CLASS OF 1921
Still the honors come the way of our Werner. A recent New York newspaper review of a concert by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra said:
"The feature of the evening was the performance of the symphonic poem for orchestra and jazz band, 'New Year's Eve in New York,' by the young American composer, Werner Janssen. Mr. Janssen, who is the latest winner of the American Academy's Prix de Rome, was in the audience. The applause was so insistent that he was obliged to come forward twice to acknowledge it.
"eThe music portrays 'Reflections on the passing year Midnight and the stroke of twelve Happy New Year Celebration of the New Year.' Mr. Janssen has written Broadway hits in the last few years, and shows that he still knows how to write popular music. 'New Year's Eve' has, indeed, a very pleasant fox-trot tune in it. The score calls for a huge array of instruments from the usual symphonic staples to piano, divers saxophones, siren, klaxon, banjo, and, of course, percussion novelties. In the playing of the American's work the orchestra again demonstrated its versatility. It is not often that one gets an opportunity to hear the New York Philharmonic orchestra play a foxtrot, and it was a welcome opportunity indeed."
Ted Sonnenfeld is the latest addition to the ranks of '21's New Yorkers, Ted having deserted the rubber footwear game in his native Albany to take the plunge into Wall St. Ted is now connected with the New York Stock Exchange firm of J. P. Trounstein and Company. Ted has left his family behind him in Albany while he makes his start in the world of finance, and is living temporarily at the Dartmouth Club.
Ted says that just before he left Albany for the big city further down the Hudson, he was called to the door of his up-state mansion one afternoon by the loud blare of a motor horn, and found outside the Roger Wildes, bound from Boston to Aurora, Ill., where Roger has now entered the metal products game, after several years spent in the furniture racket, at Orleans, Vt., and in Boston.
Dave Plume has a new job, and is now connected with the Synthetic Plastics Company at 535 Fifth Ave., New York city.
Howard Slayton has also recently joined the 1921 ranks in New York. Like Ted Sonnenfeld he has entered the financial game, being a broker connected with the firm of Tefft and Company at 5 Nassau St. He is living in Jackson Heights.
Ralph North, prominent realtor of Verona, N. J., received the Republican nomination to the Yerona Borough Council at the June primary election. In a field of eight candidates he ran first in three districts and second in the other three. His victory at the general election in the fall over his Democratic opponent is conceded in Verona.
The National Editorial Association meeting in Milwaukee in June awarded the "Inland Printer" cup for the best editorial page of any weekly newspaper to the IndependentPress of Bloomfield, N. J., of which "Chuck" Moreau is editor.
The dope from Boston is that Joe Shaw is a European traveler this summer. The advance notices for the big Dartmouth round-up on the Pacific coast next fall in connection with the Dartmouth-Stanford game reveal Guy Wallick as a member of one of the round-up committees.
Another news item from the Hub indicates that Tom Norcross has transferred his affiliations from the banking house of Spencer, Trask and Company to the William C. Norcross Company, whose business is building materials and whose address is 516 Albany St., Boston.
Dame Rumor has it that Lorin Goulding was seen by several members of Dartmouth's grandest class on Monday, June 10, proudly marching behind a band through the downtown streets of the Hub, when the Boston force of the Firemen's Fund Insurance Company had its annual outing and field day. Intimate details are lacking as we go to press.
Russ Miller is now assistant manager of the Olympia Fields Country Club at Olympia Fields, Ill.
Add to the list of alumni association officials from '21, Harry Trull, treasurer of the Philadelphia Alumni Association, and Jim Sabin, secretary-treasurer of the Alumni Association of the Great Divide, which has its headquarters in Denver.
The fourth annual golf party of the New York alumni revealed that we have a Bobby Jones in our midst. We quote from the July issue of Mac Rollins' Bulletin: "Ort Hicks, equipped with more clubs than Walter Hagen uses and playing the last four holes in dire despair lest he lose his tenth and last ball, caught 101, and having conceded himself a handicap of 32 when he started, got 69 for the low net score and took home to Mrs. Hicks the sterling silver cake dish. Mr. Hicks was heard to wonder how long this had been going on."
Abe Weld happened to be in Vienna on business at the time of the death of Prof. Washburn, and he writes as follows: "I was on the point of departing for Warsaw by air when I first discovered that Mr. Washburn was seriously ill. On my return two days later I learned of his death. I saw Mrs. Washburn and Lincoln the next day, and went to the private funeral at the legation the next (Saturday) morning. I had not seen Mrs. Washburn since 1922. Naturally, she was much worn by the tragedy, but aside from that was still her old charming self. Everybody I talked to in Vienna, from business men to hotel porters, felt very keenly the bereavement, which Austria no less than America had suffered in Mr. Washburn's death."
Gone from the ranks of the jolly bachelors is "Chick" Stiles. "Chick" was married on Saturday, May 10, to Miss Eleanor Eaton of Melrose, Mass., at the Universalist church in Melrose. Tom Cleveland, Tom Norcross, and Lorin Goulding were among the ushers at the event.
And now, the evening being both late and hot, we'll knock off until fall.
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