1921
And now it can be told. President Eisenhower has nominated as Ambassador to Greece our own Ellis Briggs to succeed James W. Riddleberger, recently named Director of the International Cooperation Administration.
Admiral W. F. Boone USN is Stamford '20, Naval Academy '21, and Dartmouth '21 (honorary), a unique figure. Despite prior and close commitments with two other institutions preventing him, as he tells John Sullivan, from attending many Dartmouth gatherings, he recalls glowingly his and Mrs. Boone's initiation into Dartmouth 1921, the beauty of the campus, and the warmth of Hanover hospitality. Here are highlights of Admiral Boone's active and important recent career. He left the Naval Academy in March 1956 when he was assigned as Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Naval Forces in Europe and the Middle East. Though his headquarters were in London, his duties involved travel about Europe and the Middle East. During the Suez crisis, he shifted his flag to one of the ships of the Sixth Fleet, part of his command, and remained in the Eastern Mediterranean about seven weeks. Last March he returned to the Pentagon to assume the duties of the U. S. Representative on the Military Committee and Standing Group of NATO Because the military in NATO works closely with the political side represented by the North Atlantic Council in Paris, Admiral Boone flew no fewer than five times to Paris on NATO business and also to Norway and Italy. In still another way Admiral Boone shows that he is flexible. "Can't we arrange another Dartmouth-Navy football game?" he asks in a letter. "Nothing would please me more than to see some of my Dartmouth '21 classmates again and meet new ones."
Another 1921 man has travelled so much that for some years he was lost not only to the class but also to the Alumni Records Office. Hal Bowen of 818 Lawrence Ave., Detroit 2, will be perhaps best remembered by men in Crosby freshman year: Dave Bowen and Hal Graman, El Harper and Harry Garland. Hal has lived a year in Paris and moved about in 23 countries, including Egypt and Turkey, often on foot without luggage, as from Algiers to Tunis. As a clubman, Hal is stimulatingly different. He belongs to the Prismatic Club, the Manuscript Society, the Aboriginal Research Club, and the American Numismatic Society. As an author, he is no drugstore hero. His book is entitled "State Bank Notes of Michigan," privately printed. Why this? Well, Hal is a collector of paper money and coins, stamps and books. Except for his one year at Dartmouth and the Army, World War I, he has had an unconventional education. In his family home where he taught himself his letters and to read he digested most of his father's 10,000 volumes on history, science, and fiction before he started school at the late age of 12. Routine is hardly the word for Hal's business career. At the Detroit Edison Co., he was Electrical Distribution Engineer for only seven years and as early as 1927 he retired when most of us were sweating and grunting to make our $50 a week. And as for ancestors, though Hals grandfather was a judge in the Michigan Supreme Court and though his father and uncle both esteemed attorneys, Hal's favorite hero is a certain Captain Bowen unknown to most respectable members of 1921, for Captain Bowen was a pirate "I find him cruising off the Malabar Coast," Hal writes "in the year 1700, commanding a ship called the 'Speaker' whose crew consisted of men of all nations, and their piracies were committed upon ships of all nations likewise."
Nelson Smith being Vice President of American Airlines, you would expect him to travel by air over distances greater than those involved between Hanover, Lebanon and White River. And, indeed, he has recently enjoyed a vacation in the Caribbean. He Hew to San Juan, Puerto Rico, and then to St. Maarten, Netherlands West Indies Now comes the surprise. In St. Maarten Nels and Terry joined two other couples in a 56-root ketch with about 40 horse of diesel power but most of the time with the able help of a crew of three Frenchmen, two white and one black, from St. Barts, they navigated under sail. With a 40-mile-an-hour gale one day and high seas, they blew their jib, and the going was as rugged as the Nelsonians could take.
Tracy Higgins outdistanced the V. P. of A. A. by flying this winter on a two-week business trip to South America.
