CLASS OF 1921
Just a few days after you read this we'll all be heading for Hanover and the long awaited Tenth. By now you've seen the Smoker, and know all that Ort and his committees have planned for your pleasure, so we shan't go over that again, but don't forget that it's still not too late to join in, if you were one of those who did not see the way clear to be present when the reunion reply cards were first sent you. Don't be one of those who will spend the next five years wishing that they had been on hand and not missed out on the best party ever. All roads lead to Hanover for '21 just now, so follow the green line, and we'll see you there, all of you. That able scout who flourished the motto, "When better beds are built, I'll stand behind them too," writes in from Cincinnati, whither he had gone on a business trip, to help ye sec. fill these columns, and the items submitted by vice-president Jack are as follows: Cory Litchard and Lovell Cook are going to carry on their insurance work on a merged basis. They are taking over the Springfield, Mass., agency of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, which agency they will run in the future. By the time you read this Hank will have moved from New York to Springfield, where Cory for years has been one of the leading citizens. Hank since soon after graduation has been ranked as one of Gotham's successful young insurance men, but he looks for even more of the success he found amidst the tall towers now that he has joined Cory in Springfield.
Before starting out on the above mentioned trip Jack ran into Rex Stark in New York. Rex was in Manhattan on a business trip from Des Moines, lowa, where he makes his headquarters. Jack reports that Rex has made fine progress in the last ten years and is now sales promotion manager for the Meredith Publishing Co.
He also enclosed in his letter two clippings. One was from the Amos Parrish Magazine, which is the mouthpiece of an organization counseling retail groups on sales promotion and merchandising and which listed among the "things liked today" Ralph Steiner's motion pictures, which "like his photographs, are thrilling." These pictures of Ralph's were shown recently at the Broadhurst Theater in New York and drew a heap of critical praise. Dartmouth's grandest class was represented at the showing by Ort Hicks and Dan Ruggles, the latter having dashed down from Boston from a week-end with Ort and family, and both of '2l's representatives joined heartily in the chorus of praise the pictures called forth.
Jack's other clipping was from a radio news column in the New York World Telegram, and read as follows:
"You remember of course that energetic jazz composer, Werner Janssen, who won the prize of the American Academy in Rome last year with his pyrotechnic 'New Year's Eve in New York.' Well, Mr. Janssen is traveling now on the continent and he sends a letter to John F. Royal, who knew him when they were both connected with WTAM.
"Mr. Janssen has been devoting the greater part of the year he has been in Europe to musical interpretation and composition. And in a paragraph of the letter he remarks: 'Just returned from a concert trip to Vienna and Budapest. Have premiere of my new string quartet (jazz of course) at the Philharmonic Society in Rome May 4.' "
Ralph Baker has shifted from Jamaica Plain, Mass., to New York, and is now in the process of getting a new Kresge store under way at 3940 White Plains Road, which is in the far reaches of the Bronx. He is living in Mount Vernon.
Once again ye sec. missed out on the secretaries' meeting held in Hanover the first week-end in May. We've only been able to swing it to get there once in the last five years, which is a pretty punk record we admit, but at least we don't hear any shrieks of disapproval from Prexy Hicks, who again took our place this spring with the able assistance of Tracy Higgins, the w.k. Brooklyn ink magnate and bank executive. These two gentlemen drove up for the party in Tracy's car, stopping over night on the way up with the Cory Litchards in Springfield. Ort reports that the meeting this year was just as enjoyable as the others he has attended, and that one of its high lights was a speech by Don Mix of Worcester, Mass., on the work of local alumni groups and their possibilities, Don being the able secretary of the Worcester outfit. Incidentally Don was elected a member of the executive committee of the Dartmouth Secretaries Association for the coming year.
Ort reports that that week-end saw a miniature '2l reunion under way, for several other members of the class were in Hanover. It seems that Theta Chi, Phi Sigma Kappa, and Alpha Chi Rho are working out some plan for fixing up the grounds between their houses into a triangular garden or parkway "or sumpin' " and had called in some alumni to sit in on the conferences. In addition to Tracy, Theta Chi was represented by Bob Loeb, the Manhattan barrister, while in the Alpha Chi Rho group was "Chuck" Moreau, the Bloomfield, N. J., editor. Then Joe Folger, one of Phi Sig's "fratres in urbe," if you recall your Aegis, did some of the arguing for his group. Incidentally we might mention in passing that the Dartmouth trustees at their spring meeting promoted Joe from instructor to assistant professor of Spanish.
Ort also reports that when he talked with Cory Litchard, Cory told him that he needed the help of every man in the class this year to get our quota across in the Alumni Fund drive, so if you haven't mailed that check yet, it's still not too late.
We had a pleasant call this spring from Charlie Stickney, financial writer for Barron's National Weekly and frequent chronicler of things Bostonian. Charlie had run over from the Hub to take a look at that Street he writes about so frequently in his daily work.
Since returning to Boston he has used that eagle eye of his to aid our cause with the following item gleaned from his allied publication, the Wall Street Journal, which stated that "A protective committee has been formed for the holders of the first mortgage bonds of the Minnesota and Ontario Paper Co Seroes A, B, and C, with Frank R. Shrader of Halsey, Stuart, and Co., as chairman, and Harry Mosser as secretary," the Mosser in question being none other than our own Chicago banker.
And now before it gets any later we beg to state that after some vigorous cross-questioning in his office the other day our president admitted that he had neglected to inform us that there was another daughter in the Hicks household, and she arrived way back in September, too. Anyway, late though it is, we hereby introduce to the gang Miss Wendy Hicks, debutante daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orton H. Hicks of New York and Great Neck, L. I. Ort has three youngsters now, two girls and one boy.
Paul Sanderson is winding up his interneship at the Hartford, Conn., hospital and will hang out his shingle in Springfield, Mass., about August 1.
Dave Bowen is now connected with the high school at Princeton, Mass. He reports that after July 1 he will be located at South Lincoln, Mass.
Hugh Cruikshank sends the good news that he is now located with the consolidated offices of the Boston and Maine railroad at Concord, N. H., while reports from the Middle West indicate that Doug Fay is still a banker at Urbana, Ill.
Jay Fuller has become a partner in the Monark Razor Strop Co. at Contoocook, N. H.
And the rest of the news we'll save until we see you in Hanover. June 12 to 16 are the dates for the party there, with the rest of the week for the good time at Whitefield.
And now as our term comes to a close we want to extend our sincere thanks to the whole class for its co-operation during the last five years, to all those who took time to write ye sec. a note or two or three to let the class in on what was going on, and also to ye see's fellow officers, who have worked long and constantly to help him. Whereupon we bow in farewell, and again we thank you.
Secretary, 7 Lotus Road, New Rochelle, N. Y.
