1921

If your picture o£ John L. Sullivan is that of a subdued and static man flanked by uniformed brown legal volumes, it is something less than accurate. John is neither static nor subdued. Consider his summer and autumn. The scene opens on a salmon stream well known to George Gaffield, Dana Lamb, and Corey Ford, the Restigouche in New Brunswick, where John spent two thwarting days. He moved to the Marguerite River, twelve miles above Tadoussac, a former Indian village and later a fur-trading station in Southeast Quebec. The last cast was the best. He tied into a salmon which kept him busy for one hour and ten minutes, his record fish, 31 pounds. He was well pleased that it was he and not the fish who was still breathing when the fight was over. He then rushed back to Washington, whipped into some fresh clothes, and whirled off to meet Priscilla and his sixteen-year-old daughter Debbie, who was to attend her first Democratic Convention. After a week of Los Angeles they flew to San Francisco for five days and had two wonderful visits with Admiral and Mrs. Chester Nimitz. To the former 1921 Secretary of the Navy, the Admiral looked hardly any different than in December 1947 and today is "the man most revered in Northern California." August was a long string of meetings in Boston, New York, Baltimore, and Berlin, N. H., with a few hours off at Rye Beach. After more meetings outside Washington in September, John with Priscilla on October 2 flew to London for three days of work and a meeting of the Board of Aluminium, Ltd. The next morning a plane transported them to Athens for five thrilling days with Ellisand Lucy Briggs, which included two of hunting on the Niarchos' Island for pheasant, redleg partridge, and hare. Despite virus colds, Lucy and Ellis were in great form. Five mornings a week they take Greek lessons and French twice a week. With Ellis now able to make extemporaneous speeches in Greek, John is looking forward to the day when Randy Childs tries to answer him with our native Chawktaw. In Paris John worked one day and played one day, and then he jetted home just in time for the Hanover meeting of the Dartmouth trustees. JohnWoodhouse and he had so much business that they missed the 1921 luncheon, but they did drive to Fairlee to see the guys and dolls who were still breathing heavily after that thriller-diller of a football game. John S. could not stay for dinner, for he had to catch the West Lebanon plane for New York and Washington. He then spent ten "frantic" days trying to get caught up, and they were followed by two days of snow-geese shooting on the St. Lawrence, down river from Quebec. If you agree with him and classify him as a hunting novice, you will permit him to say that he had good luck: three the first afternoon and five the next morning, including his first double. Thereafter he made eleven speeches for Senator Kennedy. And now, if you like, you may picture John L. Sullivan subdued and static in his Washington office surrounded by uniform brown law books into which he peers, taciturn and frowning. Why? He was nursing an overexercised larynx. But not for long. In short order, he got back his voice and his mobility, and what happened afterward is another chapter in the Sullivan saga.

Being the hunter he is, John will want to hear about what happened to Ellis Briggs. In November Ellis polished off 24 pheasants in two hours on a Greek island, privately owned. Driven birds, they were not all easy shots. Lucy and Ellis plan to attend the Fortieth and to occupy their Pleasant Street home in Hanover for two weeks before proceeding to Maine to visit Gordon and Roberta Merriam in Damariscotta.

And Ellis, being the hunter he is, will want to hear about what happened to New Hampshire. Because tracking snow helped hunters only for a short time during the 1960 deer season, only 33 deer were killed in the Dartmouth College Grant in northern Coos County, exactly the same number as in 1959. One of the successful hunters from Hanover was Dick Fowler '54, the son of Bill Fowler and the son-in-law of John Piane '14.

Ruth and Joe Vance are still talking about their European journey of last fall and the delightful visit they too had with Ellis and Lucy Briggs in Athens. The Vances were lucky enough to obtain seats in the new opera house in Vienna. While in Europe, Joe was elected President of the Board of Trustees, First Presbyterian Church; and he continues as senior partner in Beaumont, Smith and Harris, Counselors at Law, Ford Building, Detroit.

On Taiwan, Charlie and Dorothy Gilson had a RED (with a difference) Christmas. For the Chinese, red is the traditional color of joy and white of mourning, and so the clergy wear red at Christmas church services. The red poinsettias ("Holy Birthday Flowers" in Chinese) were in bloom everywhere, and the one in the Gilson garden is fifteen feet tall. The Chinese were in a Gilson-Christian mood. St. John's Choir stayed out all night singing carols. A choir of very little girls in Kangshan sang "Away in a Manger" in Chinese. The minutes of Christmas relaxation which the Gilsons had you could count on the fingers of your right hand. They drove to Chiayi for a Christmas Eve service, and they continued through the dark and forbidding Formosan countryside to Tainan just in time for the midnight service. On Christmas Day they hurried on farther south for more services in Kaohsiung and Kangshan. While millions of automobiles, planes, trains, and buses in the U. S. enabled Americans to sit down for a Christmas dinner at home, the Gilsons left their home to share the Christmas spirit and give it a new meaning to some thousands of Chinese. As Charlie, the former businessman, puts it, "And so we share in service for Him who came 'to give life and to give it more abundantly.' "

Here is another Christmas special to delight the linguistic souls of Hugh Cruikshank, Bob Daly, Joe Folger, and Phil Noyes.Homer Cleary spoke his Spanish with a flair over the Christmas holidays, for he was a house-guest in Humacao, Puerto Rico.

WHERE ARE THEY NOW DEPARTMENT. Well, Brad Richardson of Fairmont, Minn., is now County Superintendent of Schools, a position he assumed in 1951. His wife Mildred died April 10, 1957. Brad writes, "I have never been back to Hanover since leaving, and it doesn't look as though I shall ever see it again, but how well I remember the place, even though I was there only a little over two years. I really enjoy the Smokers even though my acquaintance is quite small because I worked long hours in the Hanover Inn dining hall."

The L. C. L. Corp. of 230 Park Ave., New York, has been sold to a Texas syndicate, and consequently Walt Galvin, Sales Executive, is giving thought to various offers from other business organizations.

Mary Jo, the daughter of Cory and Irene Litchard, was married December 17 to Dr. Richard Monroe Bergland. What at that moment is stirring up Ralph and Greta Pendleton is the approaching marriage of their daughter Judy to Jack Hyland.

A picture of Hal Geilich appeared in a recent Beamhouse Crier when he was pleasantly involved in the semi-annual profitsharing distribution, a plan instituted by the Geilich Tanning Company in 1956.

Les Lambert, V.P. of the A. and P., Central Division, watches from a distance the upward climb of his son Bill '50, now Warehouse Superintendent for the A. and P., Youngstown, 0., and of Bob '53 in the Savings Department of the Northern Trust Company, Chicago.

Two popular 1921 wives are going to be missed at future parties. Marguerite Garfein,Jack's wife, died December 7, and Evelyn Foster, Frank's wife, December 15.

Guy Wallick and his associates at the Pacific Tel. and Tel. are very proud of his new honor. The Society for Advancement of Management, San Francisco Chapter, have given him the following citation:

Recognizing your business firm for its practiced code of business ethics, for its effective use of advanced managerial principles, and as a good corporate citizen . . . and further, recognizing in you those attributes of scientific management, civic responsibility, and personal attainment, which represent the best in modern management to your associates and to the public ... The Society proudly presents to you, Guy P. Wallick, this Professional Manager Citation, 1960.

Fall in for the 40th.

Send back your card to Reg Miner.

Members of the Class of '21 gathered at the Winchester, Mass., home of Chan Symmes following the Harvard game. Enjoying the party and no doubt talking over the game were Frank Ross, Chan, and Bill Perry.

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