CLASS OF 1925
We'll get away to a good start by tuning in on the Chicago broadcast: At a popular and elaborate tavern on Chicago's north side there gathered on April 10 twenty-two of the classmates.
It was the first 1925 frolic in Chicago since April last, and the lads celebrated the marriage of Chuck Babcock, the engagement of Bob Borwell, and the safe return from Paris of Sherm Barnett.
Had there been a roll-call it would have been answered as follows: Bob Sweetser, Barney Barnfather, Joe Murphy, Sherm Barnett, Tiger Lyon, Ken Montgomery, Neil Williams, Tom Carpenter, Gardner Howe, Ed McNamee, Len Larson, Dick Taylor, Ross Beatty, Nat Channin, Hi Russell, Dave King, Chuck Babcock, Gordon Link, Horton Conrad, Bob Borwell, Tubby Washburn, and Whit Campbell.
Class Agent Conrad reminded those present that there is an Alumni Fund, and put a sufficient number on the spot to raise some two hundred and fifty dollars.
Sherm Barnett, who has recently transferred his legal talents to the paternal firm of Barnett and Truman and whose first duty thereafter involved a trip to Paris, recited a vivid word picture of his most recent travels.
Barnfather and Sweetser made use of a midget piano, accompanied by sundry choristers.
The presence of Stan Smith and Al Sparks, of the Rockford delegation, was threatened, but did not occur. It may be assumed that Stan was detained by the recent arrival of Stanton, Jr.
Hi Russell sells and exchanges fees and leaseholds in Evanston for Baird and Warner.
Ken Montgomery takes pride (and rightly so) upon reaching the semi-finals in the annual handicap squash racquets tournament at the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Club. At this writing he is still in line for a mammoth addition to his cocktail paraphernalia.
On November 22, 1930, Chuck Babcock was married to Miss Rosemary Castle of St. Paul, Minn., at St. Paul. The hustling comptometer man can now be found at 10633 Hale St., Beverly Hills (Illinois).
And it should be stated that Bob Borwell, well-known bachelor of the western suburbs and the north shore, will spend a large part of the summer honeymooning, via the Empress of Britain, the continent, and the Europa. Bob will be accompanied by the now Miss Mary Vette of Oak Park and Northampton. The wedding will take place in June, shortly after Miss Vette's graduation from Smith.
Your Chicago Correspondent.
Fred Weston writes us that he has crashed the exclusive banking ranks, having recently become affiliated with the Agricultural National Bank of Pittsfield, Mass., in their trust department.
Perhaps it was stupid of us, but we were rather unprepared for this announcement in our mail the other morning: Mr. and Mrs. Henry Smith Chapman announce the marriage of their daughter Priscilla to Mr. Stephen Webber Ryan on Saturday the twenty-fifth of April at Winchester, Mass. All that, in spite of the depression!
Had a letter the other day from Doug Archibald, who, by way of information, has taken up new residence at 66 Kensington Road, Bronxville, N. Y. Things are going well with him, and he sends his best to "all the bunch."
Jack Davis dropped in on ye writer the other day. Jack is associated with the Alloy Steel Products Co. of Dorchester, Mass., whence lie commutes daily from the old homestead in Newton.
Deak Blodgett sent us a gloating line or two the other day prior to departing on a fishing trip. Objective: brown trout. Result: If any, not yet reported.
Buck Snyder was in evidence at the Delta Nu banquet in New York the other night. Buck is putting on weight. Evidently this Saugerties beer is no mere myth.
Bob Warren, we hear, is married and living now in Baltimore, where he is making a special study of children's diseases at the Johns Hopkins. Shed a tear for young Robert Otey Yancy Warren, 3d, aged nine months.
Once a year—and providentially it is in the spring—your humble scribe reaps the reward of a year's patient and painstaking secretarial service. All of which is leading up to a report of the secretaries' meeting held in Hanover on May 1 and 2. Briefly, and to wit: The business sessions were held late Friday afternoon and Saturday morning, when discussions anent the Alumni Council, the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, and the Alumni Fund were heard. Then came President Hopkins' tea for the secretaries on Friday afternoon, and the dinner Friday evening, at which President Hopkins was the principal speaker.
The other two speakers were P. J. Crehan 'Bl, whose subject was "The Undergraduates," a very understanding account of the student attitude through the four years, and your Secretary, (bow) whose graphic description of his last year's vacation trip to Alaska by 'plane served to illumine the evening. Well, maybe you're right. Anyway, it was all most enjoyable as you who know Hanover in the spring can well realize. I forgot to mention that on Saturday afternoon we watched Dartmouth's freshman nine do a job on the Harvard freshman team; score: 18-2. The matter of a Boston PowWow was also taken under advisement at the meeting, decision to be reported on at a later date.
Fred Smith writes in that he is now associated with the Frigidaire Sales Corporation of New England, at their Boston office, 23 Blandford St. t
The legal field is represented this month by Bob Canfield who is practicing in New York city—at 15 William St., we add, with our passion for accuracy. Bob lives at 112 West 13th, also New York city.
Other erstwhile New Yorkers of the vintage of '25 are Ed Hennessey, who is with the Shell Eastern Petroleum people in their 112 East 42d St. office, and Link Price, associated with the Dupont Cellophane Co.
Bearing us out in our belief as to the farreaching and ever widening influence of Glorious '25, we have a line from Pres Tanner, announcing his business as "sales representative" and his address as "Uruguay 55, Desp. 416, Mexico, D. F."
And again the cry goes up—not "Peanuts!", "Apples!", or even "Alms, for the love of Allah!", although we are sorely tempted— but for News, NEWS, and more news, however ancient, to swell this here colyUm.
Secretary, 67 Milk St., Boston
