1912
Memorial Fund Chairman, HENRY B. VAN DYNE Box 521, Troy, Pa.
Eddie Luitwieler has been appointed Class Agent by the Executive Committee to succeed Boss Geller whose resignation was regretfully accepted. After serving I do not know how many years, Boss felt compelled to resign because of the increased pressure of his business activities and the necessity to ease up on his extra-curricular affairs. Without discrediting any of those who have previously served as Class Agent, it is probably the unanimous opinion of the class that Boss is the best and most successful Class Agent we have ever had, and we all acknowledge the deep gratitude that we owe to him. However, in Eddie Luitwieler we have a most worthy successor who will do the job.
Ralph Pettingell, who for 16 years has served Norfolk County (Mass.) as Treasurer, was successful in his campaign for renomination to that office on the Republican Ticket in the primaries held on September 14, defeating his opponent almost two to one. His nomination amounts to election because he will have no Democratic opponent in the elections. In his campaign he had the assistance of classmates and other Dartmouth men in the County. During the campaign Lymeand Cris Armes had Pett and his wife up for a week end at Lyme's summer home in Northwood, N. H., to give Pett a chance to relax and catch his breath. This he did by watching Lyme pull in a few pickerel.
The 1912 Endowment Fund as of August 28, 1948 totals $15,731.65. 1912 still leads all classes from 1906 through 1917 with the single exception of 1915 whose total is $15,827.72. A contribution of $l00.00 by any member of the class, mailed to Henry Van Dyne, Troy, Pa., will put 1912 out front again.
Ken Kimball is up to his ears in a flurry of engineering detail for a series of eight different science buildings. He has not had any vacation and has been working four and five nights a week for two years. One of the jobs is at the University of Vermont, which permits Ken to visit Hanover frequently, and on one of these trips had the privilege of visiting his granddaughter, Lenora Deland Kimball, born at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital August 22 to Mr. and Mrs. William Deland Kimball. Son Bill will graduate next year, class of 1949. Ken and Lyme Armes frequently have late dinners together previous to their respective night shifts.
Caesar Young and his wife spent their summer vacation on an Island in Lake Winnepesaukee where Chet Haycock's son Bob was working. Caesar says Bob is a grand boy and entered Dartmouth this fall with the class of 1952.
Scott Rogers, who operates automobile distributorships in Cleveland and Akron, Ohio, reports that "as everyone knows, our business has been good. This sure helps to make up for many o£ the lean years we had during the '3o's." Scott served as president of the Ohio Automobile Dealers Association two years ago and now is president of Cleveland Automobile Dealers Association. Scott's three sons are all graduated from college, one from Dartmouth and the younger boys from Cornell. Two of Scott's sons are married and one of them in August presented Scott with his first grandchild.
After long service on committees, counsel and House of Delegates of the American Hospital Association, Bill Butler was elected third vice-president of that organization at its Fiftieth Annual Convention held at Atlantic City in September. Bill's three children are all married and he has three grandchildren. Son David, wife and baby are all at the University of Colorado.
On July 1, Henry Stevens assumed the new title of Director of University Extension of the University of New Hampshire with fulltime responsibility for development of the University's extension work in all fields other than agriculture and home economics. Henry has written the following additional news:
"I have lived nearly all my life in New Hampshire. Our extension work kept me in close touch for many years with the rural parts of the state and with the national agricultural situation. Now in recent years it connects me with the industrial, educational, and social life of the larger towns, and with the resulting glimpses of problems that are nation- and world-wide. It's a kind of encyclopaedic experience. Personally, I do not do a great deal of traveling, get to Concord and Boston frequently, usually at least once a year to New York and Chicago or Washington, and once in a while to Hanover. Most of the time I am at my desk here, planning, conferring, writing, so most of my contacts are vicarious. I have to see your flesh-and-blood partner by film it our visual center; and I would rather see Doc and you face to face. Once in a while I chat with Bart Griffin at his Newmarket hardware store, with Pike Childs or try—with little success thus far—to catch Lyme Armes at Northwood. This week Agnes had a very welcome letter from Hazel Cobb, Ty's widow, who still lives in Exeter.
"We shall go over to see Hazel and renew acquaintance with her when Agnes gets back from Philadelphia (where she is attending the Progressive Party convention as one of the state s electors for Wallace!).
"Our own children, peter ana ratricia, nave been in the University here this past year Peter is majoring in geology, and Patsy in English. We all live just outside the village in an old remodeled farmhouse. Over twenty years ago we put most of the tillable land into an apple orchard This has put me in personal (nothing vicarious about this!) touch with the problems of the soil, and out of the experience has come, in addition to the Mcintosh apples, a strange Kind of crop—a book on which I have been working for the past ten years. Harper's will publish it in November under the title The Recovery of Culture. It's an attempt to illuminate the whole development of man through indirect lighting. It will not be a long book, but it covers long periods of time. As a result, I have the feeling or swift motion like that of a skier, as if I were schussing the slope, taking the headwall. I did a lot of practising, summoned all my courage and sense of balance. Well, Heinie, old friend of Round Robin days, watch out for me. They've sent the manuscript to the printer. If I get a bad fall, perhaps you'll soothe me and call Doc to have the Red Cross bring me first aid quick."
