1921
Frank Lester Lambert is our headliner in the news for this edition. Les is in his 34th year with the Great A & P Tea Co. and has been vice president of that company's Central Division in charge of their Buffalo unit since 1942. This past February he was shifted to the Pittsburgh unit of A & P Food Stores with headquarters at Dallas Ave. and Lynn Way. His new home is at 156 Mayfair Drive, Pittsburgh 28, Pa. Les' entire business life has been with that company, beginning as office manager in Springfield, Mass. He successively served as auditor of the New England Division, home office auditor in New York and treasurer of the Central Division with offices at Pittsburgh and later Youngstown, O., before taking charge at Buffalo. Both of Les' sons are Dartmouth graduates, William B. '50. and Robert L. '53, Tuck School '54.
Although R. DeWitt Mallary is supposed to have retired from his law firm in Springfield, Mass., he spends a day or two there each week as an adviser, attends to his duties as president of the Eastern States Exposition, assists his wife Gertrude in running a large dairy farm in Bradford, Vt„ and we now learn he is a director of Perkins Machine and Gear Co. of West Springfield. When will you slow down, Ray?
Any Reader's Digest fans were probably doubly pleased to glance at the May issue and find two 1921 authors contributing. MannyManchester discussed "Atom Power's Biggest Dilemma," the problem of finding spots for nuclear plants to dump their lethal debris. Corey Ford, in lighter vein, plaintively recorded his inability to ever finish a funny story - your friends will stop you every time. Even the editor interrupted.
Corey, incidentally, pops over to Greece for three weeks or to the West Coast for a few days so don't count on finding him in Hanover except on October 22. You fishermen, like Rog Wilde, should read Corey's vignette about the Yankee Rod-Maker, Charles F. Orvis, in Manchester, Vt. It appeared recently in New England Journeys, No. 3, a special edition of Ford Times, published by the Ford Motor Company for the Ford Dealers of New England.
Jack Hub bell, vice president in charge of sales for the Simmons Co., discloses some of his selling secrets in a one-page article in Printers'Ink for March 11. He concludes with this moral: Show a dealer how he can profit and you make sales.
Paul Belknap, owner and publisher of TheEvening Tribune, Albert Lea, Minn., got his picture in the New York Herald-Tribune in April for expressing the opinion that people in Minnesota have confidence in President Eisenhower's ability to handle the Chinese communist situation and the problem of the offshore China islands. Paul was attending a big convocation of newspaper publishers in New York, according to our eagle-eyed informant, Dick Pearson '20.
It was heart-warming to learn recently that, apart from alumni fund giving, five members of 1921 and the mother of a classmate have contributed a total of about $4,000 to various special funds of the College. They include the Hockey Rink, Hopkins Center, Tucker Foundation, Rare Book Fund of Baker Library and several funds in memory of individuals.
When you read this, the 1955 Alumni Fund will have about three weeks to go. If you haven't sent in your check yet, now is the time. If you have contributed but have an extra dollar or two available, obey that generous impulse. In 1953 the Yale Alumni Fund suggested a means of determining proportionate giving in the four fields of Religion, Education, Community Services and World Services. For anyone with a balanced interest in these areas an arbitrary yardstick of thirty per cent each for the first three and ten per cent for the last was proposed. A comparison of your own giving against this formula illuminates the direction of your personal interests. Does Education get at least thirty per cent of your contributions toward a better world?
Some '21ers always seem to be on the go. Bill and Edith Perry appeared in Hanover, Annapolis and Williamsburg during April. KenThomas is now living at 370 Thackeray Lane, Northfield, Ill. Doug Store's itinerary of his recent trip to the West Indies reads like a Burton Holmes travelog.
Dr. Ernie Wilcox reports:
"Aline and I are both well. Am still very active in practice of surgery. My oldest daughter, Joan Klein, has given us three grandchildren, Robby 5, Kathy 3, and Richy 1. Son Dick '52 is married, a 2/Lt. in U.S.A.F. stationed at Elmendorf A. F. Base, Anchorage, Alaska flying all-weather Jet interceptors. Youngest daughter, Anne, is a junior at Colby Junior College and I might gather from her letters that the road to Hanover is not strange to her. I have managed to sneak away on three occasions this winter to do a little skiing in New England."
Don Smith tunes in from Turners Falls, Mass., to tell us that he has now fully recovered from last year's illness, is looking forward to the Tri— in '56 and hopes we hit our 100% mark in the Alumni Fund.
Cape Payson writes from West Harwich on Cape Cod where he is building more cabins to rent to vacationers:
"Been to Florida three times in last six months, once to marry off youngest daughter. Now all four are married, son an executive with Chance-Vought in Dallas, Texas, the rest scattered around Florida. Still building here on the Cape and plan to build another place in Florida next winter unless conditions change. Enjoyed seeing three Dartmouth '21 men and wives here last summer."
Back in February the Springfield (Mass.) Republican carried a large picture of a beautiful bride, Judith Ann, daughter of Dr. andMrs. Paul G. Sanderson. Judith is a graduate of Pine Manor Jr. College and an active member of the local Junior League. Her husband, Donald C. Bridge, after Wentworth Institute and two years in the Army, is now at Bridge Manufacturing Co. in Connecticut. The young couple are living in Longmeadow, not too far from Paul.
Dolph Alger's son, John Rhodolphus '53, also took the preliminary step of becoming engaged to Nancy Crapo of Onset, Mass., a senior at Vassar. John is now at Harvard Law School and a member of Lincoln's Inn Society. Dolph, you will recall, keeps Middleboro, Mass., on the map.
Both Hal Braman and your secretary wish each of you a happy, restful summer with the kind of vacation you enjoy most. Please remember, however, that we would both like to hear about it so that we may tell your friends in 1921.
FORMER AMBASSADOR TO KOREA, EllisO. Briggs '21 receives the Medal of Freedomfrom General Maxwell D. Taylor at a FarEast Command Ceremony on April 17. Mr.Briggs is now U.S. Ambassador to Peru.
Secretary, 21 Chestnut Street, Wellesley Hills 82, Mass.
Class Agent, 200 Berkeley St., Boston 16, Mass.
