CLASS of 1927
We have just had the very great pleasure of spending the last week-end in Hanover, the occasion of our visit being the annual meeting of the Secretaries Association. The old town sure is perking up, and as someone once said, "You wouldn't know the old place now." What with all manner of new buildings, a fancy entrance to the movies, bowling alleys, and now an airport under way, there are so many changes that even we Twenty-seveners can go back and inspire awe in the incredulous undergrads by telling them how it all was back when we were there. However, in spite of the many changes we hasten to assure you that it is the same fine old place to get back to, and that it still gives you that old tickling at the base of the spine when you drive over the brow of the hill from the June and see the town spreading out before you.
The fund drive has one month to go, closing up on June 30. It behooves '27 to discard the lead and get up to that quota. Up to April 30 we only had forty-four per cent of it, and that is not so much to be proud of. The class agents have said that if anyone is too busy to write out a check, just sign a blank one and they will fill out the rest of it.
Howie Russell is a general salesman for Charles A. Hoitt Company, of Manchester, N. H., dealers in furniture, etc.
Red Cleaveland reports that lie is trying to learn a bit about the retail game, and is with the W. W. Mertz Company, department store, in Torrington, Conn. He also claims to be single and proud of it. There are still a few of us left.
Johnnie McDonald, who transferred to Yale at the end of our second year, graduated from there in '27. He is now located in Boston with the Quaker State Oil Refining Company, representing them in New England and parts of Canada.
Bunny Barde, who had not been heard from for some time, has been located in Havre, Montana, where he has been teaching English.
We were happy to receive an announcement of Ray Reed's marriage to Miss Gretchen Adelaide Bowers on April 20 at Reading, Mass. They will be at home after June 1 in West Somerville.
Dick Mommers is now in charge of the Charlotte, N. C., office of the Anchor Post Fence Company, and is overseeing the fencing of North and South Carolina. In a short time they expect to have the two states thoroughly surrounded. Before starting this job Dick says that he had a very brief essay at the noble art of bond selling, or educated loafing, as it is called. He then went through the factory of his present company to learn the manufacturing end.
Dean Askew writes that Lew Beyer's report of him which appeared in a recent issue of this MAGAZINE, although correct in most details, was slightly twisted as to geography. Lew had him being transferred from a town he had never visited, back to the land of Buffalo chips. As a matter of fact Dean is now in St. Louis, which is a fairly good sized town, and along with George Provost is one of General Motors' one hundred and ten thousand employees. He is working for their insurance company, which work he finds very interesting.
Had a letter from Ed Fowler to inform us that he too is leaving our noble yet fast depleting ranks of celibates. Ed's engagement to Miss Francis Edith Maginness has been announced, and they are to be married on June 15. Ed has recently been transferred from New York to the New Haven office of the National Carbon Company.
Secretary, 101 Milk St., Boston
