Class of 1928
In case you gents happen to be interested, I find that I am in Lynchburg, Va., and without too much information to keep you amused this month. Instead of being here a few days as expected originally, it looks uncomfortably like a few months. William Iselin & Cos., Inc., has interested a Lynchburg shoe factory—they turn out a mere —in the noble practice of factoring. By the way, do any of you gentlemen own textile mills or shoe factories or any other darn thing? If so, don't tell a soul, or you'll have a fellow sitting on your door step.
So you'll have to be satisfied this month with what I stuffed into my pocket the last minute—just in case anything unforeseen should happen.
I forgot last month to make particular mention of the clipping my mother sent me from the local news sheet, the Melrose FreePress. It concerns one Ralph Bavier, and states that even if he didn't take the Secretary into his confidence, he got himself smitten with the unique idea of getting married, and that he promptly did just that on October 18 last and the lady was Miss Susan O. Hazard. The event happened at Los Angeles and coincided with Rappie's decision to rejoin his first boss, the U. S. Rubber Cos. The paper allowed that Mr. Bavier and his bride drove East on their wedding trip, stopping off at the Grand Canyon and various other points of interest, and finally hove to at Naugatuck, Conn.
Henry Curll graduated from Harvard Business School last June, and from recent reports is now a traveling salesman for the Brockway Glass Cos. of Brockway, Pa. You probably know that he was a salesman for the Chicago Flexible Shaft Cos. of Philadelphia for a year after graduation from Dartmouth, and the next two he spent with the Delaware Power and Light Cos. at Wilmington—then Harvard.
The news of Horace Brown doesn't come quite up to date, but the last we heard he was in the sales department of the Nashua Gummed and Coated Paper Cos. of Nashua, N. H. Before going with this company Brownie spent three years in the production department at the main office of the General Cable Corp., Rome, N. Y. And did we ever report that he was married to Dorothy Anne Ross (Wellesley '37) on August 16, 1930?
George Douglass is in the stock broking business with Abbott, Hoppin & Cos., LaSalle St., Chicago.
Paul Maclean, that one time literary gentleman, is a newspaper reporter on the Helena Independent at Helena, Montana.
Joe Mavon, so we get it, is adjusting insurance claims with G. A. Mavon & Cos., Chicago.
I missed out in seeing John Turkevich at Princeton last fall, but I did run into him a while back once when I was waiting for the I. R. T. at 14th St. He was looking pretty hale and hearty then and was enthusiastic about his appointment as plant research fellow in physical chemistry at Princeton.
And in bringing this broadcast to a close we wish to mention the terms of this week's contest: we're giving away absolutely free a,, delightful souvenir of Lynchburg to everyone sending in the tops of two silk hats and an answer to the following question in twenty-five words or more: "Why bunch of letter-writers in America?"
But, seriously, these spring evenings in ole Virginia, suh, are uncommonly long and, if one of you gents were to tempt me with a letter, God knows what might happen! I might even answer it.
Secretary, William Iselin & Cos., Inc. 357 Fourth Ave., New York
