1921
The Big News is, of course, Harry Chamberlaine's letter about plans for our Triginta-quinquennial on June 11-12-13, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Undoubtedly you have each sent him your reply postcard with check marks opposite "I'll be there, barring emergencies" and "Yes" as to your wife's participation. Please note that wives are included in all activities so that no separate program is planned. Children are also welcome. Our previous reunions and those of other classes held since 1951 have conclusively proved that the presence of wives and children makes a reunion. It should be a family affair. So, if the old pocketbook will stand it, bring 'em all.
All samplings and polls indicate a bigger and better gathering: 1921 men in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Minneapolis, Tucson, New Orleans, Kansas City, Miami, New York, New Jersey, Boston, Connecticut, Vermont, Springfield, Mass., and Manchester, N.H., all are 100% sold on the idea. Gus Perkins plans to finish his spring plowing and planting before June 1. Dan Patch anticipates bull sessions with his fraternity brothers. Marsh Whelden wants to strut as the oldest man in the class. Red Kerlin is so excited that he has consulted Herr Schnibble and come up with a title even simpler than our official Latin label. Red's contribution is Fünfunddreiszigzusammengekommen but for everyday conversation he uses T-T-Q-Q-L since it is more rhythmic and comes in handy for Scrabble. From now till June similar ideas and the names of those planning to join us will be published in these notes and the Smoker.
Don't you read the papers? The 1956 Dartmouth Winter Carnival Queen was none other than Bill's lovely 18-year-old daughter Jane ("Putsie") Barber, a freshman at Bradford Junior College, chosen from 1600 dates. Her escort was the son of Bob Strong '24 whose widow still lives in Hanover. Rumor hath it that Bill sailed off the ski jump shortly after the announcement and landed safely in the Vale of Tempe.
Speaking of news, the Rt. Rev. John Dallas, formerly Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire, recently gave a talk to the Boston Branch of the English-Speaking Union on the books which he particularly enjoyed fifty years ago. His many admirers among '21 men will be glad to know he is still active though retired.
Jack Hubbell is always in the news and always photogenic. In January he was featured in Sponsor, a radio and TV sales magazine, regarding his use of both mediums for the advertising and merchandising of his Simmons Co. products. Again in The Sales Executive, he is pictured presiding over a large party at the Hotel Astor Gallery in N.Y.C. Incidentally, we are not sure that Simmons is the mattress manufacturer who adopted the unfortunately-worded slogan, "We stand behind all our products."
Bill Beers, Ex Exnicios, El Fisher, GeorgeForman, Ted Hartshorn, Dan Ruggles and JoeVance as Beta brothers will note with particular regret the passing of Artie Anderson after an eight-year fight with lung cancer. During these last few years a number of his old friends and fraternity brothers have called upon him at his home in Chappaqua, N.Y. Artie was noted for his capacity for friendship and will be greatly missed at our 35th. Under In Memoriam in this issue we pay him tribute.
Arthur "Spider" Ross lost his wife Mary in November 1954, following a long illness and 25 years of married life. After being a lonely widower for nearly a year, he was remarried last September to the former Ruth Z. Clarke of Cranford, N.J. They are living at 414 Graham Court, Falls Church, Va., and would welcome a visit, phone call or letter from any classmate.
Bob Wilson, a peripatetic individual who roams the U.S. and Europe on short notice, currently is stopping with his mother at 345 Mechanic St., Fitchburg, Mass., whence he can return to Hanover in two and one half hours. Last fall he did so to witness a Gamma Delta Chi initiation. Bob was enthusiastic about the house, the boys and the absence of racial or religious restrictions which characterize this amalgamation of Bob's fraternity, Alpha Chi Rho, with Delta Chi and Lambda Chi Alpha.
Connie Keyes fears that classmates visiting California's Bay Area wont be able to find him because he has moved to 1297 Edgewood Way, South San Francisco, where the latch-string is out as usual.
Don Sawyer advises that he and his capable cohorts are warming up for the April start of the 1956 Alumni Fund campaign and urges you to begin laying away the proper amounts to achieve the total you will need for reunion and the Fund. Since this is income tax season we referred him to the College motto: VoxClamantis in Deserto but he has abiding faith in the resourcefulness of our class.
Hugh McKay supplied your secretary with an excellent dinner and a very pleasant evening in New York in January. As vice president and Treasurer of Refined Syrups and Sugars, Inc., Yonker.s, he surely has the ability to come up with an attractive, comfortable and useful costume for our 35th. He eagerly welcomes suggestions but refused at that time to disclose his final decision.
Ort Hicks not only produced the good news that by a curious coincidence John L. Sullivan has become a director of Loew's Inc., but reported fully on 1921 men encountered at the Minneapolis meeting of the Alumni Council. Rog Wilde presided, of course, with Caroline as his official hostess. Pick Ankeny, C.D. Basset and Rhynie Rothschild were on deck with Gene Leonard in the background trying to get time off from his job. An expedition of Old Shads to the Shattuck School, Faribault, was organized following the meeting when C.D. disclosed that he is a trustee of St. Mary's School, near Shattuck. Ort thinks he has them all lined up for June.
Here are a few short shorts: Harry Chamberlaine and Coot Carder have been warming up their bowling arms and demonstrating kegler form at the Old Post Bar and Grill alleys, midway between Rye and Greenwich, N.Y. Coot had Mary, his beautiful wife, along. Observers claimed she was in perfect form and heaved a right masterful ball. Dick and, SueBarnes flew to Denver during the Christmas holidays to visit daughter Joan, now Mrs. Robert Leslie. Doc Fleming says the snowcovered hills of Idaho, near Moscow, almost make him believe he is back in Hanover. Nostalgia may persuade him yet to journey East in June. Doc can't help remarking what a bargain this MAGAZINE is for three dollars per annum compared to Life and Time. DaveTrainer is still working hard as Professor of Geology at Colgate. He gets together with Hilt Campbell each summer and is looking forward to sabbatical leave next fall when he plans a trip to Mexico and the northern part of South America. Bill Alley is now vice president and director of A.E. Ames & Co., New York, and vacationed in Mexico last summer. He looked very fit at the Harvard game in Hanover.
Late, late flash! Corey Ford received injuries to his face and leg in an automobile accident in California. He was a passenger in a friend's car. See your next Smoker for details.
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