1921
One of the rewards of a Class Secretary is the privilege of attending the Class Officers' Weekend in Hanover. This year Class Treasurer Bob MacDonald came on to Boston and drove up with Bill Perry and ye sec. on Friday, April 30. Rog Wilde, as head of the Alumni Fund, and Don Mix, our Bequest Chairman, joined us in Hanover for the meetings which Jack Kurd, Smoker Editor also attended. The formal meetings are reported elsewhere in this issue, but we learned that our class was then tied for first place by the Class of 1919, a dark horse, in the Group II Green Derby. Other statistics showed that the official count of the Class of 1921 was 349 men as of April 1, 1954. Of that number 201, or 58%, had paid their class dues and 238, or 68%, had subscribed to this magazine. These percentages compare with 55% and 84% respectively for all alumni, so we are not leaders in these activities.
Saturday's warm, spring-fever weather induced Perry, Wilde, Mac Donald and Miner to visit Ray and Gertrude Mallary at their large dairy and Holstein breeding farm in Bradford, Vt. Ray spends one day a week in Springfield, Mass., attending to his law office from which he retired and to the affairs of the Eastern States Exposition of which he is president. Gertrude supervises the farm where she knows the name, markings, heredity and milk production record of each registered cow. Their milk is pasteurized and homogenized on the farm before delivery in bulk to the Dartmouth market. A pleasant, profitable and absorbing life in a scenic setting, away from the rush of the city.
That evening and Sunday morning JackHurd and Joe Folger brought us up-to-date on the life of the College including the current problems of both students and faculty. It is increasingly evident that the selective process of admissions is producing a fine average type of undergraduate but the mobility afforded by students' automobiles perhaps provides too easy a means of escape when their duties seem oppressive.
Most of us who knew Al Green were shocked to learn in the April Smoker that he had died suddenly of a heart attack on April 15 at his home in Silver Spring, Md. For an account of his life, please turn to the obituary columns of this issue. By a strange coincidence, JackHubbell's mother, Mrs. Margaret Hubbell, died the same day at the age of 78. Jack's own character and achievements confirm his statement that, "She was one of God's noblewomen."
Ort Hick's campaign to bring to a jury trial ex-Senator Benton's charges against Senator McCarthy by placing full-page ads in New York papers really produced several thousand letters and contributions from sympathizers. At last reports, McCarthy had not re-instituted his $2,000,000 libel-and-slander suit against Benton.
Doug Storer, president of Believe It Or Not, Inc., was presented a special Treasury Department citation on April 8 in recognition of his out-standing contribution to the savings bond program. The citation was an illuminated colored engraving of the prayer offered by President Eisenhower on January 20, 1953 before his inaugural address. Wood from the inaugural platform was used to frame the document which was signed by Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey and by Earl O. Shreve, National Director of the Savings Bonds Division. Doug is contributing a new monthly feature on popular sports with savings bonds testimonials by leading sports figures. This series will be released to approximately 4200 company publications or employees' magazines throughout the country.
The New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston claims to have the largest collection of Dartmouth class reports anywhere outside of Baker Library. At the request of Ralph S. Bartlett, Secretary of the Class of 1889, we contributed to that society our last unassigned copy of our Thirtieth Reunion Book. In return, we received an elaborate acknowledgement from the librarian.
Way back in March a meeting of the local Tuck School alumni at the Dartmouth Club of N. Y. conflicted with a proposed 1921 dinner and those of our classmates who had planned to attend the latter were notified of the postponement until May. In the mixup Coot Carter, Bill Codding, Chuck Moreau,Gus Perkins, Dave Plume, Bill Terry, Art Donahue '15 and Ted Hellwig '23 all showed up anyway. Since there was no food ready, they went on a liquid diet and their ribald laughter wafted into the adjoining Tuck School dinner attended by Ort Hicks, HarryChamberlaine, Hilt Campbell and LeighTracy. Despite the distraction, Harry was elected President of the Tuck group and Ort was placed on the Board of Governors. JohnSullivan who had planned to attend was headed off by phone. Abe Weld dropped in for a moment. Herrick Brown, Neil Forbes,Bill Barber, Elbert Duncan, Hugh McKay,Tracy Higgins and Doug Storer promised to make the May meeting. Elbert Duncan is now living at 394 East Palisades Avenue, Englewood, N. J. and spends most of his time contacting banks throughout Conn., N. Y. and N. J.
