Class of 1918

Armed with a meagre handful of return postcards from the more altruistic and classminded '18ers, the Secretary will endeavor to stretch out a few paragraphs of gossip. From behind heaps of tinned fruits and vegetables we have a contribution to the extent of a letter from Max Olney, the premier canner of New York state and not forgetting Oneida county. He writes the following:

"With the postcard you have sent me, and with the allotted time of one minute, it is very discouraging to attempt to write a biography covering some eleven years. I have had my appendix removed, and have since founded a happy family where I am recognized as important. With all, I have retained my youth.

"Having just returned from Florida, am using soap and water sparingly, as a good tan at this time of year gives prestige. Lost two dollars betting on a dog that had the hiccoughs during the race; but I am not a gambler, and am not counting on another bull market for the purchase of an electric refrigerator.

"I keep a nice flower garden, fish with dry flies, subscribe to the New Yorker, pay all my just debts, and never seem to have anything left over."

Les Badger finds nothing new in Pittsfield, N. H. We can believe that.

It is reported that the Zulick, the sylphlike cobbler from Orwigsburg, Pa., recently tested the structural strength of the domicile of slim Gus Gustafson in Indianapolis. Al Zulick is said to be already in training to give the "Eighteeners" a few operatic selections at the "frolicking 15th."

We also hear that Duke Hardie, the '18 thunderbolt, has been promoted to the Chicago office of the Carnegie Steel Company.

R. L. Williams is serving his interneship at the City Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, following the receipt of his degree in medicine at lowa last spring. He started upon his chosen career after first having spent four years in the lumber business with his father.

Three '18ers are practising law in Concord, N. H., namely—Blandin, Chandler, and Colby. The latter writes that he and Hort Chandler had a friendly contest for the office of county solicitor of Merrimack County, with the result that Colby received the Rpublican nomination and was subsequently elected. He says he is now very occupied in prosecuting the criminal-minded in that section of New Hampshire.

We have just received the announcement of the marriage of "Bill" Wright, prominent Nevada ranch owner, to Miss Linda MacKellar Schwartz at Sierra Madre, Cal., on March 81. Mr. and Mrs. Wright will be at home to all "Eighteeners" at the "71" Ranch, Deeth, Nevada, after May 1.

A number of postcards have turned up in the last mail, and if they presage anything we shall be able to turn out a man-sized column of news in the June issue. Have you been heard from?

Secretary, 953 Madison Ave., New York