1912
TWELVE UP!
There's still time—we hope—when this reaches you, for those of you who need it to make last-minute decisions. Send that roomreservation card or a telegram to the College Bursar's office. Hit the road, rail or airway for Hanover .... and join us June 20 for Rip VanTwelver's THIRTY-FIFTH Return to theHills .. . . one of life's memorable weekends!
Who's going to be there? Almost every Twelver you can wish to see again as you flip your Aegis. Ray Cabot,.Eddie Luitwieler, and Lyme Armes reported from an early May dinner meeting around a Parker House table littered with Reunion letters that their check-off of the igi2ers added up to "100, more or less, almost sure to attend." Big majority of letters received, by the committee at that date reported wives coming too, many with sons or daughters.
Add these hi-light details to the Reunion pictures you've been painting from your personal viewpoint as you scanned the basic program, from the Friday big-time gaiety and greetings through your last lone look at the meaningfulness of Hanover-1947: Gardy Billiard or Boss Geller pitching the key for some old song you nominate as the "next one" at the Senior Fence Hum Saturday at sunset. The twit-and-twinkle of Doc O'Connor v. Queechee French while Doc leads in the comraderie of casual talk after the 35th Reunion dinner. (Ray Cabot, programming this with Doc, assures us both "Hoppy" and President Dickey will be there to greet the men, women and children of 1912, the latter to extend our 35-year review beyond our ken into the future and formally accept the 1912 Memorial Fund from Henry Van Dyne's able stewardship.) Hanover Inn's famous roast Vermont turkey will be the main dish, if you're a gourmet and you will be, says Pike Childs, when you sample the steaming delicacy of those big North Atlantic lobsters he's having done to a turn, clambake style, by West Leb's renowned Henry "Plenty of Butter" Edson. That's for our Sunday afternoon al fresco picnic. (Yes, there'll be tender steaks, if lobster's not your dish.)
The Rev. Frank T. Weil, for the past 17 years pastor of Christ Church, Hyde Park, Boston, is going to make the round-trip to Hanover and back on Sunday, just to be with us a few hours and conduct our brief 35th anniversary memorial service in the College Chapel at 11:30 A.M. Now is the time to break the somber news that, since we entered Dartmouth, seventy-five members of the class of 1912 have passed on—36 of them in the decade since the spring of 1937.
Frank's son, Russell T. Weil, a veteran of the Navy's electronic warfare, is expediting his studies to graduate with Harvard's '49ers. Daughter, Barbara Tuttle Weil, junior at Smith, is to be married June 14 (by her Reverend Dad) to Richard Snelling, Harvard Law student from Allentown, Pa. If all goes as planned, the bride will transfer to Radcliffe in the fall, and set up housekeeping as well.
Speaking of Frank's Sunday memorial service reminds us that the class officers and Reunion executive committee desire the help of all classmates and friends in extending to all surviving widows and children of 1912 men a cordial invitation to attend the Reunion. Please pass along to them all essential information, since many of their addresses are not available. See that the reunion committee is notified of those planning to attend and desiring dormitory reservations.
How many men can you remember of the lusty, but loose-fielding, "Varsity" baseball team, which 1912 fielded at our 25th Reunion to do-or-die for Dartmouth by playing the last two innings of that epoch-making game against the University of Maryland? Noble crew! Nine men and a manager, all of whom had been bat-and-leather men for Dartmouth in their undergraduate days. No other class on record has ever been able to put such a team in play on its 25th Reunion weekend. Whether you have written the letters that "Personal Request" the reunion committee required or not, the spell of that '37 weekend stiil remains on Ray Cabot. He who "managed" the fabulous nine's arrival on the diamond in the oldtime Norwich-and-Hanover station coach sat down last month and wrote a letter to every surviving player of 1912's 25th anniversary "Varsity." Long yell for the team!
