Class of 1929
A good way to begin this last letter of our fourth year out would be to retell the stories Maurie Mandelbaum recited to us the other Saturday afternoon. But because we have not the flair for story-telling that every good and budding novelist has you shall have to be content with the bare facts that we learned.
Maurie came driving up to the class archives late last Saturday afternoon. With him, or rather should we say, he was with his wife and their chauffeur, Mr. Al. Finaly, whose other occupation is counseling investors, the firm being Scudder, Stevens & Clark, in Boston. The lady whose husband Maurie is affords ample and convincing evidence that this man Mandelbaum is bound to succeed, is already two steps along that path. Before their marriage last October she was Gwen Norton of Washington, D. C. Right now the Mandelbaums are of Magnolia, Essex County, Mass., where they have just completed an intensive winter's work on their respective novels. It was quite apparent that Mr. Mandelbaum expects great things from Mrs. Mandelbaum, a best seller, no less; and so do we. To go back a bit in Mandelbaum history: last academic year Maurie taught biography and Comp. Lit. in Hanover, received his Master's degree, made up his mind to get married. So he left Hanover in June, wooed and won in October. After a summer here in Cambridge, they will go to New Haven, where Maurie will work for his Ph.D. and where the lady will without doubt receive credit for her first best seller. Maurie has been in enough places recently to see and compare notes with the following:
Ted Washton, who is finishing up at Columbia Law School.
Carl Spaeth, who has done very well at Yale since doing the very best at Oxford. At Oxford: Mrs. Carl Spaeth. At Yale: Carl Grant Spaeth and an S.J.D. degree. Carl plans to become a member of the faculty of the newly formed law school at Temple.
Ed Plumb, who, Maurie believes, is arranging for Tony Sarg's Bohemia on Broadway, N. Y. C.
Don MacCornack, who is an instructor in freehand drawing at the architectural school at M.I.T.
Shep Stone, who got his doctor's degree at the University of Berlin, who has had several articles on Poland and Germany in the New York Tribune and in Current History, and who hopes and expects to get a position as a foreign correspondent.
Sim Cantril, who was married to Mary Grace Birch, May 6, in New York, and who is an interne on the staff of the Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago.
Walter Scott, who is president of the Frank L. Scott Paper Co.
Ray White, who was with the National Economy League, is now with the New England Council.
There have been a couple of very fine weddings lately. We learned of Gunther's via a night letter delivered over the phone very early in the morning. The good news, however, justified the early rise. It took place on Saturday, April 22, at Leonia, N. J., with Chris Born standing by to produce the ring at the right moment as Geraldyne Beyea became Jack's bride and the queen of Penlyn, Alpine, N. J., where the Gunther domicile is being established this spring-time season. The honeymoon is being deferred until that Old Scold, the Law, will allow a vacation.
A clipping from a Maiden paper brought the news of Ted Shackford's marriage to Frances Holmes Waugh of West Somerville. Larry Lougee was his old roommate's best man. Ted and his bride will live at 379 Broadway, Somerville, after a wedding trip to Virginia. Mrs. Shackford's husband is' with the Trust Department of the National Shawmut Bank, Boston.
Just today we read the announcement of the marriage of Johnny Moxon to Fredericka Sawyer of Elizabeth, N. J.
The other day we read in the society section of the Boston Transcript that Chris Born, the well-known young aviator who flies his own plane out from the East Boston airport, is going abroad in June to spend a year studying architecture.
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