Class of 1921
The day is saved this month by Editor Chuck Moreau of the Bloomfield, N. J., Independent. Chuck in addition to his professional editorship is graduate editor of the newspaper published by the Dartmouth chapter of the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity, and he has very kindly forwarded a copy to ye sec. It contains a fine showing of alumni news, and here are a few items about the '21 delegation which have so far escaped the secretarial type- writer. We'll take them in the order in which they appear in Chuck's column.
"Doc Kavanaugh is president of theLions Club in Belleville, N. J., where hehas established himself as one of the town'sleading physicians. Just to show that thelegs of all the gang have not begun togive out, Doc spends part of his time inthe spring and summer playing baseball onthe Belleville Lions Club nine.
"The Charlie Gilsons have a new daughter, bom last summer. This is their secondyoungster, the other being a boy bornseveral years ago. Charlie is with theMetropolitan Life Insurance Co., and asrecorded here previously is now connectedwith their Chicago office."
Chuck's paper then proceeds to prove us a liar. Taking note of a recent change of address sent in from Hanover about Bob Wilson, which recorded a move to Collings- wood, N. J., but gave him a New York business address, and failing to get out our atlas to refresh our knowledge of Jersey geography, we proceeded to picture Bob as commuting into Manhattan daily from that Jersey town, which is a suburban one all right, but suburban for Philadelphia, not New York. Bob is now an attorney for the Radio Corporation of America, and while he still carries a mail address through the New York office of the company, he is located in the main at their Camden, N. J., offices, which are close to the previously cited Collingswood.
Next follows a letter from Pete Bailey, who is located out in Duluth, Minn., with the Minnesota Power and Light Co., and as far too little about Pete has found its way into these columns in the last few years we are going to quote a bit from his letter.
"After graduation," he writes, "I spentthe next three years at M.I.T. trying toabsorb a little electrical engineering. Icame out here July z, 1924. The first fiveyears here I spent on rate work, varied bya year out on one of the outlying divisionsabsorbing a little practical operatingknowledge.
"Then in Jidy, 1929, through a combination of circumstances, I came into my presentjob as statistician and secretary to thepresident. Anyway here I am, still hardat it trying to explain decreasing revenuesand why expenses don't go down anyfaster.
"Somehow or other I persuaded MissVirginia Nott to take me on for better orworse in 1924. So far we have two boys—P. J. (Pete Junior), born January 5, 1925,and Robert Wallace, born April 12, 1930.The oldest is in the second grade in schooland gave signs of being a better studentthan his old man until the last report card—ah me!"
We also want to quote a bit from a letter by Dick Libby, which gives a good line on what he has been doing since he gathered in his sheepskin.
"I taught school for awhile after college," Dick writes, "then I worked up amaster's degree at Harvard in economics.While there I grabbed a job with theMassachusetts Department of Agriculture,Division of Markets, doing research andpreparing to work into a job with anagricultural co-operative marketing association. I gave that up to take a job withthe Western Electric Co. in New York, andhave been there ever since.
"I married a little rebel from Virginiaand took her out to Darien, Conn., andset her to running a house. The most exciting thing that probably ever happened tous was the arrival of a baby boy while Iwas in Florida fishing, the son of a gunbeing a month ahead of time, whichgreatly amused my wife and caused greatconsternation among our friends, all ofwhom seemed to feel that they had to playthe part of the nervous father in myabsence."
Chuck also has sent us a clipping from the Newark, N. J., News, reporting that 1921's representative in the field of psychiatry, Doc Wolfe, has been giving a course of lectures on psychology this winter before the Community Forum of Newark.
From the coast of the Pacific, there comes news of Rudie Blesh. (If we only had that good professor of English, George Frost, here, or better still could join him in his sanctum in Hanover, we might complete this item in the good rhythm in which we started. Don't worry; without his help we aren't going to try.) Anyway from San Francisco we learn that Rudie is continuing to display the artistic flair he showed when he was Jacko's art editor, even if he has transferred his talents to another field, for Rudie is a designer and interior decorator now, with offices at 550 Sutter St,., San Francisco.
From Harry Chamberlaine comes a note carrying sad news for the New York gang and good news for the brethren in Chicago, for Harry reports that he is being trans- ferred by Good Housekeeping, in whose advertising department he labors, from New York to the famous city on the lake. And it's with sincere regret that the New York crowd sees him go, for he has been a loyal and active worker both for the College and the class in little old Gotham.
In his letter he also tells of a recent visit to Cleveland, where he saw El Fisher. "El," Harry reports, "is practically running Cleveland at the present time. I wentto a bicycle race with him and it was likegoing to a baseball game with the presidentof the United States—seats right in themiddle of the front row, etc."
From Charlie Stickney has come a letter explaining why he and his family are now domiciled on the outskirts of Providence, R. I., instead of in a Boston suburb. Charlie, it develops, has shifted from the editorial ranks of Barron's National FinancialWeekly to the forces of Babson's Statistical Organization, Inc., for which he is now the Rhode Island field representative. Charlie says that he is making his Providence headquarters with none other than Russ Goodnow, president of the Machine Parts Corp., at 271 Washington St. in Rhode Island's capital. Russ, Charlie says, is dividing his time these days between this business, another one in Boston, and his home in Waban, Mass. Of other Twenty- oners located in Little Rhody, he reports as follows. Hal Smith is selling wool for Asa Peck & Co. of Providence and Hal Breckenridge is an insurance magnate, being no less a personage than assistant secretary of the Blackstone Mutual Fire Insurance Co. in Providence.
And now, if a few more of you fellow citizens will kindly give us the help which these lads have, you'll find us doing business at the same old stand when the "April showers come along."
Secretary, 7 Lotus Road, New Rochelle, N. Y.
