1912

By the time this column reaches you all the heart throbs of the football season will be over and thoughts of Christmas and the New Year will be uppermost in the minds of everyone. 1912 was well represented at the Princeton debacle where most of us sat near the south goal line. The gorgeous autumn foliage on Balch Hill was somewhat eclipsed by the new east stands but we all recognize the need for the latter and rejoice to see how well it accommodates our visitors. Hanover presented a maze of automobiles and humanity on that day, an influx well handled and orderly from start to finish. We did a bit better at the Harvard game, being located on the 20 yard line, high enough to view the opposite end of the field. A small group of old reliables showed up, the Connie Snows, Eddie Luitwieler, Fletcher Clark, and the two Welds. A beautiful day! 'Nuf sed.

Katherine and Connie Snow made the Harvard game part of the celebration of their 47th wedding anniversary, stopping at Concord, N. H., for dinner on the way home. At this date they are praying for a "bright and fair" day for the Columbia game. Son Richard, wife and five children have now flown from Honolulu to Midway Island where he will be stationed for 18 months as Supply-Comptroller.

Dorothy and Roy Frothingham sent us a nostalgic note, reminding us of autumn days in Hanover, ever present, the same as sixty years ago when we were freshmen. Here is a sample from Dartmouth's own poet, Robert Frost:

O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; Tomorrow's wind if it be wild, Should waste them all. O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow, Make the day to us less brief. Retard the sun with gentle mist; Enchant the land with amethyst.

All the more appreciated for we realize that California has nothing like it to offer.

Alice and Scott Rogers took an August trip to Hawaii for which they used SydClark's "All the Best in Hawaii" and found it "of tremendous help" and very accurate as to hotels, restaurants, and sightseeing. On the return they attempted unsuccessfully to see Jim Oneal in Pasadena. Now they are off to Sarasota in January for four months. Their ten grandchildren find the oldest in the Navy; Scott III, a sophomore at Princeton where he was captain of an undefeated freshman tennis team; their oldest granddaughter, a science major at Cornell; and the rest of the brood scattered all the way down to kindergarten from Connecticut to California.

Alma and Lee White have purchased a red Cape Cod house in Lebanon, Conn., with half an acre of land surrounded by woods at the top of the hill, all less than two miles from Willimantic. You will recall that Eleazar Wheelock started Dartmouth College in that same Lebanon. Lee has been reading up on his history, and says that Dartmouth was founded in 1770, not 1769. The Whites have now gone south to their winter home in Pinehurst, N. C.

At the time of writing our last column we did not have the details of Art Kinne's big celebration in honor of his 50 years' service as Holyoke's most distinguished physician. At that dinner it is now learned that he was the recipient of many gifts and one very signal honor, viz., the naming of the original classroom of the Holyoke Hospital Nursing School for him. Stuart Russell '19, former president of Holyoke Hospital, came down from Hanover with well wishes from the College. The attendance of 400 also included daughters Dixie Ross Kinne and Judy with her four children from Madison, N. J., two sisters and their husbands, as well as other relatives. Art is still going strong in his field of service to his fellow townsmen.

We have received a most appreciative note from Chesty Brown's daughter, Caroline B. Craig, for the Memorial Book placed in Baker Library. This is but one of many such which testifies to the value of this investment by our class.

Elizabeth Park reminds us of Dartmouth's Bequest and Estate Planning Program and quotes President Dickey's words, "Nothing less than Dartmouth undying is at stake in the bequests and gifts of her sons" . . . and her women of Dartmouth. She reports that Ruth Worton will have 18 around her Thanksgiving table, ten of them grandchildren. A letter from the newest member of Dames and Datum, Alice Ekstrom, writes of Louis and says "He who watches over us gives us strength to go on. We must know God's will and we as Christians do abide His word." Elizabeth sends warmest wishes to Twelver Dames everywhere for a Christmas season as merry as you can manage, and a rewarding New Year. And this is the opportunity of your Secretary to say Amen and repeat the same wishes for all of you in 1912.

Take a moment to fill out that reply card the College sent you for this coming Bicentennial Special Reunion in June for all 50 Year Classes, if you haven't already done so. We will be in Brown Hall as usual but Dave Orr wants to hear that you are coming.

The Secretary's oldest grandson, Robert Weld McGuire '69, spent the summer with other college students in Russia. He reports a most interesting and valuable experience. Majoring in Russian, he has been "given the opportunity to initiate Russian classes for local high school students" and hopes "to be able to begin teaching after Christmas."

A fitting ending is Elizabeth Park's quote from Samuel Ullman 1840-1924: "Whether 60 Or 16 (70 or 17) there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from man and from the infinite, so long are you young.

"When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snow of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20; but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 90."

Secretary, 15 Gloucester Lane West Hartford, Conn. 06107

Treasurer, 4 Bank Building, Middleboro, Mass. 20346

Bequest Chairman, ALFRED L. SMITH