Class of 1925
Getting off to a good start we will head the column with items of news of the Matched, Hatched, and Despatched. In the former department we have record 6f the nuptial ceremony uniting one Helen Gwendolyn Jones, of Evanston, Ill., and Gair Tourtellot, on June ai.
Bob Bingham took unto himself a wife in the person of Anita Cross, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Allen Eastman Cross of Manchester, N. H., formerly of Brookline, Mass. The wedding was on July 28, and the Binghams are now at home in Manchester, where Bob is a partner in the city's leading law firm. During the last session of the New Hampshire legislature legal man Bingham served as advisor to Governor Winant. (Incidentally, the Governor is an honorary member of the class of '25.)
Passing along to the second department as above mentioned, our Recording Angel has made the following entries:
Jean Haffenreffer, daughter of the Pete Haffenreffers, arrived in Fall River last Easter Sunday morning. (She was a little late in sending in her registration, as word of her arrival did not reach us until after our last contribution to this here column before college closed.)
On May 2, Mr. and Mrs. Hal Elder welcomed a son, David Eaton Elder, while on May 14 William Sturtevant Lyon arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Lyon of Waukegan, 111. Then on May 18, in Chicago, the Bob Borwells announced a son and heir, Robert Came Borwell Jr. Stan and Betty Smith, in Rockford, 111., heralded the arrival of son Charles on May 28. To date Charles is the only inhabitant of those parts who has not expressed an opinion or passed judgment on the Century of Progress as seen in Chicago, for which we are duly grateful.
Finally, a pretty tired old stork delivered a second daughter at the home of Twist Elmquist in St. Paul, Minn., on July 7, and vanished on weary wings muttering imprecations anent the world in general and the class of 1925 in particular and specific.
The above represents Restauranteer Deak Blodgett and friend, with a small catch of snapdragons, cockroaches, buttercups, or what will yours be?, caught during a few spare moments one morning. The scene of the slaughter was just off the Beach Haven Yacht Club, wherever that is. Deak claims every fish was caught on rod and reel, but that smile makes the story seem a little fishy to us, coupled with a report of the liquidation of the entire stock of the local Beach Haven fish emporium. Blodgett's Cafeteria in East Orange, N. J., was featuring fish specials for weeks afterward, so it's an ill wind. . . .
We received notice this spring of the formal admittance of George Winger to the law firm of Winger, Reeder, Barker & Hazard, Kansas City, Mo. Not to he outdone, George Lyon has announced that he is now associated with Neil Williams in the Chicago law firm of Castle, Williams, Long & McCarthy.
Old man Jock Brace is still in his usual golfing form and recently challenged your Secretary to a game, just as ye Secretary was recovering from a two months' illness, I don't believe we lost more than 27 balls during the match, and while I can't recall the final count of strokes, scorekeeper Brace claimed we were exactly even, as he deftly and finally kicked his ball into the 18th hole.
The well-known patent attorney, Sherm Barrjett, has been engaging in numerous theatricals in his home town of Glencoe, 111. His most recent performance has been the leading role in the play "Whistling in the Dark," a part made famous on the professional stage by Ernest Truex.
Had a card from Eddie Blake in June, while he was enjoying a vacation trip to the fish and game lands of Minnesota.
Dave Burner was in the process of moving his belongings from one domicile to another out Chicago way not long ago, and having carefully packed his clothes into the back seat of the car, he returned to the house for additional baggage. When he arrived back at the car he discovered someone had beat him to it, and all his belongings had disappeared. Sadder and wiser, Dave is now thoroughly convinced that Chicago is not at all like Decatur.
Ken Montgomery took up summer quarters at the Hinsdale Golf Club in Chicago this year, where he could keep his eye on the ball at all times.
It was a tremendous shock to learn of the rather sudden death of Bill West last spring in Everett, Wash. Bili took his premedical course at Hanover and later received his M. D. at Pennsylvania. He had built up a most successful name as a practicing surgeon in Everett at the time of his death by septic poisoning. He was survived by his widow and one child.
Secretary, 67 Milk St. Boston, Mass.
