Class of 1921
Still the honors pile up for Hanover's favorite composer of not so long ago, Werner Janssen. As if winning the acclaim of the leading musical audiences of Rome and Budapest for his compositions and his conducting were not enough for one season, Werner has broken into the news columns once more. When on February 22 Mussolini helped the American colony in Rome mark Washington's Birthday by paying a visit to the American Academy there, one of the numbers included in the musicale which was presented for him was Werner's "Fantasie Minature," and it drew a "Bravo" from II Ducc. Then on March i, when Germany was in the final days of the head-line making campaign which brought Hitler the sweep he so long had sought, a huge Berlin audience forgot the political drama for an evening to attend a concert by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, which was conducted by Werner. His increasingly popular "New Year's Eve in New York" was included in the program, and drew, according to the press reports, the main acclaim of the evening. Incidentally the dispatches reaching America added the information that the large and critical audience wildly applauded the conducting of 192 I'S representative.
And there is another Twenty-oner who has been drawing good press notices of late. This gentleman's success has been in the realm of sport rather than in the field of art. Those of you who follow the sporting pages of the New York papers know that the Dartmouth Club squash team has made a fine showing in its initial season as a member of the Metropolitan Squash League, and the No. 1 man on the Big Green team throughout the season has been none other than Orton H. Hicks. And said Hicks, we might add, has been knocking off the No. 1 men of the opposing outfits with an almost monotonous regularity. We had intended to arrange an interview with Ort for this column on "How It Feels to be a Sporting Celebrity," but a call to his office today brought the information that the squash expert was away on business, so our planned article will have to go over to the May issue, and as Ort generally picks up plenty of good '21 news items on his business trips, you'll have that to look forward to also.
Incidentally we wish that we had a few of the items right now, for news about the class this month is worse than scarce.
However, we did have a nice note recently from Hal Breckenridge, the Providence, R. 1., insurance magnate, in which he tells of hearing from Ike Chester of the arrival of a second son in the Chester household. The newest candidate for Dartmouth made his initial bow at Christmas time. The Chesters now have three children. Ike, incidentally, is a vice-president of the Globe American Corporation of Kokomo, Ind., a concern which manufactures, if our memory still serves correctly, stoves and ranges. Hal adds in his letter, "I should appreciate it if you would tellany of the boys you may meet that I shallbe glad to see them if they should come toLittle Rhody's capital." And if you do make that trip to Providence you'll find Hal in the offices of the Blackstone Mutual Fire Insurance Cos. in the Grosvenor Building.
There is no busier man in the class than ' Doc Wolfe, judging from some notices of his activities which have come our way. In addition to the lecture series in Newark, N. J., which we mentioned last month, Walter is scheduled to give a series of lectures at the Community Church of New York. There are seven in the series, the first was delivered February 23, and the rest are following at weekly intervals. The subject of the series is "Practical Applications of Individual Psychology to Modern Life." In addition Walt has been conducting a mental hygiene clinic under the auspices of this church, and has been giving a series of lectures before the Brooklyn Parent Teachers Association, and also at the Institute for Advanced Education "in Manhattan.
Dr. Norm Crisp has finished up his work with the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn., and has moved back to New England. Norm has opened offices in Nashua, N. H. (in the Shea Building at 215 Main St., to be more exact), and his line is to be general surgery and diagnosis.
And that brings us to the end of this month's story. We'll really try to do a little extra news scouting before we again sit down to the secretarial typewriter, and that letter of news from you will be a big help.
Secretary, 7 Lotus Road, New Rochelle, N. Y.
