1921

We learn belatedly of a '21 party which took place in Chicago on Dartmouth Night, October 10. The local faithful observed the event with a cocktail party at the University Club and the '21 group had a special table. Afterward Bill Embree put on the slides he has of the 20th Reunion Banquet and the 25th Reunion. In the group were Alois and KenThomas, Pam and Ned Price, Rog Wilde and Ike Chester. They acquired Ruth and DonMcKay '20, and Florrie and Ed Sharpe '23, who added to the general good time. The gang was particularly glad to see Ike Chester who happened to be in Chicago on business. Just learned that Rog Wilde's son Roddy was successful in getting into the Dartmouth Medical School. He is a grand old senior at 20, but Rog opines that he won't have as much time to enjoy it as we did. Rog should know for he certainly did enjoy it.

There was a good crowd at the Penn game and Prexy Cleveland, George Frost, OkyO'Connor and Bill Codding had an Executive Committee meeting, at which this and that was discussed and the Secretary and the Editor of the Smoker were both admonished to remind the boys at every convenient opportunity to get their questionnaires in. Tom reports that the game was excellent and it really looked for a little while as though we had a chance. In addition to the Executive Committee, some of those seen around were Chick Stiles, Russ Bailey with his wife and daughter, Tom and Rakey Norcross, the ErnieNorcrosses and Speedy Fleet, who was taking a little time off in Hanover.

We are indebted to Chick Stiles for a report on the Brown game in Hanover. Sez he, "Knowing that 'Mrs. Grandma Murphy' and I were in Hanover for the Brown game, 'Prexy' Cleveland asked me to make a report on the '2lers gathered at that time. At the Inn were Dot and Dan Ruggles and the O. Havergal Hickes. I believe they took time out from bridge to attend the football game. 'GustherGhosf Hubbell flitted in and out, and whether he finally "lit" somewhere, I wouldn't know. "Doc"Fleming and his wife were on hand right in the middle of a two weeks' Hanover vacation. DanRyder sat right back of us at the game. Think that covers all the '2lers I saw, but possibly I couldn't see far enough. Incidentally, where in hell did you get that soft-ball dope??—also why compare me with a youngster like Fordham "Grandma" Murphy? I resent the report I pitched one gameeked out a victory and retired. I would like to have you know I completed the full schedule of 14 games and came up with the following record: Won 13, Lost 1, Charley Horses 2, Sprained Toe 1 plus a half a dozen strokes added to my golf game due to the fact my follow-through departed with the first game I hurled."

The Secretary had hoped to do some personal reporting on the dinner the night before the Harvard game but it didn't work out quite that way. With a business engagement in New York on that same Friday night and a drive back Saturday afternoon, listening to a radio report of the Harvard game. Even interspersed with static and high tension lines it was good listening. The Class gathered at the City Club, Friday night, and mixed it up at the bar with '18, '19, '20 and '22, then enjoyed the excellent meal Reg Miner had planned in advance.

Present at the dinner were Tom Cleveland, Russ Bailey, Fran Cosgrove, Dick Barnes,Jeff Lawrence, Bill Embree, Dan Ruggles,Tom Norcross, Dave Bowen, Frank Ross,Chick Stiles, Stan White, Reg Miner, DocFleming, Lorin Goulding, and brother Chet of the class of 1928, Charlie Johnson and Ralph Pendleton. The gang was glad to see Hoy and Mrs. Schulting and their attractive daughter at the game. This was the first stadium game Hoy had ever seen. The DocFlemings ended up a week's vacation in Hanover in the right way as did Bill and AlbertaEmbree, Ibby and Red Stanley, Dan and DotRuggles, Chick and Kelley Stiles, Dolph Alger and family, Russ Bailey and wife Sylvia, RegMiner, Marg and Lorin Goulding, the Norcrosses, Charlie Johnson, and Speedy Fleet. After the game, the party ended with a dinner at the Fox and Hounds Club for part of the gang, ending a very enjoyable weekend.

