1921
Congratulations, you men of 1921, for winning your FIFTH Green Derby in a row! Let's shake hands all around and carry Rog Wilde and all his assistant agents off on our shoulders. Any of you who have worked in a fundraising campaign for any worthwhile cause know that 101% participation is impossible. But we did it! What a class!
If you feel like celebrating, the big weekend for 1921 this fall is the Columbia game in Hanover, November 8. Another delicious luncheon will be served us, with cocktails, at the Ski Hut, back of the Inn, before the game. Be there by 11 a.m. but send your postcard first to Prof. John Hurd, 33 E. Wheelock St., giving the number in your party. Rog Wilde expects to come with Bob Burroughs and JohnSullivan hopes to make it. Order your game tickets now for it's house party weekend in Hanover, too.
The night before the Harvard game, which will be played October 25, the usual stag gathering at 5:30 p.m. at Eddie Davis' Steak House, Stuart St., back of the Sheraton (Copley to you) Plaza, will start things off. Next day about 11:30 a.m. the '21 classmates will gather their cars, wives, children, cocktails and picnic lunches around a 1921 banner opposite the Memorial Drive gate of the Stadium. Ort and Lois Hicks and the Mick Shoup family were there last year. No reason why they shouldn't repeat this fall.
Howie Ransom, who lives five miles from the Yale Bowl expects to find a goodly crowd of '21 men rallying at the Dartmouth picnic spot on November 1 just outside the Bowl, weather permitting, back of the parking areas. They have a caterer on hand to serve sandwiches, coffee, etc. under class numeral signs. If it rains, emergency 'phone calls to Howie at Orange, Conn., may disclose an alternative time and place for 1921 contacts.
G. Harry Chamberlaine, V. P., is cooking up something for the Army game, October 11 at West Point. If you plan to be there, write or call Harry at Good Housekeeping, 959 Eighth Ave., N. Y. 19.
With all these prospects, Lorin GoulcLing,Bill Marcy and Les Lambert may get together in Buffalo to plan some function before or after the Cornell game, November 15, in Ithaca. At least we can be sure that DougStorer or Harry C. or Ort will stage a party at the Dartmouth Club of New York the night before the Princeton game. Watch the Smoker for details.
A plethora of news of '21. The Smoker presses broke down from the strain and its staff is off on vacation till College opens. Some sad items, mostly glad. See In Memoriam for details about the deaths of two classmates, Blodgett Wells Minnis and Chuck Kerwin. Chuck's widow Lillian wishes to thank those classmates whose kindness and sympathy helped her to recover from the first shock and those who gave so generously in Chuck's memory to the Red Cross and to the Shriner's Hospital for Crippled Children.
Be sure to note the boxed feature herewith about Ellis Briggs' transfer from Czechoslovakia to South Korea. Out of the frying pan
Jack Hurd also has done a profile in this issue of Joe McDonald, new Dean of the College, successor to Pudge Neidlinger. You won't want to miss it.
We are indebted to Bill Bullen '22 for an article, clipped from the July Nation's Business, about that "Haven for the Harried," Burning Tree Golf Club, just outside the District of Columbia. Our own John Sullivan is currently its president, ably discharging the duties of that office with his customary wit and oratory. We were also pleased to learn that John was invited to attend the laying of the keel of the new supercarrier, Forrestal, on July 14 which is the ultimate outcome of a three-year fight by the Navy since John angrily resigned his post as Navy Secretary when the Administration stopped the building of the larger carrier United States.
Did you spot Bob Burroughs on TV July 9 during the Republican National Convention? As a member of the minority group of the Credentials Committee he was in the thick of the fight and helped his group win approval of its report. The result was Ike's nomination. Dottie and daughter Harriet also appeared on the screen for a moment in one of those candid shots. Presently Bob is helping Sherm Adams '20 guide Dwight Eisenhower along the path to victory in November.
Dr. Henry F. Palmer is no longer general manager but Vice President of Kentucky Synthetic Rubber Corp., Louisville, Ky., as announced by President Robins of that company on August 19. Henry and Evelyn will move to Stamford, Conn, about November 1 (just in time for the Yale game) where he will have charge of a new headquarters office. His older son Henry F. III will remain in Louisville as Chief Construction Engineer at that plant.
Since 1943 Howie Heath has devoted his time to the personnel field, specifically as Placement Officer, Overseas Affairs Branch, Civilian Personnel Division, of the Office of the Secretary of the Army. Last June 20 he resigned and is now Personnel Officer in the Washington, D. C., office of the United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency. His new work is similar to the old in that he recruits specialists and technical experts to help carry out overseas programs.
