CLASS OF 1927
The time for news for the February issue to go to press has come around, and the amount of news we have received from our classmates since the last issue you could put in your eye. Let us stop right here, however, to give heartiest thanks to Ken Meyercord, who has been responsible for our only bright spot in the last two months. Ken sent us three typewritten sheets of news about the New York crowd, and furthermore included a promise to see that we get some more each month. Why can't somebody in each city and town from Chicago down to North Overshoe take a few minutes off each month to jot down what information you have about yourself and others of the class, and send it along?
What with the numerous lawyers, bankers, and insurance specialists in the making, members of the class cannot help but sit back with somewhat of a sigh of relief to know that in whatever a jam our feet become entangled we will have ample and well-distributed talent to extract us from our difficulties.
If it is legal talent you require, just scan this imposing list: Bed Williams, George Howell, Johnny Wood, Herb Rubin, "Unk" George, Chuck Baker, Don Colby, Rudy Preuss, Bob Reinhardt, Al Chabot, Charlie Bartlett, Hank Bayles, and undoubtedly many others who are still among those unaccounted for.
Or mayhap your difficulty is money, and you must turn to our bankers, brokers, bond peddlers, etc. Here we find among others: Bill Auer, National Shawmut, Boston; Frank Brown, Harris Forbes, New York; Rog Salinger, same concern, Boston; Woody Burgert, Harris Trust, Chicago; Wen Larnson, Brown Brothers, New York; and rumor has it Hooker Horton is with the same set of Shylocks; Dave Merriam, First National Bank, Boston; Dick Griffin, National Shawmut, Boston; Josh Davis and Ken Ballantyne, Kissel Kinnecut, Albany and way stations.
Then again you may wish to be insured against any possibility from death to halitosis. In such case you have the following: Bob Mix in Worcester; Bill Pelton in Olean, N. Y.; Nibs Dowe, in Boston; Howie Levis in Philadelphia; Ed Mahoney and Russ Weston with the Liberty Mutual; Ralph McAnulty in Springfield, 111.; Cam Clokey and Bud Wesselmann in Cleveland; Si Morand in Chicago; Bill Satterfield, with the Maryland Casualty Company; and your Secretary with the New Amsterdam Casualty Company.
Bruce McKennan and Al Lagacy are living in the Village (New York), but that's another story. And some story! Mac is handling stocks for Wood, Struthers Company, while Al is still peddling towels, sheets, cottons, etc., for the Amoskeag Mills.
Sam Wormser is with Halle and Stieglitz, also in New York. Ed Webb is helping Ames, Emerick, and Company to prosper.
Doc Harris is, they say, learning about banking and women in Portuguese in Rio de Janeiro with the National City Bank. Also with the same bank, though in New York, is Reg Vincent, who worked during the recent campaign with the East Orange Republicans. He voted for Smith, he claims, and we might add he's a hypocrite if he didn't.
A lot of new faces appear frequently at the monthly dinners the '27ers hold in New York —every fourth Tuesday in the month. When in town join the party, is their motto and invitation.
Kern Folkers appeared after sojourning for a year at Heidelberg, where lie studied chemistry. S. S. Voorhis reported that he was with an ice cream concern, having given up newspapering to come East.
One of the latest arrivals to be reported in New York is Bob Tucker. He is in the baby carriage department at Macy's, getting a great deal of information about the "day of delivery," which he is frequently told will be too late.
Macy's seems to be rather a stamping ground. Bob Birch is in the silver store, Tom Gillespie in the men's furnishings, Al Welty in the furniture and recently back from a trip to Grand Rapids, while Ed Pry still seeks the bull in the china shop. One sees little of Welty, it is reported, from which we assume that his psychic eleven o'clock hour has materialized.
We were very sorry to hear indirectly that Cliff Randall has been very seriously ill, but hope that by now he is well on the road to a speedy recovery.
While attempting to do a bit of Christmas shopping recently in Boston, we ran into Don Megathlin and Gordon Smith. Don, as you know, is with the New England Tel and Tel. Smithie informed us that he and Ray Ring are working in Boston with Forbes Lithograph, and are both studying art at the same time. Incidentally, Smithie has sent us some very clever drawings as suggestions for a heading to our Alumni Notes column. We intend to have one of these made into a cut as soon as we can decide which one we like the best.
