CLASS of 1921
Well, here's ye sec. back again, and in the light of our late good-byes we confess that we feel something like an actor starting out on his fifth farewell tour. In any case we thank you sincerely for the confidence, as expressed in your ballots in June.
Shortly after our account of the Tenth Reunion had gone in to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE for the July issue, Ort called us up to say that after we had pulled out for home Monday afternoon of reunion week, four more members of '2l had shown up in Hanover, one with his wife, so that the official total for the big party should have been 95 Twentyoners present, 45 with their wives. The men we failed to list earlier were: Bob Derby, Howie Ransom, Erling Hunt, and El Harper, and El had Mrs. Harper with him.
And now for the news which has found its way to the secretarial typewriter during the summer:
Doug Storer along with his other advertising work is now radio editor of Drug TradeNews.
Bill Codding is selling textbooks for Harper and Brothers. His business address is 49 East 33d St., New York city, but Bill still makes his home in North Attleboro, Mass.
By the time you read this Dick Rolfe will have dropped from the ranks of the bachelors. His engagement has been announced to Miss Marjorie E. Hill of Concord, N. H., and the wedding set for September 9.
Carleton McMackin may shift jobs, but h.e sticks to the book business. Carleton is now a publishers' representative for E. P. Dutton and Company. His office is in New York, but he commutes nightly to Port Washington, L. 1., where he dwells with his wife and two children, David, aged six and Olive, aged two.
"Doc" Fleming is a real "doc" now and is located in Elkhart, Ind., where he serves the good citizens both in the capacity of physician and surgeon. "Doc" graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1929, and after serving his term as interne at the Blodgett Memorial Hospital in Grand Rapids, Mich., he has hung out his shingle in Elkhart.
Lorin Goulding has shifted from Boston to Buffalo, though continuing in the fire insurance game while heeding the late Horace Greeley's advice about a trip west. His business address is now 1022 Prudential Building, Buffalo, and he lives at 31 Blantyre Road in the same city.
Ray Kelsey announces that he's signed up with the Proud Dads Club, Master Ralph Stuart Kelsey, who arrived on April 8, 1931, having paved the way for his dad's membership. Ray is still in the insurance game and still located in Portland, Me.
Urt received a card this summer from Art Hickman, mailed from Barcelona in Spain and giving a lovely view of the city hall of that famous Catalan city. However, it gave no additional details of Art's trip and our special investigation bureau has been put on the job.
One of our worthy classmates has become an actor. We quote the Boston Transcript of September 5, which carried the following item on that date: "An object lesson in the proper listing of houses for sale was furnished by a skit entitled 'Well Listed is Half Sold' at the weekly noon-day luncheon of the Newton Board of the Boston Real Estate Exchange. James W. Gibson, of Commonwealth Ave. and Thomas V. Cleveland, from the office of R. M. Patterson of Newton Corner, entertained with a carefully prepared dialogue representing a conversation between a property owner and a real estate agent." And of course you can guess to what Tom Cleveland the Transcript referred.
Charlie Gilson has joined the ranks of the Chieagoans, having moved on to the metropolis of Illinois from Pittsburgh. Charlie is specializing in group insurance, and his business address at present is Room 1200, 134 North LaSalle St., Chicago.
Not to be outdone, Frank Lambert has joined the ranks of the New Yorkers. At least the New Yorkers by day, for he adjourns each evening to Upper Montclair, N. J. Frank is an auditor for the A. & P. Tea Cos., and his office is at 420 Lexington Ave., New York city.
Wade Werden is now located in Dayton, Ohio, where he is in the advertising game with the Geyer Cos.
Gordon Merriam, who has been in Paris for the past year learning some of the languages you and I will never master, has completed his course, and the U. S. Department of State, from whom he draws his pay check, has sent Gordie to Cairo, Egypt, where he is now the American consul. Incidentally, if I am not off my base, (and if I am that other diplomat, Rollo Briggs, will tag me out) that's a neat little promotion for Gordie and a feather in the cap of 1921.
On August 30 listeners in on the NBCWEAF network heard a program by our own Werner Janssen re-broadcast from Berlin. Werner conducted a concert orchestra during the broadcast and also appeared in the role of piano soloist. The program included two of Werner's own numbers, "Obsequies of a Saxophone" and "New Year's Eve in New York." Earlier in the summer Werner conducted a 75-piece concert orchestra in a program broadcast from the studios of Eiarfon, the Italian broadcasting company, in Rome. This program was heard here too over the NBC network. Werner, as you may remember, is now studying in Europe as the result of having won the coveted Prix de Rome last year.
Reports received from Springfield, Mass., indicate that Lovell Cook and Cory Litchard are already well established as the general agents for the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Cos. in the Springfield territory.
Speaking of Springfield, Dr. Jim Smead found the call of that famous Connecticut River city too strong, so he ripped down his shingle in Hartford, Conn., and moved it back up the river to Springfield, where he hung it out at 146 Chestnut St.
We noticed in a recent issue of the Boston Herald that Manny Manchester was still very much on the job supplying feature stories for the Sunday magazine section. Incidentally a recent issue of the magazine, The Writer, carried an article by Manny which won considerable praise.
In the September issue of the magazine, Forum, there was an article by Dr. Walter Wolfe entitled "Romance vs. Marriage." Incidentally Dan Ruggles reports seeing Walter this summer while Walt had temporarily dropped his psychoanalizing to play a little golf on the Chatham, Mass., course.
And speaking of Cape Cod, while vacationing there this summer we met John Perry Mitchell on the beach at Orleans. John had just emerged from a dip in the good old Atlantic, and looked as if the ocean plunge and his work on the faculty at the Harvard School of Business Administration during the past year had agreed with him.
Dave Trainer is now a member of the faculty of Colgate University, having resigned at Cornell last spring to take a position with the geology department of the Hamilton, N. Y., institution.
Warren Homer has joined the ranks of the Benedicts. He was married in Paris on July 21 to Madame Fanny Bonnetete. Warren's address is now care of Bankers Trust Cos., Place Vendome, Paris.
If you are one of those who have so far forgotten to forward your post card and letter for the Tenth Year Report, please hustle it along, for there is still time to get the data on yourself brought up to date in the report.
And now ere we close we beg leave to report that '2l's new president, Dan Ruggles, has appointed Harry Chamberlaine as class agent for the Alumni Fund to fill the post vacated by Cory Litchard last June after five years of hard and able work in this difficult position. You'll hear from Harry later—and also from ye sec.
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