1921
Here we go again! After a most pleasant and profitable summer for each of you, we hope. Did you meet or vacation with any other classmates since June?. Both Jack Hurd and your secretary are eager for details. The vacation report Smoker should be out soon.
First, a congratulatory handshake all around to Rog Wilde, all the assistant class agents, each 1921 contributor to the 1953 Alumni Fund, and the widows, brothers, sisters, relatives and friends who helped us win our sixth Green Derby in a row. A truly remarkable record! Roger surely deserves his promotion to general chairman of the 1954 Fund campaign. His successor as class agent will need our determined and whole-hearted support next year.
Next, a report on the 1921 dinner at the Hotel Gardner, Boston, on May 13. Gathered at the table were Russ and Esther Bailey,Frank and Ida Ross, Jack and Doris Campbell,Bill and Edith Perry, Dan and Dot Ruggles,Bob and Pauline Mayo, Chan and LornaSymmes and daughter, Marcia, Hal andMartha Geilich and Reg and Sylvia Miner. Hal had just returned from a business trip to South America where he ran into FrankHickman of Memphis. Don Morse had been laid up with a mild heart attack so we all signed a get-well-quick card and sent him flowers via Doris Campbell. At Symphony Hall afterward for Dartmouth-Night-at-the-Pops, Red and Isabel Stanley, Walt and JoycePrince, Chan's son, Parker Symmes, and Lindy Bird, Roger's widow, with her son and daughter, joined our group. A large evening.
A news item gleaned therefrom was JackHind's appointment as faculty adviser to the Class of 1956 in addition to his membership on the faculty committee which handles disciplinary problems after the Student Council has determined its recommendations. Jack finds time to teach a few English classes and write a profile or two as Associate Editor of this MAGAZINE while he also attends to all the various editorships in the 21-story headquarters of the Smoker.
When you read this the scores of the Holy Cross, Navy and probably the Army games will be on the record books and the closing dates for the Colgate and Harvard games will have passed. Nevertheless, you should have received word of class gatherings at West Point if not at Lynn or Annapolis. Samples of opinion regarding a class party at the Colgate game in Hanover October 17 varied so widely that we decided to make it an impromptu affair depending upon the number of '21 men who plan to be there. After a canvass of hostelries on the Hanover fringes in May by the Wildes and Miners, we recommend the Lyme Inn, Lyme, N. H. (Teh-64) operated by Gordon and Dorothy Craven, as a gathering place for '21 men who cannot get rooms at the Hanover Inn for the Colgate affair. Make your own reservations, including deposit, and notify your secretary. Ten or more will assure a party before or after the game, maybe both.
Before the Harvard game on October 24 look for the usual picnic crowd on Memorial Drive, Cambridge, opposite the Soldier's Field gate. Write to Howard S. Ransom, Orange Center Rd., Orange, Conn., for dope on '21 assemblies around the Yale game. G. Harry Chamberlaine, advertising manager of Good Housekeeping Magazine, at 959-8th Ave., N. Y. C. 19, N. Y., will be promoting get-togethers at the Army, Columbia, and Princeton games. On November 14 the usual big gang will gather in the Ski Hut, back of the Hanover Inn, for cocktails and luncheon before the Cornell game. Dan Ruggles and Bill Perry will be found the night before in the third floor Tower Suite of the Inn. This party is a must for all '21ers within 300 miles. Mick Shoup might even come on from Colorado.
As for '21 men appearing in print, DonMix saw an excellent picture of Bob Burroughs on the front cover of the June issue of the National Messenger, the field magazine of the National Life Insurance Cos. of Vermont. He was featured because he made the Million Dollar Round Table for the 18th year, a record exceeded by only three other men in the United States. For you who are unfamiliar with life insurance sales, a seat at the table is awarded only to a man who sells one million dollars of insurance or more in one year.
A good informal photo of Jack Hubbell also appeared in Sales Management magazine of March 1 under the caption, That Well-rested Look, which he claims is due to sleeping on a Simmons Beautyrest mattress. The article outlines Jack's career and illustrates his resourcefulness thus: Once, during World War 11, he had to see a D. C. big-wig. "Impossible," he was told. So he sneaked into the wheel's office, wrote, "Be sure and see John Hubbell" on the desk calendar, came back later and was ushered right in.
