1921
Harold Geilich has solved his problem. For a "new and exciting" handbag a business firm asked him to create a leather with a "range of colors like the blush of autumn foliage." It should develop the shadings of fallen leaves. Hal devoted himself to a study of imported aniline dyes infinitely combined. He did more. Here poetry plays an astonishing role. Bill Fowler also. You think of sonnets as collectors of dust on inner library shelves? For inspiration Hal turned to Bill's poem "Fallen Leaves" in his "New England Sonnets." The handbag in new topgrain cowhide called Savage will contain Bill's sonnet, and more than 100,000 reprints are expected to reach the public.
Bob Wilson flew recently from Japan to Okinawa where he was honored by a factory he helped establish, now with 450 employes doing $3,000,000 worth of business yearly. He was feted by the "roving supervisor," an Italian from Long Island with a head like a Roman emperor. Only 5 feet 8 tall, he was dressed nattily like Fred Astaire. Bob called on a former housemaid and presented a cane to her grandmother, aged 81, only five feet tall with a back crooked at a 45 degree angle, the result of lifelong field work. Much blessed, Bob is now called Papa-Son.
The Class has more than one Anglophile. Joe and Tave Lane single out Cornwall, but their sympathy includes all England, Scotland, and Wales. Joe: "I love England and all the funny little things that go into the British character." But seven grandchildren deter them from yearly overseas flights.
Marshall Exnicios goes even farther. He is so at home in London that he would willingly live there forever. A connoisseur of food and wine, he likes the Connaught best, but, fortunate man, he has a guest card at Brooks where he receives decorous attentions and royal luncheons.
Are Orton Hicks and Reg Miner related? How North Irish is Ort? Reg's mother was Nora Orton, Northern Ireland, with some Scotch blood. His father was English, from Chew Magna, Somersetshire, where ancestors operated a tin mine. A certain Bullman helped an English king, unnamed, get back his throne by furnishing him with 300 miners armed with shovels and picks. Reaching London, volunteers numbered 10,000. To honor Bullman, English authorities changed his name to Miner and gave him a coat of arms. On a recent journey Reg and Sylvia found Chew Magna but no Miners. Apparently the descendants had gone underground in more senses of the word than one. No common man to be buried outside in the churchyard, a William Miner was laid to rest under the altar. Reg's grandfather was one of 12 children; his father, one of six. Reg was an only child, but philoprogenitive to the marrow of his bones. Ask him about his grandchildren and the diffusion of virtue.
Why Fred Benton is abandoning Florida for California he does not say, but probably his son John provides strong motivation. Why should John, an associate professor of Medieval French History, be teaching at Cal Tech? Probable explanation: chance for research.
When Speedy Fleet gives a party, it is memorable. At the 40th Anniversary Open House more than 400 guests showed up to watch manufacturers' representatives demonstrate their products, ask questions, view showroom changes, examine new woods, and consume vast quantities of food and drink.
What is surprising is not that Jeff andFrail Lawrence should quit Massachusetts for New Hampshire but settle in a town so far from Hanover, 85 miles. Mt. Vernon proved so irresistible that they have moved in and are having fun setting up a fourposter bed bought at a Windsor auction, laying new rugs, entertaining grandchildren two at a time for 8 weeks. Junior vice president at Stoneleigh-Prospect, Betsey is a close friend of Jack Hubbell's daughter.
To honor William S. McClintock Jr., JackHurd has donated to Baker Library "The Greenland Ice Cap" by Borge Fristrup, the explorer, who discusses the baffling problems concerning one of the world's last frontiers. Comprising 650,000 of Greenland's 842,000 square miles, a blanket of ice with dreaded crevasses has challenged and defeated explorers from the first Norse settlers until the heroic crossings by Fridtjof Nansen and Robert Peary. Published in Copenhagen, this sumptuous volume of 312 pages with index, bibliography, maps, charts, and photographs in color and black and white will prove a valuable addition to Dartmouth's northern studies.
HERE & THERE. Kaddy and Diane Kadison had a choice in June: the 46th in Hanover or Rome, Naples, Capri, Athens, and the Greek Islands. Now, you know. . . . With Thelma, Shep Shepherd attended the Mercedes-Benz Factory meeting in Germany. ... The weather smiled on Don and J'rut Smith on their jaunt through Maine to Nova Scotia and Cabot's Trail, back through New Brunswick to Boothbay Harbor. ... Bill and Ede Perry drove to Kent, USA, to take care of Hart's and Fran's children while the parents were in Henley, England, with the Kent crew. Though they had beaten Tabor on two previous occasions, Tabor outrowed them. . . . Phil Noyes has had two adventures: 1. a tour of the big tanning plant in Taunton with Harold Geilich as guide, 2. Vancouver and Tacoma via Montreal and the Canadian Pacific.... Glimpses of Werner Janssen have been confined to '2l men attending European concerts and moving in eclectic German music circles. He has now settled with his wife and small child at 15 Blinker Light Rd., Stony Brook, N. Y.. .. Hilton Campbell has a clever hand at repairing floating docks on Hollow Lake, Ontario, and retrieving pipes about to be put into storage by Mildred.... John Wood-house absented himself from autumn reun- ion activities because he was tied up with Thayer School Overseers and the Planning Committee. . . . Ralph and Greta Pendleton missed Holy Cross because they were flying to Florida. ... You did not find Furb Haight at Holy Cross either but you did at Penn and Yale.. .. Em and Olive Corbin played "On Borrowed Time" in summer stock.... Well over a serious coronary thrombosis, Harold Printz is planning on the 50th.. . . Hugh Penney, aged 79, is currently serving the Union Congregational Church, Maynard, Mass. . . . Paul Sanderson is proud of his left-handed penmanship.... Bill Kearns has said that he could never adjust to retirement but he has.... Helped by Indocin for his arthritis, Ken Thomas of Maitland, Fla., has accepted reappointment of secretary of the local Dartmouth Club... . Frank Liver-more is delighting the hearts of Wilbraham Academy officials by his aggressive handling of their financial problems and his search for an adequate historian.... Jack and FloraGarfein, who play all kinds of California courses, insist that their golf is slipping and thus are in tune with all golfers who deplore their skill and scores. .. . Roger Wilde with Bob Burroughs as partner chipped in from off the green in Woodstock and took 50 cents from George Rand '19 and Cotty Larmon '19. ...Al Foley '20 is reviewing for the December issue of the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE the new book on the Nineteen Twenties by Corey Ford. . . . Since the 1921 Picnic Warren Homer has called on John Woodhouse, Hal Braman, and Bill Alley, spent two days in Marion with Phil Noyes reminiscing about their sojourn in France and Spain 1921-22, and attended the Harvard Law School Sesquicentennial Celebration (he hoped once to become a lawyer). , . . Given unexpected support by Mike McGean '49, Art Foley has been active as president of the American Guiness Stout Club of London and applauded by the manager of the Strand Palace Hotel for his resourceful efforts to produce benign results in American travellers.
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