1921

We learned quite a bit more about our old friend Dutch Bausher from the Reading, Pa., Spotlight News, the official organ of the "Y." Dutch is a member of the Board of Directors of the Central YMCA and he still is active in skating, skiing and tennis even as in Hanover. He teaches Young Married Couples class at Holy Cross Methodist Church, and as we should all know by now is President of Infant Socks, Inc., in his spare time, when he isn't working for the class. Kemp Fuller who is Manager, Commercial Research, U. S. Steel Corp. is also on the Committee on Business Statistics of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce! Clarence W. Sanders Jr. has requested the Alumni Record Office to classify him with our class thereby attesting to his superior acumen, and we welcome him to the fold. Clarence is a Phi Gam, was Captain of the Tennis Team, President of the New England Lawn Tennis Association and is a geologist with Shell Oil Cos. Possibly we have here the answer to the perennial Hicks on the tennis court. Bets are now being arranged for the great match at the 30th. Hilt Campbell when sending in his questionnaire says he doesn't see much of the boys but learned that DaveTrainor spends his vacations at the same lake he does so he is planning a small reunion next summer if it can be arranged. They missed last year. Dr. Nels Barker wrote some welcome news about himself and his family from Rochester, Minn.:

To my sorrow I have seen very few of the boys of '2l in the last ten years and unfortunately I have been unable to make the reunions since 1931. There are nine other Dartmouth graduates on the Mayo Clinic Staff but none from classes under four years removed from '2l either way. For the record I am beginning my 22nd year on the Mayo Clinic Staff— present position—Consultant in Medicine and Associate Professor of Medicine of the Mayo Foundation Graduate School of Medicine, University of Minnesota. Am happily married these twenty-one years to "Flo" who was with me at the 10th Reunion. Have three children: Sylvia, a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin, Dave who hopes to enter Dartmouth as a freshman next Fall, and Bob, age 13, who hopes to be in the class of '56. The only thing I regret about living in Rochester is that it is so far away from the places where the '2lers are able to gather frequently.

Frank Foster's daughter Patricia Ann was married recently to Robert E. Prout. Pat is a graduate of the East Greenwich Academy and is a Sophomore at Rhode Island State College. Her husband is also at R. I. State and served for two years during the war in the U.S.A.A.F. George Frost, one of our Fratres in Urbe, as they are laughingly called, has agreed, (after a slight prod from President Tom) to take over the "Smoker" for the rest of the year as Bill Codding had to beg off he's so busy. A short cheer for Tom and George. The Professor didn't even answer our letter suggesting a little guest editoring, but it will seem good to browse through some of his succinct, and at times dour prose again.

Had the pleasure of entertaining the Scions of Hicks and Embree when the Dartmouth Glee Club came to Worcester in March. Can report that they are both big improvements on the old gents at the same age and also that they and the Glee Club can sure sing. About a third of the club are married men which is some change from the old days. They don't wear boiled shirts either which is a break for the talcum powder. C. D. Bassett broke down a little with this:

I have been in the banking business ever since graduation and have been located during that time in South Dakota, Minnesota, Montana, and for the last twelve years have lived in the eastern part of North Dakota in the Red River Valley. Have three children, all of whom are pretty well grown by now. My Susan is a senior at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and my son J. Clarke is in the Class of 1950 at Dartmouth. Daughter Harriet is seventeen, and away at boarding school.

It was good to hear from Hank Palmer and fine to learn he is feeling good again since his illness last fall:

I did have a change in address as you observed and expect to have another one shortly. I sold the house in which I had been living because I had a very good opportunity to do so and hoped to move into an apartment, but pending that move found it necessary to buy a small house which is now being sold and the address shortly will be 715 West Market St., Apartment 408, Akron 3, Ohio. Last August I resigned from the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company where I had been most recently Assistant Director of Chemical Laboratories and where I had a total of 21 years of service in various capacities. Unfortunately became conscious of a blood pressure condition early in the fall which I had known about before, but it had not been of much concern to me, so I underwent one of the new operations called a sympathicectomy early in December and am just beginning to feel right again and ready to get underway. My new work will be in private practice as a consultant in rubber technology and related fields, so if you know of any potential clients, will try to save a little time for them. Stopped in to see John Sullivan last week and we had a brief but very pleasant chat. John is looking fine and doing a grand job.

