1921

Prexy Torn reminds us that we still have a long way to go on the questionnaires, so here we are again, plucking the same old string. If you boys who have sent in your questionnaires get tired of it, just put the heat on everyone you see and let's get the job done. If your questionnaire is lost or mislaid, a penny post card to the Secretary will get you a duplicate by return mail.

Another one of those grand small reunions took place in August down in Marblehead. Bill and Edith Terry took quite a '21 contingent for a sail on their two-masted schooner and entertained royally at their summer home afterward. Dan and Dot Ruggles, Chick andKelly Stiles, Frank and Ida Ross, Ray Kelsey,Frank Doten, Dick Bowler and Betty andTom Cleveland made up the group. It was one of those things that stick in your memory for years.

clipping Bureaus occasionally do strange things. We received a neatly pasted-up squib from the Marblehead Messenger which read:

"Announcement has been made of the marriage of Miss Minnie L. Patterson and Mr. Walter Lundegren. Miss Patterson is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Patterson and is a graduate of Marblehead High School and the Posse School of Gymnastics. Mr. Lundgren is a graduate of Dartmouth College, class of 1921." It was true as far as it went, except that thecaption "25 Years Ago" was missing, so wefinally found out by indirection that Waltand Mary, who is sometimes called "Minnie," celebrated their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary in September. Their daughter Kay was selected by Jordan Marsh Co., as "Miss Marsha Jordan" which won her a trip to Washington, a new wardrobe and a job modeling on Saturdays in the store. Walt has been making some trips to Atlanta recently on business and had some nice visits with Frank O'Gara, who was in Hanover when we were. This seems to be a good place to bring things up to date on Walt and Mary. Walt is Credit Manager of Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. He and Mary live in Marblehead, Mass. and they have four daughters, Betty, Jane, Kathryn and Judith Lee. Betty graduated from Jackson College in 1945 magna cumlaude, and Jane graduated from Mass. General Hospital in 1946. Walt and Mary are justly proud of their four girls and opine that they wouldn't swap with anyone. Walt owns up to being a home gardener and horticulturist in his spare time, and he was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1936. Says he doesn't know anything about boats and sailing in spite of the Marblehead address the girls handle the nautical department, if any.

Frank and Ida Ross must find things pretty lonesome around the house these days because both of their daughters, Jeanne and Virginia, were married last summer. They live in Marblehead, and Frank is Assistant to the General Manager of the Ice Cream Division of H. P. Hood and Sons. Jeanne, their older daughter, graduated- from the University of Maine and majored in Dramatic Arts. Frank says Virginia, if she had been a boy, would have made a grand softball pitcher for Jeff Tesreau. She attended the University of New Hampshire. Frank plays quite a bit of golf, mostly on weekends, enjoys his work very much and like the rest of us, gets most of his fun with his family. We received a very interesting clipping from the Boston Globe in which no less than Randy Childs did some high-power reminiscing about Johnny Sullivan. Randy recalled that John had been interested in the Navy from the start and that instead of enlisting in the S.A.T.C., he went for the Navy 'way back in 1918. Randy recalls that John was very active in politics even before he ran for Mayor of Hanover and claims that he attended political rallies at the age of 12, when his father was a candidate for Congress. All of us that attended the 25th Reunion know that Randy has, for some time, been an unofficial advisor of the Navy, without portfolio, and at one time at least, he claimed the title of "Oversecretary of the Navy" at the time John was Undersecretary, thereby outranking him, at least in his own mind. Since our last column, word has been received that the social tizzy in Washington as to where the new Defense Officers, including John, sit in at formal social functions has now been settled. Knowing little about these things, we would not attempt to say how, but the uproar has apparently quieted down. We hasten to add that John had nothing to do with raising it since the question was posed entirely by anxious hostesses in the Nation's Capitol. John has the distinction of being the fourth man from the Granite State and the second from Manchester to hold the post of Secretary of the Navy, as well as the only holder of that title without Cabinet status. He has pledged himself to a program of strict economy which will make a hit with us poor groaning tax-payers.

