1912
When a reunion brings romance to members of the class, that is news. As a culmination of the 30th Reunion at Hanover, Lily Biery and Rollie Linscott were married at the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas, New York City, on August 7. After the ceremony a reception was held at the Princeton Club. Charlie Linscott '13 was best man. Henry Van Dyne and Heinie Urion represented the class. As Regional Director for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Rollie travels from Maryland to Maine. The newlyweds expect to make their home on a farm they are acquiring near Greenfield, N. H., where, it is promised, headquarters will be made for visiting classmates. Pike Childs reports a recent visit from them on their way from Manchester.
Chubbie Hitchcock died at Boston on August 13 after a long illness. Henry Viets attended him at the end. Frank Weil conducted the services, which were attended by the following additional members of the class: Gee liuliard, Ben Adams, Joe Boylan, Vera Greene, Tom Casey and Ralph Pettingell. Burial was at the old cemetery in Hanover, where Chubbie was bom of old and distinguished Dartmouth lineage.
Mark Snow reports having had a busy year. Besides making changes and improvements in a new house that he has purchased and farming a Victory garden, he has been serving as a member of a Selective Service Draft Advisory Board, is Orator in the Lodge of Perfection of Lake Erie Consistory and active as a member of the Americanization Committee of the Cleveland Bar Association, arranging for suitable observation of Constitution Day, September 17. Otherwise his contribution to the war effort "is trying to drive at a maximum speed of 35 miles per hour."
About a year ago Click Morrill added Atlantic Coast worries to the New England ones when he became Executive Secretary of the Atlantic Coast Oil Associations Conference, as a result of the success of the New England Oil Association. A recent issue of the National Petroleum News carried an excellent likeness of Click and an account of the activities of his organization, the most important function of which is presenting the eastern independent marketer's viewpoint to various Washington agencies. The fight for eastern oil consumers has finally resulted in a fairer break on available oil. Although Click makes frequent business trips to Washington and New York, his days and evenings are so filled, that visits with classmates in those cities have been out of the question.
In a recent letter from Capt. Chief Wheeler from North Africa he says, "They gave me a German jeep to ride around in on my various duties She stops and starts whenever she feels like it for no reason at all, is the devil and all to get into, and almost impossible to get out of, but she has the cutest, fattest tires I ever saw." His son, Jack, Dartmouth '45, is now stationed at Fort Benning, Ga. In peace time Chief is president of Baker's
Review a trade paper published in New York City. Stan Lovell writes from the office of Strategic Services at Washington: "Alas for the necessary but cramping requirements of military security! "Within its dry limits the following Big Events in the life of a Little Man seem tellable. My wife and I live in a Washington apartment, all two and a half rooms of which would fit inside our dining room at Newtonville. Our only son, Richard H., is a lieutenant (jg) in the Navy. As for me, I am not always at my desk but recently was in a combat zone where I developed an intense personal hatred for the Luftwaffe. I'd love to contact any of the class in or around Washington."
Eddie Luitwieler has the whole factory of the American Stay Co. at East Boston, of which he is president, engaged in Government work. He even works nights in his Company's machine shop as a sort of morale build-up.
Bob Belknap adds this to the stories regarding the size of the War Department's Pentagon Building—"Dick Plumer and I are in the same room in the Pentagon Building but nearly a quarter of a mile apart, so most of our conversation is by phone."
C. G. Conn, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind., of which Al Smith is executive vice president, was recently presented with the ArmyNavy "E" award for outstanding production of war materials. Al's oldest daughter, Jeanette Elsie, was married on June 3 to Lt. Harrison Abbott Church, USNR.
Dick Plumer recently called on Chesty Brown at Baltimore. Chesty's wife and daughter had just arrived from Florida and they were all looking forward to the return of the son who is a captain in the Field Artillery and who has been somewhere in the South Pacific area for a number of months. Chesty is looking fine and seems to enjoy his work as construction engineer with a firm located in Baltimore.
" '12 Man Pitches in to Build Destroyers.". . . . Pat Lovell is -working in the shipyard of the Bath Iron Works at Bath, Maine, as a pipefitter's helper, carrying fittings and tools all over ships under construction, both on the ways and afloat. He says that the work "is a great conditioner." He is living in a small hotel on the coast and commutes 70 miles, leaving at 5:30 A.M. and returning at 5:30 P.M. "How do I like it? I love it—marching to work to the tune of band music over the loud speaker system with 14,000 men and women is very inspiring and a thrill not unlike a Dartmouth song at a football game." That really is engaging in the war effort!
Sons and Daughters in Service Alice Day's daughter, Joan, is a second lieutenant in the Army Nurse's Corps. Priscilla Day graduated from the University of Minnesota in June and is now a premedical student at the University of Minnesota Medical School Art French's daughter, Dorothy, was married to a Naval Ensign at Old South Church in Boston, August 20 Pike Child's son, John Arthur, entered as a freshman at Dartmouth on July 1. He registered with Uncle Sam on July 7 and consequently is likely to be inducted at any time. He is out for Varsity football and Pike is getting quite a kick out of it Gee Bullard's son is in the Navy somewhere in the Atlantic. He is heard from through the Fleet Post Office in New York and seems well and likes the life of the sea. He was home on a leave after a year in Puerto Rico and Gee says "I can tell you that it was good to see him."
Shorty Tyler, whose address is 3679 th Service Unit, Chicago 43, ill., first, commanded Company A in the 739 th M.P. Battalion; then was Detachment Commander in Chicago, and was at Camp McCoy, Wise. Last Summer, he was transferred to Infantry, and is now being reassigned. Shorty also had an assignment at Morgan Park Military Academy teaching military tactics. His wife and son are at home in Dixon, 111.
CLASS OF 1912 is represented in the Pentagon Building by, standing, I. to r., Warren Bruner, Lt. Col. Dick Plumer, Bob Belknap; seated, Col. Connie Snow and Billy Baxter.
Acting Secretary, 120 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Treasurer, Court House, Dedham, Mass.
