Class of 1924
Unless it was milking time, any of you on pee-rades to Hanover this fall may have spotted Putty Blodgett, late of the investment business, later of a Boston gun shop, but now Farmer, with a capital F, of Bradford, Vt. Putty picked up 125 acres, including river frontage that is supposed to grow the greatest hay in Vermont. He has a good-sized stand of sugar maples, 100 cattle, and the most up-to-date equipment obtainable. Since his arrival in May Putty has concentrated on scientific farming, and the dope is that he has the location and so far the results to show it can be done profitably. Mrs. Blodgett and the kids signed on early this fall.
Stork events—Dick Cross, son of Grace and Steve Cross, cost accountant of Stanley, Rule, and Level, New Britain, Conn., arrived a year ago June. Barbara Newcomb, daughter of Newc and Mrs. Newcomb, is not going to run short of butter, eggs, and cheese while Pop is with Lake Erie Provision, Lakewood, Ohio. She got there August 25 this year. Althea Hersey widened the family circle May 15, 1935, at 29 Woodside Road, Medford, Mass. Brad and Mrs. Hersey are the parents.
Fred Shaneman, primed with a fistful of clippings from Ken Harvey about the Dartmouth baseball team, uncorked two pages. Fred feels no catcher ever had more fun behind the plate than he did, especially the day at Columbia he was picking off Roily Barker's slants up in front of the batter in hopes of retiring the side. The chemical business might go on climbing if 7 acoma and the state could once settle the lumber strike which fires and threatens alternately, thinks Fred. He is hoping for an Eastern invasion this fall.
Via Harvey also comes interesting but incomplete bits about Fred McKenzie's recent marriage, Gus Caldwell's near initiation into the father class, and Don Coyle's return to the U. S. with his wife, a German girl. Just as Don is settling down to American fare again, Red Newell begins his third lap for National City at Singapore. Much upheaval since he took his six months' furlough, but he has found a few familiar faces, a tennis court for diversion, and a house of his own.
In the line of changes, Dick Morin has left the U. S. Diplomatic Service to become a lawyer back in Albert Lea, Minn., Dick Ludwig has deserted the hotel business in Houlton and Presque Isle, Me., to return to his first love insurance in Boston, while Butch Wright, long purchasing agent for Robert Gair, New York, has become the N. Y. sales manager for Specialty Converters, Inc., 501 sth Ave., New York City. Parker Jackson, statistician for the Municipal Securities Service of Boston, shifted this fall to New York as municipal analyst of the Charles D. Barney Co. of 65 Broadway.
With only meagre information at hand, the extent of injuries to Stan Lonsdale is not known. At this writing he's pretty uncomfortable in the Genesee Hospital, Rochester, N. Y., suffering from a severe back injury sustained in a fall while he was attending an insurance convention in that city. It isn't often news is fresh enough upon publication to propose any individual action. Chances are he'll be glad to get a letter or two even at the time you read this.
Wylie Jones, recently covering the South Atlantic States for Proctor & Gamble, is out in California selling real estate—address, 400 West Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills. Bert Hallin, a buyer for Montgomery Ward, perches the rest of the time at 504 Wabash St., Mattoon, ILL. Earl Kees, in Minneapolis since '27, upholds the fortunes of Gold Medal Flour in the Kansas City territory, Dwight Bldg. to be exact. Art Graham, the haberdasher of Buffalo and the Statler, has gone industrial. He now acts as regional director for McGraw-Hill in the same city. Sam Ellis found CPA'ing in New York more to his liking than in Buffalo. He's with Haskins & Sells, 22 East 40th St.
The publicity department of W. T. Grant, favoring this column direct with Bill Dreier's history when he landed in Watertown, N. Y., says nothing this time about his move to their store at 425 South Broadway, Los Angeles, Calif. Don Wilbur, head of Wilbur and Williams, Park Building, Boston, finds his special industrial paints going pretty good throughout New England. Brad Walker, who started in Detroit with Campbell-Ewald AdvertisingAgency, occupies an account executive's position in New York at 1790 Broadway.
Ed Brooks, London resident for a number of years, is slowly regaining his health in Honolulu, where he has been since 1928 after an extremely severe nervous breaks down.
There's a fair chance that the Boston gang will find occasion to meet, perhaps at the Outing Club in Groton, before snow flies. Bill Buchanan has sent on his movies of the Tumid Tenth, and Coffin promises the reels he caught.
Secretary, 12 Haviland St., Worcester, Mass.