Tom Cleveland recently visited friends in Syracuse, N. Y., and at a party ran into Billand Catherine Alley. Catherine is known to her friends as Teeter. Bill is still Vice President of A. E. Ames & Co., Inc., investment bankers, at 2 Wall Street, N. Y., and is deacon in the Hitchcock Presbyterian Church of Syracuse. He was formerly a stalwart member of the Smalley A. C. and wishes it clearly understood that Teeter is his first and only wife with whom he has been living happily since their marriage in 1923, despite an inference to the contrary in our 1951 class book. They even enjoyed a trip to Europe last summer and both are active in local community affairs.
Tom also reported that Ralph Ruder planned to come on from Colorado Springs to give Tom his moral support during Fathers' Weekend at Smith College where they both have undergraduate daughters. After these festivities, they expected to visit Hanover to call on Ma Smalley whose life and works were so ably recounted by Jack Hurd in the last issue of this magazine.
Hal and Doris Braman took a couple of days rest at the Hanover Inn in March. Jack Garfein sold so much John Hancock life insurance in the San Francisco Bay area that he was invited to attend the President's Club meeting in Washington, D. C., this spring. While there he talked to Al Dunn and Art Ross over the telephone and later called Cliff Hart in N. Y. but there was no '21 activity at that time.
The sons of '21 continue to exemplify the traditional ability of their fathers. HankCook's son, Hewitt, Jr., and Tom Harper, the sophomore son of Eltner, have been elected corresponding secretary and rushing secretary respectively of the Beta Theta Pi. Please note that Hank was Kappa Sigma and Elmer, Phi Sigma Kappa. Ellis Briggs' son, Ted, was a candidate for the position of secretary of the sophomore class but we haven't seen the results of the election. Bill Perry's son, Hartwell '55, made Dragon, while Speedy Fleet's boy, Charles '53, now in his second year at Tuck School, is 1953 class agent and personally campaigned at Tuck, Thayer, and the Medical School with the result that 100% of those graduate students either pledged or contributed.
Walter and Betty Lundegren of Marblehead, Mass., recently announced the engagement of their eldest daughter, Lieutenant Betty Lundegren, WAC, to Mr. Ottar Thorgilsson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thorgils Gudmundsson of Reykjavik, Iceland. Betty graduated from Jackson College in 1945 magna cum laude and has been stationed at La Rochelle, France recently. Ottar was educated in Iceland and is now with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Paris in its Public Relations Department. He reads and speaks about five languages. It is interesting to note that Iceland is about the last Nordic country to retain the ancient custom whereby the son derives his last name from the first name of his father. Genealogists often go mad in Iceland. A summer wedding in Paris is planned.
If you have not yet sent in your contribution to the Alumni Fund, don't forget there are only two weeks left in which to do your best for the College and your class.
IN HONOLULU: '21ers, residents and transients, were entertained by the Hastings Walkers in February. L to r: Reg Miner, Bob Burroughs, Ted Merriam, Maude Walker, Reg Wilde, Pud Walker and Caroline Wilde. Dottie Burroughs and Marion Merriam were beyond camera range.
1921 CLASS OFFICERS enjoyed pooling ideas during their May 1 meeting in Hanover. Outside of Baker the photographer found (l to r): Bill Perry, Class Agent; Reg Miner, Secretary; Bob Mac Donald, Treasurer; and Jack Hurd, editor of the '21 Smoker.
Secretary, 21 Chestnut St., Wellesley Hills 82, Mass.
Class Agent, 196 Broadway, Cambridge 39, Mass.
