1912
Our ranks are thinning. Joseph W. "Joe"Russell passed away on Sunday March 13, following a long illness and having spent practically all of last year in the hospital. The sincere sympathy of his friends and classmates is extended to his wife Mildred and his immediate family. Joe's In Memoriam notice is included in this issue of the MAGAZINE.
A brief note from Eddie Luitwieler advises that he visited Lyme Armes in the Baker Memorial General Hospital, Boston, in early April and is happy to report that Lyme is progressing nicely after a mean operation. Good luck Lyme, we are all pulling for you.
That reminds me, don't forget Eddie this spring. The Alumni Fund is back in full stride again serving Dartmouth, and Eddie will appreciate your help more than ever this year. As this is being written 1912 has passed its halfway mark and is hoping for that 100 per cent of objective.
Paul E. Martin has retired and is now living at 801 Almond Street, Hot Springs, S. D. Clarence T. Schwartz has also retired and is living at 1403 Edgewood Ave., Wanamassa, N. J.
Sorry to have missed Sam Hobbs when he was attending Convention in New York City this past March but understand he had a long visit with Hazel and Nelson Doe, visited his sisters in Pelham, N. H., and got in a quickie telephone conversation with EddieLuitwieler.
Al Smith's brother, Ray W. Smith '18 of Dublin, N. H., is member and town chairman of the New Hampshire Committee, Nixon for President 1960, and donor of Dartmouth's Ray Winfield Smith Trophy.
Connie Snow, 50th Anniversary Class Book editor, is seeking information from anyone who may have intimate details or addresses of the following men who entered Dartmouth with 1912: W. H. Edwards, W. U. Healey, E. P. Johnson, A. D. Newman, W. E. Norris, L. L. Pollard, H. A. Thompson, D. F. Tuttle, Walter G. Burns, George A. Evans, Walter T. Kyle, Arthur K. Lowell, Edwin R. Millring, Ernest R. Patten, Harold P. Underwood and Thomas C. Wanty. If you have any information please send it in.
Charles Ventura reports in the New York Herald Tribune of April 26, quote: "You don't have to be an expert in fundamental biology or be able to discuss the relative merits of live or dead vaccines, to get a word in at the soirees of Basil O'Connor and his wife, the former Hazel Royall, at their Hotel Carlyle suite, but it helps. Principal topics at the O'Connor gatherings are a forthcoming fact-finding trip through Russia with a plane load of scientists and the $20,000,000 Institute for basic research the head of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc. is planning to build at La Jolla, Calif."
Was pleased to receive a surprise phone call from Art French from Mountainside, N. J., where he is visiting his son's family. Art said he had talked with the Hal Mosiers and Charlie McCarthy while in Washington and was sure that Gertrude and Charlie will be at the Reunion in Cape Cod this June.
A letter just received from Guy R. Carpenter '10 reports the death of Vance C.Campbell in San Francisco, Calif., after undergoing x-ray treatments for the past six weeks. The sincere sympathy of his friends and classmates in college is extended to his wife Elizabeth, his daughter, Mrs. Thomas J. (Barbara) Clarey, and his grandchildren, Thomas, Barbara, and Susan Clarey. Vance's In Memoriam notice is included in this or a subsequent issue of the MAGAZINE. Vance was one of the real dependables among the local alumni Old Guards in the Frisco area, where he served a term as vice-president of the Northern California Alumni Association and then in the early forties was elected president for two successive terms.
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