1912*
At the annual dinner of the Dartmouth Club of Northern New Jersey at the Montclair Country Club, our genial treasurer, Dick Plumer, and Micky Mitchell of Montclair, N. J., represented 1912. Dick Plumer, Doc O'Connor, and Heinie Urion attended the Harvard Law School Association dinner in New York.
A note from Lyme Armes describes a memorable Dartmouth night invented by George Liscomb '07 and the class of '85. Imagine 400 Dartmouth men with 400 steins on the table, listening to the reading of poems of Richard Hovey, and greeting it with cheers. Representing 1912 at the songfest were Lyme Armes, Gardy Bullard, Eddie Luitwieler, Mike Norton, and Vern Parmenter. Lyme contributes the following: "It was Richard Hovey who penned the thought; Hovey who again proved the mighty, magnetic truth of his own words. .... 'Though 'round the girdled earth they roam, Her spell on them remains'....
but it was Vernon Elisha Parmenter, 1912's chief globe-trotter, who gave special emphasis to the fact by his presence at the Hovey Hum, University Club, Boston, May 4.
"This was 'Vern's' first personal appearance at a 1912 gathering in 27 years. Hovey brought him back and 'Eddie' Luitwieler, 'Gardy' Bullard, 'Mike' Norton, and 'Lyme' Armes were there to give him a royal welcome befitting the occasion.
"Handsome and distinguished as ever, according to our Boston scout's report, Vern's vast mileage beyond the seven seas, in the interests of Dennison's export trade and foreign factories, has bestowed upon him a sort of man-of-the-world polish of which the gleaming flesh-tints of his tonsured cranium are but an outward and visible sign. Everybody had a grand good time giving a May-time rouse to old friends in memory of Richard Hovey, but none had a better time than 'Lisha. The 1912 delegation was unanimously in favor of making the Hovey Hum a May-time fixture on the Dartmouth alumni calendar, midway between Winter Carnival and alumni banquets and the CommencementClass Reunion pilgrimages to Hanover."
A letter from Cap Allen on April 13 advised that he was off for northern Vermont to take his mother and brother there for the summer. His youngest daughter, Nancy, was born on January 15, 1927.
Lyme Armes writes that his mother has bought a bungalow in Mt. Dora, Fla., so that the family now homes up and down the coast from New Hampshire to Florida. Lyme promises to tackle the rapids of the Cocheco River with your Secretary and a can of worms.
Bake (H. T.) Baker has a new residence address at 13620 Kinsman Road, Shaker Heights, Ohio.
Stew Blythe is now associate editor of the California Magazine of Pacific Business at San Francisco. Stew is one of the eight 1912 men listed in "Who's Who," and your Secretary tried to wheedle a picture out of him in honor of the event, but Stew is too modest to come across. After leaving Dartmouth, Stew attended lowa State College, and then the University of Wisconsin, where he secured his degree of A. B. He married Gertrude T. Edwards of Baltimore, Md„ on October 9, 1920, and has twins, Kathleen Hamilton and Isabel Wilson. There is also a boy, Samuel George 2d. He was reporter for the Oregon Journal of Portland from 1913 to 1917, associate editor of the Country Gentleman from 1919 to 1928; associate editor of the Ladies' Home Journal from 1928 to 1935, and with the Farm Journal, Inc. from 1935 to 1936, since when he has been in his present position. He lives at 8 Mosswood Road, Berkeley, Calif., and has his office in Ferry Building, San Francisco.
Ray Cabot has been on his back with a severe attack of the flu, but is now out again, under doctor's orders to stay in evenings. The class will regret to hear that Ray recently lost his mother.
Clyde Cooke is senior advisor on the publication of the Senior Class Year Book at Cushing Academy, where he is an instructor.
Syd Clark has a new address at Sagamore Beach, Mass. We take this to mean that he is home from Europe.
Hal Fuller is president of the Winchester Community Chest Campaign, which is out for a budget of $ 21,000. With the slogan "Calling All Neighbors," and a town crier in Colonial costume meeting all trains, Hal has put Winchester on the map in a big way. He is president of the Bicknell-Fuller Box Company of Boston, a former president of his industry's national association, and twice national president of Chi Phi, and according to the pictures in the Boston newspapers, still one of the handsomest youngsters in the class of 1912.
