CLASS of 1928
Letters from Philo Grimes and Ralph Rickenbaugh say that the former has finished building his first gasoline plant and compressor station, and soon plans to build another in Texas. But Rick says the Philo has a very handsome framed engraving which is entitled "Mortgage—twenty years." Rick also says that Brad Brown has given up the muskrat business and is going to take the Wisconsin territory for the Lincoln Electric Company of Cleveland. That's too bad, because Brad had it figured down to the last litter- you see, if you take two muskrats of appropriate dispositions, well, it takes them only two months. Now there are six two-months periods in a year. And at the end of the first eight months the twelve rats of the first crowd are of age. The net result, if you're good at mathematics, is somewhere around 1,467, discounting a couple that have been stepped on. And there you are—you can't lose. Barney Norton is taking graduate work at Michigan. And Rick has been promoted into the sales promotion department of Cadillac.
Parker Chick writes that he is now assistant stock teller at Harris, Forbes Company in Boston. Deke Taylor has left the Pitch Publishing Company, and is now with the National Shawmut Corporation. Wes Wood is accounting something or other for the Standard Oil in New York. Bob Word takes things easy in Florida, but before long will be making his way North—perhaps to the big Reunion Number One in June.
Dan'l Hatch of Outing Club fame has sent me items of interest that he has picked up from his job as class agent. Wendell Phillips has been in Palm Beach for two years since leaving college, and is now at Jacksonville in the industrial banking business. Chris Norman didn't find the telephone business too exciting and changed to the American Securities Service—his particular job is in the client's inquiry bureau, where he spends his time disillusioning widows and orphans concerning the gilt-edgeness or high-gradeness of their oils and coppers. Johnnie Frankland has been teaching at a private school at Daytona Beach—says he gets lots of tan but not too much food. Jule Lemkin is at R. H. White's in Boston. Tax Connell writes on the stationery of the University of California Department of Zoology. At the time when Tax wrote the letter, he was about to turn in his master's thesis on which he had been working night and day for a month. Don McKay is studying civil engineering at Purdue.
A recent visit to Hanover for the annual secretaries' meeting uncovers a few. Jim Mullen resides in Guatemala, an employee of Dana Condon's United Fruit Company. Chet Gray has the title of headmaster at the high school at Jefferson, N. H. Dick Brooks is engaged to Jeanette Bradley, and is working for Ginn and Company. Gerry Luellen is in business with Cliff Hanson '25 at Worcester, Mass., and is now touring Europe on the profits. Dick Frame is taking movies for Grantland Rice. Si Simonds is married and works at the Hotel Statler in Boston. Larry Sleeper also works there. Bunny Goodrich teaches at Newburyport, and is no doubt by this time a buddy of Andrew "Bossy" Gillis. Jud Moulton is another of the Harvard Law students. Chuck Coe graduated from the University of London, and now works for the Detroit News.
The highlight of the week-end was a '28 banquet at the new Outing Club House at Occom Pond, which by the way is a darn fine place and deserves a trip to Hanover in June in case you haven't remembered the big reunion taking place thereabouts. The occasion was initiated in the brain of our Hanover correspondent, Phil Sherman, who gave it plenty of free publicity in the columns of the local news sheet as well as in his string of fifteen papers. Don Benjamin toastmasted and Prof. Lingley spoke. Those present— Johnnie Kenerson, Phil Sherman, Ed Atkinson, Fred Burleigh, Skip Drayton, Hank Graupner, Park Estabrook, Charlie Proctor, Hammie Hammesfahr, Buck Serrell, Chet Kellogg, Larry Kenney, Parker Noyes, Bob Byrne, Sam Bassett, Harry Bennert, Howie Newell, Rocky Keith, Bunny Sanborn, Mutt Jennings, George Holbrook, Tom Carroll, Bill Morton, Lou Beers, Bud Weser, Walt McKee, Jeff Glendinning, and Monty Wells. Don dug up the class movies taken last year, which most of the class have yet to see. The camera worked overtime on Old Timer's Day, and recorded some mighty interesting effects.
Bob Clark says that he will work in the advertising department of the Strathmore Paper Company at Springfield, Mass., after graduation from Tuck School. Walt McKee has signed on with the National City Bank and Jeff Glendinning with the First National Bank of Boston. Skipper Drayton is going with N. W. Ayer in Philadelphia. Phil Sherman will remain in Hanover and keep his papers busy. Hammie Hammesfahr plans to work at Hotel Northampton—which might be regarded as having advantages. Brose McLaughlin has blue prints, land, and lumber for a smart hotel in Canada.
Finally, just to mention that sometime about the middle of June there will be a Commencement, and the rumor is going around that there will be plenty of friends of yours in Hanover at the same time—a remarkable coincidence. And where will you be?
REUNING CLASSES
Reunions this June are figured by fives and tens from 1929, with the exceptions of 1926 which holds a three-year reunion, and 1928 which has a one-year-out reunion. The following classes will have reunions: 1859, 1864, 1869, 1874, 1879, 1884, 1889, 1894, 1899, 1904, 1909, 1914, 1919, 1924, 1929. Many colleges are adopting new plans of reunions, with the groupings of the classes in such fashion that men of different classes who were in college together will reunite each year. Thus at one Commencement the ten classes between 1900 and 1910 might have reunions. The men in 1900 and in 1910 are the only sufferers, since the others meet men that they knew in undergraduate days.
THE EDITOR.
EXCUSE US, MR. CURRIER
87 Milk St., Boston, Mass.
Editor Dartmouth Alumni Magazine:—
Dan Richardson '91, in his letter, identifying a part of the members of the Cycle Club, printed on page 469 of the May issue, has unwittingly done an injustice to one of the men. He has recognized C. S. Currier '89, but he added—"deceased, I believe." For many years Currier has been in North Carolina, business address, Winston-Salem, residence, Elkin. He is a civil engineer in charge of one of the nine highway districts of the State. Many of your readers have probably driven over some of the roads he has built. Do you recall the big bridge over the Yadkin river, near Salisbury? That is one of his "monuments." My most recent letter from him was written within two weeks.
DAVID N. BLAKELY '89
A STROLL IN THE PARK It may have been a Turnverein Picnic
Secretary, 70 Mt. Vernon St., Melrose, Mass.
