1921
Optimism is the word for 1952. After reading the March 24 message of that everblooming optimist Rog Wilde, each of us, no matter how broke he feels, should send Rog no less than five bucks in order to get that 100% participation in the Alumni Fund for which he and his assistants work so hard. Do it now out of your April pay check. You know all the time-tested reasons for giving to the Alumni Fund: appreciation of what Dartmouth did for you, what it is doing today, its greater need in these times of greater costs; pride in our 1921's four Green Derbies; resolve to win a fifth; and loyalty to your other classmates who give so generously.
If it has been costing you $2000 annually or more to put your boy or girl through college and that is over and your child now fully or partially self-supporting, would 10% or even 20% of this money now available be too much to give to Dartmouth?
While your income tax computations are still in mind, do a bit of figuring to see how much less than $100 it will cost you to join the Century Club. One tax computer who gave $40 in 1951 found he could have given $60 more at a net additional cost of $43.40. In 1952 the net additional cost for him to join the Century Club will only be $42.60 in spite of higher tax rates. Deductible contributions cost less this year. Another easier way to become a C.C. member is to send $33-35 to Rog in each of these last three months, April, May and June. Why not set 1921'S goal at $25,000?
Rass Bailey, the bookmaker; Bill Fowler, father of the undergraduate who provided the queen for the 1952 Carnival; Phil Noyes, the teacher from Fairhaven; Jeff Lawrence, the Public Works engineer from Quincy; DonMix, our Bequest Chairman; Walt Prince, town father of Duxbury and of our class baby; Stan White, C.P.A. from Lexington; Bill Perry, paper box tycoon, at the drums; and your scribe heard and applauded the oratory of President Dickey, Bill Cunningham '1g, and Myles Lane '28, U.S. District Attorney for Southern New York, at the annual dinner of the Boston Alumni on February 26. Phil Noyes brought best wishes from JoeWalker but we were all saddened by DonMix's news of Charley Stickney's death.
Charley died suddenly of a heart attack on February 18 after shoveling 14 inches of snow off his driveway in Lancaster. Under In Memorial you will find an account of his life and works, many of which were devoted to Dartmouth and the Class of 1921. had planned to attend the dinner.
On the other side of the ledger we find BillSpencer just beginning life at 50 or thereabouts. Get a firm grip-on your rocking chair. On February 23 Bill married Linda Howlett at Astoria, Long Island, N. Y., where Neil andDorothy Forbes provided the legal and moral support required as best man and matron of honor. We lack biographical data on the bride but we've met her, liked her and think she can handle the temperamental old maestro. Bill is temporarily serving the local office of the Internal Revenue Bureau. The happy couple are now at home at 155 Wethersfield Avenue, Hartford, Conn.
Neil Forbes, by the way, had a serious bout with illness last fall involving several operations. He was laid up from July to December but is now fully recovered and hard at work again bringing others back to health. His son Donald was led astray by the southern charm and accents at the University of Virginia where he is a junior.
Tom and Betty Cleveland are millionaire for a week aboard somebody's yacht, cruising from Ft. Lauderdale to Key West, hob-nobbing with H.S.T.'s entourage, and undermining their New England vigor with easy living. Meanwhile John Woodhouse as vice president and Ort Hicks as chairman of the standing committee on Dartmouth films were attending the Alumni Council meeting in Cleveland where they demonstrated the ability of 1921 men to help the College solve its many problems. Doug Storer was again presenting hardto-believe facts at a meeting of university men in New Rochelle, N. Y., where he lives.
Chuck Moreau has added to his honors by being elected president of Weekly Newspaper Representatives, Inc., a new corporation merging the sales work of American Press Association and the National Editorial Association. With Chuck at the helm, don't underestimate the power of the weekly press. Jim Wicker recently stopped selling real estate long enough to don cap and gown again and proudly represent Dartmouth at the centennial celebration of the College of the Pacific. Jumping dizzily back to the East Coast, we have a hot flash from Dick Pearson '20, born of his fatherly interest in '21, that the town of Rye, N. Y., is agog. Harry Chamberlaine has just been elected a trustee of the local Presbyterian Church!
Don Sawyer, Back Bay manager for Kidder Peabody Co., just handed us the February 25 issue of Investment Dealers' Digest which tells more of Dewey Gruenhagen than we had for Dartmouth 1921:
"The association of Dewey F. Gruenhagen with Crowell, Weeden & Cos., Los Angeles Stock Exchange members, and his appointment as manager of that firm's underwriting department, was announced recently. Mr. Gruenhagen has been actively engaged in the investment banking business for the past 30 years. From 1921 to 1933 he was with the Minnesota Loan and Trust Cos., the trust and securities affiliate of the Northwestern National Bank. He was made manager of the corporation underwriting department in 1925 and vice president and director of Banc Northwest Co., when that separate securities subsidiary was founded in 1929. He acted in both capacities from 1933 to 1943 with Thrall-West Co., a private investment firm formed to succeed to the business and assets of Banc Northwest Co.
