CLASS of 1931
Yep! In the big city now. And most anxiously watching the mails for word from you. I will not go into any further classification of those who are biding their time about releasing news of their activities. Last month, your scribe made the huge blunder of implying that he'd heard from everyone except those who were heavy laden with cares. Now the point is very emphatically made that you who have not yet communicated with these columns are not only invited but urged to do so soon. The clearing house of 1931 also hopes that those who have written will find time to tell us some more.
Ed Gruen and Chuck Briggs are with the Guaranty Trust Company and the Guaranty Company of New York, respectively. Together with Al Boncutter and a V. M. I. man, they have taken an apartment at 445 West 23rd St., just a step away from your Secretary and Jack Weatherley; the outstanding difference in these homes happens to center around one "Chauncey;" a mysterious individual to whom they of the foursome blithely refer as their "man." We'll know more about "Chauncey" at a later date.
Chuck Robinson was observed at the Dartmouth Club in New York, but we understand that Chicago has lured him away. How's to tell us about it, Chuck?
Shep Wolff is a busy man over at the Brooklyn Gas Company.
Ran into Bill Galley and Kirk Baron on Riverside Drive last week. Bill says the strain of three class days a week at Columbia Business School is wearing him down.
George Adams is learning his Dad's business, The George Matthew Adams Service, Inc., at 250 Park Ave., New York.
Bat Austin says that he too is learning the family industry, only his happens to be the Austin Organ Company in Hartford, Conn.
Bob Blocksom is in Michigan City, Ind., also an apprentice with Blocksom and Company. Well, it begins to look as though a good many of us are starting at the bottom. It's not so bad down there honest.
Russ Barnum is clerking in the trust department of the Chase National Bank in New York.
Courtney Anderson is picking himself some mighty fine guideposts. First we knew about his post-graduate activities, he was married to one Miss Catherine Bullock. Now he's teaching at the Y-Preparatory School in Cleveland.
Bill Benger is receiving training in the offices of the Independent Salt Company in New York.
Johnny Boermeester is in the actuarial department of the John Hancock Insurance Company in Boston.
At last, we have a chance to say "I told you so." You will recall that last month's comment upon Red Rolfe's release to the Albany baseball team of the Eastern League included the remark that he would soon be recalled by the New York Yankees. Well, he was recalled. And with no little distinction, either. Red was unanimously selected by newspaper men as one of the most valuable players in the Eastern League, and put at second base on the All-Eastern league team. Now Col. Ruppert has the makings of a real team.
Ed Brummer is in- the Brooklyn office of the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, and is living at 124 Pierrepont St., Brooklyn.
Spence Cram is in the wholesale hardware business with the W. Bingham Company at Shaker Heights, Ohio.
Johnny Camph is with the Palmer Advertising Service in New York. He says he thinks the advertising business is great. I agree with him.
Skip Clow is working in the Wolfeboro National Bank at Wolfeboro, N. H.
Had lunch with Johnny Martin and Si Leach—and Frannie. John and Si left for Europe last week. This will be a colorful year for both of them, and we hope they'll tell us more about university life across the water.
Ned Campbell, more subtle than whom there is none, warns me to keep away from "skinfuls"; there's a good answer for this, but darn it or should I say damn it I can't think of it. Ned sticks to his coined words by catching himself a position with the Monongahela State Bank. Now that's what I call a bank! Of course, it's in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Jim Cooley is with the Prudential Insurance Company in Newark, N. J., the company that tells you the reasons why you should not let your insurance lapse, but neglects to consider the "how."
Charlie Dwyer says he is "hanging on the bottom rung of that proverbial ladder" in a Boston brokerage house, R. L. Day and Company.
Ken Anderson is one of those lucky blokes in Tuck School. Hanover! Boy, if the yen to go back there hits you this strongly when you've only been out a few months, what must it be like when the years start to'mount up?
Ed Elmer is doing production work in the advertising department of General Electric at Bridgeport, Conn.
George Frankel is in the general insurance business with Frankel Bros, in Cleveland.
