1912
Thanks to Doc O'Connor's far-ranging trav- els, we get occasional glimpses of what some of our more remote Twelver pals look like after 40 years. This month, all the way from Seattle, we present a shot of Mark Allen greet- ing Doc at the Olympic Hotel the night the drums were beating there for the March of Dimes.
Now it's Heine Urion who is on tour. Heine and Irma left New York in mid-February for a month's trip, part of which was to be a much-needed Gulf-coast vacation. That is, each agreed it was "much needed" by the other. The rest of the tour, which included New Orleans, McAllen, Texas, and Warm Springs, was to be devoted to Heine's duties as executive vice president of Georgia Warm Springs Foundation.
From Les Snow comes a clipping reporting a distinguished gathering at the New York Public Library where Dr. Roy J. Deferrari, secretary-general of the Catholic University, Washington, presented to the library, New York University, Yale Divinity School and St. Joseph's Seminary special 10-volume sets of a new English translation of works by the early Church Fathers, men who wrote and preached in the first centuries after the death of Christ.
The occasion celebrated publications of the joth volume in what will eventually be a 72- volume series, when 100 scholars have com- pleted the first all-American translation of 300 manuscripts. Roy is editorial director of the entire project.
In the Dedham, Mass., garden home of Mrs. Emma (Ralph D.) Pettingell, it's a life- time habit for her and her daughters, Helen and Jane, to keep eagle eyes and keen shears at-the-ready for news of Dartmouth Twelvers —an avocation born of "Pett's" own years of devotion and service to the College and so indispensable an aid to Class secretaries and news-letter editors that there should be some sort of an annual alumni-Pulitzer award for outstanding contributors of this sort. To Mrs. Pett's score add this next item.
A July wedding is planned by Miss Judith Anne Kinne, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. ArthurLyman Kinne of Holyoke, Mass., who an- nounce her engagement to. Mr. Hugh Ar- thur Chapin, son' of Mr. and Mrs. David Chester Chapin, Whitesville, N. Y. Judith Ann is a Junior Leaguer by way of Northfield School, Randolph Macon College and Kathe- rine Gibbs School. Chapin's a Cornell civil engineer and Navy vet, who will graduate from Harvard Law in June.
With the clipping, a February 5 note to Heine from Emma said that Caesar Young 'phoned her the day before to report he was out of the hospital and recuperating from his pre-Christmas fall. He's in a convales- cent home now and "sounded better than he has for months."
Probably your own morning paper carried the news when Krupp and ao other Nazi crim- inals were saved from death by U.S. High Commissioner McCloy. Front-paging it for nearly two columns, February i, the NewYork Times named Conrad E. Smow, assistant legal advisor to the State Dept., as one of the three-man clemency board on whose recom- mendations McCloy based his decisions. Seven death sentences were confirmed.
Up pops Edward J. Daley with a new ad- dress—Clinton and St. Antoine, Detroit, Mich. Eddie's downtown office is at the Recorders Court, 1540 Boston Blvd., West, Detroit, Mich.
George N. Hitchcock now gets his mail at 406 High St., Cranford, N. J.
Long may the Guy Swenson tribe increase! When he sent his Class dues to Fletch Clark (That's $5, including subscription to the ALUMNI MAG., in case you mislaid your bill) Guy scribbled a bit of cogent data on the back of the bill, as per request.
Guy is a recent addition to the list of Twelver granddads with a granddaughter born in Washington to his oldest daughter. His senior son is practicing law in Man- chester, N. H. Another daughter is office as- sistant to a Boston doctor, a second son is at Yale and the youngest son is still at home. Says Guy:
"If I had had a camera driving through Northwood last Fall, I know the Class would have been delighted to see the picture I could have sent in on the Country Gentle- man of Northwood Center—none other than H. Lyman Armes dressed in the best style for country living. (Blue dungarees, probably, with red bandanna flying from the hip pocket. Ed.) I had pleasant visits in the Spring from Eddie Luitwieler and Duke McCaffrey. Hope more will find a chance to stop in on the way to and from Hanover."
Well, men, let that huge "Swenson Granite Cos." sign on your left be your reminder just after you leave the State store in Concord, heading north.
