1912

Sparked by Lyme Armes, a re-reunion dinner of '12ers was held at the Boston City Club on the evening of October 24th, the night before the first post-war Harvard Game. Highlight of the evening was the enjoyment of a "priceless" bottle of Ballantine's scotch sent by messenger by Vern Parmenter as his contribution to goodfellowship. Vern was unable to be present, being out of danger and comfortably recovering from a coronary thrombosis attack which may keep him from his office at the Dennison Company until the new year. Stimulated by the evidence of Vern's desire to take part in the 1912 roundup, QueechFrench wrote Vern a gay note of thanks which was signed by the thirteen classmates present: Eddie Luitwieler, Ted Lampe, QueechFrench, Walt Kyle, Pett Pettingell, Clyde Norton, Ben Adams, Lyme Armes, Hugh Lena,Caesar Young, John Park, Ray Cabot and Bud Hoban.

Fulfilling a plan born of the 35th Reunion, Alice Hitchcock and son, Charles, invited classmates and their wives attending the Harvard game to a cocktail party at their home on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston after the game. Present were Mr. and Mrs. QueechFrench, Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Luitwieler, Mr.and Mrs. Lyme Armes, Mr. and Mrs. CaesarYoung, Ben Adams, and Mr. and Mrs. PettPettingell and their two daughters.

What a swell job Henry Van Dyne and his committee did in their one-year campaign for our Class Endowment Fund appears from a Class Memorial Funds Bulletin, dated October 17,

1947. Among all the classes from 1906 to 1947 having such funds under way, 191 a i, stood in ninth place with its contribution of $15,721.65. Won't some classmate who has not contributed to the Fund send Henry $25.00 to top 1915 which was ahead of us by $20.00? We would then be highest of all classes earlier than 1918.

At the suggestion of Lyme Armes the Class Executive Committee has formally approved the plan originated by the Class of 1914, and reported in the June 1947 issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, to present to the Dartmouth College Library a book as a memorial to each deceased classmate instead of sending flowers at the time of a classmate's death. An engraved card will be sent to the family of the deceased classmate stating "In the name of our beloved classmate the Class of 1912 has contributed to the fund for the purchase of rare and beautiful books to be placed in the Dartmouth College Library. A suitable volume will carry our classmate's name inscribed upon its bookplate as a living memorial." Lyme and Pett Pettingell, as Class Treasurer, are carrying out the plan which will be put into effect with a donation in memory of Billy Baxter. For the classmates who have heretofore died, memorial books will likewise be presented to the Library in the inverse order of their deaths, which project it is anticipated will be completed by the time of our next reunion. Funds will be sent to Harold G. Rugg, Assistant Librarian, who will keep such donations together with those from cooperating classes in a segregated fund to be drawn upon as occasion arises for the purchase of rare books, first editions, etc. A list of the deceased men and their class, together with the titles of the books purchased is to be kept in the Treasure Room of the Library, in an especially bound book, where the memorial books will also be located. In reporting upon bis arrangements for carrying out the plan, Lyme said:

"I believe it is essential that these gifts be made from the 1912 treasury as a gift of all active and living classmates but I see no reason why any classmate should not be permitted to make a personal gift to the Class treasury of funds earmarked especially for immediate use as a book-memorial gift to the Library for a specific classmate, regardless of the latter's date of death. I can think of cases where it might be a source of genuine personal satisfaction to a surviving classmate to make such a gift for one who was his campus pal, or even for surviving members of a deceased classmate's family to do likewise on some significant anniversary. All such gifts, however, should be made to the Class of 1912 and passed on by our Treasurer in the name of the class as a whole."

Sixty-six executives of major and independent oil companies and oil associations, alllong-time personal friends of Click Morrill,attended a dinner in his honor on October25, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in NewYork, to pay him a personal tribute for hiswork on behalf of the oil industry as executive secretary of the Atlantic Coast Oil Conference and the Independent Oilmen's Association of New England. As an additionaltoken of the esteem in which Click is held hewas presented with a pair of binoculars.

Writing from Denmark on September 8,Syd Clark, says:

"My wife and I are winding up a three-months, three-country trip through Scandinavia. Next week to Paris then will set our sights for Cape Cod, arriving about November 1. In Scandinavia I have been—as you may surmise—assembling material for a new book and in France I shall be revising an old one (1931) about French cathedral cities. It has been a phenomenal summer, every day for ninety in a row—barring only five in North Norway—being cloudless and perfect. They say this has not happened in Scandinavia since 1810! But all these countries are full of dread lest they be caught in a nutcracker in future strife between Russia and the U. S. A. The pressure would crack them in no time. Meanwhile they recover, and hope for the best."

After having five granddaughters BenAdams reports a grandson and says "Is mychest out!"

Lloyd Bugbee retired September 1, 1947, from the superintendency of West Hartford (Conn.) Public Schools after thirty years of service there and 35 in the educational field.

Queech French is still his old self. In sending in his check for class dues he made it payable to "Ralph Damned Pettingell" and Pett had to endorse it that way! In sending in for his tickets to the Harvard game Queech wrote that he wanted good seats "as I am getting aged and infirm with failing vision."

There was a small reunion at the Hanover Inn on September 29. Harold Stearns and DocWorcester were both there with their wives.

LOST! REWARD! These were the two skinniest members of the Class of 1912 when this snapshot of Heinie Urion and Doc O'Connor (I. to r.) was taken July 4, 1912, while visiting Connie and Les Snow at Rochester, N. H. One of them is still skinny and the other is now—plump. Someone again took their picture at Reunion immediately after the Class picture. A reward of grateful appreciation will be given for sending a print or the film of that "35 years after" picture to the Class Secretary.

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