1912

Reunion aftermath Upon leaving Hanover a number of classmates concluded their vacations in familiar New England hills. GuyLewis and brother, John '14, took a three-day fishing trip in Maine and rendered a technical account of his success in fly-fishing for salmon. Harry Barnett and his wife went all the way on to take in the sights of Quebec. Mark Snow and his family drove up the Connecticut through the White Mountains and (town past Lake Winnepesaukee to his old home at Middleboro before returning to Cleveland. In the opposite direction, Bob Belknap, who attended his first reunion since graduation (and had a grand time with his senior-year room-mate, Lyme Armer), returned home via Washington. Boss Geller, driving Warren Bruner as far as Schenectady, arrived home in time to attend the graduation of his son, David, from high school and was deservedly proud of the occasion inasmuch as David received a prize for having best exemplified school spirit of anyone in his class. Boss then left for New York to represent his company at the Furniture Show.

Sad post-reunion news was word of the death of Pud Pond on the Sunday night that most of us were returning home. He died as a result of coronary thrombosis suffered a week earlier. At the Class dinner on Saturday night a telegram from his wife was read: "Pud Pond sends cordial greetings and best wishes to each of his old gang and all you 1912ers. '12 Up!"

Reunion wives Elvira O'Connor andDoc spent August on a well-deserved vacation in New England. From Hanover, Elvira wrote:

Being here in Hanover reminds me of the 1912 Reunion which I missed in June and it also brings back grateful memories of the beautiful big bouquet of flowers which the wives of the '12 men sent to me in the hospital. I wish I could write to each of them and tell them what pleasure they gave me and how much I appreciated their thinking of me. Since that is impossible I want to thank them through you. It was a very generous and warm hearted thing for them to do."

From Alice Hitchcock: "May I thank the Class of 1912, through you, for my delightful weekend in Hanover. I am so happy to be considered a part of THE class and I hope I always may be. It was a great joy to be with you all and I am most appreciative of your many kindnesses to me. I shall always have lovely memories to cherish of 1912's 35th and the warm friendliness of Dartmouth's grandest class!"

From Lila Nead: "I just want to tell you that the 35th reunion of Dartmouth '12 will always be a bright and shining memory. It was such a joy to be with Glad's classmates and to renew old friendships. In fact, just being at Dartmouth was like coming 'home' again. I do so appreciate the opportunity of sharing this reunion and I'm especially grateful for the warm understanding and consideration shown to me by all."

From Betty Eaton: "Will you please express to all our thanks and appreciation for being included in the 1912 reunion. We were surely made to feel that we 'belonged' and we would like to carry on for "Hugh."

From Alice Brennock Day: "Dear Rip Van Twelvers: Silver shines for 25th anniversaries; gold gleams for 50th; diamonds sparkle for 75 th—but nothing earthly would be suitable to commemorate the 35th of 1912. For no metal is so bright as kindness, no jewel so precious as understanding, no flower so fragrant as the thoughtfulness which gathered us lonely ones 'home to the hills,' there to warm our hearts at the fire of your sweet remembrance. Thank you for having me."

From some who could not attend Jogger El cock: "This letter is to register my deep appreciation of the telegram which I received from the Class of 1912 from the reunion at Hanover. If there had been any way for me to get there I would have been there but under the circumstances it was impossible. A visit to my doctor last week got for me a plain warning that a very definite change in my way of living was going to have to be made. I am certain that all of the gang had a grand time and I deeply regret my inability to be with you. May I use your column to thank everyone and send my very best to everyone."

Syd Clark from Stockholm, Sweden: "My spring was the very busiest I've known, with a book of 100,000 words to write and a lot of planning for this Scandinavian trip. Mardi, my wife, is with me here and we're doing our usual three-ring circus, getting lots of material for a new book, writing articles as I go along, and getting lecture material too. She does my typing and lots of other work too and I've turned out a shameful amount of copy this year. Just now I've been in Denmark doing some stuff for Holiday Magazine. We're both going up to the Midsummernight Festival in Dalecarlia on Monday, and early in July we're going to Norway for a month's trip; then back here and to Denmark again and to France for six weeks. Home at the end of October. This is a hot program for grandparents but so far we don't weaken. Of course we hate to miss the Big Thirty-fifth. Give my best to all of 1912."

Chet Hitchcock missed reunion because he was teaching at Boston University summer 5ch001..... Cy Dodge: I'm located here in Haverhill with Station WHAV, owned by the Haverhill Gazette. Setting up news broadcasts and working six nights a week so haven't much time for mischief or doing some of the things I would like to do. I shall be greatly disappointed if I can't make Hanover in June."

