Class of 1921
The Dartmouth Club in New York staged an old-fashioned football smoker the night before the Penn game this fall, and it turned out to be quite a 1921 party. No class dinner was staged in connection with the smoker, but thirteen members of the class were in the big crowd which was on hand, and '21 was represented on the program of entertainers by Rog Bird, who sang with the University Glee Club quartet of which he is a member. And if you don't think those boys are good, you should have heard the hand they got. Also the show was run off under the direction of Jack Hubbell as master of ceremonies. Just to make it seem more like the old Hanover days for the Twenty-oners present, Carl Newton '20 was on the program. If anything, Carl's Oxford experience and his days as an assistant federal district attorney in New York have made him better than ever at the sleight of hand, magician business and his new tricks had this department and the rest of the audience completely mystified. The football part of the party was taken care of by Harry Hillman, Jack Ingersoll '11, and Eddie Dooley '26, all of whom should know something about the gridiron game if anybody does. It got the gang into the proper football frame of mind, even those of us who couldn't get down to Philadelphia next day. The '21 delegation out at the party in addition to Rog and Jack included: Mac Johnson, "Skinny" Moore (just to prove even a newly married man can get a night out), Sumner Perkins, Doug Storer, Ort Hicks, Abe Weld, Carlton Sullivan, "Bandy" Lowe, Cliff Hart, "Bunny" Gardner, and yours truly. And before we get entirely away from Rog and his quartet, we'd like to point out that this is one of the most popular quartets in the New York area. In addition to scoring a big hit at every concert of the University Glee Club of New York, they warble at plenty of club get-togethers each season, to say nothing of singing over the radio. P. S. In case you haven't seen Rog lately, his build is getting back to his figure of the Hanover era, and he looks less like that slim little fella that showed up for the Tenth.
As this is written, ye sec. has yet to see Dartmouth play this fall (we plan to be in Palmer Stadium, Princeton, for the kickoff Saturday, however), but using the telephone this afternoon we found out that Ort Hicks stood at the other end of the attendance list and had been at the Penn, Harvard, and Yale games. (Some fellows get all the luck.) Ort reports that going over to Philly for the Penn battle, he traveled on the train with the team and had a long talk with its famous line coach, Dr. Norm Crisp, who is little changed despite his years of doctoring from the chap who was such a rock at guard in those famous lines of 1919 and 1930. Ort sat at the game with Jack Hubbell and Rex King, who is still engineering the phone rates in Jersey. On their way into Franklin Field they ran into "King" Cole, the noted barrister, who had run over from Atlantic City for the game. At the Harvard game, which he attended with President Dan, Ort saw Bill Kearns (will you ever forget the '2i-'22 keg rush at 1919 wet-down?) and Jim Dodge, who now has the Nash agency at Laconia, N. H. Also El Fisher, the grocery store magnate (and we mean magnate too), who was on from Cleveland for the game. At New Haven Ort spotted Bill Terry, who is still in the publishing game in New York, and once more "King" Cole.
As yet the '21 crowd in New York hasn't had its regular fall get-together, but it is scheduled for November 25, the day of the Chicago game. It will be a lunch instead of a dinner, and afterward the boys will listen in on the Dartmouth Club's direct wire reports from Chicago. More of this next month.
If you are in the habit of listening in at 10 o'clock, New York time, Saturday nights to the radio programs of B. A. Rolfe's orchestra and have enjoyed the college music football scores they have been putting on, you can thank our own Doug Storer, for it was Doug who devised that decidedly popular stunt. As we've pointed out before, Doug has climbed far in the world of radio, and now has charge of several big radio advertising accounts and looks after their programs. On the night after the Penn game, Doug had the University Glee Club on the air with the Rolfe orchestra, and Rog Bird was in the group that sang. And Doug saw to it that "Eleazar Wheelock" was among their numbers. As the orchestra got a chance to play "As the Backs Go Tearing By" in honor of the Green's victory that afternoon, it was truly quite a Dartmouth night. Also we knew well how low Doug felt last week when the "Boola Song" floated out over the air in place of a Dartmouth tune.
The class of '2l had a part in the fusion victory just won over Tammany in New York, for Cliff Hart, architect extraordinaire, helped campaign in Brooklyn for Major LaGuardia's colleague, W. A. Cunningham, who was elected comptroller.
The secretarial bonnet is hereby doffed most heartily in the general direction of Detroit in honor of the advancement to membership in the law firm of Beaumont, Smith, & Harris of Joe Vance. To win a partnership in a prominent law firm is assuredly a signal honor and the Secretary hereby offers for the class its most sincere congratulations!
Speaking of congratulations, Hal and Dorothy Smith are receiving them up in West Barrington, R. 1., over the arrival of a daughter in the Smith household. This brings their family to three, two boys and a girl. Hal, in case you have forgotten, is in the wool business. The new young lady's name is Miss Claire Holmes Smith, and she's already looking forward to the day when she can go up to the Harvard stadium and watch her big brothers perform for the Green.
Just to prove that Providence is not wholly Brown in its sympathies, the Rhode Island Dartmouth Association held a get-together at the Providence University Club on Friday evening, October 20. Judge James C. Donnelly '05 of the Worcester, Mass., Superior Court, a famous Dartmouth football player in his college days, gave a talk on "Football and its Development," and 1921 was represented at the affair by Charley Stickney, Hal Smith, and Russ Goodnow.
Ted Sonnenfeld has deserted Wall Street and the rest of Manhattan for his old home town of Albany, N. Y. He has entered the insurance game there. His new home address is 745 Western Ave., Albany, and his office is at 90 State St. in that city.
Ken Yeaton is now the assistant comptroller of the Children's Aid Society of New York City with offices at 105 East 22d St. Like his classmate, Dick Libby of the Western Electric Co., Ken commutes to New York daily from Darien, Conn.
By the time you read this, Christmas will be speeding fast upon us, and ye sec. in closing wishes you all a very Merry Christmas.
Secretary, 7 Lotus Road, New RocheUe, N. Y.
