CLASS OF 1927
Let's not forget our resolution to go over the top on our quota for the Alumni Fund. Our three class agents, Charlie Bartlett, George Howell, and Andy Rankin, have given a great deal of their time and energy to make '27's record in support of the fund an enviable one. This year let's show them our appreciation of their efforts by sending our contributions right in on the first call. Although we are one of the largest classes, we are naturally not expected to give a large amount. However, there is no reason why we can't have nearly a one hundred per cent subscription. "Something from every member," should be our motto.
We are just as sick of writing as you are of reading these urgent requests for letters which necessarily appear in these columns every issue. It does seem that out of six hundred of us there should be a few more who are willing to admit what they are doing.
We recently received announcement of the marriage of Johnny Upham to Miss Prudence Robinson on February 16 at Hyde Park, Mass. Johnny and wife are now at home at 675 River St., Mattapan, Mass.
Bill St. Amant's engagement to Miss Mary Elizabeth Tilton of Waban, Mass., has recently been announced. Another local girl has made good.
After spending a while knocking around Europe, Rollie Howes shipped through the Panama Canal as a seaman, and is now located in San Francisco working at bookkeeping for the American Trust Company. It is rumored, however, that he has the flying bug, and wants to go to aviation school.
Sam Martin, who is back at Harvard for his second year of Law School, has been in the headlines of the Eastern papers several times for his great running. He won the thousand in the K. of C. games at Boston, and has placed in several other large meets.
We also saw a picture of Bob Dalrymple leading Nurmi in the mile at one of the Boston meets.
We understand that Ed Coddington, who was forced to leave college due to poor health, is back in Hanover as a senior this year.
A 1 Clifton spent about three months last winter working for a publisher's advertising agency in San Francisco, until an opening came in the freight department of the Dollar Line. He was there from May until October, which he said was plenty of time to learn that advertising is better than shipping. Al is now production manager for the Warner-Flair Agency. He says that it is now a small concern, but that in five years they ought to feel big enough to go in and spit on N. W. Ayer's floor. When this happens Mr. Ayer will undoubtedly direct one of his assistants, Dinty Gardner or Rufe Choate, to scrub said floor.
We had a fine letter from Kerm Ingham recently. He reports that he is going through a process of learning the lumber business. Until last May he worked in sawmills in Mississippi and Alabama, and since that time has been in Oklahoma with the Briggs Lumber Company, where he holds the position of bookkeeper. On October 6, last, Kerm was married to Miss Louise Bosworth, a graduate of the University of Oklahoma. Kerm also reports that he now has eighty-seven cents in his penny bank, said amount being the start towards the fund to "carry me back" to the fifth reunion. A darn good purpose.
Nat Morey is working for the American Tel. and Tel., and was last heard from in the vicinity of Corning, N. Y.
John Pfanner was recently married in Dayton to Miss Betty McConnaughey of that city.
The engagement of Wilbur Kennedy to Miss Shirley Locke of Brattleboro, Vt., was recently announced.
By the way, the few of us bachelors that are left wish one of you fellows would slip us the dope, both as to getting the girl and as to getting the cash.
Art Lyman, who has become famous as the father of the class baby, is conducting his own radio business in Dayton.
Jack Nichols spent his first year out of college doing drafting in the office of J. F. Larson, the College architect. On June 16, last, he broke loose long enough to marry Miss Ruth E. Wakefield of Winter Harbor, Me. Jack is spending this year at the M. I. T. School of Architecture, and in June expects to return to Mr. Larson's office for a year or so.
We have heard indirectly that Al Lawrence is at the Harvard School of Education, and that his wife is here in Cambridge with him. How about letting us know when the wedding took place and who the lucky girl is? Another good man lost from the rapidly depleting ranks of the bachelors.
Bob Page is located in Manville, N. J. He is taking a student training course at the Manville plant of the Johns-Manville Corporation, learning about the asbestos and magnesia products which that company manufactures. He reports that he finds the work extremely interesting, but that he regrets being in a rather out of-the-way place where he does not run across any of the class.
Charlie Gibson and Doc Downing have been little bothered by these cold March winds, for they are both located in Camden, S. C. Charlie is working for the Kendall Company in their mill, while Doc is learning the hotel business at the Kirkwood Hotel.