"Mr. Gruenhagen served in the army in World War I and in World War II was with the Air Transport Command of the Army Air Forces for three and one-half years. Following his release in 1945 he joined the investment division of Investors Syndicate. From 1946 till 1950 he was vice president of that company and its affiliated Mutual Fund companies when he moved to Los Angeles as an associate of William R. Staats Co. He is a director of Capital Airlines, Inc., Hugoton Plains Gas & Oil Co. and Air Cargo Equipment Co."
Cliff Hart, the New York architect, is writing a column, "About Men You Know," in the Dartmouth Club News but Abe Weld, OrtHicks and himself are the only '21ers who show up there regularly. Governmental restrictions on construction are also cramping his talents in design. He calls to our attention the election of Vance Clark to the presidency of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Cincinnati, O. Congratulations, Vance.
Nets Smith, member of the Federal Power Commission, which was formed to control the rates charged the public for vast resources of oil, natural gas, and electricity, attended a meeting of state and federal regulatory officials in October in Charleston, S. C., where he ran into Norman Loiue and realized for the first time that Norm is a member of the Vermont Public Service Commission.
How many began studying travel folders after reading Jack Hurd's profile of Sydney Clark '12 in the March issue of this publication? It's good reading, but how many wives would have Mrs. Clark's courage? Jack did us all a big favor when he sent us that geographical list with the last Smoker. Just stick it in your pocket when leaving for a business or pleasure trip and you can locate a classmate at every stop.
Bill- Perry, Hank Cook and Don Mix actually did make that Fathers' Weekend in Hanover, February 15-17. Speedy Fleet got there a week early and Pick Ankeny a week late. Undergraduate sons sure bring 'em back. Fat Childs still carries on his insurance agency at 875 Elm St., Manchester, N. H., but must have bought a farm to live in. He now resides on Daniel Webster Highway South, Bedford, N. H., which should be noted as different from your Smoker list.
At the Boston alumni dinner Russ Bailey produced a clipping re the engagement of William Henry Floyd Jr., son of Bill Floyd, adopted by our class at our Fifth Reunion, to Mary Louise Douglass, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Douglass of Marblehead. Mary is now attending Boston University. Bill Jr., in addition to having good taste in fiancees, graduated from St. Paul's School and attended Brown University where he was Sigma Nu.
Herrick Brown, ace class secretary from our fifth to our fifteenth, now proceeds head high, chest well out. Reason: his first grandson, Christopher McAdams Brown, born November 19, 1951, son of Ken Brown '47 and Nancy McAdams. After four years on the faculty at Governor Dummer Academy, South Byfield, Mass., Ken, a lieutenant (j.g.) in the U.S.N.R., was called back to the post of assistant engineering officer and damage control officer on the U.S.S. Parle, destroyer escort, based at Norfolk, Va., where Chris was born.
O. C. Bump Ward enters the grandfather contest with three to date. His son Carl '48 has two sons, Jon Carlton and Dale Benton, while his daughter Carol Ward Brown, produced a daughter last September 17 named Meredith Lee but called Merrily. Ken Thomas boasts of a grandson born to his daughter Joan Crampton on October 3, 1951. The father is a Hamilton man but Ken is telling the boy bedtime stories about the Big Green. Luke Boggess, who builds, all the buildings and sells all the insurance in Carthage, Mo., and still finds time to travel and hunt quail, reports belatedly the acquisition of the grandfather title in 1950. On August 24 of that year his daughter Mary Miller gave him a granddaughter, Mikel Miller (call her Mike). His older son Luke Jr. now Lt. Jack Boggess, U.S.N., married Jean Marion Nevins of Montclair, N. J„ on February 10, 1951. Jean is an alumna of Adelphi College. Jack was Annapolis '46 and is with the navy Hydrographic Office in Washington, D. C. George Harris writes that George B. Harris IV was born at Coronado, Calif, on September 20, 1951, son of George B. 3rd '50. George B. No. 2 thereby won a buck from Bob Burroughs whose first grandson arrived later on September 24, 1951, as previously noted, and was named Henry Dwight Sedgwick III. George seems to be one up both ways.
All this talk about being grandfathers reminds us—have you included Dartmouth in your will yet?
A SKIING VACATION: Roger Wilde, 1921 Class Agent, with Mrs. Wilde and their son Roger '49, now interning at University of California Hospital in San Francisco, enjoy an outing at Sun Valley.
Secretary, 21 Chestnut Street, Wellesley Hills 82, Mass. Treasurer, 2519 Ridgeway, Evanston, Ill. Class Agent, Rm. 1870, Merchandise Mart Plaza, Chicago 54, Ill.
