1912
Have you heard of an old man with young ideas? Puddle Pond bought some skates recently and went out to show the youths how to cut figure-eights and write his name on the ice. He was doing well, X understand, really showing them something. Suddenly he fell and broke two bones in his right ankle. He was taken to a hospital, but they were filled full except for a bed in the maternity wing. He was allowed to stay there until the bones were reset and a cast placed. He is now home on crutches but the bones were set beautifully and we all hope they will knit as veil.
Lehman W. Miller, who entered West Point our sophomore year, has just retired from the Army as a brigadier general. His family is at Lynchburg, Va„ where he will reside in the future, having recently purchased a home there. Anyone who makes a hobby of studying the origin of nick-names will be interested to know that at Hanover he was called "Dutch" because his home town was in Lancaster County, Pa., whereas at West Point he was known as "Duke" because his middle name is Wellington.
From Jim English, professor of Romance Languages at Grove City College, Grove City, Pa., comes a letter saying, "Everything is well with me and mine," and news of the marriage, on December 8, of his daughter, Elizabeth Conover, to Allan Myron Davison of West Brookfield, Mass. The groom served 42 months in the Marines, 21 of which were spent overseas in the Pacific area. He received his discharge on October 16 and is associated with the Western Electric Cos. in Chicago as an industrial engineer.
The middle o£ January I had a delightful, but all too short, visit with Pat Lovell, who says he is feeling "tops" and certainly looks hale and hearty. He showed me an album of pictures taken at the wedding of his younger daughter, Betty, in some of which also appeared his married daughter Helen. Pat certainly has two beautiful daughters, of whom he is justly proud. After winding'up his business
ness affairs in Whitman, Mass., he is going to Florida to enter the real estate business.
In connection with the death of Syd Ickes, Boss Geller has written of his long and inti- mate friendship with Syd:
My friendship for Syd Ickes began when we were choir boys at Trinity Church, Toledo, Ohio about 1898, and for several years we were together in school, playing on the same football teams, camping, etc. About 1905 his family moved back to Deadwood, S. D., where he had been born m 1889. In the summer of 1908 I went out to Deadwood and found that Syd, together with Paul Martin and Leonard Martin (cousins) were headed tor the University of Southern California at Los Angeles. So we all went out together and had our freshman and sophomore years there. In 1910 we transferred to Dartmouth, Syd graduating with the rest of us in 1912. That summer Syd and I joined Paul Martin in Deadwood to barnstorm the State, boosting the Black Hills as a summer resort and incidentally boosting good roads, the Scenic Highway in particular. The latter I believe eventually became the Lincoln Highway. Paul Martin did the boosting and Syd and I were in a quartette that sang at every crossroad, Elks Club wherever people gathered. After a year or two in South Dakota, Syd went to Los Angeles and became associated with a law firm studying law in their office. Then Syd had a longing for open spaces. He went up to Klamath Falls, Oregon, living in a tent for a year or so. I went in with him on a cattle project which ended when the I WW's in that section burned the dairies and poisoned all the cattle in the country, while Syd was attending his father's funeral in Los Angeles. He then joined the 444 th Field Artillery, had overseas duty and returned to this country in 1919. For several years after the war Syd was in Indio, Calif., where he became the owner of a date ranch. After selling the date ranch I did not hear so much of the details of Syd s adventures, but about ten years ago he took civil service examinations and got into hospital work in Los Angeles. Bill Butler saw him rather frequently, and in a recent letter Bill wrote, "Syd Ickes will be greatly missed by the County of Los Angeles with which he has been associated in hospital work for eleven years. During the past few years I have seen Syd a number of times and our State hospital gatherings will not be as complete or as satisfactory because Syd will not be there." Syd was one of my oldest friends. If he had faults I did not see them or care. Not to look forward to our anticipated Reunion in 1947 is a blow.
