1912

News from our post reunion travelers: Sam and Marion Hobbs left Hanover for Portland, Me., thence down the coast to Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island. They rode the Cabot Trail, stopping at delightful Keltic Lodge in Ingonish. We trust their return trip to California was just as eye filling and uneventful. Katharine Baker drove Hal back to Cleveland via Bennington, Vt., the Catskills, lunch at Jamestown, N. Y., and a visit to their niece and husband in Dayton, Ohio. Cap Allen left in July with one of his Millinocket, Me., grandsons for explorations in Sicily and Yugoslavia. His comments on the beauties and facilities of Yugoslavia are a tribute in the latter case to dictator Tito. Cap even played roulette and trebled his money! Most thrilling of all was Dutch Waterbury's daily log of his trip through Scandinavia with Edith, made more pleasant and profitable by her many relatives and friends. Their pictures should be an outstanding attraction at our next Class Reunion.

We are all saddened by the death of that loyal Dartmouth wife Gertrude Luitwieler. Eddie gives your secretary credit for dragging him off the floor, says he will not let this loss prevent him carrying on as 1912 Class Agent.

After a period of silence Elmer Bloom, our youngest member, came to life with a long letter embodying his frustrating experiences at Dartmouth and his academic collapse following transfer to University of Illinois. Like all the rest of us, he is feeling his years, has glaucoma which he is able to control, and finds it takes more time to perform his daily tasks than it did last year. He is fortunate to have a successful lawyerson nearby in Peoria, Ill. Another '12er, JoePaul, came across with a tale of restricted activities due to Parkinson's disease. This has shown an improvement with the administration of a new drug, Dopar. (This is not a paid ad.) Joe was with us at our 55th. Elwyn Taber writes that both he and Sheila are kept close to home with failing hearts, not too unusual in the 80's.

Syd Clark recovered from his surgery sufficiently to travel to Vienna and Munich preparatory to updating one of his "All The Best In." He writes enthusiastically of developments in those two cities and expresses the wish that American cities could somehow copy. His Mardi is hanging on but it's a long vigil, he says. A nice letter from Put Russell's daughter Connie brings us up to date on his condition. Following several vascular accidents he now has impaired speech and little use of his right arm and leg, but he does get around a bit indoors with the aid of cane, walker, or wheelchair. Courage, Put! From Northampton, Mass., Clyde Cooke writes that their flower and vegetable gardens give them just enough exercise to keep active and reasonably fit.

Elizabeth Park is still on the job writing notes of encouragement to our widows. She made the luncheon party on September 16 at Durham, N. H., when 18 showed up to be with Henry Stevens and sister Anna. She says Anna's comeback following her auto accident is amazing.

Secretary, 15 Gloucester Lane West Hartford, Conn. 06107

Treasurer, 4 Bank Building Middleboro, Mass. 02346