Class of 1921
The summer of 1934 is certain to be noted in the annals of 1921 as the year when three of its leading bachelors deserted the ranks of the single, and answered the call of the wedding bells. Red Kerlin was the first to step up to the altar, and Bord Helmer followed him into the sea of matrimony. And by the time you read this Jack Hubbell will be a benedict.
Red was married in Grace Cathedral in San Francisco on June 30 to Miss Rowene Thompson, "a native daughter of California." Red says that they were introduced by Karl Brooks '22 shortly after he (Red) moved from New York to the shores of the Golden Gate. Mrs. Kerlin is a graduate of the University of Nevada, where she took her A.B. degree, and she later received an M.A. from the University of California. She is a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. After leaving the University of California, she became a teacher of Spanish and music, and more recently she has been teaching Spanish and French at one of the Coast junior colleges. Karl was best man at the wedding, and one of the ushers was Ritchie Smith '26. Red and his bride went to Honolulu on their honeymoon. They are residing in San Francisco, where Red is sales manager for the National Carbon Co.
Bord's wedding took place in New Haven, Conn., in the Dwight Memorial Chapel of Yale University. (Let's hope that a Dartmouth man's wedding there will help break the old jinx.) Bord's bride was Miss Elizabeth Burd Reed, daughter of Prof, and Mrs. Edward Bliss Reed of Yale. Mrs. Helmer attended the Westover School and Vassar College, and is a member of the Junior League and of the Colonial Dames. Mr. and Mrs. Helmer are to reside after October 15 at 17 East 84th St. in New York City, where Bord is a prominent member of the firm of C. W. Young & Cos., investment counselors.
On July 1 Mr. and Mrs. Harry Eugene Seanor of Evanston, 111., announced the engagement of their daughter Ruth to our own Jack Hubbell, skipper of 1921's part in the annual Alumni Fund drive and advertising manager for the Simmons Company. Miss Seanor is a graduate of Connecticut College and has won an enviable reputation in Evanston as a singer. Jack's wedding has been set for Thursday, September 20 in the First Presbyterian church of Evanston.
Before we go further we'd like to report that one night late in August we saw the present Grand Alpha of the Bachelors Club of 1921, Mac Johnson, and he appeared not one bit dismayed by the wholesale desertion in his ranks. "No, sir, theyhaven't got me yet," he told your reporter, adding something about doubting that they ever would, which ought to be a challenge to some charming young maiden. Mac is still keeping the wheels turning down in Wall St. and still resides in all his single glory at the Dartmouth Club.
Before we go any further, and at the risk of including an item that may not be news to some of you, we'd like to turn back to last June's Commencement and tell of the high honor bestowed on that distinguished Twenty-oner, Werner Janssen, who was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Music by his Alma Mater and ours. There certainly is no member of the class who has gone further in his chosen field than has Werner and incidentally there is no member of whom '21 can be more proud. To have captured the musical world of Europe as Werner did both by his conducting and his own compositions while he was in Rome the last three years is high enough tribute in itself, and now Werner has returned to New York, and this coming season is to conduct the Philharmonic Orchestra in some of its concerts, which surely adds to his ranking as one of the world's most promising young musicians. And we hereby take this opportunity of extending 192 l's most hearty congratulations and best wishes for the even more brilliant future which we feel so certain lies ahead. We might mention in passing also that as far as we can learn Werner is the first member of Dartmouth's greatest class to win an honorary degree anywhere, and certainly from the College.
And before we get too far away from Commencement we'd like to report that 1921 was further honored on that illustrious occasion when Jack Hubbell was elected a member-at-large of the Dartmouth Alumni Council.
Ye sec. and his family spent their vacation this summer at Quonochontaug, R. I. (Spell that one without looking it up), and while there we had the pleasure of a call from Charlie and Emily Stickney, who dwell not so far away at Barrington, R. I. They had with them their three future Carnival girls, the Misses Emily, Julia (better known as Judy), and Barbara Stickney, and the sixth member of the family, the Hon. Punch A. (for airedale) Stickney, a pal, of course of Judy. Charlie reported that on a recent jaunt up to Boston he had run into Reg Miner, and that Reg was serving as a member of the city mortgage division staff of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Cos. of Boston, was dwelling out in Wellesley Hills, and stated that his "better halfcmd, two youngsters" were getting along nicely. Charlie also told of having recently seen Vance Clark, the big banker from Brockton, Mass., and that Vance stated that he was enjoying his new home in Hingham, Mass., greatly.
Dick Barnes and Miss Isabel Mackay Turnbull, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David M. Turnbull were married in Worcester, Mass., on June 2. Dick and Mrs. Barnes are now residing at 28 Hovey St., Watertown, Mass.
A note in the book column of the New York Herald* Tribune tor August 2 conveyed the news that Dr. W. Beran Wolfe had sailed the day before aboard the liner Oriente for a three weeks' cruise to Mexico City and Havana with Mrs. Wolfe, following the completion of his latest book,
"A Woman's Best Years," which the publishing firm of Long & Smith included in its September list. And as if writing a book of his own were not enough, Beran made a translation for the Yale University Press of a work by Dr. Richard Muller-Freienfels, noted German author, which is being brought out in the United States under the title of "The Evolution of Modern Psychology." Incidentally Beran was recently added to the neuro-psychiatric staff of the Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
Jack Gray don has been transferred from Philadelphia to Montreal by N. W. Ayer & Son, and his business address there is 1543 Sun Life building.
Kent McKinley, who won fame in the world of footlights and grease paint during his undergraduate days when he was a member of the Dartmouth Players, deserted Wall St. and its ticker tape this summer for his earlier love, and moved up to Clayton, N. Y., irj the Thousand Islands country, where he served as writer, producer, and director of the Clayton Summer Civic Playhouse. Kent landed on the front pages of the metropolitan dailies early in August, when he came within an ace of coaxing the famous comedienne May Irwin out of retirement to appear in one of his productions.
From the Mid-West comes word that Russ Miller has been named the manager of the Medinah Country Club at Medinah Ill.
Bob Barton is now connected with the American Oil Co. at Bluefield, W. Va.
Tony Gates, who used to make the halls of Hitchcock ring with his arias, has moved back to Boston from Philadelphia. His new business address is 230 Summer St., Boston, and he is still selling in the wool game, and singing in the shower, we bet.
From Hanover and the Alumni Records Office comes news that the Rev. George Ferguson Jr., formerly rector in Springfield, Mass., is now located at South Hero, Vt., on the shores of Lake Champlain.
Boston's loss has become, as we think we've heard it said, New York's gain by the transfer of the Hon. Bill Owen from the shores of Massachusetts Bay to the banks of the Hudson. Bill has left Lee, Higginson & Co., in whose Boston office he had been ever since 1921, and has become connected with the (new) Lee, Higginson Corp. in its New York office. Bill's new business address is 37 Broad St., New York City. He and Lillian have been living this summer at 425 West 23d St., in Manhattan.
Another former resident of the Hub area shifted to New York this summer in the person of John Perry Mitchell, who resigned from the faculty of the Harvard School of Business Administration in June. We haven't yet learned just what the exact position is which Perry has taken, but we know it's something to do with finance and business, and we'll aim to have more complete information ready by the time we next sit down at this machine.
Twenty-One's Famous Janssen President Hopkins awarding honorary degree of Doctor of Music to Werner Janssen '21 at June Commencement.
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