1921

The Christmas card from Doug and Hazel Storer featured the Thule Air Force Base, Greenland, where the sun sets in November and does not appear again until mid-February. The Christmas "tree," 45 feet of scrap metal and iron pipe, is sprayed with foam to give the effect of dripping icicles. The "tree" must withstand gale winds, heavy snows, and a temperature of 45 below zero. The Christmas "tree" alerts us to the birthday of the Prince of Peace, and the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System alerts the 4000 air force personnel there about a surprise enemy attack over the top of the world.

Cory and Abbie Litchard prefer Captiva Island, for their fifth two-month Christmas vacation in Florida. In New Smyrna, Jerry and Helen Cutler embrace the sun in Golden Arms, Apt. 208, 601 N. Atlantic. Helen on Jerry: "a good golfer, gourmet chef, butler, nurse, shopper, launderer, and lover." One complaint. "He is not sufficiently ichthyophagous." With more bait and reel exertion, life for both would be "truly eudaemonic": beachcoming, Beach Club parties, Daytona concerts, ocean apartment, and kaleidoscopic blendings of surf colors and sounds. But Harry and Mary Garland, who used to fly to Florida, for Delta was always ready when they were, with or without sparkling Taylor, now prefer a New England winter. For Roland Batchelder St. Pete is either too hot or too cold. .Naples and Italy for him. Or Germany, where in five years he visited a thousand cities and hamlets. With gardens, parks, theatres, and Weinstuben, Stuttgart is his favorite city. Ach, Weh, dass ich so traurig bin! And Jack and Evelyn Hurd have sold their Clearwater home and are heading again for London.

Clarke Bassett has succumbed to Arizona lures. Proof: his Minnesota lake place sold. In Scottsdale he is a neighbor, more or less, of Rynie Rothschild in Phoenix and CarlMcMackin in Thatcher.

Like father, like son, like grandson. JoeFolger was Dartmouth professor of Spanish. This coming spring, his son Dave '53 will be Dartmouth Visiting Professor of Geology and teach a course in Oceanography. His grandson Peter has his eyes set on Dartmouth, and our football coaches have their eyes set on him, a junior Falmouth High quarterback, weight 185 (but increasing), height 6' 1 ½" (but increasing). In the Thanksgiving game with Barnstable High, Peter piloted the team to victory 19-6 with Grandfather Joe on the sidelines cheering himself hoarse.

Like father, like daughter. How wonderfully 1921 impinges on the Dartmouth scene! Martha Doolittle, daughter of Jim Smead, is in medicine as deputy director of the Breast Cancer Research at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Hitchcock Hospital, Hanover. Dorothy, Jim's widow, finds the Doolittle home in Meriden enjoyable to visit because of Erik, 11, and Elizabeth Susan, 8, but she continues to live in Greenfield.

Red ink called for. Circle July 15. With the help of church ladies, Bob and MarthaBurroughs are giving a buffet luncheon for 1920 and 1921 at their Canterbury farm. Called for also are two days of fasting, July 13 and 14!

Remember the Hanover riding horses of our undergraduate days in the Bachand stable on Lebanon Street? Cost $1.00 an hour. Eager to get our buck's worth, we galloped them over pavements, even when wet, and brought them in on the gallop, well lathered up. How Bachand blistered us in profane Canadian French! Some horses bucked at the Casque and Gauntlet corner and refused to turn down West Wheelock Street. No amount of cajoling and kicking could prevent the horse from heading back to the stable, cheered on by students on foot who favored the underhorse. It's a different story with the granddaughters of Walter and MaryLundegren. Sandra's equestrian form caught the eye of George Morris, three times on the U.S. Olympic Equestrian Team. His present income as horse trainer is $500,000 a year. As a rider and jumper of show horses, Sandra is now one of his instructors. Only a high-school girl, Linda, the younger sister, as horsewoman qualified for both Harrisburg and Madison Square. In her class were 150 jumpers; after the first round, 50; then 24. Linda finished 20th, which big sister ungrudgingly admitted wasn't too bad for a teenager.

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