Class of 1916
Have you started that vacation club so that you will have the wherewithall to attend the Twentieth next June? As you read these notes only eight months more and it will be right on top of you. Dan Dinsmoor is now in Webster Groves, Mo. After returning from his company's Wales plant last spring, they decided that he was needed very badly in their heavy chemical department and so installed him there as superintendent. Our naval aviator, Barrett Studley, has been transferred from the sunny climes of California to the sunny climes of Pensacola, Fla. Down in Lynn, Mass., we fine one of the natives, Jack Welch as secretary of the public welfare department. From the wilds of Maine to the honey- mooning territory near Niagara Falls goes Chris Salmonsen. He is now manufacturing paper for International Paper Company at North Tonawanda, N. Y. Capt. Willard S. Paul, U. S. Army, has been transferred from Ft. Leavenworth to Culver Academy, Culver, Ind. Here he will supervise the military training of the student body. Ed Kiley, Eastern sales manager of the Clinton Carpet Company, makers of Ozite, is now living in Garden City and operating out of their New York City sales office. Ray Chapman is forced to lead a very- sheltered life in New Haven, Conn. Outside of two services a week in his Episcopalian church, he is forced to remain in bed due to heart trouble. We hope that his condition will soon improve so that he may take up all his usual duties. During one week-end in August Gil Tapley from Wilmington, Irv Wolff from Camden, and Pete Cleaves and Rog Evans of Philadelphia met for an informal 1916 gathering. Tennis and golf made up the program, and I hope that between games they vowed to be in Hanover next June. Time flits by pretty rapidly. Here we are making plans for the Twentieth next June, and in case that means nothing to you—in the entering class at Dartmouth this fall will be the oldest son of Al Gluek of Minneapolis. The first son of a Sixteener to take up where the ole man left off years ago. Hats off to you, Al, and let the bald heads shine where they may. The auto show in New York this fall is just going to allow you to see that Yale game in New Haven. Ruth and Bill McKenzie are planning to take it in when they leave Akron for said show in the interests of Goodyear. They too are already making plans to be in Hanover next June. You also should be prepared. Carl Eskeline is to have his periodical vacation next summer, and is planning a trip around the world before reaching American shores. That will mean that he will miss the gathering of the clan next June. Not being a world traveler, this suggestion may be all out of line—but why not come directly across and take the longer trip on the >way back? Then Hanover in June will be possible. Your Secretary has had his place of abode changed from Ohio to New Britain, Conn. Also from Hanover comes the news that he has been elected to membership on the executive committee of the General Association of Alumni. On the afternoon of August 14, with Jake Story acting as host to twelve other Balmacanners, the good ship Faithful put-putted from the wharf at Gloucester out to sea. The idea was to drag in some of those fish that you either read or hear about but never see. When the trip was over—fiction it still was. For outside of a tempting skate and two 190-pounders attired in old clothes nothing over five pounds was fished out of the sea. Yet a good time was had by all on the trip and at the shore dinner that followed. These Boston gettogethers are certainly well worth the while. From the August copy of Philadelphia, published by the Chamber of Commerce of that city, comes a very interesting account of a 55,000-mile business trip, covering the whole world in 14 months. It is written by Reg Chutter as a survey of his latest journey. Certainly the article is filled with optimistic reasoning, and at the end Reg comments on Sydney, Australia, as the most American city that he had visited in foreign lands, and that New Zealand outstripped all the others in the rare beauty of the country. In this same issue is an article by Rog Evans, director of Chamber of Commerce Industrial Bureau, on the effect of the new Penn taxation program on business men of Philadelphia. There is also a comparison of living costs for the city, and the effect of the depression on the industry of that city and others of its size and importance. Then to show you further that this branch of civic endeavor is operating to advantage, they release the figures on new industry, 11 manufacturers and 14 new wholesalers locating there during the month of July. That will give you some idea of the work that Roger is heading up. Some of you do and some do not know that last June Cliff Bean cracked under the strain of too much work and too many activities. First to the hospital in Exeter, N. H., and then to Hampton, N. H., where he now is. Held strictly to a program of rest and recuperation, it goes rather hard with anyone as active as Cliff has been. Yet he realizes that he has a long pull ahead of him and has resigned himself to it. It was my good fortune to be able to see him for a few short visits during one week in August. To you men who have written to him I wish to relay his thanks. Reading is about all that he is able to do; and nothing could interest him more than your letters. And please do not think that one letter is all that is necessary; make it a point to drop him a line at least every month. To you who have not known of his predicament, make an effort to get a letter off. His address is North Shore Road, Hampton, N. H. Remember your class dues of $4.00 will entitle you to all the issues of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
Secretary, The Stanley Works New Britain, Conn.
