1912
From our Class President, Doc O'Connor, comes the annual report of the National Foundation engaged in the several hundred thousand dollar business of solving the problem of birth defects. In his personal message at the introduction to the report Doc tells all of us that this "is a story of movement, of search, and discovery, and of the resolve of deeply dedicated individuals to make up for lost time - centuries and centuries of it." What a worth-while business in which to be engaged! 1912 stands with you, Doc.
Roy and Flossie Lewis, now ensconced in their winter home in Venice, Fla., write of the Middlebrooks hunting for the authentic De Soto pool for health purposes, of the anticipated visit of Jo and Ben Adams, of the stopover on the way south with RandyBurns and Chesty Brown, and of Roy's anticipated weight reducing exercises on the golf links. Our cancer research expert, Dr.Herbert L. Lombard, in October published "An Epidemiological Study in Lung Cancer." He is now working on another cancer study, reducing his hours of labor to 10 per diem with a day off now and then. He calls all this play. Warren Bruner sent us a rundown of the whole family and their activities with an invitation to drop in for overnight any time.
It was a joy to hear that Doc Worcester is really having time at home - and not in the hospital - tending to his plumbing. He says he is comfortable most of the time and I know that means a lot to one who has been through so much. We all wish 1966 to bring him true happiness. Pine Cone Farm in Fairfield, Me., is still in the news with an account of the wanderings of Edith and RayTobey before the winter snows closed in on them. The trees down there are leafless and the mercury is hitting the zero mark, but there is life and warmth in their greeting from Tiny Tim of "God Bless Us, Every One." Chet Newcomb comments on the death of his old buddy, Ros Leach. It seems they went through grammar and high school together and roomed together at Dartmouth during the year and a half Ros was there.
Hal Belcher reports that Marian is coming along well following her accident and was planning to fly to Burlington, Vt., to spend Christmas with daughter Louise in nearby Charlotte. Then it is to be Stowe, Me., for the month of August in their daughter's cabin on the edge of the White Mountains. Grace and Irvin Goss celebrated his 76th birthday recently with a visit from their Air Force lieut. colonel son and some of that liquid known as champagne. Wish I'd a been thar, don't you?
Christmas cards and then some! I can't begin to thank all the '12ers who remembered me but they were nonetheless appreciated. On the front of Boss Geller's he had written "Hope it won't snow" and it didn't that day so Boss drove over from Owego to Ithaca where I was spending Christmas. He was sporting a tie clip with a mouse on it that someone had been smart enough to find and present to him for Christmas. Edithand Dutch Waterbury tell us that Fox River is frozen but no snow as yet (Dec. 5). Water level up 15" in the past year. Eddie Luitwieler's little leather appointment book was most welcome and most appreciated.
Ruth Worton, off for Florida, sent word of Marion Pond's sudden death on December 1, 1965. Funeral services were held in the First Congregational Church in Norwood. Early in December Ev Gammons wrote telling of his wife's serious illness. Then a few days later word came from Eddie Luitwieler that Drusilla Gammons had passed away. Gertrude and Eddie went over to Cohasset to attend the funeral. The sympathy of the Class goes out to Ev who has to carry on with a real handicap in cataracts in both eyes. Carolyn Stearns has just sent word that Harold died of cancer on Tune 11, 1965 after a long illness. Blondy has been rather incommunicado for several years.
By the time this reaches you your Secretary and his bride should be basking in the sun on one of those little islands south of Cuba. Berated by your Billboard Editor for not giving advance notice of the big day, I make my apologies. It was February 5. 1966 and we found one of Syd Clark's "Ail The Best In —" very helpful. If you come to the reunion in June I will introduce you.
Changes of address: Horace E. Allen, 28 Brittany Road, Longmeadow, Mass. 01106; H. Lyman Armes, Weathervane Inn, White-field. N. H. 03598; Louis F. Ekstrom, 503 Scenic Drive, Santa Barbara, Calif. 19103; Rolliston W. Linscott, Salem Road, Pound Ridge, N. Y. 10576; Stanley B. Weld, M.D., 15 Gloucester Lane, West Hartford, Conn. 06107 (after March 1); Mrs. Philip J. Drake, 48 Woodland Road, North Hampton, N. H. 03862.
Secretary, 136 Steele Rd. West Hartford, Conn.
Treasurer,4 Bank Building, Middleboro, Mass.
Bequest Chairman,
