Class of 1927
We wish to take this first opportunity to sincerely thank our good friend, Gus Cummings, for pinch-hitting for us in the first issue of this MAGAZINE. In fact, he ground out such an excellent column under such short notice that we almost feel it our duty to make him do the job every month. Also, while we are passing out thanks and bouquets; orchids to the whole and particularly to the same Gus and his able assistants, Bill Abbott and Josh Davis, for the splendid record 1927 had in the Alumni Fund campaign last spring. It was a source of real pride and satisfaction to all of us, and should be an incentive which will keep our class up near the top where it belongs.
We are glad to report that your scribe is no longer occupying a hospital cot as reported in the last issue, and that except for a left wing that is still wrapped in what seems like about fifty pounds of plaster, we are practically as good as new.
One by one the bachelors seem to fall, and only today we received the announce- ment of the marriage of Miss Madeline Loving Roach to Mr. Kenneth Nyman Meyercord on Saturday, October 5, at East Orange, N. J.
Phil Fowler has recently returned from Nebraska with his bride, the former Miss Opal Crane. They will live on Winchester St., Boston, and Phil is working for the Miller Associates.
Bob Funkhouser and Seth Besse were also married during the summer months, and we had the pleasure of meeting their respective brides in Hanover at the Norwich game last month.
A card from Chuck Field announces the birth of Miss Jeanne Noreen Field on August 29.
On July 11, Bob Voorhis and his better half became the proud parents of Nicholas Robert Voorhis Jr.
Donald Watt Gardner Jr., born in Winchester on June 25 last, fearing another Carnegie Institute investigation, wishes to denv the rumor that he has accepted any offer from Columbia.
Curt Wright, that much traveled gentleman who was recently of Milwaukee and later of New York City, is now working for the Schmidt Lithograph Company of San Francisco, with territory including everything east of the Rockies and north of the Mason-Dixon line.
Early in July we received a letter from Al Clifton, who had recently returned from a six months' sojourn in India. He modestly gives us the following: "Not muchnews about myself. The latest I have fromSam Martin is that he is—or was eightmonths ago—Attorney for the state corporation commissioner of Oregon. Since then hisfather, General Charles Martin, has beenelected governor of Oregon, so Sam may beattorney general for all I know. Occasionally I see Rollie Howes, who is still withIndependent Press Room, and Bruce Mckennan,who continues as Pacific Coastrepresentative for Wood, Struthers, and Co.of New York. As you probably know, Brucewas married about a year ago to a younglady from Texas."
The last week in July, Bill Preccott, Bill St. Amant, Ken Ballantyne, Charlie Bartlett, Tom Carpenter '23, Bill Prescott's brother, Charlie, and your Secretary chartered the good ship Lizzie, a fifty-foot schooner, and spent a most delightful week cruising along the North Shore and the Maine coast. We put in at various ports, including Rockport, Portland, Boothbay Harbor, Gloucester, and Provincetowri, with very little good being done to any of those towns.
Besides Seth Besse and Bob Funkhouser other "Twenty-seveners" seen in Hanover at the Norwich game were Ray Reed and Bob Williamson.
Guy Boitwick, our most loyal and consistent reporter, has started off the season with a bang, giving us a most complete report of the first '27 dinner held in New York on September 24, at the Dartmouth Club. There were about twenty-five present, including Josh Davis, Orrie Herwitz, Dud Bonsai, Rudy Preuss, Bob Reinhardt, Bob Long, Bill Glenn, Jack Shaw, Art Keleher, Ed Mahoney, Herb Rubin, Joe Hardin, Ken Ballantyne, Tom Gillespie, Herb Howe, Sam Wormser, Les Kilmarx, Art Lund, Art Gale, Mike Ketz, Bunny Smith, Ted Rose, Mike Choukas, and Paul Staab, the last four mentioned being new-comers to these monthly gatherings in New York.
Bunny Smith is now in the New York office of Kendall Mills at 40 Worth St.
Paul Staab is with Hammons and Company at 120 Broadway.
Mike Choukas is on sabbatical leave from his duties in Hanover, and is living at 254 West 72d St.
Pat Partridge, we regret to learn, has been laid up for some time with paralysis. After talking with his father, Guy reports that he is now convalescing somewhere in Massachusetts, and from present indications will fortunately suffer no permanent ill effects.
Ed Ruth is now covering New Jersey and environs for the Olds Motor Works, and has moved from Garden City to Hackensack, N. J.
On August 9, Stephen Bonsai was added to the list of future Dartmouth men, the proud parents being Dud and Mrs. Bonsai.
Ken Anderson has left New York for a while. He has given up his position with Rubber Associates, Inc., and is now laboring under the staggering title of "administrative assi tant to Mr. Ernest G. Draper, Assistant Secretary of Commerce." Ken and his still new bride have set up housekeeping in Wa hington, D. C.
Rudy Preuss was married on June 22, to Miss Frances O'Shaughnessy. With this added inventive he is establishing joint legal offices with Bob Reinhardt on October The address will be 150 Broadway.
During his two weeks' vacation this summer Guy reports that he saw con iderable of Nels O'Rourke, Franny, and Nels Junior up at Derby, Vt. As much as it hurts, Guy admits that Nels can still beat him up to the nineteenth hole, but he makes no admissions after that. He further states that: "As for Nels Junior, he is one swell youngster."
Bob Reinhardt reverted to Outing Club training this summer and spent his vacation on a two-hundred-mile canoe and fishing trip in the Adirondacks. Bob also reports receiving a card from Dud Sercombe and Dick Simpson, to the effect that everything is well under control on the Pacific Coast. We also received a post card from those two gentlemen, so we assume that at some point and for some reason they were together and in a post card writing mood.
Secretary, 152 Waban Ave., Waban, Mass
