CLASS OF 1921
Thinner and thinner grow the ranks of 1921's bachelors. Among the latest to join the army of married men is Lovell Cook, who was married to Miss Margaret Atherton Jacobus, daughter of Mrs. George Jacobus of Brooklyn, N. Y., in Bethel, Me., Saturday, September 3. Lovell is now with the Equitable Life Assurance Society, and can be located at their branch office at 19 West 44th St., New York city. Mr. and Mrs. Cook are living in Flaitbush.
From the Middle West comes word of the marriage in Hubbard Woods, 111., on Tuesday, September 27, of Vance Clark, the Brockton, Mass., banker. Vance's bride was Miss Marie De Golyer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Laurence De Golyer, of Hubbard Woods.
And among the prospective fall bridegrooms, (if he isn't already a bridegroom by the time this gets to press), is Furb Haight, Manhatten silk merchant and man about town. Ferb's fiancee is Miss Mary Gustin of Mount Vernon, N. Y.
Next summer there will be another addition to the ranks in Rollo Briggs, the well known diplomat now stationed at Lima, Peru. Rollo's engagement to Miss Lucy Barnard of New Rochelle, N. Y., was recently announced. Miss Barnard graduated from Smith in the class of 1925. Ellis and Miss Barnard plan to be married next year, when the ex-president of the Outing Club will return to the U. S. A. on a leave.
If you are nearly run down late some afternoon in the Pennsylvania station in New York by a husky gentleman sprinting for a train and clutching a lawn mower or a hoe or some other badge of the suburbanite in one hand and his favorite evening newspaper in the other, you can take a second look and not begin to worry as to whether that last drink was really as bad as all that. For your eyes will not have deceived you. It will have been none other than President Hicks that you saw. For believe it or not, Ort is now a commuter, a Long Island commuter, and a home owner in Great Neck. "Oh, yes, I'm a Great Necker now," Ort announced to an admiring crowd of friends recently, while from the Dartmouth men in the throng came the chorus, "Why the 'now !' "
The 1921 crowd in Chicago got things under way early this fall, and Val Grundman reports as follows of the initial get-together:
"On Wednesday, the 14th of September, a select band of 'goofers' and one golfer met at the Glen View Country Club for various purposes, one of the minor ones being golf. Among the niblick-wielders, and I say niblick-wielders' advisedly, for I heard one man say: 'What a peculiar course—I've seen nothing but sand all afternoon,'—were Bill Embree, our host, Ken Thomas, Dick Hart, John Hasbrook, Dud Robinson, and Val Grundman. Of these the golfer was Dud Robinson, who shot an eighty-two or some such fabulous score. This, by the way, might be called Dud's coming-out party, as it was his first appearance at one of our get-togethers since his recent arrival here from Cleveland.
"The party was a great success and every one seemed to enjoy playing all nineteen holes. One of the big features of the afternoon and evening was the gathering in the locker-room afterwards, where it was observed that several of the men showed a slightly thicker midsection than in the days of Doc Bowler's gymclass. Several are becoming weighty men of affairs, indeed.
i "The closing event of the evening was the dinner, which was an affair of some length, considering the fact that the greater number are married men. Some of the stories told were very good, too. The food was of the best— some base insinuations were made that the writer found it so good that he ate more than his share, but these proved, on comparison, to be merely the promptings of jealousy.
"There were no speeches, beyond an announcement that the next meeting would be in early November, and after this lucky break the party adjourned."
A recent addition to the 1921 group in the Windy City is Bill McClintock, who lists himself as a sales engineer, but we don't know of what. He moved to Chicago from Racine, Wis., where he was formerly connected with the Webster Electric Company.
Bill Terry, ex-Chicago coal magnate, is now to be found among '21's large group of advertising men, having recently become advertising representative of Traffic World, with offices at 418 South Market St., Chicago.
Ray Kelsey has shaken the coal dust of West Virginia from his dogs and migrated back to the land where you can get to see a "big Green team" in action now and then. Ray left Charleston, W. Va., during the summer, and is now located in Portland, Me., where he is a special agent for the London and Lancashire Insurance Company, Ltd.
And speaking of migrations. After making the jump successfully last winter from Omaha to Cleveland, "Skinny" Moore has just made another, his latest landing him but a brief walk from Broadway. "Skinny" is still working for the Fruit Dispatch Company, but is now connected with their office at 17 Battery Place, New York city. He is living at the Dartmouth Club, and is ready to extend the glad hand to any of the boys dropping in there, be they New Yorkers, visitors to the big city, or just plain Jersey commuters.
