CLASS OF 1927
Saturday night, March 7, was the date of the annual dinner of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston. There were in all some fifteen or twenty '27ers present, among whom were Rog Bury, who has recently been transferred to Boston, Prexy Cusack, Huck Norris, now weighing two hundred and fifty in the shade, Rog Salinger, Bill St. Amant, John Rintels, Nibs Dowe, Frank Coulter, Ed Johnson, Charlie Bartlett, Shorty Oliver, Bob Page, Phil Fowler, and Bob Voorhis. The aforementioned crowd all appeared to be well and prosperous, and seemed to enjoy greatly listening to speeches by Prexy, Professor Lingley, Dean Chamberlain, and Rev. Donald B. Aldrich, who as you remember preached our baccalaureate sermon. Incidentally, your scribe was reelected secretary of the Boston Association.
The marriage of Miss Elizabeth Claire Ridsdale to Mr. Donald Fenton McCall was recently announced. The wedding took place in Washington, D. C., on March 5. Don and wife will be at home after April first at East Ninety-seventh St., New York city.
Another recent groom is Dick Mommers, who was married to Miss Esther Reed on February 28 at Stamford, Conn. Mr. and Mrs. Mommers will make their home at Ossining, N. Y.
Frank Collier, who was also among the present at the Boston dinner last week, is now aviation editor of the Boston SundayAdvertiser.
Al Clifton is still devoting a major portion of his time to convincing the public in the general vicinity of the Golden Gate that the Warner-Clifton Advertising Agency can prove to them that "Barnum was right." Al gives the "Sunshine State" a little of his product free of charge by telling us that business is in pretty good shape on the Coast. He further states that Bruce McKennan arrived in San Francisco about the first of December to open an office for Wood, Struthers and Company of New York, and he claims to quote Bruce in saying that it costs at least twenty-five per cent less to live in San Francisco than in New York. If he had only ended his stirring appeal with those famous words of Horace Greeley we would undoubtedly have our suitcase packed by this time. Now for a few cracks on Boston.
Al also informed us that Rollie Howes is with the Independent Pressroom in San Francisco, but he didn't say whether it was grapes they press or what.
Andy Rankin who has been working for Warren Brothers, international road builders, and who was married last October to Miss Dorothea Cate, has recently been transferred to Portland, Oregon, where he will be connected with the Northwest Roads Company. We suggest you get in touch with Dud Sercombe, who is yearning for a bit of fresh news from the East, and we feel quite certain he will be able to show you the town.
Charlie Allen, in a very welcome letter, claims that he just had considerable of a thrill in filling out an application card for Charles G. Allen 4th, for admission to Dartmouth in 1948, class of 1952. Young Charles was born on December 30, 1930.
Norman Page is working for the American Express Company in New York city.
Red Daley seems to have forsaken the rising generation of the East, for he has transferred his educational efforts to Northwestern Military Academy, Lake Geneva, Wis.
Elmer Worth, another of our budding pedagogues, is teaching at Albany Academy, Albany, N. Y.
Dud Bonsai is now practicing law in New York with the firm of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt, and Mosle. When they add the name Bonsai to the imposing array they will have to build the door larger.
Shorty Oliver doesn't do so bad in this line, inasmuch as his firm goes by the name of Herrick, Smith, Donald, and Farley, in Boston.
Nat Morey holds the position of credit manager of the Ralston Purina Company, Inc., in Buffalo. It might help some of you anxious fathers to get sonny to eat those last few spoonfuls of cereal in the morning if you told him you know the man who makes it.
Bob Tucker is hereby awarded the leather emblem for making the greatest change in residence. He has fairly recently moved from New York city to Pawhuska, Okla. Bob has no doubt taken with him the Macy merchandising methods, and is now installing them in the Rorabaugh-Brown Company of Oklahoma City.
Steve Tracy, who was also among the '27ers at the Boston dinner last week, is still doing graduate studying at Harvard.
Ken Anderson is on the staff of the managing director of the American Management Association in New York city.
This news situation is really becoming serious. Unless you wish this column to die of dry rot, assuming that it has not already done so, you had best take your letter-writing a bit more seriously.
Secretary, Waban, Mass.
