Secretary, 234 West First Ave., Roselle, N. J.
Allen G. Brailey, M.D.—"Jack" to us—has composed a grand letter, full of news, which we've been hoarding for some time. .... "I see surprisingly little of our classmates and cannot give much up-to-date news." (Tut, tut, Jack!) "I do occasionally see Don Mix, who is an officer of some sort in the State Mutual Life Assurance Company with offices in Worcester. As you know, he was seriously injured in an airplane accident several years ago and he has to hobble about in a way that seems pitiful to one who knew him in school days. The death of his little girl was also a blow which shook him pretty badly. But he is not downed, by any means, and seems to have as much courage and good humor as ever.
.... Dick Barnes I have seen a few times, although not recently. He is in business somewhere hereabouts, but I can't think where or in what John Herbert stopped in here yesterday. He looks fine and gave an excellent report of himself. He lives at 10 Hilltop Road, Wellesley (no children), and has an office (photographic supplies, I believe) in the General Electric Building. He reported an occasional lunch with Dan Ruggles Bob Mayo is in the copper tube boiler business, lives in Lexington, and supports his own airplane! ....
Cosgrove provides the shoes for Marlboro, Mass. He was a genial bachelor (and getting just a little stomachy), but was married sometime last winter, I believe I stopped in Hanover briefly about two weeks ago, but can report little that is new from there. The beauty of the place impresses me more and more every time I see it The Brailey clan (four of us) is in fine shape and hopes it may welcome you on your next Boston visit.".. . . Jack's neatly engraved letterhead bears a 270 Commonwealth Ave. address.
Doug Storer not only answers all mail promptly, but is a man of imagination. Witness his stationery—the envelope carries the address, Radio City, 1270 Sixth Ave., New York; his letterhead says it's 2214 RKO Building, Rockefeller Center, New York—we rather suspect, of course, that they're one and the same place. The main caption is "Douglas F. Storer, Radio." Here's the meat of his letter: "As for the name of the firm, you can see from the letterhead, it's 'just another guy working for a living.' I don't have any presidents, vice presidents, etc., but only a few people who enjoy working and seem to be making a success of having a good time, in spite of the mad-house business of radio.". . .. Ort Hicks reported on March 16 that he had seen few '21ers in his travels lately. "I did, however, play squash with Marshall O. Exnicios in Washington last week," continues the one and only Ort. "For years, Hubbell, Chamberlaine, and I have been engaging in a triangular ladder tournament that we considered emblematic of the 1921 championship. You can readily imagine my chagrin when Ex proceeded to dust me off. My feelings were somewhat assuaged, however, when I discovered that he had been for 10 years, and still is, District of Columbia champion, and that I had carried him to five games."
It is a real blow to have to record that Had Presson turned the last corner on March 31. Not much more than two months earlier, this department received a grand, long letter from Had, telling of many things up at Worcester Academy and of his degree from Clark University, earned after years and years of summer study. That degree was a source of great satisfaction to him! Had was with us in Hanover only a few months, but was one of the most loyal of all '21ers, in every sense of the word. Don Mix represented the class at the funeral, says that Cory Litchard attended the committal services in Springfield. A brief account of Had's life appears elsewhere, in. the Necrology section. We have lost one of our best men.
Tracy Higgins, ink impresario, writes from his private office in Brooklyn: "There was quite an impromptu 1921 reunion in Hanover over the Alumni Carnival weekend. I drove up to Hanover on Friday, February 17, with my wife and oldest youngster, Michael, who is now 11, and upon arrival at the Inn found Mr. and Mrs. Artie Anderson and Artie Jr., aged 9, already there. Michael and Artie at once became fast friends. * * * * Skiing on the slope, I ran across Tom Cleveland and Tom Norcross. * * * * On Monday, who should turn up at the Inn but Bob and Mrs. Burroughs, whom we had not had the pleasure of seeing since the glorious 10th Reunion! They had one of their youngsters with them, who was participating in a week of instruction at the Hanover Ski School. * * **" Tracy also reveals the severe illness of Bob Loeb, who recently suffered a sequence of grippe, appendectomy, and a breakdown. Cliff Hart sends a later report on the Loeb case: Bob and Dot are now living in Bermuda until spring, in order to recuperate Cliff writes that, as for himself, he's taking (by easy stages) an M. A. at New York University Ralph Baker is now candy buyer for Brown Thomson Co., 943 Main St., Hartford, Conn. Lives at 87 Spring St., Hartford George Forman flashes a new address, 254 South Ashland Ave., Lexington, Ky.
Harry Chamberlaine, our ace Chicago reporter, says he's been putting the heat on various classmates to do something different and interesting so that it would make news. Keep up the fine work, Harry! "At the Chicago banquet on March 8, the regulars showed up—except Ned Price, who was in Sun Valley finding out that his skiing muscles have aged since college days. Present were Bill Embree, Dick Hart (the mustache is a bit more presentable than when last reported, Ken Thomas, Rog Wilde, and myself. Also we have three new welcome members of the regular club: Ike Chester (who was looking for anecdotes to use in a speech to high school students of Kokomo; he got the anecdotes, but if he uses them, Chester will shortly be moving from Kokomo), Charlie Gilson, and Addison Warner. All of them were more or less present The non-regulars, represented by Johnnie Hasbrook and Rock Grundman, turned in their usual brand of excuses and did not show up." .... Werner Janssen is living at the Ambassador Apartments, Canterbury and 39th St., Baltimore, in case you're passing through there and are unable to attend one of his Baltimore Symphony Orchestra concerts Jack Hubbell, advertising director of the w.k. bedding company, which has just come on the market with a new, deeper Beautyrest Mattress (advt.) has moved to 86 Mendota Ave., Rye, N. Y.
Late Bulletin—The class agents (and 1921 has an outstanding corps) have only a certain amount of time that they can take away from regular bread-and-butter activities to work on the Alumni Fund. If you send them a check now—or tell them your intentions regarding this year's Fund —you free part of their time to devote to members of the class who require additional follow-ups. This is the only way in which we can KEEP 1921 ON TOP. SO let's cooperate Take it away, George: