1921*
From Doug Storer: "On December 6, I had the pleasure of producing Bob Ripley's Believe It Or Not radio program from Nassau in the Bahamas. While there I had the unusual experience of being able to spend considerable time with His Royal Highness, the Duke of Windsor, and also had the opportunity of meeting the Duchess of Windsor.
. .. .The purpose of Bob Ripley's broadcast from Nassau was to interview two British seamen, the story of whose experience is attached Following their interview, His Royal Highness addressed the American people in a six-minute speech, copy of which I also enclose, along with a photograph of the Duke which he allowed me to take I am sending all this material terial to you because it was the first time the Duke of Windsor ever spoke on an American network for an American audience, and the only time he ever spoke on a commercial program. This was also the first American commercial program to originate from a foreign country with royalty.
.... On the way back we stopped off at Miami Beach for a couple of days, and who should I bump into but Jack Hubbell, who was in charge of a group of prize-winning salesmen who were being given a trip by the Simmons Company."... .Space does not permit publication of Doug's interesting enclosures, but you will find the Duke's likeness reproduced on this page.
The wheels of activity for our Tremendous Twentieth speeded to a definite hum December 30 with the appointment of Vice Pres. Dan Ryder (the Sage of Waterbury, Vt.) as General Chairman. As an illustration of Dan's reaction to the situation and as a forecast of the sort of bang-up Reunion of which '31 now is assured, we offer one sentence from his January 3 letter to Jack Hubbell: "While it seems like quite a long while until Commencement, time has a way of slipping by too fast, so I shall try to get organized right away." In next month's column you will find a report of the organizational machinery Dan has set in motion looking toward the big climax in June. And climax is the word. The planned events will reach a crescendo over the June 20-21-22 week-end, but many '21ers will be on deck the preceding Monday for the opening of the Hanover Holiday program. And some may arrive even earlier, to take in the regular Commencement program. In any event, having our scheduled Reunion a week later than usual will give us the run of the town, along with '26, '31, and '36, and a chance for as leisurely a trip back to the old College as anyone cares to make it. It is already established that for many '21ers this will be a combination Vacation-and-Reunion.
But as Dan Ryder says, While it seemslike quite a long while until Commencement, time has a way of slipping by toofast. This is an experience we have all had. So how about making your plans, now, to be in Hanover not later than June 20? Now is not a bit too soon Our Washington Bureau reports Red Ege's home address as the Lafayette Hotel.. .. . Bandy Lowe has removed to 9318 245 th St., Bellerose, L. I., N.Y Mac Johnson writes that, although the Dartmouth Club continues to be his address, "I am in N. Y. C. only infrequently now, as my traveling in the auditing division of the J. C. Penney Co. takes me into the New England states, New York State, Mich., Ohio, Penna., West Va., and Maryland, with hdqrs. in Manhattan at 330 West 54th Street Twenty-oners seem to be around the country and you can meet them in Pennsylvania as well as on Park Avenue. At lunch at the Penn Albert in Greensburg I met Connie Keyes, who was there for the day in the interests of C. I. T., out of Pittsburgh. At breakfast in Johnstown's Hotel Fort Stanwix, I met Bill Codding (out of N. Y. C.) rustling up book business and away to an early morning start Talked with Fez Taylor prior to a recent trip and he informed me he had resigned from the City Bank Farmers Trust Co., where he had been in the real estate trust department for 14 years, and is entering law practice at Sun Valley, Idaho. Will handle all kinds of legal cases, from type A la Reno, Nevada, to writ of habeas corpus, or heabus jeebus, and to the settling of intestate estates and the drawing up of wills. Advises all members of the class to put Sun Valley on the list of places to be visited for the beneficial effects of outdoor winter sports and for the mental repose obtained from competent legal counsel. (Advt.)"