Red Gristede is making Grisdale history in the well-known chain of grocery stores, Gristede Bros. He's in the home office at 1881 Park Ave., New York.
Bill Geiger is making little ones out of big ones; trees, in this case. He's with the famous Weyerhauser Timber Company in Tacoma, Wash. How's El, Bill?
There is important general office work to be done at the Globe-Wernicke Company, Cincinnati, and our own George Gilpatric is doing it.
"C. E." Harris is a salesman with the Economy Fuse and Manufacturing Co., in Omaha, Neb.
The Barbary Coast, as we knew it, was what it was much to the credit of its leader Frank Hodson. We'd hoped to hear Frank do a turn over the air sometime, but it looks as though Frank intends to do his turning with the handle of a coffee grinder. He's now importing coffee and tea for Eppens, Smith, and Co. in New Jersey.
Frank Quinn has shifted his playground from White Plains to Fort Wayne, Ind. He's working out there for the American Fork and Hoe Company.
Bob Hale is with the Harris Trust and Savings Bank in Chicago. Steve Hall is receiving managerial training in the school of the W. T. Grant Co. in Worcester, Mass.
Charlie Hubbard is in the Travelers Insurance Company at Hartford.
Bill Hays is doing executive work for McGlynn, Hays and Co., Inc., in New York.
Bill Hayden is responsible for bringing us a new "classmate." Miss Polly Hines is now Mrs. W. R. S. Hayden. Bill is with the A. T. and T. in New York. He and his wife are living in an apartment on Madison Ave.
Lloyd Wilson, once of Scarsdale, N. Y., thence to Washington, D. C., is back in the Westchester county fold. He's with the New York Telephone Company in Mt. Vernon, N. Y.
Jim Laughton is teaching and coaching at the Emerson School for Boys at Exeter, N. H.
Jim Lull is another of our erstwhile banking classmates. He's with the South Texas Commercial Bank of Houston, Texas.
Oh! I'd almost forgotten a very important reminder: Mace Mason hastens to let us know that he was married to Miss Jessie Isabella Frye on the 15th of August 1930 and not 1931, as your Secretary had misinformed you in the last issue of the MAGAZINE. Sorry, Mace.
Both Charlie and Art Marx are now at 200 Fifth Ave., New York. They are with E. M. Steindler at that address.
Ed Pastore, whom we always think of in terms of the theatre, is now on the stage of the W. T. Grant Co. Where are you playing these days, Eddie?
Ned Pitkin is teaching math and English at the Verona (N. J.) schools.
Cliff Power has gone hard; here's what I mean: Pueblo, Colo., is hard enough, but Cliff is with the Utah Rock Asphalt Corporation out there, and that does not make one think about soft, downy pillows. Have you hitched a crane on to that Ford, Cliff?
Hank Richmond is selling for the Richmond Screw Anchor Company in Yonkers, N. Y.
Frank Rosenthal has been reported among the lions of Wall St., but we know this only as a rumor.
Bill Schuldenfrei says, "It's smart to be thrifty." They say that at Macy's, and it seems to me I've seen it somewhere else.
Tower Snow is with the Union Carbide Co. That's a big outfit, Tower, just whereabouts are you?
Ralph Wardle is teaching English and French at Palo Verde Ranch School in Mesa, Arizona. That sounds colorful, Ralph, how's to tell us about it?
Bob Wagner is apparently with his family in the E. R. Wagner Manufacturing Co. in Milwaukee, Wis.
Harry Walker is with the Carpenter Paper Co. in Omaha, Neb.
Charlie Schneider is nothing less than an executive in the pipe business of his fatherno, not easy—plumbing fixtures is what the "pipe" means. Charlie was headed for Tuck School, but found it more expedient to remain in New York.
Martie Zinn is with Kohn, Hall, Marx, and Co. in New York.
This has been a very factual letter, but I assume that we are all interested in the connections of Thirty-oners; what they're doing in those connections will be your news as soon as it comes to hand. I must to my advertising labors—s' long.
Secretary, 405 W. 23rd St., New York
