Class of 1921
About the middle of September Eli Cole Smith paid a short visit to the City of Homes, Springfield, Mass. Eli was discovered in the industrial building at the Eastern States Exposition associated with the Rumford Press, who had a splendid exhibit there.
D. J. Fuller of Contoocook, N. H., associate manager of a leather goods factory, recently assumed the agency for several lines of woolen goods. He travels quite extensively now throughout the New England states in the interests of this new line.
George Harris of Springfield, Mass., and Dick Dickinson of Amherst, Mass., recently had the opportunity of listening to Bill Cunningham Boston Post sports writer, at the University Club in Springfield. Bill gave a most interesting two-hour talk on his experiences at the Olympic games in Berlin. And Bill was on the inside of things over there, as much as any sports writer could be.
Tom Cleveland writes: "I had a letterrecently from Ralph Ruder, who is livingin Colorado Springs. He reports a recenttrip to Honolulu and a visit with PudWalker, who is one of the leading physicians there. He has also had a visit fromArchie Peish, fortnerly professor of accounting at Tuck School. Ralph threatensto get back again to Hanover for a visitone of these days. In the meantime, hecontinues to look after his mining interestsin that section and raves about ColoradoSprings as a place to live.
"Tom Norcross recovered in good shapefrom the reunion festivities, and Eli Smithafter attending his first reunion vows thathe'll never miss another. The account ofreunion in the October issue of the ALUMNIMAGAZINE was fine, but how come this talkof my baldness with the head of hair I'vegot? How about Ryder? There's a guy that'sbald, and I would add that Fez Taylor wasjust about the most enthusiastic '21 andDartmouth rooter there. He stayed untileverybody else had left. It was a greatparty."
Ye Sec was twiddling his thumbs and scratching his bald pate, wondering how to fill the column this month, up until yesterday, when several of '21's more loyal came through in response to pleas for cooperation. Hanover's isolation and the fact that the budget precludes any out-of-town trips during the fall except for the Harvard and Yale week-ends means that all of the following is peddled out second-hand and without any guarantee as to the veracity of the several contributors.
Incidentally, another flock of postcards will go out next month to a different group, asking that they forget modesty and even the truth, in giving the rest of us a slant on how's thing's, what's happened, and what's ahead.
Dan Ruggles, Boston news correspondent, has been staying home evenings and hasn't much dope this month. He does ask that we get in a notice of the annual '21 party, to be held the night before the Harvard-Dartmouth game on October 24. The party will be held at the president's room of the University Club as last year, when 20 members of the class tied on the feed bag and cheered the Alma Mater between courses. Classes of '20 and '22 will again join up this year. Make reservations in advance with Dan, care Boston Herald.
Mac Johnson comes through with a real letter, that is included almost verbatim. Mac admits that he supplied most of the real news from New York during Herrick's regime, and as he still resides at the Dartmouth club, he has the low-down on some of the boys and the willingness and ability to pass it along. Here's Mac's letter:
"Al Laffey, Herrick, and myself met at the club one evening last summer and exchanged 'recollections' of the reunion and subsequent events. Herrick at the time was a summer bachelor and Al devising plans as to how he might become one. Both spoke most favorably of the success of the Fifteenth and of the new regime elected to carry on for the class, to which views I also subscribe.
"Reg Miner visited the club a short while ago while on a business trip to New York for the real estate division of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company of Boston. He reported buying a home in Wellesley, Mass., and mentioned spending part of his vacation after the reunion in rearranging the house for the convenience of his wife and two children.
"Abe Weld is keeping up his athletic interest and appears to be starting early training for the coming squash season. He bemoaned the fact that Ort Hicks has qualified for a 'B' ranking in the metropolitan association. This apparently puts Ort in a class by himself among the Dartmouth players and not eligible for the active 'C' team of the club.
"Received a Carte Postale, Cartolina Postale, Tarjeta Postal, in our vernacular commonly known as post card, from Red Kerlin from Mexico, in which he reports witnessing a bull-fight, and states that the session as known in the Hanover parlance would have been far more interesting and entertaining. Red apparently has covered Alaska, Hawaiian Islands, and Mexico in recent sojourns. He appears to be equipping himself for a foreign diplomatic post after having sufficiently illuminated the country through the merchandising of National Carbon flashlights.
"I trust that the above 'boiler plate' can be of some value."
Ort Hicks, outside of sending in some stale news about the Hubbells' having a baby (he admits he's forgotten the "exact details," except it was a son), writes to say that the class of 1921 piled up its most impressive record in the Alumni Fund Campaign which closed on June 30. Subscribers contributed a total of $2,295.00. The 75% of contributors placed our class 23d on the list, and in the total amount of money raised we ranked 14th. Inasmuch as there are sixty active classes, we may well be proud of these figures, although the campaigns of recent years have been on a "no quota" basis, there has actually been an unofficial quota established for each class, based on the number of graduates and the presumed earning power. There were 8 classes who made this unofficial quota 100 per cent or better. Nineteen twenty-one stood next in line with 99.51 per cent. All that separated us from the goal was The class agents promise us that with the same cooperation they have had this year, the class will be well toward the top of Dartmouth's most loyal groups when July, 1937 rolls around.