Shorty Bateman disclaims any Horatio Alger aspects of his career thus far, stating that he is still traveling for Butler Bros, of N. Y. as a dry goods salesman while Mrs. Bateman runs the family store, which is doing very nicely. "Soon it should support us. We're a department store, like Macy's, only not quite so big! Mrs. B. and I plan definitely to attend reunion.". .. .Maurie Stetson, previously reported in Kalamazoo, Mich., as sales mgr. for Hawthorne Paper Cos., has a home address, 1805 Indiana Avenue. ... Dutch Bausher, of Reading, we've learned is a director of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association Casualty Insurance Co. and of its affiliated fire co....
Your scribe recently met up with Dud Robinson on the sidewalks of New York; he reported a recent trip to Hightstown, N. J., with Nels Smith to visit the latter's oldest son, a student at Peddie. Nels, when asked for an accounting of his recent conduct, disclosed closed that for more than a year he has been serving as Chairman of the Committee on Depreciation of the National Association of Railroad and Utilities Commissioners, of which he was president last year. Because of the interest and importance of this work to the regulated industries, there have been occasions for Nels to speak before their conference groups. On December 4, for instance, he delivered an address in Detroit on the Regulatory Aspects ofDepreciation before the Fourth National Accounting Conference of the American Gas Association and the Edison Electric Institute.
During the same month, the National Association held its annual meeting in Miami, at which Nels presented a progress report for the Depreciation Committee and also led a discussion of utility financing along with Judge Healy of the SEC and Chairman Siggins of the Penna. Public Utility Commission. While in Miami, Nels attended a Dartmouth dinner with Henry Teague 'oo, a very pleasant time being had by all The Hon. Nelson Lee Smith also has an article entitled "The Outlook in Regulation" being published by the Journal of Land & Public Utility Economics, the first instalment having appeared in November and the conclusion in the February number Other similar activities (in the future tense as this is written) include participation in a forum "Exploring the Outlook for Transportation," sponsored by the Savings Bank Journal at the Metropolitan Club in Washington on January 10, and participation in a symposium on "Fundamental Aspects of the Depreciation Problem," held in N. Y. January 16 in connection with the annual meeting of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
... .With reference to his boy at Peddie, Nels says the young man entered there this autumn and plans a four-year course. "Aside from playing a clarinet in the band, he is not doing anything particularly startling; but the school seems to be working out very well for him.". . . .Carlton (Van) VanCleve and this department recently broke bread in one of Manhattan's swankier "restaurants" (a joint known as Flanagan's). Everything is quiet along the Potomac, Van reports; having a penchant for addresses, this corner secured Van's home address, 19 Prospect Place, New Dorp, S. I., N. Y., for the records.
Bob Mac Donald turns up at 545 Hinman Ave., Evanston, Ill....On stationery undoubtedly conceived by the Florida State C. of C. (embellished with pictures of [a] "fragrant blossoms and luscious fruit" and [b] "fishing scene"). Cape Payson comes through with a grand long letter from Box 282, Crescent City. Cape says he has been "puttering" with his orange grove, but most of the letter deals with his experiences in a side-issue, running an instrument for an engineering crew laying out Camp Blanding, which is assumed in this corner to be a new Army cantonment. It is a mighty interesting letter, and one deserving of publication, but space limitations forbid The next voice you hear will be that of Geo. Frost speaking from our Hanover studio. Swing it, George:
THE SPIRIT OF '21 By GEORGE L. FROST
IN FEBRUARY, 1920 The Jack-O'-Lantern contained drawings by Homer Cleary, Cliff Hart, and Bud Richart. Typical jokes under them: "He—'lf you'll just give me one kiss I won't ask for any more.' She—'Then I won't give you one kiss.' " And "What kind of a girl has Phil got for Carnival?" "She's not pretty, but I carried her suitcase upstairs and I'll swear that I heard the clink of glass!" There was many a joke about prohibition and trips to Montreal Besides pictures by Ralph Steiner the Bema had poems by Franklin McDuffee and Walter Wolfe, an article, "The Quest of the Perfect Feed," by Ransom Wells, a skit, "Oh, Little Red Book," by Flew Flewelling, and an article, "The Woman of Tomorrow," by Wade Werden.
H. R. H., THE DUKE OF WINDSOR Speaking on Bob Ripley's "Believe It OrNot" program, produced by Doug Storer'21, from Nassau, December 6.
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