1921*
Quite a bit of water has gone over the dam since the last installment, and quite a backlog of news has accumulated. The biggest piece of news always comes first. Here it is: Tracy Higgins will stage the third annual '21 Outing. .. .and anyone who has ever attended one will know just what a swell party that means. .. .at his long Island place, on Saturday afternoon and evening, October 7. The address is Edgewood Ave., Smithtown Branch; invitations will have been mailed to all '21ers in the N. Y. area long before you read this; out-of-towners will telephone Tracy at his Brooklyn office (SOuth 8-8105) for directions.
Walt Lundegren writes a grand letter from Marblehead, Mass., where he, Frank Ross, and Dan Ruggles get together every now and then of an evening to rehash Hanover days. Walt was married to Mary Patterson of Brookline, on August 19, 1922, and presents the following list of daughters: Betty (16), Jane (15), Kathryn (8), and Judith Lee (4). The head of the house is engaged in credit work for the Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., 175 Berkeley St., Boston George Frost confides he had a pleasant summer, spending the month of July motoring in France and returning to this country early in August just in time to avoid getting shot Gus Perkins and Elizabeth Chase were married June 10, 1939, at Danvers, Mass., and as they set sail upon the sea of matrimony radioed a neatly engraved message reading "At Home" after July 1 at 21 Mountain Ave., Summit, N. J. Thanks for sending a copy to this department, Gus.
One of our best operatives in Manhattan forwards the front page of the New York Post for July 20. Surprise is a mild word for what your scribe experienced when he read the main headline, eight columns wide and two lines deep. Read this: "MR. ROGER 'WILD' WILDE OF CHICAGO
WELCOMED TO NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR." Careful examination disclosed, however, that the paper was a World's Fair souvenir edition..... Again this fall we're broadcasting a plea for more photographs for this column. In the larder your scribe has some nice skiing cuts from New Hampshire, of '21 news value, which he plans to trot out as soon as space permits using the accompanying story. Meanwhile, how about some action from other sectors?....
Howie Heath is reported still in Trenton, N. J., but now connected in some executive capacity with the State Unemployment Compensation Insurance service.
....Carlton Sullivan, with N. Y. Telephone Co., has been transferred from Mount Kisco to the Peekskill business office.
Ed Luedke (thanks right here and now for such an interesting letter, Ed) writes, in part: "I joined the Eagle Printing Ink division of General Printing Ink Co. in January of this year, after having spent the last eight or 10 years with two other printing ink companies. Having progressed each time to a larger company, I will apparently have to stay here, as there are no bigger ones. At present, I am mainly engrossed with the New York sales office, with occasional forays into our other districts. Incidentally. Tom Lenci '22 is general manager of the division, so this division, at least, has a decidedly Dartmouth cast For the summer at least, I have taken an apartment in town, depending on my friends in the country to take care of my week-ends. For the past year or so I have been spending the winter with my sister in Shrewsbury, on the North Jersey coast. From this can be deduced the fact that I am still unwed. . . . two wives behind some of the class, in fact." Visitors to Manhattan may reach Ed or his secretary by calling CAnal 6-1000..... Harland Manchester contributed "The Headmaster Murder Mystery" to TheAmerican Mercury for August Dan Kavanaugh, the Newark medico, had a second son arrive at his home on May 26, 1939, according to reports reaching your correspondent.
Johnnie Eisaman, president of Eagle Home Insulators of Cleveland, writes from his office at 1350 Hird Ave., Lakewood, Ohio, to transmit a few vital statistics. John has a wife who used to be Nancy Allen of Staunton, Va., a son, Jack, aged 16, and a daughter, Mary Allen, 10. His firm is Cleveland's distributor and contractor for The Eagle-Picher Lead Co.'s insulation products. Further than that, Johnnie reports that "everything is still under control." .... Kent McKinley was recently visited at his home in West Caldwell, N. J., by one of our most capable spies, who describes the McKinley menage as situated on a farm with plenty of space in which to move around, and the second Mrs. McKinley as"most attractive.". . . . While we're still on the subject of homes, Joe Folger has recently built himself a castle on Hanover Plain at a spot where there's a marvelous view of Ascutney. We hope to have fuller details for a subsequent issue.
John T. Law may be contacted, there is reason to believe, at 15 Parkside Court, Utica, N. Y George Carmody's law shingle is hanging out at 11 Broadway, Manhattan Tex Kouns writes from his office in Hartford (see June issue) that he is supervising his firm's New Haven, Hartford, and Springfield offices, and that he has "two sons registered at Dartmouth, one to enter in 1940 and the other in 1941."... .Raphael Murray, still with Behr-Manning, has been transferred to Detroit; details lacking as we go to press. . . . .Ditto for Bob MacDonald, only he's with Kendall Mills, and has been transferred to Atlanta Johnnie Woodward is living at 1717 Logan Ave., South; Minneapolis Walter Holt has a poetic new address, Strawberry Hill Road, Concord, Mass Hilt Campbell wrote late in July from China Lake, Maine, that the fishing and swimming were grand and that he was rapidly getting back onto his feet after a severe attack of pneumonia sustained back in February.
Werner Janssen composed and conducted the musical score for Winter Carnival, the Walter Wanger production recently released through United Artists. .... Dan Ruggles will be master of ceremonies for the annual round-up of '21ers at the University Club, Boston, October 27, the night before the Harvard game. If you don't hear from him by mail, telephone Dan at the Herald As this is written, your scribe has his ear to the ground for news of the night-before-the Princeton-game embroglio in Manhattan. We'll be back in a month with a flash, as Winchell would put it.
Rog Wilde, energetic treasurer of 1921, will sincerely appreciate an early response to his request for dues. The results of the 100% group subscription plan for the ALUMNI MAGAZINE were so satisfactory last year, in the judgment of your class officers, that they have decided to "carry on" with the program. But the success of the whole thing depends upon prompt payment of dues by everyone in the class. So sit right down and write a check for $3.50, payable to Roger C. Wilde, Treas., and mail it to him at this address: c/o Simmons Company, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, Ill
We now transfer you to Hanover, N. H., where George Frost is waiting patiently at the microphone to tell you once more of some of the highlights of this month back in the days when we were only sophomores. Take it away, George:
THE SPIRIT OF '21
By GEORGE L. FROST
IN OCTOBER, 1918 Induction into the S. A. T. C. took place. From The Dartmouth: "Lieutenant J. S. Pickett administered the oath of allegiance to the student soldiers, and read general orders which referred to the occasion. He then read a telegram from President Wilson in regard to the inauguration of the S. A. T. C. in over 400 colleges and universities throughout the United States. He also read messages from General March, Chief of Staff, and Hon. Benedict Crowell, Acting Secretary of War. President Hopkins spoke briefly of the new conditions at Dartmouth and of the willingness of the entire College to devote all its resources to the achievement of victory. Then the battalion passed in review before Captain Max Patterson, commandant of the Dartmouth unit, the President of the College, and the faculty in cap and g0wn.".... Mrs. Norman Hapgood had 90 students in Russian 1.... On October 7, The Dartmouth decided to suspend publication during the war, as S. A. T. C. activities took up all the time of editors and undergraduates. Information on extra-curricular activities during October, November, and December is doubtless to be found in such diaries as were kept by members of the Class of 1921 in those months.
Secretary, 718 Drake Ave., Roselle, N. J
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