CLASS OF 1917
On March 11, E. Barry Robinson, Jr., was born down in Johnstown, Pa.; and since the Robinsons have been married seven years, and since young Jr. is the first youngster, congratulations should be a little more than perfunctory. Robbie is the dealer down there for Studebakers and U. S. Tires. He reports that classmates Fred Hager of Johnstown and Louis Cunningham of Altoona, Pa., are enjoying good health and prosperity.
COUNTRY GENTLEMAN RUBEL
Jim Rubel is manufacturing mail boxes down in Crawfordsville, Ind. Here's what Jim says about the life of a country gentleman: "I was raised in a big city, and I can't get used to going to bed early. I expect to go back to dear old Chi again before long." Young Jim, Jr., has a sister nine months old named Jane Louise. Jim Sr. reports that he hasn't been traveling, but that he saw John Young in Los Angeles last summer. Must be they have television pretty well perfected in Indiana.
READE WINS
Len Reade claims over his own signature that he cleaned up all of 1917 in New York at pingpong, after completely eliminating Brooks and Rudy Miller. Len says he is still peddling chemicals, and gives the following cryptical information about Sunny Sanborn: "Understand Sunny is still in Boston and that he is kept very very busy."
SENOR AL CHENEY
Al Cheney sends the following message from San Juan, Porto Rico, where he has been brokering these many years, "Aqui puedemos comprar 'Scotch' a trente pesos la caja—legitimo."
ROBIE LOAFS ALONG
Pedagogue Robie, in his spare time, is carrying on these activities: principal of the Cloonan School and the Adult Evening School at Stamford, Conn.; chief councillor, Upper Senior Camp at Camp Monomy, East Brewster, Mass.; publisher of EveningSchool newspaper; writing articles for educational journals that are accepted; singing tenor and playing the trombone whenever a tenor or a trombonist is called for within a radius of twenty miles of Stamford. Most of this information has come to me second hand; but I think it's 0. K. Pete did send in one bit of interesting information, albeit it makes us seem a bit old. He says he had one of Harry Fowler's sons under him at Camp Monomy last summer.
TARIFF EXPEBTS IN LYNN
From a Boston paper: "Three experts of the Federal Tariff Commission are now engaged in a study of the Lynn shoe industry. The experts are Mark Smith, Dennis Stone, and Ralph G. (Monk) Wells, the latter a graduate of Dartmouth in the class of 1917."
SNOWED UNDER NORTON
Don Norton writes from Vergennes, Vt., that he is still engaged in the retail grain, feed, and farm equipment business; but that he has spent the last three months shoveling snow, and when he wrote me in March, he was still at it.
COTTON BROKER NEKB
Al Nelb still keeps an address in Lawrence, Mass., but his occupation as a cotton broker keeps him traveling most of the time down south.
GYP GREEN BURNED OUT
A March issue of the Boston papers contained the news of the burning of a large motion picture theater in Melrose that was owned by one Irving I. Green of Brookline. If we know Gyp, that only means that a bigger and better theater will be built on the site of the old one.
STURGESS MOVING NORTH
Hen Sturgess, after several years in the real estate game in Florida, has moved his headquarters up as far as Atlanta, Ga., where he is with the Richardson Properties, 160 Peachtree St. Hen says he is managing a moving picture house on the side, and also finds time to keep his golf score at a low figure.
FIREMAN WALKER
Hal Walker checked in with a nice friendly letter last month. He is an engineer with the National Fire Protection Association; has his office on Batterymarch St. in Boston, and still lives up Marblehead way. Shorty says his daughter has her eyes on one of Bill Spearin's young hopefuls.
RICHARDSON CHALLENGES
Doc. Guy Richardson, still living and working in Haverhill, Mass., wants to go on record that he had no connection whatever with the Model Boy Murder up there last March. He does issue an open challenge to take on any or all '17ers at badminton.
NEW YORK NEWS
This reporter was able to spend a few hours recently at the New York Dartmouth Club, and met up with several of the gang. Don 0 Leary is in the advertising department of the Hearst publications, and is living at the dub. Trott King, now a contractor over on Long Island, is one of the chunkiest young fellers you ever met up with. Dr. Chuck Gilmore isn't so slim now either, though he claims he can still do the quarter in less than a minute. They all report that the monthly dinners this spring have been turning out to be most enjoyable, and there seems to be more enthusiasm around than for some time.
Secretary, North Brookfield, Mass. JUNIOR ROBINSON ARRIVES
