1921

Many of the happenings of the classmates in the winter season are short-term, and by the time the news reaches you they have terminated. These are mostly migrations to the South which last about four months, and bring everyone home in time for equinoctial rains, and the mud season and duck boards in Hanover.

Clarence "Skinny" Moore is an exception. He has been a Florida homesteader in Clearwater since retirement eight years ago, and has no intention of ever returning t the North-east. He takes great pride in the accomplishments of daughters Christine ("Tina") and Patricia ("Pat"), both being professional language specialists with Ginn and Company and the Spanish Department of station WCOP in Boston respectively.

Dave Plume is resting up in Delray Beach, Fla., to prepare himself for the arduous task of raking in the shekels at the Glorious Fiftieth. He exercises (?) daily by fishing off the pier back of their condominium, and plays Agnew golf on occasion.

Dick Rolfe, life-long resident of the Concord, N. H., area, reminisces at length about freshman year in Crosby Hall. He asks that your scribe visit the historic dorm and try to locate a hole in the southwest corner room on the third floor where Harold Bowen (known affectionately as Skunk) put a bullet through the middle cross-rail of the window without breaking the glass in either sash. In a more serious vein Dick reports that over the Christmas holiday he and Marjorie hosted all three daughters, their husbands, and nine grandchildren. In closing, Dick has offered the hospitality of their home at the time of reunion for any 1921 couple who gets hung up for lodgings on one or both of the two nights involved.

Ralph Baker hopes to make reunion if the health of wife Sally permits. She is ending up a long siege of convalescence from a hospital experience which precluded their twice-planned jaunt to Japan and the Orient.

Carl Hammond, one of our few bachelor classmates, reports briefly from Chicago, where he carries on his activities in the field of illustration. Although he was only with us in Hanover for freshman year he continues to show an active interest in his alma mater and 1921.

Emily Stickney, Charley's widow, brings us up-to-date on the Stickney progeny. All three girls are happily married, and there are thirteen grandchild dren. Nine of these are boys, and Emily wishes that they would all decide to go, and be accepted by Dartmouth.

George "Red" Stanley is another "split-level" resident, shuttling regularly between Florida and Maine. In the Sunshine State the Stanleys have a year-round rental apartment in Daytona Beach, but spend the summer and fall in East Winthrop, Me., in a small lakeside camp. The two Stanley sons are doing very well. Peter '52 is in middle management with Red's old company, N.E. Tel and Tel, and David '53 is a vice-president of a life insurance firm in Portland, Me. Daughter Polly is married to a major in the Air Force. He has received many citations and decorations, including the D.F.C., with extended tours of duty in Germany, and more recently in Vietnam.

Despite cross-checks and proof-reading, errors and omissions in the biographical sections of the Fifty Year Book are still being reported. It is intended to publish these goofs along with the last mailing, which will be the Class History. A short note to your secretary citing any changes that should be made will be sufficient to bring the data up to 99.9% accuracy. (After all, even the New York Times is not lily-white in this respect.)

Phil Noyes was called back to his profession to fill in as a substitute teacher at the Fairhaven (Mass.) High School, in spite of the fact that a few days before he had suffered a painful sacro-iliac sprain on New Year's Day brought about by a fall on the ice. He expects full recovery long before it is time to travel to Hanover in early June.

Ralph Steiner is continuing his production of the educational film series "The Joy of Seeing" in the rustic environment in and around Thetford Hill, Vt., where he has now survived his first winter. He recently gave a showing of his newest releases for the benefit of the Pilgrim Fellowship of the First Congregational Church in his new home town.

B. (for Belno) Marsh Whelden is one of a few who has asked for the return of his photograph, which he had sent in for possible use in the Fifty Year Book. Marsh says "it is the only good picture taken of me since the 1921 Aegis." He and Priscilla had portraits made in 1943 for the benefit of son John '49 just before John left for the Anzio beach-head invasion. Marsh says that in that picture Priscilla looked like Fannie Brice, and he bore a striking resemblance to Groucho Marx.

Secretary, New Boston Rd. Norwich, Vt. 05055

Class Agent, Box 764, Hanover, N. H. 03755