1921
Seven football games of our rugged ninegame schedule are now history. Some of you who attended have added to your store of pleasant memories by renewing old friendships. Only the Cornell and Princeton battles remain to be fought. If you're in or around New York City on November 20, call OrtHicks or Harry Chamberlaine or drop in at the Dartmouth Club around 6 P.M. There should be some '21ers gathered there, as usual.
November 14 is the big day for '21 in Hanover! The Cornell game at 1:30 P.M. is the excuse but our President, John L. Sullivan, has called for a Class Meeting at 9 A.M. that day. About 11 A.M. we hope to have a chance to shake hands with President Dickey, and at 11:30 A.M. we gather in the Ski Hut for cocktails and luncheon. Last year John called a similar meeting at the Waldorf in New York before the Princeton game. This year Hanover is the spot and the agenda contains several matters requiring decisions by the class as to courses of action. Be there, if at all possible!
Have you paid those class dues yet? They include your subscription to this MAGAZINE which you can't afford to be without. Send Bob MacDonald your check, if you haven't already done so.
A last-minute flash from Arthur J. O'Mara '09 gave us the sad news that Howie Heath had passed away on September 19, at Silver Springs, Md. Howie was top personnel officer of United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency with the task of hiring all kinds of specialists to assist in the rehabilitation of South Korea and was most enthusiastic about this new job which he began only last year. His death brings the total of deceased classmates to 79, of which nine have gone since our 30th reunion.
All of which reminds us that Don Mix, our Bequest Chairman, has a supply of two kinds of pamphlets. One tells you how to make Dartmouth the residuary legatee under your will after you have taken care of your family obligations. The other points out still easier ways of arranging your life insurance so that the College will benefit eventually from the residuary part of any estate you have thus created.
The Smoker has already given you the news of Bill Perry's appointment as Class Agent; an excellent choice since Bill had demonstrated so ably his talents in the Boston area. DonSawyer will succeed him there. Rog Wilde, the new General Chairman of the '54 Fund, is already giving Bill pointers on how to win the seventh Green Derby for our class against the tough competition of 1914 and 1915.
Prexy John Sullivan and three other Dartmouth men took a prominent part in President Eisenhower's Administrative Law Conference, which held its first meetings in Washington, D. C. last June. John and Robert K. McConnaughey '26 spoke as members of the Advisory Committee on Procedure before Administrative Agencies to a group of delegates from sixty-odd federal government departments and agencies and to eighteen members of the judiciary, the bar and trial examiners. John brought to this appointment the benefits of his experience as former Secretary of the Navy, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and Assistant Commissioner of Internal Revenue. One of the other two men was George Maurice Morris '11, elected vice chairman of the Conference and appointed a member of the committee on Conference Organization and Procedure; the other was Conrad E. Snow '12, delegate from the State Department, who was appointed chairman of the Committee on Style. The Conference is studying problems concerning unnecessary delay, expense, and volume of records in some adjudicatory and rule-making proceedings of the Executive Department and Administrative Agencies.
Another name in the news this last summer was that of C. D. Bassett, who was elected vice president of the "First National Bank of Minneapolis. He expected to assume his new duties there in the commercial banking department in September. C. D. is thus returning to his birthplace after many years in Fargo, N. D., where, since 1944, he has been president of the Merchants National Bank and Trust Co. and of The First National Bank of Lidgerwood, N. D. All three banks are affiliated with First Bank Stock Corp. Formerly, C. D. was vice president of Aber- deen National Bank, Aberdeen, S. D., and of the Commerical National Bank at Bozeman, Mont. He is now completing his fourth year as a director of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce where he represents District 8 (the Dakotas, Minnesota and Nebraska) and serves on the Chamber's agricultural, finance and nominating committees. In his spare time he has served on the executive committee of the American Banker's Association and is currently working on its federal legislation committee. Want to get a loan?
Tom Staley, president and general manager of Staley Milling Co., Kansas City, Mo., has done it again. Before it could be verified that he sent a postcard from Wien (Vienna to you) this summer, it now comes out that he is engaged to Mrs. Helen Gossard of Johnson County, widow of Frank P. Gossard, who succeeded her husband as head of the K. C. Electrotype Co. when he died in 1950. Tom's first wife, Elsie, died in 1939 and his daughter, Nancy, was married in 1950. We're happy to learn that he will be lonely no longer and hope he'll bring the new Mrs. Staley back to Hanover soon, at least for our 35th.
It is also rumored: that Joe Folger translated a couple of Spanish plays while summering on Nantucket as usual; that Prof. GeorgeFrost, chairman of Freshman English, introduced Robert Frost (no relation) to about 400 freshmen on a sunny day last May at a reading of his poetry; that Howie Ransom of Orange, Conn., and our newest adopted classmate, Dr. Stan Oliver of Quincy, Mass., were seen in Hanover in September; that Redand Isabel Stanley enjoyed An Evening withBeatrice Lillie and Reginald Gardner and also were seen at the Holy Cross game with Dan and Dot Ruggles and Chick and KellyStiles; and that Mac Johnson lost his mother in July and had to spend his August vacation in Putnam, Conn., settling up her affairs.
Sev Severance has left the Knox School in Cooperstown, N. Y., to become head of the math department at Friends Academy, North Dartmouth, Mass., near New Bedford. His new home address is Converse Point, Marion, Mass. Sev is glad to be back in New England teaching in a private day school after several years of 24-hour duty in a boarding school on a seven-day week schedule. He spent the summer at Wianno on Cape Cod with the Manter Hall Summer School.
Sons and daughters of 1921 are frequently in the news: Tony Gates' daughter, Martha Ann, spent the summer on a Wyoming ranch and entered RadclifFe College in September. Ross 'Shepardson's daughter, Jean, became engaged to George M. Norgeot of Orleans, Mass. She's a graduate of Stephens Junior College, Columbus, Mo., and he served in the Far East in World War II. On the 29th wedding anniversary of Norm and Margaret Crisp, he gave their daughter, Mary Ann, in marriage to Thomas Calvin O'Neil, also of Nashua, N. H. Norm Jr. '49 was best man while his brother John '53 ushered. The bride graduated from University of Vermont and the groom from Harvard. They will live in Bayreuth, Germany, where Tom is stationed with the U. S. Army.
Paul Sanderson's son, Paul, Jr. '52, married Nancy Gail Linnell of Longmeadow, Mass., in a June wedding at which Bishop John Dallas gave the benediction. Paul's daughters, Judith and Margaret, were bridesmaids. Nancy is a graduate of Mt Holyoke '52. They will live in Suffield, Conn." where Paul, Jr. teaches at the Academy.
Although Rollie and Jessie Batchelder are stationed in Germany for a couple of years, their son George, stepped off and married Carol Josephine Lyman of Silver Lake, N. H., in June. His brothers. Ted and Bob ushered. Then George took his bride off to Europe to meet his parents.
Last but not least, Bill Fowler's daughter, Clara married Henry Fay Mixter of Milwaukee, Wis., in another June wedding. Her brother Richard '54. was an usher but other details are meagre.
Hope to see you in Hanover November 14!
CORONATION VISITOR: Robert F. Wilson '21 strolls down Petticoat Lane in London's East End, while in England for the Coronation. He is a much-traveled business consultant on the Continent.
Secretary, 21 Chestnut Street, Wellesley Hills 82, Mass. T reasurer, 2519 Ridgeway, Evanston, III. Bequest Chairman,
