Class Notes

Class of 1921

FEBRUARY, 1928 Herrick Brown
Class Notes
Class of 1921
FEBRUARY, 1928 Herrick Brown

When we wrote our notes a month ago for the January issue, we made mention of the floods in Vermont last fall and of the mudencrusted card which we received from Dan Ryder at Waterbury, Vt. Since then we have had a letter from Dan telling of his own experience in the flood, and we are going to take the liberty of printing part of Dan's epistle, for it gives a vivid idea of the terror and tragedy of that flood.

"Whatever the newspapers had to say about the flood can just be doubled and even then you can't imagine just how bad it was. The water came up so fast that all I had time to do was to get my family out of the house to a little safer place. I took the two older children and my wife carried our baby. We waded through water up to my waist to the hotel and then spent the night watching the water creep up the stairs and wondering if it ever would stop. I had it all figured out that we had about ten hours of life left. I was wrong, however, and the water finally did start to go down a little.

"The water certainly did plenty of damage while it was here. The high water mark in my house is three feet above the second floor. You can guess what happened to our furniture, books, etc., to say nothing of wall paper, house finish, and everything else in the place.

"My business caught it too. We lost a lot of lumber, and it has taken practically a month to clean up and get back to work. We are running now, but have no railroad. Everything has to be trucked to Burlington, 25 miles away. The railroad will have to be rebuilt for about one hundred miles, and although they are doing wonderful work, it will be quite a while before we see a train here."

The letter was written in Waterbury December 7, over a month after the flood had subsided.

From Chicago comes word of another dinner held by the Chicago Twenty-oners. This was staged early in December at the H. Y. P. club, where the boys met at the invitation of Harry Mosser. Bill McClintock, who has recently joined the crowd in the Windy City, has sent us the following account of the party:

"Twelve men were out for the dinner, and these were: Bill Embree, Bob Patterson, Bill Terry, Wade Werden, Johnny Hasbrook, Jerry Cutler, Val Grundman, Dud Robinson, Harry Mosser, Ken Thomas, Dick Hart, and myself. Embree tried to resign his duties as head of the local crowd, but was strenuously denied the privilege. Bill has graciously consented to take care of our dinners for next year again. You can well understand that we are all very glad that he has consented to do this.

"Ken Thomas, I believe, brought up the matter of a fund to provide a trip to the Tenth Reunion. The matter was discussed at some length, and due to the fact that we are so few and also so far from Hanover, we did not believe such a plan feasible for us. However, in the discussion the suggestion was made that each member of the class chip in twenty-five cents at each of our dinners, and that this fund be used to help bring up our quota for the Alumni Fund.

''The first subscription was taken up at that time, and Ken Thomas agreed to be the bookkeeper and take care of it.

"One matter which received considerable attention throughout the evening was Bill Terry's announcement that he is to be married shortly. As practically all of the boys have forsaken the joys of bachelordom, you can imagine that Bill came in for plenty of good advice.

"We decided to have another dinner some time in February, and also some sort of a party to include the wives as was held last year."

When we wrote of Bill's moving to Chicago in an earlier issue, we did not know just what he was doing, but his letter reveals that he is with a radio products concern, the Ekko Company, at 111 West Monroe St.

The New York '2l gang also held a dinner at the Dartmouth Club early in December. Those out were Bill Alley, Herrick Brown, "Coot" Carder, Bord Helmer, Ort Hicks, Jack Hubbell, Frank Livermore, and Larry Nardi. "Skinny" Moore and "Fez" Taylor also dropped in before the party was over, having gotten their dates mixed and eaten elsewhere beforehand. Another dinner is planned for January 5 as this is written, and Ort Hicks has appointed Bill Alley to look out for publicity for this party and all future parties held this year. In addition, the annual dinner of the New York Alumni Association is scheduled for January 31 at the Biltmore, and a large turnout of Twenty-oners is expected at that time.

Some of the items which ye Sec. gleaned at this December dinner are that Bill Alley has sold out his share in the investment firm of Swezey, Topliffe, and Alley at 42 Broadway, and is once more connected with the firm of S. W. Straus and Company, for whom he is again selling bonds; that Frank Livermore has recently joined the advertising staff of the reorganized Outlook and predicts a great future for that magazine; that Tex Kouns has become a New Yorker and is living in Riverdale (nature of his business not yet ascertained) ; that Ed Luedke has found that the Jerseyites take so well to his Wimsett system of banking that he has opened a branch office in Bloomfield, N. J., in addition to the main office in Newark, and he is advertising his business in Chuck Moreau's Bloomfield paper; and lastly that '"Bunny" Gardner is a bridegroom. Bunny was married to Miss Wilhelmina Helen Hoople, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Nelson Hoople of Minneapolis, in Minneapolis, Wednesday, November 30. Mr. and Mrs. Gardner are living in New York, where Bunny is in the contracting game.

From St. Anthony, Newfoundland, comes word of Dr. Ransom Wells, M. D., who was last heard of as a member of the staff of the Illinois Central Hospital at Paducah, Ky. Rans is now house officer of the Grenfell Association hospital at St. Anthony. He writes as follows of his new job: "This is a new sixty-bed outfit, built in 1926 and right up to scratch. It was nearly full when I came late in September, but is down to about 25 patients now, which is about the regular winter quota. There is plenty to do, however, with trips around the harbor and outside."

Harry Garland is now assistant credit manager for the George E. Keith Company at Campello, Mass.

Alton Littlefield has been located as advertising manager for the Central Maine Power Company, with headquarters at Augusta, Me.

Bill Embree reports that Chuck Kerwin is now in Chicago for the Northeastern Importing Company, the same firm with whose Boston office he was recently connected. Chuck's business address is now 1138 First National Bank Building, Chicago.

Additional questionnaire cards which have come in since last we wrote a batch of notes reveal that two more Twenty-oners are tied with Harry Trull and Dan Ryder for the honor of having the largest families to date, namely three youngsters. These are Roland Batchelder and El Harper. Roland has three sons, Theodore, aged four, Hugh, aged three, and Robert, who is a year and a half old. El's family on the other hand consists of three daughters, Jean, who is almost four, Barbara, who is a year and half old, and Helen Elizabeth, who was born September 28 last.

Fred Sercombe broadcasts the following from Omaha: "Still helping the Union Pacific to run its accounts here. Twenty-oners are few here, but Dartmouth alumni are numerous."

"Fez" Taylor has left the Travelers Insurance Company, and is now connected with the credit department of the National City Bank in New York.

And now as we make our farewell bow (and farewell bows are like farewell tours, so we'll be around to make another in March) we'd like to suggest that if you enjoyed reading this, perhaps some of the other boys would like to read about yourself, so please drop a line now and then to ye Sec. and help him feed his typewriter, which is a blamed hungry little animal.

Secretary, 7 Lotus Road, Larchmont Woods, New Rochelle, N. Y.