1912

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

Treasurer, 4 Bank Building, Middleboro, Mass.

Bequest Chairman,

Here we are starting the pleasure of another ten months of Class Notes. This is awelcome change for me after being out ofcirculation for a couple of months in gettingsome old man's repairs. There seems to be agood backlog of material, but I am alwaysanxious for direct news from the classmates.Due to limitation of space only the highlights can be given but you have been keptcurrent by Lyme Armes in his incomparableand prolific issues of The Billboard.

First, a report on the weekend informal"reunion" at Lake Morey the middle of June,by Katy Baker:

"This year was by all odds the best reunion yet. Folks began drifting in on Friday noon, the 14th - a couple of Bakers, the Frenches, with Mr. Hitchcock, Bertha's father, and Dorothy and Henry Van Dyne, all popped in at about the same time. While they were cooling in the breeze, and 'shooting it' too, a fairly steady stream of cars pulled in bringing the Burnhams (Art and Grace), Roy and Floppie Lewis, Connie and {Catherine Snow, Cliff and Katy Sugatt, Charlie and Gertrude McCarthy, Ben and Norma Hunt, Eddie and Gertrude Luitwieler, Jim and Ruth Worton, Dud and Ethel Redfield, the Arthur Kinne's, the Jim Steens, Les Snow and his lady, Hal and Audrey Fuller, Bud and Barbara Hoban, Ben and Joe Adams, Roily and -Lily Linscott, Gardy Bullard and his son Randy Burns, Morton Baker, Fletcher Clark and Henry Stevens. The Otto Breskys, too, were there for a day. All afternoon the greetings and good-natured raillery rose and fell. Sundry potations in various rooms banished fatigue, and by dinnertime the group was well melded. Saturday saw golfers, swimmers, snuppers (antique hunters to you) and porch 'setters' at their favorite pursuits But no matter how many verses or variations the refrain was constantly 'Remember when? The day was sticky hot - in Vermont yet! - and a late afternoon cocktail hour helped us past the unseasonable discomfort, into a delicious dinner 'round a special U-shaped table arrangement. Here the banter and reminiscences flew between dinner companions, with a lot of singing sparked by Gardy Bullard with Bud Hoban at the piano. There was a bit of speechifying both impromptu and otherwise, all interlarded with messages read from Twelvers unable to attend. We discussed briefly a change broached by the College, having to do with the older reuning classes. This surveys the possibility of reuning on Monday and Tuesday rather than Friday and Saturday but assuring the groups of the same entertainment features re- lated to Commencement as have always been planned. No action was suggested or taken at this time. Soon after Sunday breakfast the crowd began to scatter for home. Each must have been carrying in his or her heart consciousness of the strong ties which grow richer and deeper with each succeeding reunion. You who have missed these four or five 'informals', what about 1958? It will be our formal 45th! When the roll is called up yonder (Hanover, you know) will you be there?"

Another informal "reunion" was the Washington and environs occasion, held this year at the Broad Run Farms home of Billy and Harry Wanner, Sterling, Va. Besides the host and hostess, there were present: Dorothy and Charley McCarthy with their daughter and son-in-law (Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Stoneman), Myrta and Royal Haskell, Grace and HalMosier, Ruth and Barrow Lyons, WarrenBruner and Chris and Lyme Armes. The memorable day of reuning wound up with a dinner at Goose Creek Country Club in Leesburg, Va.

Another informal "reunion" occurred on August 25, when 22 Twelvers enjoyed the day at Camp Wallula, New London, N. H., as guests of Barbara and Bud Hoban. Bud showed movies of our 35th Reunion and some marvelous films of Mexico, including night and day eruptions of the new Mexican volcano. I know Chris and Lyme Armes, Connie and Katherine Snow were present, but Lyme neglected to give me the names of the other Twelvers who were fortunate enough to be there.

Belatedly, the sad news was received of the sudden death of Elmer Doe on December 11, 1956, in Louisville, Ky., after a heart attack.

Ted Remsen '50 was married to Victoria Jebb Allen on May 4, 1957, at Greenwich, Conn.

Harold Belcher, who for many years has been Treasurer of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, was awarded a degree of Doctor of Laws, by Olivet College, Olivet, Mich., on June 2. A part of the citation accompanying the degree is particularly applicable to Harold: "Your long working life has exemplified the faith that Christ is for every man, everywhere in every time and to this faith you have added the imagination and endurance of a statesman."

From Emma Pettingell comes a clipping from the Peterborough (N. H.) Transcript, showing a picture of Hal Fuller, Director of the Monadnock Hospital, Peterborough, N. H. Hal has long been active in the direction of this institution, which he says is "big business except we have no control over production or sales."

Mrs. Donald Wayne Siebert and Al Smith announced their marriage on May 25, at Gardner, Mass.

Stan Weld, Managing Editor of the Connecticut State Medical Journal, was one of three delegates from Connecticut sitting in the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association meeting in New York early in June. Stan and Frances left the last of August for the World Medical Association sessions in Istanbul, as a member of the United States Committee. Flying directly to Zurich, they traveled in Bavaria, Switzerland and Italy before going to Turkey. On their return, they stopped at Barcelona and Majorca. Stan says: "Don't get the idea that I have retired; far from it. I am still operating and delivering babies days, nights and Sundays, as well as putting out the State Medical Journal every month."

From his trigonometry students at Cooley High School in Detroit, Mich., Ralph Twitchell received a trophy with the accompany- ing note:

"We hope you won't mind if we give you this informal letter of thanks. Along with this letter we'd like to present to you this trophy. We (the boys of your 7th hour Trig, class) feel that in your teaching career you -have done more for the education of youth than any other teacher at Cooley. Therefore we would like to present to you this Most Valuable Teacher award. Many of us have had you (on and off) as a teacher in several semesters, and we feel that the knowledge we gained in your classes is invaluable. Your friendly mannerism and down-to-earth way of teaching made every day in class a worthwhile one. We will always remember you (and your stories too)." Ralph went to Detroit in 1929 and has been at Cooley High School for the 29 years that the school has been operating. He long ago added his name to the list of really inspirational teachers.

After a number of retirements and subsequent re-draftings for Government service, Charley Gately scheduled his final farewell for July 31, when he completed the writing of a multi-volume tome labelled "Report to the Secretary of the Interior on the Activities of the Middle East Emergency Committee." Charley's last stint was with that "Oil Lift to Europe Committee" that was called into action by the closing of the Suez Canal.

Dr. W. D. Middlebrook '12, vice president of business administration and secretary of theboard of regents of the University of Minnesota, with nine Dartmouth midshipmen on theheavy cruiser USS ALBANY during the 1957 NROTC summer cruise.