1912
Stanley B. Weld, M.D., 136 Steele Road, West Hartford, Conn., has accepted Chairman Basil O’Connor’s appointment to succeed the late Wyckoff L. Garrison as the latest in a line of distinguished Class Secretaries who have served the College and Dartmouth 1912 through more than half a century.
Having some time ago rounded out 22 years as editor of his home-state’s medical journal, Stan had begun a program of grad- ually limiting his “outside” activities to give more time to writing, though he still retains his post as Secretary of the Connecticut Medical Examining Board. He and Frances, vacationing at their summer home. Great Chebeague Island, Portland, Me., are sched- uled to return to West Hartford, Sept. 17. A letter from Stan as 1912 Secretary-elect says: “I look forward to the contacts, espe- cially at this time when old friends mean a lot to both of us.”
In the meantime, some of the following notes are from material Garry, himself, set aside for this column before he was so sud- denly stricken. (See In Memoriam section.)
News-clips from Hanover tell of SydneyClark being hailed as the “dean of Amer- ican Travel Writers” at a luncheon cere- mony in New York, when French Govern- ment Tourist Office officials conferred on Syd the rank of Chevalier in the Ordre du Merite Touristique. They cited especially books having to do with France on his life- time shelf of more than thirty volumes, in- cluding the first of them all, entitled, “France on 50 Dollars.” (Those were the days!) Con- temporary editions in the bookstalls are chiefly volumes of Syd’s well known “All the Best of ” series telling explicit tales of his own path-finding adventures on pop- ular travel routes ranging from the South Pacific to the Scandinavian Arctic and the Near East. Among publishers present for this presentation was Alden Clark ’34, vice president of Holt, Rinehart & Winston and one of Syd’s nephews.
The Rev. Harry S. Lowd of the Com- munity Church, North Orange, Mass., who conducted the impressive “Service of Re- membrance” in the White Church at our 50th Reunion, was honored for his 50 years of ministerial services during the Massachu- setts Congregational Christian Conference at Worcester, Mass. Harry was ordained, Sept. 19, 1912. He and his wife, Katherine, are looking forward to permanent retire- ment beginning this month.
Co-recipient of this year’s Norman Medal, highest award conferred by the _ American Society of Civil Engineers, is William Mc- Guire, Professor of Civil Engineering at Cornell, son-in-law of Frances and Dr. Stan-ley B. Weld and husband of their daughter, Barbara, Univ. of Conn. ’52. This award to him and a colleague in his department was based on a paper on a relatively unexplored field of engineering reduction or preven- tion of hazards to a surrounding community in the unlikely event bf a nuclear malfunc- tion in an atomic power plant.
Rosalind and Robert B. Belknap have moved again this time, on Aug. 23, to Bob’s twenty-fifth residential address since 1912. After more than eleven years in Los Gatos, Calif. their longest stay at any address—■ they have relinquished their re- tirement home for an apartment at 15 El Cerito, San Mateo, Calif., 20 miles south of San Francisco and within walking dis- tance of the family of their daughter, Ann. Bob’s excuse: Things grow so fast in Cali- fornia, his garden got to be “too much of a job for me to handle.”
Other new mail-addresses of recent rec- ord: Roy S. Frothingham, 1705 Victoria Ave., Los Angeles 19, Calif.; Caleb W. Orr, 700 West Ash St., Piqua, Ohio; Kenneth C. Kimball (office), Room 616, 150 Causeway St, Boston 14, Mass.
Recent publications: “The Fauna and Flora of Horn Island, Mississippi,” by Ed-ward Avery Richmond (106 pp., illus.) pub- lished as Vol. I, No. 2 of Gulf Research Reports by Gulf Coast Research Labora- tory, Ocean Springs, Miss. With photos and maps, ancient and modern, it includes a listing of 1,100 species of animals and plants identified on this 13-mile barrier strand; “Hinckley’s Who-Was-Who on Ether Day,” by Henry R. Yiets, M.D., published by the Boston Medical Library; “A His- tory of the Great Chebeague Golf Club” by Stanley B. Weld, privately printed.
Class Agent Eddie Luitwieler rejoices sta- tistically because seventy-three percent of “our girls” (meaning 1912 Widows, 14 of whom came back to the 50th Reunion) con- tributed Memorial Gifts this year that added up to eighteen percent of the largest annual gift Dartmouth 1912 has ever contributed to the Alumni Fund.
Statistically speaking, 1912 set up sundry other records for later, larger classes to shoot at. Our total attendance of 197 was an even half a hundred more than the larg- est 50-Year reunion-assembly of modern times. With 87 classmates present in the flesh, 1912 won the Class of 1930 Cup for the Commencement weekend. And with 66 percent of all living graduates in attendance, 1912 took and held-—the Class of 1894 Trophy throughout two more series of Class Reunions that thronged the College green after our departure. Alfred L. Smith left his summer-vacation home, “Mizzen-top,” Truro, Cape Cod, in mid-August and “went to work”! A 1 is 1912’s newly-elected Bequest and Estate Planning Chairman. “I expect to be in Han- over next week,” he wrote, “to get informa- tion about all aspects of the Dartmouth Bequest Program and to learn as much as possible in the crusade to make the success of Dartmouth’s Bequest Program equally well and widely known as that of its Alumni Fund.”
Secretary, 136 Steele Rd., West Hartford, Conn. Treasurer 4 Bank Building, Middleboro, Mass.
