Class of 1921
The members of Dartmouth's finest class continue to forge ahead up the ladder to success, and the latest exploit of a rising Twentyoner is that of Mr. Alden P. Chester. Until recently Ike has been heading his own company, which has served as a distributer of Chambers stoves in the Boston area. Now word reaches the secretarial typewriter that he has been recently chosen general sales manager for the Chambers StOve Company itself, the headquarters of which are in Shelbyville, Ohio, and will direct the firm's various distribution organizations throughout the United States.
The annual meeting of class secretaries was held at Hanover Friday and Saturday, May 4 and 5, but as last year ye sec. was unavoidably absent, and also as last year he has more affidavits to prove he was not breaking rock at some nice jail. Jack Hubbell made the trip back to the campus in ye sec.'s place, so you may know that you were ably represented. In fact there was quite a Twenty-one reunion in Hanover that week-end. Ort Hicks was on hand to represent the New York Alumni Association, Don Mix answered present for the Worcester, Mass., alumni, and Harry Chamberlaine was in town telling the Tuck School boys all about advertising and Good Housekeeping.
Incidentally our Ort furnished one of the high lights of the program with an address at one of the business sessions on "Filming the College," of course with Gillette cameras, (Advt.) Ort put the idea across splendidly, together with the assistance of Sidney C. Hayward '26 and some appropriate gestures.
And now to! produce one of the affidavits mentioned above. Ye sec. and Mrs. Brown hereby beg to announce the arrival of a daughter Miss Cornelia Brown, who made her initial bow on April 26. So ye sec. missed the Hanover meeting in a good cause, as Cornelia's big brother, Kenneth E. Brown '48, will testify.
One of our scouts in Boston reports that the Lorin Gouldings have a daughter also, born recently and their first youngster. The official data on Miss Goulding's arrival are not in, so we are not as present able to give her full name or her birthday.
It is rumored around the Hub that "Manny" Manchester is a regular contributor to Boston's new monthly periodical, The Bostonian, which is to Back Bay what New York's weekly, The New Yorker, is to Park Ave. In the April issue one article appeared over the initials H. F. M., and the wiseacres say that that is not all "Manny" has written for the magazine. And this, of course, is in addition to his regular Sunday feature stories in the Boston Herald.
The sympathy of the whole class of '21 goes to Luke Boggess, who was struck a mighty hard blow last month. On Sunday, April 1, Luke's mother died at her home in Carthage, Mo., and on the following morning his wife died at a hospital in Kansas City, leaving Luke with two small sons, one about four years old and the other just slightly more than a year old. A joint funeral service for Luke's mother and wife was held at the First Methodist church in Carthage Wednesday, April 4. "Red" Kerlin acted as one of the bearers for Mrs. Luke.
Ralph Steiner is hard at work on his motion picture experiments, for which he recently gave up his decidedly prosperous commercial photography work. Ralph is seeking to get effects with the motion picture camera, which have as yet been undeveloped. It is his belief that motion pictures have followed too closely the traditional stage effects, and he is working to get in practical form some of his theories. And no one is wishing him success harder than the class of '21.
"Bump" War3, who was last reported as manager of the Personal Finance Company s office in Lewiston, Me., now checks in from Hartford, Conn., where his address is 401 Phoenix National Bank Building.
And Kemp Fuller, whose business address has been in care of West Penn Power Company, Pittsburgh, now reports he is with the same firm, but gives the address as Ridgway, Pa.
One of our Long Island sleuths reports that Ort Hicks' next door neighbor out in Great Neck is none other than Charles King, the musical comedy star. Ort, on being questioned, said Mr. King has not found it out yet, but until he does, Mr. Hicks will be glad to rent space on his front porch to all wives of Twenty-oners, who would like to gaze at a Broadway leading man on his country estate.
When these notes were written early in May, Cory Litchard, class agent for the Alumni Fund, reported that '21 had raised just $700, only one-third of its quota. Of course by the time you read this, some more funds will have come in, but just at present it looks far from promising that we can raise our quota, which means that we shall have failed six times out of seven tries. Which is hardly an enviable record. There will still be plenty of time to come across and help save the day by the time these notes reach you, however, so if you have not yet sent in your contribution, let Cory have it. Every little bit helps and the officers of the class are counting on all of you to put our share of the driveacross. We thank you.
Secretary, 7 Lotus Road, Larchmont Woods, New Rochelle, N. Y.
