1921

The next time you are in Hanover, be sure to visit the comfortable Alumni Lounge in the new Blunt-Crosby Center, where 1921 held its cocktail party at our 60th reunion. The lounge is now the proud possessor of a gift from our famed author, Dana Lamb — the reproduction of a salmon fishing picture that Dana ha commissioned for the Anglers Club of New York when he was president of that club.

On January 13, at the Hyatt Hotel at West Palm Beach, Fla., 40 members of the Dart mouth Club gathered for an excellent dinner. which was followed by a talk from the College's football coach, Joseph Yukica. Then came excellent movies showing how Dartmouth football tied for the Ivy League championship. A very worthwhile evening with a request to Joe for a repeat in 1982.

It's a pleasure to report that Jennifer Kurtz, the granddaughter of Martha and Harold Geilich" graduated in January from Barnard with a magna cum laude designation. Her brother John, a sophomore at Yale, won his junior varsity "Y" in lacrosse.

Good news travels slowly; bad news always moves rapidly. A late news item has reached your editor that Roger and Sylvia Miner's grandson Bob Miner graduated from Dartmouth in June, and now his sister Carol is a freshman living in Russell Sage. Sylvia comments, "Time marches on."

Roger and Sylvia have performed so many duties for our class that it was unfortunate that Roger didn't feel well enough to attend our 60th reunion and at the same time witness his grandson's graduation.

You didn't necessarily have to enter Dartmouth in 1917 to be a loyal and devoted member of 1921. Osborne C. Ward, "0.C." to his many classmates, transferred from the University of New Hampshire into our class in the junor year and considers himself to be Dartmouth to the core, "with life-long loyalties."

O.C. writes, "In May I will have been married 58 years and, thank God, [we] have retained [our] good health." Their son Carl '48 played two .years of varsity football, and their daughter Carol, four years later, attended Westbrook. They have three children each, and O.C. is also blessed with four greatgrandchildren.

O.C. has enjoyed every minute of retirement, and in 1965 they enjoyed a world cruise on the Caronia. They now lead a quiet life in Beverley, living in the same complex where Dan Ruggles lived and where "Tish" still does. For the summers, they have a lake cottage six miles away.

O.C. feels he was one of the "lesser knowns" of the class. With such loyalty in your blood stream, 0.C., that could never happen.

The Corbin Story, begun last month, continues: We find them in San Antonio. Olive relates, It was a lovely drive past the huge cattle ranches and oil rigs up to Fort Worth-Dallas Airport to New York City."

Their next venture was a drive to Hanover for the splendid 60th. They then went by air to Bowie, Md., to celebrate joint wedding anniversaries with their daughter and family. After arriving back in New Britain, it was time to settle down.

The last installment will tell you how the Corbins changed the map of Florida. It pays to have ancestors.

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