1921
Hanover on a clear, sunny day on or about the first of May! Can you blame me for waxing poetic? Your secretary returned for his first Alumni Officers' Weekend. Four hours over the road, then—the same beautiful campus, white buildings, green grass, board walks gone, mud dried up, interfraternity ball game on campus, a group lounging on the senior fence, the elms just starting to feather their leaves, students worrying about the coming exams, storekeepers trying to explain a drop- off in sales, a few alumni from each class arriving, some with a nostalgic smile and dreamy stare, trying to absorb the present scene and fit it to their memories.
A few incidents and highlights, brief as possible: Excellent dinner at the Inn, Don andJessie Mix at another table; there's Nick Sandoe '19, chairman of Bequest Program, and his son Nick Jr. '45, secretary of the Class Agents Association, and their wives, dining with Dick Pearson '20 and Warde Wilkins '13; next to us is Bill Bullen '22 whose classmate Dick Litchfield was rushing out as we came in. Then across the darkened campus to Sanborn for the first business meeting: Charlie Wid- mayer '30 explaining the problems of allotting space in this MAGAZINE; Dave Leslie '51 outlining the tasks of the secretary's first year out; Elmer Browne '40 giving and receiving many constructive suggestions for improving class reunions (wives will be invited to the alumni luncheon at the gym this year); and Sid Hayward '26 reporting on affairs in general and getting a big hand. Gleaned two statistical items: 55% of the living members of 1921 are paying class dues and 74% are receiving this magazine.
The joint meeting next morning of all alumni officers was featured by Dr. Stefansson's outline of the part which he expects Dartmouth men to play in the future development of the northern frontiers of North America. He was persuaded to contribute his arctic lore and library to the College by our Outing Club reputation and that bit in the song about granite in their muscles and theirbrains.
Plenty of athletes to watch that afternoon: a track meet with Harvard, tennis vs. Yale golf vs. Brown, or sitting in the sun to watch Army beat us in a ball game, 4-1. Our ball team looks much better this year.
At dinner that night President Dickey pro. duced three undergraduates who were evidently the cream of the crop: F. Lee Coulter '52, president of the Undergraduate Council, a 3.6 man and Valedictorian-to-be of his class who reported progress toward the adoption of a workable honor system; Al Reich '52, president of his class, a power on the football field and a hurler of the javelin, who enthused over the College's athletic program which has 75% of the student body participating in some form of exercise; and the new Editor of The Dartmouth, Brock H. Brower '53, a 3.7 student who has a sound policy for his paper, objective reporting of local and world news and opinions, which should keep us alumni much happier.
Among the '21 men encountered in the two days were Jack Hurd rushing by with a last bit of copy for the next Smoker, George Frost looking as healthy and happy as the cat that licked the cream off the top of the bottle, DonMix introducing us to his big husky freshman son Don (not junior), Speedy Fleet and RedStanley who use their respective undergraduate sons as excuses to visit Hanover every two or three weeks. Red's vest buttons were popping because he became a grandfather for the first time on April 15. His son Pete is the beaming father of David Mac Donald Stanley, 8 lbs. 7 oz., another Scotsman already registered for the class of 1974.
Discreet inquiry at the Inn disclosed that Jack Hubbell and family, Bill and EdithPerry, Hal and Doris Braman, Linc Miller and Dick Barnes all stopped there at various dates in March and April. Lucky guys.
Which reminds us: Mr. Zollikofer, master of cuisine at the Inn, promised to save the Ski Hut for another great 1921 luncheon on November 8 before the Columbia game. Jot down that date now! You can't afford to miss it!
No need to wait that long, however, for Hanover Holiday is June 9-12 inclusive. For dormitory room reservations at $2.50 per day per person write Office of the Bursar, Parkhurst Hall.
