1912

To make you all jealous, I just returned from two glorious days at Hanover, attending the annual meeting of Dartmouth Alumni Officers, on April 30 and May 1. Five of our class officers were there - Eddie Luitwieler, Agent; Fletcher Clark, Treasurer; Henry VanDyne, Bequest Agent; Lyme Armes, News Letter Editor; and Heinie Urion, Secretary. The number of officers of all classes ranging from 1884 to 1957 totalled over 175. Taking the midnight train from New York, Eddie Luitwieler met Lyme Armes and me at the South Station, Boston, driving us to Hanover and back to Boston on Sunday. Because of the difficulty in finding accommodations for such a large number of class officers, the College cannot include all News Letter editors, but Lyme took care of that by staying in the guest room of Gamma Delta Chi House.

This is the last opportunity I have to put in my plug for the Alumni Fund. As of this writing Eddie Luitwieler has raised about half of our quota. Less than 25 per cent of the Class have responded. Our regular contributors must increase their respective gifts to make quota, and I especially plead that the irregulars send in something, even only five bucks, to make a record of 100 per cent of our Class as contributors.

SAGUENAY CRUISE

Twenty-two of the class have signified their intention to take the Saguenay Cruise, leaving Montreal the evening of June 21, namely: Charley and Eleanor McCarthy, Doc Art Burnham and Grace, Queechie and Bertha French, Roy and Nonnie Lewis, Henry and Dorothy Van Dyne, Hal and Katharine Baker, Ben Adams, Chip and Marion Farrington, Ralph and Martha Leita Whitney, Mrs. Alice Hitchcock, Cliff and Katharine Sugatt, Heinie and Irma Urion. The closing date for making reservations was May 15, but if any of you who did not make reservations change your minds, just communicate with C. N. Boland,Canada Steamship Lines Ltd., 80 BoylstonStreet, Boston 16, Mass. The stopover at Quebec on the return trip will be two days instead of one because there is no sailing from Quebec to Montreal on the day after our arrival at Quebec.

The Class lost two more members during April, both as a result of sudden heart attacks. Dick Foote died at Savannah, Ga., April 6, on a business trip. While in college he roomed with Eddie Luitwieler and Ray Cabot, and as Ray wrote me: "I don't know that you knew Dick at all well but Eddie and I thought the world of him."

Ted Miner died at his home in Walpole, Mass., on April 9. His widow was thoughtful enough to write me the next day so that his fellow classmates might be informed. She also said: "Ted Miner's death has been a great shock to his many friends by all of whom he was greatly beloved - a thoroughly generous, unselfish soul, one of God's true noblemen." The sincere sympathy of the entire Class is extended to the families of both of these departed classmates.

A report of the annual meeting of stockholders of the Worthington Corporation carries a picture of Unc Bellows, an officer of that company, standing in line for lunch that was provided for all who attended the meeting'

Dick Remsen's son Fred '50 was made a partner in the brokerage firm of James H. Oliphant & Company, April 1. He will have a membership on the New York Stock Exchange and represent that firm on the Exchange.

I was sorry to miss a telephone call from Bill Shapleigh when he was in New York the first week in April.

From Cap Allen comes the following:

"My travels this year included the domain of Dutch Waterbury in Aguirre, Puerto Rico. Dutch and his sister Anna, who has been with him for several months each year since his wife died, showed me the beauties of their countryside. One trip was to Ponce where we saw the 'Gilbert and Sullivan' fire station that Sid Clark describes so amusingly in his Caribbean book. Dutch gave me a short course in sugar making. He finds it as exciting and interesting as when he started in it forty years ago. He is in on the management of three sugar mills of the Central Aguirre Sugar Company with various titles in the several corporations, including a vice-presidency of the parent company. His special pet is the railroad that runs for many miles along the south coast of the island. It hauls long trains of open cars with racks loaded with sugar cane and special dumpable cars of raw sugar. Dutch has designed the cars and is still engaged in improvements in them. Representatives of sugar mills from all over the West Indies and from sugar areas further afield come to Aguirre to see the equipment of the railroad and of the mills themselves. Engineering in the mills is his responsibility, too, and there is a never-ending call for ingenuity to meet the problems of manufacture and to save money in the processes. At Haiti I found real adventure in the trip from Port-au-Prince to the mountain-top Citadel of King Henri Christophe. The approach was by plane over the peaks some 4000 feet high, followed by a two-hour trip up a mountain trail paved with loose rocks. The rest of the party rode horses. I straddled a donkey named 'Gyp' and he proved to be the best of the outfit. He trotted up some of the steepest pitches while my black boy on behind stretched his legs and shouted at him. The Citadel itself is one of the wonders of the Western World, an amazing structure. It was built in the early 1800s with slave labor. You have doubtless seen pictures of it. And $35 buys the entire trip, • plane, auto to the foot of the mountain, and beast hire. For those of the Class who can still stand punishment I recommend Christophe's Citadel as a glorious objective."

In the reply postals on the Saguenay Cruise I picked up a little information: Ray Tobey is retiring in June and will be in the process of moving to Maine. Bob Belknap has covered the adjacent country by car and recommends the cruise as "worth the price regardless of the added attraction of '12ers." Dutch Waterbury "can be with you only in spirit as I will be cutting cane and trying to get it to the mill." May Boylan wrote, "I certainly hope you all have fun." Carle Rollins says, "My wife and I took the trip last year and sorry we did not wait a year. I recommend it most highly." Syd Clark wrote, "Sorry, will be in Athens and way stations in June but only a few weeks on this trip." Doc Worcester explains, "Sorry, but my son who is in the office with me is away during June which makes it difficult for me to be away."

1912 CAUCUS: Class officers attending the May meetings in Hanover were (l to r): Lyme Armes, newsletter editor; Heinie Urion, Class Secretary; Henry Van Dyne, Bequest Chairman; Fletcher Clark, Treasurer; and Ed Luitwieler, Class Agent.

Secretary, 120 Broadway, New York 5, N. Y.

Class Agent, 184 Commercial St., Maiden 48, Mass.