The issue of the New Jersey Law Journal of January 24th carried an article by Dick Plumer on "Specialized Agencies Under The United Nations Charter."
Again the cost of victory strikes close to all of us. Lt. Wallace Thaxter Jones 111 USNR, Dartmouth '42, was killed in action March 3, 1945, on a bombing mission from Guadalcanal against enemy shipping, according to word recently received by Wally Jones from the Navy Department. He was previously reported missing in action. Leaving College in his Junior year to enter the Naval Air Force, he received his commission in September 1941, the Naval Air Training Station at Jacksonville, Fla., and was assigned to duty in the South Pacific soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor. To Wally and his wife there is extended the deepest sympathy of the entire class.
From Derry, N. H., Ben Adams writes:
To bring my record up to date I will report no hits, no runs, no serious errors (I hope). The war has cramped our style in the lumber business somewhat —little place was left for a middle-man in the war effort. Our children have settled in Derry near us and we now have five granddaughters. Only one absent from our family circle is my sonin-law, who is at present with the Marines in China. We hope to see him home soon.
From Elizabeth, New Jersey, Porter Averill writes:
I have lived here for the past twenty-six years and am principal of Jefferson High School, the senior high school for boys in Elizabeth. In my school we have all types of secondary trainingcollege preparatory, commercial and industrial arts, with a large group of industrial arts shops. My school has had more than 3,800 of its graduates in the war and 172 have paid the supreme sacrifice. We were one of the first schools in the country to have pre-induction instruction actually on a working basis. My son Stanley has been a in the Air Corps Ground Crew and is now awaiting reassignment or discharge. My daughter Dorothy is secretary to one of the officials of Merck & Cos. at Rahway, N. J. My daughter Harriet is a senior at Battin High School and expects to enter college next year. I have been head of the Rutgers University Extension Program in Elizabeth under the war training program and am now teaching at night in the Engineering Department of the University. I have not yet been able to attend a class Reunion, as they always come at my school graduation, time. I hope that some day we will reune in July as some of the classes are doing.
According to the bulletin board, Dartmouth's in Town," at the Hanover Inn, classmates recently visiting at the Inn were Cap Allen, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Hartshorn (from Hanover, N. H.l), Les Snow and Heinie Urion. The last two were there at the meeting of the Dartmouth Fraternity Alumni Advisory Board on January 12.
Announcement was recently made o£ the promotion of John Brewster from lieutenant colonel to colonel.
Shrig Shrigley died on January 21 at the Salem Hospital, Salem, Mass., after a month's illness from a heart ailment. Condolence of the Class is expressed to his widow and family.
At a "March of Dimes" luncheon in Detroit, Mich., on January 23, Doc O'Connor had a visit with Lyle Chase and Eddie Daley.
The December 15 issue of Tide Magazine contained an article on a shopping survey of the personnel of Pittsburgh department stores made by the University of Pittsburgh's Retail Bureau, of which Bishop Brown is the director. After three days at home with a persistent bronchitis, Lyme Armes got out of bed to celebrate Doc O'Connor's birthday testimonial dinner at Boston, after which he did not get back to his office for three solid weeks. Next time, he says, he will follow Bill Cunningham's example and stay in bed instead of marching in Doc's train.
The engagement of Eddie Luitwieler's twin daughter Joan to David W. Crockett of Duxbury, Mass., was recently announced.
Harold Belcher's daughter Priscilla is in the American Red Cross Hospital Recreational Service. She started overseas on Thanksgiving and at the last report was at a base hospital in England for a few months and then probably will go to Germany. Doc O'Connor spoke to her group at graduation from training school last summer but she did not have an opportunity to make herself known to him. Harold's younger daughter Louise is a junior at the University of New Hampshire and is engaged to a graduate of that institution who is now studying at Andover Newton Seminary. Son Francis Ex-'3B has four youngsters, so Harold and his wife are entitled to feel that they are decidedly in the grandparent class.
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