But the V. P. of A. A. outdid Roger and Caroline Wilde, who if they got no farther than Florida showed imagination. After several days in Pompano with friends, they drove to Clewiston to join an Audubon bird tour. The second week was less wild but more Wilde. Roger with a lure in his eye headed for Cabbage Key, a small island near Boca Grande, where, eligible fishing aristocrat, he enjoyed the piscatorial thrill of catching not one but several lady fish on his fly rod
For Stan White of 11 Belfry Terrace, Lexington, Mass., land-locked salmon is tops for fresh-water fish; and for salt water, bluefish in Nantucket Sound. Rog Wilde will be surprised to hear that though Stan has landed small tuna, 65 to 100 pounds, Stan enjoys bluefish and salmon more.
When fishing the Snake River near R Lazy S Ranch, Moose P. 0., Jackson Hole, Bob McConaughy of 901 Charlestown Apartments 470 Thirteenth East, Salt Lake City 2, has the most beautiful form as fly caster of any amateur in Wyoming. Ask Guy Wallick, no mean fly caster himself. Not only is R Lazy S Ranch considered by an increasing number of Dartmouth clients as tops in fishing but also in riding and western-outdoor living combined with indoor luxury. In addition, Bob with Bob III and two good friends in their thirties from Harvard and M.I.T. has a real-estate business in Salt Lake, the Wallace-McConaughy Corp. specializing in commercial properties. Wonderful though life is for Florrelle and Bob, Bob has had a miserable year and a half following a very severe case of shingles. All during this past winter doctors have been treating his eye, and so regretfully Bob had to miss the Ort Hicks and Malcolm Johnson visits.
Fishing and eyesight bring to mind the Editor of the "Sarasota News," Kent McKinley, and Marje, who will be fishing in troubled waters this month, June, and July for very large devil fish or giant squids. Kent says that they are planning a three-month visit to Europe and the Middle East "to find out for ourselves if we are really faced with another global war."
Rudy Hodgson, who has resided in Somersworth, N. H., for the past thirty years, does considerable traveling in his mind, for his two married daughters have lived in the Middle West, Upper New York State, the Deep South, Florida, and California. Rudy has five grandchildren now, and he loves to give them maximum grandfather privileges with a minimum of fatherly responsibilities. Rudy wishes that he could hear more of his roommate in 31 South Mass freshman year, Bill Lies, who sacked in next door to DanRuggles.
In a manner of speaking, Bob Loeb is settling in too. After 29 years of commuting on the New Haven Railroad, he decided last year that he had had enough. So he and Ros sold their house in Stamford and now are thoroughly enjoying their apartment at 45 Sutton Place South, more or less in the heart of Manhattan.
In a three-column cut in the New York Times recently, Bob Burroughs, photographed with Charles M. Werly, Trustee of Putnam Funds, proved his usual photogenic self. The headline ran: "Mutual Funds: Nonprofit Angle."
That student of economics and philosopher blended in the businessman, Russ Goodnow of Machine Parts Corp., Providence, is "still increasingly appalled at our general state of economic illiteracy," particularly when he "considers that all the strife, imbalance, and problems of the world are almost entirely economic in nature."
Paul Belknap, spending considerable time in New York as President of Hunting Geophysical Services, has an office with DougStorer, Room 2214, RICO Building.
As Head of the Copydesk on the World-Telegram & Sun, Herrick Brown finds the work so challenging and fatiguing that he no longer writes short stories or attends the theatre with anything like the frequency he did when he used to think nothing of covering an opening night, writing the review before going to bed, and reporting on his regular newspaper job with only three or four hours of sleep.
Ken Sater of Columbus, 0., is getting lots of compliments on his judgeship and trusteeship at Defiance College. Hal Smith is apparently keeping as busy as a Long Island real estate man with the Charles E. Hyde Agency in Port Washington as he once did in the textile field. Cliff Hart is the new Editor of the "Dartmouth Club News" in New York.
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