1921

The chief topic of conversation today, wherever '21ers gather, is quite naturally our 25th Reunion. Now officially scheduled for Friday and Saturday, June 28 and 29, plans are taking definite form. Please jot down the dates right now. It's something you can't afford to miss. Reunion committees are headed up as follows: General Chairman, Tom Cleveland; Finance, Rog Wilde; Publicity, Charley Stickney; Costumes, Hal Braman; Events (Sports &Banquet), Ell Fisher; Music and Entertainment, Doug Storer; Arrangements, Don Mix; Memorial, Ray Mallary; Ladies, Marion (Mrs. Joe) Folger; Hanover Committee, George Frost. Any of these men will welcome suggestions from any classmate. Let them hear from you.

I his column is in receipt of an interesting clipping from the Hartford (Conn.) Times in the form of a large display advertisement of Pocket Books. We imagine the same ad also appeared in other cities. More than half the space is occupied by an attractive picture of a family group. The caption reads, "Four-library Family and how it got that way." Then the text goes on to say, "This is the Fleet family of Cutchogue, a nice little town out on Long Island. Every member of the family has his own particular library, his own pet and private collection of books." .... Our clipping department also comes up with one from the Washington Post for December 15. This tells us that the Federal Power Commission has "selected Commissioner Nelson Lee Smith of New Hampshire to serve as vice chairman for the remainder of this year and for 1946."

Ellis Briggs writes from the Department of State, "My tour of duty in China lasted approximately six months and shortly after the Japs folded, I was ordered hack to Washington, where, as your spies appear already to have reported with both diligence and accuracy, I am serving in the Department as Director of the Office of American Republics Affairs. I was sorry not to see Pekin, Shanghai, and other more entertaining corners of China than the temporary wartime capital up the Yangtze River, but at the time I left we Were just beginning to move toward the coast. I came back via Manila, Guam, and Hawaii and aftei a week of leave in Maine turned up in Washington for the first service here in five years. Which reminds me that after five transfers in fifteen years, I had five more during the following five years, so I am hopeful of staying put, at least long enough for the weevils and buffalo moths to demolish the small remaining balance of wearable Briggs apparel."

In the New York Times for January 3 it was disclosed that Lt. Col. [recently promoted from major] John W. Hubbell, released from the Army, "has returned to the Simmons Company, manufacturers of mattresses and other bedding equipment, as assistant to the president, it was announced yesterday. Formerly he was promotion and sales advertising manager. He will direct all advertising and the expanded retail merchandising service." An excellent picture of Jack accompanied the story. ....A report from the Inn in Hanover says that Mr. and Mrs. Don Sawyer and Dutch Bausher were guests there for brief periods during the month immediately preceding Christmas.

Rog Wilde forwards an interesting clipping about Rynie Rothschild which we wish space permitted quoting. The clipping is undated and comes from an undisclosed newspaper, presumably in St. Paul. (Maybe some of our readers can identify a newspaper column called So What! by Paul Light.) The story concerns some wild ducks and tame geese in northern Minnesota, and one gathers that Rynie rates as a practical joker par excellence in that' neck of the woods. Any evidence in rebuttal will be gratefully received Cliff Corbet has a new address, 4588 Angus Drive, Vancouver, B. C., Canada. Reports himself an importer-exporter at 318 Homer St. in the same city And El Harper is back in Whitman, Mass Recently your reporter met up with Lt. Col. Marshall Exnicios in downtown Washington. Ex was still on terminal leave, after nearly four years in the Air Corps, which included extended duty overseas. He was looking very fit and is living at 2218 Wyoming Ave., N. W., in the Nation's Capital. His elder daughter Joan finished last June at Foxcroft School, in Middleburg, Va., and made her debut in Washington society on December 29.

Alex Thomson is president of Tanner & Co. at 409-413 South Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis; resides at 525 West Kessler Boulevard. .... Capt. Ben Tenney reports himself as back on Commonwealth Ave., Boston. Whether this signifies his release from the Navy or only a temporary sojourn at the old stamping ground is unknown to this reporter as we go to press. .... George Tully turns up at 10 Upland Road, West Somerville, Mass...... And Addison Warner has moved his office to 141 West Jackson Blvd., Chicago 4 Rufus (Bud) Reichart reports a new address, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio. What are you doing at Kenyon, Bud? .... Ralph Baker requests that mail be sent to his home at 16814 Bonner St., Hartford, Conn Joe Walker is now development manager of the Goodyear Fabric Corp. in New Bedford. Resides at 144 Green St., Fairhaven, Mass.

Secretary, 201 W. Montgomery Ave., Rockville, Md. Treasurerj 545 Hinman Ave., Ill.