Class of 1921
In the first place 1921 has a new class agent for the Alumni Fund. Harry Chamberlaine felt that with his taking over of a new task in Chicago for the advertising department of Good Housekeeping, he would no longer be able to devote the time needed for the Alumni Fund, so President Dan and the administration at Hanover held a conference with the outcome that Jack Hubbell has taken over the task of seeing if 1921 ever really can raise its full quota and score that long awaited victory over 1920. And before leaving the subject, ye sec. begs to present the thanks both of the officers of 1921 and of the class itself to Harry, for all the time and energy and thought which he gave to the work during the past two years.
Ort did take that trip to Chicago and points between there and New York to which we referred a month ago, and as usual this column is the gainer. He had a good chat with Harry while in Chicago and reports that the erstwhile Jackson Heights tennis champion and his family are comfortably settled in Evanston hard by the shores of Lake Michigan. Harry is enjoying his new position very much, and in spite of his decade in Manhattan is fast becoming an enthusiastic Chicagoan.
While enjoying the breezes that blow off the lake, Ort stayed with Rog Wilde, another ex-New Yorker, who recently landed in Chicago for the second time since he graduated. Rog is now general sales representative for all the Simmons products, from beds to bridge tables, in the Loop district. It's a nice promotion for Rog. He and Mrs. Rog closed up their Great Neck, L. 1., villa about the first of March and are now comfortably settled like the Chamberlaines in Evanston. No. 472 Sheridan Road is the'address.
Ned Price, who preceded the Chamber laines and the Wildes into Evanston by so many years that he rates with the newcomers as one of the first settlers, was on hand to join in the '2l reunions which were staged during Ort's visit. Ort reports that the ex-treasurer is fast becoming what the novelists like to call a confirmed bachelor. He is as ever busy lawyering in Chicago.
On his way back East Ort spent a day in Buffalo, and while plodding along one of its boulevards, he spied a familiar figure at the wheel of an automobile which was passing. The gentleman at the wheel spied Ort at the same moment, and the result was a whine of tires halting quickly on asphalt and a brief 1921 reunion, staged by Messers Hicks and Goulding. Goldie is still one of Buffalo's fire insurance magnates and was bound out on some inspection trip to the suburbs at the time. Ort stated that if Goldie had only been wearing a white sweat-shirt and sporting a D-pipe, he would have sworn that Goldie was right on his way to the Phi Delta Theta house up in the hills, so little has he changed since that great June day now almost 12 years in the records.
Just in case you have figured out from some of the preceding items that an exodus from New York is under way and that Manhattan is fast on the route to becoming a deserted city, we beg to report the arrival of another Twenty-oner on the banks of the Hudson in the person of Walt Lundegren. This marks his return to New York after a year or more in Boston. Walt is now the Gotham representative of the Universal Products Co., distributors of Vermont and Canadian maple sugars and syrups, and has offices at 1 East 43d St., N.Y.C. A very sweet job, quip his colleagues here.
From Worcester, Mass., comes news of a promotion for Don Mix. According to a notice of Don's step up the ladder, taken in spite of the now notorious depression, Don has been for several years in charge of the conservation unit of the agency department of the State Mutual Life Assurance Company of Worcester, and he has now been appointed assistant superintendent of agencies by the company.
Ort had a letter recently from Abe Weld, who is still in London supervising the commercial activities of the Western Electric Sound System distributors in Continental Europe, Near East, and North Africa. Abe asserts that he sees no prospect of his landing back in the U.SA., except for a visit, in the near future.
Charlie Stickney forwards the news, (spotted in a Providence newspaper during the recent bank holiday), that when a group of Bay State banks were planning to unite in forming a special clearing house to handle the then predicted scrip, E. Vance Clark of the Home National Bank of Brockton, Mass., was one of the officials of the committee undertaking the work. All of which is just another indication of the rise of this Twenty-oner in the banking ranks.
Ray French, erstwhile automobile sales magnate of Stamford, Conn., has recently become connected with the Fidel Association of New York, Inc., a thrift plan organization, with offices at 420 Lexington Ave. Ray and his family closed their Shippan Point home last fall and moved into Manhattan for the winter, but they expect later on to return to the banks of the Sound.
The March issue of the magazine, TheCommercial Photographer, contains a highly interesting interview with Ralph Steiner, who has become a decidedly successful photographer, in New York City. Ralph among numerous activities is now under contract to the magazine Delineator, for which he illustrates the home economics and household pages. He has a studio at the Butterick Publishing Co. building in New York. Ralph still has motion pictures as his hobby, and according to Ort (you just can't keep that young man out of this month's notes), they are decidedly worth seeing. Ralph is not interested in the usual type of film entertainment, but enjoys getting unusual and artistic pictures of objects and persons in motion.
And now ere we part, may we suggest that the College needs your financial help more than ever this year, and even though the coins there may be fewer, a hand dug deep into your pocket is going to be a big help to Dartmouth.
Secretary, 7 Lotus Road, New Rochelle, N. Y.
