1921
What a class! If you saw Rog Wilde's final report on the 1951 Alumni Fund in the July 25 Smoker, you realized what can be done by a grand group of men working as a team. We not only won our Fourth Green Derby but set some records too: 101% participation, 163% of class objective, a combined rating 51 points higher than the nearest competitor in our group, and within $250 of an all-time high dollar total. Rog Wilde, his assistant agents, the 20 guarantors, the Century Club members and every person who contributed to the total should get a big hand from us all.
For the benefit of those who may have missed the 30th reunion write-up in the July issue, our new class officers, in addition to those listed in the heading of these notes, are now: President, John L. Sullivan; Vice Presidents, Harry Chamberlaine, Rex King and Bill Perry; Executive Committee, Bob Burroughs, Ike Chester, Norm Crisp, FurbHaight, Cory Litchard and Tom Staley.
At the class meeting at which these men were elected the following resolution was also voted: "Whereas the Class of 1921 of Dartmouth College, meeting on June 23, 1951, on the occasion of its 30th Reunion, realizing that Dartmouth must look to her sons for the major portion of endowment adequate to meet its obligations and opportunities as a leader among the private colleges of the nation, and believing that devotion to and support of the College by every alumnus should be projected into the future,
"Resolved, that the Class of 1921 formally pledges to the College that efforts will be made to have all members of the Class of 1921 take appropriate steps to provide for Dartmouth in their estate plans."
To implement this action by the class, DonMix has been appointed Class Bequest Chairman. He is ready and anxious to supply information about how to leave your estate to Dartmouth. Some of this data is available in a new booklet, Philanthropic Estate Planning, recently produced by the Alumni Council. At least one of our classmates is already hard at work building up the value of certain properties which, after taking care of his family, he says "will mean a real income to Dartmouth for many years." In congratulating him Rog Wilde observed succinctly, "It is obvious that as those of us in 1921 grow older, some of us should be making plans for Dartmouth to share in our estates if she is to receive the endowment fund she needs. What you have done is an example that the rest of us should follow."
After winning the Eastern Father and Son tennis championship final in straight sets 6-3, 7-5 from the Hesses of Rahway, N. J., on July 1 at Elizabeth, N. J., Town and Country Club, Ort Hicks and Ort Jr. '49 modestly declared, "Actually, we were lousy." Ort, by the way, reminded us that Howie and Marion Slayton with Sandra and Marshall 'sa were in Hanover for a couple of hours Saturday afternoon of reunion. Jim Dodge also dropped by at that time but enjoyed so much seeing Geneand Dot McCabe that he didn't get a chance to mingle with the rest of us. Sorry Howie and Jim were omitted from the list of those at reunion.
While we're correcting omissions, one change should be made in the 30th Reunion Book Dartmouth 1921. Bill Alley wants the record straight that he married Catherine Robertson of Minneapolis, Minn., August 22, 1923, and that his son Tom married Ann Louise Higbee in 1948. The book has Bill married to Ann. Please correct your copy. Bill couldn't make reunion because Tom got his doctor's degree from University of Pennsylvania Dental School in June and the whole family celebrated by driving to the Pacific Coast, Vancouver, Lake Louise and Banff.
The big Hanover weekend for 1921 this fall is the Cornell game November 17. There definitely will be a 1921 pre-game cocktail party and buffet luncheon at the D.O.C. House, Occum Pond at 11 a.m. Game may start by 1 p.m. so come early! Send a postcard to Professor George Frost for your luncheon reservation.
Plans also are in the making for a cocktail party and dinner in Boston on October 26 the night before the Harvard game. Also a pregame picnic lunch Saturday noon opposite the Soldiers' Field Gate of the Stadium. Watch for details in The Smoker.
Another probability—the usual night-before-the-Princeton-game affair, November 23 this year, at the Dartmouth Club of New York. Plan your business trips accordingly and watch for special announcements, but don't forget the closing dates on your football ticket applications for any or all of these 1921 games.
Walt Lundegren confirmed a newspaper clipping that his second daughter Jayne Bradford Lundegren was married on August 11, 1951, to Mr. Finley Cuyler Hunt Jr., of Palmyra, N. Y., at The Little Church Aroundthe Corner in Manhattan. The groom is a graduate of Cornell and handles television commercials for J. Walter Thompson Adver- tising Agency. They will live in New York.
Bill Spencer drove down from West Hartford to attend the wedding in August of Neiland Dorothy Forbesdaughter Marjorie Ann to Reed S. Nibley of Washington, D. C. Bill says she was a beautiful bride. Marjorie graduated from Averett Junior College and both she and her husband have been attending the American University in Washington.
Charlie Stickney's third and last daughter Emily Preston Stickney strolled gracefully to the altar on July 14 on her father's arm to become the bride of William George Dvorak. Details of the engagement appeared in the July 25 Smoker. In the midst of the reception afterward Mac Johnson appeared for a casual vacation call. This was a repeat for Mac because he happened to arrive last year on September 9 when Charlie's daughter Barbara was stepping off. It may have been a coincidence, but—. Charlie calls Mac peripatetic. Is that good? After the principals, the guests and the punch were gone Mac produced a booklet of colored snapshots entitled InsideU.S.A. with M.F.J. It records pleasingly Mac's visits with classmates in the general vicinity of the Federal Reserve Banks which he inspects. When in San Francisco he and ConnieKeyes drove out to Kentfield over the Golden Gate Bridge to see Red Kerlin's new home from which the view is magnificent. In New Orleans Bob and Minnie Elsasser entertained him. Bob's new consulting service on management problems is most successful. Its head is also president of the local chapter of the Society for the Advancement of Management. Whether or not you have any management problems, and who doesn't, Bob would be glad to hear from you. John Sullivan, Bill Cunningham '19 and Nat Burleigh '11 are the only other granite-brained men from the North he's seen lately.
If Bob had been in Hanover in July, however, he would have seen Lovell and MargaretCook who stopped for a night at the Inn. Dickand Sue Barnes also paused there en route to the Thousand Islands, their favorite vacation spot.
Congratulations are in order to several classmates for recent achievements: Dur DeGroff for being elected cashier of the First National Bank in Amsterdam, N. Y., last May 29 after 28 years with that institution (Dur's son Durward Nielson graduated at Hanover in June); Dr. James L. Smead for his election to the presidency of the Hampden District Medical Society at Springfield, Mass., on May 2, 1951; Jack Hubbell for his election to the position of chairman of the board of Brand Names Foundation at the annual dinner in New York on April 11, 1951; Pick Ankeny for becoming a director of Northwestern National Bank, Minneapolis, Minn., in addition to half a dozen other full-time jobs (see the Class Book); and Werner Janssen for his organization of a new film production and distribution company under the name of Film Society, Inc.
TENNIS CHAMPS: Ort Hicks '2l and Ort Jr. '49 won the Eastern Father and Son tennis title at Elizabeth, N. J., this summer and then reached the semi-finals in the Nationals, losing to the champs after staving off match point eleven times. Young Ort is now studying in Copenhagen.
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