Class of 1913
In picking John Remsen to be the new class agent, the one man was selected who can keep the class in its present position in the Alumni Fund standing. This place was reached after five years of tireless work by Mose Linscott, and it is up to each one of us to get behind Jack Remsen and give him as loyal support as we did for Mose. Lets go when Jack gives the word.
At the class meeting in Hanover, Bill Towler was elected class president, Remsen class agent, Bob Conant is class treasurer, and you know from the top of this column each month that the Secretary continues.
According to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle"Students Prefer Thriller Stories." "Theysimply aren't interested in the costly classics, but they have hungry eyes for thenickel novels of yesteryear. That is whatLibrarian Donald Gilchrist at the University of Rochester has learned about the tasteof undergraduates. When he arrangedmonthly displays of original Whittier,Holmes, Dickens, and Longfellow manuscripts at Rush Rhees Library, the showcases captured only cursory attention. Butwhen a showing of tattered and torn paper-backed 'thrillers' was made the studentsflocked close and tried to read the stories."
The banquet of the New York Alumni Association in January was held a day or two before the Boston dinner. At New York, Rutherford, Riley, Towler, Macdonald, Alden, Dessau, Wells, Runkle, Ashton, Nutt, and Remsen, and in Boston Cushman, Donahue, Ward, Merrill, Pishon, Bill Davis, Linscott, Buffum, Goldie Warren, Harmon, George Knight, Shumway, and Wilkins did honor to Craven Laycock. The new football coaches attended both dinners and were introduced to the alumni present. In New York the group had a class room at the Plaza and a good reunion. In Boston the class met during the afternoon at the University Club and adjourned to the Chamber of Commerce lounge.
Rutherford, by the way, has a son headed for Hanover in the fall.
Bob Mungall is back with the G. E., now being located in Schenectady, N. Y.
Walter Nolan has returned to Boston (from Worcester), and has charge of sales promotion for Goodrich Tire Co. at 109 Brookline Ave. He is living at 89 Farquhar St., Roslindale, Mass.
Clayton A. Fairbanks was one of three chosen as a committee with power to appoint two more to raise a fund to care for the families of the two policemen killed by the bandit robbers of the Needham Trust Cos. on February 2.
Bill Towler has returned from a two weeks' trip in the West and reports:
"I had a fine trip out West, seeing manyold friends and renewing business connections. Joe Barnett is vice-president ofAubrey, Moore, and Wallace AdvertisingAgency at 410 North Michigan Ave., Chicago, and lives in Glencoe. I have had anumber of good sessions with him. I hadlunch with Oscar Scharrer in Dayton lastTuesday. I tried to see Earl Blaik, the newlead coach, who is in business in Daytonwith his father, but just missed him. Oscarls a successful lawyer, practicing with hisrother, and between them they havetandled quite a few criminal cases, winning a very important murder case lastmonth."
Today is February 7, and for Boston the Hercury has not been over 30 since the first day of the month, in fact most of the time it has been hovering between just below and twenty above zero—so—we get a great kick out of the cards and messages from our Southern clime travelers. "T. D." and Marian Jewett are in Port au Prince, Haiti, and headed for Colombia, and Tede and Dot Haskell are in Florida. Tede has been suffering for almost a year with a wry neck (or is it rye?), and the American Thread Co. has just sent him and Dot down to get some sunshine. Nat Rice and Dot start to drive to Florida towards the end of the month. Probably others in the class are touring hither and yon this month.
Secretary, 40 Broad St., Boston
