Class of 1921
Dan Ruggles has named Joe Folger to make arrangements in Hanover for the BIG 15TH CONCLAVE, and Joe has already started things off in fine style. He has engaged Robinson Hall for a dance on the evening festivities open, Friday, June 12, and has made tentative arrangements to have the popular undergraduate orchestra the Green Serenaders furnish the music for the party. Then he has conferred with Dan Hatch of the Outing Club to make sure that one of the near-by cabins is reserved for the class stag supper on Saturday evening, following the alumni parade and concluding baseball game of the Green's season. He is also looking over available resorts in New Hampshire and Vermont, for the class outing on Sunday, a lively allday jamboree for the whole 1921 party. Meanwhile Rex King is hard at work picking out a costume. And "That's only thebeginning, folks, only the beginning." So set the dates June 12, 13, 14, and 15 aside right now, for your most important engagement of the year.
Rollo Briggs sends news from his post in Havana, Cuba, of his fellow diplomat Gord Merriam and Mrs. Merriam, who, in case you have forgotten, is Ellis's sister, the former Roberta Briggs. The Merriams arrived shortly before Christmas in Teheran, where Gord has just taken over the post of secretary of the United States legation and consul, after several years in the diplomatic service at Cairo, Egypt. They left Cairo by automobile and reached their new post three weeks later after a trip via Palestine, Syria, the desert to Bagdad, followed by what Rollo describes as "much see-sawingover the mountains amongst the hirsuteand casually bathed nomads immortalizedsome seasons ago in the movie 'Grass.'" As for himself, Ellis reports that he and Lucy and the children had a quiet Christmas in Havana and that they had as their guest Jim Briggs '3B, Rollo's kid brother, who made the jump down from Hanover for the holidays and gave Ellis the latest news from the world of snows and skis and ice.
We ran into Hugh McKay the other evening, and found him looking fit and not greatly changed from the days when he was leading "Wah-hoo-wahs" for the Big Green. Hugh has recently moved to New Rochelle from Scarsdale, and is managing one of the Canada Dry Ginger Ale Company's plants in New York City.
Another newcomer to New Rochelle is Doug Storer, who is now residing at 30 Eastchester Road. Doug reports that he has recently resigned from his post as vice president of the firm of Rockwell-O'Keefe, managers of radio stars and programs, and has opened his own office in the same field. His office incidentally is in the R. K. O. Building, Radio City, in New York.
The Chan Symmes report a new member of the family, Miss Marcia Symmes, who was born last spring. They have one other youngster, a son now almost 10 years old. Chan is a partner in the retail grain firm of C. H. Symmes & Cos. in Winchester, Mass.
Connie Keyes, who has been in the credit department of the General Electric Contracts Corp. at 570 Lexington Ave., sends word that he is leaving New York shortly to manage the firm's office at Atlanta, Ga.
Bud Reichart has given up explaining the beauties of the Westchester countryside to prospective real estate purchasers and betaken his talents further up the shores of Long Island Sound to Saugatuck, Conn., where he now daily extols the advantages of being just a little further away from the madding crowd of Manhattan to another group of would-be home owners and renters.
Kemp Fuller has a new job. He is now manager of the Industrial Development Department of the American Water Works and Electric Co. at so Broad St., New York City.
From Detroit comes news of Jim Taylor, who reports that he is now connected with the Detroit branch of the Kelvinator Corp.
Otis Severance is now head of the mathematics department of the Brookline High School at Brookline, Mass. He reports the. arrival of Marshall Chase Severance on Sept. 6, 1935.
Rollie Batchelder discloses that he is seeing New England via his job as an officer in the CCC. He has been at eight different camps since last June and at present is at Fort Williams, Me. (Or at least, he was when this was written.)
The Rev. Charles T. Allen has just become the pastor of the Robinson Memorial Methodist church at Maiden, Mass. He was previously for four years the minister of the Boston St. Methodist church in Lynn.
Francis Foster is the first to report a youngster born in 1936. Miss Natalie Foster joined the Foster household at Shawomet, R. 1., on Jan. 20. She is their fourth youngster, and now their family is equally divided between boys and girls. Francis is selling for the Providence Paper Cos.
A clipping from the Chicago Tribune of January 7 sent to us by Jack Hubbell and telling of the opening of the annual two-week Chicago furniture market, comprising two shows, the Furniture Mart and the Merchandise Mart, contains an interview with our own Joe Lane, the furniture magnate from Chattanooga, Tenn., obtained at the opening of the Furniture Mart show. "The depression did a lot for us," Joe stated. "We learned to think and to acquirea new viewpoint. Furniture formerly wasgaudy with a lot of decorations. The designs now trend toward simplicity." Any of you boys who are about to desert Mac Johnson's once stupendous, but now fast dwindling bachelor army, please take note.
Larry Nardi, who supplied Park Avenue's leaders with their riding habits, informs us that he ran into Lee Bausher, the big hosiery man from Reading, Pa., at the last Manhattan Horse Show, and that they staged a brief '2l reunion while the band played a few bars from "Horses, Horses, Horses." (There will be a better one, reunion, not horse show, boys, going on in Hanover this coming June.)
Greatly to be envied as we slip and slide in the icy streets and turn up our coat collar against the arctic blasts is Jack Means, who reports that he is now a district sales manager for the Churngold Corp. of Cincinnati, with his headquarters on the sunny coast of Florida at Jacksonville.
Artie Anderson sent this department a reply to our questionnaire, which greatly brightened up this corner the other evening. (He gave us a running fire of comments with his answers, such as, "I'd havehad to marry a Zulu named 'Eh' to get hername in the space you left"), and he imparted the joyous news that he'd be among those present when '2l's army swept onto Hanover Plain in June and with a little display on his car to show the boys. All of which makes certain that there will be nothing dull about the BIG 15TH. Also Artie informed us that he was now selling advertising space for the magazine NewsWeek.
And now before this column comes before you once more, we hope to have in your hands a far more complete account of what 1921 is doing and why than we have been able to get into these pages.
Secretary, 160 Calton Road, New Rochelle, N. Y.
