1921
Now that we've had a few days to recover physically, if not financially, from the Christmas and New Year's festivities and the unhappy scores of the football season have been partially forgotten, may we recall briefly the pleasant moments connected with those gridiron contests, the renewals of 1921 friendships.
Reports on the Yale game are vague and conflicting. Our census of the wives present is incomplete, but whether all the '21er.s present ever got together or not, we learn that among those on hand were Dan and DotRuggles, Ort and Lois Hicks, Jack Hubbell,Harry Chamberlaine, Don and Alice Sawyer,Howie and Lofraine Ransom, Tom and BettyCleveland, Tom and Rachy Norcross, Pauland Myrtle Sanderson, Hank and Peg Cook,Cory Litchard, Mac Johnson, Skinny Moore,Abe Weld, Hal and Doris Braman and daughter Marcia (who were also at the Rutgers game in Hanover) and Hoyt and Ruth Marsden with their daughter Anne and is-year-old twin sons, John and Joel. What a house party that group would make!
Jack Hurd's November Smoker covered every detail of the Columbia game parties in Hanover which left us who were there especially grateful to Corey Ford and his English setter, Cider, who was thereby adopted as Class Mascot. Cider has an odd habit of leaning against any handy human leg, which aroused the suspicion that Corey may have raised him on hard cider or similar beverages. Corey's party and the Ski Hut luncheon were indeed "terrific," quoting Dan Ruggles. Everybody seemed so happy to be together again that several classmates suggested we enlarge it next year by all coming up Friday afternoon and planning to stop at the same hostelry until Sunday. Since the Inn is usually jammed for each home game, the Woodstock Inn, Norwich Inn, Lyme Inn, Lake Morey Inn, Lake Fairlee Club and other nearby spots were nominated. Suggestions and opinions will be welcomed by your secretary. Probably the middle game of the three home contests would be the most popular.
The remoteness of Ithaca apparently prevented all 1921 men except your secretary from witnessing Cornell's victory. GoldieGoulding and Les Lambert resisted all efforts to pry them out of Buffalo and Bill Marcy hadn't appeared there since he left for the opening of the new Statler in Los Angeles.
The Princeton debacle had a curious effect on our class. No '21er will admit he was there. The Smoker has told you the story of the night before at the Dartmouth Club of New York and the deliberations of the Executive Committee of the class. Choice news items gleaned from those present included DanPatch's transfer from Crucible Steel to Arnold Bakeries; the successful recovery of Rex King,Fran Cosgrove and Stan White from recent hernia operations; and the reception at Brown University for Mick Shoup. It seems that Mick taught economics there for two years so successfully that his former faculty associates and pupils have been longing for an opportunity these many years to express their affection for him. About Armistice Day they succeeded. Details later.
Werner Janssen is too modest to let us know but our West Coast reporter belatedly informed us that last August Werner was named conductor of the San Diego (Calif.) Philharmonic Orchestra. If you have followed Werner's career, you should know that he is married to the lovely Ann Harding, that he won the Prix de Rome in 1930, that the Finnish composer, Sibelius, chose Janssen as the best interpreter of his works, that Villa-Lobos prefers his conducting, that he is a favorite with South American audiences, and has conducted the New York Philharmonic in addition to the major orchestras of Europe. Currently he is recording for Columbia Masterworks; and RCA Victor, Decca, and Capitol have issued his records. He has ably developed the talent which we all recognized as undergraduates in "Dancing Honeymoon" and "Oh Doctor."
Manny Manchester is still at it. "Krilium and Its Rivals" is the title of an article by him which appeared in the September Harper'sMagazine. Manny, a former president of the National Association of Science Writers, has been presenting in laymen's language through general magazines the latest scientific and technological developments for the past 12 years.
Seth Densmore, in addition to his C.P.A. practice, finds time to write an occasional article for the Journal of Accountancy. The May, 1952, issue published his "Statement 23 Makes Auditing More Useful to Small Client." Maybe if you'll read it you can grasp its meaning.
Everything will soon be O.K. in Korea. Ellis Briggs is on his way there to take up his duties as Ambassador and will find Ex Exnicios waiting for him in the job of financial attache to the American Embassy. With Ellis handling the politics and Ex looking after the money and 1921 teamwork, how can we lose? We expect the early formation of the Dartmouth Club of Pusan, A.P.O. 59, c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.
Our West Coast correspondent comes through again with the following data: FurbHaight was so improved physically by his fishing, sleeping, and eating at Bob McConaughy's R Lazy S Ranch that he went home to Los Angeles and caught a 156-pound marlin off San Diego; Jack Garfein, Connie Keyes, and Guy Wallick were the '21 delegation at Dartmouth Night in San Francisco and Jack is sore because he couldn't introduce his wife, Marguerite, to Hanover by bringing her to Corey Ford's party; Jim Wicker is so busy selling real estate around Stockton, Calif., that his wife, Sally, has to attend to his correspondence and class dues (one of the best things '21ers do is to pick smart, attractive wives); and Bob Kendall got himself transferred from the Portland, Ore., office to the Seattle, Wash., branch of the Stanley Steamship Corp., as district manager.
Coming East again, we find an unusual situation in Burlington, lowa, where the rumor persists that Warry Clark is "on the wagon." After viewing some of this modernistic, functional furniture at Chicago's Merchandise Mart he became worried about the possibility that his concern might produce some such oddities unless he constantly maintained a sober alertness. His younger daughter, Louise, who enjoyed last summer in Europe, is either getting married "about this time or doing secretarial work in Minneapolis where she can be near her married sister, Judy, and husband Bill. Warry's prime pleasure is hunting; deer, we are told.
Back in Washington, D. C., Mac Johnson reports failure to contact Frank Hickman in Memphis. Frank's secretary claimed he was in Europe. Art Ross, Claims Examiner for the Judge Advocate General in the Pentagon, suffered shock and bruises when he and his wife, Mary, were knocked down by a car which went through a red light. Probably few of us are as agile as of yore. AI Dunn is a grandfather for the second time. His daughter, Jane, gave birth to David George Turner, September 28, 1952, while Al's wife, Marghie, looked after Dave's sister, Mary Allison Turner, aged 19 months. Dave's father is a lieutenant in the ground forces of the U. S. Air Force at Travis Air Base, Calif.
Cliff Hart and Bill Codding were the only '21ers at the Dartmouth Night celebration at the N. Y. Dartmouth Club. Hugh Penney's wife, Marcia, kindly takes over for Hugh to tell us that he was a delegate to the National Council of Congregational Christian Churches at Claremont, Calif., last June. Son Hugh and wife, after an extended European tour last summer, are now in Chicago, where he is a senior at the Theological Seminary, preparing to follow in his dad's footsteps. Hugh's young- est daughter Jean is a student at Mac Murray College in Jacksonville.
In the words of John Cameron Swayze, That's the story, folks. Glad we could get to- gether." How about planning a vacation next summer with a regional group of your class- mates?
HONORED AT DINNER: Ed McNamara '22, shownwith his wife Kay, was the guest of honor at adinner given by the W. T. Grant store in Hartford, tin tribute to his 30 years of service he was presented with a silver bowl.
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