1912*
Agent "Lyme" Armes reports that Horace E. "Cap" Allen, mountaineer, raconteur of Canuck sagas and legal light of 1912; also "collects waterfalls,"—even frozen ones, framed in the glasswork of winter ice. "Cap" and Mary drove down to Shenandoah National Park in the Blue Ridge mountains recently and spent three hiking days on the further "Capellenation of America's hydroelectrifying splendors."
Hal Belcher reports the arrival of his second grandson, Jeffry Steer Belcher, son of Charles F. Belcher, ex-Dartmouth '38.
First check through the wicket up in "Lyme" Armes' North East Mounted Cod 8c Cabot District came from his former alphabetical chapel-mate, Otto Bresky. Otto has long been the president of the Rodney Milling Co., Kansas City, but he lives at 52 Hammondswood Road, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, and his offices are at 1210 Statler Building, Boston. He commutes from there to Kansas by air every month (White House Flour is the brand) and says he's on the road and in the stratosphere so much he misses a lot of the gettogethers of 1912. "Nevertheless," writes Otto, "I enjoy reading about those that I know and some that I come in contact with"... .which is exactly what these notes are for, Otto.
War is just what Sherman said it was for the plywood producers of Poland and Finland but our "Bucky" happens to be Ralph M. Buck, president of the Plywood Corporation that's located at 250 Stuart St., Boston, with mills scattered around Houlton and Patten, Me. "The present war has made it necessary," says Ralph "for tea growers to turn to the United States for plywood shipping containers which were previously made in Finland and Poland; so that, at the moment, we are running night and day in order that British tommies may have their tea."
Doc Burnham's son Don ran in the National School Championship at New York in the 1000-yard event. It was a two heat affair with 48 entries and Don won his heat by 1/3 of a lap, after starting at pole in the third row. Don is coming out of the Lebanon High School with the highest I. Q. of all time, and to boot, is regular and a leader. He is going to take pre-med at Dartmouth and follow in Art's shoes, which is quite an order in itself.
Home from the war-scarred and warscared lands about which he has written a shelf-full of travel books now literally blasted off the market, Sydney Aylmer Clark has settled down to "Havhesten," Sagamore Beach, Mass. to correct proofs on another volume. This one's about South America, destined for publication in May of this "Travel America" year. (Translator's note—"Havhesten" means two things—Syd's summer home completely rebuilt as an author's permanent abode in Sagamore—and "seahorse" in Norwegian.) Syd has both a son and a daughter at Dartmouth; Don in the class of '43, Jacqueline at the circulation desk in Baker Library. Mr. and Mrs. Syd will hit the train again for Peru and Chile in September. Just now Syd says he's "a fanatic for short-wave radio. .. .fascinated to hear lying developed to such a fine art of statesmanship by the propaganda artists of Europe."
Boss Geller writes that returns are beginning to come in for the Alumni Fund. All but one of the notes preceding were contributed by Boss and from Lyme Armes' fertile pen. Boss is on the go most of the time, and is now on a trip to Hanover, Boston and New York, and we hope, Rochester, New Hampshire.
Click (C. G.) Morrill is the subject of an article in the March number of FUELOIL JOURNAL where his picture is reproduced. We have sent the cut on to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE for use if it can find space. The Fuel Oil Distributors' Council of Boston has engaged Click as an Adviser. Click is described as "a business analyst, with a knowledge of law and accounting." Reports indicate that he is doing the job expected, and eliminating friction and effecting desired economy. He has many duties, including the issuing of a weekly bulletin. Incidentally, Clyde is one of Boss Geller's assistants in the Alumni Fund Drive.
Harold G. Mosier, former State Senator, Lieutenant-Governor and Congressman-at-Large from Ohio, is running for the Democratic nomination for governor of Ohio, and has released his platform which leads off with a plank for rigid "Americanism." As a Congressman, Mosier was a member of the Dies Committee, and is convinced of the highly dangerous extent to which subversive propaganda has permeated our social structure. Mo also, has planks in his platform advocating no more new taxes, sympathetic support of the schools, larger old-age pensions, conservation, and improvement of conditions in connection with unemployment relief in Ohio.
Chet Newcomb has been in the employ of The Lake Erie Provision Co., in Cleveland since 1911. Several years ago he became its President, and in 1937, he was made President of the Cleveland Provision Co. He is also vice chairman of the Institute of American Meat Packers, and a director of the Lorain Street Bank. Chet and Laura have six children, but your Secretary has no official information as to their activities.
The versatile Doc O'Connor burst into the headlines a short time ago arriving in Los Angeles in company with Mrs. James Roosevelt, whom he is serving as counsel in her divorce action against her husband. The same paper which reported Doc's arrival on one side of the page, on the reverse side records his presentation of a special award at Cocoanut Grove to Jean Hersholt, Ralph Morgan, Ralph Block and Conrad Nagel for their work in behalf of the Motion Picture Relief Fund of the Infantile Paralysis Foundation. Another clipping records an address before the Synagogue Club in New York, as part of a drive for cooperation among all faiths, sponsored by the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Doc is now reported to be again in Reno in company with Mrs. John Hay Whitney enroute for a divorce.
Joe Richards is with the Federal Surplus Commodies Corporation, Northeastern Timber Salvage Administration, Massachusetts Division, with residence at Harvard, Massachusetts.
Les and Emily Snow are about to depart on a trip to California and Hawaii.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Van Dyne of Troy, Pennsylvania, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Mary Van Dyne, to Osmun Skinner, Dartmouth '28, son of Dr. Wilson M. Skinner of Easton, Pa., and the late Mrs. Skinner. Miss Van Dyne was graduated from the Madeira School of Virginia and the Erskine School of Boston. Mr. Skinner is Secretary of the Class of 1928, national secretary of the Zeta Psi fraternity, and former president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Eastern Pennsylvania. While in college he was an editor of the DARTMOUTH. He is a member of the Zeta Psi Club and the Dartmouth Outing Club of New York. Following their wedding in June they will reside in New York City, where Mr. Skinner is associated with the firm of Tucker, Anthony & Co.
CLYDE MORRILL '12Business analyst engaged as expert to FuelOil Distributors' Council.
Secretary, Rochester, N. H. Class Agent, Box 199, Owego, N. Y.
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