Class of 1925
Laurie Wakefield is traveling around Minnesota and adjacent .parts of the country, selling for the Minnesota Linseed Oil and Paint Copany.
Bob Pike is also around that region, being a teacher of languages everal of them at school in Owatonna, Minn. He handles French, German, Spanish, Latin, and what else have you? Upon referring to the December issue of this magazine we note with a rather puzzled air that we there reported Bob as teaching French at a military school at Lake Geneva, Wis. It is annoying to make mistakes, but when they must be corrected there is the advantage of having two items of news growing where only one grew before.
Speaking of mistakes, Chuck Babcock, who bumped into the two above mentioned classmates while peddling Comptometers around the vicinity of the Twin Cities, chided the Secretary upon not using as news the activities of such a close acquaintance. The Secretary was under the impression that he had overworked Chuck as news by using him twice already. However, we always like to give space to our contributors, and we do not always ride them, either. (Will the 614 non-contributors in the class please note?)
The term "contributors" suggests an idea. Why not use this column for "articles of literary value and also articles of criticism" as well as for news? It would surely be as successful as the erstwhile "Third Rail". Comments by the editor would of course be barred, and every month would be "Contributors Month".
Ford Allen and Bill Barker are located in the city, of Chicago. The editor met them New Year's eve, and as we remember the facts Ford, who spent the last two years of his collge course at Michigan, is traveling around Middle Western territory selling something, and Bill is with the Western Electric.
A letter that comes to hand from Allen Bickford confirms the rumor that Bob Pike is now at Owatonna, Minn., instead of Lake Geneva, Wis. Bick has himself covered a lot of ground since June of 1925, and we feel more confident that we have the right dope on him since it is first hand. He has toured around 29 states for a total of about eleven thousand miles, using public camp grounds all the time. In covering the ground between Los Angeles and Boston, Bick struck the following well known paths: Mohawk Trail, Yellowstone Trail, Old Oregon Trail, Columbia River Highway, Pacific Highway, Santa Fe Trail, Arrowhead Trail, Victory Highway, National Olds Trail, and the Boston Post Road. That's a pretty complete record. Last winter he spent teaching Math and science in Dietrich, Idaho, and he is now with the W. T. Grant Company in Nashua, N. H.
Sam Carlisle, who has been with the Western Paper Company in Omaha, Neb., has taken a good step upwards, and is now with the Western Newspaper Union, Des Moines, lowa.
Our column of congratulations: (we make it into a column not only because of its importance but because of the numbers of the occasions ; may the formality detract not a whit from the sincerity.
Bob McCord has announced his engagement to Roberta Funchle, a former Vassar girl. Bob's home is Omaha.
Mrs. Robert J. Graham of Watertown, Mass., has announced the engagement of her daughter, Miss Davis Louise Graham, to Howard Mickelson, also of Watertown. The wedding is planned for early this next summer.
Clif Hill was married to Miss Jean Westerfield at the First Congregational church of Montclair, N. J., on Saturday, the eighteenth of December. Cliff and his wife will make their home in Washington, D. C.
Ford Barrett, to quote his own words, is "selling homes to the homeless" in Spokane, Wash., with more than fair success. Those last few words are not his own, but we trust they are accurate. Anyway, his company's business is growing.
Earl Matchett, also in Spokane, is selling for the Pacific States Electric Company, a subsidiary of the General Electric.
Charlie Flint is with the Imperial Life Assurance Company of Canada, in the agency at Newport, Vt. Charlie reports that he was married last March, and to him we also extend congratulations.
Web Collins, in Springfield, Mass., is engaged in selling to paper manufacturers scraps of rags and other ingredients which go to make up a high grade finished product.
Bob Palmer is also in Springfield, working with a general insurance company.
Clint Taylor is rumored to have a good job with the Tel and Tel in Boston.
Bill Gleason was last heard from in Fitchburg, working for a saw company and according to late reports putting his Tuck School dope to use in getting information relative to the installation of a new wage system.
Joe Elinsky is working in a drug store in Holyoke.
Justin Bugbee is studying . dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania.
Secretary, Greenwood Inn, Evanston, Ill
