Class of 1921

1921's class dinners are off to a flying start. The season opened officially with a dinner in Chicago Monday, September 27. The New York delegation then got into line October 14, the Thursday night before the Yale game, with thirty-five Twenty-oners on hand. The following week '2l held a celebration in Boston on the eve of the Harvard game, and 30 loyal members were there. By the time this issue has appeared Bill Embree will have again rallied his Chicago cohorts and the New York and Boston crowds have pre-holiday dinners scheduled for this month.

But this is only the beginning. Jack Hubbell, chairman of the dinner committee, announces that dinners will be held once or twice a year in every center that can rally half a dozen Twenty-oners. Immediate plans call for meetings early in January in four other cities, where there are from 20 to 30 classmates each. These cities are Detroit, where George Forman has been asked to organize the group; Minneapolis, where Dewey Gruenhagen will be in charge; Springfield, Mass., with Cory Litchard at the helm; and Manchester, N. H., Hizzoner Mayor Sullivan holding the rostrum. The motion pictures of the Fifth Reunion will be shown at these dinners, and the class treasury will subsidize the cost of projection.

A committee consisting of Harry Chamberlaine, Doug Storer, and Frank Livermore will handle the next few dinners in New York, while Dan Ruggles has appointed Chick Stiles, Tom Norcross, and Harland Manchester to run things in the Hub. According to present plans one dinner will be followed by a theatre party, another by a bridge or poker tournament, and in the spring it is hoped to get the wives and fiancees together on a party.

Ye Sec. was forced to miss the opening dinner in New York, but Frank Livermore, promotion expert for the Vacuum Oil Company, and loyal Twenty-oner, will give you the dope, as follows:

"On October 14 Twenty-oners in and around New York gathered for a class dinner at the Fraternity Club, 38th Street and Madison Ave. It had been hoped to have the dinner at the Dartmouth Club, but the non-completion of that building necessitated the use of the cluD next door.

"To say that the dinner was a success is to put it mildly, for we believe it to be one of the best ever held by our own or any other class. Ort Hicks, to whom the credit for the success of the party is .due, sounded a clarion call in sending out a tricky announcement, and Jo men responded. ,

"As guest of the evening the class had tne pleasure of welcoming Mac Rollins 11, secretary and resident manager of the Dartmouth Club of New York, who spoke briefly about the Club. Another distinguished guest was Bill Cunningham 'l9, versatile man-about-town and Boston Post sports writer who entertained with football yarns of other days and predictions concerning the Yale game. (Too bad, they didn't come true, Bill!) And, of course, wherever there is a good party, there is Sherrv Baketel '2O, who was on hand at our affair to see what a really good class dinner could be like. .

"Artie Anderson gave his famous recitation requiring as scenery a Roman nose and whiskers! and on-the part of the audience: imagination depicting a marble floor. Later Bill Embree took the stage. Chicagoans as a rule don't have to be pushed into the limelight, but at "east one has taken to hiding his .light under a bushel, for it was only after considerable en that Bill consented to get up and give a little of the old-time kick and ng bus£ nels that made him the star dancer m Oh Doctor.' The swords of political controversy had been sharpened for a debate.between George Carmody and Stan Gorham, but because of the shortness of the evening this gave way to the showing of the movies of the class taken at its Fifth Reunion at Hanover last June. So great was the enthusiasm at the showing of this film that it was proposed to make movies of the gang at all future reunions.

"Those attending the dinner were. Bill Alley, Artie Anderson, Howie Anger Roland Batch elder 'Cort' Carder, 'King Cole, up from Atlantic City just for the. dinner, George Carmody. Harry Chamberlame, LovellCook, Bdl Embree. Ray French, Tommy Griffith, Stan Gorham, Ort Hicks, Tracy Higgins, Fur Haight, Norm Kadison, Mac J°hnso Bj') Frank Livermore, Dick Libby, Ed Luedk, 'Dink' Miller, Terry McAdams, Larry Nardi, •Bandy' Lowe, Bob Loeb, 'Oky' O'Connor, Sumner Perkins, Carlton Sullivan Frank Taylor. Doug Storer, Abe Weld, and Doc Frme Wilcox."

The class "movies" were also at the dinner in Boston, which was held at Louis' cafe. George Forman from Detroit, Jack Means from Kentucky, and Hal Braman from Chicago in town for the Harvard game joined with the gang from around the Hub for this party.

Bill Embree, our Chicago press representative, spent a busy evening at their dinner gathering items about the men out there for our typewriter and we hereby present the results of his activity.

"Bill Terry is selling coal for the Franklin County Coal Company and is. secretary of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Chicago. Ken Thomas has been selling life insurance, but has just taken a position in the advertising business. John Hasbrook is selling for the Chicago Carton Company, arid was married this summer. Val Grundman is a coming young lawyer of no mean ability. Dick Hart is with S. W. Straus and Company, which is self-explanatory.