In case you haven't been getting your mail regularly, the most miraculous news is this: in some inexplicable way the famed "Newburyport Plan" has been surpassed by our reunion executive committee. They forecast that the blanket fee covering Rip Van Twelvers' 35th Return to the Hills will be "ABOUT ONE $lO BILL PER PERSON" payable on registration at 1912's dormitory headquarters.
If you just can't get back to Hanover, write or wire so as to get your message to 1912 headquarters before the class dinner on Saturday evening, June 21 and don't forget to add your name to 1912's 35th anniversary list of donors to the Dartmouth Alumni Fund.
Buster Brown explains his inability to attend our Reunion: "At this writing we do not expect to get to Hanover for the reunion. On June 20 we expect to sail from New York on the Drottingholm for Sweden. I am attending the Bth International Management Congress and Ruth is going along for the ride. We will come back on the same ship, landing about July 25. The ship has been taken over by the delegates to the Convention from the United States having the same interests we hope Will prove congenial and a grand time. If it were not for Sweden we would certainly go to Hanover."
Fred Remsen '50 was one of the seven new men elected to the new board of the Daily Dartmouth in the Spring elections. Harold S. Fuller Jr. '43 is one of the new delegation elected by Sphinx Society.
Tommy Thomas and Eddie huitwieler were spring visitors at Hanover Inn.
I had a nice visit with Red Whitney last month. He is, for him, "permanently" located in Washington as the representative of the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company. He _ reports that Brig. Gen. Dutch Miller (retired) is in Prague in some civilian capacity for the State Department.
Classmates at the New York Dartmouth Dinner on April 16 were: Harry McCaffrey, WyckofF Garrison, Clif Sugatt, Andy Phelps and son John, Rollie Linscott, Charley Gately, Lee White, Man Whittemore, Irv Goss, Dick Remsen, Alvie Garcia, Randy Burns, Doc O'Connor and Heinie Urion. Harry McCaffrey had always kept up his reserve commission since World War I and therefore was recalled to active duty in World War II with the rank of lieutenant colonel and was subsequently promoted to colonel. He was in the Army Air Forces at Wright Field, training and supervising ground personnel. When his son was drafted, Harry was able to secure his own discharge in the latter part of 1944. Harry's son was discharged from service last month and Harry is trying to get him into Dartmouth next fall. Charley Gately's boy is on the swimming team at Hanover. Charley says that he himself has reached the "chair and slipper" stage but he doesn't look or act it.
This is the last call for those who have not yet contributed to the Class Memorial Fund, the check for which Henry Van Dyne will present to President Dickey at our Reunion class dinner. We are all mighty proud of Henry's success and every member of the class should participate there is no closing date on additions to the Class Memorial Fund.
At the same time, the Alumni Fund and Boss Geller should not be neglected. Boss has so ably discharged his duties as class agenteach year increasing the amount of our class participation in the Alumni Fund that we cannot and will not let him down. This is an appeal to you last-minute guys whose responses mean the difference between a fine and a creditable class record. (There IS a difference.) We need both your names and your checks. June 30 is the closing date.
See you in Hanover—June 20.
THAT YOUNGER GENERATION! SPEED, SPEED, SPEED: Lolling comfortably in their high-powered, sleek touring car, two Dartmouth undergraduates and a friend rest prior to a fast spin over the countryside. Affixing her bonnet is Mrs. Homer St. Gaudens, at the wheel is Dwight Perry '12 and in the tonneau, Jim lrwin '11.
A HALF-DOZEN TWELVERS CONGREGATE AT TAUNTON: In every spot he visits, Basil O'Connor manages to get together with classmates. Last month he held a private reunion at the National Infantile Paralysis Foundation Dinner in Pennsylvania. This month, left to right, Jim Wordon, Flecher Clark, Marshall Tirrell, Art Buell, Ed Berthiaume and Mr. O'Connor at a Red Cross meeting in Taunton.
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.
THIRTY-FIFTH TWELVERS Return to the Hills June 20-22