1921 men continue to earn and receive kudos and acclaim. Congratulations are in order to: Rog Wilde for his Special Citation from the College in recognition of his Alumni Fund work, and no man ever deserved it more; Jack Hurd for his write-up of Guy Wallick's Haywire Orchestra even if he did beat me to the punch; Bob Burroughs, pledged to Eisenhower, for receiving the second highest number of primary votes in New Hampshire, right up next to Sherm Adams '20; Bob, again, for 25 consecutive years as one of the leading producers of life insurance sales for his company, the National Life of Vermont; JackHubbell, for his re-election to the chairmanship of the Board of Directors of Brand NamesFoundation, Inc., a job which he saves for his spare time after attending to his duties as Vice President of Simmons Co., President of the D.C.A.C. and national chairman of the Hopkins Center Project; Corey Ford, for his article "Your Wife Is Like That" in the January 12, 1952, Saturday Evening Post, later condensed in the May Reader's Digest; Dr. BenTenney, for his appointment as reserve consultant to the U.S. Navy's bureau of medicine, a logical sequel to his teaching of obstetrics and gynecology at Boston University, Harvard and Tufts Medical School and his staff work at Mass. General, Cambridge City and Boston City Hospitals; Bill Fowler, attorney, poet, for his recent talk on poetry to an assembly at the Amesbury (Mass.) High School, including the reading of selections from his own poems; Bob McConaughy, for the intriguing folder advertising his R Lazy S Ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyo.; again to Jack Hurd for acquiring on March 9 a new grand-nephew who turns out to be none other than Carlton Pennington Frost V, son of C. P. Frost '44, grandson of C. P. Frost '18, great-grandson of Dr. G. D. Frost '86 of Hanover, and great-great-grandson of the late Dr. Carlton P. Frost of Hanover, Dartmouth 1852!
Lorin Goulding, our fire insurance agent in Buffalo, also deserves a whack on the back for being elected president of the Dartmouth Club of Western New York State. But what he really brags about is his second grandchild, a boy this time. Lorin says he sees Bill Marcy and Les Lambert frequently. Bill is running the local Eisenhower campaign in addition to his law practice and his job as chairman of the board of Hotels Statler. Les recently returned from Florida to his work as Vice President of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co.
Tom Cleveland provided a good excuse for a small reunion when he invited some of his classmates to hear a voice recital by his middle daughter Connie, a senior at the New England Conservatory of Music, on April 25. From all reports she sang beautifully a group of 16 selections in French, German, Italian and English. Among the well known Dartmouth men in the audience were Bill andEdith Perry, Don and Alice Sawyer, Chan andLorna Symmes and daughter, Ray and Doris Atwood '22, Walter and Viola Friend '23, and Elmer and Frances Pilsbury '19. Connie sails for a two months' European trip in June. The Sawyers should be in Switzerland about that time.
Pete Bailey, head budgeter and statistician for Minnesota Power & Light in Duluth, is another one of those grandfathers. Now it's his second grandson Thomas Roger Bailey, born February a, 1952. His father is Charles Roger Jr. '49. The poor kid is allergic to cow's milk so has to subsist on soybean milk to which grandpa probably adds one drop of bourbon. Pete's younger son Bob, Michigan Tech '52, is to be married June 21 and then will enter the Air Force for two years.
Henry Palmer puts out an excellent booklet describing the process used by his company for producing synthetic rubber, if any of you want to know how it's done.
If you, too, are planning a trip abroad this year, you would do well to get a copy of TheBelknaps Abroad. It is a reprint compilation of a series of articles written by Paul andCarli Belknap during a 12,000-mile trip in Europe during 1950. Paul is publisher and owner of The Evening Tribune, Albert Lea, Minn.
The rumor persists, despite State Department denials, that Ellis Briggs will soon leave his ambassadorial post in Czechoslovakia to manage the Voice of America program in Washington. He has been in Prague since 1949. His previous assignments included Lima, Peru, Chile and many other South American countries, and special missions to Liberia and Chungking. Back in 1933 he was the first man to land in Cuba with a pair of skis on his shoulder. His children, Lucy and Everett, have spent so much time in Latin-America that they think in Spanish but do all right in several other languages.
When you read this you still have time to help make our class participation 100% in this year's Alumni Fund. One dollar or more will do the trick.
A RARE RECORD: Robert P. Burroughs '21 (right), general agent in Manchester, N. H., for the National Life Insurance Co. of Montpelier, Vt., was honored this year for qualifying for the company's Leaders Club for the 25th consecutive year, a record previously achieved by only two other men. He is shown receiving a 1952 plaque from Deane Davis, company president, who also presented him with a special diamond pin. Mr. Burroughs is a life member of the Million Dollar Round Table and an authority in the pension trust field. Former Republican national committeeman for New Hampshire, he was elected an Eisenhower delegate in the state primaries in March.
THEY'LL BE BACK: Harriet and Haskell Cohn '22 enjoyed reunion in Hanover last June. Cohn a lawyer in Boston, is a partner in the firm Mintz, Levin and Cohn.
Secretary, 21 Chesnut St., Wellesley Hills 82, Mass.
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