1921
The snow birds have once again flown north in early summer. Some of them like Roger Wilde and Walter Henshaw left as soon as the football season was over, while others took a short respite for two and three weeks, after shovelling walks and driveways for a time after those early December snows.
Ellis Briggs has taken issue with the Alumni Council for their announced policies relating to the College on various subjects.
First, he takes exception to the setting up a group of "sleuthers" in each class, to sniff out the undisclosed assets in the portfolios of their classmates. Whether this is a proper procedure is questionable. The Third Century Fund has come and gone. It was supposed to pay for capital expenditures, but instead was partly used to cover operating deficits. The capital improvements might instead have come from the Bequest Program and the wills of deceased benefactors. Instead, the Trustees were stampeded into "coeducation now" and "year-round operation." They might have awaited the results of experience gained by neighboring institutions.
The Indian Symbol should not be taken as a moral issue, but a "tradition" which should not fail. This, among other things connecting Dartmouth with its roots in colonial New England is undermining the confidence that should exist between the College and its graduates. Ellis suggests that these questions be further "ventilated" and that another raid on the wigwams of our solvent sachems may safely be left in abeyance.
Werner Janssen has donated to Baker Library his scrapbooks documenting concert travels both here and abroad, phonograph recordings, and his relations with Jean Sibelius. These comprise a coverage of Werner's professional career, and might be the subject for a special library exhibition. In passing, the gossip has it that Werner has applied for the replacement being sought for Mario di Bonaventura who has left Hanover to join the staff of G. Schirmer, Inc. in New York City.
Bob Wilson writes from Tokyo that he has received 25 or more replies from classmates to whom he recently sent over 250 postcards. Most of them were from persons he never even knew during his four years in Hanover. His plan to translate English books into the Japanese language hasn't worked out. He found that several publishing houses had beat him to the punch, and had even collared all the rights of publication.
One innovation which is succeeding is the sale of Morning Glory seeds which were garnered from vagrant fences and stone walls in Japan and which now burgeon in Florida, and will eventually find their way further north when the growing season starts.
Bob has been active in the Alumni Fund campaign and has been quite successful in approaching OUR Japanese alumni.
Millard Newcomb reports from Rochester, Minn., where wife Pearl has been in the Mayo Clinic after developing an excruciating pain, blaming it on the gall bladder. She thought that this had been taken care of back in 1964, but apparently a "replay" was called for. With restricted activity the Newcombs plan to take a sabbatical leave, and planned to go up to Canada for a two months stay.
Bill Embree and Alberta left on April 14 for a Mediterranean cruise on the Norwegian-American liner Sagafjord following the same trail that Fez and Dorice Taylor took earlier in the year, namely Tunisia, Sicily, Italy, and Yugoslavia.
Dana and Helen Lamb spent the month of March at the White Stallion Ranch, just west of Tucson, Ariz. He is finishing a new book, Wherethe Pools are Bright and Deep. It will be published in December by Winchester Press with an advance sale of 20 thousand copies, and will be sponsored by the Field and Stream Book Club.
Rynie Rothschild and Lee spent the summer at a lake near Alexandria, Minn. This fall Rynie expects to continue his low handicap golf game at the Paradise Valley Country Club.
Bill and Teeter Alley have returned from a three-month tour of the country. Their main objective was the Casa Blanca resort hotel in Las Cruces but they found it had been taken over by the Ramada Inn with poor cuisine and accommodations. On the way out they had encountered a severe snowstorm which the southerners are not equipped to handle; no snow plows, no snow treaded tires. On the way home they collided in Point Clear, Ala., with a broken down jalopy manned by a teen-aged maiden without insurance. The accident delayed them for several days in Pensacola, the nearest city, waiting for repair parts. To cap the climax they ran into a blizzard coming up the valley on Int. 91 but they finally made home at 12:30 a.m. and spent the next week recuperating.
testimonials to your obviously rewarding and successful professional life. You have also found time to assume more than your share of community, church and charitable responsibilities
Since your graduation you have been a loyal and devoted son of Dartmouth. In your class you served five years as vice president and a like tenure as president. One of your inspired decisions as class president was to appoint your current Bequest Program teammate, Rog Wilde, as 1921 's Head Class Agent in 1946.
Today, however, we honor you as Class Bequest Chairman of 1921, a responsibility you have fulfilled conscientiously and effectively since 1958. Turning the tables on you, it was Rog Wilde, the President of 1921 at that time, who appointed you as Bequest Chairman. Since Rog joined you as Co-Bequest Chairman seven years ago you and he have formed probably the smoothest-working, most effective two-man team in the Bequest Program organization. 1921 is among the leading classes in almost every category of participation in the program and has for some time been the top class in number of life income trusts. Numbered among the 29 trusts in your class is one which you and Betty established some years ago. In 1968-69 you served as President of this Association.
Now, in recognition of your 15 fruitful years as Bequest Chairman of your class and your valued service as a former President of our Association, and in honor of your lifelong dedication to Dartmouth, the Association of Bequest Chairman is proud to proclaim you as Co-Bequest Chairman of the Year.
Roger Conant Wilde, Class of 1921, after your career with the Simmons Company and distinguished World War II service with the Air Force you have for ten years been officially listed as "retired." But Dartmouth men who know of your unceasing work for the College consider that adjective totally inappropriate.
Few men have served Dartmouth so effectively and successfully in so many ways. In class affairs you have been President for five years, Treasurer for seven years, Head Class Agent for seven years and Co-Bequest Chairman for seven years. In 1948 you won the James P. Reynolds Trophy for 1921's outstanding performance in the Alumni Fund and in 1952 you were awarded a Special Citation in leading your class to the Green Derby championship in four out of five years.
In general alumni activity you served four years on the Alumni Council, including your final year as president. In 1954 and 1955 you were chairman of the Alumni Fund and more recently produced an outstanding record as regional Third Century Fund Chairman for Windsor and Windham Counties in Vermont. In 1966 you were deservedly honored with Dartmouth's coveted Alumni Award. Somehow you have also found time to take on a rich mix of important civic responsibilities in your community.
But today we honor your dedicated efforts for Dartmouth in the Bequest Program. For the past eight years you have served eloquently and valuably as an ex officio member of the Alumni Council Bequest and Estate Planning Committee As Co-Bequest Chairman of your class, you and Tom Cleveland form a highly effective team which has brought 1921 near the top of the heap in program participation. Especially noteworthy has been your early and tireless promotion of what you call "painless giving" to Dartmouth - the Dartmouth Life Income Trusts - not only in your own class but to anyone who will listen. It is no accident that 1921 leads all classes in number of life income trusts, with 29, and you have clearly played a major part in making this method of giving one of the fastest growing ways by which Dartmouth men and their families benefit the College. Practicing what you preach, you and Caroline long ago established no less than four substantial trusts of your own.
In recognition of a lifetime of devoted service to Dartmouth and especially your important and effective work in the Bequest Program, we are proud to proclaim you as Co-Bequest Chairman of the Year.
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