1921
The new 1945 roster of Manhattan's Dartmouth Club members lists three men from '21 on the Officers' page. Reading in the usual order, from top to bottom, we find Harry Chamberlaine and Bill Codding serving on the house committee and Cliff Hart heading up the activities committee as chairman Another report from Manhattan, this one from a '21 spy, says that Ort Hicks has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the AUS. It is assumed that Ort continues No. 1 man in the Army Overseas Motion Picture Service with headquarters at 145 East 32nd St., N. Y. 16; more officially, Director of the Distribution Division Other Manhattan items include a report from Mac Johnson that op a recent visit to the Main Stem he bumped into Howie Anger at the Bronxville station; Howie is still "circulating around" in the same insurance business and commented on attending the general Alumni Dinner in New York. Mac also forwards Page 31, ripped from the Reader'sDigest for July, excerpting an article by Manny Manchester entitled "Raincoats for Dirt Roads" originally published in Chemistry We also have a letter from Cliff Hart outlining plans for the big Dartmouth Night celebration he's planning in New York for November 9, the night before the Princeton game. Cliff's letterhead now carries the legend A. I. A., which the old maestro explains in the following manner. "This means that I was elected to the American Institute of Architects early in July. That makes quite a string of initials to put after my name. Together with a dime that rings clear, they entitle me to a 'Coke' at any drug store."
Our circle of '21 spies grows ever wider. A new volunteer crops up, from Mericien, N. H., with a straight-from-the-feed-box story to the effect that Norm Carver's boy, N. F. Jr., was graduated from Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, on June 9. The story goes on to relate that the young man intends to study architecture after the war, which implies an intervening period of military service. Ken Smiley has recently been appointed vice president of Lehigh University, at Bethlehem, moving up from the post of director of admissions. Acting on a tip from his good friend Andy Marshall, scribe of '22, your correspondent sent a congratulatory telegram on behalf of our class to be read at a dinner tendered Ken by the Lehigh Home Club late in August. Forecasting the end of the Japanese phase of the war with some degree of accuracy, your scribe resigned his position with the War Production Board as of July 14, took a brief vacation, and on August 1 went to work for the Addressograph-Multigraph Corp. No change in home address involved, but during business hours '21ers in town are urged to contact the scribe at his new location in Washington: 1206 H Street, N. W.; telephone NAtional 0367. Now being in the heart of the downtown section, and enjoying more normal business hours, your correspondent confidently looks forward to entertaining more visiting '21ers than in the three and a half years he was at W.P.B Word has been received of the untimely death of Sam Shaw at his home in Plymouth, Calif., on August 13. An early issue of this MAGAZINE will carry an account of Sam's life The Springfield Union for July 25 bears the good news that Lt. Comdr. Jim Smead, returning from overseas duty, has been assigned to the Navy Special Hospital at Springfield College, right in his home town. What a break!
F rom Freeport, Long Island, comes a lengthy clipping telling of the election of Bill Lies to the board of directors of the First National Bank & Trust Cos. Bill is an official of the Williams Furniture Cos., you will recall, with stores in Freeport, Hempstead, and Bay Shore. His only son is a second-year student at Duke University Medical School Phil Noyes some time ago came up with an interesting news letter from the main office of National Fireworks, Inc., West Hanover, Mass., where he is in personnel work. Reveals that Dolph Alger is with the same outfit, as coordinator of traffic, and doing a bang-up job. Anent his family, Phil says: Phil Jr. (19) has been in the AAF for well over a year, and at time of writing was in pre-flight training at San Antonio; Edward (18) intended enlisting in the Navy following graduation from Tabor Academy in June; Donald (15) has completed his freshman year at Tabor, and Elizabeth (10) has just finished fifth grade. The boys are all active in athletics, says Phil, and have hung up an aggregate record in that direction far in excess of anything their old man ever displayed This issue carries a swell picture of Dan Ruggles which was originally scheduled for publication with the August blast of '21 news. Failure to make that issue, however, was occasioned by your scribe's being away on a business trip and missing the publication deadline by such a wide margin that preparing a halftone was out of the question. Dan himself needs no introduction to '21ers. His grandfather was Edward R. Ruggles '59, professor of Modern Language and English Literature at Dartmouth from 1866 to 1897, while his father was the original Daniel B. Ruggles of the Class of '90. Dan's son, who was a member of 1946 before joining the armed forces, thus makes the fourth generation in a row to tread the Hanover greensward On hand for succeeding issues are pictures of Lt. Col. "Al" Catterall (accompanying a Report on Bavaria) and Tommy Cleveland, '21 vice president and chairman of our Reunion Committee handling next year's conclave. Which reminds us to ask: Have you sent in your mug yet?
PAST PRESIDENT OF '2l, Dan Ruggles is the son and grandson of Dartmouth graduates, Daniel B. Ruggles '9O and Edward R. Ruggles '59, and the father of Daniel B. Ruggles '46. The '2l Ruggles is national advertising manager of the Boston Herald-Traveller. The family connection with Dart- mouth goes back to 1823 when an ancestor en- tered the College.
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