1921
Hear Ye! and duly note! The locus of the big 1921 fall cocktail party and luncheon before the Cornell game on November 17 is the Ski Hut adjoining the Inn, not the D.O.C. House. Time is 11 a.m. Write, wire or 'phone Prof. George Frost to reserve your quota of food and beverages.
The College finds it necessary to close the D.O.C. House from October 21 until May l, 1952, because it operates at a loss during the winter months. Miss Jeanette Gill, who has produced such excellent meals there, has been drafted to manage College Hall Commons and Thayer Hall which is a full-time job. No more student gripes about food.
Another happy prospect for alumni who appreciate the results o£ the culinary arts is the employment o£ Mr. A. L. Zollikopfer to manage the Hanover Inn dining room. He is the man responsible for the increasing fame in recent years of the cuisine at the Hotel Coolidge at the June. Last June it was impossible to get a meal there without reservations at least half a day in advance. Our Cornell game luncheon should delight the epicures of 1921.
The previousness of a deadline date prevents up-to-the-minute disclosure of the plans now being promoted by President John Sullivan, Vice Presidents Harry Chamberlaine and Rex King, Ort Hicks and Coot Carder for a 1921 party before either the Yale or Princeton games or both. Watch your Smoker for details! Results of their plotting and of the Harvard game celebrations will be reported in this column in due time. That New York delegation staged a pre-reunion meeting last May 15 which inspired ten of those present to get to Hanover in June.
Jack Hurd's September Smoker covered the vacation activities of so many classmates so thoroughly that he must have had to go to press before receiving Bill Embree's report. Back in August Bill wrote that, "Bob andFlorelle McConnaughy are the proprietors of an outstanding dude ranch called the R Lazy S in the Jackson Hole country in Wyoming. With your left hand resting against the Grand Tetons you can cast a fly into the Snake River and obtain trout for the next meal. They have arranged a big game hunting trip for me in the vicinity, after which I will spend some time loafing around their ranch. Having visited their hostelry before, I am prepared to recommend it to any of our classmates who might be in the mood for such a vacation."
Our intelligence agents report additional data on Joe Folger's vacation. Between his plunges in the breakers at Surfside he relaxed his professional mien entirely to become a jack-of-all-trades including the jobs of carpenter, painter, electrician, roofer, re-constructor of ancient cars, boat builder and handy man.
Tom Staley, before attending our 30th and dodging around Europe this summer, found time to address the 43rd annual convention of the American Feed Manufacturers' Association (of which he is Chairman of the Board) in Chicago. Tom expounded upon the speed which which feed manufacturers transmit the benefits of new scientific discoveries to feeders of hogs and chickens and the exactness of preparation of the formulae. Ingredients are measured to one-thousandth of 1%. He proves the worth of the products of his Staley Milling Cos. on his 800-acre farm near Kansas City.
Any Massachusetts classmates who received a small check from the telephone company as a refund should realize the important part played by Gordon S. Stanley (Red to you), the company's auditor for Massachusetts, and organizer and director of the refund machinery. The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities ordered a state-wide distribution of $3,900,000 in 1,400,000 checks to present and former subscribers. To comply with this order, Red had to set up and train an organization of nearly 300 persons in just over one month. One of Red's headaches was locating about 200,000 subscribers who had their telephones taken out during the two-year period covered by the refund, but he even promised to have that completed by October. A typical case is a boy at Harvard who had a telephone for three months but whose home is in Los Angeles and who is now in Korea. In spite of all this, Red set up a system which produced a mailing rate of 8,000 checks an hour. He certainly rates at least a short cheer, if not a Wah Hoo Wah.
If you will turn to the August issue of the Journal of Accountancy, you will find an article by our own Seth A. Densmore, CPA of 310 College Street, Burlington, Vt. Seth discusses how accounting can help the small business man control his profit by helping him to know where his money comes from and where it goes. Back of all this is a record in public accounting in Burlington where he is secretary of the Vermont State Board of Accountancy and past president (1939-1949) of the Vermont Society of CPA's.
For some time we have felt that it would be helpful to have a secret agent on the Harvard campus. Recently we learned through RogWilde that Bob Rouillard is available in case of necessity. Naturally, his exact position in the enemy camp cannot be disclosed, but we did learn with regret that his inability to make the reunion last June was primarily due to Mrs. Rouillard's serious attack of pneumonia. Our sympathy goes out to Bob and his wife on both counts.
Ort Hicks, who can spot a '21 man in a list of 1000 names, calls our attention to 1921's contribution to better salesmanship. JackGray don is head of Canadian Facts Limited and is also secretary and moving spirit of its affiliated Sales Research Club of Toronto. Jack Hubbell is on the Board of Directors of the New York chapter of this Club and Ort is a member of the Nominating Committee. Tracy Higgins and Leighton Tracy are active members and Bob Wilson used to attend regularly before he moved to Washington.
You who applauded Rog Bird's rendition of I've Got the S.A.T.C. Blues and other antics on the stage of Webster, as well as his record plunges in the swimming pool, will share our regret that his widow Lindy had to decline an invitation to our reunion at the last minute because of her mother's illness. They have both now moved to their newly completed home at 39 Mayo Road, Wellesley, Mass., with Rog's daughter Joy Ethelyn Bird, who graduated from Oberlin College and is now employed by Little Brown & Cos., Boston publishers. Roger's son R. Kenyon Bird and his wife also live in Wellesley.
Since the reunion book, Dartmouth 1921, went to press, El Harper has shifted from Hoggsdon Brothers, Inc., to N. A. Lougee & Cos., Inc., 44 Pine Street, New York 5. GeneLeonard is now with the First Service Corp., 400 First National-Soo Line Building, Minneapolis 2. Frank Livermore is still with the Doughnut Corp. of America but is now living in Peter Cooper Village at 6 Peter Cooper Road, New York 10. Alex Youngerman has finally been located at 3000 Prairie Avenue, Miami Beach, Fla. Carleton -McMackin has changed his residence from Lantana to West Palm Beach, Fla., where mail will reach him at Box 2251. Maynard Hawse has jumped from Stratford, Conn., to Inglewood, Calif., where he is living at 218 West Regent Street and is handling accounting for an aircraft manufacturer. Maurice Stetson got tired of the cold winters in Kalamazoo, Mich., and got himself shifted to the Hawthorne Paper Company's branch at 2034 20th Avenue, South, Birmingham, Ala. He is living at 831 North 19th Street, Birmingham. Hugh Gruikshank just moved a few miles from Teaneck . to 77 Ayers Court, West Englewood, N. J. Warren Homer now occupies an estate called Shadyside in Saddle River, N. J. Paul Mott still runs the Mott Funeral Home in Adrian, Mich., but has changed his residence to 703 Front Street in that city. Bill Schmidt has also moved from Ridgewood to 26 Overpack Avenue, Ridgefield Park, N. J. Bill Murray is still living in the country but at Point View, R.D., Williamsburg, Pa. If you can take a moment to note these changes in your Class Book and then take it along on your travels, you might experience some of the pleasant renewals of old friendships which Ort Hicks,Rog Wilde, Mac Johnson and our other traveling members have enjoyed. If you don't have your book yet, send $4.25 to Don Sawyer, 200 Berkeley St., Boston 16, Mass., as soon as possible. He has a few copies left.
Secretary, 21 Chestnut St., Wellesley Hills 82, Mass.
Treasurer, 2519 Ridgeway, Evanston, III.
