1921

Bob Wilson, who has been fluttering around the United States after having spent many years in Japan and Okinawa, has decided to return to Japan in December. He regrets the recent decision to turn back Okinawa to Japan, and hopes that the U. S. Senate "will have enough sense" not to ratify the arrangement.

Echoes of John Sullivan's 50-year speech are still bouncing around the Hanover campus, and are sure to effect the decision of the Trustees of the College regarding the coeducational issue which will be resolved before these class notes reach you.

The Emory Corbins have been on the move again. During the summer they enjoyed a trip to Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, and Prince Edward Island. In October they were in Boston to see their son participate in a production of the Fantasticks.

Ken Sater blames his failure to return to Reunion to his resolve to stick to his former job during a case of "walking pneumonia." He says his absence prevented him from making "vociferous comments from the floor" addressed to the class valedictorian and "his ancestors, if known."

Wilbur "Mike" Doran, although more or less immobilized with poor eyesight and difficulty in walking, finds great comfort in hearing about his old friends, and wishes he could remain in touch with them directly.

Ralph Steiner, who removed himself two years ago from apartment life in New York City to the rural community of Thetford Hill, Vt. is still pursuing his avocation by making films for the Vermont Council of the Arts.

Elmer Gardner, despite difficulties from high altitude asthma and emphysema, visited Reno, Nev., a while back, and attempted to pay for his expenses by shooting crap. He ended up by being carried back to his camper, where he could lie down and suck on his oxygen bottle.

Fred Sercombe, our representative from the Northwest, has been retired for a year. But he manages to keep busy with visits to his daughter and her family in Colorado, and to Bend, Ore., where his son is in the sand, gravel and concrete business.

Gordon "Red" Stanley had to cancel out on his trip to reunion because of his doctor's advice, cautioning him about the long jaunt and the accompanying exciting activities. He is now moving to Augusta, Maine, in December.

At the Saturday morning Homecoming Class Meeting it was unanimously voted that Randall E. Spaulding of Whitefield, N. H. be made an adopted member of the Class. Mr. Spaulding is the proprietor of the Spalding Inn Club of which we have heard such pleasing and complimentary accounts. The Club has been the post-reunion rendezvous of the Class for several years and assuredly will continue. Situated as it is on the northern end of the White Mountains, it is a most delightful spot, with its added attractions of tennis courts, swimming pool, lawn bowling, and a golf course nearby for which its guests have privileges.

An informal winter reunion is being planned for late February in Florida for many of the winter and year-round residents of 1921. It will be a luncheon date, and the locale will be at the Holiday Inn at Lake Placid. This means that the furthest classmate (probably from Ft. Lauderdale) will have only 210 miles of travel one way. Details will come later.

George Harris is making his final move. On November 3 he and Madeline are taking up quarters in Heritage Village located in Farmington, Conn. This is built around a golf course, and the Harris apartment faces the third fairway. They will still be fairly close to old friends in Longmeadow, Mass. and near to ancestral haunts. Grandfather Harris was born on a farm in Salem, Conn. George has children and grandchildren named for a privateersman out of New London in the War of 1812. At the age of 15 he was captain of the ship. They captured a lot of powder in a Bermuda cove which the British were using as a supply base against the Yankees.

As we go to press the Dartmouth Varsity Football team has ground out its fifteenth consecutive victory. The last two (against Harvard and Yale) were squeakers, and won by narrow margins in the last minutes of play. Gazing into our crystal ball we predict at least one more victory—maybe two.

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