Class of 1924
Schoonie Schoonmaker, who blazes a trail each year in the direction of New Orleans at Mardi Gras time, or toward Colorado or Canada, and then literally sinks into obscurity in his home town of Palmer, Mass., got to the mail box with a post card to say that Bud Strait has departed Kansas City's bond business and landed in insurance.
Joe Holliday, dispenser of bags and sacks in Kansas City, further confirms this move of Bud's, adding the name of the firm—Strait and Browning. Joe guesses his steady support of numerous doctors and nurses for a long siege which he and his family suffered has mellowed him plenty. If all goes well, the second junior "Holliday" is now being celebrated.
The practice of orthopedic and fracture surgery has broken out at 15 Bay State Road, Boston, where Doc Christophe with an associate has opened an office. Doc has been conducting a general practice in Needham, Mass., and serving both on the staff of the B.U. Medical School and the Mass. Memorial Hospital as an orthopedic and fracture surgeon.
The chance of a lifetime for you mortgage holders is here. We have a classmate right in the R.F.C. George Anderson is now connected with the Chicago Agency in the Federal Reserve Bank Building.
Henry Wheaton, M.D., passes in a new residence address—42 Grove Ave., Verona, N. J. Sid Miller in Cincinnati has a new one too—The Belvidere, Avondale.
Paramount International Corp.,P. O. Box 3102,Johannesburg, South Africa.
"Sorry that I couldn't write to yousooner, but I have been doing a little trekking around Africa. It seems to take yearsfor news to reach me out here, but I finallygot your "24 Hour Notice."
"I won't bore you with details of thisrotten 'pitcher' business. If nothing else itkeeps me on the move. Have been allthrough the Union, South West Africa,which the Germans should be glad theEnglish now have, Portuguese East, Zanzibar, Mauritius, Kenya, Tanganyika, andUganda—not to forget the Rhodesias.
"Johannesburg is the only live place andcompares very favorably with some of ourcities. How long I shall be here I don'tknow but I am enjoying myself. Perhapsthe East will be my next stop.
"Sorry that I have no real news to giveyou. Haven't seen a Dartmouth man inages and I am wondering whether thereare any out this way?
"JERRY SUSSMAN.
Doc and Mrs. Starkweather have been in Europe all winter, where he has been taking postgraduate courses in dermatology at the Hospital de St. Louis.
Henry Michaud of the Chase National Bank, Broad St. office, lives in Brooklyn- -17 Middagh St.
Portrait of A Man Being Talked To"New Deal arrived—yeah, couple morehands and it'll be old Spavin Spauldingdealing off hot flashes on Haggis Harveyand Brute Luitwieler . . . the Tenth'll begreat . . . 'face is familiar'; has your namebeen spauldingized? . . . Didn't mind 'Ml'for my own . . . short, sharp, and distinguished . . . but 'Harry' Stockwell . . .
you're the godfather; whose child have youchristened? How about cracking a few goodones . . . e.g. . . . 'Beevo' Beers becomes'Three Two' . . . you're welcome, Winchell. . . '24 news so short they ran a column onphilately in April . . . stamp collecting toyour public . . . what's for May . . . numismatism? Ever try it, Cince (iced, with adash of Angostora Bitters) . . . make you aproposition, Gerald . . . you let me pick thenames . . . you think up the news . . .that'll cut your work in half . . . phonetically, as below.
"DICK DICKINSON,
That's the damage these hectic days have worked on the banking profession. Dick as reported in April works for the National Shawmut Bank, Boston.
Frankie Granata now holds forth at 616 E. Lincoln Ave., Mt. Vernon, N. Y.
Merc Bowers, once of New York and more recently of Boston, is back in Benton Harbor, 320 Britain Ave.
Curtis Aeroplane & Motor Co.,Buffalo, New York.
"I guess I stand on the records as havingbeen forced out of Keystone Aircraft Corp.and looking forward to a long vacation.It was pleasant, but only lasted six weeks.Then the management was shifted aroundagain, and 1 went back to my old job, assistant to the factory manager, under a newmanager.
"He hailed from Harvard but couldn'thave been improved if he had never beenthere, and we managed to find time between building airplanes to do a good dealof Harvard vs. Dartmouth kidding. He leftin April of this year to become the president of the plant in St. Louis, and I tookover the job of factory manager, whichdeveloped into mopping up the unfinishedbusiness, battling for more, and, finally,closing the place up as a manufacturingplant in October.
"Was transferred to the Curtis Aeroplaneand Motor Co. in Buffalo and moved up.Had no idea of what the job was to be, but,after and month, found myself—literally overnight—the superintendent of the fabricating shops with 500 out of about 600 menunder me.
"That job has kept me sufficiently busyto have only seen Buffalo about twicethough Kenmore is the first suburb outsidethe city limits. Consequently, I have noidea whether there is a Dartmouth manlet alone one from '24—in the vicinityalso, consequently, no gore of any kind topass.
"I've gotten closer to Hanover than inthe last ten years through the medium ofa younger brother-in-law now in the classof '34 and have certainly learned to feelmy age! The things that '24 did nowseem to be practically prehistoric and myaccount of the then rivalry between theOuting and Canoe Clubs is received practically as a voice from the tombs. It's agreat experience—but the years certainlyseem to have passed.
"If I can possibly do it, I intend to combine the reunion and his graduation andsee, first-hand, what it is all about.
Secretary, 7 Harvard St., Worcester, Mass
