1921
Connie Keyes of Sweet Lime Drive, Sunnyvale, Calif., has not a sour-lime problem but an elephantiasis problem. His banana tree, now 25 feet tall, has developed three monstrous bunches. The first is five inches long; the second, three; and the fourth, two. Connie describes the shape as aneurysmal. You don't know? Where's your Dartmouth Greek? Then ask Ben Tenncy or Doc Fleming, Paul Sanderson or PudWalker, Jim Smead or Dan Kavanaugh. Keyed to music, Connie dislikes musicians who pronounce flutists as flautists. See what happens with the right pronunciation but wrong spelling:
A girl who was known as the cautest Was also a marvellous flautist.
She married a fraut Who was nauter to baut And her sex life is now of the mautest.
Hearing about the infestation of moles in Hanover, Connie has suggested to Jack Hurd that he become a molester. Engaged in the profitable sideline of trapping moles. Jack could design a crest indicating that he was the official purveyor of moleskins to the Dartmouth football team. Undesigning and crestfallen, Jack has declined because in such underground operations he might be molested.
Took Welch, who goes in for speedlock couplers, Gorman Rupp Pumps, and truck and trailer tanks, remarks sagaciously, "Old pump men never die; they just lose their prime." Took has not lost his. Come autumn, the only wheeze he admits to is hay fever. With good conscience he then leaves New York for Maine and Europe where hay fever is unknown. Because Jenny spent Christmas with her recently widowed mother in Chattanooga, Took carved turkey for Authorine Lucy. To make her happy, he served as cocktails Chat Sauvage; as white wine, choice of Zeller Schwarze Katz or Chateau Souris Blanche; as red, Chateau Poisson; and, as a liqueur, Creme de Vache. Lucy, a real doll, was just purring with bliss. She is Took's most favorite cat.
The widow of Henry Palmer of Pasadena, now Mary Hoch, is happily established at Windward, Easton, Maryland, where she and her husband Harold, a retired civil engineer and partner in Beiswenger and Hoch Associates of Akron, enjoy boating on Chesapeake Bay in their 15-foot Highlander and their 34-foot Chris-Craft cruiser, playing golf, and collecting cut glass and oriental rugs. Almost as much as Mary, Liza, her German shepherd, enjoys plunging into Chesapeake Bay. Because Mary has expressed a desire to see the Acropolis by moonlight, Harold is planning a delayed Grecian honeymoon next autumn.
More and more, Greece appeals to 1921. Ellis Briggs once made it alluring. Now Greece attracts a muted Briggsian fashion. Here is how Harry and Caroline Mosser spent last autumn. They flew to Venice via Paris, boarded a Greek ship (formerly the Grace Line Santa Rosa) and in 12 days touched at 11 ports. Then in a car they drove for 9 days about Greece. They returned to Chicago by way of Istanbul, Beirut, and London with theatre sprees.
In New Orleans, Doug Fay was thrilled to receive out of a clear California sky, sun shining, a long-distance call from ArtFoley in Reseda, the first time Doug had heard his voice in 42 years. The last time was in St. Paul, Minn.; date, 1921. Now in the best of health Doug has always had the appetite of a millionaire and for a time was able to indulge it. Despite bad luck in 1933 and 1947, he has kept his sense of humor along with a mild annoyance that he has not been able to outgrow that yearning to do things on a grandiose scale for himself and those he cares about.
"I like it," said Donald Wendlandt, Dartmouth College Band director, to Carl McMackin in Hopkins Center. The "it" was Carl's Dartmouth Marching Song played on tape to Don as Carl, breathless, sat on the edge of his chair. Don will orchestrate the march, and the Dartmouth Band will learn it. It will be a thrill for 1921 to hear it at 1964 football games.
Since 1958, '21 men have been asking what has become of the Vice President of Lehigh University. Now it can be told. KenSmiley calls himself a recidivist, and if he has been showing a taciturn and anti-social pattern, it is no wonder. He has had no fewer than five coronary thromboses with five hospital confinements. Now better, he describes himself as "a mildly ambulatory, mildly alcoholic, and mildly contented idler."
QUICK PERSONALS: Though retired, Hoy Schulting goes daily to his Passaic office and when possible helps Bill '46 in Bill's own Schulting Agency in Passaic and Wayne. . . . Al Dunn recently furnished the Regional Solicitor of the Department of the Interior in Sacramento information, illustrated with progressive maps, about the use of land and water in a part of Death Valley. . . . Travel Man of the Class, Ike Chester, having visited 116 countries, is relaxing in Kokomo for a couple of months before going after number 117. ...Glad that as a lawyer he may practice indefinitely, Joe Vance of Detroit has no desire to retire. . . . How Jack Hubbell hates to! But retire he must, next year. And so he is on the verge of a new era. His hopes? 100% full employment. He would settle for 90, and 80 is too little. He embraces the challenge in a bear hug. . . . DutchBausher quit work at 65? Well, hardly. "Like all men my age," says Dutch unequivocally, "I question the wisdom of a change of pace and what is termed retirement. I have observed many older men than I who are currently "making the greatest contribution to society as a whole." .. . Jerry and HelenCutler have reservations for an Eastern Mediterranean cruise in April. . . . That stalwart construction engineer. Big Bill Kearns, boasting of a tall 65, was pushed aside on his birthday by the arrival of a tiny fifth grandchild Diane Lowman.
Seth Densmore wonders why Henry Thoreau spent so much time by that highly overrated Walden Pond when he could have increased immeasurably his aesthetic acuities above Lake Champlain. Visiting '21 men are eloquent about Seth's breathtaking panoramic view from his cliff home a dozen yards from the waterfront.
Buddy Reichart, recently in Bradford, N. H., found Abe Weld in his cozy bachelor farmhouse against a satisfactory background of fields and woods janitored by friendly deer, porcupines, and squirrels. No hermit, however, Abe telescopes himself in his V.W. and all the way from Portland to Concord pits himself against leading bridge players. Indeed he has established a reputation for wiliness equaling that of Bake and SallyBaker, Rollie Auger and Mary Gray Gile (widow of Archie '17), Hanover's leading woman player.
What 1921 lacks in numbers in Georgia it makes up with BUI Lies, Lumber King of the South, a modest man nonetheless. When the recent Georgia Baptist Convention elected him to serve until 1968 as a trustee of Tift College of Forsythe, the largest Baptist Women's College in the state, Bill in a letter to a Hanover friend wrote, "I am truly grateful and most humble to have received this designation." .
Back in the USA after three months m England and on the Continent, Hal andMartha Geilich describe all Europe as a beehive of industrial activity, especially England and France. "Building construction is always the tipoff," remarks Businessman Hal, "and that's booming."
Abe Weld, chairman, announces that 1920 and 1921 are combining in the first of a series of fiestas Saturday, March 7 at the Highway Hotel, Concord, N. H. The Honorable Ellis O. Briggs, retired Ambassador and author, will be the featured speaker at the dinner at 7 o'clock. Cocktails will be served from 5:30 on. All '20 and '21 men and their wives are welcome.
Secretary, 33 East Wheelock St. Hanover, N. H.
Treasurer, 2728 Henry Hudson Parkway New York 63, N. Y.
