1914

By this time you all know of the terrific misfortune which befell Ellsworth Buck early in April, when he was shot three times by a crackpot sailor in front of his office.

It is a pleasure to report that he recovered rapidly and was able to leave the hospital three or four days after the shooting. He went almost immediately to Sea Island, Ga. to spend the next two weeks recovering from the wounds. This information comes by way of Richard Parkhurst in a letter from the District Attorney who witnessed the shooting and is prosecuting the case.

Buckey was exceptionally fortunate as one bullet entered his chest and came out through his back, but succeeded in missing all the vital organs.

Chick Grant writes that he spent a most enjoyable time on his birthday, with the wholefamily in good health except that Grace hada sprained ankle and was forced to hobblearound for several days. "Had my fingerscrossed all day in the hope that daughterCarol would give me another grandchild as apresent. However, we are still expecting. Withtwo girls now, I am rooting for a boy." (Thiswas two weeks ago, and we have not heardwhich it was). Chick further writes, "Yes, itsure is great to' have Chet Westcott greet youwhen you enter The Inn. He is a perfecthost Last' Week Grace and I stopped infor a chat with Abe N'ewmark, in his well appointed Salem store. He has recently purchased a television set and immediately became an enthusiast. He complains that itchanges his old routine plenty and is afraidthat his evening gardening is sure to suffer."

Cap Lawrence, sending some clippings about the middle of March, wrote that he hoped to be in Pinehurst by the end of the week for a little g01f..... Sammy Sheldon is back in Red Wing, Minn., giving 457 West 7th Street as his new address Pen Aborn informs us that Prof. Thorndike Saville representing New York University School of Engineering, was a delegate to the Inaugural at M.1.T., in April Everett Barnard is getting to be a regular visitor at The Inn, having stopped there three times in March and early April. Everett is much improved following his operation, and reports that it is a pleasure once more to sit down in comfort. Your correspondent saw Everett on the 9th of April in Hanover, but did not get a chance, for some reason, to say much more than hello Gordonand Mrs. Sleeper were also guests at The Inn in March and April Stubby Johnson, too, has been in Hanover, recently.

Speaking of Hanover, I am leaving in three days, with Marian, to attend the Annual Meeting of the Secretaries' Association. Some of you may not know that each year in May this association holds a series of conferences in Hanover, pertaining to Class and College matters. It is made up of both Class and Club Secretaries, who hold a joint meeting and later break up into individual groups. At the same time, the Treasurers' Association, of which Rufe Sisson is President this year, and the Class Agents' Association hold their meetings. The Inn is filled up, as are surrounding hostelries, such as Norwich Inn and the Green Lantern. These meetings have proved to be not only enjoyable but exceedingly helpful and beneficial. They are well worth while.

Following these meetings we plan to cross through the mountains, open up the camp in Maine, where we will stay for a few days. Then back home for three weeks and back to Hanover for Commencement and, we hope, our son's graduation.

Risking his disapproval, the following abstract of an article which appeared in Editor & Publisher, is offered regarding Sig Larmon.

Sigurd S. Larmon is President of an advertising empire and that's no surprise. He heads Young & Rubicam, which has headquarters in Manhattan and branch offices almost everywhere but Potato City, Idaho. The agency has a thousand employees, an estimated billing of 80 million dollars and the delightful ability to breed more firsts than a fat momma rabbit.

It was the first to buy space in a comic section for an ad in comic strip form; first to use large illustrations, large photographs and comic strip techniques; first to measure radio audiences scientifically; first to have a radio commercial department and first to invent integrated radio commercials.

Sig has equally attractive equipment. You meet him and that is a pleasure, and you talk with him, and he is gracious, even charming, and you quickly add up the man and say to yourself, "It certainly seems natural that this forthright guy is President." He has a crisp voice that sounds as though it had trained on thick steaks, his words are crisp, too.

Sig admires Rubicam and that fact, this admiration, is essential to an understanding of how Larmon operates, his policies and thoughts and actions.

It is also said that Sig manages his advertising empire with a gentle hand. He's a quiet man, always courteous, persistently honest, ruggedly ethical. He'll advise against a campaign even though it suits the client, if he's convinced that it is not for the client's good, or if he believes the work can be improved.

He likes open minds, dislikes complacency and sizes up his financial philosophy this way: "A man can run a financially successful business and still be cordially disliked. A business can be profitable and still be an unpleasant place in which to work. I have known businesses like that and I would not care to be associated with them.

"I want to do everything I can, not only to keen this business profitable, but to keep all the people in it happy." _ .

And that, gentlemen, is your next President and present Trustee of the College.

News is exceedingly scarce this month—in fact we are scraping the barrel clean but we can't close without a word for the Alumni Fund. This writer has little ability in the field of persuasiveness, but he does know the needs of Dartmouth College and he realizes how much more the College did for him and for you than any of us can repay either in work or money.

Won't you give, this year and do it now? It is Jack's last year. He is loaded with college work, he can't do it alone and has had to call on help. Send something, won't you and don't hold back if it is small in amount. Just do the best you can and remember that there are many donations of one, two and three dollars. In any case, get your name on the listthere are only a few days left.

Had this been a reunion year—3s years out of college—this would have been my swan song, but the fates have decreed that you put up with me for another year. Won't you try to send along some news? Do help to make this column interesting.

Vacations are at hand and your officers take this opportunity to wish all of you a good summer. If you are in Maine in August and anywhere in the vicinity of Norway, look us upthe latch string will always be out.

Secretary, 88 Sea Street, North Weymouth, Mass.

Treasurer, 26 Garden Street, Potsdam, N. Y.

Class Agent, The Stanley Works, Bridgeport 7, Conn