1912

Here we are back on the job, but I am afraid that the classmates are the losers after the three excellent columns of classnotes that Connie Snow supplied when he went to bat for me during my absence on a trip that Irma and I took to Italy and the Mediterranean. Our tour was most interesting, but due to the longshoremen's strike in New York and the disturbing conditions in the Middle East, the trip was not what we had planned. We sailed on the American Export Lines "S. S. Constitution" on November 7, having as shipmates Grace and the Prince and, as dining-room companion, Ella Raines, the movie actress. Shore visits were made at Casablanca, Barcelona, Marseilles and Cannes — where Grace and the Prince debarked for his palace in Monaco. Landing at Genoa, we spent a couple of weeks in Florence awaiting arrival at Genoa of the "S. S. Excambion," which was ten days late due to the longshoremen's strike in New York. While at sea we were notified that our passports were cancelled for Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Lebanon. Boarding the "Excambion" at Genoa on December 18, we made brief stops in Alexandria, Egypt (where we were the first American ship' to enter that port in seven weeks), Latakia, Beirut, Piraeus, Naples, Leghorn, and return visits to Genoa, Marseilles and Barcelona, landing in New York on January 7. Syd Clark's travel books were found to be most helpful and, to give a plug for a classmate, his "All The Best" series are recommended to all classmates for their travels.

From his widow comes the sad news of the death of Elmer Chapman on December 29, 1956, of acute coronary occlusion, suffering an attack at his home and surviving only a few minutes after he was removed to a hospital. Condolence of the class is extended to his widow and son Kenneth.

Harry and Katherine Lowd moved from South Easton, Mass., to North Orange, Mass., where, after the first of the year, Harry became pastor of the Community Church.

In thanking Doc O'Connor for a copy of Erich Fromm's "The Art Of Loving" that he sent to all classmates, Alice Hitchcock wrote him that: "As secretary to a psychiatrist for about twenty-five years, I am glad to say some knowledge of psychiatry rubbed off on me and has stayed with me, and I am glad to renew some of it with the book."

Doc Worcester writes that sometime last spring or summer he had a telephone call from Jimmy Steen and that, except for that, he has not seen or heard from a soul in the class for ages. He had planned to attend the testimonial dinner for Doc O'Connor, at the Dartmouth Club in New York last spring, but was in the hospital at the time for a kidney stone removal.

From Gilmanton Iron Works, N. H., Connie Snow invited Doc O'Connor to visit Connie and Katherine in their "new" 1779 home, to which they moved about the first of November.

So carefully did Alvy Garcia preserve two letters from William Jewett Tucker to Connie Snow, while Alvy was class secretary, that only recently did he discover them. The first letter written from Kittery Point, Me., dated June 21, 1912, accepts honorary membership in the class inasmuch as 1912 was the last class to enter college while Mr. Tucker was president. The letter is as follows: "I am greatly pleased with the action of the class in taking me into its intimate and permanent fellowship. Will you tell the men that nothing could be more gratifying to me than this parting remembrance. And will you say to them from Mrs. Tucker and myself that we thank them most heartily for their congratulations upon our twenty-fifth marriage anniversary."

second letter, written from his home in Hanover, is dated March 27, 1915, and is a reply to Connie's request for letters from members of the class for our third reunion I will give, at a later time, extracts from this three page letter. These letters from William Jwett Tucker, in his own handwriting, will be sent to the Dartmouth Library for permanent custody.

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

Treasurer, 4 Bank Building, Middleboro, Mass.

Bequest Chairman,