1916
The Class will learn with profound sorrow of the death of Lymie Perkins which occurred on April 10 at his home, Cedar Hill, Lynchburg, Va. It expresses its deepest sympathy to his wife, Dorothy and to the members of the family. Stirling Wilson has written the obituary which you will find in this or a subsequent issue.
Dr. Donald Stone Dock, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Dock Jr., has become engaged to Miss Elizabeth Huntington McNeil, daughter of Mrs. John Milton Cole, of Weston, Mass., and the late George Neal McNeil. Elizabeth graduated from Westbrook Junior College, while Donald graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and Princeton University. He received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins and did postgraduate work at Yale. John Ames, who sent me the clipping and picture from the New York Times, had written, "Lovely looking girl," to which we certainly agree, and add, "Lucky boy, Don."
Dutch Doenecke writes me that Roger Evans' talk, "More About Asia," at the March get-together of the New York group was so interesting that it is scheduled to be repeated during the coming season. Wilber-force Sully Jr.'s subject for the April evening, "Traditional Japanese Painting," was most fascinating, and included an actual demonstration of the manner in which the Oriental artists execute their paintings.
Word comes to me that Sam Thieme is quite under the weather in a rest home in California. His wife, Aliene, writes that Sam's courage is good and that he is making plans to come to Washington in August for the Fiji Ekklesia. Sam is an avid fraternity and Dartmouth man and would much enjoy letters from his fraternity brothers and classmates. His address: Box 809, Redlands, Calif. Please write him.
The offer of Mr. Hartford of A&P fame to build a replica of the Cafe de Paris in New York's Central Park finds a vocal opponent in George Dock. In a letter to the New York Times he agrees with its editorial that such de luxe dining and bibbing concessions could better be housed across from the park, and that the pristine beauty of the park should be preserved. George finds it hard to believe that a man of Robert Moses' superb record of park improvement could be beguiled into endorsing this all-weather bistro.
I have word that a couple of young Lochinvars (and their wives) are coming out of the West and will be in these parts not too long after you are reading these notes. Carl Eskeline and Dan Dinsmoor plan to leave the Coast around the first of June, stop off at St. Louis, Bloomington (where Dan's son teaches), Corning, and Cooperstown, and finally Hanover (N. H., that is) around the middle of June. The Dinsmoors will then go to their cottage on Winnipe-saukee for the summer, while the Eskies will visit Nashua, Boston, and Washington before flying back home. Will the Bingville Bugles of the above metropolises please copy, in order that these distinguished members of our class may have a proper reception committee to greet them.
A wonderful letter from Ed Lindman saying that perhaps the Class would like to know how he has been faring these past few years. [Ed, you bet they would.] He headed the math department at the Canterbury School in New Milford, Conn., for many years. Ed lost his wife, Dorothy, in 1957 and (he following year retired to Florida, not to twiddle his thumbs, but to teach at Florida State University at Tallahassee. About a year ago he met an attractive widow, Ann, who needed companionship as much as he did; so last spring they were married. She persuaded Ed that he had worked long enough, and last June he retired for good, again not simply to bask in the sun, but to have a good time. They purchased a trailer and started out to see the country, covering some 8000 miles and really enjoying themselves. For six weeks their headquarters were at the De Anza Trailer Harbor in San Diego. Ed admits that the salubrious climate there had Florida "stopped cold." (Watch out for Sterling Wilson, Ed. Them's fighting woids.) Their plans were to go again in May on another safari and they expected to have the same headquarters in San Diego for four months, taking side trips to those spots missed last year. Ed expresses the hope that any 16ers in that section will stop by to renew old acquaintanceship and crook the arm with a cocktail or two. Ed, I wish more of the Sixteeners whose names seldom if ever appear in these columns would write letters like yours. They have no idea how much the Class would enjoy hearing from them. The congratulations of the Class to you upon your marriage and best wishes to you and your wife in your retirement. We hope that come next June your Streamliner will be headed for Hanover and that the Class will have the pleasure of personally welcoming Ann to the 1916 family.
Look to this column in September for some definite plans for our Forty-fifth Reunion, June 12-14, 1961. The Committee is already hard at work. As an example of their thoroughness your correspondent received word recently from Co-Chairman Sam Cutler asking him to serve on a committee which would plan to get as many of the widows of the Class as possible to return to Hanover next June, arrange for their entertainment, and make their visit pleasant and comfortable. The other members of the committee, — John Ames, and Alec Jardine, advisor. If you will pardon the. facetiousness and grant diplomatic immunity, or whatever it is that a Class Notes Editor has, he would rise to inquire: Where in the Class would you find a handsomer and more dashing trio for such an important work?
By the time this MAGAZINE is in your hands the Alumni Fund Campaign, so vital to the welfare of the College, will be in its final month. Every Dartmouth man, whether his Capital Fund Pledge has been fully paid or not, is invited and urged to contribute. Those who made no Capital Fund Pledge are especially urged to make good at this Annual Dartmouth Giving.
The July issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE will have only reunion news of the classes, so in closing up shop for the summer best wishes to you all, and I hope that many of you will have the good fortune to find your way to the Hanover Plain,— just to get tuned up for the Big Home Coming next June.
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