Had a very welcome letter from Eddie Redcay. He is teaching and coaching football at Roxbury School, Cheshire, Conn. Eddie was married last June to Miss Kathryn E. Lawson of New Haven. The ceremonies took place in Concord, N. H., and were performed by Bishop John Dallas. They spent the summer in Hanover, and Eddie wishes to recommend the place highly as ideal for a vacation in case any of the classmates cannot decide just where to spend theirs.
Fred Fellingham, with the Dixie Oil Company, is now prospecting for oil in northern Michigan. His headquarters are in Muskegon, where his white whipcord trousers and tan boots are making him quite the rage. Incidently he finds Don McCall's brother—that football player on the freshman team—quite the entree into society.
Don, by the way, is located in New York with Shaw-Walker Company, that concern which makes among other things those oak, maple, or mahogany things that some of you stick your feet on. He writes that Ted Rose is doing interior decorating (type is not specified) and intends to run for the New York Athletic Club again.
Roy Dreher decided to give up the publishing business, and has been studying for his master's degree at Columbia all fall. Ruddy Preuss is attending New York Law School in the evening, and working with the Fitch Publishing Company by day.
When the Glee Club recently gave a Thanksgiving concert at the Woman's Club of Glen Ridge, N. J., some of the wayfarers who arrived were Bill Williams, Ken Murray, Ken Meyercord, Ed Baker, and Jimmy Van Loon.
Bill Williams says that all the Williamses were present at the Pow Wow in Chicago. He is working in the office of the general freight agent, Pennsylvania Railroad, New York.
There sailed for Europe not so long ago one Al Dick, who has gone to Europe to freshen up before resuming studies for an M.D.
Our budding medics, Ham and Draper, are going to have keen competition from the apple-a-day people. At least, Jock Davis promises this. He is raising apples, just outside Worcester, Mass.
Dow Mills is attending Physicians and Surgeons at the new medical center in New York city.
What's the matter with you folks in Chicago that you didn't get something organized on a '27 basis? What, no pep?
Among those present at the Pow Wow were Ed Watkins, Len Dunn, Johnnie Pfanner, Harv Jones, Jack Sheldon, Bed Williams, Bill Williams, Bobo Williams, Bob Slater, Howie Mullin, McAnulty, Coggie Broer, Roy Flannery, Cam Clokey, Bud Wesselmann, Bob Bliss, Jerry Covert, Koggie Krogstad, Windy Howland, Woodie Burgert, and Hughie Gray.
Listed among the gentlemen of the press are found the names of Ken Lee and Bill Montgomery, with the Daily News in New York. In other advertising departments are Bus Turpin, Chicago Tribune; Bob Long, NewYork Times; and Mel Partridge with the NewRochelle Star.
While in that allied industry, printing, in the great war of educating the public, is Bob Williamson.
When last heard from, Paul Woelfel was touring in the Orient, and Van Wie Ingham had arrived in India. Another traveler is Johnnie Pfanner, who tours Michigan selling varnish.
General Motors has laid claim to quite a few of the men. Ed Ruth keeps the name before the Java public, as he is in the advertising division of General Motors Export. Bob Stevens and Nick Zaro are listed with G. M. Continental at Antwerp. George Hodell is an auditor in the Chevie plant at Tarrytown. He counts them as they come off the rack. And those who have not bought their car will be glad to know that Bob Funkhouser is to be found with G. M. Acceptance Corporation.
Other of the big corporations have staked a claim, for Ted Girault and Bill Starr are with the New York Telephone Company, the former in the Commercial and the latter in the Traffic Department. General Electric has claimed Mike Ketz and Clark Edmonds. And United States Rubber Company has Johnnie Roe. Johnnie Gardner claims affiliation with the American Can Company.
Paul Messner is one of the gears with the Warren Gear Company in Warren, Pa.
Ken Meyercord writes that while walking on Riverside Drive one evening he bumped into Ed Miner and Larry Stevens. Ed is studying at the School of Education, Columbia University, while Larry is a chemist for Texas Oil Company.
Wandering along the shores of Lake Superior of an evening one can often find Jack Sheldon, who is running a lumber camp between trips East for football games.
Owen Garfield has found his way to New York, it is said, and is now with the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.
If any of you ever read Nature Magazine, remember for that article about the rose you must thank Paul Hannah. Paul tells us, indirectly, that he is flower editor of this stellar magazine.
That erstwhile classmate of ours, Bravig Imbs, has recently published a book, "The Professor's Wife," and any of you who want to learn about Hanover society will enjoy the book. The lampoons are obvious.
Secretary, 101 Milk St., Boston
