CLASS OF 1921
"Rollo" Briggs, 1921's and Uncle Sam's rising young diplomat, who is now stationed at Lima, Peru, where lie is third secretary of the embassy, has just risen another step toward an ambassadorship. A recent list of promotions given out by the State Department of the U. S. A. indicated that Ellis had been moved up one division in their ranking, and the secretarial bonnet is hereby doffed thrice in the general direction of Lima.
Ye Sec. was pleasantly surprised one afternoon just before Christmas to learn from the guardian of the editorial room door that a Mr. Al Green was outside and desired entrance. And admission having been attained we found Al with a few grey hairs creeping in over the ears, but otherwise looking much as he did when he helped Ed Boyle get out Hanover's leading daily. Al is now assistant city editor of the Post Standard at Syracuse, N. Y., and had journeyed down to Gotham to look over some of New York's leading newspaper plants. We volunteered to show him how the Sun is turned out daily except Sunday, and Al, not having forgotten the old reportorial habit of asking questions, we learned quite a few things about some of the non-editorial departments of our own paper which we had not known before.
We had a line recently from another good member of Delta Tau Delta, Warry Clark. Warry reports that he is still in the furniture game in Burlington, lowa, still happily married, still has one offspring (Miss Judith Clark, aged three and one-half), and is still poor but happy.
Following the death of his father last fall, Tracy Higgins has been made president of the Higgins Ink Company of Brooklyn, and in his capacity as such, Tracy figured in a page one news story recently. It seems that just at the moment when Tracy was putting his signature on a contract for some held-up insurance, some Brooklyn brigands, as if to make the insurance man's previous sales talk come true, proceeded to hold up two employv ees of Tracy's firm and escape with $1,800.
Ralph Baker, last heard of as working for the Kresge stores in Bridgeport, Conn., is now reported as having shifted to Jamaica Plain, Mass., one of Boston's noted suburbs, where he is manager extraordinary, of a new store recently opened there by the Kresge firm.
Howie Heath sends in the following from Trenton, N. J.: "Same old job with Eastm an, Dillon, and Company. No new weddings, but we celebrated our fourth anniversary November 20.
"Speed" Fleet reports that lie is still managing the Fleet Lumber Company at Greenport, L. I.
Ted Hartshorn, who is still in Milwaukee, informs ye Sec. of a daughter, Miss Mary Ann Hartshorn, who will be one year old in March.
Don Morse, in returning his card (those who have not yet done so, please, take the hint and send in theirs) reports his marriage on April 18,1929, to Miss Elizabeth Kimball, Wellesley 1922.
Bob McConaughy from the heart of Salt Lake City lifts the following plea! "Though I'm too far west to see many from the class, tell any of the boys coming out this way to sound my gong!"
Charley Stickney of Barron's, the national financial weekly, has become one of the class's leading long distance commuters, rivaling those champions Artie Anderson, who travels to New York daily from just the Manhattan side of Albany, and Dick Libby, who rides to Gotham from some suburb of New Haven. Charley has rented him a place in Foxboro, which the latest maps show as some 25 miles from the heart of Boston on the main line to Providence and somewhat nearer that latter city than the Hub. And as if that were not enough Charley lives about eight miles more or less from the station at which he alights. He formerly hung up his hat nightly in Arlington, but he sought (and has obtained) something a little more in the country. However, he continues to be one of the world's best little news-gatherers, and ye Sec. is (and, believe me, the rest of you boys should be too) mighty grateful.
From far off Manila comes a card from Bob Kendall stating, "Came to Manila about six months ago for a three year stay. Only one other Dartmouth man here, class of 1913. Manila is a fine place, but rather warm all the year around. If any Twenty-oners are taking a trip around the world, I hope they will be sure and look me up. I'm with the States Steamship Company, and I live at 187 A Manga Ave."
From Bill Perry comes the following invitation: "We moved to our new reproduced Cape Cod cottage home at 294 Allandale Road, Brookline, Mass., December 15, and will be more than pleased to welcome visiting Twenty-oners there."
Joe Vance writes from Detroit: "Still single and still on the same job I've had since I got through at law school back in '24. You probably have heard that Ellwood Fisher was married recently in Cleveland to Marion Shupe." We hadn't, but we've learned since that El has moved to 18000 Winslow Road, Shaker Heights, Ohio, which is part of suburban Cleveland. Joe incidentally is vicepresident of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Detroit, which holds weekly luncheons Tuesday noons at the Savoyard Club there.
Hal Braman, who is still working for the American Brass Company at Waterbury, Conn., uses his card to report: "No hits. No runs. No errors."
Charley Johnson, who commutes daily from Wollaston to the Park Square building in Boston, is still on the payroll of the Gulf Refining Company.
Sam Shaw says: "Selling tours, tickets, travel facilities for France-Belgique tours, with offices at 19 Ave. de l'Opera in Paris. Also am selling insurance and all kinds of coverage for M. Oesterman and Company at 61 Blvd. Haussmann. "He gives as his address for mail, 6 Hue Albert Samain, Paris.
Hilt Campbell says: "Same job. (He's with the accounting firm of Lybrand, Ross Bros., and Montgomery at 110 William St., New York city.) Same wife. No children." Hilt and Mrs. Campbell are living at 285 Hawthorne Ave., Yonkers.
Steff Erederiksen and Mrs. Steff are now located in Little Falls, N. Y., where Steff is connected with Charles Hausen's laboratory.
Ross Shepardson asserts he is a lumber salesman, and gives as his business address, care of the Woodstock Lumber Company of Boston, but his home address he lists as 18 Harrison St., New Britain, Conn., so we judge that it is to the good citizens of Connecticut, not Massachusetts, that Ross is peddling the Woodstock lumber.
When we reported last month on those we spotted shivering at the Dartmouth-Navy game November 30, the world's coldest football day, we forgot to mention "Tony" Gates. "Tony" wasn't near enough for us to put across an interview at that time, and we suspected that he had traveled down from his old home, Andover, Mass., but we have since learned that we are wrong, and that he is now selling wool for the Cudahy Packing Company in Philadelphia, where he is living at 3412 Hamilton St.
Kent McKinley lists as a new business address Room 1213, Graybar Building, New York city. He lives at 24 Crane Road, Scarsdale, and is in the investment securities game.
And now though we have quite a few more items to offer, Mrs. Brown complains that the clatter of the secretarial typewriter is keeping her awake,- so we'll bow to the inevitable and sign oS until March.
Secretary, 7 Lotus Eoad, New Rochelle, N. Y.
