1912
Hats off to Eddie Luitwieler in making the best showing that the Class has ever made before in contributions to the Alumni Fund. He had a record of 100% participation and 103% of quota. We all certainly can be grateful to Eddie for the success of his single-handed efforts when, for the last part of the campaign, he was handicapped by the absence of his secretary.
The entire class extends its heartfelt sympathy to Doc O'Connor on the death of his wife Elvira, from a coronary thrombosis, at their residence at Westhampton Beach, Long Island, on July 26.
It is also my sad duty to report the deaths of three classmates: Eddie Daley, CharlieRemele and David F. Tuttle. Eddie died on June 21 at a Detroit hospital where he had been a patient for a few days after a heart attack. Charlie died-at Santa Barbara, Calif., after a long illness. Louis Ekstrom had been able to see him for a few minutes shortly be- fore Charlie's death, while visiting in Santa Barbara. Tuttle died at Mesa, Ariz., June 11.
Louis and Alice Ekstrom had a three months visit in California last spring in Santa Barbara, San Diego and other places. He rounded up Sam Hobbs, Olie Ahlswede, JimOneal and Robie — or at least attempted to - for a reunion.
Warren Bruner, Harry Wanner, John McCarthy, Roy Haskell and Lyme Armes attended the luncheon of the Dartmouth Club of Washington, when Sherman Adams '20, Assistant to President Eisenhower, was the speaker.
From all reports, the "reunion" at Orford was a great success. Most of the crowd arrived Friday, but Eddie and Gertrude Luitwieler arrived Saturday in time for lunch. Henry and Dorothy Van Dyne gave a cocktail party and, after a roast beef dinner, HalBaker was given a cake in honor of his 65th birthday. He also received a large tray picturing Dartmouth Hall, Henry Van Dyne making the presentation. Queechee French, in his inimitable style, kept things going, getting short speeches from some of the crowd, and the crowd sang with Katy Baker at the piano. Later Doc Burnham showed colored pictures of the trip abroad that he and Grace recently took. A wire was received during the dinner from Boss and Esther Geller, wishing that they might be in attendance. Those who "reuned" were: Hal and Katy Baker, Henry and Dorothy Van Dyne, Queech and Bertha French, Art and Grace Burnham, Morris and Gertrude Knight, Clyde Norton, Ben Adams, Garry and Bess Garrison, Carle and Dolly Rollins, Eddie and Gertrude Luitwieler, Charlie and Gertrude McCarthy, Roy and Floppy Lewis, Guy Lewis and Cliff and Katharine Sugatt.
There was also a "reunion" of classmates in Washington on June 3 at Warren Bruner's home for a cocktail party followed by a dinner at the Cosmos Club arranged by BarrowLyons. Those attending were Connie and Katherine Snow, Barrow and Ruth Lyons, Peggy (Mrs. John L.) Fox, Lyme and Chris Armes, Billie and Hap Wanner, Roy and Myrta Haskell, Hal and Grace Mosier, Gabnelle (Mrs. Arthur R.) Forbush, Jack and Eleanor McCarthy and Warren Bruner.
Bud and Barbara Hoban entertained Lymeand Chris Armes for dinner at the luxurious land cruiser home of the Hobans, while they were going through Washington from the South. I am very sorry to say that I again missed Bud when he was in New York, due to my absence from the city.
After forty years with the Consolidated Rendering Company at Springfield, Mass., without a break with the exception of Army Service in World War I, Queechee French is retiring on November 17, when he reaches the 65-year-old dead line. He says that future plans are uncertain to date.
Miss Emma Jane Pettingell, daughter of Emma and the late Ralph Pettingell, was married at the Allin Congregational Church in Dedham, Mass., to Robert George Lovely, on April 23.
A volume of testimonial letters to DickPlumer from his students and faculty colleagues at Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla., entitled Richard C. Plumer, The Man As IKneio Him, prepared by Mrs. Plumer, has been presented by her to the Rollins College Library.
Dick Remsen writes concerning Elvira O'Connor: "Elvira was a sweet person and made a charming hostess at the Dartmouth parties that Doc gave in New York. She will be greatly missed by all of us." Dick's oldest boy, Dick, is now back in New York from Philadelphia with one of the largest odd-lot stock firms in the country, holding a seat on the New York Stock Exchange representing that firm. His son Teddy was made a member of the firm of James H. Oliphant & Co. a year ago last April and represents that firm on the New York Stock Exchange. Grandson William Clinton Storey Remsen who was born six weeks after his father. Bill, died in January 1953, is a fine husky lad like his father, with many of his father's characteristics. Dartmouth's William Clinton Storey Remsen Memorial '43 scholarship, started by Dick's brother Mart '14 and Bill's classmates and Johnson & Johnson of New Brunswick, N. J., where Bill was assistant secretary at the time of his death, added a $10,000 gift to it. That scholarship is now large enough to pay the full tuition of a boy at Dartmouth, a fine young man from Columbia High School, South Orange, N. J. A similar memorial fund at Choate School is also helping a boy get through that school at the present time.
Mart (Mrs. J. Wells) Baxter has sold her house in West Hartford, Conn., and purchased one in Florida, having a new address: 315 Santander Ave., Coral Gables, Fla. Mart's older daughter Lorraine has moved to Miami, Fla., and Mary Jane and her husband are in Italy for three years.
Roy and Floppy Lewis have been the beneficiaries of visits during the summer from classmates, including Queechee and BerthaFrench and Lyme and Chris Armes. At a birthday party for Floppy at Hanover Inn, Roy ran into Dr. Paul Lena, one of the late Hug Lena's doctor sons, who is on the staff of Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover.
Lyme and Chris Armes have a new class- mate neighbor at Northwood Center, N. H., inasmuch as Ducky Drake shifted his permanent address there more than a year ago. Ducky has retired from the New York Telephone Company and removed from his forme residence in New Rochelle, N. Y. Ducky and his wife are doing a spectacular job of restoration and renovation of a 160-year old place of sixty acres, mostly woodland, across from a small lake called Lucas Pond, which is heavily stocked with nothing but brook trout and rainbow trout. Ducky is a hobbyist at stripping and refinishing old wood and he is doing a lot of it, with excellent and interesting results. They have had their place at Northwood Center as a vacation spot since 1947, but moved there permanently on Ducky's retirement early last year.
From a trade publication comes a most interesting account of Hal Baker's career as project engineer of the Big Paper Producer H. K. Ferguson Company, with whom Hal started back in 1938. Now he is recognized as an outstanding authority on design and construction of paper mills. He stepped out of character to help engineer vital defense plants during World War 11, but otherwise he has applied his broad know-how exclusively to the highly specialized design of paper mill facilities.
Nelson Doe was married to Mrs. Hazel Merrick Wendt at Chevy Chase, Md., July 2. Their home will be 16 Primrose Ave., Yonkers, N. Y.
Changes of address: Alfred S. Eiseman, 205 East 69th St., New York 21, N. Y.; James L.Oneal, R.F.D. #3, Syracuse, Ind.; Edward A.Richmond, Mats Terminal, McGuire A.F.B., N. }.; Cecil P. Dodge, 65 Freeman St., York, Maine; Cedric E. Francis, P. O. Box 2709, San Juan, P. R.; Nathaniel M. Whittemore, Box 1707, Atlantic Beach, Fla.
Secretary, 120 Broadway, New York 5, N. Y.
Treasurer, 4 Bank Building, Middleboro, Mass.
Bequest Chairman,
