CLASS OF 1927
By the time this issue of the MAGAZINE is in the mails the annual Alumni Fund drive will be under way. Already our new class agent, Gus Cummings, has expended much time and effort in devising ways and means of putting 1927 within better than shouting distance of its quota. His desire to have our class subscribe its quota is exceeded only by his determination to have it so. There is no doubt that an excellent showing this particular year will do much to erase our rather poor record of the past four years. Moreover, it would be a marvelous climax to our Fifth Reunion to be able to announce before Commencement is over that 1927 has gone over the top in the Alumni Fund drive. This can and will be an actuality if each of us assume our responsibility and give our co-operation to Gus Cummings.
We have already received a generous response to our first mailing about the Fifth Reunion. A considerable group have at this early date signified their intentions of being present, and not a few valuable suggestions have been received. From present indications the committee feels it is safe to predict that over a hundred will be back for the reunion.
Art Lund received his Master's degree in French two years ago, and has been teaching both French and Spanish in a preparatory school. This year, however, he is at Columbia University, where he is studying for his Ph. D. in French.
Phil Corliss reports that lie is still interning, waiting for the depression to pass before he hangs out his shingle. Right now he is at the French Hospital in San Francisco, but expects to return East this summer. Phil is still single apparently, but admits that he will breathe easier when leap year has passed.
Art Thompson is living, out in Tacoma, Wash., where he is president of the Mountain View Burial Park. Art is married and has a daughter four years old and a son one.
Al House has forsaken the rising generation of the East, and is now an assistant in history at the University of Wisconsin. He will receive his Master's degree this June, and intends to remain there two more years for his Ph. D.
Frell Owl writes that he is now a federal employee, not breaking rocks, but rather as principal of the Hayward Indian School in Hayward, Wis. Frell was married last July to Miss Gladys D. Berry of Decatur, Ill.
Cary Stiff holds the position of merchandise manager of the infant's wear department of Marshall Field and Company in Chicago. He was married in July, 1930, to Miss Helen W. Chalmers, and they have a son, David Parker Stiff.
Chuck Burwell was married to Miss Olive McMullen of St. Paul, Minn., last November, and he is living in Grand Rapids, Mich., where Chuck is superintendent of the bonding department of the Aetna Casualty and Surety Company.
John Hough is rumored to be spreading classical light to the south of Ohio, more specifically to the undergraduates of the Ohio State University, where he is a member of the department of classics.
A long letter from Fritz Kortlucke, reporting his doings and those of Dave Climenko, proves so interesting that we are going to quote more or less of it: "I have been enjoying a little holiday on the continent because things are so slack here—that is, for foreigners. Everything is BUY BRITISH from apples to doctors, and that doesn't let me in anywhere. Locum tenens jobs pay eight guineas a week when you can get them, and if you are not particular about living in Auchtermuchtie or traveling all the way down to the Cornish coast; well then you disregard the fact that your passport has stamped—'will not accept any labour paid or unpaid,' and hurry away to your porridge poultices, pulv. ipecac. Co., and other diaphonetics. I am busy now writing a paper on a new mechanism of labour in rachitic pelves no, not for Punch—I rather hope to get it in British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology My recent manipulative apparatus for correction of clubfoot has fortunately been accepted for publication in the Journal ofBone and Joint Surgery. Last year Climenko and I lived very romantically in a thatched cottage in Robert Louis Stevenson's Swanston—this year even more so in George Square attics—more conducive to work. Out at Swanston two golf courses and the hills were far too enticing. Climenko gets his Ph. D. soon—you remember he qualified in medicine at the same time as I last year. He is out for great 'Kudos,' and has been proposed as a Fellow of the Royal Society, Edinburgh, as the result of some remarkably good work in researches in blood, histologically and chemically."
Don Proudman has quite recently been elected to the position of assistant trust officer of the New Britain Trust Company of New Britain, Conn. Don has been attending night school of law four nights a week for the past four years, and will receive his degree this June. Last September his engagement to Miss Marjorie G. Norris of New Britain was announced.
Chuck Carroll writes that he expects to get his M. D. this June from the University of lowa, and that he will then become an interne at the Lucas County Hospital in Toledo, Ohio. Chuck's engagement to Miss Marjorie L. Petrovitsky of Cedar Rapids, lowa, has been announced.
Art Lyman is secretary of the Olixir Detroit Oil Company. He does not say whether it is mineral oil or fuel oil, but we suspect it is the latter. Art claims that in addition to the Class Baby he is now the proud father of Esther Jane, born July 28, 1931. He claims this should give him the added distinction of being the first father of two in the class. Those wishing to dispute his title will please communicate with your Secretary. At Art's suggestion, twins are null and void.
Frank Senn is out in Sandusky, Ohio, where he is in the manufacturing business. He is married, and the father of Marilyn Senn born in June, 1929.
We are saving some of the answers to the questionnaires for the next issue, so don't think this is all.
See you at the FIFTH!
Secretary, 152 Waban Ave., Waban, Mass
