1921*
News has been pouring in since the June blast of these notes was concocted. And so to work, getting everyone caught up Right after aforesaid blast, your scribe journeyed to Hanover to represent '2l at the annual conclave of Secretaries. Our heart swelled with pride when Don Mix (representing Worcester, Mass.) received the D. S. Award for being the Best Alumni Club Secretary of the year, and was still further inflated when Dan Ruggles was chosen by the Secretaries Association to serve for three years on the ALUMAG Advisory Board. Dan will be a natural in this role, due to his thorough familiarity with alumni affairs and wide contacts plus experience in the advertising field
While in Hanover, a conference was held on the problem of staging 20th, 15th, 10th, and sth reunions immediately following Commencement (instead of just before), effective in 1941; the session was attended by Joe Folger, Ort Hicks, Don Mix, Nels Smith, and your correspondent, representing Dartmouth's Grandest Class. [This plan subsequently was adopted, and therefore 'si will hold its Tumultuous Twentieth next June on the later date.] Also your scribe had an unscheduled Sunday morning confab with George Frost, where many matters were aired and at which we learned that Geo. is still actively utilizing his gifts along histrionic lines (theatrical, to you guys); but since we promised Geo. to say nothing about it, we'll have to pipe down.
No sooner had this reporter returned to Manhattan than he bumped into Dud Robinson, star salesman for Warren MeArthur Corp. of 1 Park Avenue, manufacturer of aluminum furniture for railroads and steamships. Dud looked in grand shape and very prosperous; told us of the arrival of a second child in the Ken Sater household out Columbus, 0., way. The young hopeful's name is David Lyon and he firs' saw the light of day Dec. 17, 1939, making a fine running mate for brother John Elbert, 10 years his senior Late in May. Harry Trull was heard from. Harry reports a new home at 626 Woodcrest Ave., Ardmore. Penna., representing "the usual shift every four years for the Trull family. The latest news at our house is Susan 8., born Feb. 25, 1939- Evens the family up to 2 boys and 2 girls. Started a new business this year. Truson, Inc., a credit service that the Census Dept. hasn't been able to classify after four months' effort. We are located at 12 South 12th St., Phila., and the next time you are in town would be delighted to see you." Harry adds the ultimate in artistic touches by writing with green ink Roger Wilde, custodian of the '2l funds, announces a move up Chicago's North Shore to Bog Rosewood Ave., Winnetka It is with regret that the death on July 15 of John C. Woodward is recorded. An account of his life will appear in the Necrology section of an early issue.
Paul Rosenthal decided this year to vacation out west, in lieu of Cape Cod, so flew his family to Colorado Springs in his private plane for the month of July. Pud Walker happened to come east from Honolulu to visit Ralph Ruder in Colo. Springs at about the same time; when it was discovered what was going on in those parts, Merrill Shoup was summoned and a '21 reunion was put on. Admitted to several of the sessions was a young chap named Willkie, native of Indiana also vacationing in Colorado Springs. Interviewed at his private office in the Street, upon returning to Manhattan, Paul allowed as how he got a great kick out of meeting Mr. Willkie for the first time but insisted that the high spot of the reunion was meeting Mrs. Ruder, who is "simply charming."....
Early in August, Rog Wilde journeyed to Colorado to do some trout fishing, and before leaving drove over to Colo. Springs to see Mick Shoup and Ralph Ruder, the two fratres-in-urbe. Rog paints a picture of Mick's success in glowing terms, asserting that the companies headed by Shoup produce about one-third of all the gold mined in this country and approximately the same proportion of beet sugar, without taking into account the banks and railroads in the group Bob Wilson is another '21er doing right well by himself. Bob is assistant to the president of Associated Grocery Manufacturers of America, working on legal and public relations problems to a large extent; lives in Glen Ridge, N. J., of whose tennis club he is past president and an ardent supporter. During the season, Bob dashes out of his Manhattan cubicle as early as possible, every day in the week, and plays tennis until dark, passing up supper. He plays Badminton in the winter, and this correspondent can testify that Bob certainly has a streamlined and healthy look.
