Class of 1916
Do you look as you did the fall after graduation? You should, for aren't we all back where we were sixteen years ago? Now I ask you.
Stirling Wilson, being in the employ of the government, had a 45-day furlough to use up this last fall, and what better way than to follow the Big Green through its football schedule. You will note that he was pretty successful.
The Penn game drew Stirling from Washington en route to New England, Chet Woolworth from his tame-fur-bearing animal traps, Ray DeVoe and Jack McEndy from the great metropolis, and of course the local contingent, Pete Cleaves and Rog Evans, augmented by a near-by neighbor, Ed Kiley, Ozite's exponent, who has but recently moved to Lansdowne, Pa., if you know, where that is.
As I warned you, you should never miss that Boston group meeting, whenever and wherever they may meet. This last one was held on the Friday night preceding the Harvard game. The exact location was anywhere in the University Club. It was not necessary to confine yourself to one room, as there were other class meetings being held at the same time in the same place. However, all were rounded up to hear George Carens, sports editor for the Boston Transcript. If he had only predicted a 14-10 victory for us instead of a 10-7 defeat, perhaps that last pass would have clicked. Then Stirling Wilson related the high spots of the game at Philadelphia the previous Saturday. Among those present and able to partake of the refreshments were Freddie Bailey, Cliff Bean, Fred Bobst, Bernie Bernkopf, Gran Fuller, Dick Ellis, Jack English, Joe Carleton, Louie Bell, Parker Hayden, Alec Jardine, Rod Soule, Bert Phinney, Bob Brown, Gil Tapley, Warren Upham, John McAuliffe, Stirling Wilson, and Bill Mott. At the Harvard game the following day additions to above list were reported in the persons of George Pratt, Hartford, Abe Lincoln, Fall River, and Shorty Shaw, Providence, though there is no mention of the recent Mrs. Shaw. Anyway—'Ale—'Ale—the gang's all 'ere.
Reg Chutter has been appointed to the National Foreign Trade Council. According to speeches—there is no foreign trade.
Ken Stowell is on the committee on business reports, statistical and trade information of National Conference on Stabilization of Construction Industry, which has been called by the Department of Commerce to be held in Washington on October 13 and 14.
Tug Tyler has been and still is on a very extensive trip through the Middle West and East trying to stir up orders for his golf equipment line. Cleveland was the scene at the time of the Penn game. We were unable to stay at the Dartmouth Club meeting for telegraphic returns of the game, but did see Fletch Andrews, Ruby McFalls, and Jack Cremer. On Sunday we had a match with Fletch Andrews and Bill Bemis 'lB. I say the "we" guardedly, as I kept the other team in the running at all times by awarding them gross for each hole. Tug left the following Monday night, and the last report was that he had met President Hoover at the Waldorf and had shaken hands with him.
Eugene Chase reports that he is to have a sabbatical half year starting in February, and is going to spend it in England, finishing a book on the English government.
At the Yale game in New Haven, Gran Fuller reports that he saw only Dick Parkhurst and Bill Williams of our class. It would seem that the old Yale jinx works not only on the game but also on the '16ers living in that vicinity.
No doubt but that you have heard from Bob Brown again in regard to the class dues of $4.00 for the coming year. Remember one half of this sum is for your subscription to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. If you have paid yours, carry this along to someone who has not as yet kicked in.
Being a traveler most of the time, I have tried to make the necessary connections with Carl Holmes week-ends. But I find that Carl is taking a P.G. course in football this fall, so that to date said connections have not been in order. Last Saturday Carl was a member of the Notre Dame party that visited Pittsburgh and made history. If I obtain any inside information from this student I will pass it along to you for use next fall. But each Saturday finds Carl in a different stadium, and no doubt but that the boys at Hawken School are profiting by it.
We are in the midst of the 17th year of our battle against the cold, cold world. Most of us are married and have developed our families to our numerical standard. Hence marriages and births are to be news items of the exception. So too, the past three years have made financial coups like hen's teeth. Yet it is too soon for all of us to die gracefully. So what I mean is that this column will expand to one paragraph if you men don't send in some real homey news of yourself, or if you are too reticent of some good 1916 neighbor. Or perhaps the offsprings are stealing all your thunder, and where is there a proud father that cannot spend hours telling of the feats of sons and daughters. Anyhow, if you wish to read, so must you write.
May your holidays be pleasant arid your headaches few.
Secretary, 3589 Avalon Rd., Shaker Heights, Ohio
