1912

Put this date on your cuff: June 17-18-19 for our i960 forty-eighth Informal Reunion on Cape Cod. Doc Buraham's committee has made all arrangements at Clauson's Inn and Country Club at Coonamessett, North Falmouth, Cape Cod, Mass. Lodge, sundeck, swimming pool, golf course, lakes, beaches, sand dunes, cocktail lounge, and swell food will all be available. If you miss this one it will, indeed, be too bad. Get your reservation in with the Inn direct and early.

From Villa laorana, Papeete, Tahiti Syd and Mrs. Clark are traveling the South Pacific by way of the French Polynesia group. Fiji Islands, Western Samoa, New Caledonia, New Zealand, and Australia for Number Twenty "All the Best in the South Pacific," and how we envy Syd and his literary travels.

Two cards from Randy Burns state the weather at his Tavernier hang-out on the Keys has turned to cold and windy blasts with high seas and poor fishing, but the fun is just as good as ever.

Hazel and Doc O'Connor will be at the Hotel Fontainebleau, Miami, in April with plans for an informal gathering of 1912'ers in Florida. Bud and Barbara Hoban have a roster of our twelvers in the state. They, with Bill Locke and Mrs. Locke and Ruth and Jim Worton, attended the annual Dartmouth dinner at the Out of This World Club in Hollywood, just to get the feel of things.

From all late reports Hal Fuller is recovering well from surgery for a stomach ulcer in the Baker Memorial Hospital, Boston, Mass. Lyme Armes and Eddie Luitwieler were able to get in to see him one day in March and report all's well; we sure wish him a speedy recovery. That goes for Henry Van Dyne too, he had to revisit the hospital for a spell but has now returned to his favorite spot, "Tree Top Lodge" in Troy, Penna., where he is recovering at a slow but steady pace.

Sheila and Elwyn Taber report they have had a real good time in St. Augustine this winter in spite of too much rain and will be returning home April 4 to attend the wedding of their neighbor's daughter and take care of the bridesmaids, says Tabe.

Mert Baker retired on December 31 after eighteen years as purchasing agent for the Fuller Brush Company in Hartford, Conn., and headed south for Pompano Beach, Fla., for golf and sunshine and a few lessons in the art of leisure in retirement. He will be joined by his son who has finished a four-year pre-medical course at Harvard and is now in his third year at Yale Medical School.

Leona and Ned Richmond spent the winter in Moorestown, N. J., where Ned was working on a listing of the "Fauna and Flora of Horn Island, Miss.," where Ned was in the service of the Government in 1944-45 and returned there for an extended visit in January '59 and housed at the Guest House of the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory.

Katy and Hal Baker landed in St. Petersburg, Fla., from Cleveland and contacted the Al Smiths, Chief Wheelers and Rev. Urban Layton before they caught up with all the latest news from Lyme Armes' February Billboard at Pat Lovells in St. Pete.

After years of silence Lyme Armes heard from Don Augur of Red Hook, N. Y., in the form of twin red boxes holding a couple of dozen of Don's hand-tied dry-flies, Light Cahill, Royal Coachman, Gray Quill, three of his tested favorites on Catskill streams. There's a host of 1913 fishermen who would like to see Don this June up Cape Cod way, how about that?

Alice (Mrs. Chub) Hitchcock's son, Charles Y. Hitchcock Jr. '38, with whom she makes her home at 73 Thaxter St., Hingham, Mass., is now president of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers, founded in 1903.

Gladys and Dick Remsen and Hazel and Doc O'Connor represented the Class at the big Alumni Council meetings at Hanover in late January celebrating the over-subscription of the $17 million Capital Gifts Campaign.

The Dartmouth Class Officers Meetings will be held this year in Hanover on Friday and Saturday, May 13-14 and your Secretary hopes to make it.

His fellow editors on the board of the New England Journal of Medicine (March 3, 1960 issue) with almost unparalleled unanimity paused for a moment to pay honor to Henry Viets. This editorial colleague - a B.A. from Dartmouth College - graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1916 then spent a year in wartime England as Moseley traveling fellow at Oxford. A neurologist of note, he is a member of most if not all of the important neurological societies. For his contributions to the knowledge of devastating chronic disease and his devotion to many afflicted patients Dr. Viets received last year a special bronze plaque at the Second International Symposium on Myasthenia Gravis.

This is the "Sunbird group" of '14ers, written about by Charles S. Batchelder in this month'sclass notes column. In the picture, the author is flag-bearer, front row, left.

Secretary, 612 Embree Crescent Ave. Westfield, N. J.

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