1912

Connie and Katherine Snow took in Washington in May where he attended the annual meeting of the American Law Institute of which he has been a member for many years. Lloyd Bugbee returned to Hartford for his 50th high school class reunion. Henry Urion's son Paul tells us that Heinie's grandson graduated from Dartmouth in June as the sixth consecutive generation. He is entering Thayer School this fall. LeeWhite represented 1912 at the celebration at Columbia, Conn., of the founding of Moor's Charity School in 1754 by Eleazar Wheelock. Lee wrote an excellent account of the whole affair. The Willimantic Chronicle ran a page recounting the start of our Winter Carnival when Lee was an officer in the Outing Club. Bill and Dorothy Shapleigh spent a day on Chebeague Island this summer eating lobsters with the Welds. Bill is our top ranking railroad buff and doesn't miss a ride behind the old steam locomotive.

Elizabeth Park had to miss reunion this summer to visit the Portsmouth Hospital where she left her gall bladder. From all reports she is making a good recovery. Emma Pettingell writes that the reunion was tops for her and really gave her a lot of fun. It took her back to our 10th, imagine it! In spite of a cane she's an active '12er.

At 80 Otto Bresky says he's too busy to think about his age. He is fortunate in having two sons to help in his business. IrvPutnam takes "every day as it comes" and gets his chief pleasure from his four grandchildren, two boys in college, one entering this fall, and a granddaughter following in a year.

Elliott White has just published his second volume of poems, "The Moon Also Rises." He has sold his summer cottage on Lake Winnipesaukee and also his house in Norwich, Vt. He's now living at White River Junction. Roy Lewis paid the Mary Hitchcock Hospital a visit recently for a hernia operation. Now he is all repaired we expect him to be running on all cylinders. A nice note came in July from DickRemsen in reply to a birthday letter. He is "still trying hard to do things people of my age can do when healthy." Our best, Dick, and keep plugging. Clyde and ErmaCooke celebrated their 49th wedding anniversary this summer at Rye Beach, N. H. Congratulations! Once again Lew Waterbury remembered your Secretary's birthday. This time it was the picture of a gorgeous Door County sunset in Wisconsin. Thanks.

In March and April this year Cap Allen spent two weeks on Guadeloupe and Martinique. His eleven-page, double-spaced typewritten account is worthy of publication and even vies in descriptive narrative with some of Syd Clark's productions. He managed to make his way very successfully with what he calls his far-from-perfect French. On Guadeloupe he made the acquaintance of the government officer in charge of customs, visited his home, and was taken on a tour to the Petite Cratere of the volcano Soufriere. He fell on a sharp rock and cut a gash in his head, so to a clinic to get sewed up. Then he met four French girls from Quebec and had a whirl. On Martinique Cap enjoyed one of its best hotels, made a trip through the Rain Forest in the mountains, visited St. Pierre which was wiped out in 1902 when Mt. Pelee erupted, went on a snorkel diving cruise (but didn't snorkel), and dined with a variety of celebrities from various walks of life. Now he gazes upon a new prized possession, a watercolor of the hotel waterfront with mountains looming up across the bay and a blue sky framed in clouds, the gift of the artist Bill Canfield, editorial cartoonist for the "Newark News."

Katie Baker tells us Hal has been in the hospital undergoing tests. In spite of a disability Hal made the reunion and you know we couldn't get along without him arid Katie. Word from Grace-Hoyt Mosier recounts Hal's difficulties with poor sight and hearing. Grace-Hoyt is really a Godsend to Hal. Our deep appreciation to this and other wives of 1912. The Tabers have sold their home in Conway, Mass., and are now living in Country Club Apartments, 305 Fairway Avenue, Turners Falls, Mass. 01376. Syd Clark is off again, this time to Hawaii, Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. He should be back by now.

I believe I shall appoint Chip Farrington as my assistant secretary, the way he digs up obituary data. We are now (Sept. 1, 1969) down to 97, having lost during the summer Hippo Marden, Henry Viets, Lew Perley, Al Eiseman, and now John Booth. Appreciative letters have been coming in from the widows for the Memorial Books the Class places in Baker Library.

John Randerson, at the instigation of his family, has published a book of poems titled "Afterglow." Lake George, N. Y ., and its people provide the theme of many of the verses and the "Glens Falls, N. Y ., PostStar" reviewed the book in a June issue. John sent your Secretary an autographed copy and to show my appreciation I close this column with one of his choicest selections.

I live in the woods, but my mind has wings That take me everywhere.

My books and radio bring me things; At the touch of a dial I'm there.

I yearn not for the crowds of men, Nor the busy city street; 1 love the hushed forest glen With pine needles under my feet.

But give me the calm that comes with prayer, And the vision that comes from above, And I can find happiness anywhere, In tune with my God and His love.

Secretary, 15 Gloucester Lane West Hartford, Conn. 06107

Treasurer, 4 Bank Building, Middleboro, Mass. 20346