1912
Your Secretary missed the Alumni Fund Campaign dinner in Boston in April but our tireless 1912 Class Agent Eddie submitted a glowing report of the occasion. About 200 turned out to this gathering, one of several of like nature throughout the Us" The program was outstanding with Charlie Moore '25, Alumni Fund Chairman, President Dickey and Cliff Jordan '45 doing the honors. Charlie has recently retired as Vice President and Public Relations Officer of Ford Motor Company. The President paid tribute, not only to our 1962 football team, but also to a Dartmouth team of math students which won second place in an intercollegiate contest, topped only by Cal Tech. Eddie reports that notes are going out gradually to all 12ers looking ahead to winning our Green Derby. 1912 is already ahead of last year at this time (May
Honors have come to two more '12ers. A Guest Editorial in the Bristol, N. H., Enterprise comments on Bowdoin Plumer Day, celebrated in the New Hampshire House of Representatives every two years when the Representative from Bristol brings in his bill to abolish the $2 per capita tax on school children paid by the towns to the State for the expense of the Supervisory Unions. Bowdoin was in rare form this year, culminating his speech with the final words, "This tax is the greatest chiseling job since Mount Rushmore." Dr. Harold E. Marden was tend- ered a testimonial dinner recently in Albany, N. Y., on his retirement after 37 years as mill physician for Huyck Felt Co. of Rensselaer. Dr. Marden was presented with a memento from- the company.
"Trumie" Johnson, Secretary-Treasurer of Northern West Virginia Coal Associates, reports that the coal business down there is confronted with problems of all kinds, that with the competition from oil and gas and non-union coal it is really tough going. "Trumie" would really like to get to Hanover for our 51st but needs a booster. The only one anywhere near him is "Put" Russell in Pittsburgh. How about you two getting together and getting "up east," as "Trumie" calls it?
Allie and Scott Rogers took their first jet flight last fall when they visited Paris, Vienna, Munich, Berlin, and Copenhagen. Two highlights recorded: the opera house in Vienna with its tier on tier of gold boxes, the tremendous audience, and the breathtaking performance of Der Rosenkavalier; the other, a five-hour bus trip through "Check Point Charlie", into East Berlin and return with heavy hearts. Almost forgot the beer hall in Munich with several thousand singing "Roll Out The Barrel" while holding aloft their steins of beer.
Bud Hoban says he has had a wonderful winter. Look at his daily routine! Temperature 70° to 85°, gorgeous swimming, hot sun plus a nice breeze, golf on a 9-hole course nearby, some work around the place, "and just plain loafing." Add to the foregoing, several Dartmouth luncheons in Miami and cruises on the "Gilby." Profiles Magazine carried one of Bud's articles in the April 1963 issue. Barbara is so well she wants to stay down there through June. Not so, Bud. For the other side of the Florida picture we learn that Erma and Clyde Cooke were disappointed in the weather this win- ter. "Cookie" couldn't get up the courage to follow Connie Snow in those pre-breakfast swims the General wrote about. Since retiring from Cushing Academy the Cookes have lived in Northampton and remind all '12ers that the latchstring is out at the house on Route 5 directly opposite the State Police Barracks north of the city. See you in June! Irene Drake has been wintering in Clearwater, Fla., and checked in on Hazel (Cobb) Townsend for dinner.
By the way, there seems to have been some near misses in the deep South this winter. If you will all give the Secretary your three addresses for the year - winter, summer, and home - with changes as soon as they occur we shall have more gumbeatings, as Roy Lewis calls them. Roy is getting things lined up for our 51st, Brown and Little dorms, tours of Hopkins Center, Leverone Field House, and the new Medical School plant, as well as three Sundown Parties. Have you sent in your reservation to Roy (see April 15 Billboard)? Don't miss out, to quote "Cookie," "as we grow older."
Lee White, just returned with Alma from a Field Trial in Virginia, had an emergency operation on April 2 for the removal of a gangrenous gall bladder. He came through the procedure in good shape and Alma writes they both expect to make our 51st.
Belatedly we receive news of the death of Carlton Dean in Shrewsbury, Mass., on January 20. His widow was notified of placing of a 1912 Memorial Book in Baker Library and the Secretary received a letter of appreciation from one of the sons, Rev. David J. Dean. The obituary appears elsewhere in this issue. On April 18 JackCronin passed away in Chicago. The news reached us from Steve Mahoney '18 via Randy Burns. Jack was a devoted Dartmouth man. A Memorial Book has been placed in Baker Library and more details will appear in the obituary.
Earl Cutting has been in Northern Vir- ginia Doctors Hospital, Washington, D. C., recovering from a coronary suffered en route home from Florida. "Tabe" Taber and Doc Worcester are both reported home from the hospital and pointing for our 51st. Dorothy and Bill Shapleigh were scheduled to leave by plane on May 12 for three weeks visit to London and the wonders of Scotland. Say, are you interested in that lobster picnic this summer at Shapleigh's in Portland? If you are within striking distance, better sign up.
Late flash from Owego, N. Y.! The whole town turned to and gave Boss Geller a party on April 27 in recognition of all his service to the community - his church, the Boy Scouts, the Museum among many others. More details later. Your Secretary and wife attended by wire.
Changes in address: H. Lyman Armes, P.O. Box 303, Northwood Center, N. H.; Donald G. Auger, R.D. #1, Box 328, Red Hook, N. Y.
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