Class of 1929
What a month, what a month this last one has been. Plenty of snow, cold, chores, and work, but a shocking scarcity of retellable items until the last two posts from New York and Philadelphia brought the following, for which all praise to the attorney-at-law and the advertising counsel:
"I Cedar St.New York CityMarch 2, 1934.
"Your urgent request for news duly received, I read with interest your commentthat I am, 'so to speak, a wave onrushingin the changing tides of metropolitan life.'It seems to me that the tide is slack, andthat I am, so to speak, a breaker runningup on a reef so far as news is concerned.
"The prospects for a successful reunionlook bright if preceding events are any indication. For example, among others, thefollowing members of Twenty-nine overcame all obstacles and turned out for Deanhaycock's party: Baker, Bellerose, Blair,Clow, Al Fisher, Foulkes, Heath, Heister,Jim Hodge, Jamison, Lloyd Kent, Keyes,Lougee, Purdy, Mike Sherman, Swope,Sykes, Wiedenmayer, and Yellin.
"From the tone of his recently publishedletter, it appears that our class president(Orr somebody) is approaching the reunionin a 'committee-conscious' state of mind.While committees are sometimes useful,they cannot be taken home, therefore, Isuggest as being more appropriate a 'mugconscious' frame of mind. Why not awardtwo perforated mugs, suitable for drinkingblended whisky, for the following purposes: to the member of the class whospends the greatest time in traveling to thereunion, and to the member who spendsthe least time (residents of Hanover excluded)? Looking over probable winnersof the first award, I hear that Jim Hodsonis negotiating for the services of the goodmare 'Emma' to transport him fromSeattle. The only other competitor in thislow-speed class is Jack Ackley, who, inmemory of old-timers' day, threatens to rideto Hanover on his bicycle, which is a vintage of 18721/4. In the high-speed class wehave our aviators, such as Chris Bornother possible winners are Ted Gurney,Pratt, Whitney's engineer, and JohnnyBall, the coming ace. We could also havesomeone donate a third mug to the classhaving the greatest number present, limiting the competition to the class of 1929 andall classes graduating prior to the year 1800.
"Trusting that the intelligentsia of theclass will approve of my meritorious suggestions, I leave our President to work outthe details.
"Jack Gunther."
"267 Meehan St.Mt. Airy, PhiladelphiaMarch fourth."Unaccustomed as I am to writing letters what can I lose? You asked for this,and if it turns out to be dull it is on you. Itwill be a fine thing indeed to get back toHanover for a few days in June, to see around of familiar faces, and to join in on abull league or two. It has been a long time,and there is a lot to mull over. But maybeyou have heard this before.
"I can account to you for a few of thegang now in Philadelphia, although theremay be others I don't happen to run into.Four of us came down here, way back in1929, to dig into the advertising businessat N. W. Ayer and Son, Inc. (advertisingheadquarters, in case you haven't heard).First there were Herb Bissell and BobBrinkerhoff, then I came on in September,and Norm Bankart shortly after. We arestill here, and still digging, and if youshould run across anyone faced with theneed of making the public 'something- or -other conscious' ice shall be very pleased tohoe out a campaign for him.
"Carl Spaeth came to town last fall whenthe Temple University signed him on forits law school shortly after it had signed onPop Warner for its football. Spaeth is nowwhat you might call a five-college man. Notcontent with his degree from Oxford hewent on to Yale for another. And now, notcontent with teaching law at Temple, he isat one and the same time holding the jobof proctor at Swarthmore. The only soundand heartening note in his conglomeratecollegiate affiliations is the fact that he isreputedly spending a good part of his timeteaching his son to wah-hoo-wah and toyell 'to hell with Amherst.' IncidentallyMr. Spaeth junior bids fair to make amighty fine wah-hoo-waher and yeller, givehim a few more years.
"Having accounted for those in urbe andtheir occupations, it may be well to note incase you are not advised, that Spaeth andBissell have gone matrimonial, happily andenviably enough. Mrs. Bissell was a Philadelphian and Mrs. Spaeth was a Britisher.Bankart and Brinkerhoff are pledged alongthose lines also, but they have not yet beeninitiated.
"BERTCH."
Ed Heister is doing advertising for the Hearst papers.
Cliff Purse and Nick Nickerson are with the Chemical National Bank, New York.
Lloyd Kent is with a firm of architects in New York.
Charlie Phelps is secretary, Hotel Continental, Cambridge, Mass.
Robert S. Jones is selling for Dobeckmun Co., Chicago, living at 800 Tudson St., Evanston, 111.
The following note is self-explanatory "Dear Mr. Andres,
"The flowers and the card with its inscription 'Affectionate sympathy to thefamily of our beloved friend and teacher'from, the class of 1929 touched me deeply.Those were very happy hours that my husband spent, sitting in the midst of a groupof his boys discussing whatever was uppermost in their minds and I am glad that hewas granted so many years of such pleasure."Thanking you for your kind thought ofus, I am
"Yours sincerely "HATTIE B. LINGLEY.
"18 Occom Ridge,Hanover, N. H.February fifteen."
LAST MINUTE FLASHES
After years and years we suddenly met up with Eddie Harris again. It was very pleasant to learn that he is working in Boston, living and raising a family at 30 Lawton Rd., Needham. And what do you think he wanted to know? How our plans for the FIFTH were progressing. Well, by the time you read this you will have received our preliminary announcement. And soon thereafter you will receive full details. In the meantime rest assured that Reunion '29 style will be an event as important and momentous as Matriculation or Commencement, and much more fun.
Our Hanover committeeman, John Parker, concludes a lengthy Reunion-plans report as follows:
"The other report I must make is thatof an addition to the Parker family; a girl,Virginia Musk, born March 2. She makes athird member, the other two being boys."
Secretary, 89 Pleasant St., Newton Center, Mass.
