CLASS OF 1915
From Dick Clarke comes the news that the first fall 1915 gathering was held October 9 at the Dartmouth Club in New York. While no attendance records were broken, there were sufficient present to make worth while a discussion of the past football season—Woodcock, Fredericks, Nichols, Cannon, Perry, Brown, Healy, Sanford, Gish, and Clarke. These 1915 dinners are held monthly, so call the Club and learn the dates
Jack Healy is back once more in New York, presumably to assist in- straightening out the affairs of the United States Rubber Company. So far as is known, Jack is still single.
Chronologically the next meeting of Fifteeners was at the City Club, Boston, the night before, the Harvard game. Twentynine sat down to dinner that night—Curtis, Jones, E. Rice, Taplin, Clough, Claflin, Wyman, Downing, Clarke, Art Williams, Doe, Edgerton, Low, H. Fuller, Lamson, Corwin, King, Davison, Richardson, Sutcliife, Guest, Bowler, R. Rice, Noyes, Dewing, Huntress, Martin, Barker. An informal discussion of general reunion questions immediately followed the dinner, and then we adjourned upstairs to the smoker. The game was a pleasurable affair, and inasmuch as all but one of the touchdowns crossed the goal line we sat on, I guess we got our money's worth. It was particularly noticeable this year that there were but very few strangers in the section assigned to 1915, which made it very neighborly. There were Bayley, Sherman, Luddy, Bigelow, Crawford, Bull, Slade, Marcy, Hill, Lounsberry, Sisk, Jordan, Shea, Warren, Chase, and others, in addition to those who attended the dinner the previous night,—all, of course, well chaperoned. Walt Meader had an attractive young lady with him, but one glance was sufficient to see the father and daughter relationship. And it is not improbable that we shall a few years hence be watching Walt Badger's son perform in the Stadium, as he is a regular attendant at this game and is almost as tall as his dad.
Dick Clarke came over from New York to attend the dinner and reunion committee meeting, but unfortunately could not stay for the game.
At an informal gathering at Jack Mason's home Friday night some latent talent was uncovered in the person of Casey Jones, the one man band from Portland, Me., ably assisted by String Downing, exponent of the stiff and limber modernistic clog dance.
Many Fifteeners were conspicuous at the game by their absence, but it seemed as though those who replied on the postal cards had reasonable excuses. Of course any who offered the excuse that they chose the reunion instead of the game indicated their good judgment or that they had been reading the Carnegie report and did not wish to encourage proselyting or over-emphasis of athletics. However among the interesting news items we learned that:
Jack Burbank is vice-president and director of the John W. Ferguson Company, engineers and builders, located in the Graybar Building, New York city, and is father of three—Marion, James, and John.
Hal Rich is back in Pleasantville, N. Y., after a year's sojourn in Prance, the possessor of one wife, one son, and one ambition—that Fifteenth.
Harold Mattison and String Downing are the only members of the class who admit of being metallurgists—because it has such a tricky spelling. Hal is also chief chemist with Mcintosh and Seymour Corporation, Auburn, N. Y., and at home is steering his three sons toward Hanover.
It is extremely difficult to decide whether Joe Harris is commuting between New York and Atlanta or the other way round, for just when we have him located in one place he writes that he is being transferred to the other. He is still working for Best Foods, Inc., and is now to be found at 297 Fourth Ave., New York city. Joe also sends in word Fred Lowe will be up in June.
Roy Harwood is leaving North Adams for South Willington, Conn.—still with textiles, the Gardner Hall Company.
Freddy Rosenheim is a little late about advising us of his marriage to Pauline Borden, so it is not our fault that these congratulations are tardy. We'll leave it to Pauline to remind Freddy that they are due in Hanover next June.
We thought Phil Leary was lost somewhere until he writes from Detroit, where he is applying Tuck School principles to the Detroit division of the General Box Company. Three seems to be a mystic number among 1915 families. With the advent of Susan, on May 18, Fred Pearce writes from Washington, D. C., of attaining this quota—the others are Ira and Anne.
A1 Bradley has just returned from Europe, but in order that 1915's representation abroad may be maintained Bob Griffin sailed on October 25 for two months. Bob is another one who is tardy about keeping us posted, for we now learn for the first time of his marriage to Helen Brown Jones and of their twomonths-old daughter, Joyce Mandeville. Congratulations.
Recently out of 5000 applicants the American College of Surgeons admitted six hundred into fellowship. Howard Sawyer was one of those honored.
Occasionally we hear from some member of the class whose contacts with the class have been widely spaced,—then it is that we feel that our efforts to establish contact with all who are on the roster are rewarded. John Harriman is a lieutenant on board the U. S. S. Rochester, which is at present in Balboa, C.Z. Not until 1931 will John be in Boston, but we hope to see him then.
Larry Edgerton and Bud Dewing had a great time swapping stories at the class dinner in Boston, for, you see, Larry is state's attorney of Windsor county, Vt., and Bud prosecutes for Massachusetts in Plymouth county. They are proper people to know.
We are happy to broadcast that Prexy Priddy, although somewhat hors de combat this past fall, is convalescing, and probably by this reading will have discarded crutches, canes, and such hospital impedimenta.
Class dues—PAID?
Secretary, 9 Woodland St., Arlington, Mass.
