Class of 1921
The New York '2l gang this year eclipsed their record, made last year at the annual dinner of the New York Alumni Association, when 36 members of Dartmouth's best class showed up at the Biltmore January 31 for the 1928 party. A year ago 26 Twenty'-oners were on hand,, and that was enough to give the class first place for having the largest delegation out. This year, however, 1923 reported 38 men present, so '2l was announced as getting second place. Incidentally '23 thereby won the right to hold the new Judge Cohen cup for a year. The cup was presented for the first time this year, and is to be awarded annually to that class having the largest representation at the annual New York dinner. Immediately after the award was made the class of '21 appointed Jack Hubbell as a committee of one to look into the report that four members of '23 present had played previously for Cornell '22 and M. I. T. '19, so were not eligible to represent Dartmouth '23, but up to the hour of our going to press Jack hadn't got his affidavits in shape for presentation to President Hathaway of the New York Association. Anyway '21 again outclassed '20 and '22.
The dinner was in the opinion of ye sec. a mighty successful affair and a decided credit to our fellow Twenty-oner, Ort Hicks, who was re-elected at the dinner to serve for another year as secretary of the New York alumni group. The only disappointment the '2l gang felt about the dinner this year was that due to the lateness at which the after-dinner program got under way Rog Bird did not get a chance to do his bit, and we were all looking forward to hearing Rog warble again. In any case it did sound great to hear Sal and Breg perform on their two pianos again in a manner which stirred memories of some lovely spring evenings in Hanover when the old jazz band was performing on the Beta house porch and the rest of the College forgot all about Math 11 and Eccy 4 and filled the yard between Sanborn and South Mass. with their yells for "more."
Those from '21 present at the dinner were: Bill Alley, Artie Anderson, Rog Bird, Ben Bishop. Herrick Brown, Coot Carder, At Catterall, Harry Chamberlaine, Ky Frost, who was in town on a business trip from Detroit, Stan Gorham, Tommy Griffith, Gos Halsey, Howie Heath, up from Trenton just for the party, Bord Helmer, Francis Hickman, whose business brings him up from New Orleans every winter in time for the dinner, Ort Hicks, Tracy Higgins, Jack Hubbell, Rex King, Tex Kouns, Frank Livermore, Bob Loeb, Ed Luedke, Skinny Moore, Chuck Moreau, Larry Nardi, Paul Nicholson, Herm Noyes. Oky O'Connor, Sumner Perkins, Bud Richart, Doug Storer, Carlton Van Cleve, Guy WalHek, Dr. Ernie Wilcox, and Dr. Walter Wolfe.
Tracy Higgins received plenty of congratulations at the dinner, for he had just become a member of the daddy class. Charles M. Higgins 2d, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tracy Higgins, was born in Brooklyn January 21. The birth of a youngster in the family prevented King Cole from coming up from Atlantic City for the dinner as he had planned to do, but we do not know yet whether the newcomer is headed for Dartmouth or Smith. We'll aim to get the news before we write our notes for April.
The gang learned that they were to lose one of their members when they gathered for the dinner. Guy Wallick is to move shortly to the Pacific Coast. He is leaving the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, with which he has been connected in New York, to become superintendent of the sales department of the San Francisco unit of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company with headquarters in San Francisco.
The dinner was the second occasion for a 1921 get-together in New York in January. The first was a class dinner held at the Dartmouth Club January 5. Fifteen men were out for this : Alley, Bill Barber, Brown, Carder, Helmer, Hicks, Hubbell, Livermore, Terry McAdams, Nardi, Perkins, Richart, Storer, Wilcox, and Wolfe. After dinner the group adjourned to the card room, where Ort Hicks ran off some movies of the Harvard and Cornell games last fall. As most of the crowd had only been present at the Yale disaster, the pictures of those other games were more than welcome.
The dinner was the first appearance at a class gathering of Bill Barber since his recent return to New York from New Haven. Bill has been shifted back to the New York office by the Thomas Edison Company for which he works. He is living in Bronxville, which we might point out for the benefit of you wild and woolly Westerners is not the Bronx.
The annual dinner of the Boston alumni was also held in January, Saturday the 28th to be exact, and a report just received from the Hub says there were eight from the class at the '2l table. Those present were: Fat Childs, Jeff Lawrence, Harland Manchester, Don Mix, Phil Noyes, Bill Owen, Joe Shaw, and Charlie Stickney.
Mac Johnson has shifted jobs again, but is still in the banking game. He has left the New York office of the National Shawmut Company, and is now with the National City Bank at 55 Wall St.
Red Kerlin has been traveling around in the Middle West doing some analytical work for the National Carbon Company, with the Kansas City office of which he is connected. He reports seeing Sercombe when he was in Omaha.
A letter head forwarded to us by Treasurer Ned Price reveals the fact that Ralph Pendleton is secretary of the engineering section of the Massachusetts Safety Council, with headquarters at 6 Beacon St., Boston.
Inquiry into the commercial activities of Ralph Baker discloses that he is connected with the S. S. Kresge five and ten cent stores in Boston.
There aren't many of us who have married our Carnival girls (whereupon we shouldn't be surprised to find out that we are a liar and lot of other things), but here's at least one who has. Bill Terry was married to Miss Pauline Hall at her home in Rockville Center, L. 1., January 24, and our informant reports that Miss Hall was Bill's guest at several of the Psi U house parties back in the golden era of Hanoverian history. Fred Hamm '20 was Bill's best man, and after the ceremony Bill and his bride took a honeymoon trip to Quebec before settling down in Chicago, where Bill is connected with the Traffic World.
Dr. Walter Wolfe, who among other things is psychiatrist at the mental hygiene clinics of the Mount Sinai and Beth Israel hospitals in New York, has just been appointed psychiatrist at the Highland Manor School, at Tarrytown, N. Y. Walt also gave a talk over Station WEAF on January 30 under the auspices of the New York County Medical Society. His subject was "The Pampered Child."
Ted Pellens, having learned thoroughly the chain drug store business, has now gone into the chain restaurant business with the world's most famous manufacturers and distributors of wheat cakes, the Childs Company. Ted, however, doesn't have to go around all dressed up in a white suit, for he is connected with the general executive offices at 200 Fifth Ave., New York. He was formerly with the Liggett Company.
No doubt before you read this you will have heard from Cory Litchard in regard to 1921's quota to the Alumni Fund this year, and we're going to take this opportunity to announce that it is the earnest hope of all the officers that the class is going to raise its quota this year. We didn't quite make the grade last spring and we certainly want to avoid that failure this year. Also don't forget that the sooner you give the less it costs the fund to get your gift, but anyway, soon or late, give something.
Secretary, . Lotus Road, Larchmont Woods, New Rochelle, N. Y.
