Class of 1921

It's still not too late to send in that check for the Alumni Fund to Cory Litchard at 1200 Main St., Springfield, Mass. A year ago 1921 raised 81% of its quota while our rival brethren in 1920 raised 119% of theirs. Last year 159 Twenty-oners contributed to the fund, and if '20 isn't going to outdo us again, an even greater number will have to contribute. So if you are among those who have as yet failed to send in your check, "obey that impulse" and send it now.

Cory took a little time off from his class agenting last month and represented '21 a; the annual meeting of class secretaries in Hanover May 7 and 8, as ye sec. could not make the trip this spring. (He will furnish affidavits on request that he was not in jail). Ort Hicks was also in Hanover for the affair as the representative of the New York alumni.

Since we wrote last month of the Twentyoners who are fast budding into full-fledged politicians, we have learned of another classmate who has struck out into the political field. From Maiden, Mass., comes word that none other than Alden P. Chester is president of the Maiden City Council.

And we also have a member of the board of directors of a railroad in our midst. Word has leaked out that the Paul Rosenthal of New York city who is a director of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company is Doc Rosenthal '21. Doc, among other things, as we stated in an earlier installment, is a member of the banking firm of, Ladenburg, Thalmann and Company.

And out in Urbana, Ill., '21 has a bank president in Doug Fay, who is the big chief of the First National Bank of the town Red Grange made famous.

During March Dr. Walter Wolfe gave a radio talk on "Adolescent Suicide" over Station WEAF, New York. (And we might say here that we tuned in to hear it and thought it very interesting.) A few days later Walter had letters from two youths saying that they had planned to take their own life, but had thought better of it as the result of Walter's talk. So we hereby chalk them up to his credit. Walter is getting decidedly in demand as a public speaker. On April 23 he addressed the Eastern Public Speaking Conference at Hunter College, New York, on "Speech and the Speech Arts in the Light of Individual Psychology." "Your Nervous Child" by Dr. Erwin Wexberg of Vienna, of which Walt is the translator and co-author, recently made its appearance. A. & C. Boni of New York are the publishers.

Al Laffey writes from Detroit that the "movies" taken at the recent dinner of the Twenty-oners in the automobile city were decidedly successful. Arrangements are already under way to give them a special showing in Hanover at the Tenth. The Detroit "movie" critics gave nothing but praise of Joe Vance's work as leading man, and they said the directing done by Ky Frost indicated that he could become a second Griffith .if he ever desired to quit his job as one of the executives of Detroit's leading department store.

From Boston comes word that an informal 1921 weekly luncheon is being arranged there. Of this affair Dan Ruggles writes as follows: "We are planning having a table set aside each Thursday noon at Frank Locke's—a very famous old restaurant in town—where Twentyoners may gather. The luncheons are to be informal, and we will simply spread the word around that this is to be the 1921 rendezvous each Thursday noon."

Bill Barber reports the birth of a daughter in New Haven Saturday, April 23. Miss Barber tipped the scales at six pounds and a half. The news came through properly Ediphoned according to the best technique of the Atwell Company, for which firm Bill is sales manager at their New Haven office.

Considerable speculation was expressed at the 1921-1920 radio dinner in New York as to the absence of that '2l stand-by, Artie Anderson. Artie now says the "reason for my absence was a good and sufficient one. I was smacked hard and laid low with an attack of appendicitis requiring some fast and fancy carving at the Roosevelt Hospital. And you can well imagine my consternation when I was faced with that, I who had never taken a lesson on the harp in my life." But in spite of an experience which was far tougher than Artie's explanation would indicate, the famous dispenser of that classic of poetry, "The Face," is now himself again and back at the new adver- tising job at which he had just started when he was knocked out.

Bud Richart recently deserted the advertising army, and is now in the ranks of the insurance men, and is located in Suite 652, 130 West 42d St., New York city.

Also in the New York insurance game is Ralph Haynes, who was with us in Hanover for only a short time in 1917, leaving to go into the Navy. After his discharge from service Ralph decided to go directly into business, and he started with his father's insurance firm, with which he is still connected. His office is at 220 Broadway.

Up in Manchester, N. H., Hizzoner Mayor Sullivan keeps an eagle eye on Ken Bean, who in addition to being a teacher of mathematics in the Manchester High School West, also holds the office of treasurer of school funds.

One of '21's leading lawyers, King Cole, is fast collecting all the jobs in sight at Atlantic City, N. J., and like Amherst's patron saint is "looking around for more." Among the many jobs he already holds (and this was just up to press time) are these: solicitor for the Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce; director of the Atlantic Guaranty and Title Insurance Company; director of the Atlantic Safe Deposit and Trust Company; director of the Sunrise Building and Loan Association, and director of the Seashore Bond and Mortgage Company. King made the trip all the way up from the Shore for one of the New York '21 dinners, and in spite of his many tasks keeps a lively interest in Dartmouth.

There is another Deke legacy in our ranks. William Miller Cutler, son of Mr. and Gerald E. Cutler, was born in Chicago, March 7. Bill's dad is an auto tire buyer for Montgomery Ward and Company.

No longer do the residents of Eastern Long Island get their gilt-edged securities through Speedy Fleet, for Speedy has given up selling bonds and now is one of the proprietors of the Fleet Lumber Company of Greenport, N. Y. The other proprietor is his brother, H. L. Fleet '25.

A recent issue of Chi Phi's magazine lists George Frost, erstwhile actor and present man about town, as the faculty advisor of the Dartmouth chapter.

A sleuth from the Smoky City reports that in addition to serving as assistant to the vice-president of the West Penn Power Company at Pittsburgh, Kemp Fuller is commanding officer of the Headquarters Battery of the 53rd Field Artillery Brigade.

Frequently seen along Broadway these spring evenings is Vice-President Jack Hubbell, who has returned to New York after spending most of the winter months touring the sunny South for the Butterick Publishing Company. He expects to give New York a little time until it gets too hot. Then, we understand, he will take to the road that leads to the Rhode Island, Maine, and Cape Cod seashore resorts, to say nothing of a few excursions into the White Mountains. Oh, for the life of a sales representative!

Johnny Ives checks in with the report of a new daughter, born February 6. John now has an engineering job with the Edison Storage Battery Company at Orange, N. J., and lives in Montclair. After leaving Hanover in 1918, he entered the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, from which he was graduated when we were grabbing our sheepskins up in New Hampshire.

Another daughter just reported and born in February is Miss Marcia Sonnenfeld, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Sonnenfeld of Albany, N. Y.

Speaking of Albany, Raphael Murray is now a bond salesman with headquarters there.

An agile foreign correspondent of this department writes home with the news that Con Keyes took the Casino and Sporting Club at Monte Carlo over the jumps to the tune of 115 pounds during January. This paid all Con's expenses for the trip to Southern France and got him back to dear ole Lunnon with a tidy sum to spare.

And the hour now being late, we hereby sign off until August.

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