1921
You will be reading this column in the May issue, and by the time that the June issue is in your hands, you will have returned from our 60th reunion. Therefore this communication will attempt to erect a "Stop, Look, and Listen" warning that this will be the first, last, and only 60th for the class of 1921; and if you have not already done so, please sit down now and send in your reservation. We want you to be a part of it. All of us want to see you, and to stress what I have just said I have asked HarryChamberlaine to dredge up from the learning of his profession an effective second plea for the prodigal sons to return home. (He said that he hurried to get in under the wire on the 15-cent postage rate!)
Harry writes: "Another small reminder maybe calling it a slight push would be more accurate to urge you to sign up and plan to come back to Hanover for our one and only 60th reunion.
"We honestly don't plan too strenuous a time. There will be transportation available for any events that are more than a few steps away from our dorm.
"Of course, knowing our class, we may set a precedent for the College and have ourselves a tremendous 65th reunion. But please don't pass up this one and wait until 1986. I won't try to list those who have already signed up, as the list will not be up to date when this reaches print. But attendance does look rather good and it should be a great event for us. Please send in your acceptance now, if you have not already done so. Harry."
Norm Lowe is planning to be back with us in June and says he has seen another good friend and classmate, Russ Bailey, who will also be joining Us. Norm, who still keeps the same address in Ryegate, Vt., like many sturdy members of the Green Mountain State, feels no need to emigrate to a warmer winter climate. He is enjoying in this northern clime his retirement from a very constructive and productive career as a member for many years of the Vermont Public Service Board. He reports that he sees Russ Bailey, who drives north through Vermont from his home in Melrose, Mass., to the home of his daughter, who lives just outside Montreal. Russ retired in 1964 as an executive in the treasury department of the United Shoe Machinery Corporation, with which he had been connected for many years.
Another Vermonter, Tom Griffith, who lives in Rutland, is returning from the southland, where he has spent the winter, and is stopping on the return trip in New Jersey, where he is calling on his daughter. A good friend in Tom's hometown reports that this '21er is an ardent and expert fisherman. No doubt he has been demonstrating his expertise in the waters off Florida. We hope that we shall see him back in Hanover and hear about the "big one" that he 10st!
Cory and Abbie Litchard did not make it to Florida this past winter and maintain that they have no news to report except that they are both well and will be back for reunion. That is good news. Cory is starting his garden, and we shall hope to get a travel report from them if they do take the trip they are thinking about to Scotland and England.
Ort Hicks reports on an extended March trip that he made on behalf of the Campaign for Dartmouth. As one might expect, he managed to combine pleasure with business. In Chicago for an Encyclopedia Britannica board meeting, Ort had dinner with Bill Embree and the following day managed to catch up with Pem and NedPrice by telephone.
In Kansas City, Anne and Tom Staley were waiting for Ort at a new restaurant near the airport, where they were joined by daughter Nancy and her husband Grant. This gave Ort a chance to visit the nearby Staley ranch, from which Tom made in the 1950's that famous Black Angus Bull donation to the Alumni Fund. It still ranks as the Alumni Fund's most unusual gift. The Staleys confirmed their reser- vations for our big 60th reunion in June, promising to bring Virginia and Joe Schultz with them.
There was only one 1921 contact in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and efforts to reach him by telephone were unsuccessful. I am referring, of course, to Eleazar's direct descendant, Addison Wheelock Warner, who operates a large ranch out of Arlington, as well as a mountain fishing property north of Durango, Colo.
After covering a lot of territory by car between San Diego and Los Angeles, Ort headed back toward Tucson .and Phoenix, where he spent a week at the home of his old Shattuck classmate, the late Senator Benton. Unfortunately, Lu and Rynie Rothschild were out of town on a cruise, but their housekeeper gave assurance that they would be back in Hanover at Commencement for the big reunion. Ort did manage to attend the monthly luncheon of the Dartmouth Club of Phoenix.
The final leg of the trip carried Ort due north to Twin Falls, Idaho, where he caught a bus to Sun Valley for a long relaxing weekend with 1921's peripatetic travel editors, Dorice andPhez Taylor Sun Valley's most respected citizens. It was Ort's first and only visit to the famed resort, and there could not have been a more fitting climax to his grand tour of these United States! Naturally, the Taylors will be with the rest of the class at reunion.
Did I say final leg? Well, almost. Ort did take time to stop off in New York City for sessions with Harry Chamberlain and JackHubbell as to steps that may be taken to bring back to Hanover in June every classmate, wife, and widow. You will be hearing more about this during the coming weeks from Harry, Lucy Briggs, and Reunion Chairman Dave Plume.
On April 2, Ort finally returned to Hanover, with a multitude of fond memories and only one regret: that a pinched nerve in her back had prevented Lois from accompanying him, as she has done on so many M.G.M. and Dartmouth trips during the past decades.
I got all this out of Ort by telephone, getting him out of the shower after a good set of tennis. Ort does not seem to have any Growing Old Indicators! A friend recently sent me a list of those, and, reminded by Ort's tennis game, I will share a few of them with you: You get winded playing chess! Everything hurts and what doesn't hurt doesn't work! You feel like the day after the night before and you haven't been anywhere! You regret all those mistakes resisting temptation! And last but not least, one known to all of us: You decide to procrastinate but then never get around to it!
Lower Plain Bradford, Vt. 05033
