Class of 1914
Having spent a portion of last evening reading the current ALUMNI MAGAZINE, this is the proper time to gather the threads for the next issue. Fortunately the supply of news is increasing. Let the good work continue.
L. D. White gets honorable mention for an article on the "City Manager." L. D. is making almost monthly appearances in the review columns, truly a prolific writer on political subjects. Understand that he has secured' a Guggenheim Fellowship, being one of twelve successful contestants in the entire country.
Paul Applin is reported to have moved to Fort Worth, Texas, where he still pursues the elusive oil. How about a correct address, Paul?
Of all the calendars coming into the office around the first of the year the Napco effort certainly takes the cake. This is the product of the National Process Company of New York, of which Pease is an ossifer. If you are interested in reproductions of printed matter, illustrations, etc., better ask Peaso for a copy.
In the words of Sig Larmon, "Red Davidson is the indefatigable secretary of the Dart mouth Alumni Association of Philadelphia, and the two of us are upholding the local honors for the class of 1914."
Sig recently visited Cleveland, his old stamping ground, and spent a half hour with Gus Fuller. Reports him completely regained in health, still with the Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation and living in an attractive house just completed in Shaker Heights.
Bob Hopkins continues to live in South Orange near his work with the Victor people, and is the proud father of a year-old infant.
Perhaps this is the proper point for recent vital statistics. Susan arrived in the Peppard family some time since, this being the third reason why John struggles along in the wilds of Plymouth, N. H., to buy shoes for the baby. Virginia Murray Slater was born on January 5, rounding out a total of three candidates for Smith College now taking nourishment at Bill's expense. A daughter, Donna Gay, was added to the Dellinger family on October 11 in St. Paul, Minn. A two-year-old son completes the juvenile section of Jack's liabilities. Jack resides in Tampico, Mexico, but evidently wanted his daughter to have a fair chance at the presidency of the U. S. in later years when women run for that office, and so arranged to have her see the light of day on domestic soil. As a follow-up to the comment last month about Lay Little in Tientsin, here is his own comment: "Before I left for China I was busy allee samee paperhanger. Tientsin is peaceful if you don't get dizzy trying to follow the 57 wars. Things might be worse (though that requires a good imagination), but, as they say down in Ted Marriner's office, 'la situation est tres grave' and getting gravier. Meanwhile our teeth get sore hanging on." Lay had to leave his family in Rhode Island.
Dud Colby on a letterhead which mentions D. R. Colby as general accountant of the Northwestern Bell Telephone Company at Omaha, spills a line which warrants passing along. "Lost my vacation this summer due to a wholesale change in our accounting set-up, but managed a week duck hunting in November. Two of us got 41 in five days, I accumulated a wonderful crop of whiskers, brownish gray, and by leaving the ignition on managed to run the car battery down. Even profanity wouldn't budge it. Am already planning on being at Northwestern this fall, where us foreigners can see a game, as compared with you Easterners, who have several in your own back yards." Dud writes that he was married in September, 1925, which was news as far as I am concerned. He wonders about Red Loudon, and how he is or isn't resisting the double hitch. The ranks are thinning, Dud, even Phil Palmer at the Boston dinner the other night sounded as if he were slipping.
The New York alumni dinner at the Biltmore on January 31 rounded up 16 of the boys: Beals, Conn, Crandall, Daley, Davidson, Farwell, Hands, Heenahan, Hopkins, Humphrey, Palmer, Picken, Remsen, Sleeper, Thompson, and Voorhees. Quoting from Mart Remsen: "Fred Davidson expects to sail for England on the Berengia next week on several weeks' business trip. Walt Daley has returned to the city from Detroit, still with Greybar. Johnny Palmer finally let the lithograph business rest to join us after a long absence. Walt Humphrey had a clever cover on Collier's for January 28. Farwell is now a New Yorker, having left Red to care for Minneapolis."
The class agents are just getting into action, and Mart bespeaks the prompt and ample cooperation of all of you. "Bigger and fatter checks are needed this year." This is a tough job collecting all these funds, and anything you can do to help the cause along either by sending your own check or encouraging another to do his part will be greatly appreciated.
The Boston dinner at the Copley-Plaza brought out 17 on January 28: Aborn, Austin, Batchelder, Brown, Burleigh, Chandler, Drake, Fuller, Gregg, Kimball, Leech, Lowell, Loveland, Palmer, Rice, Saltmarsh, and Slater. John Burleigh was elected secretary of the Boston Alumni Association for the coming year.
Roger Rice is selling books for Silver, Burdett until the season opens atsßoothbay Harbor in the spring. The suggestion was made last fall that we plan to stage another round-up at Boothbay this September. Keep that date in mind for the week-end after Labor Day, and more may be heard of it later. There is some talk of a spring round-up on one of the South Shore beaches. Ducky Drake is the main spring of this idea, and if you have any suggestions, shoot them along to Ducky (Wallace H.) at Weymouth, Mass.
Assistant Secretary, 11 Leighton Road, Wellesley, Mass.