From school teacher to bo'nd salesman in one leap is the latest chapter in the life of Wilbur Doran. Wilbur, last heard of as a member of the faculty of the Concord, N. H., High School, is now a handler of gilt-edged securities connected with an office in Manchester, N. H.
Walt Henshaw, hero of many a forensic battle in the good old days, make a shift this fall from Barre, Vt., to Holyoke, Mass. He is an instructor of English at the Holyoke High School, and unless Holyoke has changed since our cub reporter days on the SpringfieldRepublican, that is one real job. And, true to his colors, Walt is living on Dartmouth St.
Phil Newhall is among the new members of the faculty of the Classical High School in Lynn, Mass., having moved up from Stonington, Conn.
Growing tired of answering the same old question put by inquisitive and impertinent classmates as to why he always spoke so delightedly, yea almost fondly, of the real estate he was selling in Newton, Mass., and at the same time continued to live in Melrose, Tom Cleveland has moved to Newton. He may be found, on such evenings as he graces the family fireside, at 109 Charlesbank Road.
Tom Norcross is now a member of Local No. 1921 of the Proud Fathers' and Nocturnal Floor Walkers' Union. A son, Thomas C. Norcross, Jr., presented Tom, Sr., with his membership card early in July or thereabouts.
And Phil Noyes is now a second degree member of the above mentioned organization. His second son, Edward Wentworth Noyes, was born June 28. Phil is again a member of the Cushing Academy faculty this year.
Another future Dartmouth man, who made his debut this past summer, is Lincoln Reed Sanderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sanderson, born August 9. Lincoln's dad is continuing his course at the Harvard Medical School this fall.
And there isn't going to be any shortage of Carnival girls along about 194S either. Dr. Nels Barker writes in from Rochester, Minn., to report the arrival of Miss Sylvia Barker on June 21. True to her generation, Sylvia is a fast worker too. Already she has a date with Norm Crisp, Jr., her fellow townsman, for the 1947 Carnival. Nels says that Norm, Jr., is a husky youngster and already bids fair to become an ail-American guard along in the 1940'5. Mrs. Crisp has a set of calisthenics she puts her boy through daily, and according to Nels, these include everything but falling on the ball. Norm, Sr., is back in Hanover for the football season, helping Jess Hawley whip the line into shape.
Jack Graydon is in Philadelphia again after quite a spell spent in Florida, haying been transferred back North by the advertising firm with which he is connected, N. W. Ayer and Son.
Roy Burrill, who found his loyalties sadly torn October 29 when his two Alma Maters clashed in the Yale bowl, has also been located in the ranks of the advertising men. He is living at the Wykagyl Country Club in New Rochelle.
Closely rivaling the class's delegation in the advertising fraternity is that group selling electric refrigeration, and the latest to be discovered in that crowd is Jim Taylor, who is a sales supervisor with headquarters in Detroit.
In answer to an inquiry Eli Smith has written us as follows: "I'm now with the Waverly Oil Works of Pittsburgh, or rather with the George E. Willey Company of Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Willey, a Dartmouth man, has the franchise on Waverly oils for nine states, and the entire organization is all Dartmouth—we two being boss and assistant boss. Our work consists of riding sleepers, playing golf, and peddling oil from Richmond, Va., to New Orleans."
Fran Cosgrove has shifted from insurance to shoes, and is now helping his dad run a shoe store in Marlboro, Mass.
Bob Wilson found himself on the front pages of New York's newspapers recently. And in connection with a bombing case too. It seems that the Wall St. law firm with which Bob is connected numbers among its clients the government of Mexico, and when two Mexican citizens were seized with several other suspects in connection with an attempt to bomb the Kings county court house in Brooklyn, Bob was sent over to represent them on their arraignment in court and thereby stepped under the spotlight.
And up in Erie county, N. Y., of which Buffalo is the county seat, they number among their able assistant district attorneys Bill Marcy '21.
And now, as we prepare to sign off, Ned has asked us to remind you that if you haven't already sent them to him he'd be delighted to get your class dues of $3, which sum includes a year's subscription to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. And we'll promise on our part to give you a line on the boys each month. Here's till December.
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