1921

In a house with no central heating, only a kerosene stove, he sleeps on the floor. He takes baths à la Japonaise. The procedure is to soap himself three inches deep and insert himself into a cubbyhole bubbling with water so hot that it lobsters him red. All day and half the night he drinks tea, black tea, green, spiced, orange, China, Ceylon, Pakistan, India, Sumatra, and Java, most of which have a common property to coat an American stomach: tannic acid. Indeed, BobWilson wonders if his face is not developing a charming Oriental yellow, eyes narrowing. Using sign language, he plays with Japanese children and with adults converses in broken Japanese. The 2000 characters in Kanji he is memorizing and hopes eventually to read the newspapers. What else is Bob doing? Eating. For luncheon he feeds on raw squid, raw cuttlefish, and live shrimps, which squigglewiggle as they slitherdither down the ggggullet. Even more delectable, dinner consists of dried sardines, dried carp, dried kelp, dried seaweed, and dried mosquito netting (at least that is what it looks like to Bob). Such fare fits him to become an expert on television as it relates to the Armed Forces in Japan. Bob is working with the Morimoto Shoji Co., Ltd., 17, 2-Chome, Honcho, Naka-Ku, Yokohama. It's a far cry from 345 Mechanic Street, Fitchburg, Mass., the old homestead, which he has now sold.

The snowfall being colossal, Middle-esterners show winter restlessness. Jerryand Helen Cutler are off for a bit of a jaunt: Africa, Ceylon, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. Less peripatetic in 1966, the Cutlers toured only Central and South America and the Caribbean, where for three weeks they attempted to find a winter home. What would you choose: Trinidad, Barbadoes, Guadaloupe, Virgin Island, Puerto Rico, or Jamaica? Helen inclines to Estate Good Hope, St. Croix, or the Plantation at Ocho Rios.

Bill Embree and Carl Hammond, NedPrice and Dick Hart, Harry Mosser and Lewis McKay who have been boasting about their Chicago snow may be silenced by Ted Merriam in Honolulu. In January the snow was down to the 9000-foot level on Hawaii and Mauri, which means 4000 feet of snow. If Illinois skyscrapers form an odd background for snow drifts, palm trees in the Hawaiian foreground are bizarre. Truckdrivers on a construction job transported some snow to the seashore at Hilo; and, wonderstruck, kids fashioned snowmen under the palms.

Secretary-Governor of St. George's Golf Club for 12 years, Tracy Higgins has resigned and is now devoting spare time to the School Board. Two elementary schools, supposed to be ready in 300 working days, opened 60 days late because the heating contractor went broke. Tracy managed to win approval for two more schools by about as narrow a margin as one could conceive: yeas 1125, noes 1122. To his surprise, a third, costing 3½ million, was approved without a fight.

Also interested in education, Dana Lamb, writing another book about fishing, is donating the profits to the Labrador Foundation on which his daughter and her husband offer help to poor fishermen. In that cold region where teachers are only eighth graders, heartwarming is the program of sending promising youngsters to New England where they can learn to nurse, build boats, fly planes, and even captain soccer teams. They return to Labrador to become self-supporting and pass on their knowledge to the less privileged. This volunteer program of Quebec Labrador, now closely allied with the Grenfell Mission, has spread across the St. Lawrence to New Brunswick. If you are interested in Labrador, Canada, New England, education, fishing or Dana Lamb, you should buy one of his editions of 1500 at $10 or of the 200 specially bound at $20 and enjoy piscatorial beatitude flavored pleasantly with largesse.

Books suggest readers. We have two champions in 1921: Jim Wicker and BobLoeb. Jim subscribes to the Oakland Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, The New Yorker, Time, Life, Reader's Digest, Consumer's Digest, Changing Times, The Reporter, The New Republic, Fact, Atlas, Ramparts, I. F. Stones Washington Letter, The National Guardian, Harvard Business School Bulletin, and the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Two problems disturb him, 1. the growths of rightist movements, especially in California; 2. the dilemma in Vietnam and Thailand because he fears that the United States in its didactic mission of saving the world from Communism may make war on China. In the past two years Bob Loeb has bought and read no fewer than 38 serious and scholarly books. Though he shies away from novels and poetry, he cannot be called narrow. Samples of his breadth: Mencken, The American Scene"; Andrews, "The Greek Tyrants"; Rowse, "Bosworth Field"; Hornickel, "The Great Wines of Europe"; Hofstadter, "The Paranoid Style in American Politics'' ; Alsop, "From the Silent Earth"; Hostovtzeff, "Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire"; Kaplan, "Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain": Moran, "Winston Churchill'' ; McLuhan, "Understanding Media"; Hassrick, "The Sioux." If you believe that Bob spends all his evenings reading and sleeps little at night, you are more than halt wrong. An insomniac, he turns on WNCN at 3 and 4 a.m. to "Listening with Watson,'' an educated musician who plays nothing later than Beethoven and little later than Mozart. Exceptions: Schubert's Lieder and Wagner's Ring. Bob shows his good taste by listening to recordings by Jean-Pierre Rampal. Who would want to sleep when that supreme flutist plays? Answer: a trombonist.

HERE AND THERE WITH DEBONAIR TWENTY-ONE ON THE RUN—Though Jack Graydon has sold his business complete with headaches to younger men, as retired chairman looking after multiplying subsidiary interests he finds himself busy, but not too busy to invite Olive to the 46th. Whom are they looking for June 12? You. Whom else? ... Bake Baker plays 309 rounds of golf a year, watches three grandchildren learning to ice-skate, approves of Sally's job (social worker) and future hobby (collecting coins).... Enjoying South Carolina and Virginia, Jim Smead was recently impressed by the Birmingham Chrysler plant and men working with his son-in-law Dick (married to Nan) and has a particular interest in Hanover where Moppy teaches at the hospital two days a week, in Windsor where Jerry works at Cone, and in Meriden where the couple live.... Jack Garfein, secretary of the Islam Shrine Golf Club in 1966, has been elected vice president. Most members belonging to private clubs play a different course each month. Jack's and Flora's favorites are Monterey and Carmel. ... In Florida, Mr. Forty-Sixth, alias RogerWilde, hopes to hobnob with George McMillan, Kent McKinley, Ken Thomas, RedStanley, Joe Schultz, and Al Catterall. JoeLane has a date with Mr. F. S. in the Everglades where they will study ornithological exotics and compare them with colorful highflvers in 1921. Charlie and DorothyGilson will probably win the prize for lateral travel at the 46th; Bob and MarthaBurroughs, the vertical. From the interstellar heights of Swiss Alps reached dizzily by gondola, they have plunged earthward not merely because of gravitation operating on slick ski surfaces but also because of their down-to-earth desire personally to serve you at the 46th Reunion Picnic.

1921 Class ReunionHanover - June 12-14, 1967

Secretary, Box 925 Hanover, N. H. 03755

Treasurer, 12 W. Mystic Ave., Mystic, Conn. 06355

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