Your Secretary was delighted this month to have a visit from Bos Geller, who called looking for contracts for folding furniture which is being manufactured by the Stakmore Company of Owego, N. Y., of which Bos is Secretary. His son Frederick S. is planning to enter Dartmouth this fall. Your Secretary had only a short visit, but hopes for more.
John Hunt has a new address at Rochester, Mass., where he is a Congregational minister.
Your Secretary had a fine letter from Visa W. Jones, Dinny's widow, who is living at 411 Peoria Ave., Peoria, 111. Their daughter, Virginia, entered White School in Peoria at the age of six and graduated in 1934 as an honor student. She is graduating from high school this coming June. In high school she has continued on the honor roll, belongs to the national honor societies and numerous clubs. She is aiming for Bradley Polytechnic Institute in Peoria. Visa has always kept in touch with Jimmie Cleaves, Eddie Luitwieler, Ray Cabot, and Everett Gammons and their wives, and is a real rooter for 1912.
Doc Lombard is director of the Division of Adult Hygiene with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, where he is active in the fight against cancer.
Eddie Luitwieler sent your Secretary a newspaper clipping with a picture of Mary Wellman, sister of Rainey Lines, who attended the 25th Reunion with her children, as the class will remember with pleasure. Mary raises all the herbs needed for French cooking in her garden at "Windridge" in Topsfield, Mass. Scouting, however, is her major interest. As a commissioner, she is prominent in all Scout activities, and supervises the playground for children at the Topsfield Fair each year. At present she is working for the success of "Toward Brighter Horizons," a panorama to be presented by the Massachusetts Girl Scouts in the Boston Garden on May 20.
Your Secretary has a charming picture clipped from a newspaper, of Miss Betty Ann O'Connor. Doc and Elvira have announced her engagement to Sidney Culver son of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver S. Culver of Westhampton. Betty Ann graduated from Brearley School, and is now a freshman at the University of Arizona, and Culver is a special student at Cornell.
Pett Pettingell was recently elected president of the Massachusetts Association of County Treasurers, which meets at irregular intervals throughout the year to discuss matters relevant to their important work in handling the county income and expenditures. Pett's picture appeared in the papers with the following eulogy: "His integrity, sound judgment, and capacity for leadership have won for him increasing recognition in private and public office, and the new position is but another evidence of this recognition."
A letter from Doc Quint, who is an X-ray specialist in Calgary, Alberta, states that he is one of the still active Canadian medical officers in the Canadian Army Medical Corps, and will attend the Tenth Congress of Military Medicine in Washington this May, where he will be staying at the Willard Hotel, and looking for 1912 men.
Your Secretary has secured the following data hitherto unpublished, from Buster Sawyer. Buster married Margaret Mary McAvey on September 1, 1938, and has two children by her, Kendrick Leonard, born August 22, 1931, and Thomas Dana, born May 2, 1933.
Sam Stevens has a new address at 69 Collins St., Danvers, Mass.
Hap Wanner married Sybil Bailey on April 29, 1938.
Doc O'Connor spoke to the Dartmouth College Alumni Association of Eastern Pennsylvania recently. His address centered on the $2,000,000 Webster Hall which Dartmouth is planning to build for the staging of the proposed summer Drama Festival. Doc writes that he had a good time with Louis Ekstrom, who was in fine form.
Your Secretary was particularly pleased with a fine chatty note from Louis Ekstrom at Bethlehem, Pa., inspired by the visit of Doc O'Connor on April 28. to the local Dartmouth Alumni Association. Louis writes that in all the 24 years he has lived in that vicinity he has met but one Twelver, and that was Warren Bruner. He reports that Doc's speech was great, and that they sat together at the banquet. Louis wrote that Doc's conversation was interrupted twice by photographers, but that he spent three cents each for the next three days trying to get a copy of the account of the meeting with a picture, all to no avail. Fortunately, your Secretary was sent a copy, and was able to forward it to Louis. Louis says that since the ball game on the Twenty-Fifth at Hanover, Ray Cabot's name has replaced that of Jasper Karl Mason as "All-America" baseball manager in his humble opinion and fond recollections. He says that he has played no ball since, for fear of diluting that last threebase hit.
Secretary, Rochester, N. H.
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