Class of 1928
On my way home a few nights before Christmas I stopped to buy a paper on 23d St. under the Ninth Avenue Elevated, when I felt a hard pointed article nudging me in the ribs. Thinking to myself that this was a funny time to be putting a fellow on the spot, I glanced around experimentally, and who should it be but Walt Mc-Kee! He had been back about a month and had spent a week in Boston with Larry Martin before coming to New York. He expects to be here a year studying various angles of the National City Bank, and then may return to their branch at Brussels. Maybe it's the Belgian beer, but Walt certainly looked line.
Had a call from Curly Prosser the other day, and before he rang off I had collected a fistful of first-grade dope. He says that rumors are current that Art Hassell is scheduled to wed Miss Cornelia Robison, Wellesley '32, but that the date, place, and other important details are a bit hazyalso that Roy Martin was in the same fix. Roy, as you know, is at the main office of the Chase National Bank in New York. Hoagland, apropos of his political activities, took on the job of treasurer of the Christmas Seal campaign for Somerset County, N. J., and collected cash, I am told, for a terrific number of the darn little things.
Frank Hankins is now flying out of Miami as mechanic for the Pan-American Airways. Frank spent the first two years out of college, including summers at M.1.T., getting a B.S. degree in aeronautical engineering. The next two he was with the Navy on active flying duty, part of the time flying giant flying boats, and at one time flew from Norfolk, Va., to San Francisco, via the Panama Canal. In 1932 he was back again at M.1.T., and last fall completed his course for a Master's degree in aeronautical engineering. Frank's brother, Bob, as I think you know, was a Law Review man at Harvard in the '32 class. He passed the Rhode Island bar exams a year ago, and is now with Tillinghast & Collins at Providence.
Carl Lundgren graduated from Yale Law in 1933 and is practicing in Ansonia, Conn., the home town of the Lundgrens. Bill Ballard is at Hanover in the zoology department, having extracted his Ph.D. from Yale last June. Bill taught biology two years at Yale, then comparative anatomy (a tough one) at Dartmouth for two years, and last year was a fellow in zoology at Yale. Last spring he was doing a great deal of research work in embryology. Tax Connell is also in the zoology department at Hanover, and likewise has a Ph.D. from the University of California. Fran Tower is teaching at West Newton, is married and living at Wellesley Hills. Charley Fitzgerald is living in Wilder, Vt„ and is in the radio business at White River Junction.
What a pile of M.D.'s there is in this here class! Harry Bennert has a shingle out in Goffstown, N. H. Sam Bassett is a surgeon in St. Louis. Ollie Andrus is practicing in Devon, Conn. "Doc" Dowlin is a surgeon at the Graduate School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. Rocky Keith is doing postgraduate work in surgery at the same place, I believe. George McClure is studying medicine at McGill, Montreal. Fred Dugdale is at the Easton Hospital, Easton, Pa. Hank Reynolds is at the Children's Hospital, Denver, Colo. Willis Mitchell is studying at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. Buck Serrell is distributing pills somewhere down here in New York-and there are plenty I can't remember off hand.
And teachers—about as many as docs. Ken Beal at Alice L. Phillips Jr. High School, Wellesley Hills, Mass.; Eino Johnson, Bulkeley High School, Hartford, Conn.; Monty Wells, Brookline High School, Brookline, Mass.; Joe Hyman, Memorial High School, Middleboro, Mass.; Ed Wright, Lincoln Academy, Newcastle, Me.; Warren Clark, Enfield, N. H.; Scott Elliott, University of North Carolina. And that reminds me that somewhere or other I heard that Scott was married to Rosalie Conn on December 22 last year at Newton, N. C.
I ran into Dick Barnstead in the North Station at Boston a little while ago. Dick is in partnership with his father and is editor of the Stoneham Independent, Stoneham, Mass. You know already that Dick was married to Nance Bryant of Hartford, Conn., on June 27, 1931, but you may not have heard that Nancy Ann was born on September 22, 1932.
And while we are on the subject of infants, where the deuce did I put that little gadget from Jerry Sass? Here it is—Jerre Sultan Sass, October 25, 1933, 6½ lbs.
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