1921
There's considerable ground to cover, this month, so relax, settle back, get out the specs and get yourselves into a state of absorption.
The 1957 Alumni Fund Campaign is under way. You'll soon be hearing direct from Don Sawyer, if you haven't already. The same old 1921 spirit is just as potent as ever, but there is a new kind of potency this year, and we have a hunch that this is going to be THE year in so far as 1921's participation in the Fund is concerned. We have more than just a hunch that every member of '21 expects even demands, that our class win the Green Derby this year. There's only one way that can be accomplished - each of you knows the answer as well as we do, so we won't even take up space to tell you the answer. So, the success of the 1957 Alumni Fund Campaign, out, though, and let's get together helping as far as '21 is concerned is self evident. Watch each other from becoming too complacent and too cocky. The first thing to do is to get your contribution in right now. Don't wait, and if each one of us reaches down just a bit deeper into the sock than we ever have before — why it'll be a lead pipe cinch. But every last one of us has to do it. So - let's go '21. Incidentally don't hold back, expecting to be tapped for that big Capital Fund Drive we've been hearing about. That's still two years off before that gets under way.
Next, did you hear the news about Reg Miner? Reg has been elected a Vice-President of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company. Of course we congratulate Reg, but we want particularly to congratulate the John Hancock Company for their good judgment in taking the action they did, and for their good fortune in having such a guy as Reg in their official family. Reg started out with Hancock back in 1928 as a city mortgage loan analyzer and his progress has been constant ever since. The greatness of Reg Miner —apart from honors he so justly deserves —is that he is and always will be Reg Miner.
Your secretary had himself a wonderful time last month at the annual dinner meeting of the Boston Alumni Association (of Dartmouth, of course). Talk about southern hospitality - if any of you southerners, westerners, easterners, or northerners would like to see hospitality at its best, you should go to Boston and expose youreselves to the Dartmouthites there. Dan Ruggles, the retiring president of the Boston Association, was at his best as the gracious host, and chairman of the meeting. Besides Dan and your reporter, '21 was also represented by Russ Bailey, Bill Fowler, Jeff Lawrence, Reg Miner, Tom Norcross, Walt Prince, Don Sawyer, Chan Symmes, and Tom Cleveland. We saw John Woodhouse the next morning as he was leaving the hotel dining room, but didn't spot him at the dinner, but he must have been there.
We couldn't make the '21-'20 dinner in New York on February 28, but according to the account below from Herrick Brown it must have been a tremendously successful affair. Those of '21 present, with their various representatives of the "1921 Ladies Auxiliary," were Doug and Hazel Storer, Rog Wilde, Reg and Sylvia Miner, Don and Alice Sawyer (both couples taking in "MY Fair Lady"!), Hal Smith, and his wife, with two guests, Hal and Doris Braman, Howie and Larrie Ransom, Speedy and San Fleet, Ing Baker who had with him his daughter Alice (Gosnell), John Woodhouse, Sumner and Betty Perkins, Mac Johnson ("looking the most youthful of those present"), the Hilt Campbells, Abe Weld, the El Duncans, Ort and Lois Hicks who had Mickey King with them, Tracey and Leigh Higgins, Nels and Terry Smith, Frank and Barbara Livermore, Carleton and Mary Van Cleve, Cliff and Gladys Hart, Jack and Ruth Hubbell, Warren Homer, and Herrick and Avalita Brown, the latter couple bringing report of their fifth grandchild - Kathleen Joan Claypoole, born to their daughter Hester Claypoole in Lawrence, Mass. last fall.
We don't dare mention a recent letter from Bill Perry about his winter vacation trip, fearing he might carry out some of his threats of mayhem and whatnot if we do. So, without even mentioning the letter, we'll just report a brief supplement to our last month's report of you-know-who and his charming wife taking a winter vacation trip to you-know-where meeting en route, and there, other not previously mentioned classmates including Warrie and Hilda Clark, Mick and Dorothy Shoup, Ken Thomas, and Bill Embree. He also enclosed with his letter (shhh!) a newspaper clipping on Pud Walker who has done, and is still doing, such an outstanding job as the Director of the Leahi Hospital in Honolulu. It says that under Pud's able direction the hospital is rated by experts as among the country's best half-dozen tuberculosis hospitals — by "country" we mean the United States. "Hawaii has good reason to be grateful for the devoted services and the high professional skill available to it at Leahi Hospital." In addition to being an outstanding doctor, Pud, with his wife Maude, have obviously made outstanding reputations in their roles as cordial and gracious hosts to visitors from the mainland and elsewhere.
