1912
Not long ago Bill Ryan produced a column in a local paper entitled "By the Way." It featured Chase's Calendar of Annual Events, calling attention to such as Salute to Housewife Week in January. Sandwich Week in August, and the Annual World's Sled Dog Championship at Laconia. N.H., which latter event took place this year on February 22. Our Laconia '12er, Lew Perley, must agree, since Laconia has been thus honored, that the second week of the Dartmouth Commencement period should be named 1912 Week for Me and Thee in '63. What do you say?
Dick Remsen completed his term as President of Nassau (N.Y.) Hospital on June 30, 1962. During this responsible position he succeeded in starting a $4 million building operation for a new wing to the hospital to house 110 additional beds as well as many other necessary facilities. In addition he initiated a building fund campaign for $1½ million of which the larger part has already been raised. Small wonder Gladys and Dick felt they needed a cruise in the Caribbean to clear the deck for new endeavors. Letters are still pouring in to RoyLewis and other officers of the Class hailing the "wonderful Fiftieth" we had last June. After leaving Hanover Marion and MarkSnow took a long weekend in August to drive from Cleveland to Maple Springs, N. Y., on Lake Chautauqua. Then in September again they hit the road, this time to Philadelphia to attend the Supreme Council of Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, 33 rd Degree Masons. Then to North Truro on Cape Cod with apologies to Fletch Clark for by-passing Middleborough without stopping. Mark hopes to make it with us in June.
Alvah S. Holway has been relieved of his managerial responsibilities with the Master Builders Company and continues to serve the company in charge of a small processing plant for eight hours a day. "Brutus" on last count had 17 grandchildren and one greatgrandchild. He had them all together last summer at his cottage in Wisconsin. Hectic but wonderful was the conclusion. HippoMarden fell afoul of his own profession recently when he had a ruptured disc removed from his spine. It isn't always such a terrible affair. Ask the Secretary. Russ Wylde has had a siege of "back dislocations and lung troubles." More cheerful news comes from Bradford, Vt., where Lucy and Lloyd Bugbee celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary last June. They report that they are happy and active with such interests as recreation projects, church work, gardening, conservation, photography, college reunions, and study groups. Nothing left but fund raising and numismatics.
Leona and Ned Richmond left for "Petrograd," Fla., in January and after sunning there awhile were going on to Ocean Springs, Miss. This latter stopover could not be in the interest of further cranberry or beetle studies but, nonetheless, might be due to Ned's old love for entomology. GeorgeGeiser spent part of the winter in St. Augustine, Fla., "as a compromise with nature and old age," so he quotes Robert Frost. His daughter Elizabeth joined him after a turn or two at skiing in Vermont. Bill Jepson has been heard from. Since his retirement from the practice of medicine he has moved again and can now be found at 1520 Glorietta Boulevard, Coronado, Calif. "Pike"Child's grandson, John Lawrence Fitz, recently was the recipient at Grenier Field in Manchester, N. H., of the Air Medal awarded posthumously to his father, the late Lieut. James D. Fitz. Lieut. Fitz sacrificed his life nine years ago in deciding not to bail out but instead to guide his disabled Sabrejet, which was rocketing in flames, away from a school and a heavily populated area of Panama City, Fla. Johnny, now 13, has an appointment to the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs. Fame has come to Ralph W. Tackaberry of Evanston, Ill., in the shape of election to honorary membership in the International Fund-Raising Association. Since 1937 "Tack" has been engaged in the profession of fund raising. In Milwaukee, over a period of 17 years, in twenty campaigns for $21 million he secured more than $22 million. Then his success carried him from Minneapolis, Detroit, Syracuse, and Bridgeport, Conn., on the north to Atlanta, Ga., Florida, New Orleans, Phoenix, and Pasadena on the south and west across the Pacific to Honolulu. The plaque presented him reads, "in recognition of outstanding achievement in serving religious and philanthropic organizations as. a professional fund-raising counselor." "Tack" missed our Fiftieth (his surgeon had him tied down) but is counting on the FiftyFifth. Chicago '12ers take notice.
Prof. Ernest S. Osgood is the author of another book to be published by the Yale Press this year. "Ozzie" admits several visits to Hanover while the college was in session but missed our Fiftieth as Helen and he were in Europe. Like many others, he has found great satisfaction in seeing the students, crossing the campus, going in and out of the beautiful old buildings and crowding into Commons. He spent ten of his early years teaching at Helena (Mont.) High School but says it wasn't long before teaching became an avocation and his real classroom was the mountains where he hunted and fished, went on long pack trips, and hung about the ranches where he learned what a New Englander should know about the Far West and its people. At the time of his retirement from teaching he was given a surprise dinner attended by most of the twenty of his graduate students who had received doctorates at the University of Minnesota and who came to the dinner from all over the U.S. As he said, their thoughtfulness and respect were full payment for all of his labors through the years. And finally: "The history department in our day was indeed a distinguished one with such men as Foster, Lingley, Fay, and Bayse. One, not too confident an undergraduate, has much to thank them for. I am ever in their debt."
In response to "Doc" O'Connor's neat and useful Christmas gift of address book and note pad several Class widows have made themselves known by notes of appreciation. Dorothy Doe, Elmer's widow, reports the coldest weather ever experienced in Kentucky when all the pipes in Shelbyville popped except hers. Another one heard from. Violet (Mrs. Chas. H.) Stratford of Pittsburgh says that the only member of 1912 she has met is Doc O'Connor. "Put"Russell lives in Pittsburgh, according to the record. We leave the rest to him. Persis Clark, "Cupe's" widow, wrote of her interest in the Fifty Year Book, and Alice Hitchcock, "Chub's" widow, is looking forward to the day when she will be well enough to attend a 1912 reunion and "tell all of us what it means to be a 1912 widow and remembered by the nicest men in the world." Then there is Margery Daley, Eddie's widow, who claims to be maintaining her youth through her position as housemother in the Sigma Nu house at Albion College, Michigan. Although out of touch with all Dartmouth doings these days, Margery usually stops in Hanover "a bit when driving north." Many of our Class widows seemingly have become lost. Your Secretary would like to re-establish a liaison with this group for the strengthening of our Class ties.
Secretary, 136 Steele Rd. West Hartford 7, Conn.
Treasurer, 4 Bank Building, Middleboro, Mass.
