1912
To make up for the loss of that Harvard game, there was Mark Allen with his usual big smile, all the way from the Pacific Coast and all the more appreciated because of the recent loss of his life-long companion. Mark stayed east long enough to be on hand at the Yale Bowl and by this time he really gave evidence of his satisfaction in seeing old friends and a victorious team, for his smile had assumed undergraduate proportions. And along with Mark at the Harvard Stadium were Lyme Armes, Katherine and Connie Snow, Roy and Flossie Lewis, Fletcher Clark, Elizabeth Park, and Harry McCaffrey. The Yale game brought forth Carola and Jim Steen, maybe others. They tell me the slow motion pictures of the Harvard game showed that we were robbed by the officials, however, that didn't deter Bob Blackman a moment from rushing on the field the minute the final whistle blew to congratulate Bobby Leo for his sensational running. He and Vic Gatto reminded one of the famous Four Horsemen in an abbreviated form.
If you were fortunate enough to be in Hanover this autumn for one of the home games you saw the Big Hole at the corner where part of the Inn once stood. RoyLewis tells us that this bit of reconstruction is posing a real problem for our 55th next June. Don't let that stop you! Roy is a master hand at arranging and he expects every one of you to make a real effort to be on hand. Don't let anything except doctors' orders keep you away. If you missed Flosste and Roy's wedding anniversary reception following the Princeton game, as your Secretary did, you will gladden both their hearts no end by showing up in June.
The Florida trek seems to be on by all the new addresses, thus accounting for the scarcity of news. We do have a long let er from Bill Middle" rook in Calcutta, via Lyme Armes, voicing his "homesickness in a more virulent form when Margaret is not with me." This is his fifth trip to Calcut a where his thermometer climbed past the tabulated numbers (over 140°) but that was in the sun. Bill reports some progress in carrying out his ideas on general university organization and administration of three and a half years ago as evidenced by a new enabling act. He sends his best regards to all the Class and hopes to be on hand come June 1957.
Bill and Dorothy Shapleigh had the time of their lives spending two weeks on the Continent in a small group of 16, "primarily railroad connected." He writes: "Beside conferences with top brass and their understudies on service and operation there were tours of shops, terminal traffic and signal control towers - all with the latest equipment. Besides there were lunches, cocktail parties or seven to nine course dinners at Milan, Paris. Utrecht, Frankfort, and Berne." He afforded the scenery only one line! He even took a solo trip by train and taxi up on the Somme around Arras and Bayonne and Albert where he was billeted in the winter of 1917-18. Back home just in time to make that October 2 trip, Portland to Island Pond, Vt., behind the Canadian National's last appearance in the U.S. of their mountain type engine No. 6218. We'll expect some pictures from him in June. The last word from Henry Stevens was a card from the Bavarian Alps where he and sister were vacationing in September. His card showed a bus making the turn part way up the steep side of the Wendelstein with the little church perched atop the mountain. Lillian and I expect to see Boss Geller at the Dartmouth-Cornell game in Ithaca and Leona and Ned Richmond at the Penn garre in Philadelphia. Now the football season is over and you have the tally. Sam Hobbs checked in from New Orleans by mail where he was attending a meeting of the American Concrete Institute. Doc Kinne called on Sam, found him out and went on to Santa Barbara.
Ruth Worton comes through again with News 'n Notes from the 1912 Girls. Ruth has been making the rounds of her three sons with daughter Barbara. She writes that Sarah (Mrs. James) English is enjoying her re irement apartment in Clearwater close by to Hazel and Al Townsend; that Helen (Mrs. Hugh) Lena is planning on our 55th; that Mabel (Mrs. Ralph) Tackaterry is back in Chicago after a vacation in the north woods of Wisconsin and is planning a visit to her son in Minneapolis; that Rachel (Mrs. Nate) Whitmore has two granddaughters, one at Syracuse U. and the other a senior at Corning (N.Y.) High School; and that Gertrude (Mrs. Joe) Doyle sends greetings to all the Class.
You should be proud of all the contributors, 143.4% participation, Class of 1912 in the 1966 Alumni Fund. That should bring to mind the Bequest and Estate Planning program of the College. The years are rolling by so don't forget that Al Smith is expecting us all to remember the College in our wills.
Two sad notes. Art Burnham at this writing is in Mary Hitchcock Hospital as the result of a cerebral hemorrhage - you call it a stroke. Grace would appreciate a word of encouragement.
Word has just reached your Secretary that Irv Goss passed away on Septenbsr 18, 1966 after a very brief hospitalization. Until two weeks before his death he had teen in apparently good health. Irv would have been able to no e his 77th birthday on October 6, had he survived. He leaves a widow and one son, Richard '42.
That's all except a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year as you peer ahead into 1967!
New addresses: Benjamin F. Adams, Box 618,8 Nau ilus Road, Venice, Fla. 33595; H. Lyman Armes, Weathervane Inn. Whitefield, N.H. 03598; Robert D. Baird, 3306 N.E. 15th St., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. 33304; John D. Brewster, Treadway Inn, Lebanon, Pa. 17042; Robert E. Brown, 40 Pleasant St., Me huen, Mass. 01844; James H. Cleaves, Center Sandwich, N.H. 03227; Wallace I. Gould. Apt. B-1, 434 Lincoln Ave., Orange, N.J. 07050; Benjamin H. Hunt, 3624 High Bluff Drive, Largo, Fla. 33540; Alfred L. Smith, 17011 Dolphin Drive, North Redington Beach, St. Petersburg, Fla. 33708; Elwyn L. Taber, 317 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine. Fla. 32084; Stanley B. Weld, M.D., 15 Gloucester Lane, West Hartford, Conn. 06107; W. Lee White, Everett Rd., Pinehurst, N.C. 28374.
Secretary, 15 Gloucester Lane West Hartford, Conn. 06107
Treasurer,4 Bank Building, Middleboro, Mass.
Bequest Chairman