AI Dunn is moving with his family back to Washington. He says, "This is just the 'Federal System' and does not constitute a change of work. There is available office space in Washington now so about 450 employees of the Department of the Interior and their families are being moved back from their wartime encampment in Chicago. The fact that there are no houses to rent and those for sale are at a whale of a price matters not at all. My giving a residence address leads you to judge correctly that I bought a house to assure a roof this winter." Al's address after October 15, will be 3215 Newark St., N.W., Washington 8, D. C. Dewey Gruenhagen is on the new Executive Committee of Pennsylvania Central Airlines. Dewey is also vicepresident of Investors Syndicate in Minneapolis. We are indebted to Dick Pearson, Secretary of '20, for a clipping about Ann Harding and Werner Janssen. Ann, in private life Werner's charming wife, is starring currently in United Artists It Happened On }th Avenue. The ad shows that Werner has a nice 1947 car (plutocrat) and uses "Ethyl" gas because 'I am as insistent on good performance in my car as I am from musicians. I always get it with "Ethyl" gas.' Works pretty well in our '38 too. (Adv.) Tracy Higgins' son Mike is a junior at St. Mary's (Galloping Gaels) College in California. Tracy flew out to Chicago for the stationers' convention and went on to spend a few days with Mike before he had to rush back to New York. Just learned that DocFleming's boy is a freshman in Hanover; Clif)Hart happened to run into him when he took his boy Jeff up this fall. The Harts spem some time with the Jack Hurds and young Jeff found Jack a kindred soul ready to talk tennis theory and strokes indefinitely.

Dutch Bausher has been elected to the Board of Directors of the General Public Utilities Corporation. General Utilities is successor by reorganization to Associated Gas and Electric Company, in case you had forgotten. Carleton McMackin, we understand, has left Hanover and returned to Mississippi to live. No more details available at this time. Bob Mayo, who for many years has been the local oil burner tycoon in Lexington, Massachusetts, has bought a farm in nearby Andover and expects to move over to the farm and dispose of his Lexington home. Our Washington correspondent informs us that Ex Exnicios has followed the Class's two distinguished diplomats into the foreign service. Last word was that he is waiting for assignment. Cliff Hart comes up with some dope about Tex Kouns. Tex and his wife live in New York City and he is a partner in that "We Answer Your Telephone" enterprise which advertises on the back cover of the Manhattan telephone directory. They have two sons, 24 and 22 years old, and the older boy is living in California. One of them served in the Army and the other in the Navy. A squib in the New York Herald Tribune mentions that the officers of the Toronto chapter of the American Marketing Association were installed. Jack Graydon, our classmate from Oakville, Ontario, Canada, is listed as vicepresident. Dr. and Mrs. Ernie Wilcox of Pleasantville, New York, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Joan, to Robert Klein of Pleasantville. Joan was graduated from the Emma Willard School and is attending Elmira College. Mr. Klein is a senior at Haverford and served two and a half years in the Navy.

In Office Appliances for October, there is a story about a new shop opened by M. T. Bird & Co. of Boston, to serve society with their social stationery and engraving needs. The concern was founded by Mellen True Bird, father of our Roger, and Rog's wife is managing the new shop. The venture is unique in the stationery field and we all wish Mrs. Bird the best of everything. Boston classmates note that the address is 135 Newbury St., in Back Bay.

Bill Alley has changed his Scarsdale, N. Y., address to 6 Ross Road, and Al Gates has a new address, Saddle Hill Road, still in Weston, Mass.

Here's a very Merry Christmas and the best New Year ever to you and yours from us all, Prexy Tom, VP's Ned and Ell, Treasurer Bob, Class Agent Rog and Sec. Don. Will all you gents who have eluded us on your questionnaires, please put that item well up in your New Year's resolutions.

HE'S NOT AN UNDERGRADUATE, although Sherman Adams '20, former Congressman from New Hampshire, could easily be mistaken for one as he poses in front of Sanborn House with notebook and volume. The picture was taken during a visit to Hanover to discuss the Hopkins Center campaign, in which he has a leading role in New Hampshire.

Secretary, 16 Lenox St., Worcester 2, Mass. Treasurer, 545 Hinman Ave., Evanston, 111.