1921
Dr. David W. Folger '53, following the footsteps of his illustrious father in another field is assistant professor of geology at Middlebury College. He is predicting another ice age 100 or 200 years from now. The average yearly temperature will drop to five or seven degrees centigrade (or 42 to 46 fahrenheit). This shattered the previously accepted view that ice ages occur only once in every hundred thousand years and last about that long.
We have already begun a cooling off period which will continue for several years or several decades. Glaciers are the forerunner of this trend. Scientists have taken the history of interglacial periods with devices like the long tube-shaped piston corers. These have been used in Lake Champlain and in the Caribbean to determine the length of the various cycles.
People are able to live through these ice ages. They move southward. This shift in population might be heralded by the Miami Chamber of Commerce, but the economic, political, and social problems from such major relocation and readjustment could be overwhelming.
Being facetious, Dartmouth College may have to change its location, or try to operate through ice tunnels and under-ice palaces for dormitories, classrooms, and administration buildings. The future Eleazar Wheelock will come into this icy wilderness to teach the Eskimos.
Ralph Baker writes that there is no change in wife Sally's condition. Although she finds it uncomfortable to travel far in a car, she manages to keep busy, especially playing bridge. As for Ralph he is temporarily disabled due to a broken wrist, and has his left arm in a sling and cast. An icecovered door hit him on the head, knocking him down onto the driveway, and he landed on his wrist. He says, "it could have been worse." Hope that he recovers before the golf season starts. He takes delight in visiting his daughter Barbara, her husband Dick Ide and their three children.
A short note from Marsh Whelden with reminiscences about his return to Dartmouth after coming back from France where he lived in Wheeler Hall, rooming with Charlie Zimmerman '23. He found too much traffic in Wheeler to permit him to study for his 3.4 average, which Dean Laycock had suggested, and moved over to New Hampshire.
Hewitt Moore thanks us for his birthday card, and without divulging its makeup completely so that it will be a surprise to those who haven't seen it, he makes comments about Glenn Parker who is in the photograph. Glenn Parker was a long-time resident of Norwich, but before that he attended St. Johnsbury Academy with Hewitt, along with Russ Bailey and Norm Lowe. They entered Dartmouth together, but Glenn Parker ended up working in Hanover for a Mr. Lewin, the father of Fannie Lewin who worked for Skeet Tibbets. Glenn was one of the Founders of the Norwich Church Fair which now has become an annual event sponsored by all the churches in the neighborhood. He originated the parade which features the yoked oxen and also the pulling contest in the afternoon. His son has taken over this chore since his father's death.
More news about the Moore children: Emily lives nearby at the former home of her grandmother. Husband John is selling Monroe Calculators in Boston and is doing quite well. Son David, the organ builder, is getting started in the organ business right in North Pomfret. He was offered a partnership with an organ builder in Gloucester, but Dave decided to start in for himself.
Jack Hard has received a letter from Celia Sonnenfeld saying that she is still living in the big house in Slingerlands, N.Y. Perhaps later she will change her mind and move into an apartment. She has moved her insurance agency. Daughter Marcia (Mrs. William B. Shaffman) is administrative assistant to a state senator. Celia's three grandchildren are self-supporting - two of them are teachers and the third works in the Harvard Book Shop.
Our President Ellis Briggs and Lucy are taking off for a three-month trip to Luanda, Angola, to visit their son Ted '56 who is consul general there.
Bord and Burd Helmer left the middle of January for a couple of months down and around New Zealand and Australia.
We understand that Bob Wilson has sent postcards to every Classmate. What a chore! And what a postal bill.
The end of another war, on November 11, 1918. A unit of Dartmouth s SATC is shownstopping in Lebanon during a tri-town parade. (Photo by James Maze '22.)
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