1921*
Lead-off position this month is awarded, palms down, to Gord Merriam, who writes: "My transfer to Washington is permanent or not, depending on how you look at it. Barring unforeseen developments, I expect to remain in the Nation's capital for three or four years before receiving another assignment abroad. In the Foreign Service scheme of things, that is permanency; I suppose that restless classmates west of the Alleghenies would agree with this point of view, but that New England codger-classmates would not. My desk is in the Division of Near Eastern Affairs, where I ruminate and lubricate matters pertaining to Afghanistan, Burma, India, and Iran The Merriam menage inhabits 5311 Moorland Lane, Bethesda, Md. (a taxed but not voteless suburb), a couple of jumps from brother-in-law E. O. Briggs, whose propinquity enlivens sundry activities such as commuting, deck tennis, irreverent and irrelevant discussion of public affairs, and bending elbows. Eleanor Phelps Merriam, born in Egypt in January, thrives in the Sovereign State of Maryland John Sullivan is a recent and welcome addition to Washington. Orton Hicks skedaddles in and out of town on business bent. When hereabouts he admirably manages either to drop in or to buzz by telephone Please permit me to toss a bouquet to George Frost, whose column-in-a-column I find highly entertaining." .... Add Washington items: Ort Hicks visited the capital, following the Navy game, and had a good "session" with Johnnie Means, who is sales mgr. of Howat Concrete Co.; met Johnnie's new general mgr., whose name is Dorothy and who is nothing short of charming.
A new high in versatility was recently recorded when Herrick Brown (distinguished ex-scribe of '21 and veteran cable editor of the N. Y. Sun) covered the Navy and Lafayette games for his sheet. His stories (which sports experts rate A-1) appeared in the Sun over the w. k. Herrick Brown signature. Assisting on the identification and statistical work down in the Baltimore stadium was Bill Owen, prominent Wall Streeter and man-about-Montclair By way of Boston and Manhattan spies comes the news that Lee ("Dutch") Bausher threw a party in September for the alumni of Eastern Penna. (at his summer place near Hamburg) which was even bigger & better than the never-to-be-forgotten affair attended by your reporter two years ago. When this man Bausher stages a picnic, he really stages a picnic Otis (Sev) Severance, mathematics maestro at Phillips Academy (Andover) flashes the news that his second child, Marianne, arrived July 15 to round out the family circle. Her big brother, Marshall, is five and is just starting school so ought to make the Class of 1955 or there-abouts, reports his proud father.
Guy Wallick is heading up the Dartmouth Alumni Assn. of Northern Calif, this year; with Furb Haight presiding over the Southern Calif, group, it looks as though everything in the Land of Perpetual Sunshine were well under ('21) control. Also on the president's roster this season is Art Duryea, out in Honolulu, and Norm Crisp in Nashua The Central Massachusetts Conference of Coaches and Officials has approved designs for a bronze memorial plaque to be erected this fall at Worcester Academy in memory of our own "Had" Presson, late football coach and athletic director On November 2 the scribe represented the budget-balancer, by proxy, at a Conference of Class Treasurers in the D Club of N. Y. In town for the Alumni Council conclave the following day, Bill Embree granted an exclusive interview to this department. The last we saw of Bill he was dashing out of the Club under the wing of Doug Storer, who was promising to take Bill up to his broadcasting studio in Radio City and put him on the air, or give him the air, or something. Before leaving, Bill gave us an earful of gossip on sundry '2iers in Chicago. This column being subject to censorship and having a conscience, however, all we can say now is, "well, Well, WELL."
