Class of 1921

That 1921 is supplying its share of the Dartmouth earth girdlers is apparent from a few of the items that have drifted in toward our typewriter in the last month. In the first place there was word from Rollo Briggs, Uncle Sam's vice-consul and '21's ambassador at Lima, Peru. Ellis reports himself as enjoying his task of envoying down in the land of Tacna-Arica. His letter was written a few days before an expected hot Christmas, part of which holiday he planned to spend in a cooling dip in the Pacific, thanks to the fact that his part of the World has been enjoying summer while most of us have been fighting with Jack Frost.

Even farther afield is Johnny Anderson, who has been spending his third winter at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, where he represents a Winchester, N. H., leather company. John claims to have perfect action in the elbow, and is able to toss them off before and after meals and at bedtime.

Over in dear old London the banner of '21 is being held aloft by Con Keyes. Con is now manager of the London office of the Bankers- Commercial Security Company, Inc., of which firm he is also assistant treasurer. He has been in England since November, 1925, and except for an occasional trip to the Continent "to drive dull care away" expects to be found prowling around through the famous London fogs for some time to come.

Ted Merriam on the other hand is out in sunny Hawaii. He is with the Bank of Honolulu, Ltd., in Honolulu.

Two of '21's erstwhile envoys to foreign shores, however, have recently returned. Herm McMillan, who was connected with the U. S. embassy at Constantinople, is now in New York, where he is in the signboard advertising game. He is living in Yonkers.

The other returning Twenty-oner is Dr. Walter Wolfe, who came back to this country accompanied by the well known psychiatrist Dr. Alfred Adler late in December, after concluding some research work in Paris. Walter has just opened an office in New York, where he will practice in the field of psychiatry. Together with Dr. Adler, Walter is the author of "Your Nervous Child," soon to be published, and of "Character and Talents", a magazine article shortly to appear in Harper's Magazine. While in Vienna prior to his return, Walter ran into none other than Bill Beers, who was last heard from as a member of rescue boat crew in the President Roosevelt's spectacular sea epic a year ago. Bill is now connected with the U. S. Treasury Department's headquarters in Vienna, Walter reports, and furthermore he has married and settled down to enjoy domesticity with his German bride and their baby daughter.

From Vermont comes word of a new job for Fig Newcomb. The Barre Times of January 5 reports the appointment as secretary of the Granite Manufacturers' Association, Inc., of M. W. Newcomb, Dartmouth '2l. Fig will have his headquarters in Barre, where he has spent the past year as representative of Archie M. Peisch and Company, accountants and auditors.

Dr. Norm Crisp and Mrs. Crisp have moved from Hanover to Rochester, Minn., where Norm is now studying and working at the Mayo Clinic, along with Dr. Nels Barker. Before leaving Hanover, Norm was house physician at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital.

Among those granted leaves of absence for the second semester of the present college year at Dartmouth was Franklin McDuffee, assistant professor of English. Following study in Boston and New York, Franklin plans to go to Europe for further work. He will return to Hanover for the opening of College in the fall.

In his review of "Sam Abramovitch", produced at the National Theater in New York recently, Alexander Wollcott of the New York World had a good word to say for "plaintaine" incidental music which was written by our own Werner Janssen.

Another New York paper has announced the signing of a contract by John Colton, author of "The Shanghai Gesture", and Werner for collaboration on the conversion of that play into an opera. It was stated that negotiations have been started to have Mary Garden sing the feature role, which in the play was acted by Florence Reed. It is planned to produce the opera early next season.

Another Twenty-oner has been active in the New York theatrical field of late. Bob Harrigan, who used to act with the Dartmouth Players, has been appearing in a comedy, "We Americans", at the Eltinge theater.

From the West comes the news of the marriage in Aberdeen, South Dakota, on June 27, 1926, of Miss Marian Arthur, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Arthur of Aberdeen, and Vin Corwin. Mr. and Mrs. Corwin are living in Great Falls, Montana, where Vin recently entered the insurance field.

Paul Nicholson is now selling bonds for Paine, Webber, and Company of 25 Broad St., New York. He still commutes daily from Port Washington, L. I.

Over in Passaic, N. J., '21 has another active insurance agent in Hoy Schulting. Hoy is married and has two children, a boy and a girl.

Francis Hickman was in New York for January and part of February. Francis is advertising representative for the Cotton TradeJournal, which is published in New Orleans, where he has his headquarters, but he spends part of his time each year at the New York office of the publication.

Frank Norton, who left Hanover after sophomore year, has been located in Montclair, N. J., where he is connected with the Globe Press, printers.

