1921
Right now is one of the best times of the year to be in Hanover. Exams are over for the students; all is spic and span for reunions and Commencement; graceful elms, trim lawns, white buildings, warm, soft breezes welcome the returning alumnus. Special excitement this year, for the President of the United States will be honored with a degree and will address the graduating class, thanks to the vision and hard work of Hoppy, Sherm Adams and Bob Burroughs. We can well be proud of our Dartmouth heritage.
Another reason to be proud: Rog Wilde and his A.C.A.'s (Assistant Class Agents). 1921 was leading by 20 points in the Green Derby at the first of May over the classes of 1922-1929 inclusive. Rog says it's the Regulars who do the trick. They have given 10 or more consecutive years to the Fund. Last year they constituted 60% of the givers and gave 80% of the dollars. They are the men who appreciate the need and who raise the ante when they can. They, too, know that the actual cost of a gift to the D.A.F. is only 60% to 75% of the sum donated, depending upon their Federal Income Tax bracket. This is the final month for every 1921 man to come through for his College and his classmates, if he has not yet done so. Anything over the grand total of $600,000 this year goes to scholarship aid, so sorely needed at Dartmouth.
Made your vacation plans yet? HarryChamberlaine is waiting for you to recommend good spots for '21 men and their families to gather. Jim Dodge, who runs the Inn at Steele Hill, Laconia, N. H., would welcome any of you who plan to be in New England. Hoy Schulting in Rhode Island and BobMcConaughy in Wyoming are also ready to greet '21ers. The Royal Palms in Phoenix, Ariz., and the Treadway Inns in the Northeast are run by Dartmouth men. We want more suggestions to pass along. It's later than you think. Watch the Smoker for ideas on plans to gather and also for details on the football weekends next fall. Your committees are gathering data and making reservations. Write your secretary your preferences now.
Chan Symmes saw Rex King after the latter's recent operation for a brain tumor and found him alert and cheerful but weak. Mickey took Rex off to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., for several months to rest and recuperate.
Last month you read of Lloyd Flewelling's sudden death and a brief story of his life. Too late to be included, we received from friends of his at the University of Maine the following additional description of his life at Orono:
"Dr. Flewelling was an expert in the field of all American literature and in recent British literature. He was universally regarded as one of the most popular teachers of undergraduates during the college year; moreover, he frequently taught in the summer sessions of the University where his courses aroused much enthusiasm among the school teachers attending. All his classes were notable for his lively wit and for his subtle appreciation of contemporary poetry and fiction. He was also successful in guiding the theses of candidates for the master's degree."
All of which indicates that few of us knew what a fine job Flew had been doing all these years.
We must have many classmates whose worthy deeds remain unknown and unsung. Ort Hicks takes the prize for discovering these modest fellows. We all should help him. "If with pleasure you are viewing any work a man is doing if you like him or you love him, tell him now. Don't withhold your approbation 'til the parson makes oration and he lies with snowy lilies o'er his brow. For no matter how you shout it he won't really care about it; he won't know how many teardrops you have shed. If you think some praise is due him, now's the time to slip it to him, for he cannot read his tombstone when he's dead."
For instance, Bill Terry should be thrown a few bouquets for his recent promotion to the job of Advertising Manager of Redbook magazine. Doug Storer, too, as President of Ripley's Believe It or Not, Inc., won in April a special award from the American Heritage Foundation for "outstanding leadership and performance in support of the National Nonpartisan Register and Vote Campaign." The Foundation's Awards Committee, under the chairmanship of Charles E. Wilson, formerly of the General Electric Company, unanimously decided to grant this honor to Doug after examining 15,000 entries. A Wah-Hoo-Wah for both Bill and Doug.
Jack Sercombe practices law with a partner, Bob Gilley, in a surburban office in Portland, Ore. Jack writes:
"Some years back I got interested in the work of the American Bar Association, probably as a result of my work with our State Bar Association, and for the past few years have been a member of the House of Delegates. I am currently commencing my term as State Delegate from Oregon and this year I am also Chairman of the Association's Section of Bar Activities. It*all takes quite a little time and work, but is in an excellent cause and besides I find it very enjoyable. The children are rapidly growing up. My boy Jeff is a junior in high school, but sad to relate is far more interested in skiing up on Mt. Hood than he is in applying himself with due diligence to geometry and other matters and his scholastic record I am afraid is such that would thoroughly disqualify him from ever getting by the Committee on Admissions. He will probably go to Oregon or Oregon State. Jennifer is a freshman in high school and very likely will follow her mother's foosteps and become a Theta at the University of Oregon."
When the Dartmouth Glee Club performed in Chicago on the night before Easter Sunday, the distinguished members of the audience included Bill and Alberta Embree, Nedand Pamela Price, Bob and Helen MacDonald,Rog Wilde and Ken Thomas and party. That's five-ninths of the Chicago '21 delegation. Nice work!
In announcing the success of the drive to provide artificial ice equipment for the Davis Hockey Rink, Eddie Jeremiah, Hockey Coach, pays glowing tribute to the solicitors who produced the funds and who included RhynieRothschild, Ort Hicks, Pic Ankeny, Bill Perry and Jack Hubbell. Again we do our share and it's always the busiest men who somehow find the time.
Now that Abe Weld has given up hammerthrowing and fencing, we learn that he keeps in trim with squash racquets for his duties as sergeant of auxiliary police in the Civil Defense setup for Jackson Heights, Long Island, N. Y., and vicinity.
How many of you remember Dr. G. ElliottMay? El transferred to Hamilton after our freshman year. After graduating in 1921, he received his M.D. at Harvard in 1925 and has practiced obstetrics in the Boston area ever since. His oldest daughter Mary Elizabeth, a senior at Stanford, was among 12 students holding key positions in an April Blood Drive whose aim was 5,000 pints in five days. Mary is pre-med and has been accepted by Boston University Medical School for entrance next fall. She also is assistant editor of the Stanford Daily.
Dan Ruggles is now a grandpa. Rebecca Lachenal Ruggles arrived April 23 at Massachusetts Memorial Hospital, Boston. Parents are son Tom and Janot Ruggles, which should mean a good-looking granddaughter for the Old Man of Marblehead.
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