1921
Never have we seen such a reticent, coy and generally modest gang as our revered brethren of '21. They say nothing, and boy, how frequently they repeat it. News is at a new low .... maybe because of the season but probably more likely because nobody, or hardly anyone has thought to send it along. If you don't want to tell us about yourself, do some bragging about your family or some other good classmate who did anything from being elected president of his company to breaking a leg trying to ski at his advanced and brittle age. Understand we aren't yearning for fracturesonly news. This seems to be a good spot for the usual prayer for more questionnaires for Manny Manchester's Class Book which he is tackling in earnest with hopes for publication by summer if the pedigrees roll in.
Charlie Gilson writes from Shanghai, China:
"For the time being anyway, am permanently located here with my family as treasurer of the American Church Mission (Episcopal). Home address, 990 Fan Wang, Tu Lu, Shanghai. Be sure to let the boys know my 'Welcome-Mat' is always out for anyone who may come this way." Charlie promises a more detailed report later, but the decision of the State Department to pull out of China may make a difference.
Lorin Gouldings daughter Marcia became engaged during the Christmas Holidays to John W. Walker, a Colgate graduate. Marcia is a sophomore at Miami U,, at Oxford, Ohio. Goldy and Peg live in Buffalo where he is with the Fireman's Fund, Ins. Cos. He is the same old guy and "golf, fishing and cards (especially poker) find their place and last but not least a good 'bull fest' over a few beers or in the good old days Scotch and Soda."
Secondhand comes the news that brother Ort Hicks was somewhat surprised to find Dave Trainor next to him in line waiting to register at the Stevens in Chicago. Dave was attending a meeting of the American Association of Geologists there what Ort was up to was not stated. Jean Ryder, one of our Dan's daughters, became engaged to Robert D.Allen, Dartmouth '44, recently. Jean graduated from Smith in '45 and was formerly secretary to Prof. Andre Morize of Harvard. She is now Working with the United Nations Secretariat at Lake Success, N. Y. Bob Allen was Psi U and Sphinx and is with Briggs Schaedle & Cos. in New York.
The New York Sun reported on January 14th that Kent McKinley sold his Watertown News. How about doing a column for us Kent now that you will have a little time? Art Anderson writes Bob Mac Donald that he has been bouncing around California and way stations on the "peddler routine" and regretted missing the Reunion but has to get the shekels together for two up and coming sprouts headed for Hanover. Sounds interesting Art, why not send in the questionnaire so we can get the whole story? Charlie Stickney reports a visit with Dan Patch, the new comptroller of Crucible Steel Cos. of America, in New York. Dan has two daughters, one in high school, the other in college/Charlie's second daughter, incidentally, is a freshman at George Washington U in Washington. Tom and Betty Cleveland got back early in February from several days' skiing at Mount Mansfield with DanRyder and Tom Norcross. Dan was one of the original developers of the Mt. Mansfield ski area and Tom says it is a grand layout.
Fat Childs and Bob Burroughs ski the fast trails but Tom eschews them for the toll road. Says he had a chat with Jack Hurd in Hanover on the way back and learned there were thirty broken legs in town from ski mishaps. Either the boys aren't as good as they were 25 years ago or they ski more. Palm Palmer has a new address.... 139 Alden Drive, Akron 2, Ohio. Phil Newhall has moved from North Brookfield, Mass., to Ansonia, Conn., where he is a Science instructor in the high school. His address is now 43 Howard Ave., Ansonia, Conn. Coot Carder is out of the Navy and with Seven Seas Film Corp., 729 7th Ave., New York City.
That, friends, is the last of the late news and we're surprised it stretched this far. All news gratefully received at any and all hours. We now pass on to the "What the Zilches are Doing" department to fill our alloted space. To wit: Bob Macdonald, the watchdog of the class funds. Bob and Helen have one daughter Betty, eight, and they live in Evanston, Ill. Bob is with Kendall Mills, cotton textiles in Sales. For the past 20 years he has traveled the eastern part of the U.S. for them, living in seven or eight places and is glad to get some roots down in Evanston. He brags about his health and admits he likes his work and enjoys his family, is in favor of the five day week that gives him time to garden, golf and watch over class finances. The report of the happy guy: Batch Batchelder, the class papa, hangs his hat permanently in Deerfield, N. H., when he's not away doing chores for the Army as a Lt. Col. He and Jessie have a wonderful family, Theodore graduated from the Naval Academy in 1945 and was married immediately afterward. Hugh, the second boy, was killed in action in France on January Ist, 1945. He was serving with the 14th Armored Division in the Battle of the Bulge. Robert attended Piedmont College in Georgia, U. of N. H., and U. of Calif., and then into the Merchant Marine Academy after some sea duty. Jessica is at Winthrop College in Rock Hill, S. C. and George is still in High School. A grand family as everybody at Reunion will testify. Batch gives Jessie all the credit for their very Mobile Unit which is as it should be. He is now testing quartermaster equipment with a view to making all possible improvements.
