1921
EXTRY! EXTRY! EXTRY! "While the Capital quivered last night in anticipation of President Eisenhower's second inaugural, the Alfalfa Club jumped the gun and unanimously nominated its own man, former Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan for President of the United States in 1957. — Mr. Sullivan was placed in nomination by former Speaker Joseph W. Martin Jr., Republican leader of the House of Representatives." And so on goes the front-page headline story in The Washington Star. In his acceptance speech John L. in true Sullivanian humility referred to himself as " - a plain spoken boy from the granite hills of New Hampshire" and advocated that "we must stop taxing profits and start taxing losses." The list of party members and their guests, some six hundred of them, reads like the Who's Who of the diplomatic, national, and political world.
We don't have much information about Jack Means (John R. Means) except that he is in the advertising business, and that he has just acquired a new address in St. Petersburg, Fla. We'll give you one guess as to the name of the street on which he now lives - you guessed it! It's Dartmouth Avenue, N. - number 6383. That's carrying the influence of his collegiate background right into his convictions. It couldn't just be coincidence.
Herb Jagels is now Vice President of Burns Brothers - the big New York coal and fuel concern, and his new address is 222 Varick Avenue, Brooklyn 37, New York.
We hear also that Cliff Hart has recently moved from his former address in Woodside, Long Island to a Jackson Heights address. Jackson Heights takes your Secretary back a thousand years — maybe it was only 35 years ago - when he was fixin' to get himself married, and were it not for the fact that he didn't have what was needed for a down payment he would have settled in Jackson Heights in one of the "new idea" cooperative apartment house deals - "The greatest new idea in cooperative suburban living of the age!"
John O'Connor Jr., 1941 Class Secretary, sent us an enthusiastic report of a talk given to the New York Downtown Dartmouth Club by the Vice President of Hearst Publications - one G. Harry Chamberlaine who was introduced by a fellow classmate, one Orton H.Hicks.
We've been hoping for a first-hand report from Bill Perry on his over-Christmas trip to Hawaii. Bob MacDonald has written of the overnight visit the Perrys made with the MacDonalds in Evanston en route home. Bob says — "I don't think anyone ever had a better trip to Los Angeles, Hawaii, and San Francisco and they thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it. Edith really bubbled talking abotit what they did, and what they saw and who they saw. Bill and Edith have been so generous with their own time and hospitality for the good of 1921 that it was wonderful to hear them tell how classmates welcomed them." Bob went on to report that because of rough zero winter weather during the Perrys' visit it was impossible to construct a truly proper 1921 wing-ding, however they did have a chance to drop in on Carolineand Rog Wilde at their recently acquired, aged house which Caroline is in the process of doing over. Bill and Edith Perry's son Hartwell, who is based in Hawaii, is a commissioned officer in the Coast Guard, and is third officer on his ship.
Over the last month or so we heard of three '21ers who have been in Hanover to see if winter in Hanover still looks like winter in Hanover (and we hear it sure does). The list includes the cross-country (we were going to say "peripatetic" but I doubt he walks across country frequently) traveller Guy Wallick, also Red Stanley our telephone company mogul, and Francis B. Foster who lives just down the pike from us, in East Greenwich.
It's terrific isn't it, to see and think of the changes that have taken place at Dartmouth since 1921 (as well as the changes that are contemplated to be finished for the 200th anniversary celebration in 1969 — wow!) and still, with all the growth, and improvement Dartmouth is just the same Dartmouth it was in 1921 and always will be. What got us started off on that tangent? Guess it was talking about the winters in Hanover and recently reading of the new Skiway at Holt's Ledge, and the new Brundage Lodge which features "various utility rooms on the ground floor with a fine large observation room above, centered around a magnificent round hearth fireplace." The nearest we can remember to anything like that was the D.O.C. hut at Moose Mountain, which sure was a far cry from Brundage Lodge which, incidentally (not "incidentally" by any means), was the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brundage '16 in memory of their son Peter who lost his life in Okinawa.
Another interesting news note from Hanover tells us that the Department of Religion has announced that its staff is being expanded and that by next fall the department will be in a position to offer a full major. We are not informed on all the details leading up to this development, but we are certain that that department has not expanded just because the College authorities decided it would be nice for the boys to know a bit more about religion. Back of any such expansive development is the demand for such learning, just one more indication of the trend.
For some time we hear references to the Raymond DeWitt Mallarys of Fairlee. We just learned that Gertrude who has formerly served in the Vermont General Assembly, won a landslide victory last November in her bid for the post of State Senator from Orange County. She, a Republican candidate, was elected with over 5000 votes, over her Democratic opponent who polled slightly over 1300 votes.
Well folks, that about wraps it up for this month. Get yourselves set because Don Sawyer's getting up a head of steam for his 1957 Alumni Fund drive. You'll be hearing from, of, and all about him. He's going to be in the headlines - that is if you and I, by our responses, put him in the headlines, and WE WILL.
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