"Harry Mosser is managing country sales for a leading bond house. Hal Bramani holds down a job with the Dallas Brass and Copper Company. Shepherd is selling Lincoln cars and going to French Lick. Wade Werden is in advertising. Bob Patterson works for John D.. or holds a position as the case may be. Jerrv Cutler, who has just settled in Chicago with" his bride of a few months, is with Sears, Roebuck. Furb Haight, who is responsible for the above match, passed through town last month on his way back to New York from California."

The report that "Skinny" Moore had deserted Omaha for Cleveland has been confirmed. "Skinny" is now in the advertising department of the Fruit Dispatch Company in Cleveland. As a result the Dartmouth Alumni Association "Of the Plains" with headquarters in Omaha has a new secretary. . . .

Speaking of 21's part in alumni activities, Don Mix is secretary of the Dartmouth College Club of Worcester, Mass. Don is in the insurance game with the State Mutual Life Assurance Company.

A rating of tennis players by the Tennis Club of Jackson Heights,' L. 1., issued this fall, placed Harry Chamberlaine, the well known advertising man, as third among the members of the club, which is the third largest of its kind in the United States. This, we were assured by Mac Johnson, class statistician, made Harry the ninth ranking player in this Acting on this information we were planning to run a picture of our tennis star in this column, until we happened to read further down in the list and found that Ort Hicks was tenth in rank at the Jackson Heights club. Now we are afraid Harry isn't such a world-beater after all.

Bill Barber was a member of the executive committee of the Dartmouth Club of New Haven, which arranged a Dartmouth party at the Hotel Taft after the Yale game.

Ed Luedke has moved from Milwaukee to New Jersey, wljere he and a brother-in-law have acquired the New Jersey rights for the Wimsett system of industrial banking. Ed is now secretary and treasurer of the Wimsett System, Inc., of New Jersey, and has offices in Newark. This banking system is in operation in 114 cities of the Middle West and Far West area, Ed reports, and he hopes to extend it throughout New Jersey. Ed's home now is in Morristown.

"Chuck" Moreau and his father have recently purchased the Independent Press of Bloomfield, N. J., and "Chuck" is occupying the post of general manager. "Chuck" is fast becoming a well known figure in the Jersey journalistic ranks.

Art Gilbert is now located in Kansas City, Mo., where he is a member of the faculty of the Kansas City Teachers College.

Howie Heath is selling bonds for Dillon,. Read, and Company. His headquarters are in Trenton, N. J. Howie was married about a year ago to Miss Helen M. Whitlock.

That marriage of George Harris's in June proved contagious. First word reached us that "Speedy" Fleet, who was one of George's ushers, had married, and now comes the report that Ingham Baker, another usher, has likewise followed. suit. Ingham married Miss Martha O. Aiken at Paia in the Hawaiian Islands July 16. Mr. and Mrs. Baker are living in Springfield, Mass., where Ingham is connected with the sales department of the C. and C. Merriam Company, dictionary publishers, the firm for which George Harris is now manhandling the cash. Following Jack Hubbell's example, Ingham found it very necessary to sell dictionaries in all towns and cities where Dartmouth was playing football this fall.

Ort succeeded' in interviewing no less a personage than Robert Martin, vice-president of Dillon, Read, and Company, recently to get the whereabouts of Bob Martin '2l, his son, and he learned that Bob had been married September 22 and departed for Europe on his honeymoon. On their return Bob and his bride will reside in Larchmont, N. Y., and Bob will take up his old job of selling bonds for Shields and Company in the New York district.

A long-lost Twenty-oner returned to the fold at the recent New York dinner. The prodigal son is Carlton Sullivan. Sully transferred to St. Lawrence University sophomore year and developed into a three-letter athlete there. He is now manager of the Mt. Kisco office of the New York Telephone Company.

"Bendy" Lowe divides his time between rooting for Dartmouth and practising law in New York. If he displays as much enthusiasm for the bar as he does for Dartmouth and '2l we should have another Gladstone within our ranks.

Carleton McMackin checks in from Springfield, Mass., which is rapidly becoming one of '2l's leading centers, by the way. Mac is manager of the book department of the department store of Meekins, Packard, and Wheat.

In closing we should like to serve notice again that this is the last issue to be sent out to every member of '2l unless you fellows crash through with two dollars for Ned 100 per cent strong. From now on only those who have paid their class dues or subscribed directly to the magazine, the former being the approved way incidentally, will get copies. We'll do our best to keep '2l represented every month. Why not do your bit with a check for dues!

Secretary, Lotus Road, Larchmont Woods, New Rochelle, N. Y.