Rudi Blesh, described in the N. Y. HeraldTribune of March 10th as a "music critic and jazz authority," made the news in a big way in a very interesting writeup of which we can quote only a little:

Mr. Blesh has pointed out in his music writings that swing is only a hybrid form of jazz—jazz being of a type of music the public has rarely heard. In Shining Trumpets a jazz-music history book published by Mr. Blesh several months ago, he defines jazz as a new form of chamber music, predominantly Negroid in character. Mr. Blesh, a native of Guthrie, Okla., is a former architect and industrial designer who left those professions several years ago _ to pursue his interest in music. While a youth in Oklahoma he dabbled with playing the violin, piano and cello, but while attending Dartmouth College forgot any ambitions of playing them professionally. After his graduation from the University of California in 1917 he turned to advertising art on the west coast and later became an industrial designer. It was while lecturing on design at the San Francisco Museum of Art that his life-long jazz interest developed into a series of four lectures on the subject. These lectures, given in 1943, pyramided so sharply in popularity that he eventually turned them into programs which features "live" talent to illustrate his points about jazz. In addition to his book, Mr. Blesh is author of a monograph, This is Jazz which has been printed in both the United States and England. In the visual-art field he recently was represented by his first one-man exhibit of twenty-four paintings at,the Art of This Century Gallery, 30 West Fifty- seventh St. He also is vice president of Circle Records and music critic for jazz of the New York Herald-Tribune.

Back to the questionnaires again—and have you sent yours yet? Harry and HelenChamberlaine and their daughters Diane and Janice live in Rye, N. Y. Harry is Advertising Manager of Good Housekeeping Magazine. He went with G.H. after a few years with N. W. Ayer and has been there since, both in Chicago and now in N. Y. C. Harry's current hobbies are photography and gardening. He loves all the racquet games and hates to give them up for golf which he detests, but time is creeping up and he may have to switch. JoeLane one of the brethren we see all too seldom lately is President of the Cavalier Corporation of Chattanooga, Tenn., a large and important industry in them parts as the secretary well knows. He married Lucille in 1932 and they have two children, Caroline, who will be fourteen in July, and Joe Jr. who turns twelve on July 28th—four days after sister's fourteenth birthday. The Lanes survey the whole countryside from their home on Lookout Mountain where Joe owns up to drying the dishes most nights for Lucille. His chief hobbies are puttering around the house and riding. You'd know him anywhere but the red thatch is growing thinner and grayer .... but whose isn't.

We have all read and heard much of our famous ex-Mayor of Hanover Johnnie Sullivan but for the illiterate and hard of hearing here's a very brief summary:—

John went to Harvard Law after leaving Hanover and graduated a LLB in 1924. He entered the practice of law with his father in Manchester and married Priscilla the same year. They have three children, Patricia, Charles and Deborah. John seemed to have trouble with the birthdates of Pat and Charles but didn't forget that Deb was born June 20, 1944. There are a lot of interesting events left out but here is a short survey of our illustri- ous classmate: 1929-1933 County Solicitor for Hillsborough County, 1930 became partner firm of Sullivan & Sullivan and sole owner in 1931. Now senior partner Sullivan & Dolan, Manchester,. N.H., and Sullivan, Barnard and Shea, Washington. 1939-1940 Assistant to the Commissioner of In- ternal Revenue, Washington, 1940-1944 Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, July 1945-June 1946 As- sistant Secretary of the Navy for Air, June 1946 Under Secretary of the Navy and now back prac- ticing law in Washington and Manchester. We read that the First Lord of the Admiralty in Eng- land is a former coal passer but our Johnnie is just about as good .... he used to be an apprentice seaman in the same Navy that he was Under Sec- retary of until recently. There's a lot more with clubs and honors galore but about the nicest thing we can think of about John is that for our money he's the same old guy and hasn't changed a bit since we all knew him on the Hanover Plain.

For the next ten years or so, '2l will be one of the classes on which the College depends for the backbone of the Fund and Rog Wilde needs the help of every classmate to achieve our goal. Your gift each year is a renewed pledge of loyalty to Dartmouth and the Class. One of our "Regulars" summed it up pretty well in a letter to Rog:

Your letter about my being a "Dartmouth Regular" over the past '24 years brings back a flood of memories. It's 24 and not 25 consecutive gifts because most of the year after Commencement was spent in bed and they wouldn't let me read my mail, a fact I've always regretted. The amounts through the years sometimes weren't much—some of them I was a little ashamed of, but anyway it was always something. There were some tough spots in those years .... all of us have them to a greater or less degree, but nothing can take away our experience together in Hanover and the ever stronger bond of the class. The passing years bring only a deeper realization of the debt I owe to the College. It seems to me that those who have not used the privilege\ of giving what they could each year, have missed one of the real and lasting satisfactions which only a Dartmouth man can experience.

JAZZ AUTHORITY: Rudy Blesh '21, far right, awaits his turn at the mike as commentator while a jazz quintet rides along in the background.

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