CLASS OF 1917
We did hie ourselves to the metropolis for the Columbia game, expecting to encounter many '17-ers who reside thereabouts, and found ourselves seated beside "Mudge" Mudgett and spouse, but outside of said ex-expert basket-shooter did espy but few of the class, Red Wendell, Buck Stewart, Tom Cotton, Gene Towler, Wayne Palmer, and Pete Robie. The mystery was explained later to be that no true New Yorker buys football or theater tickets at the box office, but does always have some secret inside source of procuring pasteboards at the last minute (usually at a great premium), and hence the gang at this game were scattered about the stands.
The pre-game dinner in Boston was at the University Club before the pleasant victory over the Crimson. Ably managed as usual by Stockwell, Maclntyre, Olds, and Currier. Whispers on the side, "Say, who is that egg over there? I never can remember names. He used to sit in front of me in Bug I. O sure, of course." Bob Paine renewing acquaintances back in the Hub after long years in New Jersey, a bit plumper but still distinguished in appearance. Ike Sprague lobbying for the bald-headed club. Larry Lockwood up from Virginia to show that Southern hospitality is far from obsolete. Eddie McGowan, the native Broadwayite, who has become a DownEaster. Curley Carr, Bill Eaton, Joe Hallett, and Mel Palin, all demonstrating that ten years does not change a man's appearance if he behaves himself. Saladine looking for extra tickets to the game for a business acquaintance, and they were so scarce that it took him all night to land them. That's his story, and he'll stick to it. Forty '17-ers in all sat in at the dinner, and it is this that makes the Harvard game the best of the year, win, lose, or draw.
The game itself, with lots of the gang all bunched together in Section I. The first touch down when Capt. Armstrong, two Har- vard backs and every Dartmouth man in Sec- tion I all tried to fall on the ball at the same time. I landed all over Bud Steele, who fills up two stadium seats by himself now. Banker Keyes Page up from New York; Joe Randall, who hasn't grown an inch; George Currier and his bride; Bunny and Spike, of course; the Towlers and Fergusons and Stillmans and lots of others. It's a great reunion, the Harvard game.
Dr. Karl A. Blum passed away at his home in Orange, N. J., on June 14 of this year. Details of his last illness are lacking. Karl took his medical degree at the College of Physicians at Columbia University. He lived for some time at Little Falls, N. Y., but four or five years ago went back to his old home in Orange, N. J.
Professional Notes
Joe Myer, I mean Professor Myer, is now head of the School of Accounting and Finance at St. John's College, Brooklyn.
Moving Day
Bill Sewall is now out in Akron, Ohio, with the Goodyear Rubber Company, which recently acquired the Hood Rubber Company where Bill had been employed. Bill was evidently too good a man to lose.
Mel Palin is now with the E. B. Merrett Company in Boston.
Johnny Wheelock, still with the Colonial Air Transport, has been transferred from Hartford to Boston.
Cliff O'Neil is still in the telephone game, but now with the New Jersey Bell Telephone Company in Newark.
Frank Lagay is associated with Jackson Brothers, Boesel and Company, at 26 Broadway, and living in Maplewood, N. J.
Bunny Holden has moved to Providence, R. 1., still in the wool game with the Providence Combing Mills.
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