CLASS OF 1916
3589 Avalon ltd., Shaker Heights, Ohio The Alumni Fund has been going for just a month. It is too early to say what 1916 is doing. But we do hope that you readers of the ALTJMNI MAGAZINE have been prompt and generous.
Dan Dinsmoor is superintendent of the Merrimac Chemical Co., located in Everett, Mass., where Dan lives with his wife and ten-year-old boy. From Bob Brown comes the information that this company is moving several of its branches in other cities to Everett, and that Dan has been especially busy working day and night, and Sunday being just another day in the week.
Les Campbell has been attached to the Board of Regents in Albany, N. Y., for some time. Lives in Cohoes, which is just across the Hudson from Troy, and you all know what Troy is famous for, with his wife and daughter.
Chick Clarke wrote from Montreal that his work with Solex Co., Ltd., as treasurer brought him to Cleveland now and then. I judge that it must be then, for there hasn't been any now to date. Must be waiting for rate of exchange to even up, but I hope not. Chick's family we have met in part, as he and his wife were back at reunion last June, but there are also two children, a girl five and a boy two.
To Ev Robie '17 I am indebted for a copy of the School Arts Magazine mentioned two months ago in connection with our Paul Goward. It certainly is a mighty fine publication, and I appreciate the opportunity of seeing it.
Chan Green has been in Hartford, Conn., ever since graduation. And yes, that is right —insurance. Chan is superintendent of the Reinsurance Division of Connecticut General. Lives in West Hartford with his family—one boy and one girl.
Way down there in Texas, where we have been told there is the largest oil field in the world, there is also a department store, W. A. Green and Co., located in Dallas and piloted by Hen Green. Our Greens' families are the same—one boy and one girl. Hen writes that times are so that he has lost all his hair thinking of ways to dispose of merchandise at a profit and that the necessity of sitting so much has enlarged his stomach to such an extent that he is beyond recognition for those of 1916 who have not seen him in some years. However, Hen, we would like the opportunity of guessing at who you are.
Had the good fortune to be in Buffalo one night in February and saw Dave Shumway and Ernie Frey. Neither have changed. You would know them even if you have not seen them in fifteen years. Dave is in the building game, so I know that his business is terrible . Ernie is superintendent of a cold storage outfit.
After Dave, Ernie, and I had returned from a wrestling (now don't get this word mixed with another) match, we ran into Ed Kiley entertaining customers for Clinton Carpet Company. Business must be good there to allow for entertaining. Ed, like a lot of us peddlers, gets home week-ends to visit with his wife and son. About two blocks from his domicile in Bayside, L. 1., live Pike Larmon and his wife. So there is a chance for a reunion for you men who make New York city.
At the annual meeting of the Cleveland Club on February 18 Bill McKenzie and myself represented 1916. Bill Brett was called to Chicago the night previous to meetingas yet I have not found out what happened to Ruby McFalls—Fletch Andrews had a previous appointment that could not be changed—that made the first miss for Fletch in ten years. You have all heard of every one mentioned in this group but Bill McKenzie. BUI is located in Akron, Ohio. Has a territory for Goodyear in the Original Equipment Division. Spends about half his time on the road in Ohio with occasional special trips to automobile factories. The balance of the time he is in Akron, where his family resides. Bill has a boy nine years old, and then twins, a boy and a girl, five years old. That to my knowledge makes two sets of twins for the class, Carl Holmes having the other pair.
While in Buffalo picked up a little information on Hap Ward. Hap is with Investors Syndicate and lives in Olean, N. Y., with his wife. Has no children and so has plenty of time to play golf. So much so that if he gets in the eighties it is a bad round.
In Albany, N. Y., you will find Mr. and Mrs. Chan White and daughter. Chan is a native now, having lived there for ten years, all of which time has been spent with General Aniline Works, makers of dyestuffs of a very high grade, Chan insists. Chan is department head of the chemists. At the last election of the Dartmouth Association of Eastern New York he was honored with a vice-presidency.
To you wives who were back at reunion here is glad news. Fred St. George Smith is still unattached, and, what is more, his ambition at the present writing is to get back to the shores of Lake Morey. I can see that golf should not be on the schedule at such times one misses too much.
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Another 1916 bachelor is Bill Banton, who resides in Boston. Bill after a spell with Mutual Life Insurance Co. as district manager is now a vice-president with Wm. L. Fletcher Co., personal counselors and managers.
Bill Brown is principal of senior high school in Glens Falls, N. Y. Bill is married and has two girls.
I am sure that we are all interested in knowing how Jack Curtin is after his sickness following reunion last year. Will Jack please advise.
There is still life in the old boy yet. But through a sports medium, I heard that Gene McQuesten was playing ping-pong. On a wellintentioned letter to him regarding it, all that I receive are challenges even to playing basketball, which Gene has evidently recently taken up. It was not my intention to make this a personal column, but it includes everyone in its ping-pong challenge. For your information before accepting, Gene is very busy evenings on all sorts of athletic attempts at comebacks. (Don't forget Jack Dempsey's attempt, Gene, and he had plenty to start with and as for you, well—) But then Gene ends up with the fact that he has just recently recovered from an attack of the grip, so I guess that he is not as virile as he would have us believe. Better stick to singing, Gene, it is not as strenuous, even though it sounds so sometimes.
ALUMNI FUND—GIVE WHAT YOU CAN WHEN YOU CANNOT GIVE WHAT YOU WOULD.
Secretary,