"Moulty" Moulton is teaching and coaching at the high school in Groveton, N. H. Last June he was married to Miss Geraldine Batchelder of that town.
Ed Miner, after a year of teaching at the Suffield School, Suffield, Conn., is now doing graduate work at Columbia.
Lang Stevens spent a year teaching and studying at New York University, and is now employed with the Texaco Oil Company at Bayonne, N. J., in their chemical department.
Norm Ford is living at his home in Holyoke, Mass., and is working in the offices of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company at Springfield.
Wayne Hancock is teaching at the high school in North Stratford, N. H., and Avery Keenan is selling insurance in the same town.
Had a nice letter from Chuck Field, who as you know is with the Atwater-Kent outfit in Philadelphia. He said he attended the Darimouth-Penn basketball game at the Palestra, and between the periods saw Bill Pepper, who had come over from New York to see the game; Ed Jacob, who said he was raising mushrooms in West Chester, a suburb of Philly; and Howie Levis who is now a surety underwriter for the Employers Liability Company in their Philadelphia office.
The engagement of Willard Hammond "Smittie" Smith to Miss Eleanor May Hunter of Exeter, N. H., has recently been announced.
Jack Wilson writes that he is an agent of the Travelers, selling their accident policies in and about Newark, N. J. He also tells us that Bill Starr is with the New York Telephone Company.
Johnny Machen spent last year studying in New York, and intended to return to New York this fall to work for the National Tuberculosis Association, but suddenly changed his plans to study medicine. Upon trying to gain admission to medical school he found that he lacked certain required hours of science. Accordingly, he is now attending Georgetown College in Washington, D, C., taking all the chemistry, physics, and biology that he dodged while in Hanover. He expects to enter Georgetown Medical School next September.
Johnny also informed us that Bill Hoge is selling insurance in Washington, while Harry Dey is teaching and coaching at Staunton Military Academy for the second year.
Also that Bob Gilboy is traveling for some publishing concern, and that Jim Lower is doing extremely well in the shoe manufacturing business in Auburn, N. Y.
We ran into Ed Marston on the street the other day. He is now located in Boston, working for the First National Bank.
We were over at the great university on the Charles the other evening, and who should walk into the room but Dud Bonsai. He had come to see about something or other. Not necessarily a dog. Incidentally Dud had a very sad accident, and I think it would be well to remind him that when things are dropped on tile floors they cannot be expected to bounce.
Had a fine letter from Lew Beyer, who is working for the Junior Food Products Company in Tyrone, Pa. He refuses to tell us any more about his work," for fear of being accused of seeking free advertising. At that rate we shall have to assume that Lew is nothing short of a vice-president. He does include plenty of new;s about others, however. He says that Si Morand belongs to the army of the unemployed. We suppose he means bonds. Or is it insurance? Marsh McGough is working for the Universal Portland Cement in Chicago, and George Provost is working out of Pittsburgh for the General Motors Acceptance Corporation. Lew attended the Pow Wow in Chicago, and says that he got a great kick out of it. Dean Askew has been transferred from Nashville to Kansas City, and is very happy to be back in his native prairieland. Phew! We just realized that the above sounds like the Phi Psi chapter roll. Never mind, we like the news.
Received news via Bob Stevens of the '27 colony in Antwerp, Belgium. Bob seems to be enjoying his lot immensely, and we believe is greatly pleased with the foreign clime and customs. He informed us that Nick Zaro, the Russian count, is there with the General Motors, and is doing a darn fine job. He is now personnel manager of the factory labor, which, as Bob puts it, is no mean task. About four months ago Brick Stone joined the colony of '27 men in Antwerp, and is also working for G. M. Bob says that Brick spent most of last year sailing the high seas, and can indicate to all interested any sailor's dive from Hamburg and Marseilles to Athens. If any of the members of the class are going to be in the vicinity of Antwerp they are invited to call on the above three for a personally conducted tour of the city. Bob says that although it is a foreign city they manage to get along nobly, even though they don't enjoy the benefits and comforts of prohibition. His letter reads: "A nickel buys a schooner of beer, me lad, and a dime—well, we'll let it go at that." We call that rubbing it in.
We are sorry that there is no further news, but you can't draw blood out of a turnip.
Secretary, 101 Milk St., Boston
