1912
Autumn has again come to the Maine coast to remind your Secretary that a summer cottage offers little protection against the cold Canadian air. The maples have brought out their fall garment of colors, the fringed gentian appears along the roadside by the golf course, and, although now and then a butterfly appears, the V-formation of the flying wild ducks reminds one that the summer is over. I had a swim in the ocean last week. As you read this in November you shiver, but that was September.
That Dartmouth-Cornell classmate of ours, Stan Lovell, is an avid reader of Lyme's Billboard and writes: "As a coverto-cover reader, my sincere congratulations to your pen and to your heart. Both are bursting with talent which, with a larger audience, would win a Pulitzer Prize." We agree. Then Stan turns his guns on "the Simon Legree, that Class Agent of insatiable greed, that unrebuffable solicitor of funds, Edward B. Luitweiler." With a poet's license he changed the spelling, a reminder of the difficulty some of our professors were wont to have pronouncing Eddie's last name.) He goes on to remind us who took German that "Weiler" means "Hamlet" and "Luit" is a corruption of "Shyluit" from Shylock. All that brought forth a nice fat check for the Alumni Fund from one who spent but one year on the Dartmouth campus.
From Ray Tobey: "I have to keep busy for the birthdays have been coming around so fast these last few years that already I am behind schedule on retirement plans. I suddenly realize that I probably haven't much more than twenty years left for doing things." Whew! That puts him in a class with George Geiser who plans to live to be 100. Henry Viets, in addition to deeding his East Boothbay summer home to Dartmouth, has given all the household linens, blankets, etc., to the Dick Hall House in Hanover hoping that not too many '12ers will be using them.
There always seems to be some sad news to report. We lost Tom Casey on August 1, struck down as he alighted from a bus near home when returning from a vacation in Maine. And Mark Allen's wife Ella passed away on July 9, suffering a heart attack while recovering from a fractured hip. Our sympathy goes out to Mark as well as to Mrs. Casey. Mark says, God willing, he will be on hand for our 55th if he has to walk. Mark and Ella were gracious hosts to your Secretary on his last visit to Seattle.
As usual we have travelers in our Class. Cap Allen has written a journal summarizing highlights of his extraordinary tour of Japan, a typed manuscript of about 4,000 words. We suggest he send mimeographed copies to any in the Class who are interested. It will make good winter reading by the open fire for Cap is no mean diarist. And now we can add the names of Hal andMarian Belcher to the list as they left for Ceylon and India on September 18 where Hal goes in his capacity as trustee of a college in each country. Then to Athens to visit another college in Salonica, returning home via England where they will spend ten days touring. The Belchers report their third great-grandchild, Cary Madison Belcher, born in August. To add to the list, Bill andDorothy Shapleigh took two weeks off in September to visit the Continent via Swissair and Eurailpass.
Chuck Tanger continues to get around with the aid of his son. Lou Ekstrom has returned from the West Coast where he attended three meetings of the Santa Barbara Dartmouth Alumni Club, followed Palmer in the Los Angeles Open, and heard the Dartmouth Glee Club at the L. A. Music Center. At the latter he ran into Sam Hobbs and wife. Back home, he spent two months at Newport, R. I., with his son. Two more entries for our 55th. Lou says they will be on hand.
It is heart-warming to record those Golden Wedding anniversaries. Bud and BarbaraHoban celebrated theirs on September 9 and those of the Class who attended the Massachusetts game know what joy fifty years of married life have brought to Roy and Florence Lewis. Belated congratulations! Now Scott Rogers writes he may have to miss our 55th because it will conflict with their 50th wedding anniversary. The Rogers are planning on Florida again this winter.
Ruth Worton reports a letter from KellyWells' son Dick in which he lists "all the changes that have occurred" for the Wells' grandchildren since Kelly died. Graduations, matriculations, marriages, etc., the normal course of events, all of which keeps them busy. Dick said his mother is in good health and appreciates the opportunity to keep in touch with the Class through Ruth's letters. Ruth's daughter Barbara spent six weeks this summer in Europe and is now writing two papers for her credits on the trip. One is on "color" related to the fashions and places visited in which she is using 150 color pictures. Gertrude Doyle said it was hot this summer in Phoenix at 113°.
Just in, an invitation to the 50th Wedding Anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hobbs on October 16 out in Arcadia, Calif. My congratulations, sorry we can't make it as much as we would like to do so. And from Buffalo by way of Las Vegas a brochure titled Decobel from the National Gypsum Company containing close-ups of sound conditioning at work. Within its pages are several pictures of the Hopkins Center with text featuring the over-all acoustical performance and in particular the elaborate system of sound control in the areas occupied by the Music Department.
New addresses: Mrs. Elden B. Hartshorn, New England House, Box 981, Southern Pines, N. C. 28387; your Secretary back at 15 Gloucester Lane, West Hartford, Conn. 06107.
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