CLASS of 1921
In the first place, Ye sec. still needs some more letters if the Ten Year Report is going to be worthwhile getting out, so if you are one of those who have failed to heed our piteous plea, how's to let your heart soften and take a few minutes off and let the rest of 1921 hear about yourself? In any case don't fail to send us the card. And now for some news.
Paul Smith, it develops, is now a member of the faculty of Columbia University. Assistant professor of mathematics is his title.
And speaking of professors, Joe Eolger has been promoted from instructor to assistant professor in the Spanish department at Dartmouth. Apparently this teaching game keeps a man young, for when we saw Joe at the Tenth, we thought he'd changed as little as anyone in the class, and he looked not at all like a man who had just entered the ranks of the professors.
Warry Clark, who is still in the furniture game in Burlington, lowa, reports that his daughter Judith, aged five, has a little sister six months old.
Although they have already celebrated their first wedding anniversary, there is one couple whose marriage has never been duly recorded in these columns, and they are Harold L. Miller, the w.k. Jamaica, L. 1., barrister, and Miss Mildred Elizabeth Townshend of Woodhaven, L. I.
Dave Bowen is now the principal of the high school at Princeton, Mass., and in addition he reports the arrival of Miss Nancy Jane Bowen on September 14, 1931.
Art Higgins has joined the Chicago gang. Art is in the insurance game and his office is at 175 West Jackson Boulevard.
Van Vechten Shaffer is now the vicepresident of the Cedar Rapids National Bank at Cedar Rapids, lowa.
Rollo Briggs, diplomat extraordinaire, becomes our roving reporter for a few moments and states that Gord Merriam was in the U. S. A. just before taking over the consul's office, at Cairo, Egypt, and '21's two statesmen got together in Washington, before Gord sailed. Rollo asserts that Gord looked well, in spite of the fact that he had just had his tonsils extracted by a Back Bay surgeon by the name of Ben Tenney. Rollo himself is still being kept at the State Department in Washington by his boss, the Hon. Henry L. Stimson.
After finishing some graduate work at Stanford University, Otis Severance is back East once more, and is teaching mathematics at the Brookline, Mass., High School.
And before we get too far away from the subject of bankers we beg to report that Vance Clark, who for several years has been trust officer of the Home National Bank in Brockton, Mass., was on August 24 made a vice-president of the bank.
Carlton Sullivan is now assistant credit manager for the New York Telephone Company at their Mount Vernon, N. Y., office.
A card from London indicates that Connie Keyes got safely back to England from the Tenth, and is once more hard at work in London's financial district.
Jim Stanley, who is still holding down the job of superintendent of the woolen plant, the Robinson Manufacturing Co. in Oxford, Me., passes on the glad news that Chick Stiles is a proud papa. The big event took place during August (exact date unknown), and the future Dartmouth man's name is Robert Noyes Stiles.
Dick Hart recently became connected with the First Union Trust and Savings Bank at Chicago. His particular field is real estate loans.
Farrar and Rinehart, the publishers, have just brought out a book entitled "How to be Happy Though Human," by Dr. Walter Wolfe. We don't know just when Walter found time to write the book, for he is an exceedingly busy young man these days. In addition to carrying out his work in psychiatry in New York he is the director of the Community Church Mental Hygiene Clinic and is on the staff of the Monterey School for Character Training at Great Barrington, Mass.
Rex King passes on the good news that Herb Jagels was married on July 12 to Miss Barbara Stevens Brainard.
Prexy Ruggles writes in from Boston to state that the 1921 gang around Boston is planning the annual get-together at the City Club in Boston on the eve of the Harvard game.
And speaking of football, once again Dr. Norm Crisp has obtained a leave from the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn., for the fall, and is helping Jack Cannell as a line coach.
In addition to his data on the Boston dinner, Dan shipped us a couple of extra items, which follow:
"Elmer Harper probably covers more territory than any 1921 man in New England. His firm, Harper and West, architects, specialize in banks and school construction all over New England, and Elmer has to be on the job to see that everything is completed in time.
"Chick Stiles, eminent food broker and artist, is also a golf expert. He played on the Bellevue Golf Club fourball team last summer, and his name appeared as a contestant in many open tournaments in the vicinity of Boston.
"Ort Hicks managed to make a one-night stop recently in Salem en route throughout New England, where he was lining up dealers for Home Film Libraries. The same night Coot Carder, spending a vacation in Lynn, joined us and we three had an informal 1921 meeting."
Sherry Sherwood, who until this fall has been manager of the Los Angeles office of the Sperry Flour Company, has just been transferred to San Francisco, where he has become export manager for the same concern.
Also from San Francisco comes the report that Freddy Hale is now an internal revenue agent for Uncle Sam, and is connected with the San Francisco office.
Shorty Bateman writes in from Evansville, Ind., where he is managing a W. T. Grant chain store, to report that his second son, Richard, is going to be a second Cuddy Murphy, which should be bad news for Harvard and Yale when they get looking ahead a few years.
And I guess that about winds us up for this month. We'll hope to have some news of who shows up at some of the football games in our next.
Secretary, 7 Lotus Road, New Rochelle, N. Y
