1921
Joe Vance had a cocktail party for the Class planned before the Michigan game and OrtHicks writes that he, Rog Wilde, Jack Hubbell and Rynie Rothschild were sure to be on hand. Rynie seems to have neglected his golf somewhat and mourns the fact that his game was very poor (for him) early in the summer, but things improved to the point where he posted at least six games between 74 and 77. Dorothy and Dewey Gruenhagen moved to the coast in September from the Twin Cities to take over Dewey's new job with William R. Staats Cos. in Los Angeles. Jack and RuthHubbell have announced the birth of a daughter on September 19, weight 8 lbs. 4 oz. Jack recently bought a new home in Rye, N.Y. His family, with the new arrival, consists of three girls and a boy. The Class congratulates Ruth and Jack. With humble apologies to the Bob Schultzes and the groom, we are happy to report the marriage of Barbara Franc Schultz to Roger S. Brown on June 24 at Holderness, N.H. The announcement got mislaid somehow last summer. Roger is Sid Hayward's assistant in Hanover.
John Sullivan has added two distinguished names to his law firm in Washington. W. John Kenney, formerly Under Secretary of the Navy and recently Chief ECA mission to the United Kingdom, has become a partner, and Henry G. Beauregard, formerly Assistant General Counsel of the Navy Department, has been named an associate. The firm is now Sullivan, Barnard, Shea and Kenney. Charlie Stickney's daughter Barbara was married September 9 in Lancaster, Mass., to Thomas H. George of Bronxville, N. Y., a senior at Amherst.
The August issue of Sigma Chi's magazine carried a feature article on Nels Smith, Chairman of the Federal Power Commission. Nels seems to have aged very little in spite of his arduous duties and you'd know him in a minute. Some of us remember that he gradu- ated with highest honors and went on to get his Masters at Tuck School. He received his doctorate at Michigan in 1928 and taught economics from 1922 to 1924 while studying at Ann Arbor. He came back to Hanover in 1924 to teach economics and remained until 1933, leaving to become a member and later chairman of the New Hampshire Public Serv- ice Commission. He has been with the FPC since 1943. Dr. Nels is the author of two books on economics, The Fair Rate of Return inPublic Utility Regulation (1932) and Eco-nomics (with Bruce W. Knight), two volumes published in 1929 and 1930.
We keep hearing good reports about HalBolles over in Woronoco, Mass., where he has been doing an outstanding job as Chairman of the Finance Committee of the town of Russell. Hal, who is with Strathmore Paper, is presi- dent of Westfield Kiwanis Club and a director of Hampden County Council Boy Scouts. Hal and Marjorie have three daughters, Doro- thy Ann, Mrs. Sally Lyman Bolles Collier and Janet. We're all looking forward to seeing them next June at the 30th.
Speaking of the reunion, it's only seven months away. Tom Cleveland has appointed Joe Folger general chairman of the 30th reunion. For the benefit of those of you who haven't been to Hanover recently, here's a thumbnail of Joe and Marion, who have al- ways done so much to make our reunions a success. Joe's official handle is Professor of Ro- mance Languages, Dartmouth Coilege. He teaches the moppets Spanish. In 1924, shortly after receiving his M.A. from Harvard, Joe and Marion were married and settled down in West Medford. They lived there until 1928, when he returned to Dartmouth as an instructor in French and Spanish. For the last 22 years their lives have followed a regular pattern of September to June in Hanover, June to September on Nantucket Island where Joe grew up and where his folks have lived since 1632, although he was born in California. Joe has found the life of a college professor a happy and rewarding experience. Marion's musical talent and interest in the stage have found an outlet in operettas and other musical activities in Hanover. Allen, Joe's elder son, is a senior at Dartmouth and shows promise as an artist. He was married last fall. David, Class of 1953 at Hanover, is undecided between engineering and medicine .... a grand family.
Henry Palmer, Akron rubber consultant, has been named general manager of the newly formed Kentucky Synthetic Rubber Corporation which will operate the governmentowned synthetic plant in Louisville. The plant is one of a group being reopened to increase the output of rubber and is expected to be in production about January 1 with a capacity of 30,000 tons a year. Henry is widely known in the rubber industry for his developments and processes for reclaiming rubber. He thinks this may be a one or two-year deal. We want to close this column with an editorial from the Cleveland Press last spring about one of our most loyal Classmates, El Fisher, who never has had much space here because he is so modest. His record is the kind John Dickey has so often spoken about when he has outlined the kind of Dartmouth men the College is trying to turn out.
ELLWOOD FISHER IS CHALLENGETO THOSE TOO BUSY TO LEAD
Busy hands, they say, are never idle. The more some men do the more they seem able to do.
Lately, in these columns, we've been talking about civic drift.
Civic drift, we think, is largely caused by lack of civic leadership. A _ 1 1 J U.'m in |%1- tn rr» ck/Ml Irl /"A m P
And civic leadership, in its turn, should come from the younger people in the town.
Today we talk about a man who has more than carried his share of civic responsibility since he was a very young man.
Because he is NOT one of the dispirited men around town we call your attention to him. TT • .i _ i i _r L • l :
He is the head of big business.
He has many other commercial interests. . i ■. i i-.i c t. • r ur,
He inherited a great deal from his family. He could have sat it out in comfort like some others we've mentioned—men who do little else but criticize the honest efforts of others.
NOT ELLWOOD H. FISHER.
We wish there were more like him. T! _ _ . 1 11 : C ,LI .— i:l,~ U m n U1 I t-r
There could be if other men like him, of ability, of means, of good health would follow Ellwood Fisher's example.
Right now he has just taken on a new job. He has just accepted appointment to the City Planning Commission.
That's going to take time, and effort and devo- tion.
ELLWOOD FISHER wouldn't have taken this one on unless he meant to do it well.
For 20 years, or more, he's been doing exactly that.
For four bitter depression years he was general chairman of the Community Fund.
His knowledge of the needy was so keen and his civic conscience so deep that his firm extended more than a million dollars credit to the Associ- ated Charities.
He became chairman of the Fenn College board. It was he who engineered the stuggling institution into the front rank among mid-western schools of its kind.
It was he who helped to bring about the shift from pathetically small quarters in the Central Y building to the towering National Town and Country Building.
The Welfare Federation, the Chamber of Com- merce, the Convention and Visitors Board all have benefited from his civic spirit, time and counsel.
He did his part during the war. He does his part in peace.
A BUSY MAN, ELLWOOD FISHER. NOT TOO BUSY—AS SOME—TO TAKE ON CIVIC RESPONSIBILITIES.
A good citizen in the truest sense, regardless of his wealth or position—a man who wants always to do something more for his home town.
Ellwood Fisher is a challenge to others similarly situated in life who ought to be doing what he is doing.
That does not mean they have to be blue bloods or sons of the rich. For much of Cleveland's finest leadership has come up by its own bootstraps. And it always must and we hope always will. This is a call to that kind of young man, too.
SO A SALUTE TO ELLWOOD FISHER! A CHALLENGE TO OTHERS!
Dr. Art Duryea seems to be working his way slowly eastward. His address is now Boatsman Bank Bldg., St. Louis, Mo. Jim Dodge is operating a hotel in Tilton, N. H. Good place to stop on a trip north.
Don't forget to send in your questionnaire. You'll be reminded.
Secretary, 340 Main St., Worcester 8, Mass. Treasurer, 2519 Ridgeway, Evanston, 111. Memorial Fund Chairman, 1015 Elm St., Manchester, N. H.
