1921

For a starter, a note from Harry Chamberlaine: "Ray Mallary has most cooperatively agreed to fill in as our class secretary pending our June reunion. So, Ray, from me and for the whole class, our very sincere thanks.

"And as I promised I'll spell out a brief account of my attendance at the Inauguration in January. Thank goodness I was there on sort of a V.I.P. basis (my son-in-law is Barbara Bush's younger brother), so we did have a bus at our disposal with a military escort to get around in a very crowded city. For instance, at the Vice President's reception on Monday afternoon, more than 20,000 people showed up. And it isn't easy to greet that many people, and welcome them, which the hosts did most graciously. There was a smaller group just the "family" at a reception Tuesday afternoon at the vice-presidential home, which is the former Naval Observatory on Massachusetts Avenue. Of course, I am prejudiced, but I think that we have a great couple in George and Barbara Bush in the vice-presidential spot.

"There were lunches and dinners in between, but the final event, the Inaugural Ball, was quite a thing. There were nine of them, with the Reagans and the Bushes visiting all nine. The one that I attended at the Washington-Sheraton, was very swish, very overcrowded, and a bit wearing. At two a.m. on Wednesday morning, your correspondent was a very worn out member of the class of 1921."

As your scribe pro tem is performing by appointment of President Harry until that time in June when the whole '21 electorate will take time out from reunion to elect a permanent class secretary, he has, as you see, graciously thanked me in advance. I appreciate that, but I would be less than considerate if I did not issue the caveat that by June no thanks may be justified because the substitute product has been demonstrated and found wanting. I feel sure that will be the case unless you all come to my assistance with some newsy notes. If you are too shy to send in an item about yourself, at the very least send me in some news about at least one other classmate. That need not involve you in any more than one telephone call to someone with whom you have kept in touch and a following post card to me. May I suggest that you call him up and say that you are expecting to see him in Hanover on June 12? I feel sure that the ensuing conversation even a three-minute one will evoke something that I would like to know about and use, be it deed or misdeed.

And now may I report to you without Harry's prior consent, but, I trust, without his disapproval, that very shortly after I had accepted his appointment, he made a trip to the hospital, where a long three-and-a-half hour operation was performed to relieve a circulatory blockage by the replacement of a vein or artery along the side of his body. He was then in intensive care, but the operation was entirely successful, and his report to me of February 15 is, "Am out of the hospital and doing okay!" Ort tells me in an even later report that all goes well with Harry, who taught Ort all the tennis he knew and then took up golf, which he will shortly be playing again.

A "scoop" ― just in!! Vance Clark, class agent for his '22 class at Tuck School, has set a new world record in the current Tuck School drive for contributions, in which all 28 members of the '22 class have again each contributed to that drive. I am reliably informed that this 100 per cent participation by the '22 Tuck class has been accomplished twice before and that on one of those two occasions RogWilde was class agent. My informant also tells me that our Tuck School fund leads all of the business schools in the country in the percentage of participation by its alumni. Congratulations are in order.

Hugh Cruikshank has moved from Englewood, N. J., to Ormand Beach, Fla. We remember him as having served for a few years after college as the executive secretary to Bishop John Dallas, who during our years in College was rector of the Episcopal Church in Hanover.

Marshall Exnicios, who at one time or another has been a traveler to most of the countries of the world, has slowed down a bit in his travels because of some back problems, but it should be noted by all of you who have wielded a racquet ― or do now wield one ― that Ex retired as the city squash champion of Washington, D.C.

A number of years ago, Gertrude and I had the honor and pleasure of entertaining at dinner Eleanor Roosevelt, who had come at the invitation of a good friend to speak at the little town of Bradford on United Nations Day. Returning to our home in the evening after her speech, we chatted while waiting to take her down to the "June" to catch the sleeper for New York. That raised the question as to the need for returning after such a long and busy day, and she said, "Would you like to see my schedule for tomorrow and the week ahead?" Everyone said yes, and she took her little book out of her bag and smilingly told us her schedule hour by hour for the next day and the week ahead. She was delightful, but the schedule was indeed awesome. I can say the same when, as a matter of curiosity, I asked Ort Hicks what he would be doing for the week ahead. 1 was so worn out after he told me that I have decided to save that travelogue report on '21ers across the U.S. for the next column. Looking forward to the sixtieth reunion!

Lower Plain Bradford, Vt. 05033