Dick Plumer: "It is fine to hear that the reunion was such a success and I still regret not having been able to go. However, the cussedness of matters inanimate madthe trip impossible. Everything I was trying to accomplish came to a head between 15th of June and the present so it was literally out of the question to get away. I saw Bill on the. street at Hollywood about a week ago. He is looking well.'

Vern Greene: "Violetta and I send from our hearts the wish that one and all have the grandest reunion on record. We regret that we can share in the festivities only from a distance as we have had to do many and many a year in the past. Schoolmastering, along with its enormous remuneration, carries with it many obligations, especially when one is living 'on the grounds' and closing up the books at the end of the school year. Last winter I read Mr. Blanding

Builds His Dream House and in spite of it Violetta and I invested our savings in a farm on Deer Isle in Maine. Possibly a re-reading of the book should have been in order. However, we are going to have lots of fun remodeling a 160-year-old house."

Under date of September 2nd, Bill Baxter's wife wrote: "Billy is still confined to bed and consequently I have to act as his financial secretary, cook, nurse and what have you. But he has been a swell patient, never complaining and it has been a pleasure to take care of him. Sorry we had to miss the reunion —we were both looking forward to it so much. Hope we will be there for the next one."

Word has come of the death of Harold A.Thompson on May 24, 1945. He was with the class for only a year and his last known address was in Beverly Hills, California.

Charlie Stratford's daughter, Mary Elizabeth, was married to Robert Alfred Rath on May 17, and his other daughter, Leta, to James Vincent Williams Jr. on June 7, both at the Ben Avon Presbyterian Church, Ben Avon, Pa.

At reunion Doc O'Connor did not tell us that he had then just received, at the Netherlands Embassy in Washington, the decoration awarded by Queen Wilhelmina of Grand Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau in recognition of war services of the Red Cross in the Netherlands. Under the reorganization of the American Red Cross which Doc sponsored, he was appointed by President Truman as "Principal Officer." He had been Chairman of that organization under its former charter. Nor did Connie Snow tell us that the Senate had confirmed his appointment by President Truman to the permanent rank of Brigadier General in the Officer Reserve Corps. That was his temporary rank when he retired from active duty to become Assistant Legal Adviser for Political Affairs in the State Department.

Seeing his newspaper advertisement of a daily turf letter for race-horse bettors, I wrote Bob Dowst, who replied: "I am so busy with one thing and another I am sure I can not make the thirty-fifth reunionmaybe the fiftieth when I am tripping over my whiskers. My daughter, Barbara, went to Radcliffe and then married Martin Souders, son of the director of physical education at Phillips Exeter Academy. They have one son, now 5, who is quite a boy. They live in Providence, R. 1., Martin being with the Johnson Automatic Arms Cos. He was with the Marines during the war and served in the Pacific; Japan, after the cessation of hostilities. My son, Somerby, was in the air force during the war and now is completing his course at Harvard. He likes to box and is pretty good, but in a recent college tournament got knocked out in the finals of a middle weight or light weight class by a one armed guy. Some distinction! Still writing turf and have a new book, Winners at Prices, coming out September 17. I have just finished revising page proofs. Its predecessor, Straight, Place and Show, published late in 1945, has sold quite heavily, better than any other turf book ever published in this country. That ad that you saw was just an experiment. I had quite a response and now am waiting to see if an honest turf service can make enough money to be worthwhile."

Jim Erwin's son, James Shrewsbury Erwin, was married to Charlotte Anne Ruprecht at Englewood, New Jersey, on May 31.

Roy Deferrari is the author of College Organization and Administration, recently pub- lished by the Catholic University of America, where he is a member of the faculty.

Harold Belcher's daughter, Louise, was married to Robert Stanley Baker on August 23, at the First Congregational Church, Walden, Mass.

Lyme Arm.es says that he received too many kudos for the success of the reunion and credit should really go to the members of his Committee, Babe Hartshorn, Eddie Luitwieler,Pike Childs and Ray Cabot. Lyme spent a'wellearned vacation at his summer home in Northwood Center, N. H., during the month of August. As yet I have not had his report on the fishing.

Lyme has some copies, if you want one, of the class directory that his committee distributed in its promotion of the reunion and your Secretary has available, for those who could not attend the reunion, copies of the program of our Memorial Services for deceased classmates.

THAYER MEN OF 1912: Of the ten Thayer School men of 1912, seven attended the 35th Reunion. From left to right, Nelson Doe, George Hitchcock (his first reunion), Dutch Waterbury (all the way from Puerto Rico), Chip Farrington, Harold Baker (his first reunion since 1915), Mark Snow, and Lew Perley. The baby carriage is no tribute to Chip. It's Dutch Waterbury's Hanover grandchild.

Secretary, 120 Broadway, New York 5, N. Y. Treasurer, Court House, Dedham, Mass. Endowment Fund Chairman, Van Dyne Oil Company, Troy, Pa.