1921
A goodly number of 1921 men have appeared in the public prints lately. RogWilde's picture adorned the Boston SundayHerald in December over the announcement of his leadership of the Alumni Fund for 1954 and 1955. First we knew that Rog had signed up for two years. The Manchester (N. H.) Union Leader also announced that our w. k. class president, John L. Sullivan, represented Dartmouth at the November semi-centennial convocation of the National Catholic Educational Association in Washington, D. C.
The current prize for newsworthiness, however, goes to Ken Smiley, vice president of Lehigh University since 1945. As chairman of the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education, the accrediting agency for the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, he was the principal speaker at the annual Middle Three dinner of Lehigh, Rutgers and Lafayette alumni in Trenton, N. J., recently. Ken again made the news at the seventeenth annual schedule-making convention of the Eastern College Athletic Conference when he offered a two-pronged plan as a possible solution to "the formidable threat to intercollegiate athletics and to higher education that grows out of competitive bidding for athletic talent." His proposal, as described by the New York HeraldTribune would involve public censure of any college which increases an offer of financial aid previously made in order to meet a competing offer from another college. In addition, he would have the E.C.A.C. maintain a register of the college choice of any male student who intends or hopes to participate in intercollegiate athletics. Such registration would thereafter make the athlete ineligible for intercollegiate athletics at any other college or university within the conference.
The Rev. Charles T. Allen, as superintendent of 56 churches in the Worcester (Mass.) District of Methodist Churches, is one of the few men in our class sufficiently courageous to enter the ministry. His name and good work are well known around Worcester. One of his favorite methods of stimulating the spiritual life of a relatively small community is to hold a mission at the local Methodist Church for one week, during which period he preaches two sermons on Sunday and a different sermon each evening thereafter. Hazardville, Conn., recently benefited from such a campaign.
Jack Sercombe, of Portland, Ore., has been named clerk of the Supreme Court of his state, effective January 1, 1954, according to the Portland Oregonian. Jack was first secretary of the Oregon State Bar, currently is a member of the law firm of Gilley and Sercombe, and has been active in the affairs of the American Bar Association. The new job will mean moving to Salem, Ore., in a month or two.
Among our traveling brothers are: OrtHicks, just returned from a swing around the world with his boss via the Orient; MerrillShoup, home again with Dorothy and daughter, Nancy, after the holidays in Honolulu; Chuck Moreau, who spent two months in Europe last summer gathering material for twenty articles which have been running in his New Jersey newspapers; and Frank Ross, back from three delightful weeks with Ida at Acapulco, Mexico, where he caught two sailfish and a shark. Frank claims he can prove by photos that one of the sailfish weighed 110 pounds and was 10 feet, 2 inches long. He's also pretty cocky about having six grandchildren, four boys and two girls. Can anyone beat that?
On the local New England front, our new Class Agent, Bill Perry, is really hitting his stride for the 1954 campaign. He's beginning to eat, sleep and dream Alumni Fund, but he also gets around. Report received that he saw Dartmouth beat Harvard at the dedication game on the new artificial ice at Hanover. Bill and Edith also encountered at Dartmouth-Boston College hockey game, at DonSawyer's Beacon Hill home on Christmas Eve, and at Tom Cleveland's Newton residence where about fifty people had gathered, including Tom and Rachy Norcross and Chanand Lorna Symmes, to meet the twin grandsons of our president emeritus, Thomas Vose, than whom we never saw a prouder grandfather, and we can't blame him.
As an example of '21 enterprise, Dick Dickinson, urged on by his wife, Mildred, and assisted by Ken Cuddeback '28, organized a Dartmouth Night celebration in Amherst, Mass., in October at the Mt. Pleasant Inn, run by Bill Davenport '27. This, in spite of being in the home town of Amherst College and the University of Mass.
Dave Bowen, superintendent of schools in Rockport, Mass., lives in Gloucester in the winter and closes his Rockport summer home. The latter was burglarized recently. Losing a valuable watch disturbed Dave the most. Incidentally, he and Edith made four Dartmouth football games this last fall.
Here's some other short shorts: Dave andElizabeth Trainer took time off from teaching geology at Colgate to see the Army game with Hilt and Mildred Campbell. Since Mike Doran's boy, Bob, is a freshman, Mike drives up to Hanover frequently from Bristol, N. H., where he sells real estate and insurance. Bob plays in the band and can't get home every weekend. Frequent visitors at Mike's are Charlie Johnson and Al Googins '20 who have a cottage at Newfound Lake. Vance Clark, trust officer at Central Trust Co., Cincinnati, misses his New England classmates. If his son, Peter, makes the freshman class next fall, Vance may join us oftener at Hanover. JoeVance's only daughter, Jeanne, started at Bennett Junior College last September, which gives Joe an excuse to come East occasionally from Detroit. Our latest adopted classmate, Laurie York Erskine, lives at 93 Garrison Ave., Battle Creek, Mich., and his accomplishments are recorded in Who's Who in America. We are requesting a profile by the Smoker editor. Tom Staley has moved into larger quarters, Apt. 9E-F in The Walnuts, Kansas City 2, Mo. Has the wedding occurred yet, Tom? Hoyt Marsden, for reasons as yet unexplained, has moved from Springfield, Mass., to 20 Rocky Hill Rd., Cape Elizabeth 7, Maine.
Hope to be on the road when you read this, looking for classmates hither and yon.
Secretary, 21 Chestnut St., Wellesley Hills 82, Mass.
Treasurer, 2519 Ridgeway, Evanston, Ill.
Bequest Chairman,
