1912

For weather, this has been a queer summer. Writing from one of the outlying islands of Casco Bay, the question has often been heard, "Is this August or is it November?" Shrouded in fog most of July, we now have donned our winter furs and taken a peek at snow capped Mt. Washington.

Since our last column in the MAGAZINE, 1912 has lost two of its members. On May 28 Cedric Francis passed away in Washington, D.C., after a long and painful struggle with cancer, and on July 27 Gardner Bullard died in a hospital in Wellesley following a long illness. Obituaries appear elsewhere in the MAGAZINE. Randy Burns represented the Class at Gee's funeral and Eddie Luitwieler visited the funeral home the previous evening.

Class Chairman Basil O'Connor received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Roosevelt University in Chicago on June 15. Doc delivered the Commencement address on "The Heightened Requirements for Leadership." Prior to that date, on May 27 he addressed the Annual Health Conference at Sun Valley on "New Approaches to Mental Retardation." Next in line for honors is Hal Belcher who was one of four Greater Boston citizens to be so selected recently by the Boston Y.M.C.A. His Oscar was for aiding in raising funds for the new Y.M.C.A. branch in Roxbury. July 21 marked the 50th wedding anniversary for the Belchers. All the clan — you'd be surprised how many - gathered to honor Harold and Marian at Hartshorne House, Wakefield. And for the completion of 50 years in the practice of medicine, Doc Worcester was one of five to be so honored by the Medical Society of New Jersey. My last letter from Doc recorded a trip to Hanover for the celebration at the Medical School, May 30, followed by an attack which laid him low for two weeks, then a blow on- his head from a fall - you see why he didn't get to our 52nd.

John Brewster had a bad time in 1963 but says 1964 has been kinder to him. We're glad of that. Harry Barnett has come, out from hiding to report he and Doris have moved to Ann Arbor in his retirement and for amusement he is remodeling the inside of their home while carpenters and painters do the outside. You all know about RoyLewis's fire, I'm sure. It was some blow to Lewis Brothers, Inc., and to think our 52nd Reunioners had hardly wiped off the crumbs from Floppie's brunch! Roy Frothingham sent me a full two-page, single-spaced, typewritten letter full of reminiscences beginning with the dinner Frances and I had on the West Coast with Dorothy and Roy, a gettogether with Ahlswede, Hobbs, Oneal and Bruner, a visit with Boss Geller and a whole bouquet for Lyme, "the correspondent to outreach all correspondents" and for Bruno who was "like a brother" back in those olden days.

Ned Richmond has come across with some snaps taken at our 52nd. We hope to get one or more in this column. They are good! Ned and Leona are in Philadelphia at the time of this writing taking in some of the events of the Knights Templars Grand Encampment. Sam Hobbs is still going strong as Secretary-Treasurer and one of the Directors of Southern California Chapter of American Concrete Institute. It was Houston and New Orleans in March, will be Miami this autumn and San Francisco plus Hawaii next March. Louis Ekstrom tells me he can't write letters but you should see the three-page historical-biographical account he turned out on Daniel Webster Armisted, the grandson of Dartmouth's own D. Webster! Armisted lived across the street from Louis in Bethlehem, Pa., and, like our pitcher, was a baseball fan.

Lyme Armes just informed me that through his mother, the former Blanche Spotford Poor of North Andover, Mass., "It appears that the Dartmouth poet's (Hovey) great grandfather and mother were my own great-great-grandparents." This should have been listed with the 1912 Wah-Hoo-Wahs. Henry Bailey Stevens pulled off the summer party this year with an afternoon tea, dinner, and a theater performance at Durham, N.H., on July 23. The occasion was the arrival of Col. Al and Hazel Cobb Townsend from the Sunny South. On hand also were Lisbeth and Jack Park,Katherine and Connie Snow, Jo and BenAdams, Irene Drake, Lyme Armes, and Henry's sister, Anna Knauer, and daughter Patricia Lambert. The Shapleighs and Welds didn't make it from Maine. Jack Park keeps your Secretary posted on his doings like all the other '12ers should. Back from Myrtle Beach in April, it was attendance at the spring meeting of the Seacoast Dartmouth Club in Dover, N.H., in May, presided over by Paul Urion, Heinie's son. Henry Stevens was the only other '12er on hand to greet President and Mrs. Dickey.

Another honor to one of our own. In April Mark Snow, a philatelist for the last 30 years, won first prize in the Topical Division at the Garfield-Perry Stamp Club of Cleveland's 74th annual show and exhibit with his collection, "Masonry on Stamps." One year ago he took another first at Compex, held annually in Chicago, with "Proofs and Essays of Czechoslovakia." Mark has been very active in Masonry, having been crowned a 33rd degree Mason in 1945 and recipient of a 50-year jewel from his home Lodge in Middleborough, Mass., in May. Cookie (Lewis C. Cooke) reports he and Erma attended the latter's 50th at Framingham State College and his own reunion at Cushing Academy, hence they both missed our 52nd. Driving north through Northampton, take a run west on the street opposite the State Police Barracks, second house down. There you'll find the two Cookes. Elmer Bloom is all Goldwater even to returning by now from Scituate, Mass., to work for the Illinois Republican state ticket. He kindly sent me the Peoria Journal Star's editorial of some July Thursday titled "How Quickly We Forget," pointing up the November race. Roy Deferrari is still producing. Now it is "A Complete System of Catholic Education Is Necessary," published in Boston in paper for $1.25. Put Russell writes from Pittsburg that "the old rocking chair has got me - but only part time so far." His activities are limited, hence no Class Reunions for him.

And now for the girls. First comes Marion Pond with a gift of $3,000 for the Alumni Fund this last June in memory of Carl and the news that she and her daughter have made substantial provisions for Dartmouth in their wills to be used as a Loan Fund for needy students. Word comes from Dorothy Doe, Elmer's widow in Shelbeyville, Ky., telling all about the activity on her farm including a dairy, hog raising, and fields of corn and tobacco. And from Chub Hitchcock's widow Alice reminding me that he was fifth of a direct line to go to Dartmouth. Alice is a semi invalid with "many happy memories of Hanover from 1912 on." Arthur Ferguson's widow wrote Doc O'Connor from Keokuk, lowa, to thank him for his Christmas gift and commenting on Connie's swell job with the 50 Year Book. Following a fracture of her spine last year, Grace Mosier has been on the "complete rest" list but is beginning to get about again. Husband Hal makes no comments. That's it. Write me in West Hartford.

New Addresses: Dr. Harold Marden, 15 Sunset Drive, Elmsmere, N.Y.; Perley J. Roberts, 55 Forest Street, Harwich, Mass.

Secretary, 136 Steele Rd. West Hartford, Conn.

Treasurer, 4 Bank Building, Middleboro, Mass.