1921

Here we are, back in production again after a summer respite of news-gathering and contacts. Many thanks to all who have written. We still need more. Don't let me down!

By the time you have received this issue, we will have had our fall class meeting in Hanover. At this writing, we predict the meeting will be a great success, and hope the football score will be, too.

The annual picnic at Bob and MarthaBurroughs' farm was, as always, a happy gathering, with 22 representing the classes of '20 and '21, as well as two from '07, one from '11, and two from '24.

A good letter from Jeff Lawrence reports that he and Fran and Mary Garland were at the presentation ceremony of a portrait of NormanCrisp to St. Joseph Hospital in Nashua.

Norman Carver and Louise had planned their annual trip east from Kalamazoo, but at the last minute had to.cancel. Norm had had a minor eye operation which would have hampered his driving ability; they were also concerned about the gasoline situation.

We wonder how many in the class realize the literary heights Dana Lamb has attained over these many years. We quote from a letter written to Dana by two renowned members of the Anglers Club of New York about Dana's recent book Beneath the Rising Mist: "I can only reiterate, in substance, that I consider you the foremost 'outdoors' writer among your North American confreres."

Then, thanks to Ort Hicks, we have a three- and-a-half page, single-spaced letter from Joe Folger to Ort. Joe's letter is full of nostalgia. Joe refers to Abe Weld, Dave Bowen, and others, and to the summer they spent with Professor Washburn's family on Washburn Island in Waquoit Bay. Joe recalled: "Abe was the butler who cut a fine figure serving the Washburns' distinguished guests. Dave was Lincoln Washburn's tutor." Joe goes on to reminisce that he "milked the cow, exercised the saddle horse, cleaned the stygian stables, and polished up the knocker on the big front door." We will save more of Joe's fascinating history of his early, and more recent, life on Nantucket.

Larry Nardi wrote from Annapolis, to which he and Alice moved in 1974 to be near their married daughter. They are active in the AARP. Recently because of his background in the clothing business, Larry was persuaded to help at a thrift shop organization benefiting the Anne Arundel Hospital. Larry says that last year the project generated approximately $70,000 of the $100,000 given by the auxiliary to the hospital. He says that so far he has put in 280 hours, which won him his first stripe, and that he is now aiming for his next 200 hours. Larry writes that "it is a lot of work but it keeps my brain active and my mind alert."

In the late thirties, your secretary lived in Evanston, III. After several years of friendship with the next-door neighbors, the HarryMossers, we discovered that we belonged to the same class. Harry and Carolyn now live in Asheville, N.C., and we all got together at our 50th reunion in 1971. In a letter, Harry comments: "I believe we saw Dartmouth at its best when we were there. ... Some of our Tar-Heel neighbors had never heard of Dartmouth, but we educated them promptly."

Those sure were the good old days, no matter what has occured since.

Since last writing, death has taken two more 1921 stalwarts, Tom Norcross and BartBartholomew. More of them elsewhere.

We'll continue our chitchat next month, but we need news.

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