1912
When Doc O'Connor was recently a speaker at a dinner of The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis chapter at Pottsville, Pa., he reuned with Louis Ekstrom, Jack Brewster and his wife, and Rollie Linscott. A picture was taken of this group but it turned out a blank because, as Rollie said, someone of the classmates broke the plate. On a similar occasion in Atlanta, Georgia, in September there were in attendance to hear Doc speak Jogger and Mrs. Elcock, Dave Dorward and Rollie and Lily Linscott. The following news relating to Jack Brewster and Louis Ekstrom was gleaned at Pottsville.
The Army finally gave Jack Brewster the rank of Colonel to end his active participation in World Wars. Camp Pickett was his last station and contribution to the armed services. His son is home after combat infantryman service in Germany. Real estate and insurance at Forty Fort, Pa., will occupy Jack's less strenuous years to come.
Louis Ekstrom was as voluble as always. Baseball now finds him only an onlooker except when a youngster asks for advice, but he still thrills to the game and had high hopes that the Red Sox would come through in the World Series. Last Spring Louis got a big lift from bowling. All the leagues in his vicinity use ten pins, except the three Bethlehem Steel Company Office Groups which bowl ducks. At the end of each season there is a tournament and the highest actual pin toppler is adjudged city champion. Louis won against 60 other entries and later at a Boys' Club banquet for champions, covering all sports in the city, he was the oldest recipient of an award. Mrs. Ekstrom says "there is no living with him since." In spite of this he has been heard crabbing about not knowing how to grow old gracefully. All members of the Ekstrom family are in good health. Betty the oldest daughter, is now Mrs. Edmund R. Dawson and lives at Tulsa, Okla. Nancy graduated last July and is engaged to Harry Kehm who is finishing a war-interrupted college course at Ursinus. Frederick and Phoebe are still in school. Louis reported that he sees George Geiser often and that during the summer Eddie Luitwieler stopped off on his way from Pittsburgh back to Boston.
A note from Husky Demerritt from Honolulu indicates that he has been promoted from lieutenant colonel to the rank of colonel.
Bowdoin Plumer has bought a newspaper at Bristol, N. H., and is now hard at work as owner and editor. His daughter, Barbara, has a teaching position at Tucson, Ariz. His oldest son, Bill, is still in the Army Air Corps, and the youngest .one, Dick, has returned to William and Mary College to complete his course which was interrupted by service in the Armed Forces.
Sam Hobbs writes from Los Angeles, Calif., that he was away when Doc O'Connor was recently in the City and was sorry to have missed him. Sam has not seen Olie Ahlswede or Jim Oneal for months but occasionally has a chat with Nipper Knapp over the telephone.
Alvie Garcia is around again chipper and pert as ever after having spent two months at Duke Hospital, Durham, N. C., on a hypertension situation.
Shorty Tyler ended his Army career some months ago and has returned to his position with Ginn and Company, living in Dixon, Ill.
Harry Lowd, Minister of the Evangelical Congregational Church of Easton, Mass., brings us up to date on news of his family. His older daughter, Hilda Marion, was graduated from Radcliffe in June and is taking post-graduate work in the field of religious education at Union Seminary and Columbia University. Son, Frederick Emrich, after several months in the Navy, is continuing his third year at Bristol County Agricultural School and is acting as foreman of the dairy barn. The younger daughter, Nancy Stevens, is in her second year in high school. Harry and his wife are busy trying to keep step with the various activities of the home, church and community.
Andy Phelps, who is Commander of the Knights Templar, Bethlehem Commandery, at Mount Vernon, N. Y., was laid up for about ten days last Spring in the Jersey City Medical Center for rest and observation. There he met Dr. Daly, a Dartmouth contemporary, with whom Andy reminisced about Doc Frost and the old gang. He has been working at Masonry and high school teaching for a good many years and will soon be eligible for retirement from both activities to live at his farm at Hill, N. H., where he spent seven weeks during the summer. His daughter, Elizabeth Lee, graduated from Roosevelt High School this year and is now employed by the New York Telephone Company. His son, John, is in his second year of Junior High School and will enter Roosevelt High School next year to prepare for Dartmouth. Andy took John to the Dartmouth-Yale Game "to instill some Dartmouth spirit into him."
Ben Adams writes from Derry Village, New Hampshire
They say a country is blessed that has no history worth recording. I'm in the same boat no real hits, runs or errors to record. My daughter was quite sick last year but she is better now. I have five granddaughters. My son is running the large mill in Londonderry, N. H.? finishing lumber. He had a bad fire last June and is just getting back into production. He was putting out nearly a million board feet a month before the fire. I am disgusted with Hi Oneal. He made a grand tour of New England last summer and did not look us up.
Doc Kinne wrote from the Copley Plaza inBoston:
I am spending a week in Boston taking in a seminar in legal medicine at Harvard Medical School. It is a welcome change and a novelty. The past war years have been tough ones and the work does not seem to let up. I am doing surgery and obstetrics in Holyoke, including a good deal of industrial surgery. I keep occupied from 8 A.M. to 11 or 12 P.M., with frequent interruptions of sleep. Manage to get out of town frequently and that helps. I am still getting along very happily with the girl I married twenty-six years ago. I have two daughters, one of whom graduated from Sweet Briar in 1943 and the other from Randolph-Macon, in 1944. For the past two years they have been working for the Signal Corps in Washington they are classified as cryptanalysts but are very secretive and tell us nothing. I suspect they will both be resigning before long.
Rollie Linscott saw Dick Remsen, HarryTrapp and Henry Van Dyne at the Columbia Game, and Hug Lena, Bob Parks and Andy Phelps at the Yale Game.
Sympathy of the entire class goes to Dick Plumer on the death of his wife after a long illness.
Mike Home's address for the next year or two seems destined to be 2108 Baringer Avenue, Louisville, K.y., his residence while serving the War Assets Administration as Chief of Sales in a site-sale project of considerable magnitude. Mike terminated his civilian service as a War Department executive there last summer, only to be snatched by the Quartermaster Corps for this task when he was on the point of take-off for the Wisconsin wilderness to do battle with some of those man-size muskies.
Lyme Armes has accepted the Chairmanship of the Reunion Committee to make arrangements for our 35th Reunion at Hanover next June. You will be hearing from Lyme but reserve the date now June 20-22.
When George Geiser and his wife were in New York last month, on the occasion of their daughter's induction as a stewardess for American Air Lines, they had a visit with Les Snow and his family.
Remember that the Campaign for our Class Memorial Fund ends December 31 and contributions established income tax deductions. If you have not already done so, send your contribution or pledge to Henry Van Dyne thereby avoiding the picket lines that Henry will organize. The class of 1912 will be UP with a big gift to Dartmouth on our 35th Reunion only if each classmate does his share.
Acting Secretary, 120 Broadway, New York, N. Y.
Treasurer, 354 N. E. 126th St., Box 1517 North Miami, Fla.
Memorial Fund Chairman, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa.
