1921
First, an important announcement, which, if you haven't seen it until now, will require quick action. George Harris is in charge of the 1921 Cocktail party which will begin in the Ski Hut back of the Hanover Inn, immediately after the Colgate game in Hanover on October 15. The price will be $2.00 each and George would like to know how many will attend. Address him at 886 Elm St., Manchester, N.H. A postcard will do and he can take care of you any time up to the day before the game.
Just to get back in the groove after a hot summer, let's catch up on some back news that couldn't make the June notes. The Class was well represented at the annual Dartmouth night at the Pops in Boston in May. TomCleveland says the Glee Club was, as usual, in good voice. The program ended with our own Franklin McDuffee's "Dartmouth Undying" which grows more poignant with the passing years. Franklin will be remembered as long as Dartmouth men sing. Our table at the Gardner Hotel was well populated for dinner and many thanks to Reg Miner for the arrangements. The party included the Tom Norcrosses, Stan Whites, Tom Clevelands, Dan Ruggleses, Don Morses, Don Sawyers, Bill Perrys, Walt Princes, Dick Barneses,Fran Cosgrove, Mrs. Walt Prince's daughter, Mrs. Day, and Mrs. Bill Perry's niece, Miss Sands. The New York dinner last spring was ably reported by Jack Hurd in the Smoker. It was a good party and Tom reports quite a discussion of Class affairs, especially the questionnaire. The 30th reunion draws on apace, and it was decided to send a new questionnaire to everybody so they can bring the information up to date. That will be done in October. Quite apart from the value of a Class book to be based on the information, the value as Class records cannot be overestimated. It's a little tough to fill them out, but please do it, both to help Mannie Manchester with his book (a considerable job incidentally for anybody) and to give us the data the Class needs for permanent records. Let's quit fooling this time and get behind Mannie and clean the job up.
We assume that by this time every classmate knows we won the Green Derby again in Group 111 which included classes of 1917-1925. Only Rog Wilde and perhaps Caroline will ever know what went into that classic in time and effort, but we certainly owe Rog a thunderous Wah-hoo-wah and. the thanks of every one of us. Never satisfied, the little man is making plans for next year. He will be glad to accommodate anyone who wants to get a tax deduction for 1949 by making an early start.
The visit of Joe and Tava Lane together with Joe Jr. to New England this summer all the way from Chattanooga was the occasion for a most enjoyable reunion at Bob andDottie Burrough's farm at Canterbury, N.H. last July. Dan and Dot Ruggles, Tom, Bettyand Betsy Cleveland, George and MadelineHarris, Randy Childs, Don, Jessie and JanetMix together with the Burroughses and Lanes spent a grand day together. Bob and Dottie's farm is just about the most ideal spot we ever saw. They have their own pond stocked with trout and the gang spent several hours on the float swimming and settling most of the affairs of the world and the Class. Bob took one and all on an inspection tour and we found that his pullets, several thousand of them, were wearing eye glasses (fact) which probably gave him the only Phi Bete hens in New Hampshire. He also raises Mcintosh apples and a few Jersey cows. The beautiful old house overlooks the entire valley and dates back to pre-revolutionary days. Both Joe and Bob have become camera addicts, so much so that they never got in the picture. Joe was literally "in the pink" with a flaming sunburn.
By this time you have probably all received the notice of class dues from Bob Mac Donald and with it a return postcard to the Sec. If you are too modest or something to return it with some news about yourself and family, please give it to the little woman and let her fill it in. The girls seem to have a better idea of what's going on anyway. We're particularly anxious to have a word from you fellows in the Middle and Far West who seem to always be saying nothing and repeating it frequently.
Just learned that the Harry Chamberlains took quite a trip last spring which included the West Coast and deep South. RalphSteiner's photographs were featured in a show at the Museum of Modern Art which opened in New York last July. It was written up in the New York Times with a study of Boris Karloff taken by Ralph, in which he (Boris) looks much less ghostly than usual. Bob Burroughs made Fortune in July, as one of the outstanding insurance underwriters in the United States, which he certainly is. The article concludes .... "it's unlikely he would have missed in any career." John Sullivan has rejoined Lawrence J. Barnard and John E. Shea to resume law practice in Washington under the firm name of Sullivan, Barnard and Shea, at 914 Ring Building in the nation's capital. He was awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree at New Hampshire State last June and was a speaker at Hanover Holiday, where he did his usual grand job on a very hot night.
Ellis Briggs sure holds down the hot spots in the State Department's far flung network. He was appointed Envoy to Prague, Czechoslovakia in June. Ort Hicks represented the Class at one of the prettiest weddings of the year when Deborah Nicklaus Stark, daughter of Helen Stark was married to Mr. Hoyt Ecker in All Souls Unitarian Church in New York on June 22. The bride was our Rex Stark's daughter. An editorial in the Amsterdam, N.Y. Recorder expresses the approval of the community at the selection of Dur De Groff as President of the Board of Education. Up there it's "Dartmouth University" we notice. If you haven't seen the Fortune supplement for September, "A Survey of Higher Education," don't miss. Some of it will be a shock.
Now for a few address changes and out till next month. Werner Jans sen has moved to Beverley Hills, Calif. Box 1465, from Portland, Ore., Dud Robinson is living in Litchfield, Conn., BobWilson is now at 140 Cedar St., New York City, 6. Col. Batch Batchelder is back from Germany and may be found at Regts. Policy Sec. Supply Div., O.C.QM, Washington, D.C., John Herbert has moved to Burlington, Vt., P.O. Box 54, from Worcester. Russ Miller is in Utica, N.Y. 1557 Kemble St.; and Dr. Dave See gal is now at Maimonides Hospital, 402 Tenth Ave., Brooklyn 19, N.Y.
OUT ON THE FARM: A group of '2lers who beat the heat at Bob and Dottie Burrough's Canterbury, N. H., farm on July 30. Front row, 1 to r: Betsy Cleveland, Tava Lane, Dotfie Burroughs, Dot Ruggles. Back row: George Harris, Randy Childs, Don Mix, Dan Ruggles, Tom Cleveland. The spaces are for Bob Burroughs, Joe and Liltle Joe Lane, who were taking pictures and didn't get in.
Secretary, 16 Lenox St., Worcester 2, Mass. Treasurer, 2519 Ridgeway, Evanston, 111. Memorial Fund Chairman 1015 Elm St., Manchester, N. H.
