1912

FORTIETH REUNION JUNE 13-16, 1952IT'S A DATE

Time is aflittin' and it is none too soon to make plans to attend our 40th reunion at Hanover come next June and bring along the distaff side of the family together with children and grandchildren. A meeting is scheduled for a few days after this is written when I will get together at lunch with JimmyStecn and Alice Day, respectively the Chairman of the Reunion Committee and the Chairwoman of the Women's Activities Committee. Jim advises me that he plans to appoint a large number of the class as an Attendance Committee. These members will be strategically located geographically so that every region of the country will be coyered. However, you can do your bit by writing three or four of the classmates you would most like to see and visit with at Hanover, and now is the time to get started.

Thanks to the editors of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, last month's issue had an excellent account of the dinner tendered Doc O'Connor to celebrate his 60th birthday and 25th anniversary of his poliomyelitis activities. Before the dinner Henry Van Dyne and his wife were host and hostess at a cocktail party they gave at their hotel for members of the class attending the dinner. I was present only for a short time and inasmuch as I was busy entertaining the members of the staff of Georgia Warm Springs Foundation who had come to New York for the occasion, I was unable to see all of the classmates who were there. I may have missed some of the '12ers, but I know the following turned out to pay their respects to Doc: Lee White, Carle Rollins,Les and Connie Snow, Jim Steen, Dick Remsen, Man Whittemore, Charley McCarthy,Hal Freund, Bishop Brown, Louis Ekstrom,Boss Geller, Unc Bellows, Alice Day and of course Henry Van Dyne. A letter from JackFox expressed his regret at being unable to be present.

From my "Press Clipping Service," namely Emma Pettingell, comes a clipping with a Cleveland dateline relating that Harold Belcher has been elected Treasurer of the Congregational Christian Churches' MissionJSowncil.

From my correspondent in Mount Vernon, Ill.—an ex-patient of Georgia Warm Springs Foundation—comes the news that Hi O'Neill has mended from an accident he suffered some time ago resulting in a broken ankle.

Brutus Holway, District Manager in charge of the Chicago office of Master Builders Company, was in Boston early last September for the wedding of his son Dick, who graduated from Tuck School last year and is now located in Milwaukee. Dick married Jeanene Gerrity with whom he more or less grew up during the summers at Sagamore Beach, Mass. Brutus says that he has noted some of the boasts of other classmates about grandchildren but,"with my ten, I think some of the boys are boasting about pretty small numbers."

Andy Phelps who has been a teacher in the Lincoln High School, Jersey City, N. J., for the last 40 years, commuting from his home in Yonkers, N. Y., plans to retire at the end of the present school year, to his summer home in Hill-Danbury, N. H. His son John graduated from Andover (N. H.) High School last June. His daughter Elizabeth is connected with Schrafft's Restaurant in White Plains, N. Y. He is looking forward to attending the 40th reunion next June.

Classmates who are fortunate enough to get to Florida for a winter vacation, should plan to attend the Dartmouth "Get-Together" at the Royal Park Inn, Vero Beach, during the period March 25 to April 15. This "Get-Together" was inaugurated last year by about 30 members of the Class of 1908. The occasion was so successful that it has been extended to an annual affair for all Dartmouth men. The hotel gives a discount to Dartmouth men from their regular rates. To $17 to $25 a day for two people, including meals. Anyone interested should contact John S. Packard '25, Manager, Royal Park Inn, Vero Beach, Fla.

Dick Remsen has just been elected president of the Garden City Golf Club, which is one of the oldest golf clubs in the United States, founded in the early '90s and which has a proud record of the accomplishments of its members, including the oldtime golfer Travis, the first American to win the English golf championship.

While I was on my last trip to Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, Boss Geller phoned my office on a trip to New York City to attend the Furniture Show. Sorry to have missed him.

Bill Shapleigh reports from Portland, Me., that during the summer he and his wife had the pleasure of a visit with Stan Weld's family and Queechie and Bertha French, on their trips through Maine. Bill says: "Please anyone in this neck of the woods look me up. I believe we're still considered part of the United States."

Rev. Taylor Weil, Rector of the Church of St. Matthew and the Redeemer, Boston, Mass., will conduct the Class Memorial Service in Rollins Chapel on Sunday morning of our reunion weekend. This church is a combination of two Episcopal churches and parishes in South Boston where Taylor has been doing splendid work for several years past, since he left a long-time pastorate in Hyde Park shoray after our 35th Reunion.

Brian Robie was recently re-hospitalized inasmuch as X-rays again made him a TB suspect. He says however that he is O.K. and feels like a "gold brick."

Al Eiseman, our self-proclaimed song writer, says that with Milton Berle and Joseph Meyer he has just written a new song "Television Lady," that he is going to promote as the theme song for an important television series and spot commercials from coast to coast, tied up with fashions and cosmetics. I never have been able to figure out how Al's song- promoting activities were profitable for him, but good luck to him in his new endeavor.

Although Henry Van Dyne will get out a new class directory in connection with our 40th reunion, similar to the one that was produced by Lyme Armes at our last reunion, here are some changes of address: Harry McCaffrey, 45-44 50th Street, Woodside, Long Island, N. Y.; Clarence G. Tyler, 817 East Fellows Street, Dixon, Ill.; Harry M. Brown, 1010 St. Paul Street, Baltimore 2, Md.; WilliamH. Harlow, Route 1, Box 766, Greshan, Ore.

Secretary, 120 Broadway, New York 5, N. Y. Treasurer, 4 Bank Building, Middleboro, Mass. Bequest Chairman, 26 Fair St., Laconia, N. H.

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