1921

Not one of us—you, I or any other classmate, has ever, or will we ever liquidate the debt we owe to the College. The tuition we, or our fathers, paid when we were undergraduates covered about half of the actual cost of our college education just as it does today. But who can measure the value of the training, the friendships and the seasoning that we gained on the Hanover Plain. The question is not -whether we have an obligation, only how•well we attempt to discharge it. The average age of our class will be about 50 years in 1948 .... the old age of youth, or the youth of old age .... as somebody has said. Most of us are in, or close to, our most productive years. For the next decade, 1921 will be one of the classes on which Dartmouth must depend for the backbone of the Alumni Fund. How well we can measure up will depend on each of us individually, for only we can decide what our gift should and can be. The Alumni Fund is the wonder and despair of our sister institutions. They can't understand how we do it, but we understand. Once a year every Dartmouth man has an opportunity to liquidate one installment of the obligation he inherited by becoming a Dartmouth man. You will be hearing from Rog Wilde this month about your gift for 1948. All he wants is the down payment you decide to make on your Dartmouth heritage. Give it serious consideration .... but GIVE .... and early.

In spite of some unavoidable last minute changes among those present, the '21 Cocktail Party and get-together at the Dartmouth Club in New York on Saturday, February 28th was completely successful. Dan Ruggles and RegMiner weren't able to show from Boston and Prexy Tom Cleveland picked up a fresh attack of grippe, so he and Betty had to stay home, with Tom, in none too amiable a mood, adding his gripes to the grippe. He wired regrets to Cliff Hart and Rog Wilde from his Simmons Beautyrest (adv.). But the thirty-two representatives of the class made things hum. What with the reunion movies presided over by flicker tycoon Ort Hicks in person, piano music by Homer Cleary and Gladys Hart and the presence of several classmates and wives who hadn't met the gang before, the event was a huge success. Orchids to Gladys and Cliff Hart and their committee, for engineering a great party. But for some last minute business engagements, the affair would have been augmented by quite a few more of the faithful. Harry Chamberlaine was delayed in Boston on business for his Good Housekeeping. Leigh and Trace Higgins flew into LaGuardia six hours too late to make it, en route from Mexico. Coot Carder had to leave on a business trip to the Coast and Lois Hicks was visiting her family in Rochester. Dave Plume sent word by Sum Perkins that they had unexpected guests at the old homestead in Jersey. Detained also were the Ernie Wilcoxes and the Paul Nicholsons who have been promised a personally escorted trip to the next affair by the Alleys and the Moores. Jake Garfein and Marguerite, all the way from San Francisco, took the honors for the longest distance. Jake is with the John Hancock out there and this was Marguerite's first trip east of Chicago. They visited Jake's folks in New Rochelle. In writing from San Francisco late in February, Jake remarked that the weather was beautiful out there and he hoped they wouldn't freeze or get snowbound in New York. N.B. They did .... both. Jake expressed amazement at the multitude of undraped pates which have appeared since he last saw the class. He is weathering well from all reports and still retains a respectable and modestly covered noggin, looking much like the undergrad of nearly thirty years ago, but no sprints now, only golf.

Rudie Blesh, artistic and resplendent in a bright green shirt, has changed the architecture of his famous chin foliage from the earlier spade cut to the "new 100k".... pointed. Leighton Tracy, father of half-back Carll, has resolved to join all our future gatherings. He missed this time, due to a too rapid scanning of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE during which he overlooked the date. Moral, read slow and careful. Homer Cleary, now of the Kew Forest School, Forest Hills, has lost none of his cunning on the horseteeth and he can still make a piano roll over and do tricks. He should be the lion of future '2l dancing parties. Present also were, Teeter and Bill Alley, Doris and Hal Braman from Middlebury, Conn., Avalite and Herrick Brown, Rowene and Red Kerlin, Mickey and Rex King, Laetitia and Harl Manchester, Ruth and Skinny Moore, the Sum Parkinses, Lorrainne and Howie Ransome of Orange, Conn., Helen and Chosen Freeholder, Hoy Schulting, Helen (Mrs. Rex) Stark, Edith and Carlt Sullivan, Jean Murray, Abe Weld and last but never least Rog Wilde, our Class Agent and slumber expert from the windy city.

Bill Embree's musical sprout, Bill Jr., sings quartet and solo numbers with the Dartmouth Glee Club, which was heard on Long Island March 29. Harl Manchester has made a demand on the Class Treasury for an appropriation of $6,000 for the purpose of visiting all class members who have neglected to send in their questionnaires. Better send yours in and help keep the class solvent. Doug Storer's trip to the Orient with Believe-it-or-not Ripley will include several broadcasts in the U.S., then Honolulu, Tokio, Shanghai, etc. He will take color movies and has promised to show them at a '21 gathering—maybe the 27th reunion. Tracy and Leigh Higgins have been getting around. They took in a convention in Chicago then detoured home via Mexico, Cuba and Florida .... nice, huh! Helen and HoySchulting have acquired a summer place in Rhode Island which they enjoy very much. Report is that Hoy finds it therapeutic too, he lost some weight puttering around up there last summer. Bob Burroughs is very active for Stassen in his native state. Long before this appears we'll all know with what effect. JohnSullivan, Secretary of the Navy, was awarded the Medal of Merit on January 27, by President Truman. Recent visitors to the Hanover Inn included Jack Hubbell, Okie O'Connor, the Marsh Wheldens, the Dutch Baushers and Don Sawyer. Jim Stanley, who operates a mill in Fairfield, Maine, is getting prominent through his two boys who are making a real record up there in football. One of them was all-state blocking back, the other all-state guard last fall. Jim hopes both are headed for Dartmouth and that they will some day be wearing green jerseys on Alumni Field. Just learned from Bill Codding that he ran across Doug Fay. Doug has left American Airlines and is in business for himself in Jackson Heights, L.I. He is president of Fay Textile Products. Among other things his Carpet Service Department will "shampoo, tint, dye and repair your rugs and upholstered furniture." If you have such to be done in the N.Y. area call Doug at ILlinois 7-2040. A change of address would indicate that Batch Batchelder has been promoted to a "chicken" Colonel, new address, European QM Depot, APO 169, Geiseen, c/o P.M., New York.

Here are a few more late address changes: Al Kernan, no N. Washington St., Tiffin, Ohio; Johnnie Means, New Colonial Hotel, 15th and M Sts., N.W. Washington, D.C.; SamPlumb, 1216 N. Bloomington St., Streator, Ill.; Bill Johnson Jr., 72 Berkeley St., Nashua, N.H.; Hal Printz, 450 7th Ave., N.Y.C.; RufReichart, Room 402, 55 Broadway, N.Y.C. 6; Carlton Van Cleve, IC7 Chester Ave., Staten Island 12, New York.

STILL IN DARTMOUTH HANDS: The Dartmouth Carnival Cup, won by Middlebury this year by an important .02 of a point, is shown in the possession of President Samuel S. Stratton '2O of Middlebury.

Secretary, 16 Lenox St., Worcester 2, Mass. Treasurer, 545 Hinman Ave., Evanston, Ill. Class Agent, 1870 Merchandise Mart, Chicago, Ill.