1912

One of the advantages of New York—which partially compensates for disadvantages—is the opportunity from time to time to visit with a "long time no see" classmate. This experience I had the first week in January, when Louie Ekstrom was in the City with his daughter, Nancy, to welcome a family friend who was returning with the famous 82nd Airborne Division. Louis has not pitched much baseball since his appearance in the unforgettable 25th Anniversary game with the University of Maryland, and now confines his athletic prowess to bowling, at which he is pretty good; and darts, at which he is not so hot. He made his contribution to war production by putting in seven-day, long-hour shifts in the structural shape rolling mills of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. The oldest daughter, Betty, is in Chicago married to a Navy flyer who returned last summer from combat service in the Pacific. His other two daughters and son are at home, attending school.

Broadway will soon have another hit written by Mark Reed, who was the author of the Broadway success that had such a long run, "Yes My Darling Daughter." The new play, entitled "One Holy Day," takes place in the roaring '20s, the era of flappers, jazz, speakeasies and gangsters. It will be produced by George Abbott, and went into rehearsal the last week in January.

The class Executive Committee has approved the proposal that we raise a class Memorial Fund to be presented to the College at our 35th Reunion. All of the classes beginning with 1911 now have either completed or have under way similar class Memorial Fund projects. Henry Van Dyne has accepted the chairmanship of the committee, which will conduct the campaign next Fall, a period when it will not conflict with the annual Alumni Fund solicitation. Although it is not anticipated that we will be able to compete with some of the later classes who presented substantial amounts to the College at the times of their 25th Reunions, nevertheless we will be able to make a showing that will compare favorably with the classes of our time whose campaigns are already under way. In approving the class Memorial Fund project, the Executive Committee was emphatic that it must not affect the Alumni Fund activities of Boss Geller and his committee.

VISITORS IN HANOVER

Classmates who recently visited Hanover, according to the '"Dartmouth's In Town" bulletin board at the Inn, were Harold Stearns and his wife, Pike Childs and Rollie Linscott.

Dick Foote is executive vice president of Leaksville Woolen Mills at Charlotte, N. C., and his residence is Holly Road, Route 6, Charlotte s, N. C.

Boss Geller returned home the week before Christmas after a month's vacation at Montreal, N. C., where he went for a well-deserved rest. His oldest boy, Fred Geller '43, was still in France according to a cable received from him on Christmas day, but was expected to return to the States in January.

Sgt. Norman Roberts, son of Perley Roberts, returned on the Queen Mary early in November after five years in the Army and is again a civilian at home with his wife and-Perley's two granddaughters. Perjey's daughter Laura spent the past three years with her parents, while her husband was in the service, seeing action in Africa, Italy and Germany. He returned home for Christmas.

Word has been received of the death of Syd Ickes on December 12. Services were at Alhambra, Calif. On behalf of the class, Ralph Pettingell sent flowers by telegraph for the funeral services.

Since the middle of October Ed Mitchell has been commuting between Upper Montclair, N. J., and New Brunswick, where he returned to his former business associate, R. P. Wilson.

HEADS SCHOOL ASSOCIATION

Lloyd Bugbee, Superintendent of Schools of West Hartford, Conn., is now president of New England Association of School Superintendents.

Paul Martin writes from his new address, Box 802, Igloo, S. D.

I became an ammunition inspector at the beginning of the war and as there is so much ammunition returning from overseas to be taken care of I am staying with the work here at the Black Hills Ordnance Depot. I was in that work at the Los Angeles Port of Embarkation and the Rialto Back Up Storage Point, an auxiliary of the Los Angeles Port, for two years. I guess this just about covers my more recent activities. I saw Sam Hobbs in San Bernardino, Calif., and had a most pleasant visit with him.

Don Augur, after many years of creative work in advertising and several years with the Warwick & Legler agency in New York, has been with the Magazine Advertising Bureau, 271 Madison Ave., New York, since last August —that's a division of the Periodical Publishers Association organized to promote advertising in all major national magazines. We suspect that Don's home is still in New Rochelle, right where it was in his campus days when he was a star "copy writer" for The Dartmouth Jacko'Lantern and one of the first two men ever elected to the "Jack-O" editorial staff—but all we know for sure is that his campus-genius as a rhymester still persists. The list of clients recently served by Don's muse is so long and luminous, it's certain most of us have been hearing and reading his post—"Jack-O" verse without knowing it. Anyhow, despite Don's carefully cultivated anonymity, another classmate tells us that Don Augur not only drilled holes in the ancient "ad-verse" attitude against verse in advertising but has set some sort of a new record by having produced more than 1,000 versified advertisements in the past three years.

Condolence of the entire class goes to Rollie Linscott in the unexpected death of his mother.

Doc O'Connor's fifty-fourth birthday was celebrated by a dinner tendered to him on the evening of January 8 at the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston. Bill Cunningham '19 was chairman of the committee that arranged the dinner. Among the speakers were the Governor of Massachusetts, the Mayor of Boston, the chairmen of the Boston Chapters of the American Red Cross and The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Dean Landis of Harvard Law School and Dartmouth Trustee John R. McLane '07. Doc was presented with an engrossed testimonial that described him as "Humanitarian—Public Servant-Great American." Classmates who attended the dinner were Chet Haycock, Click Morrill, Bill Shapleigh, Eddie Luitwieler, Doc Viets, Hug Lena, Lyme Armes, Pud Pond, Ray Cabot and Pett Pettingell.

HAZEN B. HINMAN, a busy member of the 1914 Executive Committee, which is now at work on the second postwar reunion in the class' history.

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