1921

Two issues ago we commented on our New Year's resolution to improve the standards of this here column. The first stage of the campaign was to ask Reg Miner to do last month's column while your reporter was off vacationing. Reg did so well in bringing back his delightful reportorial skill it's going to be rough to even come near the standard he has set. Thanks Reg.

Yours truly and Dorothy sure had ourselves a Christmas. We sailed from Boston on December 13, and after stops in Halifax, and St. John's, Newfoundland, we landed in England on December 23, had a glorious Christmas with Charles Jr. and his family of wife Patty, and four and a half children, set sail on the return trip on January 4, landing in New York just a month after we started, on January 13. We had all the best intentions in the world that we would make contact with some, if not all the 25 Dartmouth residents of England (none of whom are '21ers), but the time was just too short. (Commercial - Charles Jr. is Assistant General Manager of the American Express Company in London, and hopes that any and all of our friends finding their way to London will drop in on him, whether their business is with Amexco or not.)

"The greatest Dartmouth occasion ever held outside of Hanover," the dinner honoring Prexy Hopkins will be reported on at greater length by The Smoker. The Committee for the dinner reads like the Who's Who not only of Dartmouth, but of 1921. John Sullivan, Pick Ankeny, Bill Embree, El Fisher, Ort Hicks, Don Sawyer, Guy Wallick, Rog Wilde, John Woodhouse, are listed with such personages as John D. Rockefeller Jr., Thomas E. Dewey, Carl Sandberg, Lewis Douglas, etc. etc.

In the pile of correspondence accumulated during our vacation was a notice of the death of Theodore Pellens Jr. on last November 10 in his home town of Phoenix, Ariz. Fortunately this came to Abe Weld's attention, and Abe - thoughtful as ever, wrote Ted's widow expressing our sympathy to her. This will constitute our only "official" notice of Ted's death, with so much time now elapsed since his death. Ted was chief economist with the Arizona Highway Department, having previously been with Phelps Dodge, and then with the Arizona Title and Trust Company. In addition to his wife, Dorothy, he is survived by a daughter, two grandchildren, and a sister.

Notice has come through of Warren Homer's new address - 2332 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, Calif.

Note a quote from a recent note (poetry!) from Abe Weld. He reports 199 classmates are up to date on their dues, against 212 at the same juncture last year, and says - "Our classmates are not too communicative (with news). Perhaps you could apply your talents - and arouse the boys to talk about themselves, wives, children, and grandchildren, so they may slip a dues check into the envelope without even stopping to think." So, quoting Abe's comment and prayer being the extent of my talents, how about it boys? Won't you please talk to us about yourselves, your wives, your children, and your grandchildren, and - incidentally - (but not without thinking) slip in a dues check, just in case it's slipped your mind? Orchids, of course, to the many stalwarts of our class who have kept us supplied with news (and dues checks!).

Ike Chester, our globe-trotting Chairman of the Board of Globe American Corporation, tells us that he has every expectation of remaining resident at 321 Forest Drive, Kokomo, in the hope that classmates will drop in for a visit. He's only had one '21 visitor. Ike is back from a two-month trip to Alaska, going up above the Arctic Circle into the Eskimo country, then back through California. On his way back he spent a week in St. Louis in his role as a Unit Consultant for the Business and Finance Committee of the National Council of Churches.

A new honor and responsibility has been given Jack Hubbell in his election to the Board of Trustees of Westchester County's United Hospital.

And speaking of honors and responsibilities it sort of seems as if Dartmouth predominates at the First National Bank of Minneapolis. First of all our own Clarke Bassett has been elected the senior vice-president, along with the elections of Fenwick Atwill '41, and Harvey Daniels '43 as vice-president in the Commercial Banking Department, and assistant vice-president in the Trust Department respectively.

Phil Payson, of South Euclid, Ohio, reports that his daughter Beverly is spending a year in Turkey where her husband, Frank McNally is teaching English on a Fulbright award. Phil says they say it's nice to have American passports with them.

Don Sawyer is getting up a head of steam towards the Alumni Fund effort for 1958. We'll be hearing more of and from him. Don't anybody get the idea that we can slow down for an instant. As Don says - "It is important that we keep our participation figure up at the top of the heap. Let's not get out of the habit of giving annually to the Dartmouth Alumni Fund." We won't, Don.

The Hopkins dinner was a tremendously successful affair. The details will be reported elsewhere. More than 40 1921 men and wives were present, including the Alleys, the Ankenys, the Bramans, the Harry Chamberlaines, Bill Embree, . the El Fishers, Hal Geilick, Tom Griffith, the Bord Helmers, Ort Hicks, Tracy Higgins, the Hubbells, the Loebs, the Gene McCabes, the McKays, the Miners, Bud Reichart, the Robinsons, the Sandersons, the Sawyers, the Nelson Smiths, the Storers, John Sullivan and several guests including Gene Tunney, Abe Weld, Guy Wallick, Roger Wilde and John Woodhouse.

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