The Drygoodsman, which is published in St. Louis, coatained in its issue of December 18, 1926, an article on keeping a set of stock records by Bill Duker, who left after freshman year to get his degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In presenting the article the editor of the magazine called Bill's contribution "one of the briefest and clearest articles on a practical stock record system we have ever read". Bill is a member of the firm of W. T. Duker Company of Quincy, I11.

The Albany (N. Y.) Evening News of January 11 contained an item under a Hudson, N. Y., dateline, which read as follows : "Hugh McKay, manager of the Canada Dry Ginger Ale Company's plant here, was the speaker at the regular weekly luncheon meeting of the Kiwanis club in the St. Charles hotel today. Later the Kiwanians were shown through the Canada Dry Ginger Ale plant as the guests of Mr. McKay".

'2l has another representative in the upper Hudson valley in Ted Sonnenfeld of the Herbert L. Marx Company of Albany, manufacturers of shoes, rubber footwear, and leather. Ted was married in November, 1925, to Miss Celia Silberman, Smith '22, of Albany.

Dr. Neil Forbes has the old shingle out now in Astoria, L. 1., and is reported as rapidly building up a fine practice.

Gerald Griffin may now be found among the ranks of the New York bankers. He is assistant to the vice-president in charge of the bond department of the Bank of America. Griff was married in 1925, and he makes his home in upper Manhattan.

Right across Fifth Avenue from the Bank of America, there meets your gaze the bold lettering "Paul M. Ladin Cos., Inc.," and inside you may meet Paul Ladin '21. Paul left Hanover after sophomore year, and received his degree from Columbia. After being graduated there he organized his. own importing company, specializing in laces. Paul is also married, and a resident of upper Manhattan.

Among the boys who are at present listed as "Lost" in our records are the following: Nate Brown, Elliot May, Francis Nave, Bumpus Ridlon, and Paul Smith. Any information that you have about these men will be greatly appreciated.

The '2l crowd in Chicago had another class dinner in January. Seven members met at the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Club there on January 10, and according to a letter recently received from Harry Mosser, Bill Embree and Bill Terry were star performers in furnishing entertainment for the boys. Those present were Hal Braman, Jerry Cutler, Bill Embree, Val Grundman, Dick Hart, Harry Mosser, and Bill Terry. Incidentally we find that we gave out the wrong dope in December about Jerry Cutler and thus greatly misled the Sears-Roebuck catalogue fans. Jerry is in Chicago all right, but he is with Montgomery Ward and Company, not with Sears-Roebuck.

1921 won first place at the annual dinner of the Dartmouth Alumni of New York at the Hotel Plaza January 12 for having the largest turnout of any class. Twenty-six Twenty-oners were on hand as follows: Bill Alley, Artie Anderson, Rog Bird, Herrick Brown, Coot Carder, George Carmody, Harry Chamberlaine, Gerald Griffin, Tommy Griffith, Gos Halsey, Bord Helmer, Francis Hickman, Ort Hicks, Tracy Higgins, Mac Johnson, Rex King, Bob Loeb, Bandy Lowe, Ed Luedke, Terry Mc- Adams, Sumner Perkins, Doc Rosenthal, Rocky Stoner, Doug Storer, Carlton Sullivan, and Russ Whittier. The high light of the evening as far as '2l was concerned was the election to the post of secretary-treasurer of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of New York of one O. H. Hicks. Harry Chamberlaine also came in for honors when he was chosen a member of the board of governors of the Association. '21 was represented among the entertainers by Rog Bird, who sang with the Curbstone Four, a quartet which appeared at '21's own dinner in December.

The New York '21 gang also held a dinner of their own February 5 at the Dartmouth Club. Twenty-one Twenty-oners showed up for this party, as follows: Howie Anger, Artie Anderson, Rog Bird, Herrick Brown, George Carmody, Harry Chamberlaine, Fran Cosgrove, Tommy Griffith, Furb Haight, Gos Halsey, Cliff Hart, Ort Hicks, Dick Libby, Bill Lies, Red Livermore, Ed Luedke, Bandy Lowe, Larry Nardi, Art Steiner, Doug Storer, and Dr. Walter Wolfe. After the meal Art Steiner, who has been very successful as a commercial photographer, took some silhouettes of the boys which promise to be great, and then the gang took in an all-Dartmouth vaudeville show staged at the Club that evening. Rog Bird appeared in the show, and our era in Hanover was also represented by Carl Newton '20, who is even better than ever at the old magician's stuff. We don't see how the criminals he starts out after in his role of assistant U. S. district attorney have a chance. Fran Cosgrove down from Marlboro, Mass., for the week-end gave the boys a little line on the crowd in the Boston district, where he is an insurance man.

The class is indebted to Bill Bullen '22 for the items about Johnny Anderson, Fig Newcomb, and Dr. Norm Crisp.

Joseph B. Folger began teaching French and Spanish in the Huntington School, Boston, at the opening of the winter term.

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