CLASS OF 1926
Sometime about last June it was known that Tom Colt had successfully reached the final stage of his training as a Navy pilot. Word was received from this versatile horseman-author-art critic-flier that the "final stage" into which he was moving down at Pensacola was to consist of a single test: viz., to proceed aloft en solo and then land the plane without reference to anything but the instrument board. To those who landed was given a lieutenant's commission. Nothing further was heard from Tom until the recent Christmas when greetings were received from Lt. Thomas C. Colt, U. S. Marine Corps, Quantico, Ya. So Tom landed.
Gob DesMarais and Mrs. Gob (Alice Parker) are to be felicitated upon the arrival of a young daughter at their home in Clinton, Mass.
Paul Harper continues to study at the Yale Medical School.
Two good examples of the Selective Process enrolled as members of the freshman class in Hanover are Ed Hilton, brother of Hoyt, and Bob Williamson, brother of Norrie. Newspapers are giving much space to the ski-jumping accomplishments of one Tom Mann, sophomore brother of Dick. John Heavenrich has a younger representative of the family in College. Are there other kid brothers?
The Big Fifth comes June 12 to 16 and it might be repeated that John Branton Wallace and an able committee including Tiny Marsans, Charlie Bishop, and Courtney Brown are busy figuring things out. This will be a real party. If you haven't returned the card, let Brant know whether or not you are making plans to be there. His address is: 84 Hawthorne Ave., East Orange, N. J.
We would like to hear from that poet, Richmond Lattimore, who still resides as a Rhodes Scholar in Oxford.
Dick Mandel and his brother, Frank '24, have recently established the Mandel Prize in Comparative Literature at College. Judged by Professors Stewart and Herb West an annual contest will reveal the most profound student in a subject relating to American thought. To the winner will go, each year, a prize of $50 and to the second best essay a prize of $25.
Bob Stevens has been employed since his graduation in '27 with the General Motors in Antwerp, Belgium. He has kicked his traces and is now a real automotive missionary, as revealed in this excerpt from his letter:
"As you notice above I have changed my address. I hated to leave Brick Stone, Nick Nazro, Lil Russell and the others in Antwerp but got hold of an interesting venture and have taken a dive. I believe I will enjoy it here in Strasbourg immensely although I've only been here three days.
"I am the only American working a French automobile factory where only French and German are spoken. My job is supply manager which means I've got to start from scratch and organize a supply department among people who haven't the slightest knowledge of what that means. The factory is five-eighths of a mile long by three-eighths wide, hires 5,000 workmen and turns out 15,000 cars a year. Salary is good and the town beautiful. I am close to Switzerland, the Black Forest and the Vosges Mountains and now that I have a little car I look forward to some nice trips. Hope to ski this winter."
Bob's address is Mathis S/A, 200 Route de Colmar, Strasbourg, France.
John Manser now has Elise to bid him goodbye each morning as he leaves their cosy apartment in Brookline to devise ways and means for the U. S. Rubber Co. in Boston. Say, maybe there is something in this marriage business? I'd like opinions, both for and against.
More next month. Memory plays tricks. Let's have letters.
Secretary, 7991 Hartwick St., Detroit, Mich.
1926
