1912

Reporting on the class dinner at Boston the night before the Notre Dame game, Lyme Armes writes:

To a bigger gathering than any pre-game meeting here in recent years came one or two welcome faces from faraway and long ago, notably Cap Allen from Springfield and Bud Hoban from Mexico. Bud's tenor was all that was needed to lift '12's dinner-table singout into something that actually drew. applause from crowded tables busy with their own reuning. Pike Childs really started something when he recruited Gee Bullard, Eddie Luitwieler, Hal Fuller, Bud and this rusty baritone from the old "New Hamp Funeral Choir" at one end of the table. Then, after we had done all the best ones (you know, all those that sounded best to us) at least twfce, Jimmie Steen unlimbered a Wah-Hoo-Wah that not only put the 1912 table on the map with something akin to under grad emphasis but also transformed the whole dining room throng into "Pals Good Old Pals."

Further news of the dinner came from our able reporters, Rollie Linscott and Pett Pettingell. Other classmates present were Ray Cabot, Mike Norton, Pud Pond, Irv Putnam, Caesar Young, Queechee French, Roy Lewis and Ben Adams. Others seen at the game were Stan Weld, Hug Lena, Al Miller, Chet Gilbert, Bill Shapleigh, Jim Worton, Tubby Morrill, Lew Cooke and Jim Griffin, the latter being reported "as big as a house."

On a letterhead captioned "JAMES B. GRIFFIN-HARDWARE and INSURANCEWhatever of Hardware WE CAN PROCURE for the duration; Whatever of Insurance YOU WANT any time," comes the following letter from Newmarket, N. H.:

I am still in Newmarket, still in the hardware business, with insurance no longer a sideline. I am still the Municipal Judge and a member of the School Board, and still voting the wrong ticket according to local statistics by a three-to-one "margin. I have one nephew in the Navy in the Pacific, a niece in the WAVES at Washington, a nephew by marriage a captain in the Army Air Corps in Ohio, and his brother a second lieutenant pilot in the Army Air Corps, wounded in the Normandy Invasion, cited, returned to duty and now reported "Missing over Germany." Hence, synthetically, I am in the War. In truth, I offered my carcass to the Navy again but had parts missing and evidently was otherwise out of running condition so that I was unfit to repair. The officer was very kind, spoke well of my former record and allowed that they might overlook a couple of visible flaws but four was too many. So they put my name on file. Imagine me in the heyday of my youth with two fingers missing, 5/20 eyesight in both eyes, fifty to sixty pounds overweight, "and only six teeth of my own. But not to admit total failure, my hair still clings to my forehead and does a beautiful job of covering the empty pate clear to the nape of my neck.

Now who is this bozo, you talk about so-so? Did he go to Dartmouth? Was he one of the twelves ? Surely, you're spiffin; you know it is Griffin, Or do you all do the same things yourselves ?

An all-'12 granddaughter, Susan Taber, arrived October 31 at Lebanon, N. H., to make Tabe Taber and Roy Lewis twin grandfathers. The mother, Betty Lewis Taber, has been with Roy and Floppie and will remain for the duration while her husband, Don Taber '38, is doing a fine job with his landing craft in the Southwest Pacific.

As chairman of the American Red Cross, Doc O'Connor recently appointed a special medical and health committee composed of eleven men prominent in their respective fields to survey current Red Cross medical and health operations and to recommend plans for the postwar period. One of the appointments to this committee is Henry Viets, Lecturer on Neurology at Harvard Medical School. One of the Dartmouth men that Doc met on his trip of inspection of Red Cross activities in the European Theatre of War was Col. Chip Semmes '13, concerning whom Doc brought glowing accounts. On the evening of November 9 Doc was the guest of honor at a dinner tendered by the citizens of his native city, Taunton, Mass.

Micky Mitchell resigned from Fairchild Aircraft and on September Ist commenced his new duties with the Interstate Sanitation Commission, an agency set up by compact between the States of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut to abate pollution in the waters of New York Harbor and Long Island Sound.

At the annual meeting of the Supreme Council of 33rd Degree Masons held in Cleveland the last week in September, Mark Snow was nominated for membership therein, which constitutes the highest honor in Masonry. This honor will be conferred upon him when he will be initiated at the next annual meeting in Boston next September.

Sponsored by Ralph Pettingell, Click Morrill was the speaker at the Rotary Club Luncheon in Dedham, Mass., on October 10, discussing, "Oil for Civilian Use Now and in the Future." Pett reports that Click certainly knows his stuff and did a swell job.

Hal Fuller is spending considerable time in the work of the National War Fund as chairman of the administrative committee for the State of Massachusetts. He gets to Washington frequently as a member of an advisory committee of the War Production Board and last spring was appointed by Governor Saltonstall a member of the advisory board of the Department of Public Welfare of the Commonwealth. In between times he is manufacturing containers for the Army and essential civilian users. His son, Dartmouth '43, is in the Army Air Corps somewhere in the Pacific.

Lt. Col. Jake Orr, after a special mission abroad, has returned to the Philadelphia Signal Depot of the War Department where he is performing special assignments for the chief signal officer and the Distribution Division of the Signal Corps. His family is with him in Philadelphia where they will probably remain for the duration and then return to the Orr home in Piqua, Ohio.

The sympathy of the class goes to Fletcher Clark Jr. upon the death of his father at the age of 91, who was widely known as the dean of all cooperative bankers. Fletcher Clark Jr. was elected President of the Middleborough Savings Bank the day following his father's death.

While Gee Bullard was visiting Tommy Thomas at Lowell, Mass., they communicated with the hospital where Sam Stevens is confined and we are sorry to learn that Sam is in a pretty bad condition.

Sons and Daughters .... Alvie Garcia's daughter is at Camp Lee, Petersburg, Va., with her husband, Lt. Carl J. Carlson. Son, Edmund S. Garcia is a V-12 Apprentice Seaman at Colgate. .... Roy Lewis's daughter Mary is stationed at San Diego Naval Hospital with a stripe and a half and responsibility to match Your acting secretary became a grandfather on October 15 when Lt. Paul B. Urion '38 became the father of a daughter at Fort Thomas, Ky.

Acting Secretary, 120 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Acting Treasurer, Court House, Dedham, Mass.