Class of 1928
You know, I've been wondering for the last five or six minutes as I've been looking over the literary raw material whether we got a good or a bad break by graduating when we did. The depression has probably skipped no one—some have been hit a whole lot harder than others, while it appears that the breaks have been pretty much with us. We seem to have gotten into things at a time when jobs were to be had, and to have been in there long enough to make ourselves worth keeping, especially in view of the low salaries most of us were getting. On one side of us were higher salaries but diminishing jobs, and on the other side there were no jobs to start with. This theory may be all wrong, but at least from my limited point of observation everyone in the class is apparently provided with a job. They may not all be too profitable, but at least they distribute ham and eggs with customary regularity. And one can learn to postpone philosophically his delusions of grandeur and dreams of millions if his interior is periodically refurnished. So we may have received a few breaks, you might say, by not having been entirely broke.
And to prove that this is not entirely the raving of a mind unbalanced by four years of thumb-twiddling, we should like to exhibit a couple of indisputable facts. In the first place, Ed Atkinson snorted defiance at hard times by getting married on the last day of last year. The young lady was Florence Treadwell of Pittsburgh. And in the second place, last Saturday Mab and I apprehended Dave McCathie in the reprehensible process of acquiring a pair of brand-new shoes at Macy's. Dave admitted that it looked bad, but said that he had thought the matter over quite carefully and fully expected that the purchase would be justified by impending improvements in the economic situation.
As for the other job holders, George Barnstead is editor of the Stoneham Independent at Stoneham, Mass. Carter Woods is1 instructor in sociology at Wells College, Aurora, N. Y. Phil MacKown runs a restaurant in Chicago. Jim McCoy sells casualty insurance for the Home Indemnity Co. in and around New York city. Ed Purnell is an insurance broker with George W. Roberts & Son, Chicago. Dick Klinck was recently made assistant manager of the Pacific office of the Irving Trust Co. at 470 Broadway, New York city. Bob Andrews is a designer and color consultant and is living at Norwich, Vt. Jack Rose is still illustrating in New York, and Ed Rose is an interior decorator also in New York.
And these medics of ours are hanging up shingles all over the place. Joe Kelly is at the Massachusetts Memorial Hospital, Boston. Art Nightingale is an interne at King's County Hospital, Brooklyn. Win Dowlin has started practicing at Claremont, N. H. Hank Buchtel is practicing in his home town of Denver, Colo.
Bob Heald is at Agate, Colo., farming and running a store.
Don Chapman manufactures portable buildings in St. Johns, Mich., and Orman Richardson makes shoes in Augusta, Me. *
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