Paul Rosenthal, our semi-retired investment banker, lumber tycoon and director of many corporations, was recently elected to the Board of Trustees of Bard College. He has been a special partner of Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co. since 1945. When not attending directors' meetings he raises beagles, pheasants, gaited horses and a large dairy herd. He and Ray Mallary ought to compare notes.
El Fisher, chairman of the board o£ Fisher Bros. Co., Cleveland grocery chain, was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Business Administration by Fenn College, Cleveland. He is president of the Fenn trustees and a member of the Fenn Corporation. Remember to address him as Doctor next time.
If you need new office furniture ask Leighton Tracy to show you the new line put out by Globe-Wernicke where he is now Contract Sales Manager. Joe Lane also has an advanced filing system for sale, manufactured by his Cavalier Corp. in Chattanooga. (Free advt.)
Harland Manchester continues to explain the latest wonders of science to the readers of Harper's Magazine and Reader's Digest.
Ken Bean, headmaster of Manchester (N. H.) West High School and director of the local Y.M.C.A. and Kiwanis Club, has made quite a name for himself as Director for the fifth consecutive year of Boys' State in New Hampshire. Sponsored by the American Legion, an annual gathering of about 100 selected boys from various high schools throughout the State is held annually for one week at the University of New Hampshire to teach the boys by actual practice and control the fundamental principles of town, city and state government.
When Don Sawyer was visiting his daughter in Tucson recently he learned that the Reverend George Ferguson was really packing 'em in at his Episcopal Church of Our Lady of the Catalinas. After the church begins to overflow, loudspeakers are hooked up outside for those who congregate on the lawn. Don will report additional details after his next trip in February '53.
Did you know that John Campbell and his brother Bushrod H. Campbell '15 run the Personal Bookshops in Boston? If so, you probably do not know that the 12 retail shops in and around Boston only account for 15% of their business. The other 85% is a nationwide jobbing business in books, new and used. Publishers' Weekly for July 5, 1952, gives the whole story which is a reassuring example of private enterprise.
The big news item around Greater Boston in August was the beaming countenance of President Emeritus Tom Cleveland whose pockets are currently full of cigars. His oldest daughter Joan Taylor gave birth to twin sons in Detroit August 7 and named them Thomas Cleveland and Stephen Collett Taylor. Tom claims a record in the grandpas' contest. Can anyone match or beat him? We understand both boys are registered for the Class of 1973. Tom's second daughter Connie returned August 26 from a delightful summer in Europe. His youngest, Betsy, enters Smith this fall.
Howie Ransom and family, the LorinGouldings, and George Frost all visited the Norcrosses and Clevelands at Lake Sunapee this summer. Frank Ross' interest in 1921 was so rejuvenated by Pud Walker's Boston visit and Dartmouth Night at the Pops that he had Bill and Edith Perry and Tom and BettyClevelatid at his Marblehead home for a steak dinner in June.
During Mac Johnson's recent ten-day examination of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank, Don Sawyer, ,Tom Cleveland, RussBailey and your secretary managed to dine with him twice. Having no gray hairs and no receding hairline, Mac doesn't look a day over 40. This can't go on forever.
On good authority we learn that one of our other bachelors, Fat Childs, finally gave in to his classmates' demands and married the lovely Mrs. Tebbetts in August. They are occupying a fine old Colonial mansion opposite the Manchester (N. H.) Country Club.
Seven '21 men, each preeminent in his own field, gathered for lunch last July at the New York Dartmouth Club. Under the aegis of class veep Harry Chamberlaine, Jack Hubbell,Ort Hicks, Lyman Worthington, Rudi Blesh,Ralph Steiner and Harland Manchester tossed off seven bowls of chef's salad and settled the world's most pressing problems. Unexpurgated biographies of these distinguished gentlemen-will be furnished on request or consult our 30th Reunion book, Dartmouth1921.
We are forced to end on an unhappy note because a last-minute flash from HarryChamberlaine reports that Bill O'Connor passed away at Glens Falls, N. Y., on September 3. No details or explanation as to why Oky should have to go so suddenly but we'll have more information for you in the November issue. Auf wiedersehen.
Secretary, 21 Chestnut Street, Wellesley Hills 82, Mass. Treasurer, 2519 Ridgeway, Evanston, Ill.
