Class of 1916
Among the recent communications from the Middle West Bailey Emery, district agent, contributes the following:
Holmes Green is the guiding light and directing genius of a dry goods concern owned and operated by himself and his brother, Wag.
Arno Behnke is the main efficiency and research engineer of Lord Cowdray's Amerada Petroleum Company. "Du" flits in and out of Tulsa occasionally, and apparently is well on the way to becoming one of the shining lights in the production end of America's "greatest industry."
J. W. Rogers, Jr., alias Tex, is holding down a chair for dramatic, artistic, literary, and musical criticism on the Dallas TimesHerald, the great South west's leading evening daily. More recently he has achieved considerable publicity by a one-act play entitled "Judge Lynch" and produced in New York by the Dallas Players. This play, given in competition with seventeen others of the Little Theatre players all over the country, achieved first place and won the Belasco Cup. Our heartiest congratulations are yours, Tex!
Class mail addressed to Ben Eastman at Fort Worth, Texas, has been returned unclaimed. Where in the Southwest is he, or has he returned to the United States! ! Information!
Congratulations are in order for Bill Brett. No, not that; he has long since been a "model husband and a loving father," but his spontaneous note to the Secretary this summer gives promise of returning consciousness. Over again in the same place, Bill, but make it a letter!
Ralph George postponed his tenth fishing trip of the summer long enough to enter a vigorous denial of the report in the August Alumn!i Magazine that he was banging the big bass drum in the Concord, N. H., band. "I do play the snare drum in the Shrine Drum Corps, and if I say it myself, as shouldn't, I sure twirl a wicked stick. The noise you heard and figured was the bass drum was undoubtedly the reverberations of my hat as it landed for the first time in the political ring." As candidate for representative, Ralph fought a tooth and nail battle with his opponent, who was running for re-election, and breasted the tape with votes to spare. The Balmacaan political steam-roller will shortly introduce a bill to make a national reservation of Lake Morey and environs.
"Stew" Paul, Captain U. S. A., was recently transferred to the Schofield Barracks in the Hawaiian Islands.
"Chuck" Durgin will be located in New York city for several months to come, although officially connected with the old First National Bank of Boston. Another prospect in line for the '16 gatherings at Keen's Chop House.
Perhaps in deference to a Sinn Fein holiday or merely as a reaction temperamental to the finesse of art, Ken Henderson shot in a midsummer ramble on pale green stationery. At any rate it contained the ever-elusive news. "Bill Costello passed through Chicago late in July on his way either to or from visiting Sam Theme in Fort Wayne. Bill is a bit more ponderous physically, but the same brilliant conversationalist. Joe Cheney acquired an estate in Hinsdale on the month s proceeds, and I'm going out to teach him the rudiments of golf. Witt Stillman has moved to Joliet, where he is now associated with his father in the patent medicine business."
Our strawberry blond custodian of the exchequer spent a "snakin'" good two weeks in August at Lake Spofford, N. H. In spite of the repeated and determined assaults of the fair sex, Perc maintained his lines intact and for another year at least will be one of the bulwarks in the fast thinning ranks of 1916 "die hards."
Mr. and Mrs. Selden Daniel Rice announce the marriage of their daughter, Ida May, to Mr. William Stephen Nagle on Monday, August 4, 1924, at Brookline, Mass. Following the ceremony the bridal couple sailed from New York for an extended European trip.
Mrs. Thomas McCrate Babson announces the marriage of her daughter, Ruth Stevens, to Mr. Edward Chase Kirkland on September 4, 1924, at Boston, Mass.
Mr. and Mrs. George A. Phillips announce the engagement of their niece, Miss Christine Hubbard, to Daniel Lindsley. Miss Hubbard is a graduate of Smith College.
Doc Greeley recently returned from a four months' trip through the Middle and Far West, where he made it a point to look up every 'l6 man along his line of march. "Saw Shorty Hitchcock and Dan Coakley in Los Angeles —both coming back to the Tenth. Spent considerable time with Ev Parker in Butte, Montana; I was the first Sixteen man he had seen in four years. Ev and Dan Lindsley, with whom I spent a very pleasant week-end, are both planning to drive to Hanover in June, 1926. Looked up Bob Sherer in Kansas City, and had a long fanning bee with him. In Milwaukee saw Bob Harvey, who sent his best regards to all the boys. Ken Henderson and Joe Cheney were on the job in Chicago, and spoke most enthusiastically of plans for the Tenth." Doc returned to New Haven in the latter part of September, and immediately launched into the work of the local committee staging the Chow-Wow following the Yale game.
Johnny Pelletier has been one of the active workers on the New Britain committee that is boosting the dinner and dance at the Hotel Burritt on the night of the Yale game.
Mr. Filene again played the perfect host to the Boston Chapter of Balmacaan at the second annual outing and field day of the Sandy Burr Golf Club, Wayland, Mass., on September' 16. Twenty-eight Balmacaaners participated in the day's sports, and this number was augmented by two for dinner with the belated arrival of Louis Bell and Bill Mott. The latter two occupied ring-side seats for the opening splash of the diving girls at one of Boston's well-known theatres. While some of the headliners of last year's gala day were unable to be present, the occasion was graced by the advent of four returning sons who had not been seen in these parts for ma,ny a month. Pete Soutar was back from Cuba on a month's vacation and supplied the big noise for the cheering section. Jake Story from Essex, Jim Colton from Millbury, and Louie Gove, latest transfer from New York, completed the quartette. At the conclusion of the day's play the party entrained for the Weston Golf Club for dinner. A riot was very nearly precipitated when, as a result of the drawing from the hat, Tog Upham crashed through for the trophy for the second time. Last year Tog received a handsome silver cigarette humidor, and this year completed his outfit with a cigarette case, suitably engraved. As a result of last year's prize Tog took up smoking. A flask is in line for another year, and if Tog can tie onto the Blind Goddess for a third straight win, the "Wets" will have a real candidate. "Ig" Eigner again contributed the feature of the play with twenty-two strokes on the eighth. At that Louie Gove, who proved a kindred soul, had "Ig" pressed for honors up to the turn. 'Twas another great day for Balmacaan, and the cheers still ring for the hospitality of Mr. Filene and his able lieutenant, Harry Floyd '09.
John McAuliffe is again doing a whale of a job as varsity line coach at Hanover. Pete Soutar reported to Jess Hawley on October 1 for coaching duty, and 1916 is proud of the twofold representation.
If you have not received your copy of the vest pocket directory, write the Secretary. Continuing the policy of the past year the ALUMNI MAGAZINE is being sent to all "interested" members of the class. If you are not in, you should be! Ask Perc Burnham.
Roswell F. MaGill has been appointed assistant professor of law in Columbia University. From 1921 to 1923 he was instructor in the law school of the University of Chicago, and for the last year has been a special attorney in the United States Treasury Department.
Secretary, 38 Algonquin St., Dorchester, Mass.