Mac Johnson breezed in just before Bill was ushered out. Mac still calls the D Club home and apparently thrives there. He promised a story, for an early issue, on a new business venture he's launched Going below in the clubhouse, who should your reporter find (drinking tea together) but Roy Pollard and Abe Weld, those two track men. Roy expects to release some exciting news in the near future, if everything goes according to Hoyle, but for the present we're pledged to secrecy. Roy and Abe being insurance and money tycoons, most of the other conversation was over this correspondent's head From C. W. (Skinny) Moore, assistant to the director of advertising and sales promotion of Fruit Dispatch Co., N. Y. C., comes a blast to the effect that his "job is the same as it has been for 13 years, here in the advertising department of Fruit Dispatch promoting the 'proper' use of bananas—United Fruit Cos. bananas, to be specific." Skinny also reports having had a house for three months last summer in Great Neck and basking in the reflected glory, etc., of such staunch and substantial '2iers as Ort Hicks and Coot Carder.
To Ted Weis '20 go our thanks for a clipping from Central Manufacturing District Magazine, Chicago, for October. This tells of a $650,000 cracker and cookie plant now being constructed in the district largely as a result of efforts of Mr. J. W. (Bill) Embree Jr., president of Rittenhouse & Embree Co., pioneer lumber concern in the Windy City. Hats off to Bill in his hitherto-undisclosed role of industrial promoter Recently we sent one of our more observant observers to get something on Bord Helmer. He had to climb 42 stories into the Chrysler Bldg. to get this story. Bord is vice president of Clarke, Sinsabaugh & Co., one of the largest and best known investment counsel firms in the country, and a member of its investment policy committee. Still commutes from Greenwich, Conn., excepting when he's out of town, which happens frequently, due to field trips to check up on corporate properties in which the firm has invested clients' funds Dan Ruggles, M.C., crashes through with the appended listing of '21ers who showed up for the Boston dinner on the eve of the Harvard game: Bailey, Barnes, Carder, Ike Chester, Cosgrove, Ky Frost, Garland, Hicks, Charlie Johnson, Jeff Lawrence, Norcross, Pendleton, Ruggles, Jim Stanley, Red Stanley, Stiles, Symmes, White Dan also headed entertainment October 13 at a meeting in Swampscott of the North Shore Dartmouth Club (he had Bill Cunningham '19 as guest speaker) and turned out these men from 1921: Walt Henshaw, Ray Kelsey, Walt Lundegren, Frank Ross.
Paul Belknap is now a Manhattanite and a newspaper broker, in the game on his own. Anyone interested in buying or selling one or more newspaper properties could do worse than to contact Paul at 150 Broadway, Room 803. Evenings and Sundays, Paul will be found at 301 East 38th St Harland (Manny) Manchester holding forth at 43 Commerce St., Green-wich Village, asserts he hasn't seen any '21ers since the combined Folger and Manchester families threw a picnic at Holt's Ledge Cabin last August. We have on hand a fuller report on that history-shaping event, from the pen of J. Folger, and hope to have space for it here soon. As we go to press, Harper's has announced for the December issue an article by Manchester, The Black Tom Case which is the story of the great munitions explosion set off by German agents in N. J. in 1916. Another of his pieces, dealing with a famous murderess, will appear soon in The American Mercury. "Manny" electioneered in the recent municipal campaign, as a newly elected member of the N. Y. County Committee of the American Labor Party, but says that Tammany had more cigars.
THE SPIRIT OF '2l-Back in December, 1918, the men from '2l still in Hanover were busily being mustered out of the Service (referred to by the War Department as the S. A. T. C.) and THE DARTMOUTH was still doing a Rip Van Winkle. By special permission of the copyright owner (George L. Frost) therefore, the scribe has dug out of the past the following item for the month The war babies of '2l—too young for the War Department to catch in the draft—had been assigned to Company "I" under Capt. Ort (War Baby) Hicks '2l, who rallied 'round him these classmates (to set a good example to the '22 war infants): Kemp Fuller, Tracy Higgins, Bob Loeb, Dan Ruggles, Red Stanley, Charley Stickney, Lowell Stoner.
WANTED—Name of the generous classmate who sent in two $1 bills early in July for the Alumni Fund, to Ort Hicks. The envelope was marked Woodsville & Boston R. R. P. O.
Secretary, 718 Drake Ave., Roselle, N. J.
Treasurer 680 Hinman Ave., Evanston, Ill.
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