Class of 1928
We are starting off this year with a new system designed to present the class with the latest available information as to the activities of as many men as possible. Each issue will contain news prepared by a different author and presented in a manner which will be left to the discretion of each writer. Not having presented anyone with the duty of preparing our column for the first issue, I am undertaking the job myself. The system is designed to relieve Roy .of some of the responsibilty, especially because his present location in Lynchburg, Va., on business for Wm. Iselin & Co., makes it difficult for him to keep in touch with the class.
A principal feature of our columns this year will be a series of pictures of the children of whom members of the class are the proud fathers. We are anxious to have as many baby pictures as possible in our columns this year, and urge each and every father to send a picture of his child or children. We will give special attention to pictures which include parents and all the children, and will publish the pictures in the order of their receipt. A good, clear snapshot will be sufficient. Please send all pictures to me at the above address.
We are starting off in our next issue with a picture of Patsy Bennett, daughter of Chuck and Mrs. Bennett of the Illinois Bennetts. Patsy will be eight years old on February 14 next and makes claim to be the class baby. Anyone contesting the claim should send me a letter giving the name and age of the claimant and enclosing a snapshot. We would particularly like to know who the oldest boy is. Chuck is, to quote Jack Carson, "busily engaged in putting some children's hours on the air viaN.B.C."
Jack himself is practicing law in Chicago with his father. He hinted that he might join the benedicts this fall, but did not reveal the girl's name. It must be that he has not yet selected the girl, or else has not yet told her about it.
Ken Graf, the Manchester barrister, is going to get married this fall, and the girl is Miss Mary Eaton of Wakefield, Mass., and a newspaper clipping announced the engagement of Miss Millicent Britton of Crawford, N. J., to Ed Heyn. Ed is with the B. V. D. Co. in New York and helped us obtain the jerseys used as part of our costume at our Fifth Reunion.
As demonstrated by the address given above, Pearl, Martha, and I have moved out into the suburbs. We have taken a seven-room house with a large back yard, and have two apple trees, a cherry tree, and a strawberry patch, as well as innumerable weeds. You are all invited to drop in any time you chance to pass this way.
Larry Martin and Frank Thurston took time off from their occupations to do a little traveling this summer. Larry, who is analyzing accounts for the National Shawmut Bank of Boston, left last week for a trip to Mexico, going by boat to Vera Cruz via Havana, and then venturing inland to Mexico City and surrounding villages. Frank drove to Washington, D. C., and through Richmond and other interesting places in Virginia. He is now one of the more important claim adjusters for the Travelers Insurance Company in Boston. Emil Shukert and his wife took a six weeks' motoj trip in June, starting at his home town of Omaha, Neb., and getting as far east as Hanover. Dave McCathie looked over Florida last June and reports a wonderful vacation.
Jerry Warner wrote from the office of the American Consulate General at Mukden to Lanky Langdell, and reports as follows, on our Far Eastern delegation:
"There are several '28 men out this way,scattered throughout the Far East. GeorgeBell is holding down the fort at Tientsinfor Standard Oil. Livingston is with theTexas Cos. in Hankoiu now, I believe. VanBensehoten is at the consulate in Dairen.Joseph Chay is teaching in Seoul, Korea,and I've been temporarily detailed to theConsulate General in Mukden. Will returnto Tientsin I hope in September, when theman I'm relieving here returns from homeleave. I'm living in Mukden's one modernapartment house with Andy Edson '26,and we manage to keep things stirred up abit around town."
Art Nightingale has completed two years' interneship, and is now an admitting physician at the King's County Hospital in Brooklyn, N. Y., and seems mighty glad of it. Jerry Cetrulo writes that he is now a practicing physician at 218 Mt. Prospect Ave., Newark, N. J., and is awaiting an opportunity to study surgery for a year in Vienna.
Bill Kimball informs me that Fran Tower is a rising young pedagogue in his home town, making a fine record at the Warren Junior High School.
Charlie Fleischer writes to Curly Prosser that his job as assistant merchandising manager with the Great A. & P. Tea Cos. has taken him from Cleveland to Columbus, Ohio, where he now resides at 1755 King Ave. He announces that he has a son who is now about eight months old, and we are hoping for a picture of him for some future issue.
Max Eile, counselor at law, has just announced the removal of his offices to 70 West 40th St., New York City. Fran Young practices law in Boston when not shooting 75s around somebody's golf course. Jud Moulton is with the law office of Brown, Field, & McCarthy in Boston, and is becoming quite proficient at drawing bills in equity, to which bills our office (Parkman, Robbins, Coughlin, & Hannan) draws the answers.
Tubby Walter is rumored by our demon news-gatherer, Curly Prosser, to be in Syracuse, N. Y., with the Colgate, Palmolive, Peet Cos. That makes him a fellow townsman of Johnny O'Sullivan, who is with the Crucible Steel Cos. Helen and John spend their spare time keeping up with their son, Jerry, whose picture we hope to get.
Lolly Carpenter has been married for two years, has a moustache, and is an accountant with Johns-Manville Corp., at as E. 40th St., New York. Arthur Hassell has recently been married, and lives at 719 Arlington Ave., Plainfield, N. J. Ham Hagar is a statistician for Fenner & Bearse, 90 Broad St., N. Y., and Charlie Davis is head of the billing department of the First Boston Corp. office in New York.
Don Norris has gone into business with his uncle, and likes the outlook better than when he was a banker. Ernie Bessette is still with the Ryerson Steel Cos. selling steel, and still wears that grin, despite the alleged unstable condition of the steel business.
Tavey Taylor reports from California that he is learning the milk business from the bottom up, and is working on a plan to feed his cows muscatel grapes to produce a new and inspiring kind of milk.
It is hoped that many of you will see fit to let us hear from you in regard to your present occupations and the high lights of your life since college, especially as to marriage and children. We will be anxious to hear from you about yourselves and any of the 1928 men with whom you may come in contact.
Secretary, Wm. Iselin & Co. 357 Fourth Ave., New York As prepared 1160 Great Plain Ave., Needham, Mass.
