Class of 1921
The Dartmouth Alumni Association of New York held its annual dinner at the Plaza Hotel on January 18, and 1921 was represented by 17 warriors. The dinner this year was a farewell testitaonial party for Dean Laycock, who gave the main address of the evening, and incidentally who was at his very best. It was an excellent affair from start to finish and reflected a lot of credit on the dinner committee, which included our own Ort. Those out from the class were Bob Wilson, who as recorded previously is barristering once more in Manhattan after a spell with the Victor people in Camden, N. J., Chuck Moreau, the Bloomfield, N. J., editor, Rex King, the New Jersey telephone company's famous rate engineer, Mac Johnson, ably representing Wall St. and the bankers, King Cole, who journeyed up from Atlantic City, N. J., for the party, Ralph Baker, who still helps keep the northern Bronx supplied with Mr. Kresge's wares, Jack Hubbell, the advertising manager extraordinaire for the Simmons Company, Doc Wilcox, who had deserted the folk of suburban Pleasantville and their aches and pains for an evening, Bob Loeb, upholding the standard of the Manhattan Bar Association, Sumner Perkins, who like Rex still sports the Jersey bell emblem, Coot Carder, representing his own oil royalties firm, Bill Alley of A. E. Ames & Co., Ltd., bankers of 129 Broadway, Abe Weld, attending his first dinner since Electrical Research Products, Inc., moved him back from Europe; Doug Storer, abandoning his radio headliners for an evening; Ort, who stopped his job of helping run the show long enough to eat a few bites with the gang, ye sec, who still is the Sun's cable editor, and Bord Helmer.
Bord incidentally has a new job and a fine one. He is a vice-president of the investment counsel firm of C. W. Young & Co. with offices in the Chrysler Building. Bord is a director of the company and is in charge of the research and economics division of the firm. Bord's specialty is stock research, and another Twenty-oner, Bill Clark, is in the same division and is in charge of bond research. (We wonder if Bill still plays his fiddle as delightfully as he used to do back when '21 wore the little pea-green lids.) Bord had been recently in Europe and he brought back tales of a skiing holiday at St. Moritz that we should imagine would make even Treasurer Bob and his noted skiing colleague Mayor Sullivan green with envy.
Before we forget it, we'd like to point out that King Woodbridge took occasion during his report on Dartmouth activities in New York during the past year to point out the good work done by Jack Hubbell is running a series of Dartmouth luncheons at the club.
Mac Johnson, who sat next to us at the dinner, reported getting a letter from Red Kerlin, who is still out on the Pacific Coast serving as manager for the San Francisco district for the National Carbon Company. He said that Red was particularly anxious to know how Skinny Moore was surviving the marriage game. (These bachelors are such skeptics.)
We had a nice letter from Al Green, the Syracuse, N. Y., newspaper man, recently and this told of another Dartmouth gathering in the dean's honor. This was held in Syracuse during January, and A1 reports that Dave Trainer had driven over from Hamilton, N. Y., famous as the home of Colgate University, to attend. Both Twenty-oners were elected to the executive committee of the Central New York Alumni Association at the dinner, Al as executive assistant to the president in charge of press relations and Dave as the representative of Chenango county. Al is still helping edit the Post-Standard in Syracuse, and Dave is a member of the geology department at Colgate.
Dan Ruggles sends down word from Boston of Bob Rouillard. Bob is now residing in Watertown, Mass., and is a member of the staff of the Widener Memorial Library at Harvard.
From the Middle West now comes the word that Tom Staley, some dozen or more years ago the Staley of the firm of Staley and Boggess, is now the treasurer of the Staley Milling Co. of Kansas City, Mo., in which Tom is associated with his dad. Luke incidentally still hails from the state where they have to be shown, being located in his old home town of Carthage. (And Tom's old home town too incidentally.) Luke is now in the insurance game.
Paul Nicholson, who has been for several seasons a Wall St. man by day and an actor by night with the Players of Port Washington, L. 1., now has a rival in the thespian ranks in Russ Goodnow. Russ, according to reports drifting down from the Rhode Island coast, played a leading role recently in a production of "The Ghost Train" staged by the Barrington, R. 1., Players as their second production for the 1933-34 season. Russ, as you may recall, in his nonstage hours is a worthy manufacturer in Providence.
One old stand-by who was missing at the recent Dartmouth dinner in New York was Tracy Higgins, who has been critically ill with pneumonia, but who now, we are happy to report, is well on the way to recovery.
From New England comes the word that Don Sawyer, who has been living in Nashua, N. H., for several years and commuting daily to the Milford (N. H.) National Bank, now not only lives in Nashua but works there, having on February 1 become trust officer of the Indian National Bank of Nashua.
And, speaking of trust officers, a recent issue of the Boston Herald carried the news that Vance Clark, vice-president and trust officer of the Home National Bank of Brockton, Mass., was serving as executor of the estate of the late Mrs. Alice K. Douglas, widow of former governor William L. Douglas, well-known Brockton shoe manufacturer.
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