CLASS OF 1916
Twenty-three of you men failed to contribute to the Alumni Fund last year. If this means you, please do not offer as an excuse that no one reminded you of it this spring.
Dan Dinsmoor with his entire family have gone to England, where Dan will be temporarily situated. His work will be the reorganizing of the branch plant along American ideas.
Jack English is back in the East. Brookmire Economic Service had to close their Pacific office for the time being at least, and Jack is traveling Connecticut for them.
James P. Desmond, alias Desperate, is now settled in Denver, where he is connected with the Bishop Furniture Company as manager of their Denver plant.
Handsome Harold Tuttle is in Newark, N. J., where he is employed by the Clark Thread Company as an accountant.
Boy Brahana is just completing his twelfth year as professor of mathematics at the University of Illinois.
If one believes in ideals, he must believe in the means of obtaining them. The Alumni Fund closes June 30.
Bob and Peg Burlen have just completed a series of broadcast over WEEI in the Case of Dorothy Leighton.
Over the Columbia network one may hear Leonard Joy and his band on the Nestle's Chocolate program every Friday evening at eight o'clock Eastern daylight saving time.
The Standard Oil Company of Ohio have recently completed the broadcast of the murder trial of Vivienne Ware. Included in the cast were Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Beed Andrews.
Jack Curtin writes from Schenectady that he has been at work since January tenth. A cane has been necessary to enable him to get around, but his doctor has told him that in the very near future he will be able to discard that. Glad to hear from Jack directly. Jack also adds that he is looking for Chic Clark to pay him a visit, so that will make two places at least that Chic will be well received.
The Dr. Parker Haydens of Boston were recently increased by the addition of a girl. This makes the doctor's family one boy and one girl. Congratulations and many of them. We are sorry that it made your appearance at the Boston party an impossibility.
Your respected and congenial president must have a very fine publicity agent. For we find his picture in the Boston papers as chairman of the Lumber Standards Committee of the Boston branch of the Northeastern Retail Lumbermen's Association. This picture was accompanied by very lengthy remarks concerning the practice of the local concerns in living up to the standards set by the Boston building commissioner. Then on May 8 we note said picture again with those of his father and brother as the G. Fuller and Son of Brighton, Mass. A detailed account of the 85 years for which this company stands was also narrated. The only objection to all of this was that the pictures could not show from which Gran derived the name Pinkey.
The outing of the Boston group was held at the Albemarle Golf Club, Newtonville, on the afternoon and evening of Thursday, May 5. Nine were there to play golf, and 23 for the supper that followed at 7 that evening. We missed Surgeon Shorty Shaw, who had written that he would be in line—business must have interfered. Dick Parkhurst was called to Washington and Paul Goward to St. Louis. However from Worcester came John Boyle McAuliffe, prepared to hold up the honor of that section in all events. Furthermore, he did. From other localities came Bob Brown of Nashua, somewhat handicapped by the fact that Gene McQuesten had promised to come and then failed to keep his appointment. From Lawrence appeared Gus Emery, Jack Little, and Herb Stiegler—from Salem, Joe Newmark, from Lowell, Phil Lewis and Rod Soule. The local firemen were represented by Freddie Bailey, school committeeman, Cliff Bean, Boston's busiest man, Frank Bobst, Bob Burlen, story-teller when he could make himself heard, Ernie Cutler, the man who ran the party and as usual did a very fine job, Dick Ellis, water commissioner of Newton at home in this crowd where water is only used for shower baths, Carl Holmes, detained at school until almost the last minute, Alec Jardine, making the most of his temporary bachelor days, his family being in Kentucky, Rudy Mertin, who did not work up appetite enough in his golf game to stay for dinner, Bert Phinney, assisting Freddie Bailey in his political arguments, Bob Steinert, Gil Tapley, back from Cuba now that the weather is warming up, Gran Fuller of whom you have already read, and Johnnie Pelletier, en route to the secretaries' meeting in Hanover. Such a good time was had by all that it was decided to hold these events every month. So June was set as the next one, and it is to be held in Worcester—John McAuliffe the host —July in Boston—Bob Steinert the host, and August in Nashua with Gene McQuesten the host, paying all bills for his failure to show up at this one and back his challenge to the class of some months previous.
In Hanover John Stearns was in the midst of a very busy session, and John Gile had just finished one and was going salmon fishing the following Monday.
So much for this year's contributions. June ends the current year of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. But bear in mind that the next issue is October and that news of your doings between now and September will be appreciated and needed to start the new year off right. Many thanks for your support, and I hope that Roger Evans will have occasion to thank you also. If you have not sent in that contribution to the Alumni Fund—get it off now. Closing date is June 30.
Secretary, 3589 Avalon Rd., Shaker Heights, Ohio
