1921
Ingham Baker tells us that in mid-April he and Martha Hoyt Marsden's wife's birthday with a lunch in Portsmouth, N.H. His note states that it was her 39th, but that sounds like Jack Benny's age which never changes. year to year.
Borden Helmer send us a clipping from TheN.Y. Times telling us that the Yankee Nuclear reactor in Vernon. Vt., has been shut down again and incurred a fine of $75,000 from the Atomic Energy Commission. This pleased Border since he has long been a long-time oppoment, fearing the environmental effect on the Connecticut River through the failure of the plant s cooling system. He and Burd recently returned from several months of fine weather in southern California.
Ralph Steiner was recently honored by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation with a fellowship award based on "Film Making." Ralph's comments are succinct on the newspaper clipping, stating "imagine - a fellow at 75 years! Ha - not me," referring to the 342 scholars who were in his group.
Doug Storer recently received a letter from a former camper at a girls' summer camp on Lake Fairlee. She is now Ms. Marjorie Klee of Fallbrook, Calif. At that time Doug was an undergraduate at Dartmouth. In going through old memorabilia Ms. Klee ran across pictures of Camp Wynona and its counselors, including Doug. She wrote to your secretary and wanted to know the whereabouts of Doug. We obliged her and forwarded a letter she had written and gave her his address. We received a nice report from Ms. Klee and also a copy of a letter from Doug.
Dana Rouillard, brother of Bob, reports that Bob is making painfully slow progress in the Middlesex County Hospital in Waltham, Mass. He is partially paralyzed and unable to write, but still keeps up his loyal interest in Dartmouth and 1921. Bob is not likely to return to his apartment in Cambridge. Dana comes down from Toronto a week or so every month to stay in Bob's apartment, and visits the hospital with second class mail including the SMOKER which Bob continues to enjoy.
The Rt. Rev. Charles Gilson was chosen as the principal speaker at the World Day of Prayer in the First Baptist Church in New London, N.H. The theme of the service, "Making Builders of Peace," was prepared by the church women of Japan and observed in 168 countries and was an examination of which women accept responsibility for building foundation of compassion, justice, tolerance and respect for the opinions and aspirations of people everywhere. Donations from the service were used for various endeavors such as shoes to Head Start children in the U.S.; a housing project in the West Indies; aid to women war victims in India, Pakistan and Vietnam; and nutritional education in Thailand and India. There were ten communities in the area which took part in this worthy undertaking.
At Doug Storer's request George Fiske '20, a neighbor of his in Seminole, Fla., sent a copy of the write-up in the St. Pete Times on Doug's accomplishments before and since his retirement to Florida. For many years in New York City he was a talent scout for radio, the movies and later television. He sponsored such characters as Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and the Mills Brothers. He assembled the History of Radio for Broadcast Pioneers, a group of people in the industry. He was associated with Robert Ripley for a quarter of a century and accumulated for him several million dollars during that period. He arranged contracts with Proctor and Gamble, Woodbury Soap, and the firm of J. Walter Thompson, and created Kraft Music Hall. He also handled the Thomas Cook Tours.
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