CLASS of 1913
After toiling as vice-president in charge of sales of J. G. White and Company, Inc., New York, Babe Smith retired from business, but now has re-entered the mart as O'Brian, Potter, and Company, Inc., announced on September 1 that Warren Prosser Smith had become a vice-president of that firm with residence in Buffalo, N. Y.
Bob Crenner, on the U.S.S. Jason, writes from China that the ALUMNI MAGAZINE is chasing him around the world and brings the news he is watching for. He reports that prohibition has affected all countries, as it has brought to dealers the realization that liquor could be cut and adulterated and still sold to the gullible public.
Sid Akerstrom finally reached Boston on the U.S.S. Arkansas, and Mose and Wilk had lunch with him one noon during his very short stay, September 16-20. Sid looks fine, and his waist line (1928 model) has entirely disappeared. He has only been about 35,000 miles this year.
Mose Ewing dropped in the office some months ago on his way down from Halifax, N. S., and we now learn that he is professor of music at Martha Berry College, Mt. Berry, Ga. He may appreciate this winter the difference in temperature between Halifax and Mt. Berry.
Smiler Peirce is with the publicity and advertising end of the Palace Theatre in New York, and is living in Kew Gardens, L. I. Sounds very English, old top!
Charles Buffum has moved to Framingham, and is now living at 205 Union Ave. Word received from him gave a change of address only.
Ole Blanchard is part of the firm of Webster, Blanchard, and Taylor, still in Hartford, Conn., and living in West Hartford. Rush of business will not keep him from the Yale Bowl on October 31.
Len Manley reports a brief visit from Harv McClary in September at Sioux City, lowa, and that Ken Winship is now in that city.
Squire Wilson writes Mose from San Francisco, "We have a lunch every Monday in SF and there were 22 present on May 18. We were talking about the Alumni Fund, and I have just been looking at the report for last year. You certainly did well in getting such a big percentage of contributors, and that is the real reason for my writing you this letter. It is a hard job, and the job of getting material for the ALUMNI MAGAZINE seems to be just as hard. I enjoy reading the stuff Wilk gets together. The next time you have a class luncheon in Boston, give them all my regards, and if anyone comes out here, tell them to come and see me, and I really mean it too."
The following extracts from a letter from Don Gilchrist will interest all:
"I enjoyed the old buildings and the people (when one can meet them) in Scotland and France, but to me the poverty, anxiety, and hardness of life were distressing. Only Holland seemed happy, busy, and free from the fear of another war. As our trip was confined to the book centers, which are all large cities or university towns, we had only one or two chances for trips into the country Hampton Court, Canterbury, in England, and Bourree in the Loire Valley in France.
"There is no escaping the fact that the affection of the French and English focuses in their past, so rich in romance, worthy tradition, and worldly glory. To acquire an understanding of the significance and the richness of their traditions and inheritance is to enjoy them and give a better perspective to our life here at home.
"In buying books, which was my main objective, I had many delightful experiences, and considerable success. The European bookseller at his best is the type of our college professor and book-lover combined; a widely-read connoisseur and generally a collector himself. He is frequently a scholar and sometimes a publisher as well. He has few rivals in this country. A stock of a million volumes or over is not unusual, though nothing like that is to be found here."
Secretary, 40 Broad St., Boston
