1912

Just before the windup of the 1965 Alumni Fund campaign came a check for $2,000 from Mort Kyle's widow Susan as a memorial to her late husband. It was a very timely gift and to Sue goes the thanks from all the Class.

Mark Snow is "still having a lot of fun on the side with my hobby - stamps — and recently took a fourth at the 75th annual show of a local stamp club." Marion and Mark went to Buffalo in May to attend the session of the Imperial Council of the Red Cross of Constantine of which he is a Past Sovereign. This is an exclusive branch of Masonry comprising only about 5,000 in the entire U.S. Norton Webber continues to play 18 holes of golf two or three times a week but admits he has to ride a motor cart. He gets his exercise with those extra strokes. Medicine is on the move, says BillMiddlebrook, Administrative Consultant to the Nicollet Clinic in Minnesota. Bill went to Catholic University in Santiago, Chile, in August for the Ford Foundation. He is also doing some recruiting for the University of Calcutta job and plans to make his last trip out there about New Year's. His only difficulty is in climbing hills but they tell me Calcutta doesn't afford much in that category.

Chuck Tanger is already planning on Hanover and the new Inn next June. His advice: Don't get old. Stay young. From Clearwater, Fla., comes news of the Jim Englishes' royal entertainment by Hazel and Al Townsend along with Andy Scarlett '10 and wife. Jim reports good health for both Sarah and himself. Not so fortunate was Hal Belcher's wife Marian who fell last January and fractured her hip. The latest news is that she has graduated from crutches to a cane so that Hal doesn't have to be a combination housekeeper and nurse's aid any longer. We'll look for both Belchers in Hanover next June. Lee White has been busy beating the drought with pump and plastic pipe connected to a brook, thus keeping his trees, lawn and shrubs from drying up. October found Alma and Lee at the dog trials in North Central New York and in the woods of Norwich, N. Y., for the running of the Grouse Futurity. After that it's south again to Pinehurst, N. C., for the winter.

I congratulated Stan Lovell on being relieved of one of his directorships and in reply received a long list of everything else of which he had been relieved, including his hair, his teeth, and "much money in naive and imprudent attempts to get rich quickly." "But," he adds, "what remains is so precious words are inadequate." Stan is still the optimist I knew him to be 57 years ago! Edith and Ray Tobey missed the Shap-leighs' party in August because of a peatbog and forest fire in Washington County, Me. Ray reports a frost in Fairfield on August 31, the earliest he can remember in all his 70-odd years. From Scott Rogers comes the report that he and Allie have had the best year in a long time. They visited the Sugatts in Rhinebeck, N. Y., in June en route to see one of their sons in New Canaan, Conn. Their program includes Florida in winter, and Cleveland, Denver, New Canaan, and California at other times to keep an eye on their 3 sons and 10 grand-children.

Ruth Worton supplies "News 'n' Notes of the 1912 Girls" as follows: Phoebe Jepson taking short mountain trips into the Sierras; Gertrude McCarthy and Bess Garrison continuing their reunion in Hanover with a visit to Bess' home for further chit-chat; Kathleen Dean undergoing a hip operation at New England Baptist Hospital, Boston; Helen Buell reminiscing on one of DocO'Connor's 1912 get-togethers way back in 1947; and Ruth herself closing her cabana at Little Compton for the season (that was Labor Day. She ought to try this vigorous climate out here on this Maine island in October!).

Lou Ekstrom has written one of his rare letters in which he relates how he tried to get the petit court jury in Bethlehem on which he was serving to back him up if he asked the three judges to sing "Happy Birthday" as he entered the court room. (He was 79, September 20.) Abject failure, the attempt. He's still driving a 10-year-old car and shoveling coal into the maw of his old furnace in the winter. Plans to visit daughter Nancy in Santa Barbara, Calif., after his youngest brings forth his 16th grandchild. Nancy's oldest, Michele, graduated from junior high on June 10 in a class of 500! She now heads up committees in school and church and plays piano and "something else" in the school band. Lou's oldest grandchild, Nicky Dawson, is Dartmouth '68, rooming in Topliff.

Our celebrated Newsletter Editor, H. L. Armes, Esq., counted his 75th milestone on October 7. Connie and Katherine Snow invited him along with the Burnhams, Lewises, and Frenches over to the new home of their daughter, "Connie" Klefos in Hanover after the New Hampshire game. She just moved in a couple of weeks before with her 5 boys and 5-year-old daughter.

Another '12er has left us. No details, only a word from the Alumni Records Office that George N. Hitchcock died August 30, 1965.

New addresses: Robert D. Baird, 6069 South Shore Drive, Whitehall, Mich. 49461; George W. Geiser, The Village Green, 495 Main Street, Orange, N. J. 07056; Mrs. Martha M. Baxter, 2825 S.W. 8th Street, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. 33312; Mrs. Ralph E. Farnum, 127 Mascoma Street, Lebanon, N. H. 03766; Mrs. Charles E. McCarthy, Apt. 202, 3201 Allen Street, Falls Village, Va. 22042.

Secretary, 136 Steele Rd. West Hartford, Conn.

Treasurer, 4 Bank Building, Middleboro, Mass.

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