1912
Old age is creeping up on us and the latest casualty is the sale of the Shapleighs' lovely home in Portland for a berth in a second and third floor apartment above the State Street Congregational Church office building, next to the church on the Congress Street side. The latter is Portland's main street. Bill bemoans the fact that he has no garage where he can pile that cord wood he goes into the country to cut each year. We are sure Dorothy will find housekeeping a bit simpler, provided she doesn't try to keep the dust off the contents of Bill's ivory tower on the third floor. Then there is the matter of exercise with nothing available but running up and down stairs and pounding the pavements. As a former golfer we strongly urge Bill to get out his clubs and try hitting the ball again on one or more of those multiple links in and around Portland. An official invitation is hereby extended to try his cunning on the sporty nine hole course on Chebeague Island.
Bill has been doing the rounds, including the Boston alumni gathering and plans on the April 2 stag luncheon of Alumni Fund agents in Boston. His labors on the Billboard merit the sincere appreciation of all of us. In addition to his Boston trips, Bill was scheduled for Conway, N. H., last month to witness the Budd ski train arrive from Boston to disgorge its winter enthusiasts. Then he plans "a bit of a family reunion" in Brattleboro, Vt., ere long.
Roy Lewis is on the job in far away sunny Venice (Fla.) getting ready for the reunion in June. You all have your reservation cards by now, so fill yours out while it is day and don't put it off till night comes. We are sorry to hear we will miss Art Kinne in June but he is taking in the American Medical Association meetings on the West Coast on the same dates and for one still in practice it is a valuable investment. Roy reports he has dropped in on the Scott Rogers and found them "on top of the world." Roy must have had some of that rainy weather the Red Sox encountered for he reports he is practicing golf in front of the mirror.
From George Geiser: "Thursday, February 1, 1968, the day after passing by another milestone and heading into the next 22 with chin up and a few tablets free from obituary inscription, carving and writing, green like Dartmouth color." How about it? Is your chin up and do you also plan on 22 more years?
Henry Viets anticipated a birthday letter by reporting that a portrait of him by Pietro Pezzati was unveiled at the Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard Medical School on November 15, 1967. Along with this bit of important news came a snapshot in color of Henry as portrayed in the painting. A terrific old New England snowstorm hit Boston on that day reducing the number of spectators from 200 to 60. He reports the ceremony was impressive and promises a copy of his remarks at a later date. Congratulations, Henry, for this fitting testimony to your talents and years of endeavor on the part of medical teaching and medical history! We note that Henry will be celebrating another year of accomplishment in his life span come March 7. His former summer home at East Boothbay, Me., now the property of the College, is booked up for 1968 and beyond.
News just in that Scandinavia was the scene of Marion and Mark Snow's latest trek last summer. It must have been something to write home about with a party of 28 covering 2800 miles in 17 days behind "a marvelous bus driver" in their own chartered conveyance. On their return home they found Mark's sister, wife of Bill Lang '15, hospitalized only to die four months later of cancer. One dividend for Roy, these two Snows are planning on our 56th.
Your Secretary was properly chastised for reporting Syd Clark as a new grandfather when it should have read great-grandfather. Syd says that if the new infant, Peter Christian Mauney, makes Dartmouth in the Class of '88 he will be the sixth generation, unbroken, of Dartmouth men in his family, all the way down from Grandfather Clark 1844.
Al Eiseman reports that he is leading the life of a retired gentleman in quiet, peaceful, harmonious Tenacre Foundation at Princeton. His family were on hand to help celebrate his 77th birthday in February. Another dividend for Roy - Al plans on Hanover in June.
Distaff news has been awaiting Ruth Worton's return to Somerset, Mass., last month. She did write that her brother-in-law with whom she spent the winter in Florida passed away and the details involved prevented her from getting around to see the other '12ers she had planned on doing. However, Gertrude McCarthy did drop in on her in Sun City, and she heard from Olive Kent and Grace Burnham, both in good health. Word has finally reached us that Nat Whitmore's widow, Rachel, died in Corning, N. Y., on January 25, 1967.
Our light and fancy stepping Earl Cutting has moved himself and Edna to 38 Wayne Gardens, Collingswood, N. J., if you happen to be down that way.
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