Class of 1920
CARL LENZ has completed his thirteenth year in Cleveland representing the Chase Brass and Copper Co. He is married and has two daughters 11 and 5.
Not everyone has had a poor deal during the past four years. BENNIE AYRES reports a continually growing insurance business in Worcester, says he planned to take in three or four football games this fall.
Roc ELLIOTT reports that early returns indicate a very satisfactory result from the bills for class dues. Better look over your check-book to see if you have sent yours. Only a dollar this year.
These days automobile accidents are so common as to pass unrecorded unless of a serious nature, but two accidents in a period of eight weeks is news. BEARDSLEY FOSTER reports that both he and Mrs. Foster escaped serious injury in both, says he is about convinced air travel is safer.
Another indication that the cards haven't all been bad comes from JIM FROST, field supervisor of education for the Connecticut State Board of Education. This is his announced plan for building a new house in Putnam this fall.
AL HAAS, long time Brooklyn resident, has moved, with family, to 54 Hilltop Ave., New Rochelle, N. Y. He is assistant sales manager of Ames, Emerick, and Co., Inc., Manhattan investment house.
HOWARD HITCHCOCK has fulfilled a desire that many secretly hold, that of becoming a teacher. Such a change is unusual, however, after a business experience as varied as his: Travelers Insurance Co., Atlantic Stamping Co., Rochester, and industrial engineering. We do not know what subject he is teaching in the James Talcott Junior High School in Elmwood, Conn.
RAY MOODY is omitting his customary trip to Florida this winter because the writing game is slow. This summer he has been laying hardwood floors in his Green Lake, N. Y., home.
Another classmate who has stayed at one job a long time is GERRY MORSE. This job is supplying cotton goods to New York clothing manufacturers. He says business is a little better.
It is some time since we have heard from BOB MINER, railway supply man, who has spent the past few years traveling from Halifax to Los Angeles. This year business was not so good, so after staying in Chicago for a while he went to Europe to see the sights. On returning he said: "Goodold U. S. A., what a country we have." So perhaps it might have been worse after all. He reports business better and advocates railway travel for the tired business man.
ART PFEIFFER of Worcester is superintendent of Pfeiffer Slipper Co.
Lawyer HIB RICHTER spends spare moments teaching law at Northeastern University, Boston. He practices at 10 State St., Boston.
Not so optimistic is DR. JOHN STICKNEY, lower Fifth Avenue physician, who suggests celebrating the end of the depression at our Fifteenth!
GEORGE SACKETT, short on news of himself, tells of occasionally seeing DICK PEARSON, AI. HAAS, CLARY LLOYD, and CARROL SWEZEY. Clary, not so often heard from, is still playing the saxophone professionally with headquarters in West 23d St., New York.
LLOYD SMITH extends an invitation to all Dartmouth men to visit the plant of the Virginia Dare Extract Co., Bush Terminal No. 10, Brooklyn.
If these notes read more like a forecast bulletin of the National City Bank than a class news column you will have to blame the campaign through which we have just past.
AB OSBORN, examiner of questioned documents, always has an interesting story or two to tell. We take the privilege of quoting from a recent letter:
"In times gone by I occasionally saw PAUL RICHTER, but have not of late. I suppose being associated with the man whowill probably be the next president makeshim too high-hat to see his lowly acquaintances. [He no longer is—Ed.]
"The crook business, as Mrs. Osborn callsmy work, has perhaps been helped by thedepression, but it is hard to collect. Sincethe Lindbergh case there has been anepidemic of extortion letters. In the lastthree weeks I have testified on this subjectin Brooklyn, Mineola, and White Plains,N. Y.
"Some of the ideas on collecting moneyare odd. A new one a short time ago wasdevised over in Pennsylvania, where thevictim was told to engage an aeroplane at apublic airport and fly along a mountainridge. The letter told him that when hesaw a blanket with a white cross on it hewas to drop a suitcase containing themoney.
"An aeroplane was hired and flown overthe route, and the blanket and cross werethere and the suitcase was dropped. Needless to say, there were any number of detectives hiding in the vicinity, and whenthey saw the suitcase drop a mad scramblewas made for the spot. When they got therethe blanket and the cross and the suitcasewere gone, but no one was to be found.The suitcase contained a few bills, whichof course were marked, and the originatorof the scheme was stupid enough to passthem in a small town where he was known,and he was caught."
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