Class of 1924
Greeted en route like a Persian potentate, Ax Coffin "wolverined" East on the occasion of New England's '88 blizzard to take a look at his recent inheritance, a toothpick factory in Strong, Me. Just to be sure he got there, Stan Lyon accompanied him from Boston. From Portland to Strong the distance is about seventy or seventy-five miles. They made it in a little less than twelve hours on the only operating conveyances, one standard and one narrow gauge railroad. The new Coffin plant has all the earmarks of an ideal NRA institution. It operates only for the four or five winter months. When spring and summer roll around the help return to their respective farms to grow crops.
In this picture you can see the new owner sticking out of a snow bank with several thousand gross of toothpicks under his arm. Horace Taylor appeared at Buffalo, Win Sturtevant at Springfield, and yours truly at Worcester to give advice on the duties expected of a toothpick tycoon.
Incidentally Ax reported the Chicago Alumni Association off to a good start this year with George Traver as president. The Mid-Western delegation for reunion has not attained any size to date, however, but Ax seems to think Vim Heegaard, Lyme Thompson, George, and he will be on hand without fail.
Curt Bird has been coming to Holyoke "Mrs. George G. King of Holyoke announces the engagement of her daughter,Miss Janet King, to S. Curtis Bird of Ridgefield and New York. Miss King attendedPine Manor School in Wellesley. Mr. Bird,who graduated from Dartmouth in 1924,is with the Universal Insurance Co. Thewedding will take place in the earlyspring."
Thursty Ritter, covering the Florida front for reunion prospects, reports that the chances are fair of some three or four returning from there with him. None of them can get away with the excuse that they are broke this year, not with more and bigger Florida boom figures in the paper each week.
Paul Synnott (grow with Time) and Alice McLoughlin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emmett McLoughlin of New York City, were married on the second of February.
Bevo Beers completed his furlough and has returned to Puerto Castilla, Honduras, with the United Fruit Co., the Truxillo Railroad in particular.
Dana Haskin, bus executive of Providence, has shifted to Greyhound in Boston, and is living at 146 Billings St., Atlantic, Mass.
Merc Bowers working for the Meyercord Co., dispensers of advertising novelties, now covers the Baltimore territory, after serving in Boston and Chicago.
Whether married or not we are unable to report, but Hap Jones has left his residence of some ten years' standing, the Atlanta Biltmore, and now resides as 1393 West Peachtree St., Apartment 515, Atlanta. Hap still has the Southern territory for Walker jacks.
Ted Lamb is back in Hinsdale, after several years at the Yale Club, New York. Architecture is the profession.
Dick Morin, attached to the U. S. Embassy in Paris for a number of years, has returned to the State Department in Washington. He is living at 230 North Royal St., Alexandria, Va.
Stu Eldredge was married Christmas day to Miss Marion Schumann of Brooklyn, N. Y., daughter of Mrs. John Schumann. No reports to the contrary indicate that Stu is holding his own plus, as a commercial artist in New York.
Two other New Yorkers have moved. Dr. Jim Kirkbright, signing himself J. Calvert Kirkbright, now lives at 40 East 61st St., and Al Hadlock with Basil O'Connor, formerly O'Connor & Roosevelt (Frank- lin D.), practices law at 120 Broadway, Room 3005.
Apologies are hereby tendered for finding no other new arrivals to report in '24 families except one in Worcester. Arguments occupy the stage at present as to the name for the second Spaulding offspring, one 7 pound 13 ounce boy, born March 9.
Secretary, 12 Haviland St., Worcester, Mass.
