CLASS OF 1927
Have you signed up to come back for reunion? If not, let us know at once that you are coming. If you can think of any better way to spend from two to five days, we wish you would let us know.
Since the last publication we have had the pleasure of a trip to Hanover for the annual secretaries' meeting. Besides being a barrel of fun it was a great source of inspiration, and we feel certain that the results will be evident from renewed efforts on our part.
Incidentally, rumor has it that the Twenty- seven record in the Alumni Fund is pretty sad to date. How about sending something in so that at least our percentage of contributors will be good?
Ray Ring is now with the Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company out in Rochester.
Roy Dreher is in the New York office of Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn (what a mouthful), writing advertising copy. Confidential reports have it that he is doing very well.
Ted Swanson, according to the dope sheets, is working for the General Foods Corporation, editing a group of house organs. Stew Schackne is now living in Toledo, married, and in the real estate business.
Brick Stone has apparently conquered the old wanderlust, arid is still in Antwerp with the General Motors.
Coggie Broer and bride were seen in New York on their honeymoon en route to the Isle of Nassau. Don McCall reports that Coggy was in fine fettle, and that he had with him a very attractive wife.
Bill North is still in New York with Harry Meyers, manufacturers and importers of furniture.
Ken Anderson is situated in Jamestown, N. Y., and is working on scientific factory management with the Dahlstrom Metallic Door Company.
Jack Sheldon has not as yet migrated to New York to join Brother McCall, but is still holding down the home town, Muskegon, and is working for E. H. Sheldon and Company, manufacturers of technical school equipment.
Don McCall left the employ of the Shaw Walker Company about a year ago and has since been working for the Racquette River Paper Company in New York. We say New York, that is where his office is, but we rather recently had a letter from him en route to Virginia, and last week-end we saw him in Hanover, so apparently he is a traveling man.
Fred Fellingham is still with the Dixie Oil Company working out of Muskegon, and at present he is trying to do all the Michigan farmers out of their oil lands.
Harry Pettingill is at present in the New York office of Hegeman-Harris, builders of the new library, not to mention six or seven other buildings that you better come up to see at Commencement.
Ed Ruth is with the General Motors Export, and claims to be the most underpaid man in the outfit.
Art Keleher is teaching manual training in the Seward Park Junior and Senior High School, New York city.
Lennie Stern is trading and arbitrating for J. S. Bache and Company in New York, trying to out-guess the other sharpshooters in eighths and quarters.
Ted Ward returned recently from a trip around the world, and swears on a stack of Bibles he will be on hand for the "Turrible Thoid." That's the spirit we like to see, and lots more of it.
Bob Long is at present working for the J. P. Smith Printing Company in Rochester. Bob has also sworn a swear that he will be present at the Thoid. Come on everyone, hop on the band wagon.
Art Lund is working for his M.A. in French at Columbia. He spent his first two years out teaching at Suffield School in Connecticut.
Bill Williams claims to be out after all the steel beams and bricks coming into New York for movement over the Penn R. R. He has been promised a pass to Hanover in June.
Bob Tucker is still at Macy's, buying millinery, and claims that if Macy's see fit to part with such valuable service for a few days he will be thar for the "Terrific Turrible Thoid."
Charlie Townsend is with Harvey Fisk and Sons, members of the New York Stock Exchange. Accounts welcomed with open arms. Charlie says he plans on being present at the "Thoid," if it is the third. Now that seems to be a moot (how do you like that one) question. We claim it is both the first and the third, and we'll need a lot of fellas on hand to decide just which it is.
Ken Meyercord is still hibernating in Newark, furthering the interests of the Western Electric Company.
Guy Bostwick reports as follows: Man about town. Anybody with a good job open please communicate. Only requirement is time off for the reunion.
Brownie Freeman seems to be among the Macy's contingent, wearing a white carnation among the pots and pans. This occupation obviously in preparation for matrimony.
This from the New York banquet, and it is too good to overlook. "Jack Thees wishes to wonder (and hopes to be quoted verbatim) (he is) if writing and threatening the secretary will work better than just urbanely asking him to mention his name. The dope is, "Please print that I hope that 'Tallyho' Bed Williams will put the cork in his gin bottle and oil his pen instead of his intestines." Incidentally, Jack has just accepted a position with the Daily News in its advertising department.
Monty Phillips, having spent three years in the manufacture, sales, and what have you of the equipment for the production of dairy products (probably raising cattle), has folded up and become a bond salesman, or shall we say investment banker, in Rochester. He claims that he isn't making any money, but that he will hop a freight to Hanover in June.
Johnnie Carey is briskly engaged (twice a year for a short time anyway) in selecting and thereafter dictating the fashion for the ladies of Cedar Rapids. He also manages to give the golf course a work-out daily, and is clicking them off in the seventies quite regularly. We don't know whether that's for nine or eighteen. John's correspondent doubts if he will be in Hanover for the reunion, but he still has hopes.
Phil "Flomp" Thompson is behind the cage in a Chicago Trust Company, advising people.
Beings as how Phil's in the advice business, I'd like to ask his advice as to whether I ought to sign off here and cut out this drizzle, but since he ain't here and since it's almost time for the last mail to leave, I guess I'll quit enyways.
We've got so many salesmen in the class that there are four darn good products we'd like to have 'em do a little selling on. They are: The Class of Twenty-Seven, the Alumni Fund, the Turrible Thoid and a better '27 subscription to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
Joe Appel signing off at eight thirty-seven. See you in Hanover this June.
Secretary, Waban, Mass.
