CLASS OF 1925
The first gun in the Alumni Fund campaign for 1929 has not, at the time of writing, been fired, but will be before or soon after this is published. The drive will this year be much shorter than in the past, and our quota will be considerably larger, so work fast when you hear the signal.
The really ludicrous sum of sixteen dollars and fifteen cents was the margin by which '25 missed the quota last year, and if we had made the goal we would have set a record for any class under five years out of college. We have the opportunity to cross the line this year, and a snappy forward pass on the first play of the game would help towards a touchdown.
Pete Kelsey will again direct the campaign, and to show that he is in it heart and pocket book we will divulge the information that he has placed a substantial personal wager with Sid Hayward, the '26 class agent, to the effect that we will have more names on our list May first than they will. So, for Pete's sake (pardon that one), show some action this month.
The proper address to use is P. H. Kelsey, P. O. Box 686, Albany, N. Y. Pete is still in the insurance business there, and hangs out at the University Club.
He says that Newt Tobey, also an insurance king, gets to Albany occasionally, and that Buck Snyder, the Saugerties steamboat man, does also.
Shinnie Shineman is there too, with the New York Central.
Gordie Marvel is an architect of Newburgh and New York, and his engagement is rumored. It is probably public, but the rumor is all that has reached the secretarial sanctum.
Hod Wellman and Mrs. Wellman are back in Jamestown, N. Y., where Hod is manager of the public market.
Eddie Burns is also a purveyor of foodstuffs to the starving millions, being in the canning business in Alton, N. Y.
Jim Curry, not heard from in some time, comes to light as a student in Baltimore.
Rog Stephenson is a salesman for the Mexican Petroleum Corporation in Hartford, Conn.
Phil Coykendall is or was in El Paso, and is working for the Imperial Irrigation District, Imperial, Cal. We take it that Philip is progressing as an engineer.
Francis Brown is at the Long Valley Ranch in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Jack Whitbeck is with the Panamerica Corporation, Wall Street.
The Consumers Company of Chicago coninues to claim part of the attention of Hort Conrad.
Phil Hooper's card gave his address as Newton Center, Mass., and under "Occupation" appeared the word "Retired." There's a man for Pete Kelsey to see.
Out of the West comes a letter:
"There are half a dozen young fellows out in Chicago who now, for the first time in their lives, have an office desk, a private spittoon, and their name on a glass door. It may be of interest to the class who owns the spittoons.
"These lads are engaged in the entrancing business which leads them to the police courts in the morning, thence to drafting collateral trust indentures, next a similiter, then a 99- year lease (with option to purchase), with the late afternoon reserved for attractive young ladies seeking divorces.
"If they are not all directors in 16 corporations, it is only because they were arguing with bailiffs in court when the papers went around the office.
"Drennie Slater is associated with Scott, Bancroft, Martin, and Macleish. Monty Montgomery is with Wilson, Mcllvaine, Hale and Templeton. Neil Williams is with the paternal firm, Williams, Long, and Castle. Sherm Barnett is with Cassels, Potter, and Bentley (this is too bad for Sherm; there are only three names in his firm). Whit Campbell is with Taylor, Miller, Busch, and Boyden, and Sen Bowers is with Dent, Bobyns, and Freeman.
"Tiger Lyons is with one too, but I have not seen Tiger since he put on the pledge button, so I am not sure whether his firm has three or four names.
"Every time these firms are mentioned Bob Sweetser waits to hear Highland Park and make a dash for the platform. Borwell is working out a system of mnemonics and will have it all straight shortly. When this is complete he will furnish the service free to other classmates who may be visiting in town."
And from further west comes the following gem, which appeared in one of the San Francisco papers early this year:
"Mr. Walter Raleigh Baumann, Dav. 3260, desires a home with refined surroundings; warm room and bath Wednesdays and Saturdays."
Secretary, 2710 Graybar Building, New York
