1912
As Jack Childs, the editor of 1909's classletter "Dartmouth Diddings," noted theHovey issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE was ofmore than passing interest to Lyme Armes.Lyme wrote Jack:
"My Dad was a classmate of Hovey's - brought me up from infancy to number Prexy Tucker and Richard Hovey among the 'greats'. It was that same Bill Cunningham piece in the blessed and defunct Boston Post that first revealed to me that my Dad, without ever knowing it, had married an Andover girl who was a relative of Hovey - Blanche Spofford Poor."
For many years Lyme had attended the gravesof his grandparents, Charles H. and Rebecca(Spofford) Poor, in the same North Andovercemetery where the grave of Hovey is located.In checking over vital statistics, he found thatRichard Hovey's great-grandparents were hisown great-great grandparents.
Our traveling traveler-author, Syd Clark,writes such interesting letters that they deserve being reproduced in full. Lyme Armesreceived the following letter written fromManila:
"I've had a couple of most interesting Dartmouth Interludes of late. The first one was in Los Gatos, Calif., where I spent a very pleasant afternoon and evening with Bob Belknap and Rosalind, who took me to the seashore resort of Santa Cruz for a sunset chow of distinction. I used to know Bob and Rosalind in my Washington days so it was good to catch up on things with them. I flew from San Francisco to Honolulu and had a couple of weeks in those familiar islands, four of them this time, getting some new news for the next printing of my Hawaii book. And so to Manila by Pan American. That's where Dartmouth Interlude #2 came in. Art French, who had seen about my trip in your worthy prose, had alerted his daughter, Dorothy Lally and her husband (he is an attache in the U. S. Embassy in Manila). They called me up, bless 'em, and had me out to the Polo Club for a wonderful game and then to their home in an attractive suburb of this city. Doubtless you, who keep a terrific finger on the 1912 pulse, are aware that Art has two grandchildren here in Manila - Dick and Laura Lally - and they're wonderful kids. I hope it won't make Grandpa French mad if he hears of my opinion of them! Well, this, like the California Interlude, was tops with me. I'm scrambling around like mad with the Philippine government tourist authorities, who fire giving me the very full treatment, all the way from an international cockfight to a short conference with President Carlos Garcia, who succeeded the late Magsaysay.
"The most hair-raising thing in the program so far was a four-hour plane ride in a one-engine Cessna over Corregidor and Bataan. It was piloted by one Pappy Gunn, a famous war hero who was shot down nineteen times behind enemy lines and who got to like excitement so much that he did several hundred crashes for various Hollywood movie producers. One of the stunts was to crash into a replica of the Empire State Building, in imitation of the man who really did just that. Pappy was commissioned to crash a B-25 into the replica at 220 m.p.h. 'Nothing to it' said Pappy. 'I just arranged to crash the wings on either side of a window and I hurtled right through the window and so to the ground. It didn't hurt too much'. I think he was tempted to try a crash with me, but he refrained - laus Deo. Up to Baguio tomorrow; to Hong Kong and Macao then; and so to Japan for five or six weeks and then to Sagamore Beach on quaint Cape Cod. I'll knock off now before this becomes a book. And as they say here - in the Tagalog tongue - MABUHAY."
The third annual June reunion of 'i2ers of the Washington, D. C., metropolitan area, will be held Sunday afternoon and evening, June 9, at the home of Billie and Harry Wan- ner, Leesburg, Va.; moving on from there to the Goose Creek Country Club for their fa- mous Sunday evening buffet supper.
Charley McCarthy, back from over 10,000 miles of touring from Florida to California, is planning to settle down some place in Virginia. He, Harold Mosier, Harry Wanner, Roy Haskell, Warren Bruner and Lyme Armes turned out to greet Bud Hoban at the weekly Dartmouth luncheon in Washington on April 23. Bud and Barbara were heading back to Camp Wallula in their trailer, after spending the winter in Florida. Bud apparently is back in business again at his boys' camp.
Vern Parmenter's father-in-law, George Cowles, the inventor of electric alarm clocks, died recently.
Cap Allen has been accredited as a delegate o£ the American Bar Association, to attend a joint meeting o£ that association and the English Bar, to be held in London the last week in July.
Remember the informal reunion to be held at Lake Morey Inn, Fairlee, Vt., June 14-16. I understand that Henry Van Dyne has quite a list of those intending to be in attendance.
Bowdoin Plumer is one of fifteen Dartmouth men serving in the New Hampshire legislature.
This is the last opportunity I will have to urge you to contribute - and make it big - to the Alumni Fund before it closes June 30. Eddie Luitwieler is working hard and let's give him a perfect record for meeting our quota and increase the number of givers.
The annual meetings of alumni Class Officers in Hanover, May 3-4, brought FletcherClark, Treasurer; Eddie Luitwieler, Head Agent; Henry Van Dyne, Bequest Chairman; and Lyman Armes, News Letter Editor, back to the campus for a working-reunion with officers of more than 70 other classes.
"Great expectations" summarizes Henry Van Dyne's report of progress on plans for 1912's informal reunion at Lake Morey Inn, June 14-15-16. On May 3, Henry's list of those you may expect to meet there included Ruth & Jim Worton, Cliff & Mrs. Sugatt, Lily & Rollie Linscott, Randy Burns, Merton Baker, Otto & Mrs. Bresky, Katherine & Connie Snow, Leslie & Mrs. Snow, Alma & Lee White, Katy & Hal Baker, Norma & Ben Hunt, Jim & Mrs. Steen, Roy & Mrs. Lewis, Gertrude & Eddie Luitwieler, Grace & Art Burnham, Barbara & Bud Hoban, Jo & Ben Adams, and, of course, Dorothy & Chairman Henry Van Dyne. One of Henry's missions in Hanover will be a personal visit to Lake Morey Inn to advise them that he believes 1912's gala weekend there will bring together more than half a hundred men and women of Dartmouth 1912.
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