1921
German composer Richard Wagner is suffering from a serious heart condition, presumably the effect of conducting 16 consecutive performances of the new opera "Parsival." This was front page news Feb. 12, 1883 in The Drovers Gazette and Sun. The paper also announced the opening of The Drovers National Bank with authorized capital of $100,000, although actually the total resources on the first day of business were only $49,757.69. This bank (Dick Hart is Senior Vice President) held Feb. 12, 1968 its 85th anniversary with the announcement that its current resources are now over $172,000,000. Challenging question for Gordon Shepherd and Ned Price, Bill Embree and Harry Mosser, Art Higgins and LewisMcKay, Joe Sunn and, yes, Dick Hart. Aged 10 in 1883 you deposited $1000 in the Drovers Savings Bank, and today it is worth $29,448.58. You are 95 or so. What kind of a party would you throw to celebrate?
Spending big money: Don Smith comes of thrifty Anglo-Saxon stock, and the story of his father, born 1865 in Bradminch, Devon, England, makes rich reading. In the 1870's the family emigrated to West Hartford, Conn., and in the early 1880's moved to Turners Falls. Father Smith on his first American job worked 12 hours a day, six days a week, with pay only $7 a month. When he made good and earned $1 a day, he could afford to get married, keep house, and save money.
Spending big money: Cliff Hart is an architect with a difference. After being graduated from Dartmouth he received a B.Arch. at Columbia and an M.A. (Educ.) at NYC. He started on his apprentice training with two world-famous architectural firms at the end of an era based on classical renaissance and eclectic criteria and then plunged into the shiny pragmatism of today. Recently his activities have centered on moving corporation giants into multi-story occupancy of skyscrapers. His job requires coordination of the architects, engineers, contractors, and vendors engaged on these projects involving several millions of dollars - such as his recent installation of the American Tobacco Company in a Park Avenue environment.
Blair Watson continues to exert his benign influence on the Dartmouth Film Society. Devoted to outstanding recent films from Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, France, Italy, and Japan, the winter series found favor with large, sophisticated, and well behaved undergraduate audiences.
Bill Marcy and his wife planned to take a Mediterranean trip on the Gripsholm during March and spend three weeks in Jamaica, but he had to cancel his plans owing to her death in January.
Dave Plumb and Don Sawyer to honor John B. Means ... have given Baker "French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry." With 462 pages of text and 845 illustrations, 12 in color, this two-volume publication is devoted to medieval painting 1380-1400, the Duke of Berry's life and activities as patron, and reproductions of the miniatures of all important manuscripts, many heretofore unpublished.
Leon Bateman and Bill Perry to honor Albert L. Gates ... have given Baker "Greek Terracottas," the first work of its kind in English for over 60 years. It describes statuettes and small terracotta reliefs made in Greece from the earliest times (the New Stone Age) down to the first century of our era.
HERE AND THERE. After a cold Nashua winter Harry and Maiy Garland are spending five weeks in Florida. ... Georgeand Madeline Harris sojourning in San Diego were given by George L. Phillips '31 a deluxe Valentine party so tastefully planned that it elicited complimentary newspaper comment. ... For a month Carli Belknap painted with a group of artists at San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where Paul joined her. By one-way slow boat they are off next month for the International Press Institute Assembly in Nairobi, largest city of East Africa, not so far from Athi Plains game reservation. ... Skinny Moore partially lost his bet with Tina that she would continue in school and not get married for a year. The gold ring went on her finger March 17, but she flew right back to classes at UCLA. The bridegroom may now be somewhere in Southeast Asia. ... So pleasant is semi-retirement in Connecticut that Nelson Smith has no particular desire to seek out foreign places. He is glad of his limited counselling of the New Orleans Public Service Inc., if for no other reason than that he may visit Boband Min Elsasser. ... You may be sure that Dan Patch and Ted Sonnenfeld had a wonderful month playing golf every day in Puerto Rico. Both wax eloquent about the lovely sun and heavenly climate and bitch sweetly about their game. ... After a few happy and profitable days in the Hitchcock Hospital, Hanover, for emergency surgery (aneurism), Leon Bateman as realtor is now back at work spending many profitable and happy days in Keene. ... No retirement either for Bord Helmer, for his job at Cooper keeps him cooped up, but he did manage a judicious Californian and Hawaiian holiday. ... Nor for Bill Embree because he and his son now own the old family business with mounting expenses for almost everything. "I can't afford to quit my job," Bill says, but he admits that he does not reach his office at 7 a.m. and that he no longer lingers there until 7 p.m.
Why "of all places" should Bill and TeeterAlley want to go to New Zealand? Because John Woodhouse spoke glowingly of it. Smaller in area than Colorado, it reminds the Alleys of a transplanted cathedral town, of Switzerland because of towering snowcapped mountains and glaciers, of Norway because of the fjords on the southwest coast of the South Island, and of Iceland because of the lavish and fascinating thermal activity. The great steam kettle 4000 feet deep provides electric power for the North Island towns and cities. Teeter and Bill like Australia also. With 75 excellent restaurants, Sydney boasts of Menzies Hotel costing $7,000,000 in the heart of the city with an office center and shopping block in addition to 300 rooms and baths, luxury suites, penthouses, and nightclub, "a center of elegance and gracious living." With two chains of rugged sea beaches at its doorstep, Sydney outdoes Rio de Janeiro with only one.
For a fortnight Reg and Sylvia Miner have been seeking French food, Gallic wit and toleration, laughter and relaxation, a hotel wharf enabling them to dive into a tropical lagoon, Chinese-run shops, and dancing and nightlife. Where? Tahiti, of course, with adventures in a number of other South Pacific islands.
When Furb Haight moved to El Prado, N. M., no one there had ever heard of Dartmouth College. Piqued, he has been engaged in a crusade of enlightenment. When the football team wins, he runs to the top of his flagpole a specially designed Dartmouth flag and lowers it to half mast when the team loses. When the first boy ever to be admitted to the freshman class from El Prado received his acceptance, up went the flag to the top. So outstanding as to receive an early decision, James F. Keim is a young man who may make El Prado better known to you.
Bill Fowler '21 (r) takes over a door prize any alumnus would envy. Presenting achit for a free Hanover weekend for two is Boston Club President Bill Squier '40.
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