CLASS OF 1927
Another month has slipped by, bringing us just that much closer to the "Tumble Thoid reunion, for which plans are slowly but eagerly being formulated. Have you started to arrange your affairs so as to be there? If not, begin today!
By the time this issue is published the Alumni Fund drive will be under way. Let's all resolve to spend one Saturday night of the next month at home rather than out subsidizing some night club, and turn the profits over to the Fund, thereby putting '27 well over the top, and incidentally counteracting the poor impression made last year.
This past month has been a banner one as far as letters are concerned. We received all of a dozen from various classmates. A splendid showing out of some six-hundred-odd men. Nevertheless,those received were greatly appreciated.
The annual alumni dinner in Boston was held on January 26. It was a great party with some four or five hundred present, but was particularly lacking in '27 representatives. However, we did see Rog Salinger, Herb Hansen, Jay Willing, Charlie Bartlett, Ed Johnson, Nibs Dowe, and Charlie Paddock.
Ethan Hitchcock, according to latest reports, is in the Smoky City, giving the benefits of his Tuck School training to the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company.
Last reports from Dick "Bowers" Fox stated that he had just returned from a six months' tour of Europe, and was located in Lowell, about to go to work.
Evan Wilder is still attracted to the Hills of Hanover, and is about to receive his degree as an engineer from the Thayer School.
Bob Funkhouser writes that after a delightful trip to Europe he went to work as a traveling accountant with the Motor Accounting Company, a part of General Motors. So far his traveling experiences have been limited to Hamtramck, a suburb of Detroit, where he says all the Poles and Russians decided to live after being scared out of their countries.
Later reports have it that Dick "Bowers" Fox is now located in Detroit, working for the Packard Motor Company.
We were very delighted to receive a card from Mr. and Mrs. William C. Cusack announcing the arrival of William Carlyle, Jr., on January the seventh. Congratulations, Mr. President, and our best to Mrs. Bill and to little Bill.
Hog Bury is located in New Haven with the International Business Machines Corporation. He covers all of the southeastern part of Connecticut, going as far as Westerly, R. I., and is known in that section as the disciple of Punched Hole Accounting via Tabulating Machines.
Rog also tells us that Hank Murray and Bert Gruver are the main supports of Prof. G. P. Baker at the Yale Dramatic School.
Bob Long has ceased working for the New York Telephone Company, and when last heard from was with the New York Times.
Bill Laighton is still holding forth in the columns of The Tobacco Leaf, a trade paper.
Ted Swanson is with the Indianapolis Times, one of the Scripps-Howard chain.
Stew Schackne is doing great things in keeping real estate moving in and around Toledo.
Wilbur Kennedy is in Dayton, Ohio. He has been working in a book shop and doing considerable reviewing for the Dayton DailyNews.
Fred Carver has not strayed far from Hanover. He is teaching and coaching football, baseball, and basketball in the high school at Lebanon.
There were about seventeen fellows at the last class dinner in the New York club about ten days ago, which is the number usually to be found at these affairs. At the annual alumni dinner held on Tuesday evening there were 32 men of '27 on hand. The dinner was very satisfactory, even though Prexy could not attend.
Naturally a bit of news has accumulated since the last letter, and so here goes, and in hap-hazard order.
Bill Williams is now doing foreign service for the Pennsylvania R. R. Company, in the freight rate division, having only recently been transferred from the island of Manhattan to Brooklyn. He tells a story about the hardest rate case on record. It seems a merchant in Boston had ordered a flat car load of feathers from a man in Bridgeport and wanted quick delivery. He still calls the freight office wanting to know when his feathers will arrive, always mentioning that the flat car arrived months ago.
Al Clifton joined a one man advertising agency in San Francisco last fall, and now it is a one man and recent college graduate agency combined. He writes that his stuff is being read by three million people; which information should make all the ambitious young literati in the class very sore perplexed.
It seems that the younger feminine element of America is just playing havoc with the '27 young bloods. Cast your eyes over the following items of hither and yon.
Norm Ford is engaged to Doris Miner (no relation to Ed) of Holyoke, a graduate of Mt. Holyoke. Norm is doing actuarial work for the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, Springfield, Mass.
Emy Boss, in the Economic Division of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in the New York office, announces that on December 14, 1928, he placed a diamond on the proper digit belonging to Miss Florence Atkins (no relation to that famous British Tommy) of East Orange, N. J., and Barnard College '28. Marriage is to be expected.
Jack McQuade, erstwhile '27, married Miss Dorothy Marie Benjamin of New York on September 9, 1927. This should be news to somebody. He is selling advertising for a publicity company.
