1921
Whether you need a new fan for your aircirculating equipment, rollers for your rolling mill or machinery to make new springs for your car, get in touch with Dud Robinson, who deserves some free advertising. He began the new year with a promotion to the vice presidency in charge of sales for the Torrington Manufacturing Company, Torring- ton, Conn., where he had been general sales manager. He joined that company in 1948. Dud claims Connecticut as a wonderful place to live and work, but the Yale game provides about the only chance to see '21ers.
As Ort Hicks stepped off the plane from Australia our indefatigable reporter was graciously granted an exclusive interview. Everybody has heard about the Hicks' trip to Alaska, Hawaii, the Phillipines, Tokyo, Australia and Timbuctoo to sell 16 mm. movies for Loew's International Corporation. Meanwhile he handled by mail the admissions problems in the Greater New York area and arranged to have the Dartmouth Club of New York sponsor a scholarship. Ort also found time for a fine visit with Pud Walker and Pud's son Dick, Dartmouth '57, at the Honolulu airport, an evening with Deweyand Dot Gruenhagen in Los Angeles, and a reunion of the Hicks and Mick Shoup families in Colorado Springs on New Year's Eve. When asked if the natives in all those foreign countries didn't all say we here in the States were going to hell in a basket, what with inflation and all, Ort replied, "No, I didn't meet a Republican anywhere on the trip." He must have found time, too, to keep up his interest in the Shattuck School, Faribault, Minn., from which he and RynieRothschild came to Dartmouth, for Ort was recently elected to the Board of Trustees of that institution. Incidentally, your secretary's grandfather was headmaster there 'way back in the '90s.
And Ort isn't the only 1921 man who has the secret of eternal youth. Newc and PearlNeiucomb returned to Michigan after attending our 30th Reunion last June and both studied all summer to take the bar exams in September. They then chewed fingernails till word came in December that both had passed. On January 7, Newc and Pearl were admitted to the Michigan State Bar in an impressive ceremony. Newc got his A.B. from Dartmouth in 1921, M.S.C. from Tuck School in 1922, C.P.A. from Vermont in 1929 and now LL.B. from the Detroit College of Law. He is on the Appellate Staff of the Bureau of Internal Revenue at Detroit. While her husband will use his law in his present work, Pearl intends to practice actively. Newc has a camp on an island at Lake Timagami, Ontario, where 1921 men are always welcome. Doc Fleming likes the place.
1921 readers of This Week magazine of January 6, 1952, were startled to find the illustrated article by Corey Ford's setter, "Every Dog should own a Man," containing some sound advice to all dogs on how to train a man and make him your best friend. "After all, it's hard to teach an old man new tricks."
Classmates who lived in Hitchcock freshman and sophomore years will remember NordeckJordan who entered college with us in 1917 and left in February 1919. His widow just wrote lis of his death from* a heart attack last October. Further details about this quiet but grand guy appear under In Memoriam of this issue. Too many of us are going too soon.
At long last two other long-silent classmates have come through with a who's who report: Bob Wilson and Al Green. Bob is now living at 4345 Wisconsin Ave., Washington 16, D. C., where for the past year he has been an industrial specialist with the Defense Production Administration. This means that he became an expert on aircraft carriers, airports and airways in order to get scarce copper, steel and aluminum for such alphabetical agencies as C.A.A., O.I. T., E.C.A. and C.A.B. As a lawyer, teacher, sales executive and government administrator, Bob has had an active career. He acknowledges the superior energy of Prexy John Sullivan but thinks he could beat Ort Hicks at tennis if Ort would quit using that "bucket of tin" in place of a racquet. This we must see. How about a photo? Bob's only son Tom, Colgate '49, was married in September, 1950, at age 21, works for Bamberger in Newark and lives in Montclair.
Al Green's shift from night editor of the Syracuse (N. Y.) Post Standard to the newspaper Labor in Washington, D. C„ was recorded in Dartmouth 1921 to which Al adds the understatement that his new paper presents a different viewpoint from that of most daily sheets. His elder daughter Mary, Cornell '50, keeps up the family tradition with editorial work for the Bureau of National Affairs (not a government agency). Ellen is 14 and still in high school.
More 1921 names appear in the news. RayMallory had to decide between cattle breeding and his law practice. He and Morgan P. Gilbert, partners since 1931, have withdrawn from general law work to specialize as consultants in Springfield, Mass. Bob Burroughs has declared himself for Eisenhower, in filing for delegate-at-large in the New Hampshire primaries, March 11. Bill Marcy stopped at the Hanover Inn in January to get a few pointers on how to run the Statler chain.
Werner Janssen and Rog Wilde were also seen in Hanover recently. It is rumored that they are collaborating on a new class song which will so appeal to our emotions that we will all become members of the Century Club this spring. Bob MacDonald appeared suddenly in Boston in December for a Kendall Mills convention, which gave Bill Perry and your secretary a chance to have lunch with him. His hair's getting gray but the same genial grin remains. What a man at the poker table he would be.
Lovell and Margaret Cook announced on December 30, 1951, the engagement of their daughter Marion Hewitt to Ensign Bryan McCain Smith Jr., of Plant City, Fla. Marion attended Wheelock College and graduated from Bay Path Junior College. She is now employed as a medical secretary and is a member o£ the Springfield (Mass.) Junior League. Ensign Smith attended the University of Florida, is a member of Delta fraternity, and is stationed at Westover Air Force Base with Naval Air Transport Squadron 6.
Walt and Mary Lundegren's third daughter Kathryn became the bride of Lt. William DeWitt Duryea II, U.S.M.C. and Tufts '50 on Saturday, December 15, at St. Michael's Church in Marblehead, Mass. Walt's young- est daughter Judith was maid of honor for her sister and the father of the bride exhibited his usual savoir faire.
Not to be outdone, your secretary gave his daughter Marjorie away on December 29, 1951, at a candlelight ceremony with all the trimmings at St. Andrews Church, Wellesley. The groom, the Rev. Richard M. Morris, Brown '47, is assistant rector at All Saints' Church, Belmont, Mass. After the reception in the church dining hall and the departure of the happy couple, a certain group of guests sought more potent punch and close harmony at the bride's old manse. Dimly through the haze, we could distinguish Billand Edith Perry, Don and Alice Sawyer, Tomand Betty Cleveland, Tom and Rachey Norcross, Don and Kim Morse, Dick and SueBarnes, and last but by far from least, BillSpencer, all the way from Hartford with a charming Miss Linda Howlett.
ONLY ONE SHINGLE NEEDED: Millard W. Newcomb '21 and his wife Pearl were both admitted to the Michigan State Bar on January 7.
Secretary, 21 Chestnut St., Wellesley Hills 82, Mass. Treasurer, 2519 Ridgeway, Evanston, Illinois Bequest Chairman, 340 Main St., Worcester 8, Mass.
