Class of 1921
The class of '2l starts the college year °f 1933"34 with something to cheer about. In spite of the severe depression of the past winter the class answered the call of the College so well during the recent Alumni Fund campaign that 1921 was one of seven classes which showed an improved record over the previous year, and thus won inclusion in the "exceptional achievements" division of a bulletin issued by the College at the close of the drive. And certainly the hats of the whole class are off to Jack Hubbell, who in his first year as class agent for the fund led '2l into the merit sector. The class, in the drive, showed improvement both in the number of contributors and in the amount of contributions, which when we look back to the period of the campaign is a splendid showing, and the officers of the class hereby extend a sincere and heartfelt vote of thanks to Jack and all of those who made possible this "exceptional achievement." The class has 250 graduates living, and the number of men contributing last year was 119 and the amount raised was $1,- 282.75.
The ranks of the class bachelors lost another member this summer. On July 1 "Skinny" Moore stepped from their midst, leaving Bud Richart and Mac Johnson to hold the fort alone at the Dartmouth Club in New York. "Skinny's" bride was formerly Miss Ann Cook of Perry, Ohio, a graduate of Antioch College. The marriage took place in New York City, where Mr. and Mrs. Moore have taken an apartment. "Skinny," in case you have forgotten, is connected with the New York office of the Fruit Dispatch Cos.
Ye sec. was a temporary dweller at the Dartmouth Club during July while his family vacationed on Cape Cod, so had a chance to interview the two deserted bachelors on "Skinny's" departure from their midst, and he begs to report that they seem to be bearing up bravely under their loss. We couldn't notice that it upset the stride of either of the boys any. "Mac" is still in Wall St. with Hornblower & Weeks, and "Bud" is still a realtor but has transferred his main activities from Westchester to New Jersey. If you radio fans will tune in on Station WBZ some Saturday evening at 7 o'clock, you'll hear a familiar voice, for Manny Manchester has joined the ranks of the news broadcasters. The Boston Herald at that hour presents a program known as "The World in Review," and Manny is the lad who does the reviewing. He presents a brief resume of the highlights of the news during the preceding seven days, and one radio fan who had not the slightest idea that Manny and ye sec. were friends told us this summer that Manny's talks were an excellent addition to the air waves features. In addition to his radio work Manny is still a writer of feature articles for the Sunday Herald.
As we drank our coffee and read our New York Times one morning recently, we came across a familiar name in a decidedly interesting interview. It seems that the gentleman being interviewed had just returned to New York after a 54-day cruise on a liner to 25 ports in 12 foreign countries, and being a psychiatrist (Yes, we're writing about "Doc" Wolfe), he had done some studying of his fellow passengers on the ship, the Holland-America liner Volendam, and his report was that the art of traveling is lost on the American public. One group was composed of representative people from cities of all sizes and men in all fields of endeavor'' Walt told the Times man, "yet almost exclusively each passenger carried into Europe his own home town environment. Few of them were elastic enough to get anything out of our journey. They went into sacred buildings and into places of rare historical lore, and came out comparing the coffee to that they got back home on Main St." Walt said that he listened to the remarks of the tourists in every city and found that they were shrugging their shoulders and telling each other how much better things were at home.
The Chicago Fair proved a drawing card to at least part of 'si's contingent. Ort Hicks was in Chicago the second week in August, and Jack Hubbell being out there at the same time, the boys rounded up Harry Chamberlaine, Rog Wilde, and Bill Embree, who, of course, are home town boys in Chi, and the quintet staged a '2l dinner and then went out to the Fair grounds. Apparently the party never got out of the section bearing the title "Streets of Paris." (We; didn't get to the Fair ourselves, but our imagination is still good.) Anyway they all reported that the Fair was a grand one. On their way into the Fair itself they spotted Ken Thomas and Dud Robinson and their wives departing after having taken in the sights.
Also Harry Chamberlaine wrote us during the summer that Evanston had become a Dartmouth stronghold during the Fair. He stated that Don Smith shook the dust of Turners Falls, Mass., from his feet long enough to visit the Rog Wildes and take in the big show. Incidentally Harry added that he and Don and Rog staged a Dartmouth golf tourney one afternoon, but that his shots somehow were a bit off on that particular occasion. Harry also stated that he had just had a letter from Ted Hartshorn, "who is in Milwaukee together with his wife, daughter and sixmonths old son, who is already developingthe famous Hartshorn lope to be used laterto garner track laurels for the Hartshornfamily." In addition Harry wrote that on a recent visit to Columbus, Ohio, he had had a chat with our old bunkie, K. L. Sater, Esq., and that Ken was still barristering away in Columbus at a lively rate and steadily climbing up the legal scale or ladder, or whatever it is that lawyers climb up.
In addition to news of the Chicago Fair, Ort brought back to New York with him word of "Jigger" Hodgdon. "Jigger," it seems, has shifted his field of activity from Cleveland to Illinois, where he is helping run a dairymen's association.
"Coot" Carder has a new job. He is now the Carder of Potter, Carder Sc Cos., which deals in individual oil royalties. The firm has offices at 500 Fifth Ave., New York City. Jim Wicker is now with Montgomery Ward Cos., and is located in St. Paul, Minn., where he is their assistant regional manager. Jim, as you may recall, has been in the chain store game most of the time since he left Hanover.
"Abe" Weld's exile in Europe has ended, and he is once more back in New York, his boss, Electrical Research Products, Inc., having set Abe to accounting on this side of the Atlantic for a change. Abe's business address is once more 250 West 57th St., New York City, and he is dwelling at 125 Washington Place, down in Greenwich Village.
Charley Stickney, who is now the representative of Babson's Reports, Inc., in the Providence, R. 1., area writes that while on a recent visit to New Bedford he found Eli Smith, the big food magnate from Boston, busily at work in the famous old whaling center, whereupon the two Twenty-oners knocked off business for lunch. Charley reports Eli little changed from his Hanover days. His great hobby now, Charley writes, is golf, and adds: "Eli is living in Newton Center, Mass., andcovering New England for his food products firm in a green car, which is as itshould be."
And now, ere we part, may be remind you that class dues are due this month, that as usual they include a year's subscription to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, and that we are adhering to our policy of the past few years, of aiming to get our class news to you through the columns of the MAGAZINE. We'll have something for you to read each month, and we'd sure like to feel that you all were reading it.
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