CLASS OF 1927
We were very fortunate recently in being able to combine a business trip with a threeday stop in Hanover at Commencement time.
Unfortunately there were not many '27 men in Hanover, but we enjoyed it greatly nevertheless, and were able to pick up a few ideas for our third reunion, which, as you may remember, comes next June. Start planning now! All the savings banks rim vacation clubs, and I know any one of them will be glad to receive your weekly contribution of a dollar or so, which will mount up sufficiently to carry you back to Old Home Week in Hanover next June. You may expect to receive further ballyhoo in regard to this gathering at a later date.
A letter from Bunny Barde informs us that he has been teaching English this winter at the high school in Havre, Montana. He does not expect to continue there another year, but will be working in Butte.
Paul Maclean is in Great Falls, Montana, working on the editorial staff of the Tribune.
Joe Russakoff has recently left the employ of the General Air Filters Corporation, with whom he was working in Lincoln Park, N. J., and New York city. He is now located with the Petroleum Heat and Power Company in their advertising department at Stamford, Conn.
Roy Dreher has just completed his year's work at Columbia Graduate School, where he has been working for an M.A. in literature.
Phil Thompson is working with the Continental-Illinois Bank and Trust Company, which bank is the result of a recent merger.
Kroggy Krogstad is with the domestic division of trucks and motors of the International Harvester Company.
Jim Dalbey is in the advertising department of Butler Brothers in Chicago.
George Howell has just completed his second year at Northwestern Law School.
Hank Orth and Curt Wright are still managing the Chicago office of the Guglre Lithographing Company. Cliff Randall was in Chicago on business recently. He is still selling investments with some Milwaukee concern.
Houston Gray is in Chicago, and is now associate editor of some publication there. Brad Harrison is living in Evanston, and is working with the Harris Trust and Savings Bank, where Woodie Burgert also spends his days from nine to five.
Marsh McGough is in Chicago, working in the sales department of the Universal Cement Company. Steve Osborn is reported to be still in Chicago, working with the Economics Laboratory, Inc.
Bed Williams has given up his study of law to take a job with Lawrence Stern, one of the large bond houses in Chicago.
Since the consolidation of the Union Trust Company and the First National Bank of Chicago, Bill Abbott has been working in their new business department, soliciting new accounts.
Ken Ballantyne has recently been transferred from Albany, where he has been selling bonds for Kissel, Kinnicutt, and Company, back to their New York office. He had a two weeks' vacation early in June, during which he made a trip back to Hanover with Brownie Langworthy, who was East on his vacation. They both stopped off in Boston on their way back, and we managed to stage a brief but enjoyable reunion.
Marty Heifer is located in Milton, Pa., where he is just completing a training course in the manufacture of silk. He is working with the Susquehanna Silk Mills, and expects to be transferred back to New England shortly. Ken Russell has been taking the same course, and is also in Milton.
Dick Pierson is in Quincy, Ill., running his father's business.
Bob Gilboy's engagement to Miss Mary Carr has recently been announced.
Johnnie Roe has left the rubber business, and reports that he is now with Dry Ice, the new and ideal refrigerant. He recommends that we buy a cake and take it home, but warns us to handle it with care, for it is the coldest stuff imaginable. It is probably the only thing that will do the much-famed and proverbial job on a brass monkey.
We recently received a small card from Mr. and Mrs. William P. Elliott, announcing the arrival of one more red-headed left fielder for the Big Green, Robert Stevens Elliott, born on May 26.
We were very much grieved to receive a wire from Blondy Lashar telling us of the death of Lew Beyer's wife, Adelaide, on June 29. Those of us who knew Adelaide can partially appreciate his great loss, and we wish to express our deepest sympathy to Lew in his bereavement.
Marshall Cleaves is teaching school at Miami Beach, Fla., but he doesn't say what school.
Freddie Whittemore is selling insurance in Boston, 44 Kilby St. Dick Mooney is down in Porto Rico with the Central Aguirre Sugar Company. He hopes to get back for the third reunion, but does not expect to be in the country before.
Rog Salinger has just left for California to attend his brother's wedding.
George O'Sullivan is still at Saranac, N. Y., but finds time to write on occasion.
Roy Blanchard has recently visited Hanover, taking time off from his real estate and insurance business.
Langworthy and Ballantyne have also spent some time in Hanover recently, and Bill Macaulay is apparently with the Petroleum Heat and Power Company in Boston, while Gus Cummings writes from the Industrial Appliance Company of New England.
Hank Hancock writes from North Stratford, N. H-., where he is teaching. Bill North writes from New York, where he is with the Harry Meyers Company, manufacturers of furniture and importers of antiques.
Paul Hannah is in Washington, D. C., with the publishers of Nature magazine. Prank George lives at the Lawyers' Club in Ann Arbor, Mich., where he is studying law.
Reg Vincent and Spencer Cook were recent visitors in Hanover during Commencement.
Ken Yeaton is in Flemington, N. J., in the realty business. Charlie Gibson and Bunny Smith are with the Kendall Company. Charlie, who is stationed at Paw Creek, N. C., says he would like to hear from any of the other boys down that way. I had a very nice letter from Bob Slater, written from Evanston between train times; he is apparently working very hard, but says nothing about his work. Frank White has been in a hospital in New York city since January 8, and has had several operations on his spine. He is doing well, and is expecting to go home to Pittsfield about the middle of July. I had a very nice letter from his dad.
The remainder is from our star reporter Ken Meyercord. Can't we enlist the services of a few more ambitious pen-pushers or keypunchers? A 1 Clifton is now a partner in the firm of Warner-Clifton, advertising agents in San Francisco.
Bill Williams is in the office, though not as yet in the chair, of the district freight agent, Pennsylvania R. R., Newark, N. J.
Ken Meyercord is a member of the clerical profession, business not religious, at the Newark distributing house of the Western Elecr trie Company. He says that he has been farmed out from headquarters to the bush league to learn the business.
Stew Schackne has deserted the ranks of us bachelors. On June fourth he was married to Joanne Pendleton Sunderland. They are making their home in Toledo.
Hank Wright, who spent a few years with the class and is now working in the raw materials inspection department of the Western Electric plant in Kearny, N. J., tells me that L. B. Stevens has been transferred to the Texas fields by the Texas Oil Company. Just before going down there, in May, he married a Massachusetts girl whose name Hank couldn't remember.
Van Ingham, who has been traveling in the Orient, has accepted a temporary post as vice-consul at Nanking, China.
Our sturdy aspirants to the medical profession are cutting capers, and more intimate parts, this summer. Dow Mills after a year at Physicians and Surgeons is spending his summer by making one trip to California, via the Canal, as assistant surgeon on the S. S. Virginia. Completing this, he will spend the rest of the summer as camp doctor at a boys' camp in New Hampshire. Hale Ham and Jack Draper, the rugged Cornell medics, are doing research work at Woods Hole on the Cape, some of which will no doubt be of a summer nature.
Kern Folkers is now in Washington, having joined the staff of a firm of patent lawyers. His job involves a knowledge of both chem and German, said which Kern got both from Dartmouth and Heidelberg.
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