1912
Dartmouth was very much on the map in and around Hartford, Conn., the last weekend in April. Two events were of note, one happy, the other less so. The Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company where Dartmouth Trustee Charlie Zimmerman '23 is president was the scene of a gathering for prospective Dartmouth students, parents, alumni, and friends. Dean Seymour brought one of the most diversified troupes ever to appear in Connecticut. There was a soloist of no mean ability with songs from "Oliver" and a fraternity house take-off of "Beyond the Fringe"; superb colored slides of Hanover and the College taken by "Sandy Goatee"; a computer demonstration with actual telephone connection with the center in Hanover; description- of the ABC program and its accomplishments to date for our needy youth; a full-fledged Outing Club representative with knapsack, snowshoes and all, to arouse enthusiasm for the Hanover winter; and finally a replica of the WDCR broadcasting station in action.
The other event brought out 3,000 to the rugby game in Farmington on a sunny afternoon and thus enlarged the local Dartmouth Club's Scholarship Fund. We are forced to soft pedal the result of the contest - Yale 24, Dartmouth 5 - which we feel was largely due to that star kicker on last year's Ivy League football champions, no other than Danny Begel who collected 10 points for the winners.
The Easter weekend was spent in Ithaca with daughter Barbara and her professor husband Bill, who by the way are leaving in June for a two-year teaching assignment in Thailand under AID. Bob '69 will be in Russia this summer for study and firsthand observation of Russian life while Tom, Michigan '71, will spend the summer with his parents in Thailand. While in Ithaca phone connection was established with Oweao and Boss Geller's musical voice responded. His news was good. He's planning on Hanover in June. The Owego Historical Society of which Boss is president brought Jose Iturbi there for a piano concert in February with 1100 on hand and is now in the process of lining up Van Cliburn for a concert next year. Boss continues to make the office of Stackmore each morning and finishes his day with visits around town to "my old elderly friends." Boss gets a lot of pleasure listening to Talking Books from the Library for the Blind in Albany, N.Y., and also from the Printing House for the Blind in Louisville, Ky. The latter city also supplies him with books in large print.
Jo and Ben Adams are back in Derry, N.H., and Alma and Lee White should be in their newly acquired apartment at 14 Warner Drive, Darien, Conn., by now. Alma suffered some kind of a dislocation last September but should be in Hanover this month sans crutches, cane or brace. Cap Allen is our latest enrollee for the Alumni College this August, and we have just been informed that the alumni of the Guild of Pipe Organ Pumpers should list none other than WarrenBruner.
Our Alumni Fund Class Agent is so modest he failed to inform us that he was named "Agent of the Year" at the Dartmouth Club dinner in Boston in February. This is a big year for the Alumni Fund so, if you haven't already done so, send in your 1968 appreciation for those years on Hanover Plain before the end of this month. We owe our wholehearted support, not only to the College but also to Eddie Luitwieler.
From Roy Lewis: Nonnie busted her kneecap while in Florida but should be on the go again by now. Allie and Scott Rogers look well. The Linscotts are in good shape. The Lewises are sharpening their claws in preparation for manhandling a great-grandchild or two this coming October. Lee White reports a granddaughter getting married this month to a U. of Denver graduate student who is son of a member of a Hartford, Conn., investment firm. No name given. Another granddaughter, a graduate of Green Mountain College, Vt., with a B.S. degree in nursing from Presbyterian Hospital in New York, is to marry a Viet Nam veteran, a graduate of Norwich University, this August.
Everyone in the Class (except two or three on the don't care list) gets a birthday letter from the Secretary each year. Not everyone replies but one of the faithful is Bud Hoban. This gentleman reports a lot of golf the past winter, in Florida of course, and some swimming two or three times a week. Bud saw the Baltimore Orioles play 14 games against other major league teams and as the business manager of the Orioles is an old friend, as well as are former players and coaches, you can imagine what goes on between them. If you get Modern Maturity magazine you must have read Bud's article on baseball in a recent issue. Barbara is a shelling enthusiast and finds ample opportunity to add to her collection each year.
Bill Shapleigh writes that they are building a 785 foot gravel and rock causeway between Cousins and Littlejohn Islands, Maine, to replace the old rickety wooden one. Cousins is the port of departure by boat for Chebeague Island where your Secretary has been summering for the past 40-odd years. Write him there till October 15. No bridge to Chebeague yet and we hope never.
After several years as reporter for the widows, Ruth Worton has asked to be relieved. She deserves our greatest appreciation for her faithful services. It is with pleasure we can announce that ElizabethPark has agreed to supply "Datum from the Dames" starting with the October issue of this MAGAZINE. Lyme Armes' estate in cluded the watch which 1912 Classmates had given to him and which has now been passed on to Elizabeth. She thinks she may not be deserving of this but there isn't a soul in 1912 who will not agree that it couldn't go to a more faithful gal. Elizabeth recently visited one of Lyme's relatives in Sudbury, Mass., Florence Armes Hosmer, 87 years old, crippled by arthritis but still petite, reflecting young beauty. Miss Hosmer has been listed in the Royal Blue Book of London for her contribution as an educator and painter and also in Who's Who in America. She has willed her historically significant Hosmer House to the Town of Sudbury. Her portrait of John Barrett is at Dartmouth and one of Lyme is now hung in his fraternity house.
Secretary, Chebeague Island, Me. 04017
Class Agent, 184 Commercial St., Maiden, Mass. 02148
