1921
We are glad to report to our alert Latin scholars that the error in the spelling of our 35th Reunion title on the letterhead of HarryChamberlaine's announcement was not an evidence of subversive activity but was simply due to an inebriated proofreader who flunked Latin in high school. It should be Triginta....
Please note, too, that Jim Dodge's Inn-at-Steele-Hill is full for June 9 and 10. A capacity of about forty, plus a reputation for wonderful food and a charming homelike atmosphere make early reservations a must.
Nevertheless our 35th is shaping up to be our best yet: 75 classmates and 60 wives were definitely coming as of March 1. Also thirty probables, with only half the class heard from. Before you read this you should have received a second letter from Harry regarding more details. Latest gustatory plans have the opening cocktail party at the Ski Hut Monday afternoon followed by the Class Dinner and Meeting at the Hanover Inn. On Tuesday a similar sequence at the Outing Club House on Occom Pond around dinner time minus the political nominations. Lunch on Wednesday is a lobster picnic near the Ledyard Canoe Club. If you want special menus, write DanRyder. Between meals are scheduled: music at our tent, Hanover Holiday lectures, a group photo and the Memorial Service, but there will be plenty of free time. The costumes will be both useful and attractive. The tax is now estimated to be low so you can surely afford a post-reunion day or two at Whitefield with the crowd at $15 per day, including meals. If you have been hesitating, send Harry your card now. Write the Mountain View House at Whitefield, N. H., if you can take the whole week off.
With Reunion plans well in hand, HarryChamberlaine took two weeks off at Naples, Fla., where he ran into George Forman and learned that George had resigned as general manager of C. A. Goleman Co., Lexington, Ky., to start his own construction business.
Frank Ross also recently announced the formation of Frank Ross, Inc., a sales and distributing company to furnish the dairy processing and distributing industry with ice cream and frozen food cabinets and other devices to improve sales.
Leon Bateman, for contrast, is attempting to retire after twenty years of running his own department store in Lexington, Mass., and of active participation in the town government. Son Frank '48 is taking over with a remodeling program which should make many more friends for this excellent suburban store. Leon hopes to spend most of his time completing a new home in Fitzwilliam, N. H., where he can enjoy retirement.
With the aid of eleven 1921 votes, DanRuggles became president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston in February. Classmates contributing to the general acclaim included Bill Fowler, Jeff Lawrence, Stan Oliver, Chan Symmes, Reg Miner, Hal Geilich, Jack Campbell, Walt Prince, Marsh Whelden, Ken Bean and John Woodhouse. The last three were ringers from New Hampshire and Delaware, but they added that extra zest to the party. This group also voted unanimously in favor of having a 1921 dinner again this year at the Hotel Gardner on Wednesday, May 16, before Dartmouth-Night-at-the-Pops. Therefore, the Green Room is reserved and the private bar will open at 5:30 p.m. Local classmates are asked to send their reservations to Reg Miner but any '21ers or friends who happen to be in town that day are welcome.
April marks the start of the 1956 Alumni Fund for Dartmouth. Don Sawyer and his hard-working cohorts are on the ball again. No slogan is announced but the objective is to make our reunion year our biggest for the Fund. To this end, they suggest that each of us add an extra sum to our usual or intended contribution and that this extra might be a dollar for each year since graduation, or $35. If you normally give one dollar, how about $36 in 1956? Century Club members could make it $136. This extra spurt would be for this year only.
Don, the securities merchant, also points out that stocks which you purchased at say fifty cents, and are now listed at $28 per share, may be given to the College and credited to you and to the class at their present market value. Don't take those prices literally. It's the principle that counts. Incidentally, but not casually, our Green Derby group this year includes the Class of 1925, which is tough competition in any group. 1914 and 1915 have graduated to the old-timers' classification, for which we are grateful.
Hal and Doris Braman tried to rest up in Biloxi, Miss., in January but froze. Now Hal is off on his annual recruiting campaign for American Brass while Doris is Community Director of the local Smith College Alumnae Fund in Waterbury, Conn.
Bob Wilson is traveling again. After reporting his temporary stay with his mother in Fitchburg, Mass., we learn that he visited Charlie Gilson in Providence and then had a week at Atlantic City. For some reason he decided to drive to Washington, D. C., and was caught in a blinding snowstorm. South of Baltimore his car skidded off a curve and crashed into a truck parked in a field. Bob emerged with a banged knee and a couple of sprained fingers but his car was a mess. Maryland state troopers rescued him. He is still grateful to his guardian angel.
No further news as yet regarding CoreyFord's accident in California. He was out in Hollywood as an adviser for the filming of his Saturday Evening Post story. Perhaps you caught the mention of Corey in the February 25 issue of The New Yorker on Paste 29 in a piece by Frank Sullivan, a former roommate.
See you in ik not earlier.
From the window of his furniture store,Theron Millspaugh '20 watches the world goby on the main stem in Walden, N. Y.
Secretary,21 Chestnut St., Wellesley Hills 82, Mass.
Class Agent, 200 Berkeley St., Boston 16, Mass.
