1921

Now comes the low spot of the year for class notes. The holidays are over and as usual everybody has been too busy to pass along the news and your scribe is sitting on the far end of a couple of weeks of little or no sleep, mostly due to the comings and goings of the kids who seem to be able to exist and function with very little sleep at least at night. It's the old folks, meaning you and I, who take the beating on this deal but it's fun if you can stand it. Cheer up, by the time you read this it will all be way back and the mid-year exams will be the current worry.

Perhaps this is as good a time as any to take care of some odds and ends that have been pushed around from month to month and not used because of space requirements. The first item is in connection with members of our Class, and all others who for some reason weren't able to be with us all four years. These men in 1921 and every other Class are among the most loyal Dartmouth supporters anywhere. Most of our Classmates know that, as far as the class is concerned, whether an individual was with us all the way, or had to leave because of military service or anything else made no difference. The fact that we were in Hanover together as members of the Class of '21 was all that mattered and that is as it should be. The Alumni Council at their regular meeting in June 1948, voted to recommend a change in the General Alumni Association constitution, so that all Alumni, regardless of whether or not they received a degree, would be eligible for membership in the Association and thereby eligible to vote in Alumni Council elections and to serve on the Council. The amendment was unanimously carried last June, upon recommendation of John Sullivan s Committee, making "all former students" full members of the General Alumni Association, with the power to vote and hold office. It was simply recognition that interest in and love for Dartmouth has nothing to do with the length of residence in Hanover as an undergraduate.

Another thing which you may "have noticed has not been getting very much publicity lately are the Class questionnaires. Tom and the Executive Committee are still planning to put the material out at the 30th reunion next year and we want every Classmate included. Up to date about two-thirds of the living members of our Class have sent in completed questionnaires and we want the rest, as well as any changes which have taken place, to be in during the next year. You will receive soon, if you haven't already, a new questionnaire form. For those who have completed one, only supplementary information is necessary, but if you are one of the several hundred who didn't get around to filling out the original form, we want the works .... but fast.

The last and, of course, most important matter is the annual Alumni Fund Campaign, which started the first of the year and closes June 30. With Rog Wilde directing our efforts, we have won two Green Derbies in succession and he is expecting to make it three in a row. This year again he is stressing participation by every member of the Class as the indispensable ingredient which will put us over. There just isn't any substitute for that factor when the chips are down. So be thinking about your 1950 Fund gift and get it in as early as you can. We hope to have a personal message from Rog next month about his plans and what we can do to help him out.

Rudi Blesh, author of Shining Trumpets, and Harriet Janis are working on a musical volume tentatively titled Ragtime Days. Knopf will publish it late this year.

Here's a quick review of some of the cards you generous souls returned when we asked for news last fall. There must be plenty of them still hanging around, so please start 'em this way with some succinct late dope. You remember the heading read, "The most interesting (unusual, satisfying) thing which happened to me this year was."

Speedy Fleet, "Our son, Charlie, was accepted at Dartmouth and I was able to spend a couple of weeks at the Inn in October." Herrtck Brown, "The marriage of my son Ken, Dartmouth 47, to Nancy McAdams of Newton, Mass. in June. In covering football for the Sun again this fall, sat just in front of Dud and Helen Robznson at New Haven and they are very happy to be in Litchfield, Conn, again." Tom Staley, brief as ever, "No news except good health and good business. (As if that wasn't plenty.) An anonymous '2l philosopher from Springfield, Mass., "To realize on reaching 50 how many things remain to be done and how little time there is left in which to do them." Alas, yes! Bill Perry, "Sailing the open sea aboard our well-found little sailing vessel to the beautiful island country of Maine has been a great inspiration and source of relaxation to me. A capable crew, mostly lawyers (Harvard, of course) and no phones, gadgets, traffic, etc. Those fine Maine folks make one realize what a helluva lot of false notions we city folks go through to keep hide and home together." Probably looks even better in retrospect, Bill (Portland Chamber of Commerce, please note.)

Al Green, "After living in Syracuse, N.Y 26 years most of the time on the Post-Standard, I moved to Washington last June and am now writ- ing for Labor, weekly newspaper of the R.R. labor organizations. Satisfying. Daughter Mary, senior at Cornell, was editor of Cornellian Year Book. Bump Ward, "I, too, became a grandfather to Jon Carlton Ward, born March 11, 1949, first son of Osborne C. Ward Jr., Dartmouth '49, and Ruth Rundlett Ward." Jerry Cutler, "Son Bill graduated from University of Michigan in June. Entered Michigan Medical School this fall." Tom Griffith, "Got a 20 pound Muskie." Art Ross, "Guess my vacation in Maine was the most satisfying event of the year, although it wasn't unusual as I do it annually." Ken Thomas, "On September 16 my daughter Joan was married to Charles A. Crampton of Washington, D.C. They are living in Washington where Chick is in the home building business. Although a marriage is not unusual, it is to the parents and also to have your only daughter marry a grand guy is certainly satisfying. Joan graduated from Marjorie Webster Junior College in Washington and Chick is a graduate of Hamilton College. With John L. Lewis willing, I am still fighting the battle of the retail coal industry."

Brotherhood Week, annually sponsored by the National Conference of Christians and Jews since 1934, will be nationally observed the week of Washington's birthday, February 19-26. National general chairman is JohnSullivan.

Johnnie Means' address is % A. P. Phillips Cos., 24 W. Pine St., Orlando, Fla. Don Sawyer can be reached at 200 Barkley St., Boston, 16, Mass., Ev Taylor has moved from Hailey, Idaho to Sun Valley Lodge, Sun Valley, same state. Bill Terry has changed chateaux down in Scarsdale, N. Y. It's Scarsdale Chateaux now instead of Chateau Normandy. Dr.Hastings Walker (Pud) is at 719 Sunset Ave., Honolulu, 16. Corey Ford can always be reached these days at the Gramercy Park Hotel, 52 Gramercy Park, No., New York City 10.

Secretary, 16 Lenox St., Worcester 2, Mass. Treasurer, 2519 Ridgeway, Evanston, Ill. Class Agent, Rm. 1870, Merchandise Mart Plaza, Chicago 54, 111.