1912
Classmates who gathered around the table at the Annual Boston Alumni Dinner at the Hotel Statler on February 9 were: WallieWallburg, Fletch Clark, Chet Haycock, BenHunt, Vern Parmenter, Lyme Armes, StanWeld, John Park, Gee Bullard, Charley Gately,Red Whitney, Eddie Luitwieler, Mike Norton,Caesar Young and Pett Pettingell. Charley Gately, Red Whitney and Eddie Luitwieler were repeaters from the New York. Dinner. (How I omitted Eddie's name in reporting the roster at the New York dinner, I do not know. Forgive me, Eddie!) Doc Viets sent regrets inasmuch as he was leaving for Chicago for a Medical Association Dinner.
On the letterhead of Superior Court—Belknap County, Laconia, N. H„ Harry Trapp brings himself and his family up to date:
"As you see I am still at the old stand; have been clerk of court here since 1932 and justice of the Laconia Municipal Court since 1930. My family are all grown up. Harry Jr., Dartmouth '39, Temple Medical and Ex-Army Captain, is married, has two children, and is practicing medicine here in Laconia. Virginia, my oldest girl, is married to Dr Willard G. Rice of Worcester, Mass. and they have two children. She is a Mt. Holyoke girl and her husband is Amherst, Tufts Medical and ExArmy Captain. He is now a resident at Manhattan Eye and Ear, specializing in ophthalmology. Constance, also a Mt. Holyoke girl, is married to Robert Mac Crate, son of Justice John Mac Crate of the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division in Brooklyn. Bob is ex-Haverford, Harvard Law, and Ex-Navy Lieutenant, and is now in the offices of Sullivan & Cromwell in New York. My young- est Joan, graduated from Simmons this year, and at present is a secretary in the office of Dr. Karl Compton at M.1.T., but I expect will be leaving there shortly as she expects to go to Norway this summer with some of the girls from there whom she met in college. If any '12ers are around this neighborhood at any time, my wife and I would be very happy to see them."
As a result of his experience in handling admissions, vocational counseling of students and placement work at Hobart College, Warren Bruner has moved on to a larger field and is now conducting courses in career planning at Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio. In conjunction therewith he is giving lectures, conducting surveys and rendering services as an independent consultant in the field of career determination. As he says: "Helping young people plan their careers has long been my hobby." For classmates who are engaged in the educational or personnel fields, write Warren (Box 181) Marietta, Ohio, for one of his questionnaires that will assist him in the survey that he is making.
Lyme Armes, who is Promotion Manager of the Boston Post, served as Master of Ceremonies at the Boston Post Day of the MidWinter meeting of the Massachusetts State Federation of Women's Clubs. It was at that meeting that the suggestion was made by the chief editorial writer of the Boston Post, that the country should capitalize on the wisdom and vast experience of ex-presidents by making them "Senators-at-Large."
Louie Ekstrom is positively becoming loquacious:
"Thanks for my birthday anniversary letter of last September. I hasten now to disassociate myself from those who feel that such letters act as reminders of increasing age and are therefore taboo. For a year I have suffered from pains in my left elbow substantiating the thought that glass was in the arm. Eating became a bother and bowling an impossibility. I had to rehabilitate myself. I couldn't stop bowling. I swang over to right handed. For six months I couldn't get a score up to 150 and then I began finding myself. Your letter arrived as I finished five games with an average of 170 and a top score of 224. This put ideas in my head. Why not get my face lifted, brush up on my 'rithmetic, start using the king's English, and entering with the next freshman class start all over again doing the thing Right? Not from the standpoint of lost opportunities, but because my conscience has troubled me. Troubled me that nature forced me into the unwanted role of taking advantage of unsuspecting batters by serving the balls up in a surreptitious and ofttimes underhanded manner. It wasn't fair. It just wasn't cricket. Besides as a right-hander I would belong to that coterie which had control and could be considered capable of correct thinking. Here would be no lost vigor through extra hours in the bullpen or box for practice pitching. No extra laps around the track to stabilize one deficient in poise and mental balance. Oh, it should be so much easier to do it right and not start out having two strikes called on you. I know the above might sound sorta zany to some and akin to an idea from the era of Rube Waddell. That's not so to me. That 224 right handed in duck pins represents an accomplishment which makes me feel I'm only a stone's throw away from success. Or should I say two stones? If you think there are possibilities in this proposition better keep it quiet."
Roy Haskell, who is a plant pathologist in the United States Department of Agriculture in Washington, recently received considerable publicity as the author of a report showing that plant diseases damage agricultural crops in the United States to the extent of $2,000, 000,000 a year. The extent of the loss can be comprehended when it is compared with the amount of about $30,000,000,000 as the annual value of all crops. It is a wonder that any crops at all can survive all the moulds, smuts, blights—not to include the damage done by insects and animal pests—when Roy reveals that plant diseases alone number 50,000. Thanks to the work of Roy and his associates, we will nevertheless be able to continue eating heartily inasmuch as increasing development of chemicals for the farmers to use against the enemy horde is constantly being accelerated.
Queechee French says: "The French family are behaving themselves as usual with the exception of "Junior" who at present has a love affair a couple of streets away. The task of hauling him home about six times a day and at bedtime makes Bertha a busy gal. She says that dogs, like humans, must have fun,so what?"
Pike Childs and Mr. and Mrs. HaroldStearns were guests at Hanover Inn in February.
For those who are keeping their class address lists up to date, some new addresses are as follows: Chet Gilbert, c/o Oscar B. Gilbert, 66 Front Street, Exeter, N. H.; Lyme Armes, 410 Main Street, Winchester, Mass.; BrutusHolway, 5410 West Louise Place, Milwaukee 10, Wis.; Tex Morris, 7821 Fay Street, La Jolla, Calif.
Condolence of the class is extended to Harry McCaffrey whose wife died on March 4.
Secretary, 120 Broadway, New York 5, N. Y.
Treasurer, Court House, Dedham, Mass.
Class Agent, 299 Marginal St., East Boston 28, Mass.
