1912

Additional classmates who have signified their intention o£ attending our "reunion" at Orford Inn the weekend of June 25th are: Merton H. Baker, Mark G. Snow, Walter andLynda Childs and Clifton and Katherine Sugatt.

Sad news concerning Doc White comes from Art Ferguson who called on Doc at his home in Hendersonville, N. C., on a spring vacation trip that Art and his wife took through the south. Art wrote:

"I called the White residence and after several unsuccessful attempts I finally got an answer from Doc himself. He told me he was living in an oxygen tent. He also said his wife was sick in bed. I visited with him a few minutes only, as it seemed to be an effort for him to talk, so I bid him farewell."

I am certain that Doc would appreciate words of cheer from classmates and we all have best wishes for Doc's early recovery.

Ben Adams says that Roy Lewis financed the group of young skiers of Lebanon on a trip to Colorado to'the National Skiing Competition.

Lyme Amies corrects my statement that HiO'Neill was with us for his freshman year. At our 1947 Reunion, which was the first class reunion that Hi had ever attended, he told Lyme that he was on the campus as a member of the class for only six months. "First reunion I have ever attended," Hi told Lyme, "but so help me I will never miss another one if I can help it as long as I am alive and kicking."

Art Khine writes that after a month's vacation in Florida, he is doubtful whether he can take any time off in June to attend our reunion. His older daughter is doing research work on blood coagulation at Richmond, Va. His younger daughter is married to a patent attorney in New York. Art says: I am still reasonably active in practice of medicine, doing largely surgery and industrial surgery."

Fletcher Clark, who has been Town Moderator of Middleborough, Mass., since 1922, is active in the formation of a society of Massachusetts Town Moderators. Manvel Whittemore was reelected for a second four-year term as Police Justice of Scarsdale, N. Y., at the town elections held in March.

Lyme Armes is uncertain about remaining in Washington after June 30 when the legal limitation on the length of his retention as consultant in the Commerce Department expires.

* Lee and Alma White will be unable to attend our June reunion inasmuch as they left for England on the Mauretania on May 6, to be gone until early July. They took a small car with them and plan to spend some weeks in rural England and Scotland, visiting about eleven different salmon rivers, some of which he might fish a little, stopping at small inns in the out-of-way areas of England and Scotland. They anticipate avoiding "as a plague" all museums, cathedrals, castles, shrines, etc. "Vagabonding in the rurals" is the way Lee puts it. "We have friends and acquaintances who have done quite a lot of fishing in England, Scotland and Ireland and they have given us a good deal of advance information on rivers, places to stay, etc., so at least we will not be going at it entirely cold."

This is the last chance I have to put in a plug for Eddie Luitwieler and the Alumni Fund. Certainly every member of the class can give something, and if we could all aid Eddie, he should be able to beat the record that he made last year. Send a check to the Alumni Fund NOW.

It is a sad duty to report the death of JackFox at Pittsburgh, Pa., on March 15, and of Hi O'Neill on March 28 at Effingham, Ill. Hi's obituary appeared in last month's issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, and that of Jack Fox appears this month.

Of course every member of the class has read of Doc O'Connor's activities in connection with the report that was made by Dr. Francis of the University of Michigan Medical School on April 12, of the success of the Salk antipoliomyelitis vaccine. Together with Dr. Salk, Doc was the recipient of a Citation on behalf of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis from President Eisenhower. Unfortunately, the antipolio vaccine situation has been considerably bawled up by politicians jumping into the act without knowledge of the situation, but if it had not been for Doc's foresight and the calculated risk that the Foundation took in contracting for $9,000,000 worth of vaccine last year, there would have been little or none available, even for the limited application of the vaccine that can be administered this spring before the onset of the polio season. Under Doc's direction, the program of the Foundation that was determined months ago, will be carried out to administer the vaccine free of charge to pupils of the first and second grades in schools of the country, together with the pupils of the third and fourth grades who participated in the nationwide field tests last year, upon the reports of which Dr. Francis' conclusions were based.

Changes of address: Robert D. Fletcher, Rumney, N. H.; Roy S. Frothingham, Facts Consolidated, 26 O'Farrell St., San Francisco 8, Calif.; Lewis P. Warren, Box 510, Bismarck, N. D.; Cecil P. Dodge, 65 Freeman St., York Beach, Maine.

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

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