1912
"Professor Moriarty on the Air" - If you happened to tune in on WBZ, Boston, Friday evening, March 29 you listened to a most interesting interview followed by open line questions and answers by the professor, none other than our Dartmouth-Cornell classmate, Stan Lovell. As you know, Stan was with the OSS in World War 11, recipient of the Presidential Medal for Merit and other honors, and has just published a book, "Of Spies and Stratagems," Prentice-Hall. It should be a thriller.
Another famous '12er has been heard from. Dr. Herbert L. Lombard, a prominent epidemiologist and formerly Director of Cancer and Chronic Diseases in Massachusetts, recipient of several awards for his labors in the field of cancer control, writes that his titles now are Affiliate to the Cancer Research Institute of the New England Deaconess Hospital and Special Consultant to the Public Health Service. All this to substantiate Doc O'Connor's message to the Class of 1962, "Remember always that 'moving waters freeze last,'" Herbert applied this to his own retirement. At present he is working on three projects, one at the request of the Tobacco Research Institute is a continuation of his former study on lung cancer.
Basil O'Connor's address delivered in La Jolla, Calif., on January 16, 1963 brings to mind the grave danger existing today where the federal government is contributing ever increasing sums to research in our colleges and universities to the detriment, as many believe, of the role of teaching in these institutions. The magazine "Science" has been very articulate about this problem and in a recent issue expresses the opinion that "the present state of science in the U.S. is one of considerable confusion." If Doc O'Connor sent you a copy of his speech, dig it up and read it. It will be worth your while.
Kelly Wells' wife Vera writes how disappointed they were not to be able to attend our Fiftieth. Their family has had its share of tragedies, not the least being Kelly's illness which has confined him to hospitals and nursing homes for the past four years. A letter to him sent via his home address, 39 Prospect St., Marblehead, Mass., will bring cheer and help Vera in her struggle to keep smiling. And here's another line from an old faithful! Emma Pettingell, Ralph's widow, tells us that she is as thrilled as ever to watch the spring come in and her crocuses come up. More power to her. From the Finger Lake region, a Valentine with the übiquitous mouse thereon (U-Know-Who) and this message: "Perhaps the snow will melt by June - and we can then again reune." Boss is living for Me and Thee in '63. Your Secretary received one St. Patrick's Day card - from Grace and Hal Mosier. More advice for retirement days. "Retirement is delightful," writes Hal. Then, the "pressures leave, some new ones may appear but they gradually lessen as time goes on" and Hal finds he can do the things he didn't have time for before. (Are you interested?) The Mosiers are planning on Hanover this June.
More than a month after the Alumni Dinner in Boston news finally seeped through that the '12ers had a wonderful time. Present were Eddie Luitwieler, FletchClark, Ben Hunt, and Gee Bullard. Coach Blackman was superb and President Dickey entertained the group with reminiscences of Robert Frost and the reading of some of his unpublished poems.
The other 1912 get-together took place out on the West Coast when spark plug Warren Bruner rounded up Roy Frothingliam, Sam Hobbs, Ole Ahlswede, and JimmyOneal. This was a luncheon with prelim- inaries at Ole's place and chat until way into the afternoon. Warren tried unsuccessfully to get a look at Rollie Sturtevant while in Tucson but found that Rollie was just out of the hospital and home nursing a sick wife. Roy wrote the Secretary a long letter apropos of that luncheon in La Canada, Calif. Apparently Ole has a dream spot, as Roy says, cut down to size for their personal housekeeping and gardening. Ole has a wild racoon who is trying to tame him, believe it or not. Warren deserves a lot of credit for this was the first time Roy had seen Jimmy Oneal or Ole Ahlswede since the end of their sophomore year, and all three in the same state of California! Let's have more of this. Bruner is nominated as 1912 Rounder-Up.
Latest news flashes! Sam Hobbs has just been elected to a three-year term on the National Board of Direction of the Amer- ican Concrete Institute. While in Atlanta Sam talked by phone with Jogger Elcock and Chesty Brown. Mabel and Ralph Tackaberry from Chicago are signing up for our informal Fifty-First in Hanover.
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