1912

Class Chairman Doc O'Connor as president of The National Foundation has issued the first of a series of newsletters reporting the developments at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. The Institute looks forward this year to moving into its permanent buildings where will be carried on an increased number of educational and academic activities, made possible by generous contributions to the National Foundation. Class Treasurer Fletcher Clark recently announced his candidacy for re-election as moderator of the town of Middleboro, Mass., in which capacity he has served since 1922. He is one of the organizers and past president of the Massachusetts Moderators Association. Bud Hoban was the subject of a feature story in the December 30, 1964 issue of The Miami Herald. According the story, Bud brought his football team from the University of Mexico to play the 1945 Sun Bowl game with Southwestern University in Texas, "a memorable experience, " said Bud, "and to my knowledge no other foreign team had ever played in an American football bowl." Bowdoin Plumer is now serving his ninth term in the New Hampshire Legislature, the largest such state body in the nation with 400 members. He reports still able to have fun.

From Husky Farnum comes a report that he is continuing to tutor to his full capacity and on the side bowling candlepins in an amateur league. All the news received from Lyme Armes in Texas is to the effect that he took part in a Valentine dinner dance and a weekend lakeside fishing party in February. Announcement has arrived of the engagement of the granddaughter ofStan Lovell, to the grandson of one of my former grade school girl friends, now deceased. The wedding is planned for June, following which the couple will attend Union Theological Seminary. As president of the Tioga County Historical Society, Boss Geller's fame is mounting. On March 4 he was scheduled to attend in Washington, D. C., the unveiling of a priceless, unique portrait of Abraham Lincoln rescued from oblivion and restored by the Society. The occasion of the unveiling was under the auspices of Congress and was staged by the Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia. Later on the portrait will be on display in Owego, worth seeing and also a visit to Boss in his lovely home is a treat for any 12er.

George Geiser, spending a part of the winter at Potter's Wax Museum Plaza Hotel in St. Augustine, Fla., sends in an article on a Seminole Indian who died in his thatched chickee a few days short of 103 years. George says he is set for a ride to the end of the line which he places at 100 and reminds us in 1912 that the year 2012 ends in 12 when we as sturdy sons of Dartmouth should be celebrating our 100th reunion. Fantastic, you say, but who can tell?

How's this for a retired '12er's program? As a railroad buff he writes a monthly sixpage bulletin and is at present negotiating with the Maine Central R.R. for the annual foliage trip through the mountains in October. Also he's cooking up a steam locomotive trip from Portland, Me., to the Canadian border and return. He talks of taking in the railroad buff ride in May on the old Rutland (Vt.) R.R. behind a steam engine. The local Kiwanis Club auction comes up in November and the details of that have to be arranged well ahead. The advertising program must be lined up for the Veterans of World War I State Convention coming in June. Finally, the Cumberland Manor project for the elderly citizens is in the last stages preparatory to breaking ground shortly and this is a major responsibility. Who is he? You guessed correctly, Portland's leading citizen. Bill Shapleigh.

Vera, Kelly Wells' wife, writes that she has been in the hospital getting her gastric ulcer under control while Kelly is still confined to a nursing home where he has been for the past four years. The Wellses have twelve grandchildren now, a great joy to them in these trying days. A letter to Kelly from a '12er will be most appreciated: address, 39 Prospect Street, Marblehead, Mass. 01945.

New addresses: Harry M. Brown, 30 Miruela Ave., St. Augustine, Fla.; Clifton C. Taylor, M.D., 300 Fenn Road, Cheshire, Conn. 06410.

Secretary, 136 Steele Rd. West Hartford 7, Conn.

Class Agent, 184 Commercial St., Maiden 48, Mass.