1921

The month of May seems to be the nadir of the class notes' year as far as news is concerned. Happenings of the fading winter never appear to be very earthshaking, and when they do our classmate correspondents seem to be reluctant to report them. So it is necessary in this report to use the following "filler."

Thanks to Tom Norcross we have received an interesting and nostalgic document wat he had unearthed. It is the May 1924 issue of the SMOKER. It is a four-page spread, its primary emphasis being on the forthcoming Third Reunion of the class scheduled for June of that year. The Editor was Bob Elasser who was living at the time in Rochester, N. Y. He left there two years later to become a cajun in New Orleans, and has been there ever since. The chairman of the Reunion Committee was not named but the membership included Ruggles, Stiles, Hicks, Hubbell, Embree, Fisher Litchard, and Griffith. News items on individuals disclosed that Bob Burroughs, Chan Cavis, Hal Braman, and Newc Newcomb were exercising their knowledge of accounting acquired from Bill Gray and Archie Peisch. Ken Thomas was trying to sell insurance in Chicago, while Tom Norcross was peddling bonds. Frank Ross, an Alumni Fund Agent, was struggling to meet the 1924 class quota of $ll82, which as of late spring had only had ninety-one contributors out of a roster of 254 living members. One of the events on the reunion program was to be a baseball game between youthful 1921 and doddering 1919. Also slated was a strawberry shortcake supper at Moose Cabin, put on, naturally by Doc Griggs. Now to get more up-to-date!

Norm Crisp has received another accolade in his profession, having been elected recently as president of the St. Joseph Hospital medical staff in Nashua, N. H.

Ben Tenney, in January, was awarded the Legion of Merit at the Boston Naval Hospital in Chelsea, Mass. The citation was awarded for "exceptional meritorious service" from 1950 to 1970 as a consultant to the Surgeon General of the Navy in the specialty of obstetrics and gynecology. During these two decades Ben served as clinical professor at Harvard Medical School, and director of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boston City Hospital. Although now in retirement in Washington, Conn., he acts as a consultant for the Connecticut Board of Health.

Ken Thomas has become a true aficionado of Florida, after spending most of his life in the Windy City. Sometime in April of this year he is moving from Maitland to an apartment in Winter Park—where most of their friends are. He notes with pleasure that one of the fringe benefits of the move will be a heated swimming pool. Ken is secretary to the Dartmouth Club of Central Florida, a job which he enjoys very much. He has been a neighbor of classmate Alex Wesley, and also keeps in touch with Gordon "Red"Stanley who lives at Daytona Beach, about forty miles away. Family-wise Ken reports that daughter Joannie has a son Clifford in the Navy, and at the moment is taking an intensive course in nuclear training at the Great Lakes Naval Station. Son Tommy, in Richmond, Va., is specializing in chest surgery.

Erling Hunt retired from Columbia University as Professor of History, and then—to keep his teaching hand in— removed to State University College at Oneonta, N. Y. Still sticking to the field of education he is now about to make another change of venue. He is again moving, on to the University's campus at Cooperstown, where he will teach in the graduate programs there. He will be in Hanover for the Fiftieth, return to New York State to move, and conduct a research seminar, spending the rest of the summer at his delightful retreat on his hill in Norwich, Vt., where he has estivated for many years.

A fruitless search has been made to locate Arthur Nave who was only with the class for his freshman year. His room-mate during that time was Ed Luedke, and the pair had entered Dartmouth from St. John's Military Academy together. Arthur's family has had no word from or about him in many years. Last reports placed him in Upper Darby, Pa. Does anyone want to do some sleuthing of a missing person?

Sandy Sanders had hoped to make the Fiftieth, but a change in family plans will of necessity bring him to Vermont in late April, which will probably rule out a return trip ten weeks late.

Tom Norcross says he is amazed at the "longevity span" of the 1924 Reunion Committee mentioned at the start of this column. He believes it can be attributed to Doc Bowler's words of wisdom in the fall of 1917, Doc surely told us the facts of life in his subtly called Physical Education course.

Secretary, New Boston Rd. Norwich, Vt. 05055

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