Class of 1921
When the football season reached the major game status, the class had its first get-together of the season, the Boston 1921 crowd holding a dinner in the president's room at the University Club on Friday, October 26, the eve of the Harvard game. The classes of '11, '17, '20, '25, and '27 held dinners there the same evening, and of these only '11 exceeded '21 in the number of men out. Twenty members of the class were present, and these included several men from out of the Boston area, who were in the Hub for the game. Pick Ankeny on from Minneapolis beat all the others in distance traveled to see the game, and others from out of town on hand were: Marsh Whelden, down from Rutland, Vt., Nels Smith, down from Concord, N. H., Rex King, up from New Jersey, who arrived with Chan Symmes, who was his host for,the week-end, and Ort Hicks, of New York and Great Neck, L. I., who was with his week-end host, President Dan. The others out were: Frank Ross, Bill Perry, Tom Cleveland, Red Stanley, Don Morse, El Harper, Charlie Johnson, Hal Geilich, Reg Miner, Leighton Tracy, Russ Bailey, Tom Norcross, and Chan Cavis.
Ye Sec. got up to New Haven for the Yale game, but didn't have the good fortune to sit near any other Twentyoners, and the only man from the class we spotted was Abe Weld, the w.k. New York accounting expert. Some checking since the game, however, reveals that Ort Hicks, Gus Halsey, Jack Benjamin, Howie Ransom, Rex King, Hank Cook, Cory Litchard, and Jack Hubbell and his bride were among those in the Bowl. And undoubtedly there were others. The Hubbells had just returned to the United States from their honeymoon trip to Europe ten days before. In addition to becoming a bridegroom this fall, Jack has turned author, it seems, a recent issue of Printer'sInk, the publication for advertising men, having carried a very interesting article by him on "Dealer Helps That Help."
DUD ROBINSON MOVES TO N. Y.
The 1931 aggregation in New York and vicinity has gained another member in Dud Robinson, who was transferred from Youngstown, Ohio, to Manhattan by his firm, the General Fireproofiing Cos., this fall. Dud has joined the army of New York commuters, having settled in an apartment at 30 Gray Place in suburban Yonkers. We had a most enjoyable chat recently with Dud and Helen and their eight-year-old son. At that time Dud reported that they'd be in the Bowl for the Yale game, and we rather imagine they were. Dud reported seeing a couple of the 1921 Ohio clan before he left for the seaboard: Ken Sater, who, Dud says, is still busy lawyering in Columbus; and Joe Schultz, the Cleveland banker.
As these notes are written, the day after election, the news from New Hampshire is that Johnny Sullivan, is running a close second to his Republican opponent, H. S. Bridges, in one of the tightest races for the governorship that that state has ever known. According to the latest dispatches this afternoon, the count is so close that a recount is viewed as almost certain. And as New Hampshire is normally a Republican state and Mr. Bridges a close ally of Gov. Winant, the present chief executive, the race fight that John made, no matter what the final outcome may be, is one which can cause every Twenty-oner to doff his hat in the direction of Manchester, N. H.
From New Hampshire also comes the word that Rollie Batchelder is now a first lieutenant at the CCC camp at Woodsville.
Dick Hill is now residing at Kittery Point, Me. He is still in the investment banking game with a Boston firm.
Stan Gorham is now serving as the vice-president of the Associated Printing & Lithographing Co. at 293 Lafayette St. in New York City.
From Michigan comes word of Jerry Cutler, who is dispensing grain, flour, and feed to the good residents of Adrian, Mich.
If you develop a toothache while holidaying at Asbury Park, N. J., you can gain assistance, it develops, from a good Twenty-oner, for, according to a bulletin from the Alumni Records office, Bill Minyard is practising dentistry at 1106 Adams St. in that noted seashore resort.
Frank Livermore has become a rival to Lowell Thomas, Richard Haliburton at al. according to the accounts drifting into the path of this hungry typewriter. It seems that Frank went abroad last spring on a trip which took him through eight countries. He took his camera along and got some fine pictures of the places, and this yen for photographs almost got him run out of Jerusalem, he admits, for he took some fine pictures of the Wailing Wall and of the Mosque of Omar in the Inner City of Jerusalem, and then discovered that that just wasn't done in Palestine. In any case he's now safely back in little old New York, where he is the assistant to the general sales manager of the Canada Dry Ginger Ale Co. The New York gang is planning to insist that Frank show up at the next 1931 dinner and let the boys in on a few more details of his journeyings.
Dave Plume is now connected with the American Cyanamid Co. at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City. He is still a fellow townsman of ours, residing at 10 Vaughn Ave., New Rochelle.
Those of you who were at the Yale game and admired the programs for the game will be interested to know that Howie Ransome had a finger in the pie, holding the concession for the programs at the Yale games this fall.
And that, my friends, brings us to the end of the story. News doesn't seem to be quite so plentiful this month, and we beg leave to remind you that any little items about the class that you happen to pick up in your travels will be more than appreciated in this corner. Just jot them on a postcard, if you are in a rush, and we'll guarantee to use them with thanks.
And in the meantime this conveys our very best wishes to you all for a very merry Christmas and a very happy New Year.
Secretary. 7 Lotus Rd., New Rochelle, N. Y.
