CLASS OF 1921
Once again ye sec. had to miss out on the annual meeting of the Secretaries Association held in Hanover the first week-end in May, but Ort Hicks did the honors for 1921, and he reports that ye sec. was quite decidedly out of luck in missing a most excellent party. Among the entertainment features was a performance of "Robin Hood" presented by a cast made up of undergraduates with some recruits from the faculty ranks, faculty wives being included in the latter group, and Ort says that the leading lady role was sung most delightfully by Mrs. Joe Folger. Ort spotted Joe proudly looking on from the audience side of the footlights. Also in the audience were the following '21 faculty members: Franklin MeDuffee, George Frost, Nels Smith, and Jack Hurd.
Secretary Harry Chamberlaine of the New York Alumni Association was also unable to get up for the week-end, and in his place he sent as the New York alumni representative, Jack Hubbell.
On Sunday, Ort and Jack journeyed down to Boston, where they spent a couple of days with Dan Ruggles, who is still seeing that the business affairs of the Boston Herald are run properly. They had lunch one day with Manny Manchester, who is still writing feature stories for the Sunday department of the Herald, while writing skits for revues on the side.
Another honor in the field of music has fallen to '21's composer, Werner Janssen. The American Academy of Music in Rome recently announced the award of a three-year fellowship for study under the tutelage of the Italian composer, Ottorino Respighi, to Werner. The award was on the basis of his "New Year's Eve in New York" and "Obsequies of a Saxophone." The latter piece was played for the first time at Mrs. Frederick S. Coolidge's festival of chamber music in Washington last October, and "New Year's Eve in New York" was presented in New York twice during the recent musical season by the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra. Werner won out over several hundred other contestants.
Gordon Merriam, who for some time has been connected with the U. S. Embassy in Paris while doing some graduate work in languages, was recently transferred to Istambul, Turkey, where he will serve as a viceconsul.
Furb Haight is shifting from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific, having been recently ordered transferred from New York to Los Angeles by the Duplan Silk Company, for which he has been working for several years. Furb, we understand, is to be in charge of the firm's Los Angeles office.
Bill Barber has joined the ranks of the bond sellers, and is now peddling securities on the sales staff of the Bankers Trust Company of New York.
Ort reports meeting Gos Halsey in Manhattan recently, Gos having traveled down from Peekskill in connection with his lawyering. Gos says Jack Dain was married recently, and is still selling lumber to the inhabitants of northern Westchester county or where are you.
Eli Smith has joined the ranks of the Boston Twenty-oners, having moved up to the home of the Lodges and the Cabots from Atlanta, Ga., where Eli was an oil salesman. Eli's title on his new job is sales manager, and he is selling "The Electric-Furnace Man" for the Pierce-Davis Corporation of 344 Newbury St., Boston.
The eighty-fourth annual report of the board of directors of the State Mutual Life Assurance Company of Worcester, Mass., contains in its list of officers Donald G. Mix, as manager of the conservation department.
One of our Boston sleuths reports meeting Bob Burroughs breezing along Tremont St. recently, and that Bob admitted to him that he was now engaged in selling insurance for the National Life Insurance Company of Montpelier, Vt., in the Manchester, N. H., area.
A card from Flatbush, N. Y., brings announcement of the arrival in the big city of Mr. Jeffrey Hart, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford P. Hart, thus gaining for his architect dad a membership card in Brooklyn local No. 8 of the Amalgamated Association of Fathers of Future Dartmouth Halfbacks.
Out of the smoke of Pittsburgh comes a card from Kemp Fuller, reading as follows: "Was transferred back to Pittsburgh and made commercial manager of the West Penn Power Company the first of the year. Pittsburgh is just as smoky as ever." Kemp gives as his new business address, 14 Wood St., Pittsburgh.
Arch Dechter uses the card route to tell us that he has two college candidates, one for Dartmouth and one for Smith; Mr. Bruce B. Dechter and Miss Cynthia Jane Dechter. Arch is located in Westfield, Mass., and he gives as his business address the Professional Building in that city.
While journeying up the Hudson river valley toward Troy on a New York Central train recently, we spotted a familiar figure in the car with us and closer inspection proved our first guess was right. It was Dr. Earl Kavanaugh, erstwhile of Cohoes, N. Y., but now of Belleville, N. J. The "doc" looked very fit and prosperous, and he said he liked looking after the ailing in Newark very much. He admitted playing tennis occasionally with "Chuck" Moreau, the Bloomfield, N. J., editor, but he refused to reveal whether the court honors went to the field of medicine or journalism.
In looking over a list of professors who petitioned President Hoover early in May to veto the tariff bill, we spotted among the Dartmouth group, Prof. Nelson Lee Smith.
Ort Hicks, than whom there is no more whomer in 1921, has organized a weekly 1921 luncheon, which is held Tuesday noons at the Dartmouth Club, 24 East 38th St., New York city, U. S. A., Ort having discovered that a considerable number of Dartmouth's grandest class work in the vicinity of the club. You don't have to work in the Grand Central zone to get in, however, and Ort desires the world to know that a glad hand will be extended to any visiting brethren who may be in New York at noon of a Tuesday. Incidentally, Ort hopes to get a similar weekly lunch started in the fall for Twenty-oners working in the Wall St. area, and he plans to hold this Friday noons.
And now ere we close we beg to call attention to the fact that there is still time to send in that donation to the Alumni Fund if you haven't done so already, and 1921 just must make the grade this year.
Secretary, 7 Lotus Road, New Rochelle, N. Y.
