CLASS OF 1915
Before proceeding with the news features of the day, the following suggestions are submitted for your serious consideration and action, namely, that you fill out the questionnaire which you received last February and return it to the Secretary; and secondly, that your intentions regarding our Fifteenth be transmitted to your committee. The information asked for on the questionnaire is essential data for the class directory; and the reunion committee has made plans and contracts with the knowledge that the class always has and will, support and attend our anniversaries. But each card received gives them encouragement and minimizes the guesswork. The returns are coming in very well and indicate a record attendance next month. But whether you are a "Yes, I'll be there" man or a "No, can't make it," send in your card. There will be two more publicity pieces, so watch for them, but no more ballyhoo in this column.
Our social editor lately has been maintaining an average of about one wedding a month. April started off on the right foot and we made our average in the first week, thanks to Don Bennink. Miss Fannie Donna Knights and Don were married in Charlestown, Mass., on the second of April, and the class is sincere in wishing them happiness. We hope that Donna and Don will be at the Fifteenth, when congratulations can be offered properly. Don is sales representative for the Cracker Jack Company of Chicago, and the Benninks will probably live in Lawrence, Mass.
This concludes the social broadcast, as no births were reported for the month, although the Secretary admits that he is now an uncle, which is doing pretty well for him.
Occasionally there comes to light the accomplishments of someone whose instinctive reluctance for publicity delays the recognition due him. Such a one is Al Bradley, but now, from the editors of Fortune and also the alumni magazine of the University of Michigan we learn something of his activities. After June, 1915, he got his M.A. and Ph.D. at Michigan. Then came the war, with a discharge in 1919. Then beginning with employment in the office of comptroller, promotions have recurred, until just about a year ago A 1 was elected a vice-president of the General Motors Corporation, with duties which include the supervision of the treasury and accounting sections of the company and its operating subsidiaries. Directorates in foreign as well as domestic associated companies go with the job, and are so numerous that it would seem as if his life must be a continuous directors' meeting. This, then is a brief resuing of his achievements to date, and is but insufficient evidence of his place in the business and financial world which he holds by virtue of his own ability and his position with one of the world's largest industrial enterprises.
Speaking of the G. M. Corporation reminds us that in our heavy foreign mail of the past month came a completed questionnaire from Bob Mac Hale, Bob has migrated north from southern France and Italy, and is now in Antwerp, Belgium, as plant and equipment manager for the G. M. C. He has nothing to add to the married census.
Bob Frothingham with Mrs. Frothingham and three sons lives in Paris, the reason being that he is a director in the Vacuum Oil Company, S. A. F. He bemoans the fact that he has never attended a reunion, but is still hopeful—it may be this year.
Hopping over to the other side of the world, we hear that the original unit of Russ Durgin's Y. M. C. A. building in Tokyo is completed and has been dedicated appropriately. Russ has labored hard in the interest of this job, and is to be congratulated upon its completion.
Rain is so unusual in California (so it is advertised) that when it does rain almost anything can happen. For instance, a month or two back they had a rainy day down in Bakersfield, Cal., with the result that Tommy Tomfohrde unburdened himself with a questionnaire and some news. The Tomfohrdes (Dorothy, Tom, and Bob) live in Berkeley, but seasonally Tom travels the state buying wool, which accounts for his presence in Bakersfield on what will probably be known as the only rainy day of the year. He says a trip East in June is not impossible, but keeps his fingers crossed to avoid any accidents.
A 1 Livingston is vice-president of the Dartmouth Club in San Francisco, but that should not prevent him from coming East with Tommy.
No one in the class has more time at his disposal than Phil Murdock, which probably accounts for the fact that he knew so far ahead of time that he was coming on for the Fifteenth. He lives in Chicago, but has a business in Holland, Mich. I notice that I neglected to state that he manufactures electric clocks.
It has been some little time since any direct word has been received from Bill Schuster. Now we have it direct from Bill's pen that he is located in Providence, and is a teacher and athletic director in the public schools of that city. Mr. and Mrs. with the two daughters and a son live in Eden Park, B. I. Perhaps we shall see the Schusters in Hanover.
Gib Campbell is treasurer and manager of the Meadow Brook Creamery Company, Springfield, Mass., is married, and has three sons and a daughter. Apparently the food question does not concern the Campbells, for there is always a bottle of milk in the Frigidaire, but Gib would like to communicate with a wholesale shoe manufacturer, as he can use about 35 pairs a year. Why don't you and Ray King get together on a co-operative buying proposition, Gib?
George Adams writes very interestingly of his work as resident pathologist (medicine) at the Freedmen's Hospital in Washington, and in addition teaches at Howard Medical School. He does take time off once in a while, as is evidenced by the fact that he saw the Yale and Navy games last fall, but was just unfortunate in his selection of games. The Adams have a happy family of two sons and a daughter.
Dick Coon continues his literary inclinations which he fostered while in college, and is editor of the Poughkeepsie Evening Star. We hope to meet Mr. and Mrs. Coon and the three children in Hanover next June.
After five years of high school teaching, Ralph Clark decided to return to business and pursued studies at New York University which qualified him for his present position with the Springfield Safe Deposit and Trust Company, Springfield, Mass. He is statistician and investment counsel in the trust department of the bank.
Did you read the first paragraph?
Secretary, 9 Woodland St., Arlington, Mass
Say, brother Give me some help; shake out of it and send me some news about what you're doing 1915
