1921
Herrick Brown sends an interesting clipping about Doug Storer, the author of the syndicated newspaper column "Amazing but True". In New York City on business he saw a check blowing around on the sidewalk as he walked toward the Yale Club on midtown Manhattan. On picking it up he found that it was for $28,000 and was payable to a couple named Hicks. (It wasn't Orton or Lois). Doug called the First National City Bank and arranged present the check to Mr. and Mrs. Hicks the next morning.
The Browns are spending the winter at their Quonochontaugh, R. I. home and report both beautiful sunny strolling weather with only occasional dips in the mercury toward zero.
George Leyser '26, knowing of the Indian controversy in Hanover, forwards a clipping from the Fort Myers News-Press. This states that the co-ordinator of the new American Indian movement may file suit against the Atlanta Braves for having a Chippewa Indian, nicknamed Chief-Noc-a- Homa as mascot. A suit is also contemplated against the Cleveland Indians and their mascot symbol Chief Wahoo. George wonders how William and Mary, Stanford and the Washington Redskins are weathering the storm.
Another anonymous postcard received from Morro Bay, Calif. It reads "Stopped here on our trip. Such great fishing, fresh crabs and oysters. They cook them while you wait, starting off with oysters on the half shell." We assume that the sender is a '21-er, and if so will the classmate please stand up and identify himself.
Clarence Saunders has retired from active management of MACPET, and is now on retainer with the firm. His departure culminates 12 years of Service for the Honorary Board Chairman of the 3-M Company. During that time he organized and brought together four oil companies, and also an independent, which the four consolidated to form MACPET. On the retainer set-up he will have more time to travel and this will include Hanover for the next "home-coming" and also to visit his two sisters who live in Ely, Vt. and Lyme, N. H.
His wife Ella Grace had a bad fall during the winter, cracking a knee cap and requiring a cast from leg to hip. We hope she has fully recovered, and that we will see her in the Fall.
Gordon "Red" Stanley, who maintained a year-round apartment in Florida, has decided that the round trip from Maine by car was getting too much for him. Hereafter, he will either fly there, or take the car train. In the potato state he will have a permanent residence in Augusta, with a summer camp in Winthrop, about ten miles to the west.
Gordon's elder son Peter '52 has been appointed administrative vice-president of Group Insurance operations at Union Mutual, with which he has been associated for over a decade. He is also active in civic affairs and the council of the Boy Scouts of America.
A postcard from Sumner "Gus" and Betty Perkins has -been received from Fort Myers, Fla. They also rode the "auto train” from Washington, with reports that this new innovation in rail travel has much to be desired.
William "Bill" Embree planned to attend the '21 class Florida midwinter reunion. He plans to fly to Orlando, and hopes that the plane isn't hi-jacked to Cuba since he says that he and Alberta have already been there.
Rudi Blesh still retains his professorship at New York University and Queens College, continuing to teach in the Afro-American and Afro-Asian Musical fields. He has no intention of quitting because he says that the contacts with the young are too valuable. He reports a delayed explosion in the big time revival of ragtime now underway. In 1950 Harriet Janis and he wrote “They All Played Ragtime" which has just been revived. The late Scott Joplin who worte the "Maple Leaf Rag" is being honored by a posthumous world premiere of his ragtime opera Treemomsha composed in 1911. This was played by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra on January 29 and 30. Chorus and soloists from the leading black colleges assisted in the rendition, and Rudi read a paper preceding the opera.
On the personal side Rudi broke an ankle in November, had an onslaught of vertigo on December 1, and an attack of the flu over Christmas, this last afflhction overtaking him in Marblehead, Mass., where he was visiting his daughter and son-in-law, Peter Wheelock Morton, who JS a direct Descendant of Eleazar. He attended Yale, the same as Eleazar.
"Mary Noyes is contemplating a chartered tour to the island of Majorca in April, and also plans to be back for the postreunion in June.
Bart Bartholemew reports belatedly that his wife's name is Catherine. Holders of the Fifty-Year Book are notified of this additional errata.
Harry Garland had a tough winter. On January 11 he sustained a compound fracture of his right ankle. After a few days in the hospital he returned home for a few days, only to suffer a mild heart attack—and was rushed back to the hospital by ambulance. A few days in intensive care, and under the excellent supervision of his old roommate Dr. Norm Crisp and his two sons he is in excellent shape, but still waiting for the ankle to mend fully. He cancelled out his trip to Florida but will be on hand for all of 1921's fall events. He would like to thank all the classmates who sent him get-well cards and phoned expressions of sympathy.
Secretary, New Boston Rd. Norwich, Vt. 05055
Class Agent, Box 247, El Prado, N. M. 87529
