1912

One of the "Bowl" football games of which you may not have heard, was played at Mexico City on December 28 when Bud Hoban's National University of Mexico Pumas met the Mississippi College Choctaws, of Clinton, Miss., in the Orchid Bowl football game. United States Ambassador Walter Thurston and high Mexican officials were in the crowd of 7,500 which saw the renewal of a football series started in 1939. Bud Hoban's team got off to a good start with a 95-yard touchdown run by Captain Eduardo (Pocho) Herrera. The Choctaws, however, were too strong for the Mexicans, winning the game -43 to 7.

The foregoing was gleaned from the sports pages of the New York Times, inasmuch as I have not yet received from Bud his usual report on his annual pilgrimage to Mexico City, where for the past half-dozen years he has coached the University of Mexico's football team. Presumably he and Barbara will remain in Mexico until they return late in the Spring to prepare the opening of the 31st season of their boys' summer camp at New London, N. H. Bud's football coaching is a labor of love, but as the pioneer American football coach in our sister republic to the south he probably is a better ambassador of good will than any who come out of the State Department.

We have several weddings of "class children" to report this month. On the day after Thanks giving, Jim Steen Jr. married Betty Snyder at Franklin, N. H. Father Jim was best man. On December 28 a cocktail party was given for the bride and groom at the Steen home in Larchmont, N. Y. Jim Jr., who attended Brown and Tufts as a Navy student, entered Brown last fall as a junior after his discharge from the Navy, and followed his father's footsteps to the extent of pledging Beta Theta Pi.

Joan Ellen, the oldest daughter of Alice and the late Freddy Day, was married on December 28 to Herbert Mallamo in New York and the couple will reside at Phoenix, Ariz. Joan made an enviable war record in Europe as a nurse in the Army Medical Corps.

From a picture in the rotogravure section of a Boston newspaper I learned that Fletcher Clark 3d was married to Frederica Whetton, of Needham, Mass., at the First Parish Church of Needham. I wrote to classmate Fletcher Jr. for more details but as yet have not had a reply.

Among the Christmas cards received from classmates was one sent from sunny California by Sam Hobbs saying, "With the hope that we will be meeting out here in the West or back there in the East before another year rolls by. '12 Up."

Eight of the 188 sons of Dartmouth alumni who entered College last fall were sons of 1912, namely, James H. Burnham, Paul J. Lena, Ernst J. Mensel, William H. Miller (son of Al Miller), Allan R. Mitchell, Frederick D. Remsen, William B. Stearns 2d and Theodore M. Thomas.

I have not yet received a report from Henry Van Dyne on the outcome of the Class Memorial Fund Campaign but a letter from the executive secretary of the Committee on Class Memorial Funds, just received, says that in our one-year campaign 1912 had bettered the record of some contemporary classes who have had their memorial fund campaigns under way for a longer period. Solicitations for the Class Memorial Fund by Henry and his Committee ended December 31, but if you neglected or forgot to contribute it is not too late for you to send a check to Henry.

Mark the dates on your new 1947 calendar now and plan to attend our 35 th Reunion at Hanover on June 20-22. Soon you will be hearing of reunion plans from Lyme Armes, Chairman of our 35th Reunion Committee.

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.