Class of 1921
The 1921 crowd in New York held their first get-together for 1935 at the Dartmouth Club on Friday evening, January 18, and 13 members showed up for dinner. Afterwards the majority adjourned the meeting to Morningside Heights to watch the Dartmouth basketball team clash with the Columbia five. Unfortunately the Green basketeers weren't much of match for the Lions, winding up on the short end of a 37-22 score in a contest which was very much of a runaway for Columbia from start to finish. In the few chances they had, however, the 1921 gang showed it still can pass a test in making some noise.
Two of the recent additions to the New York '2l aggregation made their debut at the dinner, Dud Robinson and Bill Owen, and the following veterans were also on hand: Sumner Perkins, Paul Nicholson, Coot Carder, Bandy Lowe, Rex King, Bill Alley, Tracy Higgins, Doc Wilcox, Oky 0 Connor, Doug Storer, and ye sec. Also Doug had with him as his guest at the dinner and the game, Ralph Dumkee (Ralph of the radio team of Eddie and Ralph, to you).
Oky reported a recent visit with Speedy Meet, who is still in the lumber business out at Greenport, L. 1., and of receiving a Christmas letter from Sam Plumb, the w.k. Streator, 111., banker, in which he reported that he and his wife and daughter were all in fine health. Oky himself revealed he was about to desert the crowd and move from his suburban home in Jersey to Glens Falls in up-state New York. Oky has been for several years a salesman in the New York area for the Imperial Paper and Dye Corp., and his firm has just promoted him to assistant sales manager, hence the move to Glens Falls, the main headquarters of his company.
Conspicuous by their absence at the dinner were the old stand-bys, Jack Hubbell and Ort Hicks. Jack was out of town on business and Ort was attending the final dress rehearsal of "Ten Nights in a Bar Room" out in Great Neck, L. 1., Ye sec., reading of the perils of a jaunt out onto Long Island after the recent blizzard, didn't get to see Ort's triumph as a thespian after all, but our scouts tell us that he was never better than as the soulful evangelist, and the show itself wowed the Great Neck theater-goers to such an extent that an extra performance was necessary to take care of the crowd storming the doors. And Ort has not been limiting his activities to appearing behind the footlights either. In the first place he has a new job, being back with the Kodak company once more in addition to looking after his Home Film Libraries company. We had planned to interview the gentleman and get all the dope for this issue, but we missed connections, so we'll have to leave more complete details until later. Then on Friday, February 1, we ran across an item in the Sun telling of the victory the night before of the bridge team of the Dartmouth Club over that of the Princeton Glub in the New York intercollegiate club championship tourney, and among the names of the winning team we found that of Orton H. Hicks, and a little further sleuthing disclosed that Ort was a member of the highscoring pair on the team. Incidentally the victory gave Dartmouth the championship, the Green bridgers being 5,300 points ahead of the Tigers in the final match. The other college club teams in the league were Yale, Harvard, Pennsylvania, and Williams. And as if all that were not enough, Ort has also been representing the club in the Metropolitan Squash Racquets League matches. Jack Hubbell and Abe Weld have also been representing the Green in this field on the club team this winter.
Missing our train to Westchester at Grand Central one evening recently, we dropped down to the Dartmouth Club for dinner and there had the pleasure of a meal with Rog Bird, and Rog revealed to us that another severe blow is in store for Mac Johnson's Bachelors Club, for Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fairchild have just announced the enagagement of their daughter, Ethelyn Quimby of Garden City, L. 1., to Mr. Roger P. Bird. Mr. Fairchild incidentally is the well-known Brooklyn mortician. Rog reported that the date has not yet been set for the wedding, but we'll keep in touch with him and break the wedding day news to you later. Rog still sells coal by day and does a lot of singing at night. His University Singers quartet, consisting in addition to Rog of a Brown man, an R. P. I.man and a Wesleyan man, has grown in popularity with the years, and fills several engagements each week at dinners, banquets, and club entertainments. Rog reported that in the offing there was an appearance at a dinner of the General Motors sales force and one at the Rockaway Hunt Club.
A directory of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Northern California, of which Abe Winslow '20 is the energetic and able secretary, has just arrived in the mail, and it includes quite a little news concerning the '21 aggregation out on the Pacific coast, which we'd like to pass on to the rest of you. In the first place it reveals that Rudie Blesh, whose drawings used to adorn Jacko's pages back in the days from 1917 to 1921, continues to use his talents in the field of art and is now an interior decorator with a San Francisco firm. Going down the list alphabetically we find A1 Dunn listed as a civil engineer with the U. S. National Park Service. A1 makes his headquarters close to the Golden Gate, but we understand that you're more likely to find him in Yellowstone or in some other Western park. Next comes Jack Garfein, out on the Coast once more after a sojourn in lowa, and now in the ranks of the insurance men, representing the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Cos. of Boston. Freddie Hale, the directory reveals, is putting his Tuck School knowledge to good usage as an auditor for Uncle Sam in the San Francisco Internal Revenue Bureau, and Red Kerlin is still district sales managering for the National Carbon Company in the Golden Gate sector. Incidentally we learned the other evening that Red made a one-clay visit in Manhattan recently on a business trip East, but unfortunately we didn't have a chance to see him. To return to the Pacific coast, the director lists Blodgett Minnis as living now in Los Altos, having moved north from Long Beach. And last of all (the alphabet being what it is), there is Guy Wallick, who is division commercial manager in San Francisco for the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company. Incidentally Guy is to be found of an evening at his residence in Palo Alto, where the Stanford football teams come from.
Secretary, 7 Lotus Rd., New Rochelle, N. Y.
