CLASS OF 1925
During the last year the '25 men in and around Boston have had several get-togethers, each of which has proven more popular than the one before.
Our first coup d'etat consisted of a most enjoyable and active dinner at the University Club, after which about forty of the Old Guard adjourned to Bald Head Row in one of Boston's most famous theatres. To say that a good time was had by all is putting it mildly.
The night before the Harvard-Dartmouth game the annual smoker was held at the City Club. Later we had dinner at the University Club. Chet Rolles, with a small delegation from New York, joined us there, and Pete Haffenreffer and Bud Petrequin added to the success of the evening with the contribution of their personal movies of reunion. We recommend that anyone passing through either Fall River or Cleveland stop off for a private showing.
We; are planning another gathering of the clan m the near future and heartily recommend similar gatherings to the '25ers in other parts of the country.
Stories are just beginning to drift in from the backwoods regions of Quebec, where Parker Merrow has been showing the natives how it should be done. It seems he and a friend hired a hand car and scooted up and down the railroad tracks of an old logging road slaughtering deer, bear, and moose at random.
Clif Hill returned from England early in July and has been spending the summer at Orient, L. I. Clif's son, Peter, is quite a boy now. Clif will spend this winter again at the Roberts Brookings Graduate School of Economics in Washington, D. C. He spent this past year touring Europe and getting material to write a book on labor conditions in Great Britain since the World War.
Dick Gratz is managing a bond office in St. Paul, Minn., for Bonbright and Co., 411 Pioneer Building.
Pete Haffenreffer became a proud parent recently with the arrival of young Virginia Louise in Fall River. Mother, father, and child are doing nicely.
Johnny Garrod is still with the Hood Rubber Co., and in the merger with B. F. Goodrich and Miller Tire Co. he becomes chief physicist at the Watertown, Mass., plant.
The following announcement was received not so long ago:
"Frederick A. Bangs, Martin Crane, and Drennan J. Slater announce the formation of a partnership for the general practice of law, under the firm name of Bangs, Crane, and Slater, with offices at Suite 1044-1046, First National Bank Building, Chicago."
And, apropos of the above, the engagement of Miss Maida Lillian Randall of Evanston, 111., to Drennan J. Slater has been announced. Miss Randall is a graduate of Wellesley.
Buddy (Francis Valentine) Brown was married at Prescott, Arizona, this summer to Miss Mary Isabelle Fuller.
Brice Disque is now in charge of the new business department of the Plaza Trust Company, New York. Address: Fifth Ave. at 52d St.
Joe Murphy has reappeared in Chicago. Until two o'clock in the afternoon Joe sits among a lot of earphones, switches, and stop and-go lights in the brokerage house of Norris and Kenly. Joe likes International Harvester on the dips.
Another Chicago broker is Tubby Washburn, office manager of Lamson Brothers, wheat, corn, board of trade, and all exchanges and curbs.
Sam Rogers is still married and living at Four Winds Winter Park, Fla. We say "still" because no one can seem to get a letter out of him lately.
When in East Orange, N. J., don't forget Deak Blodgett's cafeteria and tea room at 507 Main St. We have it straight, from one who's been there, that a stop-over would be well worth while.
And speaking of Blodgett's, of course you've heard of Pete's recent travels. The lad got headlines in the Boston Herald!
Bob Palmer was married on October first to Miss Eleanor Adams at Springfield, Mass.
And while we're on that subject: Dick Colton was married this summer in Chicago. Joel Antrim played Cupid in this instance, as Dick met his fate, Miss Gladys Wilson, of Missoula, Montana, while visiting Joel the summer before last.
Alec Laing has just written a stirring novel entitled "End of Roaming," published by Farrar and Rinehart, New York. It deals with the generation which just missed the World War, and apparently has stirred up considerable comment with its frankness. We recommend it.
We have an important announcement from Dutch Learnard to the effect that one Stephen Fuller Learnard arrived recently to grace the Learnard homestead.
And from Chicago: Charlie Dodd commutes daily from his Evanston retreat to the offices of the octopun of LaSalle St., otherwise known as the Continental Illinois Bank and Trust Co.
Lumber King Ross Beatty manages the Chicago branch of the family business.
The Boston Transcript recently reported the marriage of Francis Sidney Wilder of Keene, N. H., and Miss Gladys Clark, R.N., of Auburn, N. Y., on August 16 at Ahmednagar, India. Mr. Wilder received his M.A. at the University of North Carolina after his A.B. at Dartmouth. The marriage resulted in his request for life appointment as a missionary in India. Mrs. Wilder is a Wellesley graduate, and has been a nurse in India, where the romance developed.
Ancient employees and parasites of Chicago's municipal court stood in awe recently when Attorney Kenneth Montgomery secured the entry of a judgment for a quarter of a million dollars, one of the largest ever known in the history of that court of limited jurisdiction. On cross-examination by members of the press Attorney Montgomery admitted that it was a default judgment.
Miss Nettie May Kinsolvnig of Paducah, Ky., and Lon Parris, of Hamilton, Ohio, were married at Hamilton recently. The bride is a graduate of the Conservatory of Music. Lon is associated with his father in business in Hamilton.
T. K. Gedg of College Humor has been transferred by that publication from Chicago to New York. Tom writes us from Park Avenue now. Incidentally, the defendant was spotted in Harvard Square, Cambridge, not so long ago, lining up a bunch of the boys with a "free gas if you pose for a picture" racket. It seems Tom was hot on the trail of a big idea: "HARVARD BOYS USE SHELL GAS."
New business for Marsh and McLennon, insurance brokers to railroads and similar giants of industry, is solicited by Bob Borwell. Between trips to St. Louis and Cleveland, Bob keeps fit through horseback riding and handball.
Neil Williams has become a partner in the law firm of Castle, Williams, Long, and McCarthy, 112 W. Adams St., Chicago.
George ("Tiger") Lyon has become associated with the newly formed firm of Peaks, Topliff, and Mulligan, also of Chicago.
We are extremely interested in any news of he class of '25 and urge that the members send in any items, either personal or in regard to other '2sers, that might reach them. Remember, items that are old to you may be news to others in the class, so pass them along.
Secretary, 67 Milk St., Boston