After a serious attack of flu last spring, Leeand Alme White headed for Nova Scotia via boat for Yarmouth where they spent three weeks loafing and salmon fishing. After a busy summer they headed back for Canada last month where Lee spent two weeks in New Brunswick shooting woodcock. His hunting dogs take part in two championships this fall, including the New England which is run at Lee's place at Scotland, Conn.
Doc Burnham's second grandchild and first grandson was born to Donald '44 and wife Betty, August 20.
From his new address at Clear Water Beach, Fla., Chief Wheeler writes that he has not felt as good as he now does for the last five years and that he guesses Africa did not lick him after all.
After a well-deserved vacation in Maine, Doc Viets returned the middle of September to begin a round of professional activities in Boston, activities in the American Medical Association, taking him to Chicago Headquarters, frequently to St. Louis and elsewhere, and a meeting of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis at White Sulphur Springs last month, over which Doc O'Connor presided as President of the Foundation.
Incidentally, on his way to attend a Red Cross meeting at Stockholm during the summer, Doc O'Connor received some sort of a decoration from the King of Denmark and sent me a post card from Dartmouth, England.
Jim English and wife had a summer vacation trip to Illinois and lowa, visiting with their daughter and her husband at Brookfield, Ill. Mark and Marion Snow entertained Harold andKatherine Baker for dinner early in September. Late in September Mark and his wife drove to Boston for a meeting of the Masonic Supreme Council and a trip to Cape Cod.
Pett Pettingell recently had quite a reunion at his home. Brian Robie, who was Pett's roommate in Elm House the two years that Brian was in college, spent a week end with Pett, and Caesar Young, who was one of the old Elm House gang, and wife came out to Pett's for a Saturday night dinner. This was the first time that Pett had seen Brian since June, 1910. Brian spends most of his time entertaining inmates of a veterans hospital in California playing the piano, with occasional other musical engagements, and as Pett says, "Is doing something of a real service to mankind."
Another reunion occurred when Bill Shapleigh and his wife entertained Queechee andBertha French.
Bud and Barbara Hoban paid their annualfall visit to the Ray Cabots last month. Ray'sboy Roddy is in his sophomore-plus year atDartmouth.
Chet Newcomb, President of the ClevelandProvision Company, writes:
"Two of my four boys are now engaged in the business, the fourth generation that is, and two are still in college. Concerning my two daughters, the oldest has been married for some time, and the youngest, but 13, is still at home and in Junior High. So, outside of the fact that Mama and Papa are' growing older, and that a new grandchild pops up here and there, that's about it. I see In Putnam and Scott Rogers every now and then and both are fine. Irv made a very successful sale of his business last year, and, as far as I know, has been taking it easy since that time. Scott is president of the Automobile Dealers Association here, and, according to reports, is going to town with his new Hudson. Several months ago half a dozen of us had lunch with Dutch Viets, when he was here to make an address. I did the inviting and Doc Stecher picked up the check. So you see what I mean when I say nothing has changed with me."
From John Park:
"Since the 35th reunion and shortly before that memorable three days (swell job by good old Lyme Armes and his committee), the writer has been plugging away at the chemical business as manufacturers' agent for solvents and certain heavy chemicals and colors. A far cry, you may be saying, for one who never darkened the doors of old Bartlett Hall. But a business in fundamental materials is not a bad one to be in these times."
From La Jolla, California, Tex Morris says:
"My life has regulated itself into a more or less humdrum existence with no excitement other than an occasional big fish or an unusually nice bird shoot in Mexico. A small group of us had the pleasure of getting together for drives during the war for the Dartmouth boys who were being shipped overseas, and from this nucleus has been formed the Dartmouth Association of San Diego.
"Also have had the pleasure of interviewing and sponsoring all candidates for the freshman class, and have been fortunate enough to enter at least one a year from this vicinity."
Jim Griffin has just bought a new home in Newmarket, N. H., where he is in the business of selling hardware and insurance. He and Judy have been busy since the first of July getting settled and, as Jim says, he is learning a lot about real estate. The address is 196 Main St., and any '12-er "if you ever happen into this neck of the woods" is invited to drop in with the promise that "if there is not a cool bottle on the ice, we will no doubt have an ice cube or two to drop into it. You see we do not grow ice in washtubs and buckets as they did in Hanover."
Dominic C. Ashley, who spent his freshman year with us and then attended Georgia Tech from which he graduated in 1913, died February 4, 1946 in Glens Falls, N. Y.
On behalf of the entire class, condolence is extended to Connie and Les Snow on the death of their mother at Rochester, N. H.
Secretary, 120 Broadway, New York 5, N. Y.
Treasurers - - Court House, Dedham, Mass.
