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DARTMOUTH 1912 HANOVER "OFFICIAL" 45th REUNION June 9 to 11, 1958 "Don't MISS your DATE in '58"
Garry Garrison is carrying on the activities of the Reunion Committee from Lake Worth, Fla., where the Garrisons are vacationing. Now that all the members of the Class have received the first reunion communication from Garry, send in the return postal card - if you have not already done so - as soon as possible, saying that you and other members of your family will be in Hanover for this formal 45th Reunion. Lyme Armes, in The Billboard, will list from time to time the names of those who will be present. The Class Widows likewise are most welcome.
Syd Clark received some nice publicity in the Book Section of the Sunday New York Times the last week in February, in an advertisement by his publisher of all of his "All The Best in " series of travel books. He now has published about twenty of these books and I found, from my own experience on the trip we made to Italy and the Middle East last winter, that Syd's writings are most helpful. When Syd was in the Philippines and Japan last spring getting material for his "All The Best In Japan, he wrote most interestingly as follows:
I am engaged in perpetrating my eighteenth book in this present series, to be called "All The Best in Japan," and it will have coverage also of the Manila area, of Hong Kong and of Macao, the Portuguese enclave in China. I've been to these other places and am now hot-footing all over Japan on a six-week tour.
As regards the Philippines, I think Americans can be proud of the record we've made there, really proud. We are certainly loved there as in few places on earth, and American English is the official language of the Philippines. Business is carried on in English and education, too. I attended a graduation exercise at one of the universities and the President of the Republic made a speech in English and all the doings were in our language. This is really a tribute to our influence, since this change has come about by desire of the people - not by compulsion.
I won't allow myself to say anything about Hong Kong and Macao for fear I'd launch into a travelogue,'but both are of marvelous interest. As for Japan, nationalism has come back to some extent since the end of the MacArthur regime, but even so, America is admired and imitated. Even in the Tokyo subway stations we hear the radio blatting out an ancient song called "Love Me Tender," in the voice of one Elvis Presley and in a hundred ways, from scientific study to striptease shows, we are cordially imitated - which is supposed to be the sincerest flattery!
Militarism seems as dead as a dodo. Here in Hiroshima I am being guided by a man who was among the first to collect the dead, two days after THE BOMB. His stories, told matter-of-factly, are gruesome beyond words. He showed me a glutted schoolhouse where 900 young children were doing calisthenics when the bomb fell. This man said they were lying around, their charred bodies "like dead fish on a beach" when he came. He shoveled hundreds of them into the river and burned other hundreds. Right outside my hotel is a monument containing a tomb, in which is a large book with the names of the city's 240,000 victims who died directly from the blast or later from radiation burns. Once a year, on August 6, the anniversary of the horror, the book is opened for surviving relatives to see. On that occasion Buddhists, Shintoists, Roman Catholics and Protestants have a joint service of commemoration. But we can be mighty proud of the sustained and wonderful work of the ABCC, which is the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission. Every person tainted with radiation is examined at least twice a year and hard cases are given the most advanced treatment. I was immensely impressed with the thoroughness of the big staff (50 Americans and 700 Japanese). Everything modern from IBM thinking machines, for tabulation, to all the "ologies" you would name, and some that I couldn't have named, are here on a big scale.
The Littleton (New Hampshire) Courier ran a series of articles commemorating the Both anniversary of Littleton High School, where Unc Bellows received his preparatory education. That newspaper gave the following biography of Unc, who has now joined the ranks of the retired:
Following his graduation from Littleton High in 1908, Mr. Bellows went to Dartmouth, getting his B.S. degree in 1912 and his M.C.S. from the Amos Tuck school the following year.
After leaving college, Mr. Bellows was with the C. W. Whittier real estate brokerage company of Boston for five years; then went to Springfield, Mass., where he was with C. P. Chase & Company, lumber dealers, as treasurer, until 1933. Mr. Bellows was for seven years vice president of the Northeastern Retail Lumbermen's Association, with headquarters at Rochester, N. Y., but since 1940, he has been treasurer of the Worthington Corp. at Harrison, N. J.
Mr. Bellows has two sons, Charles C. and Lawrence W. Bellows. He now lives at 87 Douglas Road, Glen Ridge, N. J. Mr. Bellows still has connections in Littleton, as his sister, Mrs. William Wallace, lives here, and he is an officer in Bellows & Baldwin Company. Another brother, Raymond, graduated from Littleton High in 1916 and now lives at Hadlyme, Conn.
Rollie Linscott visited Henry Van Dyne early in February at the time of the "big snow." They had planned to spend some time at Henry's camp on Armenia Mountain, but found the road hopelessly blocked by snow. Still thinking that they were as active as they once were in winter sports in College, they dug out ancient snowshoes and started out for the camp. It was literally a long uphill battle, but they finally made it. They admitted, however, that they found the downhill return was much easier than the ascent.
Doc and Hazel O'Connor spent three weeks in Nassau, resting up after Doc's vigorous activities promoting the March of Dimes campaign for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
Randy Burns and Hal and Audrey Fuller paid a visit to the Queechee Frenches at their home in Queechee, Vt., the first week in February. Randy said they had at least two feet of snow but they "could feel the hospitality" which they enjoyed from Queechee and Bertha.
Changes of Address: John R. Park (Partly Retired) 43 Church Street, Weston, Mass.; Elmer Bloom, 1000 West Moss, Peoria, Ill.;Professor Bishop Brown, 23 Elgie Road, Durban, Natal, South Africa; Harry McCaf.frey (Retired) 144-60 37th Avenue, Flushing, Long Island, N. Y.; George H. Farrington, Merrill Road, Mounted Route, Ambler, Pa.; Nathaniel M. Whitmore, 54 South Street, Auburn, N. Y.
Rolly Linscott '12 (left) and Henry Van Dyne '12 had a chance to re-live Dartmouth days in the deep snow of February. When the road to Henry's Armenia Mt. camp, near Troy, Pa., became impassable, they dug out snowshoes and got to the camp the hard way. Roily, from Poundridge, N.Y., was visiting Henry at the time.
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