1912
Boston classmates were shocked by news of the sudden death of Click Morrill on February 5. He had planned to attend the annual Boston Dartmouth Alumni Dinner but none of our class saw him there, and he evidently retired to his room at the Statler Hotel where he intended to spend the night after the dinner. In the morning he called a doctor and was removed to the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he died of a heart attack that afternoon. Click was one of the leading oil men of New England and recently had been prominent in various organizations dealing with the oil shortage inasmuch as he was considered a national authority on supply and distribution of petroleum products. He was executive director of the Independent Oilmen's Association of New England and served as executive secretary of the Atlantic Coast Oil Conference. He was a member of the Fuel Oil Distributors Council and served as a member of the New England Governors' Advisory Committee under three Massachusetts Governors. In an editorial upon his death The BostonPost said: "Clyde Morrill not only served his industry well but acted in the interest of the public. His passing now is a tragic loss to both." A contribution in memory of Click was forwarded to the Dartmouth Memorial Book Fund and a memorial card was sent to Click's family on behalf of the Class. Services were held at Newton Cemetery Chapel, attended by Pett Pettingell, Chet Haycock, RayCabot and Eddie Luitwieler.
Alvie Garcia ducked New York's snow and cold weather the middle of January to spend four or five weeks in Florida fishing.
Alice Brennock Day had an article published in the January 9, issue of Printers' Ink about her consumer researching, which she does with the New York advertising firm of Cecil & Presbrey, Inc. Freddie Day Jr. became the father of his second son and third child on December 18. Joan Day Mallamo, who was married in 1946 and lives in Phoenix, Arizona, where her husband is a lawyer, had a daughter, born September 14. Priscilla Day Boekelheide, who will receive her M.D. at the University of Minnesota this coming June, has a son, born May 13, 1946. Patience Day, who is a graduate nurse, enlisted in the Navy last November and is stationed at Portsmouth, Virginia. The youngest Day daughter, Abbyann, is a junior at Manhattan College in New York City, and the youngest of the family, Tom Brennock Day, is a high school junior at Mount St. Michael's Academy in New York City.
Dutch Viets attended the Interim Session of the American Medical Association in Cleveland in January, as chairman of the Council on Scientific Assembly. His Council is responsible for arranging the scientific meetings both at the annual meeting and the interim session. He is already busy working on the program for the Annual Meeting to be held in Chicago in June. While in Cleveland he saw Stan Weld, who attended as editor of the ConnecticutState Medical Journal. At a dinner, arranged by a Harvard cousin, Dutch met Harold andMrs. Baker and had a pleasant chat about the famous Thirty-fifth Reunion in Hanover. Harold brought his son along to check up on the Harvard son of Dutch's cousin. During the evening there was a mixed quartet of Harvard- Dartmouth songs, with Mrs. Baker at the piano. Later in January, Dutch gave the principal address at the Annual Meeting of the Cleveland Medical Library Association, entitled A Roving Commission: The Doctor Callson Some of His Friends. Dutch was entertained by Chet Newcomb, Scott Rogers and Irv Putnam in January on his second trip to Cleveland, aided and abetted by Henry Haserot, 1910, and Dr. Bob Stecher, 1919, his host. His neglected education on meat packing was brought up to date by Newcomb, who told him why prices are "as is." Rogers expounded on how to distribute automobiles and Putnam suggested it was a good time to retire, as he has done. Dutch insists that you can get a good "post-graduate course" in Cleveland, on the pleasant campus of the Union Club, and the course is not hard to take. Supplemental studies can be taken with Haserot on pineapples or with Stecher on rheumatism.
Speaking of retiring, Lloyd Bugbee recently wrote Pett Pettingell from Eel Pot Ledges, Fairlee, Vermont:
"The answer to your question in the thoughtful letter of October 21: 'Should a man be congratulated when he can and does retire?' is 'Yes.' It has been my observation during the past 58 years and especially the last thirty of them, that most men are always getting ready-to retire and enjoy their lives and also continue to help others enjoy theirs, then there comes the necessity to keep up with the Joneses, etc. and they continue to battle for money, prestige and what have you. They can NOT get out and let younger and perhaps more capable men take over. Enough of that, but it is the picture I have seen far too often. They die getting ready to retire. I may pass out tomorrow, but at least I have faced the future with an understanding and helpful wife with prospects of sufficient activities to keep us busy and we hope well employed for some years to come. The arithmetical problem is something. Try it on your slate. Our income has been cut almost exactly 66%. Really, Pett, there is much up here that money can't buy. Stop over and see for yourself."
Added to the kudos that Doc O'Connor has received as president of the American Red Cross was one of the highest honors of the British Government, when King George VI designated him an Associate Knight of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in recognition of Doc's "humanitarian work of great proportions." The Order originated during the Crusades of the eleventh century and is conferred on persons who have done outstanding work in hospital or ambulance service.
Hermann Lohmann died on January 20, of a heart attack suffered at his parsonage of the Evangelical Church, Indian Orchard, Mass., where he had been the pastor for the last twenty-two years.
In response to birthday greetings from the Class Secretary, Mark Allen wrote from Seattle, Washington:
"There is not much family news I can give you except that I have four grandchildren. Each of my sons has two children, one a girl and a boy, and the other two girls. Where I have used T and 'my' I should have said 'we' and 'our' as my good wife, Ella, had as much to do with all this as I did, strange as it may seem. I seem to be a long ways from Dartmouth activities although we have an association here and get together occasionally. About the only 'l2 man who ever comes this way is Doc O'Connor and he, of course, is usually a pretty busy man although I have had the pleasure of chinning with him a couple of times. Say hello to any and all of the boys, and thanks again for the greetings."
Memorial book gifts have been made for all classmates who died since 1945. Either LymeArmes or Pett Pettingell, who are carrying out this project, will be glad to accept donations for the 1912 Memorial Book Fund from classmates, family or friends, for the purchase of a "rare and beautiful book," in memory of any classmate specified, such gifts to be made to the Class and the books so sponsored to be recorded as gifts of the Class of 1912 in memory of the designated classmate.
Classmates present at the Boston Alumni Dinner on February 4th were Ray Cabot,Queechee French, Ben Hunt, Pett Pettingell,Mike Norton, Caesar Young, John Park, Walter Thomas, Eddie Luitwieler, Lyme Armes,Gee Bullard, Fletcher Clark, Rollie Linscott,Doc O'Connor and Carle Rollins. The Boston crowd were glad to see the last three from New York.
The night of the Holy Cross-Dartmouth basketball game in Boston there was a gathering of the clan at Hotel Manger. Mike Norton,Caesar Young, Lyme Armes, Fletcher and Mrs.Clark and their sons, Charles and Fletcher 3d, Dartmouth '45, with his wife, were in the crowd.
Some changes of addresses for those who desire to keep their Class Directories up to date are as follows:
Stuart O. Blythe, 2821 Ashby Avenue, Berkeley 5, California.
Earl M. Cutting, 38 Center Street, Haddenfield, New Jersey.
Cecil P. Dodge, 6 Highland Avenue, Haverhill, Massachusetts.
Chester A. Gilbert, 18 Bellevue Avenue, Providence, R. I.
Lathrop B. Lovell, Kenmore Hall, 145 E. 23rd Street, New York, N. Y.
Secretary, 120 Broadway, New York 5, N. Y. Treasurer, Court House, Dedham, Mass. Class Agent, Box 199, Oswego, N. Y.
