, in Rochester recently.
Fritz Wallburg writes from 44 Upton Road, Waltham, Mass., that he has been treasured of W. F. Schrafft & Sons Corporation for the past few years. His business address is 529 Main St., Charlestown, Mass.
Dutch Waterbury has a new business address at Central Aguirre, Porto Rico, with residence at Guayama. He is manufacturing sugar.
Van (Henry B.) Van Dyne is president of the Van Dyne Oil Company, Inc., with main office at Troy, Pa., and offices at Elmira, N. Y., Binghamton, N. Y., Corning, N. Y., Naples, N. Y., and Athens, Pa. They are distributors of Tide Water Company products,—more particularly, gasoline, kerosene, motor oils and greases. Van and Dorothy Van Dyne have two children, Edward Everett, born September 25, 1913, who has been associated with Look but is at present unemployed, and Mary Nearing Van Dyne, who was born on October 28, 1916. She is a student at Katharine Gibbs School in New York City. Henry's avocations are horses (riding not playing them), hunting, and fishing, and my guess is that he swings a mean golf club, if the number of clubs he belongs to is any criterion. He belongs to the Elmira (N. Y.) City Club and Country Club, the Corry Creek Golf Club at Mansfield, Pa., the Irem Temple Golf Club at Wilkes Barre, Pa., the Mt. Moriah Masonic Club at Troy, the Acacia Club at Williamsport, Pa., the Rotary Club at Troy, and the Gatineau Rod and Gun Club at Quebec. Apparently any Twelver who visits Van ought for his own good to bring his golf clubs and fish pole.
Secretary, Rochester, N. H.