Ellis Briggs has been nominated by President Eisenhower for reappointment as Ambassador to South Korea. Dutch Baiisher received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree on June 7 from Albright College in Alabama. Perhaps you don't know that Dutch is president of Infants Socks with factories in Reading, Pa., and Eufaula, Ala. He also is chairman of Governor Fine's Textile Study Commission in Pennsylvania, vice president of the Manufacturer's Association of that state, and chairman of Reading Planning Commission in addition to other church and civic activities.
After reading the promotional literature from Kent McKinley about his Summer Festival of the Arts at Sarasota where he is president of the Sarasota Foundation, Inc., how could anyone refrain from journeying thence. He should be nominated to run a '21 reunion. Here's the latest from Bill Embree:
"Over the last few years I have read a good deal of banter about who is to have credit for the first grandchild in the '2l group. I was not after a speed record since quality counts so much these days. I am now ready to announce my grandson: an 8 pound 7Y4 ounce boy who was born August 7. For the record, John Raymond is the name. Everyone doing well including Grandpaw.
"Kent McKinley has a swell thought to keep his classmates posted on his activities when he sent a notice of his recent summer program in Florida. It occurs to me that any one of the boys who makes an accomplishment which takes the form of a printed document could very well send copies to the rest of us and not feel that he is immodest but merely informative in so doing. For the March issue of the Chicago Purchaser I wrote a story about the romantic lumber business in this country, but not having the idea at the time I didn't get enough reprints to adopt this type of communication with the members of our class. However, I pass this on as a suggestion for some intimate touches of how we are going."
An excellent suggestion, Bill. It was a pleasant surprise to have Jack Sercombe drop in at your secretary's office on August 25 while he was attending the national convention of the American Bar Association as state delegate from Oregon. Jack had been presiding as chairman of the Bar Activities Section (no wisecracks) where relations between attorneys and other professional men were discussed with an eye to improvements. Can't say that he looks much older after 32 years.
'21 men seen at the Hanover Inn during the summer included Pick Ankeny, Ort Hicks,John Sullivan, Russ Goodnow, Rog Wilde,Jack Hubbell, Tom Griffith, Hank Cook, CoryLitchard and Jeff Lawrence. Dick Pearson '20 notes "that old warhorse, Hicks, has entered the lists again" when he spotted Ort's name as winner of the second round in another tennis tournament.
A fine postcard from "Tom" in Wien, West Germany, says he's en route to Copenhagen and Stockholm. Could it be Tom Slaley?
Ransome M. Gascoigne, who was with us only his junior year, died suddenly on his 57th birthday, August 4. The story of his life appears in this issue under In Memoriam. Although Ran had not been active, we are sorry to lose another member of our fellowship. While on this sad note, Art Duryea suffered a cerebral hemorrhage last February in Washington, D. C., and at last report was recovering very slowly. Red Ege is keeping track of Art's progress.
Rex and Mickey King visited Boston in June for a final check-up on Rex after his recovery from a brain tumor operation. He is now all O. K., back to normal health, and planned to resume work on July 1 after a three-months layoff. On their way back to Summit, N. J., from Fort Lauderdale, Rex and Mickey visited her old Kentucky home and called on Georgeand Katrina Forman in Lexington. George and Rex had so much fun comparing operations that a quick call lasted three hours.
Prexy John Sullivan recently visited Boston to attend Maurice Tobin's funeral. Both served in the Truman cabinet.
Drop me a card about the Colgate and Cornell games.
TWENTY UP! Herman Newel! '20, recently elected Overseer of Tuck School and president of Lennen and Newell, New York advertising agency, greets classmate Charles McGoughran, of the Sinclair Refining Cos., at the Petroleum Centennial program in Hanover in June.
Secretary, 21 Chestnut Street, Wellesley Hills 82, Mass. Treasurer, 2519 Ridgeway, Evanston, Ill. Bequest Chairman,