On the stationery of the National Executive Board, Alpha Phi Omega, National Service Fraternity, comes welcome news from Prof. Harry C. Barnett (841 Audubon Road, East Lansing, Mich.) who is docketed as national second vice president.
"In our quiet way," says Harry, "Mrs. Barnett and I enjoy life and travel. Now approaching retirement age, we find it little to our liking that the routine of years of teaching is near an end; and, as in the case of most teachers, a life of ease after retirement is not in the picture. But with health, if health continues as in the past, we shall manage.
"It was our pleasure to take a 6,000-mile journey in our Chrysler to the Rockies in 1946. And again, in 1949, we had an 11,000-mile trip to the west coast and Lake Louise. Not too strenuous, even though I did all the driving. A month of study and residence in Quebec City in the summer of 1947, after the reunion in Hanover, the 35th. And a termleave of absence for study at the University of North Carolina Library in the winter of 1948.
"For extra-curricular activities, I have had a week of fishing each year until this year. This summer I engaged in a baseball game on the Foreign Languages Dept. team against the English Dept. Not being as young as I thought I was, I pulled a tendon, was laid up for a month, spent a week in the hospital with pleurisy as a result of strain from using crutches. Since then I have painted trim and stained clapboards on our house with the abandon of youth. So I am not quite decrepit despite injuries.
"A further activity has been the office of National Second Vice-President of Alpha Phi Omega. To explain: I have been advisor to the local chapter, made up of former Scouts, of which there are now about 240 chapters in American colleges and universities. My boys pulled a fast one at national convention and succeeded in electing me to this office, an honor which I probably do not deserve. But the work with the chapter keeps me young and gives me the satisfaction of being useful to our youth. I may not survive another national convention.
"Recently I had dinner with Hal and KatherjneBaker in Ann Arbor after the Dartmouth Michigan game. Last year I had the pleasure of a call from Warren Bruner. I would be glad to see other Dartmouth men. Yours in Dartmouth, Harry B."
This letter, which graphically and pleasantly expands the glimpses we reuners got of Harry and Mrs. Barnett in '47, also came by way of Fletcher Clark, who added his own enthusiastic endorsement of "this rather unusual type of fraternity," called it "very efficient in a wide variety of places." He explained Harry's reference to "Scouts" by saying that the fraternity undertakes, among other things, to keep former Scouts interested in the movement and to encourage them to be helpful in their communities when their formal education is completed.
By the same route comes a note from Prof.Jim English, Romance Language Dept., Grove City College, Grove City, Pa., who also had an over-night call from Prof. Warren Bruner of Defiance College last Fall. Jim spent most of the summer teaching in his summer school session, knocked off in August for a trip down through Virginia, visiting Williamsburg and the Monticello-Ash Lawn homes of Jefferson and Monroe.
PICK-UPS from The Billboard—Stanley P.Lovell, president of Lovell Chemical Cos., Watertown, Mass., has been elected a director of Raytheon Mfg. Cos. Bill Shapleigh recently engineered a reunion of his New England buddies in the 14th Regiment of Engineers, AEF, in Portland, Cleon B. "Doc" White authored an eloquent letter of praise for the body and soul services of the Veterans Administration hospitals recently published in the BostonPost. Doc's son is associated with White Entertainments, Inc., Boston, which books his daughter Lucy Belle, as a soprano soloist. Lucy Belle White graduates from the N. E. Conservatory of Music in June and will have her first big time recital April 26, in Conservatory Hall, Boston. Bush Mensel's son Ernest Jerome '50 was married September 26, to Alice Ranger, Smith '51, at Brookline, Mass. Judge HarryTrapp's daughter Joan, who works in the U. S. Embassy in Oslo, flew home with her fiance, the young Norwegian screen and radio actor, Claus Wiese, to be married August 22. They are living in Oslo. Dr. Stan Weld's son David '46 was married last November. Dr. Henry R.Viets, now serving as secretary of the Medical Advisory Committee, American National Red Cross, has recently been appointed to a sevenyear term as chairman of the Council on Scientific Assembly, American Medical Association.
WHEREVER HE GOES, and his speaking tours cover a lot of the country, Basil O'Connor 'l2 (r) usually manages to get together with a classmate. Here, in Seattle, he is shown with Mark Allen 'l2.
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