Class of 1921
It is getting so that hardly a week passes without the name of one Twenty-oner breaking into the columns of the public press. Werner Janssen, the man who made his first step toward fame while still in Hanover with a decidedly catchy tune, "Dancing Honeymoon," is the gentleman to whom we refer. Werner has been a member of ,the American Academy in Rome for the past year or so, and is rapidly becoming famous overseas as one of the most talented of the younger composers. He's gone a long way since he used to delight Dartmouth with his piano playing and Carnival show scores. And as if that were not enough he has been drawing al- most as much praise for his work as an orchestra conductor. During November Werner was invited to Budapest to conduct the Philharmonic Orchestra of that city, the occasion being the first at which an American had been so honored. The concert was broadcast over an all-Euro- pean radio hookup, and according to notices appearing in the New York papers Werner delighted the European music critics by his conducting. Two of his own compositions were included in the Budapest orchestra's program: "Obsequies of a Saxophone," a chamber orchestra work first presented at the Elizabeth Coolidge music festival in Washington, D. C., in 1930, and now included in the programs of many noted orchestras, and his equally famous "New Year's Eve in New York."
Also during November the Italian maestro, Bernardino Molinari, gave the premiere performance of Werner's symphony, "Louisiana," at the inaugural concert of the Rome symphonic season.
According to a clipping just forwarded to us by George Frost, the symphony was received most enthusiastically by the audience in Rome. The clipping stated that the "young New York composer wasapplauded vociferously" at its close.
A few days after we had read of Werner's musical triumphs, we came across a story of another sort. This was to the effect that the police of Rome were searching for a valuable opera manuscript and also the manuscript of a ballet which had been stolen from Werner's apartment in Rome. The police and the American consular officials said they had some excellent clews to work on, but at this writing we have failed to find any notice of the recovery of the compositions.
"Chuck" Kerwin has just joined the 1921 throng in New York after a considerable spell in Chicago. "Chuck" lists his job as that of merchandise broker and gives his business address as 100 Hudson St., New York city. He is living at 314 West 75th St.
And from the hills of New Hampshire comes the news that Roland Batchelder, he whose large and attractive family made such a decided hit at the class picnic at the Tenth, has deserted school teaching for the life insurance game. For the last two years Batch had been principal of the high school at Canaan, N. H„ but now he has moved down to Manchester, N. H. He has a business address there at 423 Bell Building, but he lists his home address as Deerfield, N. H.
Bob Wilson has become a Jerseyite and now commutes at sundown to Collings- wood, N. J. He still does his lawyering in New York by day, however. His office is at 411 Fifth Ave.
Through the Alumni Records office in Hanover we learn that Joe Walker is manufacturing blankets in Lewiston, Me., home of the famous Bates eleven, which they are still talking about in New Haven.
Either angered at our recent crack about his Flatbush domicile or just to get closer to that golf course he was talking about last summer, Al Catterall, ex-textile magnate now in the insurance fold, reports that he may now be found of an evening at Rockville Center, L. I. And most appropriately his address is 93 Dartmouth St.
Roy Pollard is now an insurance manager for Stevens and Wood, Inc., at 120 Broadway, New York city.
From the land of the bean and the cod comes the report that under the cognomen (we hope that's not libelous) of structural engineer and appraiser, Reg Miner is engineering and appraising for the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. of 197 Clarendon St., Boston. We can, with our strictly journalistic intellect, grasp what an appraiser has to do with insurance of the life variety, but the structural stuff is beyond us, and we mean to find out the first chance we get to crowd Reg into a corner.
From Hal Geilich, leather merchant extraordinaire of Brockton, Mass., comes the glad tidings of the arrival of Miss Margery Ann Geilich on October 1, 1933.
Perusal of a recent bulletin issued concerning Dartmouth alumni association secretaries reveals that 1921 is more than holding its own in the matter of local association officials. Up in New Britain, Conn., Emory Corbin holds the secretarial job, while in Worcester, Mass., Don Mix is adding to the reputation he holds of being one of the best secretaries in the business. Out in the Rocky Mountain area, where the "Great Divide" Association holds sway, it's Jim Sabin who sends out the notices for the Denver get-togethers.
Speaking of get-togethers, we had a nice letter recently from Bill Embree, telling of a dinner held by the Chicago crowd. Unfortunately we mislaid it somewhere, so we can't list those present; however, we'll aim to salvage it and give a report next month.
Secretary, 7 Lotus Road, New Rochelle, N. Y.