Jim Kerlin is located in New York City with the National Carbon Co., holding down the job of manager of their Market Research Dept. During the war he was with the W.P.B. for almost two years at their request. Jim started work in 1922 with a company which was later merged with National Carbon, and he's been with them ever since.... 25 years come May 1. It now looks like a permanent connection. He has lived and worked on both sides and the middle of the U. S. and met and married his wife Rowena in San Francisco in 1934. The Kerlins adopted a baby a little over a year old in 1945, and they're convinced that even with a late start, they're a great institution. Jim missed the 15th and 20th and hoped to make it last year, but couldn't because of the shift to New York. Stan Lawrence is with Bethlehem Steel in Quincy, Mass:, where he is a Naval Surveyor. Stan and Frances have a daughter Mary, who graduated from Wellesley in the class of '47 and Stanley Jr., who served in Japan on the U.S.S. Lexington. Jayand Ethelyn Fuller live in Contoocook, N. H. They have two daughters Barbara and Jean. Jay is New England representative for Lily-Mills Co., of Shelby, N. C., and Cleveland Mill and Power Company, Lawndale, N. C. The Fullers have a low rambling home on an acre of land and forty acres more nearby with a half mile of brook. That land is Jay's hobby, and all the Fullers spend a lot of time at their camp on Lake Sunapee in the summer. Jay is Town Auditor and on the local School Board, treasurer of the local Health Committee, and treasurer of the Methodist Church. Barbara graduated from Becker Junior College in Worcester, and is in the local office of the N. H. Public Service Co. Jean graduated this year from high school and couldn't decide whether to go to Colby Junior College or N. H. University. For the rest, Jay writes, like the philosopher he is, that the Mills think as he does and he obviously believes he's with the best outfit in America, enjoys his family, home and camp .... this classmate has really found what we are all looking for.

Seth Densmore is a member of the firm of Jurgs, Murray & Densmore, Public Accountants. He and Marion have lived in Burlington, Vt., for a good many years now and they like it. Son John entered Dartmouth in September 1946, where Seth says we may hear from him as an athlete, but not a Phi Bete. Our friend owns up to a pretty decent game of golf until the war layoff ruined it, so he has trouble breaking 80 now. He received what he calls a "posthumous D" from the College Athletic Council a few years ago, which is a new one. Among other things, Seth is presently president of the Vermont Society of C.P.A.'s. Russ Goodnow proved to be one of the reticent brethren but this much we know. Marion and Russ and Russ Jr., live on Apple Tree Lane in Barrington, R. I., and Russ is president and founder of the Machine Parts Corp. of Providence. He is also treasurer of Hardware Products Co. of Boston and was Special Assistant to the Director of Industry Operations of the War Production Board in Washington at $1.00 per year. Must be interested in boats for he belongs to the Barrington Yacht Club as well as the Rhode Island Country Club.

We now explore the file concerning one Bro Roger Conant Wilde, who came to us in 1917 from Winchester, Mass., and now resides in Chicago where it is well-known to one and all that he helps Jack Hubbell run the Simmons Bed Co., as General Manager of the Contract Dept. Caroline is almost as well known as the great man himself and just for the record, we'll take Caroline anytimeanywhere. Rog spent the years 1942-45 in the Army Air Forces in Combat Intelligence and was discharged a Captain. Roger Jr. is a sophomore at Dartmouth and so far he is retaining his hair .... more than the Sr. can say. The fact that R. Conant was for years our class treasurer is too well known to mention and he is now class agent.... a fact you won't be allowed to forget come next spring.

So, with some late address changes we call it a day .... hoping you-all can raise the price of your Thanksgiving Turkey. Hugh G. Cruikshank, 172 Grayson Place, Teaneck, N. J.; Warren S. Ege, 3056 R St., N.W., Washington 7, D. C.; Charles P. Gilson, American Church Mission, 152 Minghong Rd., Shanghai, China; Carlton E. McMackin, 627 Camp Ave., Gulfport, Miss.; John R. Means, Morris, KixMiller & Baar, 905 American Security Bldg., Washington 5, D. C.; Charles A. Stickney, Box 1004, Worcester 1, Mass. (mail) 29 Maplewood Road, Worcester 2, Mass.; Harrison W. Barton, 501 Porte Cimi Pas, Kansas City, Mo.; Dr. Milton A. Dexter, 1618 Westwood Blvd., Los Angeles 24, Calif.; Maynard McK. Hawse, 1848 Elm St., Stratford, Conn.; William F. Reams Jr., 40 Central St., Boston 9, Mass.; Rufus Reichart, 630 sth Ave., Room 3155, N. Y. C. 20; Robert D. Mayo, Dascomb Road, Ballard Vale, Mass.; Col. Roland C. Batchelder, Control Section, Hg. MTOUSA, APO 512 c/o PM, N. Y. C.; Homer J. Cleary, Kew-Forest School, Forest Hills, L. 1., New York; Alfred M. Green, 116 S. Salina St., Syracuse 2, New York; and John Herbert, P. O. Box 486, Amherst, Mass.

Secretary, 16 Lenox St., Worcester 2, Mass.

Treasurer, 545 Hinman Ave., Evanston, Ill.