1912
We begin with a letter from Lyme Armes, chairman:
GHQ 1912's Thirty-fifth.
Dear Heinie:
or Rip Van Twelver is getting ready to reverse the fable .... turn back the flood of Time and the River of Actuality .... demonstrate that few adventures can be more fabulously delightful than a return to the hills of Hanover in June, 1947.
Up there, they say, the facts are even better than the fable. Youth is perpetual, yet old friends are everywhere within reach. New amazements sparkle for eyes already gladdened by old vistas. For those few magic days, they say, everything's "beer and skittles" again. On every hand, for every sort of man, there will appear secret enjoyments as alluring as laughter in a distant room.
Rip Van TweJver is planning right now on heading back for his Thirty-fifth Reunion with those men he had such times with up there in the hills. Even if it's only half true, what they say about Hanover, he says it'll be worth the trip .... for those three days, June 20, 21 and 22.
Prof. Babe Hartshorn of the Dartmouth Chemistry Department, as Mr. 1912 in Hanover, has already done much of the preliminary spade-work on the basic program and arrangements.
So far, all official and volunteer advisors appear to be joining the campaign sparked by Roy Lewis, Lebanon, for program simplification. Object: to mortgage as little time as possible for fixed events, thus leave a maximum amount of time for reuning classmates and their families to get re-acquainted with each other and the expanding College community.
Building around Babe as Rip Van Twelver s advance-agent-in-residence, an executive committee for the Reunion is being recruited. A much larger General Committee will later be announced covering the entire map of 1912's "girdled earth." Two top men on this totem pole, rumor has it, are to be Boss Geller and Gardy Bullard, director and chorister for 1912's 35th anniversary "Hum" at the Senior Fence during the witching twilight hour before the reunion dinner at the Hanover Inn ... . inevitable after their inspired direction at that impromptu singout ten years ago.
From here on, all but the basic reservations are tentative and subject to committee-revisions.... suggestions will be welcomed. helpful or all will be early assurance of everyone's intention to attend, since the size and location of the dormitories (plural for luck) assigned to 1912 will be determined by the number of men and women expected.
Start planning the trip NOW . . . . answer all your '12er mail promptly .... and joy go with you, round trip!
Hats off to Henry Van Dyne and his Class Memorial Fund Committee! At the end of the year, as a result of their efforts, 64 members of the class pledged a total of $10,744.77, of which $8,869.77 had been paid- rive classmates contributed $1,000each, several gave $500 and quite a number made gifts of $1000 each. Lesser contributions resulted in an average of $167.50. These results do not include some pledges for undetermined amounts which will be paid before June. Although the active campaign is over so as not to interfere with Boss Getter's efforts for the annual Alumni Fund, Henry is sanguine that by the time of our 35th Reunion in June, the gift to be presented by the class to the College will amount to between fifteen and twenty thousand dollars. If the members of the class who have not contributed will respond voluntarily, Henry's hopes should be realized and we will have a record to be proud of.
The still-youthful Eddie Luitwieler is now a grandfather and, since much of Eddie's fame is founded on his pre-eminence as the father of 1912's twin daughters whose distinguished double wedding made news on the society pages last winter, we hereby record the vital statistic that, there is now a boy in the Luitwieler family. Weighing in at 71/2 pounds December 29, Roger Dudley Burke, son of Betty and Dudley Wayne Burke, is already a candidate for admission to Dartmouth. His irreverent grandfather calls him "Spike."
Ev Gammons, Cohasset, Mass., was elected President of the Franklin Savings Bank, Park Square, Boston, on January 30, after serving many years as Treasurer of the institution. Congratulations Ev!
Harry Brown is associated with J. E. Greiner Cos., an engineering firm at 1201 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, Md., and lives at 1001 St. Paul St. in the same city. His son became an officer in the armed forces after his graduation from the University of Florida and has recently been placed on inactive status. Chesty and Mrs. Brown spent the Christmas holidays at St. Augustine, Fla., where their daughter and her family reside.
Bill Locke is with Hollywood, Inc., 1943 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, Fla., and lives at 310 South 17th Ave., Apartment 1, in the same town. His older son, Robert, married Miss Dorothy Clark and lives at Ayer, Mass. They have two children. During the war Bob was in the Signal Corps and spent most of his time in China. The younger son, Paul, married Miss Elizabeth Maher and is living at Geneva, N. Y. Their family consists of one son. Paul has recently received his discharge from the Navy in which he served as an aviation machinist's mate. Bill is convalescing from a recent operation and expects to be back to normal before long. Henry Van Dyne spent a few weeks at Del Ray Beach during January and stopped off at Hollywood one day, but Bill happened to be out so they did not get together.
The secretary is sorry to report that ShawNewton, who had engaged in advertising activities in New York City for more than a quarter of a century, died at his home in New Canaan, Conn., on January 11, 1947.
Col. Chet Haycock was retired from the regular Army on November 30 and is now living at 5 Aberdeen Road, Wellesley, Massachusetts. At the time of his retirement he was serving as Fiscal Director, First Service Command, at Boston. To keep his blood circulating he has taken on an instructor's job at the College of Business Administration, Boston University, teaching economics, banking and finance. His roommate at College, Click Morrill, is a fellow townsman in Wellesley.
Elwyn Taber's son, Roy Lewis' son-in-law, Donald M. Taber '41, is now living in Lebanon with his wife and two-year-old daughter and is associated with Lewis Bros. Nuff ced!
On Doc O'Connor's January journeys for The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis accompanied by Rollie Linscott they saw some classmates. At the Salem, Mass., dinner they had a good chat with AI Miller and his wife and also saw Tom Casey, who was going into the hospital the next morning for a gall bladder operation. At the Northampton, Mass., dinner they saw Mr. and Mrs. Bush Mensel and report that Bush has lost the sylphlike figure which he displayed on the basketball floor, but what he now lacks in charm his wife supplies. After the dinner they were driven to Springfield by Mr. and Mrs. Queechee French. Queechee and Doc entered into such a lengthy, involved agricultural discussion that by the time they hit Springfield the fog within the car was even worse than outside. At Allentown, Pa., they met up with Louis Ekstrom and Chip Farrington, Chip having driven from Philadelphia for the meeting.
Cap Allen, the prominent Springfield, Mass., barrister, has been appointed by the Justices of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts as a Bar Examiner to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Clifford S. Lyon, Dartmouth '10.
Stan Weld writes:
I am certainly keeping out of mischief if that is what you want to know. Beside a busy practice and the editorial job running and managing the Connecticut State Medical Journal I am also the chair man of the Advisory Committee of the Cooperative Medical Advertising Bureau at the American Medical Association headquarters in Chicago. This Bureau handles practically all the national advertising for the state medical journals, which totals between $500,000 to $600,000 a year. I, like many others, have not seen many of the class outside of those who reside in this immediate vicinity. HugLena was at the Yale game in New Haven, and SydClark, as you saw in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, was in town to speak to the Twentieth Century Club and I had a chance to chat with him for a few minutes.
GOING BACK TEN YEARS TO THEIR 25th, 1912 furnishes this shot taken at that time as a reminder to forgetful classmates that their 35th Reunion is not too many months away, so make that reservation for June.
Acting Secretary, 120 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Treasurer, 354 N. E. 126 th St., Box 1517 North Miami, Fla. Memorial Fund Chairman, Van Dyne Oil Cos., Troy, Pa.
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