Class of 1927
We are very glad to have 1927 back in the scoring columns again, and wish to apologize for our laxness in not having our reports in every issue. As a matter of fact we have been traveling considerably of late, and a good many of our trips have happened to come on the first of the month when these reports are due. At the present time we are spending a week's vacation on Long Lake in Maine. We are sitting on the piazza of a little camp overlooking the lake, and the strains of hot music can be heard from a nearby pavilion. Incidentally we can think of several things we would rather be doing than pounding a typewriter. Nevertheless, here goes for a little news.
We were very much pleased to receive an announcement of the marriage of Miss Marjorie Bates Stevens to Mr. William Pike Elliott. The wedding took place on June 23. Congratulations, Bill, and felicitations to the bride.
Ken Ballantyne sent us a card from Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a common seaman on a boat which is bound for Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, then back to New York. Ken is planning to start work in September with Kissel, Kinnicutt and Company in New York.
We had a fine letter from Steve Osborn in which he proudly announced the birth of a son, Stephen Drake Osborn, on June 22, 1928. Congratulations, Steve. As far as we know this is the first son which the class may claim, but the honors for class baby go to Art Lyman, whose daughter was born on Friday, April 13. Steve has been living in Chicago since Commencement, where he first worked selling chemicals. Later he spent some time in a brokerage house, and now seems to be permanently settled selling shell furnace oil for the Roxana Petroleum Corporation.
Bus Turpin is now located in Chicago, and is working in the "want ad" department of the Chicago Tribune.
We had the pleasure of returning for three days of Commencement this year, when we saw a good many '27 men. Among them were Ted Ward, Frank Coulter, Nelson Robinson, Dinty Gardner, Charlie Paddock, Josh Davis, Les Battin, Don McCall, Bill Prescott, and several others whose names I cannot recall at present. We had three perfect days and Hanover was at its best. You will all be glad to know that Dick's House looks every bit as fine as it did last year, and also to know that its usefulness and service to the College during the past year has been even greater than could have been hoped for.
After his arduous year at Harvard Law School, Charlie Bartlett is on his way to South America as an able seaman on one of the Munson Line steamers.
Nelson Robinson is working with Charlie Paddock for the Great Atlantic and Pacific in their East Cambridge plant.
It is with deepest regret that we have to report the death of two of our classmates. M. J. O'Connor, better known to us as "Ocie," died on June 2 after a protracted siege of double pneumonia.
Carl E. Strouse died in New York on Monday, June 25. Carl had been operated on for appendicitis, and died a week later of poisoning which had set in.
The class sent its deepest sympathy to the families of both and .mourns their loss which is also ours.
The letters with news have slowed up considerably of late, and we wish to make one last appeal for news to help swell the class letter, which we assure you is very nearly ready for the press and will appear before the fall.
Secretary, 101 Milk St., Boston