Ort also writes that "the Borden Helmers are responsible for jumping the New York census figures. Although I ran into Borden out at the national championships at Forest Hills and got all the dope, I did not make notes.
"Clarence Sanders, the w.k. racket wielder, may readily become tennis champion of Holland, unless the Shell Oil Co. cuts short his stay at the Hague, where'he has been transferred for two years to show the foreign producers how we American geologists discover oil.
"Bill Barber has become one of the larger New York insurance executives, and was to be seen this summer at Forest Hills during the nationals.
"Earl Carder has just returned from a five months' trip in the West. He really came East to attend the first annual outing of Films Incorporated employees, who were entertained by the Orton Hicks at their home in Great Neck. Mrs. Carder was also present, and said if Coot had remained away another month she wouldn't have recognized him. Earl has already returned to Chicago headquarters.
"Fred Livermore is handling the Republican campaign motion picture from headquarters in New York City, and although he hasn't yet grown a trunk, there's no mistaking he's a G.O.P. man."
Tracy Higgins apologizes for lack of hot news about New York classmates, but excuses himself on the fact that he has been living this summer at his country home at Smithtown, L. I. He expected to drive up to Hanover the 17th with Bob Loeb for a week-end.
Elbert Duncan, who has for many years been in the advertising business in Boston, has recently made a connection with the Brown & Bigelow, producers of advertising novelties. He will represent the firm in the New England area. Duncan still retains his golfing ability, having won the low net in a recent tournament of the Boston Advertising Club, held at the Pinebrook Valley Country Club, in Weston, Mass.
The Holy Cross game drew a contingent of '21ers which included such notables as Ort Hicks and Herrick Brown. Inasmuch as this letter has to leave before the game, a complete list will have to be passed up.
Bill Alley writes that he is still covering most of the U. S. in contacting dealers and bankers for A. E. Ames & Co., Canadian investment wholesalers—that his son Tom, after meeting the smoother element of the class at reunion last June, had discarded his determination to enroll at Princeton (inspired by previous limited acquaintance with Hicks, Card, Hubbell, and Nicholson), and will definitely enter Dartmouth in '46. Bill says he sees Nicholson frequently in the environs of Wall St.; also, that he hobnobbed with Red Ege (no longer "Red," as he's lost most of his hair) in St. Paul a few months ago.
Treasurer Rog Wilde is probably the class's most prolific letter writer. Nearly every mail brings either a letter or a duplicate of a letter to Hubbell, Hicks, or some other member of the Brain Trust. All of which indicates that he's on the job and must have a good-looking secretary.
A recent bulletin from Sid Hayward indicates that a new supervisor of athletics is soon to be chosen, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Harry Heneage. Sid's list of prerequisites and qualifications precludes selection from any ordinary class, hence '21 should recommend a candidate, if among us there be unemployed who could stand the Hanover climate. We understand suggestions will receive careful consideration.
Mr. and Mrs. John Dudley McFarland of St. Louis announce the marriage of their daughter, Helen Charlotte, on June 27, to our own Robert Murray Mac Donald.
Phil Noyes has changed addresses—is now living at 37 Sprague Road, Scarsdale, N. Y.
Kent McKinley has recently become connected with H. C. Wainwright & Co., New York, as manager of their investment survey department.
Stan Gorham is now employed with the American Colortype Co., 220 Fifth Ave., New York.
Otis Severance, last year teacher at Brookline High School, is this year instructor at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass.
Jim Wicker, who has been with Montgomery-Ward in Austin, Texas, found the Centennial celebration too hot and has moved his family to 507 W. Broadway, Newton, Kansas, where he is with the same concern.
Frank Ross, who during his whole life has been a resident of Melrose, has moved and is now in Marblehead, as an all-year-round resident, having been there for several months. Frank has charge of ice cream sales for H. P. Hood & Sons Company, on the North Shore, and is located at the H. P. Hood plant in Lynn.
El Harper is associated with W. L. Thompson, Inc., General Electric distributors in the Boston territory. El is in entire charge of developing a program of kitchen modernization.
Tom Cleveland now heads his own firm, which is engaged in real estate development in the Newton territory.
In closing, just a reminder that the ALUMNI MAGAZINE doesn't keep coming to you unless you pay your class dues—either for one year at three bucks or five years at $15.00, as per the slips sent out last month by Rog Wilde. His address, in case you've lost it, is care Simmons Company, 401 Stones Levee, Cleveland, Ohio.
And so to bed.
Secretary, Dartmouth Press, Hanover, N. H.
