Class of 1918
Joe Seacrest has been kind enough to supply us with news from Colorado. To quote from his letter:
"John M. Cunningham, Jr., is located in Denver, where he has charge of the sales department of the Perry-Jacobs Tire Company. Although the demands on his time from a business standpoint are heavy, he generally finds time to spring a joke or some milder form of entertainment upon his friends.
"Chuck Hilliker is a member of the firm of Stovall-Hilliker, where he is busily engaged in handling 'tin-babies' (the Denver expression for Fords). He plays everything from volleyball to politics in one of our very strongest organizations.
"It is hardly necessary to tell you how thoroughly we enjoyed Prexy Hopkins' visit with us the first part of March. He is certainly a worth-while man, and one of whom we should all feel proud." (Quite so, Joe).
Seacrest himself is a truly authentic "butter and egg man" in Denver, and is the better half of the Alpha Creamery Company, which, according to his letter head, manufactures and deals in ice-cream, butter, and eggs.
Jake Bingham writes us about the doings of several Eighteeners. He mentions that he has recently had a letter from Joe Philbin at Saranac Lake, and that Joe was then under a nurse's care, as he had undergone a fairly recent operation which set him back quite a bit. No doubt Philbin would be greatly pleased to have any Eighteeners passing through the Adirondacks on their vacation this summer drop in to see him, and would be appreciative of letters from others.
According to Jake, Ed Stanley has suddenly developed a surpassing interest in eatables, and is now one of the directors of the Waldorf Lunch system. Jerry Geran has been aiding the Boston Bruins, the Hub city pro hockey team, to make its good showing this winter. T. R. Montgomery is a proud uncle of the sophomore hurdler, Wells, who is doing so well up at Hanover now.
Bingham also sends us a newspaper clipping concerning the abilities of Hubie McDonough, which appeared some time ago in Bob Dunbar's column in the Boston Herald. It reads as follows:
"Manchester (N.H.) High has perhaps the greatest one-man high school coaching staff in the game, Hubie McDonough guiding its destinies. The former Dartmouth star has piloted his football teams through three successive undefeated season, and his present basketball team has completed its season with a clean slate. In other words, Manchester has not lost an athletic contest since the fall season stated." (That's saying a lot, Hubie).
"Bugs" Wallis is the latest 1918-er to go to the trouble of having offspring literature printed for the edification (or is it annoyance?) of the gaping world. The propaganda for youngster goes to considerable length, and says: "Louise and Lawrence Wallis announce the birth of Robert Norcross Wallis, familiarly known as Bobby, on February 26, 1926. He has blue eyes, dark hair, red face, and weighs eight pounds. His grandmas haven't decided yet whom he resembles." At least, Bobby can never complain of not having been properly heralded into the world.
From a letter written to Ernie Earley we learn that Joe Converse is now on the staff of The Timberman, which, in his own words, "is a lumber journal of quite some repute and tradition, doing a varied line of duty, but running rather heavy to the advertising." His work is in Portland, Ore.
Joe reports that he saw Ed Healey while in Seattle last fall playing tackle for the Chicago Bears (Red Grange's team) against a local aggregation. He also says that J. J. McMahon is now in Seattle as supervisor of sales for the Associated Oil Company.
Other news handed over to us by Treasurer Earley is from Stew Teaze, who in paying his class dues wants to know why our traveling 18ers of more or less leisure, like Stan Jones, Mike Pounds, Louie Huntoon, and others, don't make the Orient the objective occasionally and not always Europe. He then uses a sales argument for Japan, which reads something like this: "Our ale-and-so-forth measures up fully with any I have sampled in most countries. Our mountains are beautiful, our scenery unique, our climate excellent. Our springs provide natural soda, and the tariff still hasn't been raised so high that we are unable to supply a little of the SCOTCH that makes the soda palatable. And in the way of natural thrills come over and try one of our earthquakes"—a line worthy of the slickest Florida real-estater. Stew is married, and raising a family in Tokyo, where he incidentally is selling oil for thle Standard Oil Company.
Cliff Meredith has moved over to New York city from Washington, D. C. He is now with the New York American, where he is editor of v the news picture department. Cliff is unusually hard to get hold of due to the unusual working hours of a newspaper man, whereby he labors every night and sleeps most of the morning. Though he's been in Gotham several months, we don't know of any Eighteeners who have had a glimpse of Meredith excepting Stan Jones.
Al Gottschaldt steamed into Manhattan a while ago, looking for a copy writer whom he could nab and take back to Georgia. Al has been slaving away as president of the Cotton States Advertising Agency in Atlanta, and has a good position open for the right sort of man to help him out in his labors. Gottschaldt is still as enthusiastic as ever over Atlanta for business possibilities and pleasant living. If he could have his way he'd start a 1918 colony down there with a sort of "money back, if you don't like it, guarantee."
William Chester Hulbert was married in Paris on September 26, 1925, to Miss Nancy Kim'ball from Texas. He has been for some years in the employ of the General Motors Company, and at present is the general agent of the General Motors Acceptance Corporation, with headquarters in Antwerp, Belgium. This agency covers France, Belgium, Switzerland, Holland and western Germany. His address is 60 Avenue van Ryswijck, Antwerp.
C. F. Echterbecker, professor of education and psychology in Hamline University, adds to his duties that of pastor of the Mayflower Congregational church, Minneapolis, a recent organization in a new and rapidly growing section of the city.
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