1912

We are indebted to Guy Swenson for a full page from the January 22 issue of the New Hampshire Sunday News containing "Historic House Is Residence of the Conrad Snows," and six views of it. One sees the outside of the almost 200-year old house; the mammoth plank door at the front entrance braced by handforged iron reinforcements; the family room with its huge cooking fireplace; the music room paneled with boards from the old milk room; the tall pine clock with wooden works which was Connie's grandmother's; and the Sheraton furniture in the formal dining room. Included in the article is an account of the prior owners of the home dating back to 1779 when it was built by General Joseph Badger. One of the owners was Colonel Thomas Cogswell, Dartmouth 1863. Each room is described in detail, not overlooking a portrait of Daniel Webster hung in the living room. Connie and Katherine, among other treasures, found in the old house a copy of the Manchester Daily Union, dated May 11, 1870 telling the story of the proposed railroad for Gilmanton. We rejoice with our classmate in his charming home and wish that some day we all might get a glimpse of it.

Johnnie O'Connor's latest bulletin is an appeal to private enterprise, the fading of which he attributes to the drop by top officers of flourishing corporations in the levels of the English vocabulary. He believes this fate is real and serious. This year will mark the 50 anniversary of the Research Foundation Human Engineering Laboratory. Word from Henry Stevens tells us that sister Anna "is getting adjusted to the nursing home and the therapist is doing his best to get her to walk." The sad news from Herbert Lombard is that his wife passed away in December 1971 after a year-long illness from cerebral arteriosclerosis. The doctor finds it hard to get back to his old self, as he phrases it.

Our efficient Widows' Chairman, Elizabeth Park, received a few cheerful replies from her 93 Christmas cards. One from Norma Hunt reports a tremendous influx of tourists to the new Disney World in Florida. Bill Shapleigh's niece lives just around the corner from Norma which helps keep fresh another Dartmouth tie. Elizabeth says some hardy soul is still at it, surf riding in January! We shall expect to see Elizabeth driving into Hanover in June in her new Ford Pinto which replaced the 1964 Valiant. This is her means of transportation to nothing more exciting, she writes, than going to meetings and visiting nursing homes.

Mert Baker left us on January 14 1972.

CALLING ALL '12ERS FOR OUR 60TH, June 9-11.

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