CLASS OF 1921
Hold everything!!! Not so long after you read this America's great news sheet, The Smoker, will be laid at your doorstep with full details of the Titanic Tenth. June 12 to 16 are the dates. And the party will extend beyond that for those who take in the house party afterwards. Ort is at present corresponding with one of the leading hotels in the White Mountains sector regarding this part of the program, and The Smoker will give you full details. The program for the Hanover part of the get-together is well in the making and will be ready for announcement to the great public shortly. Needless to say Ort is planning something doing every minute for everyone.
The New York '21 crowd had a fine turnout at the annual dinner of the New York Alumni Association held at the Hotel Plaza Wednesday evening, January 28. For the third year in a row 1907 won the cup presented to the class having the largest percentage of its New York group present, but 1921 gave them a good run for their money and took second place. We had 26 men out, as follows: Rex King, Jack Reilly, Tom Griffith, Dave Plume, Chuck Moreau, Bob Loeb, Tracy Higgins, Paul Nicholson, Ernie Wilcox, Jack Hubbell, Ort Hicks, Harry Chamberlaine, Gos Halsey, Doug Storer, Coot Carder, Mac Johnson, Lovell Cook, Bill Alley, Artie Anderson, Frank Livermore, Doc Rosenthal, Red Kerlin, Walter Wolfe, John Vanderveer, Sumner Perkins, and ye sec. Then Bud Richart and Cliff Hart, who due to other dinner engagements had been unable to be present for the whole evening, dropped in before the party broke up.
1921 came in for further honors at the dinner, when for the third successive year, Harry Chamberlaine was chosen secretary-treasurer of the New York Alumni Association.
Here are a few items gleaned at the dinner. Jack Hubbell unshaken and unbowed after many months standing behind Simmons beds had just returned to Gotham, after a trip into what is known on Broadway as the Middle West, and he reported seeing quite a few of the gang. While attending a furniture trade show in Chicago, he was notified one day that two men desired to see him at once. With visions of its being a pair of Al Capone's henchmen, he went to the front of the Simmons Bed booth, to find Warry Clark and Joe Lane awaiting him. Warry, it seems, was representing his firm, Chittenden and Eastman, furniture manufacturers in Burlington, lowa, and Joe Lane his Chattanooga, Tenn., outfit, at the same show.
Jack also revealed that all the shooting recently up in Alexandria, Minn, (that's as near as we can make it out from our notes, which were hastily scribbled at the time), was due to the presence there of that famous foursome, Rynie Rothschild, Ky Frost, Dewey Gruenhagen, and Jack. Jack alleged the boys made a hot golf foursome, and though we can't exactly picture a golf foursome in Minnesota in mid-winter we understand some queer things have happened out that way this winter, so we'll take Jack's word for it. Jack says that Rynie lost his dad recently, and now had the job of carrying-on with their real estate firm in St. Paul. Jack also saw Red Ege in St. Paul, and says our ex-vice-president is still lawyering it at a great rate with Secretary Kellogg's firm, and is still one of Minnesota's most eligible bachelors.
Tom Griffith informed us at the dinner that he no longer hangs his hat under the red star of Macy, but is now connected with the merchandising department of the J.C. Penney Co., in their New York headquarters. His business address is now 330 West 34th St., New York city.
Frank Livermore reported himself as being connected with the advertising department of the Thomas Publishing Co., in the Printcrafts Building at 8th Ave. and 34th St., New York city.
And Hank Cook, the big Manhattan insurance man, is getting even stouter than ye sec. He admits to still being a Brooklynite at night.
The Rog Wildes have joined the New York crowd. Shortly after the new year the Lyon Metal Products Company, for which he works and with whose manufacturing plant in Aurora, 111., he had been connected since early last summer, informed Rog that he was to join the sales department of the New York office at once, so Rog, having moved his wife and young son out from Boston a few months before, moved them back East once more. He decided at once to become a suburbanite, and was torn for a time between Larchmont and Great Neck, L. I. Ye sec. argued the case for Larchmont and Ort for Great Neck, and that Ort's line is still the better one is amply proven by the fact that Rog and his family have joined the Great Neckers with Ort. Rog's address there is President's Court (There aren't enough houses on the street to number 'em, Ort avers), and his business address is 342 Madison Ave., New York city.
Rog says that a few weeks before he left Aurora he had a visit from Don Smith, the paper manufacturing magnate from Turners Falls, Mass., and that Don is as hale and hearty and prosperous looking as ever. He also says that he saw Chuck Kerwin quite frequently in Chicago, and that Chuck is still in the importing business but has changed firms.
Howie Heath, who used to be one of our securities men, has become a civil service examiner for the state of New Jersey. His business address is now % the State House at Trenton, N. J., and he resides at 34 North Dean Ave., Trenton.
Ken Bean, who is still connected with the West High School at Manchester, N. H, reports that he spent last summer attending' the Harvard Summer School and that Dave Bowen was there also. In addition Ken tells of chasing Dr. Al Brailey into the Massachusetts General Hospital one hot day last summer, Al now being one of Boston's rising young physicians.
Bob MacDonald challenges, "Can't find much space on me, Herrick." Maybe so, but at least we can report that Bob still travels extensively for a Cleveland, Ohio, firm, and still makes his home in the East at Roslindale, Mass.
Raphael Murray still peddles securities in up-state New York, and still makes his headquarters in Albany. Incidentally Ort ran into him at the Dartmouth Club in New York recently, and he says Raphael was seeking news as to the liveliest musical show in town preparatory to a large evening along the gay white way.
Speaking of Albany, that famous former Albanian, Ted Sonnenfeld, finds the call of New York still louder than that of the upper Hudson Valley, but he has changed firms. He is still in the Wall St. game, but is now connected with Curtis and Co., at 25 Broadway, New York.
Ye sec. had a most pleasant surprise recently in a visit from Ken Sater, who had briefly deserted his Columbus, Ohio, lawoffice on some New York matter. He had some foolish idea about darting right back to Columbus on the next train, but we blocked that and spent a most delightful week-end reviving memories of the days when we both answered the call of the bells in Rollins Chapel from good old 14 Hitchcock. Ken looks well, and is apparently more than busy with his law work. Incidentally Ken was recently elected president of the Chi Phi Club of Columbus, which is, by the way, a hotbed of Ohio State Chi Phis.
Ray French pleads guilty to the pleasant pastime of touring Europe with his family. He promises to return to his Shippan Point, Conn., villa in time to rush off again to Hanover in June.
His honor the mayor, otherwise known as John L. Sullivan, is still having the same political success he did back in the Hanover days, and was recently re-elected by the voters of Hillsborough County, N. H., to the post of county solicitor, a job which is perhaps better known as that of district attorney.
Also the cards have brought us news of the marriage of Mick Shoup. Mick was married September 16, 1930, to Miss Dorothy Chambers. They are residing in Denver, and he plans to bring his bride on East for the big party in June.
And with the peal of wedding bells still ringing in our ears we'll sign off for another month.
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