1912
Dick Remsen has had quite a year in 1956. In February he had an operation that was successful, but had a relapse and had to return to the hospital for a blood transfusion. After a short stay he went to his country home in Buck Hill, Pa., for recovery, and there was hit with hepatitis that quarantined him and kept him in bed for about five weeks. However, he has now returned home and will be at his office commencing the last week in September for two days a week. He has been able to play several nine-hole rounds of golf and, with the aid of an electric golfmobile, has played eighteen holes with a score of 87, so he says he is now feeling pretty well again.
Alvie Garcia, who suffered a stroke last winter while in Florida, wrote Eddie Luitwieler: "As you can see I'm back in New York. It happened that on or about February 1 I suffered a very severe stroke and after several weeks in Tampa I came back to New York. I'm able to walk and have control of my senses, but it is a very slow uphill grind. I am grateful, however, that I'm able to do as much as I am now."
To the delight of Lyme Armes and all the rest of us, Fletcher Clark reported that at last and finally, he has finished the job of providing 1912 Memorial Books for each and every member of "1912 Invisible." Fletcher's call a few months back for Memorial Book gifts from classmates who desired to memorialize one or more of their departed friends in the class, brought in $100, and Fletcher sent a check covering all '12ers not memorialized earlier, from Abbott, who died in 1910, down to date.
As you know, Henry Stevens retired last June as director of extension services of the University of New Hampshire, and then headed for the West Coast where he visited relatives and friends, and spent some time getting acquainted with the various fruit and nut orchards from the apples, pears and filberts of the northwest,, to the citrus and tropical fruits of Southern California. On his trip he visited his geologist son Peter in Idaho, his sister in California, and wrote his regular monthly page for an Orchard-Grower magazine during his travels. Next year he hopes to return East through the pecan and peach belts of the South and the apples of the Shenandoah Valley. Thus he says he will be extending his own education and participating in that culture which he believes is his primary heritage, viz., horticulture. The Governor of New Hampshire appointed him to spend three days in June at the Federal-State Conference of Authorities on Problems of Geriatrics. While there he was received at the White House by Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams.
Shorty Tyler had a heart attack in June that confined him to the hospital for several weeks.
One of our classmates, Cedric Francis, who has been "lost" for many years, finally was "rediscovered" through a long letter to EddieLuitwieler.
Ben Hunt has announced that his daughter Barbara, a graduate of the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration, will be married this fall to Lt. David M. Burner Jr. '53 who, upon being released from the Army, plans to enter Northwestern University Law School. His father is a member of the Class of 1925.
Via the grapevine, I learn that Jack Cronin and his wife were on the West Coast last year and stopped off in Chicago to see his son. Jack reports that he has never in his life been sick, except for a bit of shingles that knocked him out for about a month last year. He says that if you must have something, it is the best thing to have because you still can eat anything and absorb plenty of a liquid diet.
Food Marketing in New England, a Massachusetts publication, had an article on a testimonial dinner given by an exclusive organization, Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers. "Among those who made the party sing was another fellow pumper, Lyman Armes, now of Washington, D.C. and other points. He wrote verses thrown on a screen by a magic lantern, which were intoned by all. Fellow pumper Armes' note from the Nation's Capital announcing he would be at the affair, said, 'there will be more fun than oratory in spite of the impressive head table, YD bands, stunts, singing, ladies, Governor, Mayor, Generals - and Mr.' "
Dr. Shorty Worcester, chief of ophthalmology at the Englewood, N. J., Hospital for many years, has retired as chief and is succeeded by his son, Dr. John Worcester '42, who has been associated with his father in recent years.
Lyme Armes '12, who writes the "1912 Billboard," is rated by his classmates as the All-American class newsletter editor.
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