Class of 1921
Once again the Alumni Fund takes the center of the stage, and this year this worthy Dartmouth drive is headed for the first time by a Twenty-oner, Jack Hubbell. Jack has been chosen by the College as general chairman for the 1935 drive and his place as 1921 class agent has been taken over by Dan Ruggles for this campaign. Dan has organized the following committee to help him: Rex King and Ort Hicks, for the New York area; Harry Chamberlaine, for the Middle West; Bob Burroughs, for New Hampshire; Charlie Stickney, for Rhode Island and Connecticut; Cory Litchard, for Western Massachusetts; and Red Kerlin 011 the Coast. Dan had a conference with Jack and President Hopkins when they addressed the Boston meeting of class agents on March 26 at the University Club there and has plans for the drive well under way. Dan writes as follows: "The class has beensignally honored by Jack's appointment asgeneral chairman, and I know that it's thefeeling of all of us that for this reason 1921must not fail in the drive this year. In pastyears we have not distinguished ourselves,except on rare occasions, and this year ofall years, all eyes will be on 1921. If everyone will do his part, I'm sure that the classwill come through for Jack and the College with flying colors."
Dan also writes that the class luncheons at the Parker House in Boston are being fairly well attended by Twenty-oners. 1921 has been sharing the Dartmouth rooms with 1918, 1919, and 1920 in the weekly series of luncheons on Mondays, and Dan reports that those most regular in their attendance include Manny Manchester, Rip Ripley, Walt Lundegren, Chick Stiles, Ralph Pendleton, Tom Norcross, and Red Stanley.
The annual dinner of the Dartmouth alumni of New York was held at the Hotel Commodore on Wednesday evening, March 13, and 14 members of the class were out, as follows: Dud Robinson, Bill Owen, Howie Anger, Tracy Higgins, Rex King, Sumner Perkins, Chuck Moreau, Bob Loeb, Wade Werden, Mac Johnson, Jack Hubbell, Rog Bird, Doug Storer, and ye sec. Jack, as representative of the Alumni Fund, had a place at the speakers' table, and during the dinner King Woodbridge, president of the Dartmouth Club of New York, took occasion to praise Jack highly for the work he has been doing to keep things humming at the Club during the past year. Mr. Woodbridge stated that he looked upon Jack as his right hand man, and that Jack had been a tremendous help in keeping the Club activities at a high calibre.
HUBBELL IN CHICAGO
At the dinner we obtained from Wade Werden news of his marriage to Miss Lois Palmer, who before her marriage held an editorial post on the Ladies' Home Journal. Wade himself is in the advertising game in New York with the Walter G. Thompson Co., for which firm he is in charge of the trade and industrial division.
The annual Chicago dinner of Dartmouth alumni was held Friday, March 15, and Jack made the jump from the shores of the Hudson to those of Lake Michigan with President Hopkins for the dinner, and he reports that the Twenty-oners present besides himself were Bill Embree, Harry Chamberlaine, Ken Thomas, Harry Mosser, Rog Wilde, Ed Luedke, and Al Laffey. And from Chicago Jack also brings the word that Bill Embree is serving on the Lumber Code Authority for the Chicago area.
And now for further news of the transcontinental tour of O. H. Hicks. To go on from Missouri, where we left Ort in the April installment, we next find him in Salt Lake City, interviewing his old Phi Gam side-kick, Bob McConaughy. Shortly prior to Ort's arrival Bob had been operated on for a sinus infection, and was still in the hospital when Ort reached Salt Lake. However, he was out of danger, and ready to greet a fellow Twenty-oner. In addition to his real estate business, Bob has been working of late with the HOLC in that area. He is married and the father of a boy and a girl.
Moving 011 to the Coast, Ort thus reports of the Los Angeles delegation: "I phonedJohn Crockett, who like Bob is in the realestate business. He is married and has twogirls, 10 and II. John Woodward is retiredand living in Beverly Hills. He too is married and has a boy 13 years old. John movedout to the Coast from Minneapolis soonafter leaving Hanover. I found that NordJordan lives too far out of Los Angeles toreach, but I understand that he is an accountant." In San Francisco, Ort had lunch with Guy Wallick and Red Kerlin, and in Portland, Oregon, he saw Jack Sercombe Jack has been married for three years. After starting in the auditing department of the Union Pacific railroad, Jack became chief clerk in the legal department, and began studying law at night school. A couple of years ago he got his degree and passed his bar exams, and now he is in partnership in Portland with another young chap, and is doing well.
ORT & BUMPUS AT RAINIER
In Seattle, Ort spent a couple of days with Dr. Ridlon (Bumpus to you). Ort and Bumpus played some squash while Ort was there, and one day the two men and Grace (Mrs. Ridlon) climbed Mount Rainier-in an automobile. The Ridlons have a three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Grace Ann.
As his train halted at Vancouver, Ort had a brief chat with Cliff Corbet. Cliff has been in Vancouver for seven years, and is secretary of the Neon Light Company of British Columbia and Alberta. Three years ago he was married to a Spokane girl, and they have a son 14 months old.
Swinging back East once more, Ort spent a couple of days in St. Paul with Rvnie Rothschild, one of that prominent Minnesota city's leading citizens. Rynie is married and has two daughters, Anne, 11, and Mary, 9. Dewey Gruenhagen and his wife, Dot, were members of the party during most of Ort's stay. Dewey in addition to being a partner in the Minneapolis securities firm of Thrall, West & Co., is president of the Northwest Alumni Association. Red Ege appears little changed, Ort reports, and incidentally has become one of the leading attorneys in the Twin Cities. Bob Patterson is head of the Standard Oil filling station distribution in Minneapolis.
And here we'd like to offer some additional information of Ort's MinneapolisSt. Paul visit. Of this Dewey writes as fol- lows: "Knowing that Ort was MetropolitanIntercollegiate Bridge Champion, Ryniearranged a game in which the three of usand one of the local experts participated.The champ, of course, was besieged bynews hawks trying to find out the result ofthe game, and Hicks's comment was aboutas follows: 'Well, boys, this is off the record,of course, but we had a three-hour sessionand I was down only nine thousand points.I haven't quite determined what thetrouble was, but I guess it was just that theboys out here in the West didn't understandmy bidding.' There isn't any doubt lhatOrt's comment is very fair."
While on the subject of sports in Minnesota, Ort informed us that Pick Ankeny was one of the best squash racquets players in the state. [Ed. note. Ort breaks down and confesses he did not challenge Pick despite his (Ort's) prowess in that field.l
In Minneapolis Ort also saw Bart Bartholomew, who has a thriving photographic supplies and artist materials business. His firm occupies a four-story and basement building, which Bart owns, and every floor is occupied and busy, Ort reports.
In Des Moines, Ort had a phone chat with Rex Stark, who is in charge of promotion for the Meredith publications, and in Milwaukee, he got in touch with the Ted Hartshorns. Ted is a prominent chemist there.
And now don't forget that check to the Alumni Fund.
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