1921
This is the open season for Dartmouth meetings. As this issue goes on the air, there's one down and three to go. The following report on the '21 segment of New York's annual alumni dinner comes to you through another composite courtesy arrangement. This time you are indebted to Cliff Hart and Rex King, representing, respectively, the Long Island and New Jersey contingents. Quoting from the latter report: "One of the first of the brethren that I saw was Rog Bird, all duked out in white tie and tails, bound for the 50th anniversary of the University Glee Club. Rog says he is getting along and pointed to his gray hair, but, for my money, he looked more like the old days because he has gone well above the modest 180 pounds that he sported for some time. Whether he has yet reached the 300 that he used to sing about, I seriously doubt. Major Ort Hicks was present briefly, and it was good to see him. For the first time I noted that he was losing a bit of his hair, and it rather tickled me because he always did so look like the proverbial undergraduate. Someone saw Major Jack Hubbell on a mad dash for the train, but unfortunately I missed him. Gos Halsey came down from up the river and was a sight for sore eyes. El Harper was present but I saw him only briefly. Prexy Hopkins did his usual marvelous job, and it really is regrettable that people in greater numbers do not hear the sound philosophy of education that he has evolved." In addition to the seven '2iers already named, the following braves were on deck April 14 at the Dartmouth Club affair: Howie Anger, Bord Helmer, Tray Higgins, Bill Owen, Gus Perkins, Dave Plume, Bud Reichart, Carleton Sullivan, Bill Terry, Leighton Tracy, Abe Weld. Cliff reports Leigh Tracy was accompanied by his son, Carl, who is slated for Hanover "next fall." A report to headquarters on this matter is in order, Leighton!
At this writing the next conclave to be covered for this column is the annual spring dinner of Washington alumni May 12 at the Mayflower, with Prexy Hopkins guest of honor. Next issue we will have an extended report for you, including statistics on the record-breaking turnout of 'aiers looked for because of a de luxe 1921 cocktail party being given at the Statler by Bill Marcy and Nels Smith, immediately preceding the dinner. Then on May 23 a class dinner is being staged at the Club in Manhattan, with Bill Codding and Cliff Hart as joint M. C.'s. Unless Bill beats us to the punch with an all-out coverage story in The Smoker before the August issue of this column goes on the air, we will bring you a blow-by-blow description at that time. The affair promises to be one for the book. The third meeting in prospect at this writing is the annual conclave of Alumni Council, class officers, etc., in Hanover, June 9-10, being attended by Bill Embree and your correspondent (among others). It will be the first jaunt into New England this column has made in two years (the same conclave having been held in Manhattan last year) so we hope to ferret out some news over the week-end.
For the benefit of classmates, if any, who don't regularly read Frank Morey's column of 1920 news, the following is quoted from an April 3 letter by Tom Cleveland: "I am enclosing an article referring to the death of Frank Dorney. Although Frank was not entered in our class, I believe he received his degree with us. Certainly '2iers knew him well and thought a lot of him. His death was very sudden—a coronary thrombosis." .... Dr. Henry F. Palmer, probably our outstanding scientist (along with Dr. John C. Woodhouse, of du Pont fame), addressed the Detroit Rubber and Plastics Group at a dinner meeting April 21 in the Hotel Detroit Leland on the subject Two Years with Synthetic Rubber inWashington. We are indebted to Henry's outfit, Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., for the picture of Hank which appears (we hope) on this page.
Our hats are also off to Dr. Ben Tenney Jr., who, in recognition of his surgical skill and services in the Pacific theatre of action, has been promoted by the Navy to the rank of captain. This well-deserved advancement puts Ben right at the top of the heap of classmates in the Armed Services, along with Colonel Warren (Red) Ege of the Army Nels Smith Jr., now a Seaman ist Class in QM Branch, has been detailed to Norfolk, where he is in an LST unit at Camp Bradford as this is written. Upon sighting his first "Landing Ship, Tanks" in Hampton Roads, Nelson is reported to have come up with the conclusion that LST stands for "Large, Slow Target." Advertising Age for April 24 carried an interesting story (credit for clipping to Frank Livermore) about the successful efforts of a group of Tucson, Ariz., citizens headed by our own Rev. Geo. Ferguson (described in the story as an Episcopal clergyman) to raise $250,000 as an operating guaranty fund so that the city might qualify for gift by deed of the Desert Sanatorium of Arizona, now being con- verted into a community hospital known as the Tucson Medical Center This is your old scribe and newscaster signing off for 60 days, having recently returned (as this is written, May 9) from a fishing trip to Oregon Inlet, N. C., where he was unable to acquire any fish stories about '2iers, notwithstanding the presence in the party of another Dartmouth man.
DR. HENRY F. PALMER '21 of Akron, an authority on reclaimed rubber and production of synthetic rubber. (See class notes.)
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