CLASS OF 1921
Back in the bygone golden days when "Dancing Honeymoon" was the song hit of Hanover, the wiseacres along Main St. used to pause between puffs on the old "D" pipes to predict that that boy Werner Janssen would make a name for himself in the musical world some day, and the New Hampshire sophisticates have been proven right. The Cleveland Orchestra on two recent appearances in New York, one at Carnegie Hall and one at the Mecca Auditorium, have presented Werner's descriptive number "New Year's Eve in New York," to the delight of the audiences and even the hard-boiled critics. We also spotted an item recently to the effect that Werner was on the committee planning this year's Lambs' Gambol, that annual revue of the well-known actors' club.
And now we'll snitch an item from Mac Rollins' news notes in the bulletin of the Dartmouth Club of New York, an item obviously written when Mac was still smarting from a drubbing at the hands of that great '21 bridge team of Hicks and Hubbell. It reads as follows: "Out in Roslyn (you German 4 students will remember the old song, Roslyn, Roslyn Auf der Long Island) there's a young fellow who's making a living by an unusual method, especially in view of the fact that he belongs to 1921, an organization rather more distinguished for its card-holding skill than its literate ranking. Carleton McMackin is the gent's name, and he goes rustling around in dusty corners looking for old, rare and exotic books. People building new houses in which are installed yards and yards of bare and vacant shelves employ him to fill 'em up with sets of the Harvard Classics, E. A. Poe, Scott, Balzac, 0. Henry, International Correspondence School textbooks, and The Little Blue Books. It sounds like a stylish racket."
The Wall Street Journal in a recent issue carried the following item: "P. Richard Hill has become associated with West and Company in their bond department. Mr. Hill has been assigned to the New England territory with headquarters in the firm's Boston office." And the Mr. Hill in question is none other than '21's own Dick.
The good word from Boston is that Dr. Allen Brailey has duly hung out his shingle at 205 Beacon St., and is now out on his own as a practising physician. Allen now has two fine youngsters, Allen, Jr., who was born last summer and who from all reports gives promise of being varsity material, and Miss Joan Brailey, who is "going on four."
Don Sawyer is now living in Nashua, N. H., at 7 Stark St., to be exact, and is the southern New Hampshire representative for Bond and Goodwin, the Boston, Mass., investment securities firm.
Otis Severance reports his marriage on July 29, 1929, to Miss Marion B. Marshall, Wheaton '27, at North Haven, Conn. They are living at 166 Center St., Danvers, Mass.
Gerald Griffin pleads guilty to being a resident of Yorktown Heights. When in town from suburbia Jerry is still a Manhattan banker.
Dr. Walter Wolfe has been made assistant psychiatrist in the out-patient department of the Psychiatric Institute of New York city. Walter is continuing his role as a lecturer on his favorite subject also, having spoken recently before the Stevens Institute Forum at Hoboken, N. J., the University of Washington alumni at the Western University Club in New York city, and also at Temple Israel in New York.
Bill Embree reports that the 1921 crowd in Chicago now numbers 15. He lists the members of the aggregation as follows: Bob Patterson, Val Grundman, Harry Mosser, Gord Shepherd, Dick Hart, John Hasbrook, Jerry Cutler, Al Laffey, Ken Thomas, Dud Robinson, Bill McClintock, Chuck Kerwin, Boy Burrill, Art Higgins, and Bill himself. And if this reaches any Chicago Twentyoner who is not listed will he kindly communicate at once with either Bill or myself. Bill's address incidentally is care of Rittenhouse and Embree Company, 3500 South Racine Ave., Chicago.
Prom the Home National Bank of Brockton, Mass., comes the following broadcast from Vance Clark: "Still located here as a trust officer. I'll trust anybody who wants to turn over his fortune to be managed." The line forms on the left.
"Valedictory" Seth Densmore reports as follows: "Family still consists of one wife and one son. Am still hanging on at the same stand as accountant with Lybrand, Ross Brothers, and Montgomery, along with Stan White and Eddie Page of Dartmouth's most famous class." Jim Frederickson, the Wisconsin lumber magnate, sends in the glad news of the arrival of Miss Marion Caryl Frederickson on February 13. Jim reports that the young lady is a winner and that the whole family including the pater familias are doing nicely.
"Bunny" Gardner is helping New York and vicinity obtain bigger and more powerful power doors for the Power Door, Inc., of 1776 Broadway, and is now rated as one of the leading lights of suburban Kew Gardens.
And now if some more of you good lads will overcome your modesty to the extent of dropping a line about yourselves, a newshungry secretary and the world at large will be duly thankful. Also in that case this column next month may be longer.
Secretary, 7 Lotus Road, New Rochelle, N. Y
