A Green Welcome
When Prof. Edmund H. Booth '18 sent some copies of The Dartmouth to his friend Col. John L. Ames Jr. '16 in Korea, he also provided a green-tinged welcome to Munsan-ni for Ambassador Ellis O. Briggs '21 on October 29. Colonel Ames tells about it in his letter to Professor Booth:
"The Dartmouths of the Colgate weekend could not have been more timely. They arrived this morning. About 5:20, when I was in the shower, I suddenly realized that Ambassador Briggs '21 was due about then. Hoping I could make it before he did, I tore out of the shower with a towel around me, picked up the copies in my tent and tore down to his. He had not arrived, so I laid them on the table and went back to dress.
"By lucky coincidence I headed down to the Senior Officers' Lounge just as he was being shown into his tent. As I passed I heard laughter and a voice saying, 'Why, this is just priceless!' By the time I had got to the lounge, the member of Mr. Dean's party (Arthur H. Dean, U.S. Representative at Panmunjom and father of Nicholas B. Dean '54) who had escorted Ambassador Briggs was back asking our P.R.O. to get the photographer. I am sure there will be a press release of some sort. I told Austin (our P.R.O.) to be sure TheDartmouth got a picture.
"Briggs said that if he had been asked to name a hundred papers he might expect to find here, he would not have thought of The Dartmouth. It was a wonderful way to break the ice. ... His son (Everett Ellis '56) is now at Dartmouth."
