CLASS OF 1921
We've gotten behind schedule in preparing The Smoker for a waiting world, so you'll read this before that notorious publication reaches your front door, which is contrary to what we predicted last month. However, it's really on the way, and we only trust that you believe in the old saw about "better late than never."
In the meantime you may know that Ort is keeping on the job of whipping the Tenth Reunion plans into shape, and they now include everything from a good old stag supper at one of the Outing Club cabins to dances and a picnic in which our better halves may participate. Then some of the old time talent, which included all the campus headliners of our day, are being lined up for a vaudeville show that ought to make Dillingham and Ziegfeld jealous. Don't forget the dates, June 12 to 16 for the Hanover part of the celebration, and the rest of the week for the house party group.
We had a postcard the other day from Roland Batchelder, who is now ruling the destinies of the Canaan, N. H., High School, making claim that he was high man in the proud dad group of 1921. George Roland Batchelder, Batch reports, took his initial bow right on the edge of the Dartmouth campus on February 25, 1931, and he makes number five for the Batchelders. According to statistics issued at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital, where young George was born, he entered the lists at 8 pounds, 9 ounces, and is a fine husky boy. George, the records show, has three brothers and one sister. Batch promises to have the whole crowd on hand in June to show them off. And now if any other Twenty-oner has set a better record let him file his claims.
"Chuck" Moreau has sent us a copy of the newspaper of which he is editor, the Independent Press of Bloomfield, N. J., which contains the news that Hoy Schulting has been elected president of the Co-ordinate Building and Loan Association of Passaic, N. J. In addition to this job Hoy is active in the real estate and insurance field in Passaic, and according to all reports is a decidedly active individual. Incidentally we might add in passing that Chuck's paper is one of the most up-to-date weeklies we ever saw and one of which its editor can well be proud.
One very loyal Twenty-oner has been missing from the New York get-togethers of late, and inquiry reveals that he has shifted from the New York district to Syracuse, N. Y. We refer to Oky O'Connor. Oky is still in the securities game, but is now in charge of the Syracuse area for the same firm with which he was connected in New York and later in New Jersey.
Earlier this year we had word that Vic Welch had shifted from Chicago to New York, and now it develops that while Vic is still with a New York manufacturing firm he is located in Minneapolis for the time being, covering that area.
Since we last pounded these old keys we have journeyed out to Great Neck, L. 1., to see the Rog Wildes, and we beg to report that Rog and Caroline and their young son are ideally located there only a short distance from the mansion of President Hicks. Ort and Mrs. Ort were in New York the evening we were out there showing the sights to a visitor from Texas, but Rog pointed out the estate of our president as we drove by, and this will let Ort know that we were properly impressed.
Via the Alumni Records office at Hanover comes the word that Charlie Mills is now located in Minneapolis, where he is an assistant credit manager for the Pure Oil Cos. He is living at 4640 Dupont Ave. South, in Minneapolis.
Bill Marsden now hangs up his chapeau at 15 Wellesley St., Springfield, Mass. He sells in the Springfield area for a Chicago firm.
Francis Foster, who at last reports was manufacturing beds and bed springs in Pittsburgh, is now temporarily located at 14 Adams Road, Framingham Center, Mass. He lists his job as salesman, but neglects to report whether it is beds and bed springs he is selling in the Greater Boston district.
A card from Lorin Goulding reports that he is still in business in Boston, dwells at 17 Crown St., Milton, Mass., and has one daughter, who is now three years old. Also he promises to be in Hanover in June.
Charley Stickney writes from Boston and admits that he is still helping to get out Barron's National Financial Weekly. He also states that there are rumors around town that Banker Bill Owen has progressed another couple of steps up the ladder of success with the w.k. banking house of Lee, Higginson and Company, where Bill has been drawing his pay check ever since sallying forth from the hills of Hanover ten years ago come this summer.
The January issue of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, which is published by the American Chemical Society, contained an article entitled "Determination of Alkalinity of Reclaimed Rubber," which was the joint work of a gentleman named George W. Miller and our own Henry Palmer. The article aroused such interest that it was later republished in pamphlet form.
We have also received word that a volume entitled "The Psychology of Sex" as translated by Doc Walter Wolfe had been published by Farrar and Rhinehart.
The 1921 crowd in New York is holding a joint dinner at the Fraternity Clubs in New York on March 10, and ye sec. will have a full report on it in his next, but it comes just a couple of days too late for this month's copy deadline. We also believe that the Boston Alumni Association has had, or is just about to have its annual dinner, and we'll include word of that in our next too.
Ye sec. has just received the saddening news that Hank Noyes died of pneumonia during February. Hank's friendly personality and humor were an addition to any gathering in which he was included, and his going leaves a deep gap in our ranks.
Secretary,7 Lotus Road, New Rochelle, N. Y.
