1912
We start off with a letter from Lyme Armes:
TWELVERS ALL:
Now that you've had it, the time has come for each of you general-committee members to start sending out your personal invitations to those Very Important Persons.
The "first touch of Spring" is what we mean. It's "bustin' out all over." By now the campus duck-boards have disappeared in Hanover and the dandelions are taking over. It's almost time for the seersucker suits to bloom on the Gulf Coast and, even up there in Doc Quint's Calgary prairie, the city-bricks are getting hotter while April's breezy fingers play tricks on his X-ray plates; painting in strange transcontinental pictures he hasn't ever forgotten .... nor ever really seen since he left Hanover Plain 35 years ago.
As for those VlP's—those are simply the graying pals of your own fond and fragmentary memories, who would surely be very important to you, personally, if by some kindly magic of coincidence you could come upon them suddenly smack-dab in front of the Hanover Inn on a June evening—say, Friday night, June so, 1947.
It could happen. And nothing on earth could do more to take the long-shot gamble out of that coincidence than a short note from you. Scribble two or three of them this evening . Somehow secretaries don't seem to understand.
And never forget this if you're there, it's going to be mighty good news to those certain few for whom you, more than any other '12er, can warm the cockles of an old friend's heart. It only takes one or two of those to make a class Reunion trip to Hanover a memorable success for the men on both ends of the shake .... all expenses paid for, round-trip!
Sure as shooting, "Rip Van Twelvers 35th Return to the Hills" can be three days jampacked with personal satisfactions and enjoyments for you, if you'il do just two things, beginning NOW (1) Plan to be there with us yourself. (2) Let some of those you want to see most know you are going to be there and want to see them.
The No. 2 item in the preceding paragraph explains exactly a minor mystery that may be puzzling a few of you. If you suddenly began getting the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE in January (that issue with the splendid coverportrait of President Dickey in color), you are one of the 40-odd Twelvers the Reunion Executive Committee found missing on the MAGAZINE'S list of regular subscribers so, whether you can join us in June or not, you're going to get all the news and the MAGAZINE right through the July issue, which will report all the Commencement and class Reunion doings. Go back now, and read item No. 2. That puts it in a nutshell.
If you could only have seen the celebration touched off in Boston when, 10 and behold, Dutch Cotrell turned up, in person, at the annual Alumni Dinner for the first time in history, you would understand exactly what the Committee means. And how'd it happen Dutch made the special effort to travel to Boston? Because Eddie Luitwieler wrote him a little note and let him know but when Dutch appeared there among the "regulars," one would have thought that they had ALL sent for him. He was the "star boarder" at 1912's three tables .... hasn't lost a hair nor gained a wrinkle.... and we introduce him here as a living example of that peculiar law of Nature by which long-time-no-see makes every Twelver on earth, come June, a genuine VIP. Yours at midnight, Lyme Armes.
KUDOS The election of Nelson Doe as a vice president of the Turner Construction Cos. was announced with his picture on the financial page of the New York Times on February 21 Unc Bellows was elected a Director of the Glen Ridge (N. J.), Trust Cos. at the annual meeting of that bank in January On March 3 Doc O'Connor was the guest of honor at the second annual dinner of the Committee of Catholics for Human Rights when he was the recipient of the Msgr. John A. Ryan Award for most distinguished service in furthering human rights.
Al Smith recently retired from the executive vice-presidency of C. G. Conn, Ltd., the world's largest manufacturer of band instruments, at Elkhart, Ind. He and Mrs. Smith will spend the remainder of the winter with Dick Plumer at North Miami, Fla. In the spring, after a few weeks at Elkhart, they will visit their younger daughter Marjorie and her husband, Dr. William B. Leffler, at Cleveland, Ohio, and then go to their summer place at Truro, Mass. Their older daughter, Jeanette, is married to Harrison Church and they have two children, Gretchen and Geoffrey. Their residence is in Elkhart. Al's son Malcolm married Miss Ann Morse, and they live at Wellesley Hills, Mass., with their young daugh ter, Victoria.
Jack McCarthy was badly wounded in the first world war and, following his discharge from the Army, went to work for the United States Treasury Department. He has remained there ever since and is now Coordinating Reviewer on Legal and Accounting Problems in the Practice and Procedure Division of the Bureau of Internal Revenue with an office at Washington, D. C. He and Mrs. McCarthy live at 1512 Webster Street, N.W., Washington, D. C., and have two children. The older, John, is 19 years of age and was in the Air Corps up to November 30, 1946, when he received his discharge. Most of his service was in the European Theatre of Operations. Robert, the younger boy, is 14 years of age and attends St. John's Military School.
Roy Frothingham is the managing partner of "Facts Consolidated," a marketing research organization serving advertising agencies and a formidable list of manufacturers of some of the nation's best known products, with his headquarters at 111 Sutter Street, San Francisco 4, Calif.
From Auburn, Ind., Harry Wanner reports that Jim Oneal was thereabouts all last summer and they had a couple of golf games and gab fests.
° Hi O'Neill, with his wife and daughter, Dorothy, promises to be at Hanover in June for our 35th Reunion: "Compiling and publishing the day-by-day record of the oil exploration and development campaign in Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky, and getting my only daughter entered and housed at Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio, has kept me busy."
From Caracas, Venezuela, comes the following letter from Syd Clark, dated March 4:
While on a big swing through the Caribbeanfor the next book—l had a Dartmouth Interval that was a wonderful delight to me. It occurred in Haiti. I flew from Port-au-Prince, to the Haitian capital, to Cap Haitien in a military plane in which there were but two other passengers, a Mr.and Mrs. Carl Schuster of New York. We were all bound for the mountain-top citadel built by the black King Christophe ("Black Majesty") over a century ago. In the afternoon, after our visit to the mountain-top on burro-back I was talking with Carl Schuster and learned that he was a Dartmouth man, Class of 1927, and had taken German literature courses under my brother, "Gene," long a professor there, as you know.
This reunion, in one of the most primitive places in all the Americas, was really something. We celebrated by bellowing all three verses of "Eleazar Wheelock" as a starter; and I'm quite sure that this was the first time that lusty song had been yelled in the mountains of northern Haiti. Other Dartmouth songs and much good Dartmouth talk followed, as we returned by plane to Port-au-Prince and sat on the hotel veranda there, oiling our vocal cords with appropriate rum Collinses "made in Haiti."
This trip is nearly over for me. We're visiting my daughter and her husband (and baby) in Caracas. My wife is with me here and we're returning to Sagamore Beach on Cape Cod in a few- days. On May 15 we're both emplaining for Sweden. There's never a dull moment in a travelwriter's life, but the highest high spots are such chance interludes as that Dartmouth "caroling" in Haiti.
At an American Red Cross Dinner in his home town, Taunton, Mass., Doc O'Connor was the speaker of the evening and among those who were present were the following members of the Class: Ed Berthiaume, Mr. and Mrs. Sonny Buell, Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Clark Jr., Lila Nead (the widow of Glad Nead) Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Tirrell and Mr. and Mrs. Jim Worton.
Lyme Armes, Chairman of our 35th Reunion Committee, has appointed Babe Hartshorn, Eddie Luitwieler, Ray Cabot and Pike Childs as members of his Executive Committee. So '12 Up-June 20-22!
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 Co., Troy, Pa.