C. Randall Childs, bachelor and philosopherof parts from Manchester, N. H., dabbles inthe insurance business. His remarks rate extensive quotation so brace yourself and hangon. The man really has something:
My own departure from Hanover being without pomp and ceremony, the usual assistance of Summer School credit was needed to clear my name in the college records. Had I known they mark easier 'mid the heat of a Boston summer, I would have enrolled those summers previous and thus finished a year earlier. Life since '21 has been spent almost entirely around my present home keeping tabs on my brothers in '21 and watching them grow rich, fat and successful. Their progress has continually won my admiration and yet I'm alive and contented: only once have I been jugged for the night. The way of a bachelor grows lonely as time goes on but that is my fate, my luck—perhaps my choice. My hopes in World War II were that if things grew tough enough—l would be accepted in some branch of the service but my physical shape was tougher than that of the country and I cruised no farther than recruiting offices to satisfy my desires to kill. I have no particular convictions to speak of at this writing. Common sense ought to prevail again some day and I hope we here now will live to see it. The old world has rolled along a lot too fast in the last 25 years. It may have shown progress in many ways but the frame can't stand the vibration. So, I live on, looking forward to just such times as Reunion to make me feel life's worth living. I have my pleasures, sports, and side trips to blot out the troubles of the world. Still childish in wintertime, I sure believe my skis help keep my aging hulk in passable trim. It makes you feel like a new man to get out in the cold, crisp air, and yet some time a tree near a trail may get the best of me. Who knows—but till then—why worry?
Thus speaks the sage of the One and Only Chapter.
We list below the Co-Ordiriating Committee appointed by Prexy Tom for the next five years. If you feel the need of being co-ordinated get in touch with the nearest member .... if they think you need some co-ordination they will contact you. Don't forget, gents, that one of your main duties is to send in news whenever and wherever you find it.
CO-ORDINATING COMMITTEE 1946-1951
Francis J. Cos grove, 25 Fairmount Street, Marlboro, Mass.; Reginald B. Miner, 21 Chestnut Street Wellesley Hills 82, Mass.; Daniel B. Ruggles fr. Boston Herald-Traveler Corp., 80 Mason Street Boston; Walter T. Lundegren, 120 Elm Street, Marblehead, Mass.; Donald F. Sa-wyer, Kidder, Peabody & Cos., 105 Newbury Street, Boston 16; Gordon S. Stanley, New England Tel. & Tel. Cos., 50 Oliver Street, Boston; William H. Perry, 196 Broadway, Cambridge, Mass.; Charles N. Stiles, 148 State Street, Boston; Harold D. Geilich, 29 Rangeley Road, Brookline. Mass.; David C. Bowen, East Pepperell, Mass.; Otis C. Severance, Ogontz Jr. College, Ogontz School P. 0., Penn.; Leon W.Bateman, 10 Winthrop Road, Lexington 73, Mass.; Russell Bailey, 33 Hillcrest Avenue, Melrose 76, Mass.; Lewis J. Kerlin, 2 Springdale Road, Larchmont, N. Y,; Harland F. Manchester, 42 Commerce Street, New York 14, N. Y.; Herman Schulting Jr., 231 Boulevard, Passaic, N. J.; Clarence C. Fleet, Cutchogue, Long Island, N. Y.; G. Harry Chamberlaine, Good Housekeeping, 57th St. & Bth Avenue, New York City; Orton H. Hicks, Loew's International, 1540 Broadway, New York City 19; LloydS. King, 1 Colony Drive, Summit, N. J.; CliffordF. Hart, 3725 64th Street, Woodside, Long Island, N. Y.; Elmer B. Harper, 96 Beulah Street, Whitman, Mass.; John W. Hu.bbell, 86 Mendota Ave- nue, Rye, N. Y.; Lorin D. Goulding Jr., 167 Admiral Road, Buffalo, N'. Y.; Theodore Sonnenfeld, 78 State Street, Albany, N. Y.; Alden P. Chester, Globe American Corp., Kokomo, Ind.; Joseph H.Lane, Lookout Mountain, Tenn.; Ingham C. Baker, G. & C. Merriam Cos., Springfield 2, Mass.; HowardS. Ransom, Clark, Hall & Peck, 129 Church Street, New Haven, Conn.; Hugh M. McKay, 12 West Mystic Avenue, Mystic, Conn.; Harold F. Braman, North Street, Middlebury, Conn.; Corydon K. Litchard, 1200 Main Street, Springfield, Mass.; Norman F. Carver, 329 S. Park Street, Kalamazoo, Mich.; Nelson Lee Smith, 2480 16th Street N. W., Washington, D. C.; John L. Sullivan, 4871 Glenbrook Road, N. W., Washington, D. C.; CharlesA. Stickney Jr., 201 W. Montgomery Avenue, Rockville, Md.; Howard L. Heath, Apt. 8499, 2823 31st Street, S. E., Washington, D. C.; Kenneth H.Thomas, 71 Warwick Road, Winnetka, Ill.; J. William Embree Jr., 3500 S. Racine Avenue, Chicago 9, Ill.; Furber Haight, 481 North Bundy Drive, Los Angeles 24, Calif.; Daniel F. Ryder, Waterbury, Vt.; DeWalt H. Ankeny, 1510 Mt. Curve Avenue, Minneapolis 5, Minn.; Thomas W. Staley, 1717 Armour Road, North Kansas City 16, Mo.; MerrillE. Shoup, 500 Carlton Building, Colorado Springs, Colo.; Robert P. Burroughs, 753 Chestnut Street, Manchester, N. H.; Dr. Norman W. Crisp, Shea Building, 215 A Main Street, Nashua, N. H.; C.Randall Chilis, 104 Ray Street, Manchester, N. H.
Secretary, 16 Lenox St., Worcester, Mass. Treasurer, 545 Hinman Ave., Evanston, Ill.
