1921
Charlie Gilson of Taipei, Taiwan, has found an American family willing to adopt five orphan children called Chen. Their names are exotic: Hsu-ken (Root of the Tree), Hsu-sheng (Life of the Tree), and Hsu-you (Friend of the Tree). These are the boys. It is customary in a Chinese family of one generation to have one part of the given name the same, and these boys have "tree." Such names usually come from an ancient poem. The two girls are Jen, who works 15 hours a day in a skating rink, and Hsiu (Elegance). Their names are unusual because each has only one character.
Two items for Bunny Gardner and CoreyFord: Bill Embree, hunting a month in Wyoming, bagged six sage grouse, one 157pound mule deer buck, and one 92:½ -pound buck antelope. Furb Haight in Montana and Wyoming caught some good-looking trout. He was feeling mighty Cheerful for an additional reason. He was chosen Salesman of the Year for service to Tala (Textile Association of Los Angeles) which he served as president.
The Class of 1921, well aware of John Dain, will be glad to know that his heart attack is ancient history and that he is letting young men take over high pressure business in Mahopac, N. Y. John then only putters about the house? Well, hardly. He is the creative force behind the project to build a 65-bed general hospital serving the eastern end of Putnam County, and he is still a power in the lumber business. At the October National Retail Dealers Association meetings in Chicago, John was chairman of the Exposition Committee and chairman of the Nominating Committee.
With sizable holdings in Norwich and Lebanon on which taxes are paid, Dave Bowen is slow to build because of his real estate business in Somerville. He has sold a few houses there in the last two or three years, but he still has some eight buildings with 75 tenants. Executor of a Portsmouth estate, Dave has a house to sell there. Conservator of property on Cape Cod, owner himself of two acres in Rockport with a beach cottage and a garden and a 37-foot boat, Dave is too busy to settle down in New Hampshire or Vermont. But he had time to sail last summer to Martha's Vineyard though he failed to reach Nantucket to see Joe Folger.
Are you a good photographer like Charlie Johnson and Don Sawyer, Doug Storer and Reg Miner? Organizer and Director of The Photographer's Center, a non-profit organization for teaching, print exhibits, and services for photographers in the Adams-Parkhurst-Presbyterian Church, New York, Ralph Steiner is lecturing on The Technique of Photographic Control. "Because a creative photographer is artistic rather than scientific," says Ralph, "I hope to uncomplicate scientific-technical facts and convert them into tools for expression. Each student will establish basic scientific principles for himself with simple laboratory apparatus and then prove them practically by taking pictures."
Mike and Myla Dolan had bad news last winter. Apparently in perfect health, their baby granddaughter, only six weeks old, developed pneumonia and died very quickly. Other news is good. Mike's son Bob '57, sent by Sylvania to the San Francisco plant for research, may head later for Italy. His son-in-law, Dick Lowell, sent by Kaiser Associates to check on various jobs, visited England, France, Switzerland, Italy, and Ghana.
The long-cherished dream of Hal andMartha Geilich has come true. Their talented son Evan after three years of working for others has finally joined the Geilich Tanning Company. In July he married a Swiss girl from Berne, Katherine Audress. Hal has joined "The Outer Seven" by buying a tannery near Northampton, England, and finished leather of top quality is now traveling both ways across the Atlantic.
Connie Keys is amused by a naive New Hampshire man who believes that California never sees rain or snow. Connie counted four inches of snow last winter. His banana tree shook, cowered, and almost died. A driving rain recently undermined a big shade tree 30 feet tall, 12 inches at the base. Connie rushed out to prop it up with 4 x 4's. He took all Monday off, and, with rented rope, block, and tackle, he forced the tree to a vertical position. Intricate shoring timbers came into play. He worked from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and saw only the last of the eighth and top of the ninth of the World Series. Other Connie news is that, the gopher problem licked, he is fighting lawn fungus and that his private secretary changes her hair color so often that this week she answers to "Red," next week to "Blackie," and next month to "Blondie."
Bifl and Teeter Alley and Roger and Caroline Wilde are not to have the pleasure of living almost side by side at the foot of Balch Hill, Hanover, for the Wildes have bought in Woodstock a house in which Caroline is already taking infinite delight in remodeling.
Not only was the Holy Cross Dartmouth game red hot, Fitz Fitzgibbon's 1960 convertible was, too. Hanover firemen, 20 strong, came whistling and clanging 20 minutes before the game to put out the blaze. Cause? "A cigarette," says the Hanover Fire Chief.
Ray Mallary recently drove his visitor Abe Weld about his Vermont farm in a sulky. Abe recalled that this was the first time he had ridden behind a horse since 1924 when his father's old horse in Sutton, N. H., moved on to greener pastures.
Ray and George Ferguson were brought face to face with ultimate realities when their roommate in Crosby Hall, Howard B. Brown '23, died recently. He was Medical Director at the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company. Fergie underwent sur- gery in Houston, Tex., recently for a blocked artery in his right leg and is recuperating in Tudson.
The President of the Connecticut Beef Company has said good-bye to his company secretary, his own son. Ray Marchant has congratulated and wished godspeed to Sherry (Ray Jr. '50) who has accepted the challenge given him by Burt & Del, Inc., to become Sales Coordinator of that office equipment firm. With a little cooperation from his wife, Sherry has presented Ray with two granddaughters, Wendy and Susan, and who knows whether Dartmouth may not admit them as freshmen when it comes time for them to go to college?
Married now 14 months, Jack Garfein, Californian, plans in 1963 to show Flora the Great and Glorious East where it rains often and hard, snows too, for Flora has never been east of Nevada. After Sept. 1 Jack can take his time, for that is the day he retires.
Bob Wilson missed the Holy Cross and Dartmouth game only because he neglected to spot the 1921 Secretary's letter in a mountain of mail. After years in Italy, Algeria, France, Okinawa, and Japan, Bob returned this fall to his ancestral home in Fitchburg, Mass. Though he lived there only eight years (1911-1917), he treasures family associations: his good-bye to enter Dartmouth, the marriage of his oldest sister, the deaths of his father and mother, fleeting visits as his own business fortunes flowed and ebbed, his beloved trees and flowers, and the townspeople about the streets. About his homecoming from the Orient, Bob says, "I felt like Atlas dropping on Mother Earth, and Mother Earth has restored to me my youthful strength and the power to fight and to welcome deeds of daring more than ever before. Somehow my life seems more fulfilled when I am fighting against odds that would crush most men my age." When last heard from, Bob was headed for Washington and the quest for new adventures, business or legal, presumably in a remote country. Bob's motto, appropriately in French, his second language, is "Toujours l'Audace."
The Class of 1921 is well representedon Cape Cod as this October gatheringat Bob Mayo's Osterville home reveals.Attending were (l to r) Sev Severance,Howie Anger, the host, Cape Pay son,Dan Patch, Frank Ross, and El Harper.
Secretary, 33 East Wheelock St. Hanover, N. H.
Treasurer, 2728 Henry Hudson Parkway New York 63, N. Y.
