1921

Top-notch actuarial consultant: that is what springs to mind when Bob Burroughs is mentioned. He also raises - in a manner of speaking - an apple or two. A Canadian crew pick his 12,000 bushels from 1,900 trees. The farm in Canterbury, N. H., known as Hackleborough Hill, used to boast also of eggs, chickens, and hens with — in a manner of speaking — a rooster or two, but they have been supplanted by Mcintosh, Cortland, Baldwin, Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, and Northern Spy. A sideline in 100-gallon lots is sweet cider pressed twice a week from drops and lower grade apples. Our other apple expert, Hewitt Moore of North Pomfret, Vt., will be glad to know that Bob escaped the cold weather in late May and Hurricane Esther, and though he suffered agonies of fear in two freak July hailstorms, the trees emerged with little damage.

In Naha, Okinawa, Bob Wilson, lawyer, has defended a 19-year-old marine charged with first-degree murder of a local girl stabbed with a kitchen knife. She had $23. Naha seems to be something less than law abiding. In a six-month period there were 152 hit-and-run accidents. Number of persons apprehended by the police: 0. Despite a variety of Far-Eastern rashes, highly tormenting, Bob, who on a diet of pablum, toast, and tea, weighed 205, now eats everything and has dropped to 160. Unashamedly he calls himself svelte and boasts that his business friends, unable to recognize him, finally utter incredulous ejaculations.

Hugh Penney is a newsmaker on several fronts. Born 1888, he is the oldest man in the class, 74 his next birthday. He has fifteen grandchildren, the most philoprogenitive grandfather. Though long retired, he as interim minister serves 800 members of the Auburn (Mass.) Congregational Church.

Less heard from in 1921 circles than we like, Jack (you may know him as Charlton)Johnson shows a strong crimson streak in his green, for he attended Harvard from 1917-1919 and from 1920-1921. In 1931 he was married to E. L. Perley and divorced in 1959. He is father of two sons and two daughters; the eldest, Donald, attended Oberlin. As treasurer, Jack interests himself in the Haverhill Public Library and the J. G. Whittier Homestead.

Em and Olive Corbin continue to brighten up night life in New Britain. They act. In "The Time of the Cuckoo," Olive, an eager American tourist in Europe with a passion for shopping, drags Em, a not-so-patient husband, around to women's stores to look dismally at lingerie and to galleries to look in jaundiced fashion on dismal landscapes, dead-looking still life, and sinister characters apparently in perpetual masquerade costumes.

Frank Livermore does what he can to brighten up nocturnal hours in the area of the bean and the cod. He took on the job of Publicity Director of Newton Little Theatre, which promised to stage Noel Coward's "Hay Fever." All lined up with a battery of typewriters and delightful copy, Frank had to recharge his battery. The management, Janus-like, switched and put on "Janus." From January 15 to March 15 he and Barbara will sun themselves in the Virgin Islands, Fort Lauderdale, and Sea Island, Ga. After June 28 it will be ocean breezes. They climb aboard the Caronia for a North-Cape Scandinavian cruise to return to New York on the Queen Elizabeth from Southampton, August 9.

Here is news about 1921 daughters and sons. Elizabeth, daughter of Bob and HelenMac Donald has married a Wisconsin graduate, David O. Ellis. Chase, daughter of Joe Lane, who is married to Eugene Bruns on the Laos desk in the State Department, has a job with McKinsey and Co., management consultants, and keeps house on the side. Dick Rolfe is fascinated by Kinabalu, Madalon, Pagalan, and Trus Madi, names known to few in 1921 except that perennial globe-trotter, Ike Chester, and that geographer extraordinary, Paul Belknap. These are mountains and rivers in North Borneo where Cynthia, Dick's daughter, resides in a town called Jesselton. Paul Rosenthal hopes to introduce his son Paul Jr., now at Proctor Academy, to the Director of Admissions, D. C. Dr. Peter Fleming '51, son of DocFleming, is completing his residency in general surgery at the Hitchcock Hospital, Hanover. Dick Jr., son of Dick and Gig HOI, has liquidated his interest in the Claremont Supply Company and is selling life insurance with Burroughs and Hatch. Arthur Hill '60 and his wife Dotsy are in San Antonio where Arthur has been called into military service. Ken Thomas likes his son's bride. Dr. Kenneth E. Thomas '56 has married a speech pathologist, Barbara Seyler.

Why did Bill Kearns not make the Fortieth or the Fall Reunion? Because the scramble for jobs in the construction business is so fierce that he has been on the hop in New York State and New England. Not a small man, Bill, now a resident of Dover, is trying to live compactly in a small house and forget the spaciousness of his twelveroom Wellesley mansion.

George McMillan regretted that his hay fever was bad enough to keep him away from the Fortieth.

George and Madeline Harris have settled happily into their new house in Bedford. They had dinner recently with Walt andJoyce Prince. Joyce, daughter of an Oxford University professor, took refuge in World War II on the Isle of Jersey with her children. Her husband was killed in action in Africa.

After some "pretty radical surgery" necessitating 19 days in the hospital, Bill Alley returned to the office in November on a limited schedule. "I feel fine but tire easily." With Teeter cheering him on, he is considering retirement and building in Hanover this coming spring.

That Lambda Chi Alpha man, John Herbert, whose Frater in Doctribus was Cheerless Richardson and whose fraternal classmates were Roland Batchelder, Phil Noyes,Art Higgins, and Phil Newhall, will soon retire as District Sales Manager for Marshall Field (Field Enterprise Educational Corporation). He will welcome a less strenuous schedule. Some 23 years ago he injured his back, and despite the help of a good osteopath he still suffers attacks of atrocious pain when a muscle impinges on the sciatic nerve in his right leg. Furthermore, for some twelve years he has been fighting low blood pressure, low blood count, a thyroid deficiency, and liver trouble necessitating a rigid, non-fat, high protein diet. Johnny regrets that these complications have prevented him from attending 1921 parties in Hanover and elsewhere.

Bill McClintock, Realtor and General Contractor in Sherman Oaks, Calif., had thought of retiring within three years, but now he has his doubts. "Under present conditions in the world," he says, "it hardly makes any sense to plan so far ahead, so I guess I'll just go along and do the best I can from day to day. With the lack of intelligence being displayed so openly by leaders everywhere, I don't think we dare hope for much."

Not infrequently 1921 men renounce the business world and then go right back to work. Tom Griffith is one. Retired recently from J. C. Penney Company, he is now consultant to the U. S. Naval Ships Stores Office. Like Tom, Harry Mosser, still a youngish man, unlike Tom, continues to work but he cleverly arranges beautiful vacations in Italy.

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