CLASS OF 1925
We received the other day one of those joybringing letters from Boston. It would bring just as much joy from any other town as long as it contained as much news. We are going to give it to you more or less wholesale.
Joe Leavitt is training himself to take over the conduct of R. H. Stearns Company, one of the leading retail stores of Boston, at present selling yard goods, coating, etc., to testy old women. He reports that the road to success is more or less slow, but is probably there, so he will undoubtedly follow it to its summit. Joe is one of the boys in the class that is still single.
Dick Holden, after doing considerable work for the Dennison Manufacturing Company, decided to seek something else more promising and took a position with the Furness-Withy Steamship Company. He is booking passengers for Newfoundland, Liverpool, and Bermuda, and the dope is that he will manage to book himself for this latter trip every now and then.
Lang Spring is still pursuing his course of education at the Harvard Engineering School, and as a change he spent the summer crawling down manholes and- into people's cellars to look at electric meters for the Boston Edison Company. This was part of the practical experience required for the course, so that undoubtedly he will now be ready to step into an executive position as soon as he receives his degree. He is reported to have had a date with some fair damsel last spring, but we have heard nothing further, and apparently he has become discouraged along this line.
Bob McKennan has enrolled to study anthropology at Harvard this year, with teaching and field trips in prospect at some future time.
One of the boys met Ken Hill the other day and said he seemed to be developing into a high-pressure bond salesman. His appearance indicated that he is meeting with more than average success, and he was enthusiastic about his work."
Larry Welch continues as one of the promising young men in the Old Colony Corporation, but is not seen about very much.
Pete Blodgett after a summer in Maine was reported as having in mind the discontinuance of his traveling and hunting in favor of some position in the business world. We have not heard what has developed from this scheme.
Jock Brace has been doing different kinds of things in tha First National Bank of Boston. Although he is not as yet entirely familiar with the furniture in the president's office, we believe he will sometime be picking it out for himself. It's hard to hold down these men who have once been president of something.
Sherm Barnett was married September 14 to Miss Elizabeth Pope of Wilmette, 111., and formerly of Northwestern University. Sherm and his bride will live on the north side of Chicago, while Sherm continues his law study at Northwestern-by-the-lake.
The engagement of Miss Constance Lynde of Newtonville, Mass., to Ralph Thompson has been announced recently. This is Tommy of Zeta Psi. Miss Lynde, according to The Dartmouth, which we believe to be sometimes reliable, is a graduate of the Beechwood school in Philadelphia. Ralph is in the Harvard Dental School.
Walker Vincent was married on October 8 to Miss Helen Louise Mascho at the Trinity Episcopal church of Toledo, Ohio.
Johnny Whitman is engaged to Miss Louise Hegeman of Springfield, Mass. Johnny is in the advertising business with the Manternach Company of Hartford, Conn. He has been there since departing from Tuck School a year and a half ago, and remarks that it is fine.
Tom Carpenter is this year at Ithaca, with the Christian Association at Cornell. With him are his wife and very charming daughter.
Bob Borwell, after being with the Aetna Life Insurance Company, last spring became connected with Marsh and McLennan, insurance brokers, at their Chicago headquarters.
Ralph Jameson, who has been with the Aetna in Chicago, transferred to Boston the first of October. Back near the Harvard game.
Ed McNamee has been with George M. Clark and Company, a division of the American Stove Company, in Chicago, but is now with the Kimberly-Clark Company of Chicago, trying to further the use of rotogravure paper in advertising. He is going to be in New York city this winter.
Hap Hefler is teaching in the French department at Rice Institute, Houston, Texas. He took the place of Stowell Goding, who went back north to the Mass. Aggies, taking with him a southern wife. Hap got his A. M. at Harvard last February, went over to Paris to study some more, and this summer did hotel work in Maine. He is engaged to Miss Marion Hall Weston of Wheaton, Mass. Miss Weston is in her second year of teaching in the secretarial department at Simmons, having taken a year's course in secretarial work there after leaving Wheaton.
Bill Hartman is also at Rice Institute in Houston, being a member of the English department.
Clif Hill is in Springfield, Mass., teaching economics at the Springfield College.
Bob Palmer is also in Springfield, in the wide and highly intense insurance business.
Bill Davenport is in Amherst, not so far from Springfield, and is in the hotel business.
Nort Canfield is back in Ann Arbor again studying medicine, and Bill Sleigh is once more delving into law at Harvard. Whit Campbell and some others must be in law at Cambridge too.
Some nice letters have come in recently, well written epistles and fruitful ones. But there are a lot of hold-outs. Make it a motto to write before your friends and safer.
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