1921
Upheaval everywhere. Has 1921 been affected? Two examples. Destructive mobs throwing molotov cocktails into four stores in Orange and East Orange, N.J., have depressed Chuck Moreau. One of his best advertisers with a burned-out furniture store may never reopen. Chuck's French brotherin-law Andre Castelot and Madame, Monette's sister, worry more about American violence than Chuck who at his recent French champagne birthday party felt no older than he did ten years ago. He enjoys newspaper challenges and will never retire. Accordingly he has declined the Castelot offers of refuge in the Normandy country home and their Paris apartment.
Outraged because Tokyo students have attacked the Oji Hospital erected with $3,000,000 of American money, when one patient was killed, scores were injured, and $100,000 damage was suffered, Bob Wilson actually fought his way through office after office all the way up to Chief Cabinet Officer Kimura, spokesman for Sato. An important Yugoslav delegation was making an official diplomatic visit. Cordons of police guarding headquarters were so impressed with Bob who looked like a Yugoslav, Bob's car, and Bob's chauffeur that he was waved through. It was no day for him to be interviewing Kimura; it was Tito's. Nonetheless, though the secret police did not know what to do with Bob blundering along where he ought not to have been, they were courteous. Bob got results. He broke into newspapers with his support and the offer of Kunio Aoyama, president of a Tokyo metal company to give money, land, and a hotel for a new U. S. Army Hospital site, better than the present one in the center of the city where Japanese are revolted by the Vietnam War and its sick and the mutilated American victims.
Celebrating its 40th anniversary, Films Incorporated has honored Orton Hicks, its founder, by running his picture and praising his guidance. Films Incorporated is a subsidiary of Encyclopaedia Britannica Education Corporation of which for a long time Ort was a director. Films Incorporated's ideals could have been written by Ort or Blair Watson, Dartmouth Director of Instructional Services: "Today motion pictures have more pied-piper appeal for young people than ever before. Selected feature films can lead students of all ages to beauty, to exploring, to ideas, to new attitudes, and ... to an awakening to the humanities.... Films Incorporated ... continues to dedicate its resources and energies to stimulating the creative use of the motion picture wherever we can find interested students." Largely because of Ort's and Blair's efforts, Dartmouth has more than 1300 of its 3000 students in its film society which shows 100 films a year, and thus it follows the current trend. Nationally 60,000 graduate and undergraduate students are enrolled in 1500 film courses in 120 colleges.
Bill Alley and Herrick Brown have honored the memory of Robert G. Kendall by presenting the Dartmouth College Library with "Glass, A World History" by Fritz Kämpfer and Klaus Beyer. With 40 color plates and 203 illustrations in black and white, this lavish volume of 305 pages is both a wide-ranging anthology of much of the world's most beautiful glass and a scholarly history of fine glassmaking from earliest times.
Record No. 1: The oldest in 1921, the Rev. Hugh Penney was born in Belfast, Ireland, Oct. 11, 1888. Record No. 2: He married Marcia Burrill of Dedham, Me., June 5, 1918. Record No. 3: Aged 79, he is still preaching. Record No. 4: He has 18 grandchildren. Record No. 5: Hugh and Marcia celebrated their Fiftieth wedding anniversary, June 2 at the Acton Congregational Church. Record No. 6: All 18 grandchildren were present, and also his clergyman son, the Rev. Hugh Jr. of New Britain, Conn., with Lois and Hugh Sr.'s other three children, Ruth with Charles Carter of Cincinnati, Ella Mae with Frank Harlow of Wilbraham, Mass., and Jean with Arnold Fickeof of Lynn, Mass.
Dan Ruggles is proud of his son. State Senator 1963 to 1968, chairman of the Senate and Development Committee, and vice chairman of the Senate General Committee and of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, Dan Jr. is a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Vermont.
Skinny Moore is proud of his daughter Pat. She could have asked him for a sapphire-colored animal or fish sports car. But no. Since high school she worked summers as a waitress to pay for her clothes and amusements. Now a Colby senior, she will study at the University of New Mexico on a summer scholarship. Skinny is hazarding 100 guesses as to where she is ultimately headed.
Remember Tina Moore? Janis has done likewise. Janis, granddaughter of Stan Oliver, was reluctant to wait until after college and Dec. 30 headed down the aisle until stopped by a Keene minister. Like Tina, though happily established, Janis returned speedily to school. An anthropology major, she commutes between West Philadelphia and Bryn Mawr. Here's a modern touch. Janis was married in the Unitarian-Universalist Church. Her husband is an Episcopalian; the minister, a Methodist; the bridesmaid, a Roman Catholic; and the organist, a Baptist.
Joe and Marion Folger are proud of their son David '53. After three years in Naval Aviation, two at Columbia getting an M.A. in oil geology, and six in Jackson, Miss., with California Oil, he returned to Columbia Graduate School. After four years there he is getting his doctorate in June from Columbia and will join the Oceanic Institute at Woods Hole and go to sea on research ships, a modern throwback to Folger whalers in Nantucket.
On leave from Dartmouth, Jeff, son of Cliff and Gladys Hart, is in Sacramento working for Reagan. He ghostwrites speeches for the governor, types up position papers, prepares public relations statements, and formulates policy recommendations.
Doug Fay loves music, classical and popular. His neighbors wonder at his breadth of interest as shown by his playing records in this order, "Aida," "Mac the Knife," "Rigaletto," and "Hello, Dolly."
Here's a West Coast report from the May issue of "Pace," which may interest Al Dunn and Elmer Gardner, Jack Garfein and George Beaudoux, Doc Fleming and Art Foley, Connie Keyes, and George Harris. The traditional Dartmouth "animal" - the boozing, womanizing, loud-mouthed knucklehead of yore, the old "Big Greener" - is losing ground. Not that there aren't plenty around still who keep up the Dartmouth booze bill to $250,000 a year. The eight-page article, "What Are They Doing to the Ivy League Man," contains 17 pictures of Dartmouth faculty, administrative officers, and students. Sub-headings will give you the drift: How splendid is their isolation? Can they stop the co-ed invasion? "Student power is a pain in the neck," says Dean Seymour. "The typical Dartmouth man used to be a second-rate intellect," says Prof. Arthur Luehrmann. "The faculty takes a million years to decide anything," says Dartmouth Editor Bill Green. "The Black Ivy League Student faces a lot of conflicts and pressures," says Woody Lee, president of the Afro-American Society on Campus. Engineering Dean Myron Tribus throws sophomores into the nuts and bolts of engineerland faster than they sometimes like. A Better Chance, ABC, is the social action program of which Dartmouth is justifiably proud.
'22 Snowbirds meeting in Naples, Fla.,were, left to right: Bob Clark, OzzySiegfried, Walt Sands and Frank Horan.
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