CLASS OF 1921
This firm of F. H. Korff and Company, which markets securities based on oil royalties, is fast getting to be quite a 1921 organization. First Ort deserted the camera business to join their sales forces. Then Coot Carder left the ranks of the S. W. Straus and Company bond salesmen to become a Korff salesman. Now the latest recruit is Don Sawyer, who has resigned his position at the St. Louis office of the American Thread Company, for which concern he has been working ever since he left Hanover, to become manager of Korff and Company's Boston office.
Jack Reilly is the latest to become a 1921 Gothamite, having moved to New York recently to assist the National City Bank in handling its millions. He is living at the Dartmouth Club.
Rex King has a new job, having given up phone rate engineering at the Newark office of the New York Telephone Company to become manager of the Elizabeth, N. J., district of the same organization.
Vice-president Hubbell also has a new job. But we'll let Mac Rollins '11, executive secretary of the Dartmouth Club of New York and famous editor of the New York AlumniBulletin, tell it: "John W. (Handsome) Hubbell," writes Mac, "the Manhattan boy who made good in a big way peddling patterns to the merchants in the swamps of the Carolinas and who then transferred his youthful enthusiasm to the service of one of our larger woman's magazines, now shifts the scenes of his busy life to become a legendary hero. Who hasn't heard of that sturdy standard bearer of business ethics, Mr. Simmons, who stands back of every bed he sells? Mr. S., now suffering slightly with fallen arches as the result of his long vigil, combining as it needs must eternal watchfulness with due circumspection, has surrendered some of his duties, and has taken Jack under his wing, placing him in the enviable position he held so long himself. Mr. Hubbell assumes his new duties June 1."
And while we are on the subject of class executives we beg to announce that our Ort is a champion again, a tennis champion just like Henri Cochet, Bill Tilden, and all the rest. It seems that Ort triumphed over one Bruce Bielaski, Jr., in a thrilling match for the championship of the Great Neck (Long Island) Tennis Club. One Metropolitan critic called it a brilliant victory of a "strokeless wonder" (We're no tennis expert, so we are not entirely certain whether or not that is a dirty crack, but you'll have to admit it has all the earmarks) over a man with every stroke in the game.
Speaking of Ort and Great Neck, one weekend in May, Ort and Mrs. Ort threw a Saturday night party at their estate for the Metropolitan Twenty-oners and their wives, which was such a success that the last guest departed at 5:30 a.m. on the Sabbath. Ye Sec. regretfully announces that he was unable to be present, but some twenty-five others were on hand. No roll-call was taken, but our informant tells us that among those spotted in the throng were Lovell Cook and Mrs. Cook, Doug Storer and Mrs. Storer, Jack Hubbell and girl friend, Rex King and Mrs. King, Cliff Hart and Mrs. Hart, Bunny Gardner, Mac Johnson (both stagging it), and Walter Wolfe and girl friend. Walt, it seems, added to the entertainment program by psycho-analyzing a piano to the enjoyment of all. Oh, yes, and Sherry Baketel '20 also was present. This is about the third successive 1921 party at which Sherry has appeared, and the story was current along Broadway afterwards that A1 Cate and his cohorts were planning disciplinary action the next time it happened.
Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Griffith have announced the arrival of a daughter, Miss Katherine Hope Griffith, on May 19. Katherine's dad is still on the executive staff of R. H. Macy and Company, the w.k. New York department store.
The word from Jamaica, L. 1., is that Dink Miller is going over big as an attorney there, his practice having grown steadily since he hung out his shingle until now they are pointing to him as one of the rising young men of the Borough of Queens.
It is not our general practice to allow these columns to become the scene of a controversy, but we are going to let down the bars this time, at least. After his spring trip through the Mid-West and Southwest, Ort reported that while in Columbus, Ohio, he was unable to get in touch with Ken Sater, for Ken was so busy chasing ambulances that he was never in his law office although Ort spent, several hours we believe he said, waiting there for him. Now we have just received the following from Ken. "I am highly incensed that Ort Hicks, without any more than a superficial inquiry into the facts, should come out with the bald statement that I was out chasing an ambulance when he was here at the office. It is not so at all. The real facts are that I had signed the man up even before the ambulance got there and was on my way to the court house when Ort called."
The Chicago gang held two dinners during the spring, one in April at the time that Gus Sonnenberg defended his title in Chicago, and the other on May 20. Nine men were out for the Sonnenberg affair, and the following were present May 20: Dick Hart, Ken Thomas, Bill McClintock, Dud Robinson, Jerry Cutler, Bill Embree, and Harry Mosser.
In passing on to us the above dope Harryadmitted that on January 12 he married Miss Darthea Alice Newton, daughter of Mr. A. E. Newton of Hartford, Conn. Harry is still connected with the Chicago office of the banking firm of Halsey, Stuart, and Company.
Phil Payson is now located in Cleveland, where he is a sales engineer for S. K. F. In dustries, Inc. His business address is 645 Penton Building, and lie is living at 1054 ITillstone Road, Cleveland Heights.
Erling Hunt, who for several years has been a member of the teaching staff of the Horace Mann School for boys in New York, has recently been appointed to the faculty of Teachers College of Columbia University.
Dr. Ransom Wells joined the ranks of '21 in New York recently. He is now on the staff of physicians of the New York Post-Graduate Hospital and Medical School.
After being lost (at least on our records) for some time, Rudie Blesh has been located out on the Pacific coast at Sacramento, Cal., where he is a designer for the John Bruener Company.
Guy Wallick was on from San Francisco recently to attend a conference of telephone officials in New York, and in this connection there has been called to our attention an article appearing in one of the telephone company's publications at the time Guy was sent out to the Pacific Coast from New York, where he had been connected with the sales department of the department of operating and engineering of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. The article read in part as follows: "Our company has for some time been alive to the necessity for doing a real sales job, and has initiated many activities which have stimulated the sale of our service. . . .While these activities have been productive of excellent results thus far, it is felt that our sales program should be further accelerated. It has, therefore, been decided to broaden out and intensify the present sales program as rapidly as possible. In line with this plan, G. P. Wallick has been appointed sales supervisor for the Northern California and Nevada area." And all reports from the Coast indicate that Guy has been mighty successful in this work.
Dr. Ben Tenney, Jr., of Boston and Miss Constance Richmond Vaillant, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Wightman Vaillant, were married at Washington, Conn., on Saturday June 22.
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