1921
Last call for our Trigintaquinqucnnial on June 11-1213! Only one month before we arrive again in Hanover to see familiar faces, revive neglected friendships and appreciate at last the qialily of men who have put the hill winds and the granite to good use in their lives. As of Marc h 30. 86 men and 70 wives had signed up: 26 would probably make it. hut 53 were verv doubtful. "I hat left half the class to be heard from. If you thought it impossible to come but at the last minute you can sctape up the time and the money, come anyway. We want you there. Hanover is beautiful in lune but the fellowship of your classmates makes it wonderful. You'll feci at least ten years younger.
Russell Sage 'Til Butterfield. two of the newest ami best dorms, are in lie ours. They are the first dorms on I lie right as you start down Tuck Drive from Main Si. 1920 will be in Hitchcock and North Mass. 1922 have three other newer buildings. Gile, Streeter and Lord, which are lined up along the south side of Tuck Drive.
Harry Chamberlaine and his committee are really on the ball, polishing up last-minute details such as name tags that can be read six feet away and accessory costumes that minimize the slight changes in your figure. It looks like the best reunion yet.
Of course, there are always some guys who have to get warmed up by visiting Hanover early just to prove that they can get away from business. Hal Smith of Port Washington, N.Y., Hal and Doris Braman of Connecticut, Frankand Ida Ross and Chick and Kelly Stiles, for instance, who stopped at the Inn last March. Don Sawyer, Don Mix and your secretary have the excuse of official business at the May meeting of Class Officers.
March was a good month for Boston. RogWilde flew in from the Windy City to sell power beds to a hospital managers' con- vention. What's a power bed? In his off hours he worked in some visits with Chan and LornaSymmes, Bill and Edith Perry, and a lunch with ye sec. Mac Johnson, on business for the Federal Reserve System, also stopped at the local Statler but Rog had left before they were aware of each other's presence. Mac attended the local meeting of Alumni Fund workers in his new capacity as Agent for the Washington, D.C., area. Don Sawyer, Head Agent, and cohorts, Dave Bowen, Chan Symmes, Russ Bailey and ye sec. also received stimulating ammunition and ideas for the Big Year of 1921 campaign.
Our boys got the idea that if we all pull together this reunion year and work hard, we might just have a chance to beat that remarkable Class of 1925 in our Green Derby and hang up a new record for 1921. Whatever happens, Dartmouth wins anyway. By the way, didn't you think Don Sawyer's letter, "What Price Dartmouth," was a masterpiece? Thirty-five dollars or multiples thereof must surely be forthcoming from each classmate who read it. That class average gift divided by 35 years seems a little on the low side, about $17.50 per annum. Shall we catch up now?
One of our classmates is so proud of the continuity of his giving to the Alumni Fund since graduation (he has never missed a year) that he is arranging his will to provide a modest fund which will continue these annual contributions until the year 2021 in the likely event that he dies before then. His present worry is that the process of probating his will might take so long that a year would be missed. There are' enough men of similar ideals in our class to make Don Sawyer really enjoy his work.
Thanks to Warde Wilkins, Secretary to 1913, we have a clipping announcing that prexyemeritus, Tom Cleveland, was chairman of the Newton, Mass., committee to help the Newton Boys' Club celebrate the National Boys' Club golden aanniversary week in April. The theme was to "help juvenile decency combat juvenile delinquency." Tom is also serving on a committee which has the task of raising funds to rebuild a very large Congregational church which was completely destroyed by fire in January.
Ross Shepardson, the lumber tycoon, of Newton and Wellesley, Mass., has a son Richard, who graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1955, is a Theta Chi, and is now in the Army. Last February son Richard married Miss Isobel V. Coffin of Fremont, N. H., at the Lindsay Chapel of the First Congregational Church, Cambridge, Mass. Isobel is a 1954 graduate of the same university and a member of Alpha Chi Omega.
Mac Johnson claims that Jane "Putsie" Barber, 1956 Carnival Queen, gets her good looks and winning personality from her mother and maternal grandmother, in spite of the credit taken by Bill Barber. Mac bases his conclusion on a meeting with Bill's mother-in-law, Mrs, Williams, at Putnam, Conn., on Easter Sunday.
John Woodhouse covered about 14,000 miles for DuPont in January and February and was lucky enough to have a reunion with JohnSullivan en route to Montreal. Later he joined us for the Boston Alumni Dinner.
Before the three snowstorms which piled up to forty inches of the beautiful white backbreaking stuff, your secretary enjoyed a brief business trip to that unusual island of Puerto Rico where a new economy is developing rapidly under Operation Bootstrap and the new middle class requires housing. One of the highlights of the trip was the pleasure of meeting Nelson Rockefeller '30, who is heading up the committee for the Hopkins Center at Hanover. But no 1921 men could be found on the island.
If we don't see you next month at the 35th, you'd better have a good excuse.
At an MGM Conference in Hollywood in March, Ort Hicks '21 (r), a director of Loew's International, and Charlie Goldsmith '29, Managing Director of MGM in Great Britain, meetwith Grace Kelly.
Secretary, 21 Chestnut St.. Wellesley Hills 82, Mass.
Class Agent, 200 Berkeley St., Boston 16, Mass.
