1912
It looks as though we will have a pretty good crowd for the reunion at Orford Inn the weekend of June 25, with 24 classmates and wives having signed up their intention of being there. Here is the list: Eddie and Gertrude Luitwieler, Henry and Dorothy Van Dyne, Doc Art Burnham and Grace, Carle and Dorothy Rollins, Hal and Katy Baker, Morris and Gertrude Knight, Roy and Florence Lewis, Clyde Norton, Henry and Irma Urion, Ben and Jo Adams, Jim Steen, Queechie and Bertha French, and Charley and Gertrude McCarthy.
Now is the time for everyone to get in his contribution to the Alumni Fund this year. If all will do their part. Eddie Luitwieler will be able to make a record of 100% participation as well as 100% quota.
From Mexico City comes a March 29th letter from Bud Hoban:
"At the risk of over-publicizing the Hobans I must tell you that Barbara and I flew over here from Miami on the 16th and have attended many of the events of the Pan-American games. They were an inspiring sight and were beautifully staged. The stadium and pool at the new University City were packed with spectators for all events. Although the U.S.A. won by an overwhelming score, there were honors for every nation, and the value of the games in cementing Inter-America friendship cannot be underestimated. Barbara and I attended a Dartmouth dinner in Miami the night before we came here. Sid Hayward was there. One of the men showed me The Bulletin with SydClark's write-up about my work here. It was a wonderful tribute. I only hope I deserved it in some measure. Have run across Sid's tracks here and there but he must have left well before we arrived. We fly to Miami on the 9th, have three or four more weeks in our trailer in Hollywood, Fla., then start north. Plan to get to New London around June 1. Our best to Irma and all of your fine family."
Syd Clark will be unable to make the Orford reunion because he will be in Germany and Austria all of June and July for a new travel book on those countries. He will take the Scandinavian Air Line Polar Route via Greenland from Los Angeles to Copenhagen. Elwyn Taber left the middle of January for two months in Florida.
As a mining engineer, Charley Thompson spends about half of his time away from home. Most of his trips are to the Southwest, Arizona, New Mexico, west Texas and old Mexico, with occasional trips to Canada and the Mesabi Iron Range in Minnesota, Dud Redfield's second granddaughter is now about six months old. His second son is in preflight training at Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla.
Husky Farnum says that the report of his retirement is all wrong and that he is busier than ever. The Farnums are rejoicing over the birth of their first grandchild, Ralph E. Farnum III, whose father was Dartmouth '42. Lyme Armes writes:
"The annual election and dinner of the Dartmouth Club of Washington, March 3, turned out to be a surprise party for five 1912 men - for ConnieSnow, Jack McCarthy, Warren Bruner and me, because we shared the first opportunity in 43 years to get reacquainted with Trumy Johnson - and for Truman E. Johnson himself, because he fell into his first 1912 reunion by sheer accident. Trumy had been in Washington for three days on one of his more or less frequent visits - this time to attend an ICC hearing on coal freight rates. Due to leave town on a 10 p.m. train, he went to the Washington Hotel Skyline Room looking for friends. Not finding them, he asked an elevator operator what the crowd was at the far end of the corridor ... learned it was a Dartmouth affair. When he went to investigate, I was the first man he saw - and neither of us could identify the other feller. Trumy's disguise: silver-white hair; the plump, pinky-peachy schoolgirl complexion of a well-fed youngster without a care in the world ... about thirty pounds more than he ever carried to chapel . . . and a pair of those Robert Q. Lewis heavy-artillery spectacles. Even when we both knew the other feller was a '12 man, we were both completely puzzled until names were spoken . . . and then we gradually began to discover pieces of the picture we had of each other as last seen in Hanover in 1912. Trumy thought the occasion required celebrating, especially after the others arrived. So the five of us corralled the lone professional musicmaker, who was wandering around mournfully and hopefully playing an accordion. When we wound him up to play As the Backs Go Tearing, By, the party really got rolling.
"Trumy is an executive of the Northern West Virginia Coal Assn.; lives in Fairmont, W. Va.; has two daughters and five grandchildren. One daughter is wife of a USN Commander on the staff of the Admiral of the Mediterranean Fleet. He is getting a passport now for a spring visit to see three of those grandchildren in Naples.
"Red Rolfe was the principal speaker. (His sister married one of my next-door neighbors in North-wood Center, N. H.) and when the speaking began Sherman Adams came down to pull up a chair alongside Connie Snow at our table and talk about some of the New Hampshire homefolks.
"As for Truman ... he sat, watch in hand, until he only had about eighteen minutes to get across town and catch his train . . . but all the signs indicated that his first '1912 reunion' convinced him he had been denying himself a form of solid enjoyment heretofore.
"Next evening Chris and I were dinner guests at Connie's home in Arlington, Va., and another good time was had by all. The following night Ben Hunt called up en route to Florida and was planning to look up Bill Locke and the Bud Hoban trailer in Hollywood on his way to Miami."
TWO ADMIRERS of a salmon on display at the Colorado chefs' convention are Betty AnnWaterbury, granddaughter of "Dutch" Waterbury '12 and daughter of Holden Waterbury 43,and John T. McDonough '28, manager of Denver's Albany Hotel. Betty Ann is watting for anoverdue visit from her grandpappy, who is busy making sugar in Puerto Rico.
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