CLASS OF 1925
We were in Hanover last week-end, and almost didn't get out in time to send in our contribution to this month's column. Got snowed in—a real New Hampshire-waydown-east blizzard, with eighteen inches of snow on the levels. There's no need of comment on the Hanover roads under these conditions, but after a day and a half of shoveling, the hardest work we've done since the last time we shoveled them thar roads, we emerged.
Christmas has its compensations, for at that time we do get the odd card from one or two of the outposts. For instance, take Hal Elder—but on second thought you can't take him, for one Mary Elizabeth Eaton of Rumford, Me., did that on September 12 for better or for worse. Mr. and Mrs. Hal are going in for light housekeeping at 24 Dana St., Amherst, Mass.
Another card was from Llewellyn (Whitey) White. It was plain and unadorned and ran something like this: OPEN LETTER TO THE FRIENDS OF LLEWELLYNPATTEN WHITE:
inclement weather. the Medford Trust Cos. (Choose one.) inertia.
I decided not to have any Christmas cards this year. Then as Christmas day drew near, and as I swung into the spirit of this festive season, I broke down, thinking of all the friends to whom I really wanted to send greetings and good wishes.
So please pardon the outward appearance of this 'amble message and imagine thereon a beautiful snow scene, girl. Santa Claus. (Choose another one.) ship. dog.
and have a MERRY CHRISTMAS!
A daughter, Jean, was born to broker Warner Washburn and wife, of Glencoe, Ill., on Sunday morning, November 15.
Happy Hefler sent us New Year's greetings and proudly announced the arrival on December 19 of young Richard Weston Hefler. Happy points out, however, that the package was not cellophaned, and wonders if perhaps the possibilities of this new field might interest Link Price. It's about the only thing Link has overlooked in his "wrapped in cellophane" campaign.
Lee Jamison is now with the United Air Lines, San Diego, Calif. Lee spent two days with classmates in Chicago on his return flight from the Coast to New York in November.
Red Martin, formerly with the Irving Trust Cos., New York city, left Manhattan last month and joined forces with the Massachusetts Mutual Insurance Company in the old home town—Springfield, Mass.
Larry Leavitt and family spent the holidays in Hanover and reported all's well in them parts, which information was confirmed by me at the head of this column. George Winger reports that the Alumni Association in Kansas City is quite small, and there is no one else there of the "frightful Twenty-fives." George is now of the firm of Winger, Reeder, Barber, Gumbiner, and Hazard, Waltower Building, Kansas City, is married, and has four swell kids three boys and a girl.
Eddie Blake broke into headlines in all the local papers t' other day. Sports writers proclaimed him one of the best middle distance runners in the country, which we all know is a conservative estimate of the lad, and point to the fact that Eddie has placed in .eight of nine nationals. We quote further excerpts from the newshawks' interview:
"Blake teaches English at Rumson (N. J.) Schools a preparatory school, nine months of the year, and about the only time he sees his coach, Jack Ryder, is during the Christmas vacation and at the meets in New York. During the summer months he conducts his own summer school and has little time, therefore, to participate in any meet save for the national championship. Ryder and Blake correspond during the late fall, Ryder sending the schoolmaster his training schedule. When Christmas vacation comes, Blake hies out to the Heights and enjoys about ten days' instruction under the eye of Ryder, and when he departs for Rumson he is fit for the coming season." Incidentally, Eddie told us last fall that he keeps in training while in Rumson in a rather unique way. He follows on foot a pack of beagle hounds as they pursue the elusive bunny each Saturday and Sunday afternoon, and that, let us remark, is no mean pace!
Dave Burner, the Decatur, Ill., representative, is in Chicago for a while now, and it is reported that he has taken temporary residence at the George Lyon apartment on North Wabash.
Which brings us to the end of the month's news, and the rather original request Won't you-all please send in a little bit of news, just a touch?
Secretary, 67 Milk St., Boston
