1921
Despite Jack Hurd's super-colossal swansong Smoker of July 21 last, which seemed to clean up all of the 1921 news available, there's always more, for '21 men keep on making news. Jack will be sorely missed from the editorial offices at 2121 Main St., Hanover. He not only attracted news, wrote it up delightfully, and had fun doing it, but he cooperated so well with the other officers of the Class on his timing of issues. We are deeply grateful to him.
Speaking of timing, please understand that you are reading these notes about one month after they are written. Reports on all class news which occurred subsequent to September 4 must wait for the November issue. Watch the Smoker for late news and advance notices.
If space permits, a photo of the Boston Pops party on May 12 should accompany these notes. It was good to get the crowd together again. We all had fun, a delicious dinner, a progress report from Bill Perry, and, if we had tickets, an evening of excellent orchestral music nearby. Lindy Bird, Rog's widow, with her attractive son and daughter, had a table with the '21 crowd at Pops. Bob and PaulineMayo had signed up for the party but Bob whacked his head on a beam in his barn a week earlier and had not fully recovered from the resulting concussion.
June produced three events of interest to Boston '21ers, all previously reported in detail in the Smoker. Don Sawyers youngest daughter Sally was married at Emmanuel Church on June 12; Dick Barnes' daughter Joan made another lovely bride a week later; and ConnieKeyes came to town from San Francisco in time to attend the Barnes' wedding. Symmes,Bailey, Perry, and Miner had dinner the next week with Connie.
Meanwhile Paul and Myrtle Sanderson were on a vacation trip to La Jolla, Calif., and the West Coast, including Lake Louise and Banff Springs in the Canadian Rockies.
During July Don Sawyer, the Ort Hickses, and the Cory Litchards were seen at the Hanover Inn on successive weekends. Jack andRuth Hubbel, with John Jr., Jeanne and Susan, after a few weeks at Bob and FlorrelleMcConaughy's R Lazy S Ranch in Wyoming, wrote: "This exceeds all reports and expectations. It is an incredibly beautiful and satisfying spot. A water color of the ranch by GuyWallick has just been framed and hung in the lodge. Let Paul Sample beware." Sounds like a good place for a Western States '21 reunion.
While resting and overeating at the Snow Inn, Harwichport, Cape Cod, tor a few days, your secretary and his indispensable assistant discovered three classmates living nearby in West Harwich. Chan Symmes was working at his store in Winchester but Lorna and daughter Marcia were staying at the old house where they've summered for eighteen years. The floors were covered with beautiful examples of hooked rugs, all made by Lorna. Not far away Cape and Arline Payson were repairing and renting a compact group of summer cottages, all of which have been attractively designed and built for the summer trade. Over a frosted mint julep specially prepared by Cape, he explained that the 97% occupancy of the cottages produces enough revenue each summer to enable them to winter at ease in Florida. Not a bad life at that.
In the same town, El and Helen Harper now live year 'round in a comfortable, sprawling Cape Cod home, which they have remodelled to suit their changing demands. It is in the shadow of the Hotel Belmont, a popular and expensive spot. El almost sold us an extra cottage he owns next door but our retirement is still ten years away. Helen is active in town affairs from October to May while El flies back and forth to Europe and New York. The two youngest of their six children are now at Dartmouth, Tom, a junior and John, a sophomore. Russ and Esther Bailey, with daughter Cynthia, who graduated from Vassar in June, vacationed for two weeks at Dennisport on Cape Cod in August. Bill and Edith Perry rented a house again this summer on Gingerbread Hill in Marblehead where Bill could rest up after the Alumni Fund campaign. What a beautiful job he and all his agents did to persuade the rest of us to give more in dollars and to participate more completely than we had ever done before. He did it, too, in spite of poor health, but it would be foolhardy for him to try it again. So we are also looking for a new class agent to carry the ball for '21 in 1955. Volunteers please step forward. Any news about your own vacation trips or '21 men you have seen on your travels will be welcome.
Now that we're all past the half-century mark it is inevitable that our numbers shrink but the deaths of two more classmates this summer sharpens the focus a bit. John Marshall Jopson died on May 23 and Russell Gordon Miller on July 21. Under In Memoriam you will find accounts of their lives since leaving Dartmouth in 1918.
Art Duryea is still suffering from the shock he suffered a year and a half ago and is living at 654 Indian Trail, Palm Springs, Calif. EvBishop also had to give up his medical practice in 1943 when he contracted multiple sclerosis, the same dread affliction that ConBeattie's daughter is fighting in Hanover. Ev would surely appreciate a word of cheer from any classmate. Just write Dr. E. C. Bishop, 5922 Master St., Philadelphia, Pa.
On the more cheerful side a book of poems by Flew Flewelling has been presented to Baker Library in his memory by his sister, Mrs. Albert Benbow. Latest reports from Buffalo, N. Y., are that Bill Marcy has resigned as chairman of the board of Hotels Statler Co. to resume his law practice, and that HenryPalmer was married on May 22 to Mary L. Watkins. They went to Niagara Falls and are living at 1915 Kensington Ave., Buffalo 15.
Bell Marcy has just been reappointed for one year to the Board of Overseers of the Hanover Inn. Jack Hurd reports that the food and service are good.
Did you know that: Guy Wallick was elected to the Alumni Council; Corey Ford and Harland Manchester each had an article in the June Reader's Digest; Ray Mallary was reelected to a four-year term as director of Massachusetts Mutual Life Ins. Co.; his son, Richard W. Mallary, was elected president of the Vermont Holstein-Friesian Club; Gus Perkins retired in August after 31 years with the New Jersey Bell Telephone Co.; and Selectman Rhodolphus P. Alger and wife, Elizabeth, celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in June with a host of friends and relatives in Middleboro, Mass. Dolph is chairman of the board of selectmen, probation officer of the District Court and an insurance broker. His son John graduated from Dartmouth in 1953.
More next month on the class meeting, football games, children and grandchildren.
Secretary, 21 Chestnut Street, Wellesley Hills 82, Mass.
Treasurer, 2519 Ridgeway. Evanston, Ill.
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