1921

Thanks to Jack Hurd's timely, objective presentation in the December 12 Smoker of the facts regarding the Princeton game charges, the fog of bewilderment cleared away promptly for most of us and many classmates were able to reassure both Princeton and Dartmouth associates within our daily orbits. How about sending each Princeton undergraduate a copy?

Again thanks to Jack and Doug Storer for the Ripley Believe It or Not cartoon inspired by Doug's recollections of our Thirtieth. DanRuggles clipped from Editor & Publisher of December 15, 1951, an excellent story on Doug and BION, short for Believe It or Not. "Mr. Storer has had more to do with the development of BION than any other one man—not excepting Bob Ripley himself. Made president of the corporation which produces and markets the feature last March, Mr. Storer has been part of the organization since 1931. The two men were inseparable. BION is now carried regularly in 298 newspapers in the United States and Canada and 52 others in 29 countries. The foreign versions are printed in 13 languages. Doug estimates something like 100,000,000 people constitute the Believe It or Not audience."

We also are indebted to Ken Bean of Manchester, N. H.. for more news of the achievements of 1921 men. R. DeWitt Mallary divides his time between his law practice in Springfield, Mass., and his Holstein-Friesian cattlebreeding farm in Bradford, Vt. How well he has succeeded in the latter occupation is attested by the New England Homestead of December 8, 1951, which records the remarkable performance of a Holstein bull, Montvic Posch Rag Apple, which has fathered 21 daughters, each of which has produced over 800 pounds of butterfat per year. The best of these is Mallary Farm Posch Karen whose record is 1025 pounds of butterfat in 365 days, being milked three times per day. "It highlights Mallary Farm as one of the greatest Holstein breeding establishments of all time. In less than 15 years they have accomplished miracles in breeding, and greatly adding to their distinction is the fact that they planned every step of the way." Excellent pictures of Ray, Gertrude and their prize cattle illustrate the article. But don't forget that the Mallarys also produced two sons, both of whom are Dartmouth graduates.

While we're still bragging about the class and its men, turn to our own Class Agent, Rog Wilde. Knowing modest Roger would never tell us, Jack Hubbell, V. P. of Simmons Cos., relates that the officers and top executives of that company gave Rog a special luncheon recently to celebrate his 20th anniversary with Simmons. Amid kudos and acclaim Grant G. Simmons, President, and G. D. Wrightson, Senior Vice President, presented the usual watch. "The way these men talked, you might think Roger worked as hard for the Simmons Company as he does for the Alumni Fund."

Another anniversary coming up in 1952 is G. Harry Chamberlaine's 25th with Hearst Magazines, the last five years as ad manager of Good Housekeeping. In Tide, for December 14, 1951, Harry is given credit for a "continuity incentive discount plan" designed to remedy the great advertising void which seems to hit most magazines during the four slow months of the year: January, February, July and August. By offering Good Housekeeping advertisers a flat 71/4% discount for space bought during this lull, Harry hopes to celebrate his silver anniversary with the greatest gross revenue year yet for his magazine.

Those of us who took any chemistry or math under Prof. Cheerless Richardson or Louis Mathewson respectively will note with special regret and sadness their passing from the campus. Both were rare gentlemen who will be missed by many an alumnus returning to Hanover.

Professor John Merrill Poor may also be remembered by you who pursued the study of astronomy. An effort is underway to collect memoir material about his life and work at Dartmouth. If you can find any data in that memory book or chest in the attic, please send it to Mrs. Elizabeth Poor Middleton (his daughter), Box 359, Lenox, Mass.

More odd excuses turn up from classmates who missed our thirtieth. Francis Hickman was abroad all summer. Newell Smith stopped selling apparel and started selling real estate in Bridgeport, Conn. Burton Chapman was straining himself to sell a house to one of Pick Ankeny's daughters at Lake Minnetonka, near Minneapolis.

Bob and Polly Mayo had to miss the Thirtieth because they could get no one to operate their country estate over that weekend. Now they're rattling around in a big house with son Dick '47 married and interning at a Cooperstown, N. Y., hospital where he expects to be resident surgeon next year, and with daughter Phyllis in Europe staging shows at various U.S.'Army posts for the next two years. At least they have an excuse for a European trip next summer.

Mac Johnson appeared in Boston recently for a two-week examination of the local Federal Reserve Bank. After reminis.cing over a good dinner with your secretary, we adjourned to Mac's room and called up Bob Burroughs at his Canterbury, N. H., farm with the result that both Mac and Bob showed up for the Cornell game on the next weekend. Bob got slightly nostalgic last summer while in Europe as he visited spots where he, Mac, Rog Wilde and Had Pinney '22 went adventuring in the summer of 1921. Rog and Mac received picture postcards from him with cryptic messages thereon. Upon his return Bob talks only about his new grandson. What is LaV ancelle, Bob?

Which reminds us that on December 16, 1951, Professor and Mrs. Ray Nash of Hanover announced the engagement of their daughter Charlotte Gregory Nash to James Wellman Burroughs '51, only son of our Bob and DotBurroughs. Miss Nash is a freshman at Bryn Mawr.

All of those present at the 1921 dinner before the Boston Pops in May, 1950, were captivated by the charm of Hal Braman's daughter Marcia, Wellesley '52, and will be happy to learn that she is engaged to Ensign Alexander Grosvenor, U.S.N., U.S. Navy Academy '50. Hal doesn't give the wedding date, but reports a November vacation trip to Nevada and New Mexico for himself.

Space limitations force postponement to later issues of data regarding two important weddings, numerous entries in the grandfather contest, several address changes, and belated confessions from long-sought mavericks. For each additional subscription to this MAGAZINE, ten more words may be included in these notes. Please send five bucks to Bob MacDonald if you've forgotten those dues.

How many 1921 freshmen can you identify in the famous picture reproduced on page 6 of Dartmouth 1921? Our count is 118 men shown therein. Get your answers in early before OrtHicks gets back from Australia. Get your book for $4.25 from Don Sawyer, 200 Berkeley St., Boston 16, Mass., if you don't have one.

Are you in favor of an informal 31st reunion during Hanover Holiday next June?

REUNIONERS: Chick Hopkins and Jack Taylor catching up with each other's news at the '22 Reunion in Hanover last June.

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