CLASS OF 1917

BATHRICK OF OREGON

Arch Earle isn't the only '17er that helps to congest traffic by selling Fords, for we recently heard from Jack Bathrick, out in Portland, Oregon. He is a member of the firm of Wolfard and Bathrick, Inc., authorized Ford dealers in that Far West city. Jack says he spends his spare time in riding and fishing in the mountains.

FRITZ STAYS FIXED

In comparison with some of the gang that are still moving around every year or so, and incidentally forgetting to send in their new address, we find Em Fritz still connected with Blair and Company, as per the class report in '27, and though his residence address has changed, it is evidently just around the corner, from Park Ave. to East 64th St. Em is apparently leading the conventional life of the well-to-do Wall St. man, golfing in the summer, backgammoning in the winter, with a trip to Florida or Havana sandwiched in when the weather gets bad in the winter.

PAPA FORD

Hobey Ford always features his correspondence with pictures or stories of his youngsters. He did say in his last letter, however, that he is now standing pat, with his two boys and one daughter. That was in his handwriting too, and not Betty's. He mentions having sailed to Bermuda last summer. We have heard rumors that this was a very eventful voyage, and that the navigator, (don't know whether it was Hobey or some other member of the crew), missed Bermuda entirely; and before they raised the island after a week or more of milling around, the whole crew were living on shoe leather. Some day we'll try to get the story for the class.

GOLFER BROWN (Alex M.)

In these days we hesitate to give anyone the above title, but Brownie admits that he plays golf, and "plenty of it." He even goes so far as to say that the worst accident he has had in three years has been the breaking of a pet driver. However, haying been connected for four years or more with the Travelers Insurance Company in their Dayton, Ohio, office, we venture to say that Champ has been on the job.

CURRIER—IN PERSON

After trying in vain to get in touch with George for two or three months, he came through with a letter, explaining his delinquency in answering by saying he had been wintering in Florida. We'll give you as much of the letter as we believe will be passed by the censors. Vocation: "President of the General Spray Painting Co. of Boston." Avocation: "Monkey business." Recreation: "Wintering in Florida, swimming, golfing, jai ali, tennis, ETC." Opinion of business: "If people would only mind their own business it would progress." (Ed. note. There's something paradoxical about George's advice and his winter in Florida.) Family secrets: "Married one and a half years and have an eight-year-old son." Accidents: "Strained my right arm at the elbow."

COIOIANDEB BARROWS

It has come to our ears indirectly that Fat Barrows, besides being one of the Hub's leading attorneys, is commander of the American Legion Post in Wellesley.

SWITZER APPEARS

Every now and then somebody sees Pug Switzer, and we have it on good authority that he is now with the Bankers Trust Co. in New York, and hasn't grown an inch in height.

WAGNER SHOWS AMBITION

Most of us, as we see the age of forty around the corner, seem to try to think about something else. Dutch Wagner, however, says he is actually looking forward to the day that he'll be a grandfather, even though his daughter is only eight as yet. He may not be the first grandfather in the class, but he is the first man I've heard of that is looking forward to it. Dutch is chemist and engineer for the Duovac Radio Tube Co. in Brooklyn, N. Y.

WANDERING WILLIS

Not so very long ago we talked with Russ Willis in the New York Dartmouth Club. Now the Bethlehem Steel Co. has moved him out to the St. Louis office. Here's what Russ says about his job: "I spend most of my time dodging tornadoes in Oklahoma, playing golf in San Antonio, shooting wild geese in the marshes of Louisiana, and aiding the drought relief in Arkansas. When I stay at home for a few days, I have a portable Pullman bunk set up in my room, and hire a porter for a valet."

Secretary, 90 Colony Road, Longmeadow, Mass.