1921

"A secret marriage appropriate for men of 1921 vintage," is how Red Stanley describes it. He and his bride Frances, nicknamed Fay, did tell their families about the forthcoming ceremony but did not invite them to it. Jim Godfrey '31, a good friend and a lawyer, arranged a five-day waiver, and he and his wife after playing the role of witnesses played the role of host at their home and supervised the popping of champagne corks. Fay and Red spent their first honeymoon weekend at Steele Hill, Laconia, where Jim Dodge and Helen were as hospitable as they were mum about the newlyweds. Fay, incidentally, kept on with her position as Sec. to the V. P. of the N. E. Tel. and Tel. until a replacement was found. Then with a smile she took off with Red for Pinehurst where he played in the Invitation North-South Golf Tournament, Oct. 17-26. Red was keeping his eye peeled for Jack Brotherhood '20 who knocked him off in the same tournament last year.

And, speaking of golf, back in college days, Sandy Sanders playing Dewey Grundhagen was eight ahead on the eighteenth tee, each point representing a wet-nut fudge sundae at Allen's. "Double or nothing," said Dewey. Never a man to refuse a golfing bet, Sandy met the challenge. On the eighteenth green Dewey was jubilant, for he had Sandy stymied. But kneeling down, squinting, Sandy saw the slight roll, and he curved his ball around Dewey's into the cup, to Dewey's vociferous amazement. Sixteen wet-nut fudge sundaes represented a lot of money in those pre-rubber days, and Dewey has never recovered from that capital expenditure resulting from Sandy's crooked putting. Such were Sandy's reminiscences recently in Hanover as he chalked up a 39 for the first nine (never mind about the second) with borrowed clubs on the strange Hanover course. His opponent, Karl Michael '29, the swimming coach, nosed him out with a 79.

And still speaking of golf, Kent McKinley says that his has improved since his second coronary, but his temper is worse. On his Canada estate this summer with laying hens, broilers, and vegetables and with six grandchildren, three of his and three of Marj's, Kent's disposition was excellent. He felt brisk enough to play tennis, coronary or no coronary, though it was doubles but in a less subdued fashion than you might expect. Paired with his surgeon-son-in-law, he beat 6-2 the surgeon's brother (also a doctor) and an ex-marine. In Sarasota now; Kent puts in a 60-hour week as Editor and Publisher of "The News," the only Republican paper in Florida. Happy Chandler has made Kent a Kentucky Colonel, and Marje is running for state committeewoman, and Kent's son, a veteran of the Korean conflict, a sergeant with many ribbons, lives in Winter Park.

Geographically inquisitive, Bob and Dottie Burroughs explore some new part of the world each year. On the most recent adventure, Guatemala and Yucatan, Bob can be eloquent. He loved the Guatemalan mountain markets to which incredibly thin, small, and muscular Indians weighing only 130 pounds carry packs of 150 over ten and even 25 miles of spiralling paths. They are descendants of the Maya tribe who flourished from about 1000 A.D. until the coming of the Spaniards at the beginning of the 16th century. The Maya traditions resist modern improvements. The Indians, for example, irrigate by splashing water from a hand dipper on to their cultivated strips. For an extended stay Bob recommends Lake Atitlan with two good hotels, three picturesque volcanoes, and several dramatic Indian villages, each one with different colorful costumes. For the more intellectually curious, Yucatan offers pyramids and buildings going back ten centuries to chasten the pride of 1921 men boasting of their longevity, modernity, and recent accomplishments.

George Ferguson's brilliant and beautiful book is being handed around in Freshman English at Dartmouth to show freshmen studying the Bible some of the dramatic Renaissance paintings in color from the famous Kress Collection. "Signs and Symbols in Christian Art" (Oxford University Press, New York, 1954) came into being because a seven-year-old girl, the daughter of Rush H. Kress, looking at a color reproduction of Tiepolo's Madonna and the Goldfinch, asked, "What does the goldfinch in the Child's hand mean?" Finding nothing comprehensive or attractive in the field of religious symbolism had been published for the past 100 years, George Ferguson went to work and with the help of the Kress Foundation put in five years of research that resulted in the large blue book with exquisite reproductions, mostly from the Renaissance, many in color, to give the public a vital and dramatic presentation of the story of symbolism in Christian art. In the United States a second edition has just gone through its fourth printing, and another is on the way. In England, though the book appeared as late as 1956, reprints keep coming, and Norway and Spain have their versions.

Products of the jazz era, 1921 men are interested in what their classmate Rudy Blesh, author and a member of the musical staff of Queens College, has to say about jazz. "One cannot exaggerate the protest with which jazz was met, when in the 20's it spread to Chicago and New York. It was blamed for the sins of the flappers and the lounge lizards. Nearly all the woes of the postwar world, up to and including the 1929 crash in Wall Street were blamed on this nefarious music. Alfred K. Knopf has seen fit to bring out a revised and up-to-date version of his book, "Shining Trumpets," first published in 1946. Rudy believes that everything points to a great and imminent revival of jazz when again we shall hear the shining trumpets.

Not many lieutenants (j.g.) get bronze plaques when mustered out of Reserve active duty. Speedy Fleet has a son, Charles S. Fleet '53, who was given one "for meritorious service as Assistant Staff Supply Officer, CONDESLANT staff from Sept. 1957 to Sept. 1958." Charlie was on a destroyer with the U. S. Atlantic Fleet.

Cory Litchard is now in the enlarged modern quarters of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. at 55 State St., Springfield. As General Agent, Cory is in charge of 19,000 policyholders.

Dave Plume of 41 Oakley Ave., Summit, N. J., has been engaged in selling his home and solving the problem of relocating.

Florence and Phil Noyes of 10 Cottage St., Marion, Mass., spent their summer vacation driving to Charleston, S. C., to visit their son Donald, who has two children; to Chicago to visit their son Edward '50, who has three children, two of whom were delivered by Dr. Paul Sanderson; and to Detroit to visit Phil's brother, Fred '22. In all the Noyeses drove 2983 miles, a lot of mileage for New Engenders.

Can you get excited about old organs? Dave Bowen can, enough to drive all the way from Rockport, Mass., to Hanover to look for a melodeon in an antique shop or in a hinterland farm house. He had no luck, but he had the pleasure of calling on Joe and Marian Folger to whom he gave information about Sally Ann in Oslo and Nancy Jane whose naval officer husband is now out of the service and teaching in Newport.

Bill and Teeter Alley of 6 Ross Road, Scarsdale, are able to view the United States with a new perspective, for they spent a delightful summer in the Scandinavian countries, Austria, and Germany.

Hartwell, the son of Bill and Edith Perry, is on the Dartmouth College payroll as assistant to Robert K. Hage, Director of Financial Aid and Associate Director of Admissions.

Proving age is solely a state of mind, these four frolicsome lads, members of the varsity golf team of 1922, got together last summer. Left to right are: George McKee '23; Gunny Gunnison, Tony Hanlon, and Oscar Rice, all '22 athletes.

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