It seems that no one remembered to tell you that Blondy Lashar married Sara Helen Orr of Altoona, Pa,, last September sometime. They are living in Fairfield, Conn.
That philosopher from a famous land, Mike Choukas, is just now allowing publication of the fact that he was married on Commencement Day. To whom is not yet known. That information may be expected to come forth next year. Mike received his M.A. from Columbia last year, and is now studying for a Ph.D. Like the typical iron horse of pedagogy that he is, he is also teaching at C. C. N. Y. in the evenings.
Ed Ery toward the end of last year went to Buffalo and got himself a Buffalo girl to wife. It is said that they went to Niagara Falls on their honeymoon. Though Dame Rumor has it that Ed perhaps went alone, for his wife may already have been there—though not on a honeymoon, we hasten to add.
John Pfanner is engaged to Miss Elizabeth McConnaughey of Ohio.
And last of all, George Woelfel crashes through with the dope, "I have decided to get married." Those who wish further details will have to ask George;, we are sworn to se- crecy. He is with the International Shoe Com- pany in Kirksville, Mo., which is the state next to lowa.
And this ends the list of captured for the nonce.
Now for lighter moments.
Joe Russakoff has emerged from behind the delivery rack of a Newark, N. J., department store, and is now the advertising department of the General Air Blowing Company. We write this in all seriousness; all of it.
Kroggie Krogstad is in the sales department of the International Harvester Company, and was transferred to Chicago not so long ago.
Wilbur Kennedy is with some book company in Dayton, Ohio.
Bob Birch is now a silverware buyer for Macy's, a department store in that paradise for Chicagoans, New York city.
Cal Voorhis, when interviewed by the New York correspondent, expressed the wish that his adventure at the New York Auto Show be more widely known. He talked with the salesman for the Mercedes Auto Company. Cal is in the distributing end of the Horton Ice Company, which fact may or may not explain the above episode.
Kern Folkers after Ms year at Heidelberg is now continuing Ms chemistry racket. He is a chemist for the United Piece Dye Works at Lodi, N. J.
Cleveland, they say, is rapidly being made safe for everyone, thanks to Bud Wesselmann and Cam Clokey, the insurance demons.
Speaking of money brings us back to Wall St., also in New York, where Wen Lamson and Norm Swift are with Brown Brothers, the latter being in the bond department.
Jack Thees is with a mortgage investment house, Momand and Company by name.
Ros Guyot when last heard about was with a plumbing concern in Los Angeles. Whether intentionally or not, I don't know, but no information has come forth to indicate just which part of the game he is in.
Vern Whitney is in the purchasing department of Hills Brothers, the date people. Good brothers in '27 who are looking for dates should get in touch with him. This suggestion is for the lonesome as well as the good.
Jud Bellaire is in the sales department of Hills Bros., probably in Minneapolis. Right?
In from the West, where he is Middle Western sales manager for Western Territory for that Bridgeport, Conn., organization the Ives Corporation, comes Roy Flannery. For those who haven't little brothers and have forgotten the days of yesteryear, be it noted that the Ives people make toy trains.
About to launch forth on a Western trip for the Ronald Press, is Vic Reynolds.
Art Keleher is teaching woodworking in one of the New York schools, and is also training his young daughter, who will enter Vassar—some fifteen or sixteen years hence.
Dick Prouty, who spent last summer in the wheat fields of Saskatchewan (?), is now working in his father's lumber mill in Newport, Yt.
Lloyd Moulton is teaching in the high school in Groveton, N. H., where he is also vice-principal.
Ed Eowler, after a season of reporting for the New Haven Journal Courier, is now selling for the National Carbon Company, the makers of Eveready—tell your battery dealer. (Adv.)
Al Byrne, who left the ranks in sophomore year, graduated from Rutgers last June, and is now with the New Jersey Bell Telephone Company as an inside agent, that is, one who keeps the public happy over the phone.
Reeve Brokaw, another actuary in the class, is with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York office.
Hughie McGrath is also in the insurance business, being with Murphy and Jordan, Inc. He also finds time to play handball.
Bill Shaw was buying hosiery for McCreary's New York department store until last December, when he quit. It seems that Bill was getting so that he couldn't walk down the street without looking at girls' legs and muttering prices. Bill concluded this would never do, so quit and up and went to Bermuda, from whence he has only recently returned.
Cug Daley is teaching French at the Longmeadow Country Day School, which is just outside of Springfield. Last year he taught English. All of which is by way of teaching the younger male element to speak.
Secretary,101 Milk St., Boston
