Class of 1921
Gentleman, meet Dick Fowler, son of our own Bill Fowler. Dick, who is three years old, is shown in the accompanying photograph while out practising for the 1951 Dartmouth ski team. As you can see, he's a chip of the old block, and apparently is as much at home on a pair of wooden runners as his dad used to be in his Hanover days, and in fact, still is today. Bill writes that Dick even sidesteps up the piazza steps in true professional style. And the skiing skill isn't limited to the men folk in the Fowler family either, for Miss Clara Fowler, aged six, once owned the pair on which Dick is displaying his prowess Bill himself still spends as much time as possible each winter gliding down the New England hills, slipping away from his Boston law office whenever the chance offers.
He isn't the only Twenty-oner, however, who still glides abroad on the runners. Bob Burroughs is another. In a recent letter he reported that he was deserting his insurance business for a day and moving up from Manchester to Mt. Moosilauke with Johnny Carleton '22 and Bob Booth '22 to take part in a ski meet between a Dartmouth Alumni team and the Hochgebirge Ski Club of Boston, which is made up for the most part of former Harvard skiers. We spotted an item in one of the New York papers later, saying that the teams divided at the meet, each winning one race. The Green skiers took the downhill race and the Crimson racers the slalom. Bob also participated in a similar race against a Harvard alumni team a year ago, and on that occasion Fat Childs was a member of the Dartmouth outfit. Bob is such an enthusiastic skier still that even after you read this he'll be planning one last trip up to Tuckerman's Ravine on Mt. Washington, where the snow holds late.
ORTON'S ODYSSEY
Most of what follows might bear the title, "The Odyssey of One Orton H. Hicks," for at this writing Ort is in the midst of a seeing-the-whole-United-Statesfrom-coast-to-coast tour, on business for the Kodak company, and he has very kindly dropped us a series of letters from along the route telling us of the Twentyoners he has seen. Ort struck due south from New York first, and in Jacksonville, Fla., he found George Booker, who was only with the class six weeks before he enlisted in those hectic days of '17, but who, although he never returned to Hailover after the war was over, is still a loyal Dartmouth man. After his war experience George went into business with his father, Ort reports, and about six years ago moved to Florida, where he is prospering in the lumber business. He is married and has two children. A few days later in Dallas, Texas, Ort, Frank Hickman, and Doc Beaudoux staged a 1921 class breakfast. Frank, who is the editor and publisher of the Cotton Trade Journal in New Orleans, was like Ort in Dallas on business, and Doc lives there. Doc has invented an ice shavmg machine, which, Ort reports, is a honey, and he (Doc) is doing an international usiness with it from his Dallas factory. His product bears the coiling title of "SnoMaster."
In New Orleans Ort saw Bob and Minnie Elsasser. They both are fine and have a lovely home there. Bob is rapidly developing into one of the right-hand men of the president of Tulane. In addition to running the School of Business Administration at the University, Ort says that Bob has built up a nice following for himself in the South as a business counselor.
Moving northward to Kansas City, Ort spent an evening with Tom and Elsie
Staley at the Staley homestead on the outskirts of K. C., overlooking the Missouri river. We'll let Ort do the reporting for a minute. "They have a six-acre placethere," he writes. "On it they have fivecows, a horse, a pony, three dogs, two cats,an opossum, and 95 hens. If any of youwant to talk to Tom gratis, get in touchwith one of your local Amateur RadioLeague members, for his brother-in-law,Bob Smith, who lives next door, operatesthe most powerful amateur short-waveset in the United States. We were talking toRutland, Vt., and were just about to geta message through to Marsh Wheldetiwhen interference cut us off." Incidentally the Staleys have a seven-year-old daughter, and Tom is still in the milling game in Kansas City.
'2l BREAKFAST ORGANIZED
While Ort was there he and Tom organized a 1921 breakfast, at which Jim Leiter and Art Gilbert were present. Art is making quite a name for himself as head of the psychology department at Kansas City Teachers' College, and Jim is vice-president of Peck's department store.
Passing through Carthage, Mo., Ort tried to reach Luke Boggess of the erstwhile Hanover firm of Boggess & Staley (you know, one of the rivals of Sater & Brown), but Luke was tied up in the midst of a big insurance deal, so Ort missed him. In Houston, Texas, he spent some time with Sandy Sanders, who is married and has two sons, Dick, 7, and Buddy, 2. Ort reports that he and Sandy played some tennis, and that Sandy swings just as mean a racquet as he did when he was captaining the Dartmouth tennis team. Incidentally Sandy is one of the ranking geologists of the Shell Oil Company.
From Peculiar, Mo., Ort sends us a postcard bearing the following message, "Oneguess as to why this city makes us thinkof the class of 1920." (All 1920 publications, please copy.)
Just to prove that Ort hasn't any corner on the thespian honors in the ranks of 1921 (the Great Neck, L. 1., newspaper had this to say of his recent appearance in "Ten, Nights in a Bar Room," "OrtonHicks with sideburns and spats was unusually good in manufacturing lines andcopy, designed to improve the author's attempts"), Russ Goodnow has been doing his stuff in the amateur dramatic field with the Barrington, R. 1., Players. On March 1 this organization presented Sidney Howard's comedy, "The Late Christopher Bean," and Russ served as stage manager for the production.-Incidentally we understand that on several previous occasions he has served as a member of the Barrington casts.
The Victor Talking Machine Company has just brought out a record of Werner Janssen's composition, "New Year's Eve in New York."
Bob Wilson is now serving as an assistant counsel for N.R.A., with offices at 1140 Investment Building, Washington, D. C. He is residing at 1905 King St., Alexandria. Va.
A BELATED REPORT
In checking back over some previous issues, we discovered that we had promised to give some further details on John Perry Mitchell's work in New York since his resignation from the faculty of the Harvard School of Business Administration, and we beg to make amends for our failure to do so before this. John, we beg to report, is now connected with the Rockefeller Foundation, and has been engaged in the last few months in visiting various, of the nation's colleges in connection with an educational survey which the Foundation is making.
Dan Ruggles writes from Boston to ask us to call attention of the members of the class in the Boston area that 1921 has joined with 1918, 1919, and 1920 for informal weekly luncheons in Rooms 176 and 178 at the Parker House on Monday noons. Dan states that there is nothing, formal about the meetings and there is no. need to notify anyone ahead of time, but that you are always bound to find someone you know at the luncheons, and an. effort is being made to have as big a turnout each Monday as possible, and that he hopes that it will become a habit for Twenty-oners to drop in there for a bite on that day of the week. Incidentally the luncheons are popular-priced.
Secretary, 7 Lotus Rd., New Rochelle, N. Y
