1912*
Secretary, Rochester, N. H.
Our old faithful, Pett Pettingell, is to continue as class agent for the Dartmouth College Alumni Fund, with the following committee: Lyme Armes, Billy Baxter, Bill Butler, Pike Childs, Bos Geller, Dick Remsen, Bill Shapleigh, and Les Snow. It is to be hoped that the class will appreciate the labor Pett puts into this project of the College, and will support him 100%.
Your Secretary clipped from the Boston Herald a cut of the genial face of Lyme Armes as chairman of the annual dinner committee of the Crosscup-Pishon Post of Boston. The Post is named in part for Spuddy Pishon '10.
Bak (M. H.) Baker can again be reached at his former residence at 51 Clarendon St., Springfield, Mass., although he is salesman for Russell & Erwin Manufacturing Co. with a business address at Room 215, 285 Madison Ave., New York City.
Unc Bellows sends your Secretary a snapshot, taken between exams and Commencement in 1912 on a fishing trip in Crawford Notch. The picture has been forwarded to the MAGAZINE for publication with these notes, and the faces from left to right are: Guide, Bugbee, Robeson '13, Baxter, Timbrell, and Armes. The picture was apparently taken before Billy Baxter fell into the brook, for he spent the rest of the day in a blanket in front of the fire.
The Catholic News of March 11 publishes a memorial note of Tom Brennock, who died on February 4, 1934. Tom was director of the Family Division of the Catholic Charities for seven years, the major portion of his priesthood, and had become an outstanding national figure in welfare work. His directorship included the most difficult period Catholic Charities ever faced—the early depression years before New York City's public relief agency was ready to carry on.
Billy Baxter contemplates leasing his home on Garfield Road in West Hartford this summer, and suggests 750 Main St., Hartford, as his mailing address. He sends your Secretary another snapshot of the famous fishing trip, which your Secretary hopes to use later.
Bug Bugbee is getting all "het up" on account of the non-appearance of his pet night crawler named Judas, who is supposed to come out on the first day of spring. A newspaper clipping furnished by Billy Baxter records that Bug is a great fisherman, and can toss a wicked fly.
Chesty (H. M.) Brown has a new business address in the Interior Building, North, Washington, D. C., where he is chief engineer for the W.P.A. He is living at 601 19th St., N. W.
Charlie Fisher is president of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, Inc. His business address is the Baker Library, Harvard Business School, Boston, and he is living at 51 Newbury St., Newton Cen ter, Mass.
Three members of the class sent your Secretary a clipping from the New York Herald Tribune of March 31, containing a picture of our own Alvie Garcia, head of Garcie & Vega and president of the Cigar Manufacturers' Association of America, Inc. It seems that Alvie spoke at the second annual meeting of the association at the Waldorf-Astoria on the need for collective thinking and action on the part of all industry.
Fitz Fitzpatrick has a new residence address at 520 North 6th St., Apollo, Pa. He is the owner of the Valley Hardware Company in the First National Bank Building of that city.
Major Chet Haycock is in the Finance Department of the U. S. Army, and can be reached through the office of the Adjutant General, U. S. A., Washington, D. C.
Doc Kinne writes from his office at 265 Maple St., Holyoke, and promises to send us some further information later.
Your Secretary had a fine long letter from Bob Kirkpatrick. The class will recall that Bob had two severe heart attacks, from which he is still recuperating. He and his wife are living in the small town of Birmingham, Mich., 15 miles from Detroit, where in the summer Bob putters about with a small vegetable garden and flowers, and listens to the baseball broadcasts. He has a workshop in the garage, and is trying out the new chemical gardening. If any of you boys know a clerical job that will open up in the fall, Bob thinks he will be on deck to handle it by that time. He was district manager of his company when he was taken ill, but cannot consider anything as strenuous as that again.
Paul Martin is engaged in mining, with residence at 101 Summit Ave., Hot Springs, South Dakota.
Charles Morrill has a new residence address at 5 Woodside Road, Winchester, Mass. He is treasurer of Arthur W. Sampson Co., Inc., an advertising agency, at 199 Washington St., Boston.
Hi O'Neill writes from Effingham, 111., that the last time he saw a 1912 man was when he saw Harry McCaffrey in New York in 1927. He sends your Secretary a copy of the "Illinois Basin Oil Field Report," of which he is director and owner. Hi is an oil information analyst, who has been engaged in similar work in the industry since 1921. He has a staff of three field men and four office employees to compile the information for the Report, which was established in June, 1937, to provide an important and valuable service to all persons and organizations interested in the various phases of the oil industry in Illinois. It is published twice weekly, and contains a day by day record of every test drilled in Illinois from the time the location is made until the test is completed, and other detailed information.
Dud Redfield is architect with Copper & Brass Mill Products Association, Graybar Building, New York City, and lives at 46 Harvard Court, White Plains, N. Y.
Mark Reed is making an outstanding success as a playwright. "Yes, My Darling Daughter," which ran 400 performances on Broadway, was his, and also "Petticoat Fever," which starred Dennis King. Both these plays have been presented pretty much all over the world (dictator nations excepted). These plays, with some of Mark's others, are published by Samuel French, New York. "Yes, My Darling Daughter" was filmed, but Mark writes that he thinks the picture garbled and cheapened the original play. Mark is still unmarried, and writes from Pomona, Fla., where he is apparently on a holiday.
Dick Remsen writes that his oldest boy, Dick Jr., Dartmouth '42, home from Hanover for his spring vacation, made him feel more like an undergraduate than ever after a three-hour talk. The boy is very enthusiastic about Hanover. Shortly before, Roy Lewis had had Jim Erwin Jr., Wallie Jones Jr., and Dick Remsen Jr. down to Leb for a big Sunday dinner. The boys report a swell time. Dick had some nice things to say about Ray Tobey, who is doing a grand job at Choate School. Dick's boys have been there for the last four years.
Your Secretary has a good letter from Buster Sawyer, who is superintendent of the Erving School Union at Orange, Mass., and has just received a unanimous re-election for another three years. Buster received a degree of Master of Education from Boston University School o£ Education in 1934- His son, Edward 8., has attended Exeter and is headed for college. Buster married again about 10 years ago, and has two fine boys, aged 6 and 8. Margaret, his wife, does some professional singing and is secretary of the Orange Young Women's Republican Club. Buster belongs to the Greenfield Rotary Club, and attended the winter convention of the National Association of School Administrators in Cleveland. They have a cottage at Humarock Beach, south of Boston and north of Plymouth, and Buster spends his spare time with his boys out of doors.
Tabe Taber is supervisor for the National Youth Administration at the Old Court House in Greenfield, Mass.
Hap Wanner is planning to move from his home at 823 Drexel Square, Chicago, possibly within a month. Hap's only child, Janet, married J. Ed Martin 2d of Augusta, Ga., on April 25, 1937. She had attended Mon Choisi, at Lausanne, Switzerland, and graduated from Miss Porter's School, Farmington, Conn. Hap's wife Corinne died on October 15, 1934, and last spring, Hap married Sybil Bailey of Quincy, Mass., in Palm Beach, Fla. His amusements are motoring, bridge, and golf.
A 1912 EXPEDITION
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