We recently received word of the sudden death of Ernest Chapman in his home town of Springfield, Massachusetts. So another '21-er has joined the ranks of the immortals, and your secretary has already expressed to Ernest's widow, Grace, the sympathy of the class. We have sent in a formal obituary notice which should also be in this issue.
The Guy Wallicks recently announced the marriage of their daughter, Elizabeth Anne, in Istanbul, Turkey, to Renato Guiseppe Danon. To the newlyweds goes 1921's sincerest and most enthusiastic good wishes.
We hear that Herm Noyes recently achieved his first grandfathership, via daughter Mary Bartlett who, with her husband David Paul Bartlett lives in Concord, New Hampshire.
Had a fine letter recently from Werner Janssen, but our space is running out so we'll save that for next month.
We do, however, want to report that thanks to generous gifts from various classmates, Baker Library has just acquired a rare first edition of Herman Melville's "The Confidence-Man" as a memorial to Lovell Cook, George Forman, and Maurice B. Townsend. The Library expressed their great gratitude for this, and stated that the volume is a welcome and valuable addition to their Melville collection.
Don't forget, all you '21-ers — the 1957 Alumni Fund! Do you all know what a "tithe" is? What would happen if each one of us should aim toward a tithe to the Alumni Fund this year? WOW!
Sherman Adams Dinner
Sherman Adams, chief aide of President Eisenhower, and Mrs. Adams were guests of honor at a very successful and enjoyable mid-winter reunion dinner staged by his Dartmouth 1920 classmates and the Class of 1921 at the Dartmouth Club in New York on Thursday evening, Feb. 28. The wives of the members of the two classes were included in the invitation to the affair, and most men showed up with their ladies along.
The party with its distinguished guests attracted not only a large turnout from the New York area members of 1920 and 1921, but a big delegation of out-of-towners as well. Leo Unger '20 and his wife made the longest trek to attend, coming on from Council Bluffs, lowa.
The whole program was kept on an informal basis so that Sherm could have a carefree evening with his Dartmouth friends, and in his talk at the close of the dinner (speeches were officially ruled out for the evening) the guest of honor shunned politics and world problems to express how much his association with Dartmouth had meant to him through the years and to reminisce a bit about his beloved North Country. He also took occasion to mention the Dartmouth men with whom he had been working since moving into his White House job.
Earlier, Mrs. Adams herself paid a gracious tribute to the College and its alumni.
Dick Pearson, 1920's longtime secretary, who who had originated the correspondence that brought Sherm and his wife to New York for the evening, most tragically was ill, seriously so and in the hospital, the night of the dinner. Charlie McGoughran '20 served as the after-dinner master of ceremonies and he kept events moving along swiftly and entertainingly in thoroughly professional style.
Stan Newcomer, president of 1920, Rog Wilde, 1921's prexy, and Doug Storer '21, who was a co-chairman of the dinner along with Charlie, were called on for brief remarks, and Prof. Al Foley '20 made Hanover seem a bit nearer Manhattan with his Vermont-New Hampshire anecdotes. Seated also at the head table were the two Adams daughters, Mrs. Bill Hallager and Miss Sally Adams, Bill Hallager '47, Mrs. McGoughran and Mrs. Storer.
A sheaf of congratulatory telegrams arrived for Sherm during the dinner. These were topped by one from Sherm's boss, President Eisenhower. Others were from Rep. Joseph Martin Jr. of Massachusetts, Republican leader in Congress; President John Sloan Dickey '29; President-emeritus Ernest Martin Hopkins '01; Governor Lane Dwinell '28 of New Hampshire; and General Lucius D. Clay.
As a gift from the two classes, Doug Storer presented the guest of honor with a silver case containing chop sticks, once the possession of an ancient Chinese war lord. Doug had acquired the trophy some years ago in China while on a "Believe It or Not" trip to the Far East.
The dinner was preceded by a cocktail party at which the guests of honor headed the receiving line. By the time the dinner concluded shortly after 10, it was the hearty wish of all the 111 persons present that Sherm and his charming wife could drop in more often on their New York colleagues.
A testimonial dinner for Rachel and Sherman Adams '20 (center) was given in New York,February 28, by the Classes of 1920 and 1921. With the honored guests are (left) DorothyMcGoughran and Charles McGoughran '20 and (right) Hazel Storer and Douglas Storer '21.McGoughran and Storer were co-chairmen of the dinner at the Dartmouth Club.
Reginald B. Miner '21 has been elected a First Vice President of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, in charge of real estate mortgages for the company.
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