Class of 1924
The Norwich game the last Saturday in September brought together a few wellscattered members of the class. Gordon Bridge and Mrs. Bridge left three seats vacant beside them on the fifty-yard line, which your correspondent with wife and guest was pleased to find in the last minute rush before starting time. Albany seems to agree with Gordon, though except for a visit from Ot Grauer and a chance meeting or two with Ernie Barvoets he hasn't been in touch with many of our particular vintage.
George Traver opened a month's stand away from Chicago with four days in Hanover, immediately followed by Ax and Mrs. Coffin. Aided and abetted by Horace Taylor '23, who with Mrs. Taylor came on from Buffalo, all three made a considerable dent in Jim Campion's clothing stock (adv.) Chicagoans take note—ask to see Coffin's yellow sweater for what the well dressed insurance man will wear. The Coffins went on to Maine for a week, then back through Boston to visit Stan and Mrs. Lyon. George stayed over until Monday and set out for a Safety Convention in Washington via Boston. Per arrangement we ate together in Concord, where an impromptu Florida reunion was staged. Bert Perry, making his last trip through that section for Proctor and Gamble, prior to taking over a territory nearer Boston and his home in Marblehead, happened to be lunching in the same place. It was the first time George and Bert had seen each other since they were Miami roommates during the boom.
El Wood from New Haven and Bob Hayes from Providence also took in the Norwich game.
Bill Knox died in New York city September 22. (See Necrology.)
It looks as though one convention might come in handy as a first-class means to watch the football team play this fall. Ted Lamb (dark) writes:
DEAR SPUD: I am going to the American Bar Association Convention in Washington on October 12 because it is so close to the Dartmouth-Penn game in Philadelphia on October 15. I missed seeing the other TedLamb in New York last week as I camethrough from a short trip to Bermuda. Heis at the Yale Club, and I understand asuccessfid architect in New York city. Thelaw business is swell. Business in Toledolooks much better and factory payrollslook up. The next time I write I'll raveabout my good luck in purchasing the JesseAtwood painting of Daniel Webster,painted from life in 1851 while Websterwas secretary of state.
Sincerely,
TED LAMB
Suite 1014Board of Trade Bldg.ToledoOhio
Roily Barker returned with his family from Montclair, N. J., to visit his brother Dale just before the Jersey schools opened this fall. A few of the Boston tribe staged a "mass meeting" at Dale's house—Putty Blodgett, Wes Blake, Dave Perry, Win Farnsworth, and Mike Adams '23—and reported the historian in good spirits and increasingly rotund, with one swell boy about eighteen months old. Putty, by the way, has just added a German pointer, raised in this country only in Montana, to his hunting equipment and paraphernalia.
Call it what you will, but something like the lure of the tropics has taken Bud and Mrs. Seavey back to Honduras for the United Fruit Co. They left Boston and vicinity about the middle of August according to all reports.
Walt Barnard has joined the Joshua Clark Agency of the State Mutual Life in Boston, leaving drug manufacture with the La Lasine Company. Out in Medford, Boston suburb, at the Barnard residence is a new arrival, Joyce, born August 23.
C. S. MoodySupervisor of BankingLiquidating theSpokane Savings BankSpokane, Wash.
DEAR SPUD:
The past year has been an active onefor me, but carries little in the way of interesting news. My present position is thatof bond counselor to the liquidating department of the state banking departmentof the state of Washington. I have the simple little task of deciding whether bondsin the portfolios of banks which failed inthis state should be held or sold. Justnothing to do at all, except to close theeyes, flip the well-known nickel, and if itcomes up heads we hold, if it comes uptails we sell. Sometimes I think that procedure would be just as good as trying toreason out some of the situations.
The family has progressed and there arenow two prospective Dartmouth halfbacks.The latest, John Stribling (not namedafter the Southern Flash), age at presentwriting one month, weight 10½ pounds,and functioning nicely in all respects.
Haven't seen any of the '24 gang forso long that I feel a total stranger. I amcertainly hoping to make the 10th reunionand renew old acquaintances.
Sincerely,MORRY AHLQUIST.
Sept. 29, 1932
Secretary. 7 Harvard St., Worcester, Mass.
