1911
Whether it is good news or bad, the record must be kept up to date, hence the recording of the death of Ed Chamberlain in the Winchester, Mass., Hospital on September 4, 1969. He had been a long sufferer from neuritis but in spite of this handicap he had continued his interest and activity in Dartmouth affairs. He had missed but one 1911 Reunion, starting with his fifth and ending with his fifty-fifth.
Belated news of Miriam Morris and her family tells of a trip to Europe cancelled, due to travel restrictions. Steve Young, her eldest grandson, is in Vietnam in AGT. Two others are sophomores at Harvard and Brown. Her daughter, Patricia, and husband, Kenneth Young have been on a trip around the world; her son, Hugh '45, and his family have completed a new home in California where he is in the advertising business. Miriam herself continues her interest in the fascinating life in Washington.
Marion Uline, Herbert's widow, is indefinitely hospitalized at 4270 Wildwood Drive, Buffalo, N.Y. 14221.
The Albany law firm of O'Connell and Aronowitz has added five new partners including another Dartmouth graduate. The firm was founded in 1923 with offices at 100 State Street. Sam is the firm's senior partner.
Grace Crooks had a pleasant summer at her cottage in up-state New York, but is now on her way to her Coral Gables home for the winter. Her address will be 305 Madeira Ave., Apt. 6 B, 33134 until the last of May.
Betty and Russ Smith ate also heading for their beautiful apartment in St. Petersburg, Fla. Their summer was spent at a mountain cottage in Franklin, N. C., which is a favorite ite area for the Floridians to escape the hot summers.
The heat is not all to be avoided in the deep south. The horror of Camille still lingers for those who were its victims. LivieChase, who moved to Jackson, Miss, after Heinle's death to be near her daughter and family, has sent newspaper accounts telling of the tragedy that came to Jackson which was in the eye of the storm: There follows a direct quote from Livie's letter which illustrates how close she was to tragedy. "It was so tragic so much of history and heritage has gone that can not be replaced. The darling little Episcopal Church in Biloxi, with its choir and slave seats above Jefferson Davis' pew roped off all gone but the bell tower. The first winter Bill retired, we rented my cousin's house a few doors from it. The beautiful Episcopal Church in Pass Christian was levelled. The young minister and his wife were in the Rectory behind it when the water started coming in the door. They went up stairs. The house folded like a deck of cards. She was killed and he is still in a New Orleans hospital. My #2 grandson and I are very pood friends. He called me at 4 A.M. and said he was coming after me as soon as he could get there. I was sound asleep, but when a 16-year-old boy worries about you, you are gratefully cooperative, so I went over to their home several miles from my apartment. There was some damage to their home but not as bad as in the storm center." The grandson referred to has just been entered at Fork Military Academy in Virginia. Livie hopes the other grandson will be interested in Dartmouth.
Though Alice Bond may be an authority on books and reading she still wants to keep on reading the ALUMNI MAGAZINE so as to know what her friends are doing. She is still lecturing on Books and Authors "even though the quality of many books has retrogressed, there are enough good ones to keep me busy."
A cordial letter "from Mary Silk expresses her regret that 1911, as such, will no longer be meeting at the Mountain View. She reports that they have had a busy summer and that on that particular day there were 268 guests, and it looked like a busy fall season ahead. All twelve grandchildren are in school, both north and south, during this period of transition and she will be happy when they can all be together again. She and Tom will fly to Mexico at the end of January for a month but stopping off in Florida on the way back, prior to taking a two weeks' Island Cruise.
The good news from Stan Macomber is that Billie has made a good recovery from her broken hip, has thrown away her cane, and is now driving the car once more.
The Sherwood Trasks are happily situated in their new apartment in the Congregational House on the Gulf in Clearwater where they have become the latest addition to the Dartmouth colony.
A new address for Mrs. Neal C. Hotaling is Apt. 207, 1818 Ramona, South Pasadena, Calif. 91030.
Cap Caproni has recently been the recipient of double honors. The American Institute of Architects has given him the title of Emeritus and the Masonic Order gave him a fifty-year pin. He says both go with his age. He is however still working part time.
Friends are already thinking about Christmas cards. One 1911 widow has written "How about it? Will you remember me anyway - as I was and not as I am?" That question might well be put to a lot of us.
Secretary, 1 Webster Terrace Hanover, N. H. 03755
Treasurer, Seaside Ave., Saco, Me. 04072