On stationery of The Travelers, Childs Insurance Agency, C. Randall—better as "Fat"—Childs writes from the Amoskeag- Bank Bldg. in Manchester, • • H., to say that his apartment is now at 128 North St. and to cast a few asparagus on the benedicts of the class. Opines Fat, "My status up here remains the same, since I am still single and have no intentions of changing parties. I presume there are a few '21ers who wonder just when the announcement will be issued that I have floundered. That will be the day, and not a bit sooner than the day you find Mac Johnson in a dead faint on the floor of her penthouse apartment. Are there any broad-visioned men of the class left, other than Mac and myself?" .... Here's one, Fat, about a broad-visioned man who has recently widened still further the horizon of his vision: "The engagement of Miss Marion Murdoch Childs of Navesink and East Orange to Edward Aldrich Luedke of New York has been announced by her aunt, Mrs. Marion T. Hazelton of Avoca Farm, Navesink, N. J." The Newark News goes on to say that Miss Childs is a graduate of Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, Penna., and of Smith College; is a member of the Junior League of the Oranges, and of the D. A. R. Inquiry of Ed elicits the prediction that the wedding will be either the middle of October or the end of November, probably the latter, as the Army is ordering him out to the Corps Command & Staff School on November 10 Raphael Murray is now to be found in Chicago. Address: 1330 South Canal St. What's the story on this, Rafe?
Bill Miller, of 64 Lynwood Road, Scarsdale, still travels a great deal of the time in the interests of Hegeman Harris Cos., Inc., building construction firm with national headquarters at 220 East 42nd St., Manhattan, of which he is secretary. Bill is in fine fettle and sees the Westchester contingent of '21 fairly frequently George Frost reports that he spent a large part of the summer playing golf, "but my game doesn't seem to improve." .... Chan Symmes vouches in an interesting letter that he's made no radical changes in his design for living in many years; is still with his father in C. H. Symmes & Cos., farm supply firm at 747 Main St., Winchester, Mass.; has two children, a boy in high school and headed for Dartmouth, and a girl just starting school; spends the summers at Harwich on Cape Cod, where he has a place and would be very pleased to have any of the boys from '21 look him up when they get down that way (paste that in your hat for next summer, fellows) Manny Manchester spent some time around Hanover on his vacation, says the place looks good, as usual, and reports he has an article in the September Harper's, "Rubber Out of Oil," which tells of developments in the American synthetic rubber industry Take it away, George;
THE SPIRIT OF '21 By GEORGE L. FROST
IN SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, 1C,19 .... These advertisements appeared in TheDartmouth: "The New National Anthem should be sung every day. Ten copies unison or four-part harmony for $1.00, and slips with words and music to chorus, all needed for your school free. Address 'America, My Country' Ass'n, Red Wing, Minn." Also: "Lost: officer's belted raincoat. Reward if returned to P. A. Noyes, Lambda Chi Alpha » House." .... Junior officers were elected: C. R. Freeman, president; W. S. Ege, vice president-, J. W. Hubbell, secretary, O. C. Frost, treasurer, and T. V. Cleveland, representative to theCollege Club The College's Sesquicentennial Celebration occupied four colorful days. Dartmouth Night was held in a great tent on the campus; the Dramatic Association revived Harry Wellman's musical comedy, The Founders, starring Fleming and Bird; there was an imposing academic procession led, as honorary marshal, by Gen. Joab N. Patterson '60, who had been marshal at the celebration of Dartmouth's centenary in 1869; in a pageant of Dartmouth's history, Doc Fleming as Eleazar Wheelock drove across the campus in an ox-cart and Hubert Ripley rode in a sulky as Rufus Choate; and the football team beat Penn State, 19-13, "in one of the most spectacular battles ever witnessed on Alumni Oval." .... Dartmouth's twenty-first fraternity was established with the founding of Delta Gamma Psi. Charter members from 1921 were R. T. Daly, F. L. Lambert, H. F. Manchester, M. H. Stetson, and M. B. Townsend.
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