Class of 1916
Patience will be rewarded. The boys are beginning to send in announcements, clippings, and letters. So few have been received in the past that the pile before me looks like an avalanche.
From Doc Greeley, written on a train between Washington and Philly:—"If any of the class politicians have occasion to go to Washington, I suggest that they drop in to the Hotel Annapolis. Why? "Tis here that Luke Ollis holds sway as assistant manager. Not having seen Luke for eleven years, I stared at him, almost looking a hole through my glasses, before his hand came out and his perplexed look turned into a broad grin. While Luke surrounded a half dozen raw oysters and gurgled a stew, our talk harked back to Hanover. His experiences as he related them were most interesting. From an aviator during the war—an altitude man—he took up coal mining and mine, railroad building 'way down under.' During this portion of our conversation I thought how thoroughly mixed up coal and copper would get if Luke and Powder River Parker should ever get together, because when I found Ev in Butte he was down in the mine's nth level fighting a copper mine fire. Subterranean life did not agree with Luke. 'To learn a business from the ground up is 0.K.,' said Luke, 'but to learn a business starting 3000 feet down is not so good.' Next Luke took up newspaper work, and then publicity work for the Democratic party. With his assistance, Clem Shaver was boosted over the political horizon. He finally landed in the hotel business—a life of extreme interest—a never ending drama of Mr. and Mrs. Public's actions. Luke has made some warm friends, some of whom are close to the Hoover campaign, and it sure was a treat to hear the latest political medicine. Because of the amount of interesting information with which Luke regaled me, may I suggest that he be nominated as Balmacaan ambassador to Washington, without portfolio, but with authority to keep us informed on all items of interest pertaining to 'l6ers? Here is some of it. Quite a while ago Guy Keddie was flying high over Potomac Park, and was hailed by Luke and entertained by him. See Guy for details. Leigh Rogers is another Capital Balmacaaner. Literary work still has its interest for him, and another novel soon to go to press Leigh hopes will rival his 'Wine of Fury.' If at any time you or Johnnie Pell want to broadcast, just page Leigh and take your pick of wave-lengths. Leigh is in the Department of Commerce, and has just finished his job of sitting as chairman at the meetings of International Radio Relations."
Doc also mentions Ray DeVoe's wedding. As yet we have not had particulars.
Cliff and Gran both write that Russ Leavitt was our only official representative at the recent Boston convention of the National Education Association. Russ is high school agent in New Hampshire with headquarters in Concord —and he has three boys and a girl.
A note from Mrs. Huse tells of Mason Webster Jr., born January 16. Mason Sr. is Vermont representative of Halsey, Stuart, and Company, was married in 1925, and has a daughter, Josephine Mathilde, born in 1926.
Mr. and Mrs. Jan S. C. Kasteleyn have announced the marriage of their daughter Adriana Johanna to our Reg Chutter on December 20 at The Hague. To quote from a clipping:— "Miss Kasteleyn was "graduated in 1926 from Leyden University with the degree of Master of Law. Last spring she finished a trip around the world with her father and mother." Reg is in charge of the foreign business of H. K. Mulford Company, Philadelphia. He returned to the United States last September, after having completed a year's trip through British India and the Far East, where he met the bride. The honeymoon was spent in the north of Holland. They will reside in Philadelphia.
An anonymous news item:—"An inquiry has been received from Tom Cod of Seabrook Beach, N. H., as to the present whereabouts of Highgrounder Heinie George. Apparently the up-country bushwhacker has come to the realization at last that gasoline and salt water do not mix, and has decided to settle back into abashed silence in the Northern sticks."
Tug Tyler is back in Muncie, Ind., at his golf-clubs factory, but he would like to be back with us here in the East with a professorial position. Keep him in mind, you dirt-diggers.
Flynt, Sully, and Horan is the name of a new law partnership at 43 Exchange Place, New York city. Beans is the Sully in the line-up.
Ig Eigner has resigned as internal revenue agent, given up golf, and is now engaged in the practice of law and accounting as a tax specialist. His shingle hangs out at 161 Devonshire St., Boston.
Austin Jenison, who was a freshman at Michigan, a 'l6er sophomore year, a Brown junior, and a senior at Leland Stanford, still cashes through promptly on the Alumni Fund. What have you done about it this year?
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