1921
If you were to vote for the man in 1921 with the most modern and fascinating business, Paul Belknap might win easily over protesting but (Paul would say) prejudiced candidates With offices at 10 Rockefeller Plaza, New York 20, he is President of Hunting Geophysical Services Inc. His clients are leading mining and oil companies and state governments. What can Paul offer? Plenty. Would you like dual frequency electro-magmetic systems for exploration of depletable resources (coal, petroleum, minerals)? Perhaps it is advice about renewable resources (water, arable land, forests). You can acquire statistics about power-line control, firefighting, and crop spraying. Available also are floating laboratories carrying or towing geophysical instruments. You can get expert comment about stereoscopic photographs, highway planning, Arctic ice patrol, and communications in North Polar regions where ordinary compasses are useless.
These are not crack-pot dreams. Hunting is a world-wide organization with head quarters in London, and sixteen out of 64 corporations are engaged in airborne survey. Paul Belknap's Hunting Geophysical Services, the newest of these, was started about a year ago to offer Hunting services in the United States and Mexico. Paul was alerted through an English friend, and Paul in turn interested Pick Ankeny and some of his Minne apolis apolis associates in financing the new company, which is 75% U.S. owned. Pick, Vice President, devotes time to Hunting affairs when he comes east for Dartmouth Alumni Council meetings.
Owner of the newspaper, "The Evening Tribune." in Albert Lea, Minn., Paul calls his new venture Retirement in Reverse, for he cannot understand businessmen who want to sit for a few years in a sunny climate where they deteriorate faster than nature calls for. He does not expect to make his second million, but he is having a lot of fun.
Don Smith has a different kind of problem. As Chief Gage Sales Order Editor of the Greenfield Tap & Die Division, United Greenfield Corporation, he listens to the complaints of customers who think that Don's delivery promises on specials should be bettered. What price reasonableness! Don deals in .0001 (ten thousands) of an inch, but customers talk as if he were splurging in feet, yards, and miles. Ulcers? On the contrary, Don is in the best of health. So are his daughter Jean and son-in-law, Lawrence Murphy, a teacher at Fay School, who spend their summers at Camp Medomak, Me.
Speaking of measurements ... it has really come to this. Dartmouth should run some sort of a competition in which the winner would be that class coming in last. Probably that would be one time when 1921 did not come in first. But it is not now that 1921 is last. As usual, 1921 is first, well out in front of such stalwart and larger classes as 1923, 1925, and 1930, in numbers of contributors to the Dartmouth Educational Association of Boston. It is a non-profit corporation to assist needy students preparing for and pursuing courses of study at Dartmouth. Its capital has been built up by annual dues of ten dollars a year, special gifts from persons of good will, and interest earned on loans to students granted only to those students approved by the Scholarships and Loans Committee of Dartmouth College.
News from California: Bart Bartholomew's son Bob '59 is with Union Oil in San Francisco. ...Guy Wallick has been appointed to the Board of Directors, Society of Western Artists....Connie Keyes' father died last year, six weeks after his 97th birthday. His mind remained keen until a month from the end. Irene Keyes seems to have her arthritis under control. Connie is up to his ears in work for his company, Lenkurt Electric, has been taken over by General Telephone whose president has been making drastic organizatinal changes, which, God be praised, will not affect Connie. He is now operating under what he calls his five-year-plan - he retires in 1965.
But Dan Patch, who suffered a slight disability a year or so ago, retired from Arnold Bankers last October, and he has bought a small place on Cape Cod. From May 15 on, his latchkey for 1921 men will hang on a nail at Riverside Drive, West Harwich The class extends sympathy to Rynie Rothschild whose wife died February 14....KenSater's son John '51 as an American observer is now at the South Pole at the British Antarctic base.... Herrick and Avalita Brown were presented with their eighth grandchild and fifth grandson, Jeffrey David Claypoole, but Coach Blackman may not count on him, for daughter Hester and son-in-law Dave are both University of Vermont.... Bill Marcy, who attended recently a luncheon given by Western New York Dartmouth alumni, is impressed with their energetic activity. In 1917 you could count the Western New Yorkers in college on the fingers of your two hands but not today Sandy Sanders' golf, affected by Houston rain, has dipped to the eighties, but with a dry spring he expects to shoot again in his expert seventies. Sandy's wife Ella Grace has several new portrait commissions, and Sandy has built her a new studio with better light Busy executive though Will Varian is, he has time for an absorbing interest, Rebecca, aged three, going on four, daughter of Wilbur Jr.... Before Frank Hickman took off for his annual trip to Europe, he treated the Dartmouth Glee Club to some Southern hospitality Charlie Gilson of Taiwan opened with prayer the recent 58th Annual Convocation of the Missionary District of Honolulu. Among the Postulants not in Seminary, as announced by the Rt. Rev. Harry S. Kennedy, Bishop of Honolulu, is Guy H. Piltz Jr. '60, now a senior in Hanover, son of Ted Merriam's old friend and associate, Guy Piltz, Vice President and Controller of the Bank of Hawaii. ... Ray Mallary continues to be slightly startled at the distinguished career of his clergyman son, aged 33, Rev. Raymond Depointed Witt Mallary Jr., who has just been apaviar of St. Thomas Chapel, 230 E. 60th St., N.Y.C. Father Mallary (i.e. the son, you understand) is now Associate Director for College Work in the Diocese of New York. ... Phil Noyes has 123 pupils in five daily classes and a home room of 47 at the Fair haven High 5choo1....
Here's the news about Maurie Stetson. The paper company in Kalamazoo, Mich., of which he was Vice President of Sales having merged, he decided some five years ago to engage in the ice-cream business on Okeecho bee bee Road, West Palm Beach, and stayed in it until last year when he decided to work with another man in a Carvel Ice Cream stand on U.S.I. Healthy and philosophical, Maurie says that old friends, old wine, and old automobiles are best, and he continues to drive his 1949 Cadillac.
Supposing you were to retire to a dream cabin near Hanover on Cube Mountain with a breath-taking view of Moosilauke and acres of blueberry pasture in the foreground and a pine-panelled living room with a field stone fireplace inside. What would you name it? That is Mac McMackin's problem, which he mulls over in this period of disappointment. He was to have retired this year but must wait until 1961. "It is a sort of Shangrimust la," says Mac, "but that is too hackneyed. For a while I thought that Serendipity was a good choice, but now everybody has taken that word over. I have even thought of Nirvana, Valhalla, Wahnfried, and What Leave You. Perhaps I shall have to call it Mameless."
Horace Walpole, who coined the word Serendipity about 1744, might be mildly surprised to learn that the culture of Dartmouth College graduates is so urbane that even in the country a 1921 man would be as unwilling to use Serendipity as he would Dew Drop Inn for the name of his cabin because it might smack too much of the cliche.
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