1912
Well, here we are again at the chore that will come about for the next ten months of writing these class notes to meet the deadline of the fifth of each month for the following month's issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. While I have described this as a "chore," it really is a lot of fun when I have on hand ample material giving news of classmates and their families. When this is absent or scarce the going is tough. Each o£ you can make it easier by sending me from time to time items of news concerning yourself, your family or other classmates. 1 hope that in paying the bills for class dues that Iletcher Clark will be sending out, you will take the opportunity to write a word on the back of your bill. Incidentally, it is to be hoped that every classmate will pay his class dues promptly. The amount of dues $5 including subscription to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE was not raised at our reunion class meeting and the only way that we can get by is by a classwide response in the payment of dues.
Most of the items this month are catching up with aspects of our 40th Reunion. Alice Day has turned over to me the correspondence she had with the widows of classmates inviting them to attend the reunion as guests of the class. Apparently all of those who did not attend wrote Alice their regrets and reasons why they could not accept the invitation.
In sending her regrets, Irene Mitchell wrote, "A trip to Hanover is always a joy as I discovered during the four years that my son Alan was up there. I am selfishly hoping that after he has finished his three years in the Navy he will return to Dartmouth for graduate work."
Katrine Anderson sailed for England June 6 to join her son William Scovil Anderson, who is a Fulbright scholar at Cambridge University.
Hazel Cobb Barker wrote that eight years after the death of Ty Cobb she married George Barker, Penn State graduate, and after a trip to California and Mexico, they bought a house in Clearwater, Fla., and therefore stay in Florida each winter and at her old home in Exeter, N. H., the rest of the year.
Mike Stearns' widow, Evelyn Stearns Slack, has remarried and is living in Venice, Fla.
Windy Gale wrote:
"I have a daughter, her husband and three grandsons arriving the first week in June to be here for ten days or two weeks. Another daughter and grandson also due next weekend. A third daughter, who is in a wedding party on June 14, will be here all next week. It also is the very worst time to leave the fruit and one of the busiest of the year. I cannot leave all of the above to be handled by my loving partner or she would not be here when I got back she would be in the hospital. I would love to see you and that blonde vision of loveliness but it just cannot be done and I am sorry as hell."
For the first time since 1940, Emma Pettingell has had both her daughters at home. Helen, who is a dietician, decided she had been in institutional work long enough, so resigned from the staff of Boston City Hospital to go with H. P. Hood & Sons (Dairy Products), Watertown, Mass., as a nutritionist in the educational department. Most o£ her time is spent in extolling the virtues of milk to school children. Since she likes milk she doesn't find that too hard as a chore. Her work takes her to the eastern part of Massachusetts and Connecticut. Last summer she spent a profitable vacation at the summer session at Cornell, studying nutrition.
Harry McCaffrey joined the ranks of grandfathers with the birth of his first grandchild, a granddaughter, born to the wife of Harry Jr. in Washington, D. C.
In May, Doc O'Connor attended a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, to discuss with international health authorities methods for control of infantile paralysis. It was after his return from that meeting that he suffered his heart affliction from which he has recovered. From the hospital he went to his home at Westhampton Beach, Long Island, then took a Caribbean cruise, and will return to work after Labor Day.
Chet Haycock couldn't make the reunion inasmuch as his son Bob graduated from Dartmouth the previous week and Chet couldn't make two weekend.s in succession at Hanover.
Hi O'Neill had the same excuse. His daughter Dorothy, who had spent three months on a trip through Europe, returned to New York on July 10, where Hi met her.
Harry Sawyer couldn't make it because he left the Port of Aerial Embarkation, Westover AFB, Mass,, for Tripoli on May 30, where he will be Sanitary Engineer at Wheelus Field. His temporary address is APO 231, c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y.
Jim Worton couldn't make it on doctor's orders. He says that, although he has had quite a time, he was then at home and slowly recovering, but he is forbidden long trips, golf or any work at all until his doctor gives him the O.K.
On his reunion trip Connie Snow was the principal speaker at the graduation exercises of Spaulding High School in his home town of Rochester, N. H. Connie, as you know, is legal adviser for the Far East Division of the State Department and head of its Loyalty and Security Board. In his address Connie said: "We are engaged in a gigantic world war of ideas... that may any day turn into a world war with weapons. It will take every man and every woman to win this war for the minds of men.. .. We must all help to make our way a shining example to the rest of the world or we shall not win." Connie again was given newspaper publicity as a result of testimony by him before the Senate Appropriations Committee where Senator Pat McCarran, chairman of that committee, attacked Connie for his public criticism of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin. In reply to a question by Senator McCarran as to where Connie got "the right to revile a member of the Senate of the United States," Connie said that he was a citizen of the United States and was engaged in public office and that he had the right to reply when a senator made speeches "which impugn the operation of my public office." Senator McCarran'.s retort was that Connie "ought to be out of that office."
Dick Plumer missed the reunion because he and his wife left for a trip to Europe early in June. In May Pat Lovell and his wife dropped in to see Dick when going through Orlando, and indicated that they might decide to locate in Florida. Al and Aldith Smith saw the Plumers on their annual Florida trip, and last year enjoyed a delightful Christmas dinner with all their children and grandchildren at Daytona Beach.
Scott Rogers was unable to get to the reunion as he had planned, by reason of a heart attack suffered by his father who is nearly 91 years old.
Charley Stratford and Harry Brown were kept from the reunion by reason of illnesses of their wives.
Five years ago Jogger Elcock was kept from the 35th reunion, recovering from a heart attack. This year it was a labor union's threat of a strike at his cement plant at Rockmart, Ga. logger wrote: "We were supposed to have had our new contract behind us before May 1, but the union is obviously waiting to see what is going to happen in the steel case before they settle with me down here. I am not passing it up at all, but do have to sit tight until I see which way things are going to jump down here." Unfortunately for Jogger and the rest of his fellow citizens, the steel strike was not settled before reunion.
Our classmates who are in the field of higher education customarily are unable to attend reunions by reason of conflicts of activities at their institutions. Henry Stevens of the University of New Hampshire, Bill Middlebrook, vice-president in charge of business administration at the University of Minnesota, and Bishop Brown, head of the Research Bureau for Retail Training at the University of Pittsburgh, were all of this category. However, Bill says that in seven years he will be eligible for retirement and "health and funds permitting, please reserve a place for me at the fiftieth."
Changes of address:
Earl M. Cutting, 214 North Atlantic Avenue, Haddonfield, N. J.; Lloyd H. Bugbee, Bradford, Vt.; Lathrop B. Lovell, 16 Imperial Avenue, Cohoes, N. Y.; Harry E. Sawyer, Civilian Directory, APO 231, c/o Postmaster, New York City; DavidF. Tattle, 628 Webster Street, Palo Alto, Calif.; Arthur H. Clark, P. O. Box 14, Childersburg, Ala.; Alvah S. Holway, 1122 Lunt Avenue, Chicago 26, Ill.; Arthur E. Miller, Construction Superintendent, R.R. 4, Mount Pleasant, Mich.; Gardner P. Bullard. 15 Weston Road, Wellesley 81, Mass.; HarryMcCaffrey, 36 West 90th Street, New York 24, N. Y.
CONVENING FOR ITS FORTIETH: 1912 reunioners included (I tor): Gardy Bullard, Alvy Garcia, Ben Hunt, Mark Allen, Bud Hoban. Allen made the trip from Seattle for the first time in 30 years.
Secretary, 120 Broadway, New York 5, N. Y. Treasurer, 4 Bank Building, Middleboro, Mass
