Class of 1921
Quite a few boys have been stranded on their honeymoon due to financial rating of zero, but it isn't very often because of being marooned by a flood. But such was the fate of Mr. and Mrs. Seth Densmore. Seth and Miss Marion Foss of Sherbrooke, Que., were married in Sherbrooke, November 3. They started off at once on their wedding trip, but got only as far as Evansville, Vt., where the flood that swept New England, and particularly Vermont, just at that time hemmed them in that same day. It was November 9 before they were able to get out and continue their journey. They are settied now in Milton, Mass., and Seth is an accountant with a Boston firm.
It was hard for us to picture those seemingly inoffensive Vermont streams going on such an appalling rampage as the newspapers described, but after we had received one of our class cards which Dan Ryder mailed in Waterbury, Vt., November 3 and which we received two weeks later so covered with mud we had to use a knife to scrape it off so we could read it we certainly began to realize clearly just how completely under water the Vermont districts had been. Incidentally the card brought news of the birth of a third youngster in the Ryder household. The latest addition to the family is Miss Nancy Ryder, born in Montpelier, Vt., July 14. And this gives Dan a tie with Harry Trull for the largest number of youngsters to date. Dan's other children are Miss Jean Margaret, born in Bellows Falls, October 4, 1924, and Dan Jr., born in Montpelier, June 2, 1926.
From the land of Dixie comes word of a promotion for a Twenty-oner. Bob Elsasser is now a full fledged professor. Bob was made professor of business statistics and management in the College of Commerce and Business Administration at Tulane University, New Orleans, this fall.
Vance Clark writes in from Brockton, Mass., to report that Shorty Bateman is now a fellowtownsman of his, being assistant manager of the W. T. Grant Company store there. But we won't swear that he'll still be there by the time this is read by you, for Mr. Grant shifts his men so rapidly that it takes a special secretary just to keep up with them. The last time we heard from Leon he was in New Britain, Conn. Last spring Jim Wicker, who works for the same company, was down in Texas, and now his card, comes in mailed from Peoria, Ill.
The 1921 Boston gang have shifted the scene of their weekly luncheons from the Locke-Ober restaurant to Louis Cafe. The following notice arrived in ye see's mail recently: "Change Signals. Beginning Thursday, December 1, the weekly '2l luncheons will be held at Louis Cafe, rear of the Tremont Theater on Avery St., at 12.15. We will occupy a corner of the main dining room. We want to have a big turnout each week, so please do your part and try to. be on hand." The Boston luncheons got off to a flying start November 3 with nine men out. Not to be outdone by his stalwart rival Jack Hubbell, who is making such a success of peddling advertising space for the Ladies' HomeJournal, Harry Chamberlaine has deserted the New York office of the advertising firm of N. W. Ayer and Son, and become an advertising representative for Good Housekeeping. His new business address is, care of Good Housekeeping, 119 West 40th St., New York city. Harry reports that when Mrs. Chamberlaine learned of his new job she promptly informed him that hereafter he will have to run the kitchen.
Bill Miller, who just ten short years ago was '21's first class president, is now in the contracting game in New York. His address is 16 East 5th St.
Eugene McCabe, another erstwhile Twentyoner, has turned up in New York. He is a sales supervisor for the Tide Water Oil Company at 11 Broadway, and he is living in Jackson Heights, L. I.
Dr. Walter Wolfe recently addressed the Rotary Club of the Tarrytowns, at Tarrytown, N. Y., on "The Psychopathology of the Delinquent Child." Walter's translation of Dr. Alfred Adler's book "Understanding Human Nature" was recently published, and his translation of Dr. Adler's "The Feeling of Inferiority and Striving for Recognition" appeared in the October issue of Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine in London, of which Walter is a fellow.
After a year spent in England, the Rev. George Ferguson has returned to the United States and is now canon missioner of the diocese of Western Massachusetts of the Episcopal church. George is making his home in Lenox, and his official headquarters are at 37 Chestnut St., Springfield, Mass.
Bob Kendall sends work from Portland, Oregon, of the birth of Miss Sally Ann Kendall in Portland August 12. Bob is now connected with the Pacific Export Lumber Company of Portland.
Another '21 youngster previously unreported in these notes is Miss Deborah Stark, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rex Stark of Des Moines, lowa. Miss Stark is now nearly a year old.
And here's another daughter for '21. Miss Helen Watts McKay, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McKay, was born in Hudson, N. Y., November 28.
Bill Fowler, who was graduated from the Harvard Law School last June, has settled in the Hub district. His business address is 60 State St., Boston, and he is living at 18 Acorn Road, Brookline.
Elbert Duncan has been located with the advertising firm of Albert Frank and Company at 11 Avery St., Boston. He makes his home in Jamaica Plain.
Fred Benton, accounting expert, has moved from the bustle of Chicago to the comparative quiet of Philadelphia. He is living in the suburban district of Upper Darby.
"Red" Stanley, who is an accountant for the New England T. & T., has recently been shifted from Boston to Providence, R. 1., where he had a grandstand seat for all Dartmouth-Brown battles.
Maurice Townsend has moved from Cement City, Mich., to Jackson, Mich. He is now credit manager for the Consolidated Cement Corporation at the latter place.
Paul Smith recently became a member of the faculty of Columbia University, and is teaching at Barnard College.
Jimmy Jones' new business address locates him as a member of the purchasing department of the State of Pennsylvania with offices at the state capitol at Harrisburg, Pa.
Roy Burrill is now a member of the '21 gang in Chicago, having deserted the ranks of the New Yorkers. Roy was a short time ago appointed head of the Chicago office of La Coste and Maxwell, publishers' representatives.
And here's some more new arrivals. Durward Nelson DeGroff was born in Amsterdam, N. Y., May 1, and Walton Aiken Baker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ingham Baker, was born in Springfield, Mass., April 11.
Which will be about all for the present. Here's wishing everyone of you a mighty happy and prosperous New Year.
Secretary, 7 Lotus Road, Larchmont Woods, New Rochelle, N. Y.
