CLASS OF 1927

The summer months with their week-ends at the Cape, Maine, and so forth, seem to have interfered considerably with our class reports. As a matter of fact, at the time the notes for the October issue should have been composed we were spending an extremely pleasant week on the Atlantic Ocean somewhere between Plymouth, Mass., and New- port, R. 1., with Skipper Bartlett on his good ship, Kestrel. Charlie had just returned from a trip to South America, where he went as an able seaman on one of the Munson Line ships. We are afraid that parts of the following notes will be old to some, but trust that they will still be news to most.

Another summer has gone by since the Big Commencement, and we are no longer the youngest alumni. Most of us are just about getting over that fall feeling, mixed with desire that we really should be back in Hanover. The football season is well under way and by the time this issue is published will be practically over. Every Saturday we will run into '27 men at THE games or else listening to returns from THE game, and it seems to us that this offers an excellent opportunity for some kindhearted classmates to gather all the available news and forward it to us.

The weekly '27 luncheons in Boston have started up again, and are held Thursday noons at the Ambassador Restaurant, 41 Winter St. We sincerely hope that groups elsewhere are holding some such regular gatherings, for we have found them very enjoyable and interesting.

Miss Marjorie Bates Stevens and William Pike Elliott were married on June 23. Ron Michelini was the best man, and among the ushers were Bob Williamson, GJE. Brown, Fred Carver, and Fred Owl. After the ceremony a cable was received from Bob Stevens, who, as you know, is working for General Motors in Antwerp, Belgium.

Hale Ham was in Boston for a short time this summer and called in to see us, but unfortunately we were away.

After graduating from Tuck School, Chuck Field took a trip through the White Mountains with Bob Tucker, and after spending six presumably enjoyable weeks at his home in Montreal proceeded to Germantown, Pa., where he is working for the sales department of the Atwater Kent Manufacturing Company. Chuck seems to be enjoying his work immensely, and recommends his company's product to those who will be seeing THE games via the air.

Fred Thompson is working in the factory of the Buehl Aircraft Company in Marysville, Mich. We understand that at present he is waiting to hear from the Patent Office in Washington in regard to patenting a new hinge for airplane rudders and elevators which he has invented. It is a pleasure to know that we can boast of an inventor this early in our history.

The engagement of Gus Buschmann to Miss Katherine Homer Seers of Boston has been recently announced. Gus is now teaching German at Bates College, in Maine.

Reggie French is back at Harvard continuing his graduate study.

Bill Spinney is at present attending Harvard Dental School, where I understand he is president of his class.

Bruce McKennan is working with a New York brokerage house, and is living in the Village with Al Lagacy.

Frank Collier is with Boston American in the aviation news department.

Joe Russakoff received a Master's degree from Harvard in economics, and the last I heard was trying to decide about a job.

Cam Clokey and Bud Wesselmann are both in Cleveland, selling for the New York Life Insurance Company. They both seem to be enjoying it a lot, but frankly admit they would like to get a couple of prospects somewhere in the vicinity of Hanover. Bud recently announced his engagement to Miss Dorothy Oakes, who as I understand was the cause of frequent trips to Boston during Bud's senior year.

Charlie Haynes is working with the New England Tel and Tel in Concord, N. H. He recently announced his engagement to Miss Marcia Frey, a graduate of Connecticut College.

Al House spent the summer at a boys' camp in New Hampshire as a counselor and guide. This year he is teaching history in the Central High School in Manchester, and will be living in the room recently vacated by Al McClure, who is now traffic manager for the Telephone Company in Nashua.

John Hough received his Master's degree in classics at Princeton last year, and is now at Dartmouth as an instructor in Latin and Greek. He intends to return to Princeton next year to continue working for his Ph.D.

Ed Watkins is working for the Guardian Detroit Company in Detroit (banking).

Al Goldman is in New York selling direct mail advertising, and in the evenings is studying at art school. We understand that he eventually intends to devote all his time to art.

Coggie Broer is in the jewelry business with his father in Toledo.

Harry Milner was married to Miss Constance Rich of Newton Center during September. Harry is working for Jordan Marsh Company in Boston, taking an executive training course.

Lovey Lovegrove is located in Providence, R. I., working for the Remington Rand Business Service.

George Kiss is in the real estate business in Bridgeport, Conn.

Frank Marsh is in the insurance business with some company located in Hartford. Russ Weston is working in the engineering department of the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. At present he is located in Providence.

Bill Pelton is in the insurance business with his father out in Olean, N. Y.

Rufus Choate is working with N. W. Ayer and Son, advertising agents, in Philadelphia. Bill Abbott has been having a pretty tough siege ever since his appendix operation early last spring. Since then he has had two more major operations. We are very glad to hear that he is coming along nicely now, and expects to be able to go back to work soon.

Dean Askew has been transferred to the St. Louis office of the General Exchange Insurance Company, which is a subsidiary of the General Motors.

It is with deepest regret that we report the death of two of our beloved classmates. Coleman "Hunk" Joel died of heart failure while swimming at Beechwood, Maine. Hunk had just saved a small girl from drowning, and had gone back in for one short swim before going to dinner when his heart gave out.

Bob Willis Bliss of Trenton, N. J., died in Hanover on August 25. Bob had been troubled with diabetes for a number of years, and while spending a few days at Lake Morey was picked up unconscious in a diabetic coma, from which he never recovered.

Ed Jacob was married to Miss Dorothy Bates Tiley on August 25 at Old Lyme, Conn.

Marty Heifer was married to Miss Louise Stone of Milton, Pa., on July 5. Jim Lower was one of the ushers.

Hank Orth and Curt Wright are now representing the Gugler Lithograph Company in Chicago.

Bill North spent the summer in Em-ope, and is now working in New York for the Harry Meyers Company, manufacturers of furniture and importers of antiques.

Secretary, Boston