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As I write this column on a cold winter day with the mercury hovering around zero, the biggest news comes from Dave Orr to the effect that 1912's 54th is chalked up for June 13-16, 1967 in Hanover. Details will be forthcoming ere long from ReunionChairman Lewis. Make your plans now to be on hand. You'll never regret it.
In the Secretary's mail bag recently came a most interesting letter from Harry Barnett, now living in Ann Arbor, Mich. What he and Doris don't do isn't worth doing. They read together, enjoy concerts, engage in church work - Harry just elected a deacon in Ann Arbor's First Presbyterian Church — entertain friends at dinner, and travel. That last word should make us all envious. He has driven in every state in the union except the two latest admissions, visiting friends as well as chapters of Alpha Phi Omega, a national service fraternity of which he has been a member of its national board for the past 18 years. Since 1958 Doris and he have made three trips to Europe, visiting every country in the western part except Finland and Portugal, taking in art galleries, castles, cathedrals, operas, plays, and even the simple countryside, beautiful at varying times of the year. Harry says that his travels were enhanced by SydClark's "All the Best in - " series. The clos- ing sentence of his letter reveals the stuff of which Dartmouth men are made: "Life is pleasant and we face the future with confidence."
In John Brewster's Christmas card was a note of appreciation for the Dartmouth Bulletin which Eddie Luitwieler sends him regularly, and for Lyme Amies' Newsletter. JimEnglish reported a gathering of the Clearwater (Fla.) Dartmouth crowd, 22 all told, for Christmas dinner at Schrafft's on the Bay. Jim's brother William '13 passed away at Mary Hitchcock Hospital in December 1965. Charlie Gately came through in his usual inimitable style. Recording the celebration of his 76th birthday of which he was duly proud, he quotes his 11-year-old granddaughter speaking to her mother as follows: "If you put the correct number of candles on Grandpa's cake, we'll have to call the fire department to put out the conflagration." Then just to make him realize his years, Charlie was asked on another occasion by his teen-age grandson, "Grandpa, did you know Daniel Boone?" Charlie took in the night TV rerun of the Princeton game as what he calls a right left gimp kept him away from the Palmer Stadium. His loyalty to Dartmouth is a strong as ever. Read this: "After travelling 76 milestones it is one of my proudest boasts that I went to Dartmouth - whether in defeat or victory. That meager minority in the freshman class who, in the recent survey, didn't appear to be over-happy about attending Dartmouth, should be denuded and hired out as harem attendants where desert sands blow." I agree.
"January 22, 1966, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Glenn A. Warner Post 1371 Presents the 9th Annual Citizenship Award Dinner in Honor of Roscoe G. Geller, Outstanding Citizen and Civic Leader." So reads the cover to the program which your Secretary received along with a gracious invitation to attend and which, in the latter's confusion attendant on preparing to move to a new home, he mislaid and never answered until one week too late. (I hope you have never been guilty of such a misdemeanor.) Inside the cover of the program one read the life history of Boss Geller with all his accomplishments and, to make the program complete, a likeness of Boss, a list of the honored guests, the committee, and the past recipients of the Award. January 22, 1966 was a big day for Owego and as the editor of the Owego Times said, he could think of no better choice. He added, "Boss has been one of the most energetic civic leaders Owego ever has had, and has been a powerful force for good in the community, especially the youth."
According to the Hollywood (Fla.) Sun-Tatler Bud Hoban's idea of football has merit. It is simply this: to move the kickoff spot back to the 30 yard line, thus practically eliminating all touchbacks and practically guaranteeing a runback every time. Bud thinks this would insure a more even game since weaker teams, which normally receive more kickoffs than do stronger teams, would benefit by this plan. The Sun-Tatler's editor suggests that the Mahi Shrine North-South game, played in the Orange Bowl each Christmas Day, might incorporate this rule into its game. Perhaps, in 1966.
Henry Viets reports now being settled in the new Countway Library of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. On the floor above him is the New England Journal of Medicine on whose editorial staff Henry now is completing his 40th year. At the winter meeting of the Bay State Historical League in January this year Henry presented a paper on "Some Sources for the History of Medicine." Ned Richmond's Medical Dictionary recently fell apart from over-use so I sent him a substitute from my library. Ned reported the death of his wife's father out in lowa at the age of 98. For excitement over New Year's, Ned and Leona went over to Dover, Del., and luxuriated in the Treadway hotel there.
Lyme Armes and Eddie Luitwieler were at the Hanover Inn for the Class Agents and Editors meeting in January. Lyme wrote me one night when it was 5° below and bidding fair to reach 15 or 20 below before dawn that he hadn't given Roy's Thermo suit a tryout yet. Doc O'Connor gave the address at the March of Dimes Regional Pre-Campaign Meeting in Chicago on November 15, 1965. Subject, "Fighting Birth Defects, the Cause of the Second Largest Number of Deaths in This Country." News just came in of Hal Fuller's hospitalization in Baker Memorial in Boston for his emphysema. With all his difficulty in breathing, his spirits are good. Eddie Luitwieler wrote that wife Gertrude was about to join the hospital enrolment for a bit of surgery. We are looking for a speedy recovery for both Hal and Gertrude.
From Ruth Worton, our Class Widows' correspondent, comes a warm breeze from Sun City Center, Fla. - "house all opened up, it's so warm." She reports Rachel Bellows enjoying her son's tales of extensive travel with Grace Lines, arriving home from San Salvador for Thanksgiving. Also Helen Buell very happy over the reunion pictures Lyme sent her. Rosalind Belknap gave an account of a fascinating trip last summer to the British Isles and Ireland in particular. After visiting relatives on the way home she wound up in the hospital with a heart attack. Martha Baxter keeps busy with arts and crafts in Fort Lauderdale, and Eleanor Mensel now reports 12 grandchildren from North Carolina to New Hampshire, ages five to twenty, two in college. Eleanor is planning on our reunion in June. Ev Gammons' wife Drusilla passed away December 4, 1965. She had been active in the Social Service League, the Amateur Gardeners, and the First Parish Church Sunday School. Eddie Luitwieler attended the funeral in Cohasset.
New addresses: Benjamin F. Adams, 8 Nautilus Road, Box 618, Venice, Fla. 33595; Mrs. Ralph D. Pettingell, Apt. 2, 27 Clough Road, Dedham, Mass. 02026; Mrs. Russell A. Wylde, 173 Highgate, Needham, Mass. 02192; Mrs. Ralph W. Tackaberry, Box 533, Evanston, Ill. 60204; Mrs. Alice B. Day, 1903 McAuliffe Drive, Rockville, Md.
Secretary, 15 Gloucester Lane West Hartford, Conn. 06107
Treasurer,4 Bank Building, Middleboro, Mass.
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