Class of 1929
By the time this November letter reaches you, you will have received your copy of the Class Report, and when you are told that the final corrections and check on the directory were made between our return from a September vacation and the date of this writing you will perhaps forgive the paucity of the material gathered.
Around town the story goes that Beacon Hill Saturday evening Symphony concerts, and Slatersville, R. I. (little Rhody), have lost Big Phil Mayher. New York has claimed another big man, and now it is Mr. Mayher, agent for the Slatersville Finishing Company.
And in New York, Mo Heath has moved out of the Chase Bank and into the practice of the law with the Manhattan firm of Hines, Rearick, Dorr, and Hammond, 61 Broadway.
To even things up a bit, Gene Davis has packed up and left Brooklyn in favor of a warmer climate. He is now in the cotton waste business in Charlotte, N. C., working for the Royal Mfg. Co., 406 Builders Bldg.
Jack Andrews is clerking for the Syracuse Lighting Co.
Bob Helmick is plant superintendent for Hemlick Foundry Machine Co., Fairmont, W. Va.
Bill Hood, who left us sometime before 1929 and hasn't been over-generous with news since then, has been located in Uniontown, Pa., in the insurance business.
Saw Kier reports one greater and one lesser event: the acquisition of Porter Sawyer Kier 3d (the name "over my emphatic objection"), and the removal of the hearthstone to Edgewood, Pa.
Jack Reilly is an accountant in Washington, living in Takoma Park, Md.
Hal Leich is another Washingtonian (D. C.). He is with the Civil Service Commission. Duke Barto's gang is growing, all right.
Nivy Nivison is a bond trader with J. E. Baker and Co., 115 Broadway, New York City.
Art Ryan is practicing law in Chicago.
Cal Soriero is in the Newark office of the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland, living in East Orange.
Another accountant is Ev Turrell, with Price, Waterhouse, and Co., New York; living in Jackson Heights, L. I.
Dave Westwater is selling life insurance in Columbus, Ohio.
Bill Wiley is an advertising solicitor with the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Who knows anything about Bill Williamson? What are his habits? All we know is that he is practicing law in New York and living at the following very pretentious (to a Bostonian) address: 153 St. Marks Place, St. George, Staten Island, New York. Who can duplicate that address? Maybe Jim Hodge, but he needs that kind of an address in his business. Do you think that guy Williamson knows how to write an old pal a friendly letter? Do you think someone might call his attention to this plea for just a moment of his time?
Harris Huston is practicing law in Dayton, and teaching commercial law in one of the local high schools.
Cleve McKenna gets down to the most important news first and announces the arrival "of my one and only offspring lastAugust second—named Patricia, so you mayguess we're signing her up for Smith ratherthan Dartmouth '56. Decided that theDemocrats will break her old man long before that date, so gave her a name thatshould insure her a job with some policedepartment. If the worst comes to the worst. ... if Pat McKenna isn't a breath of theauld sod, what is?" Cleve goes on to say:
"The job is vice-president and generalmanager of the McKenna Brass and Mfg.Company of Pittsburgh. Taking over thesalesmanagership for the Mississippi Valley in addition to the rest the first ofSeptember, so it looks as though I'll beforced to definitely give up the comforts ofhome and family till God knows when. Ourbusiness is bottling machinery to bottleCoca Cola, beer, etc.
"Harry Lewis is assistant auditor of theMoffat Coal Co. of Denver, has two kids,and seems to be enjoying life immensely.
"Walt Kirkpatrick is married and practicing law in Lexington, Ky.
"Bill Condon I understand has finallycompleted the requirements for an M.D.and is practicing in Denver. He's considered darned good. Jim Collyford has beeninterning at Denver Children's Hospitaland should be about all set for his medicalcareer."
Johnny Clements brings himself up to date, briefly as follows:
"I am and have been since that fatefulday in June, 1929, employed with Marsh ifMcLennan, and in my own small way aman expert in casualty insurance. Since April10, 1930, Mildred Chapman has been mywife, and since Sept. 7, 1932, our greatestdomestic problem has been the educationof our only son, Robert Clements II, whoalready expresses a marked preference forDartmouth any time our discussion centersaround collegiate institutions."
Fran McEntee received his law degree from Harvard last June, married Anna Payne in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on July 10, honeymooned in Europe all summer, passed the Massachusetts bar exams, and is about to settle down to the practice of law; lives in Lynn, Mass.
Tom Maynard (nine big fingers and nine big toes) has unforgivable and unforgettable penmanship for a school teacher, but we manager to decipher that he spent a rustic summer vacation, highlighted by a long hike over the Appalachian Trail 130 miles.
"From Katahdin down to Monson, thenext town 110 miles, we found ourselvesthe first over it this summer—indeed thetrail had only been marked out a year agoand we had some difficulty in following it,since it has yet to be 'bushed out: We leftthe foot of Katahdin in a rainstorm, andmade only eight miles that day. I forgot tosay that a 45-lb. pack on a soft lazy person'sshoulders is a distinct handicap to windand endurance. However, we fell, or ratherwere forced, into shape so quickly, thoughpainfully, that we made 22 miles on theeighth day—over two mountains, gettinglost, and seeing much miserable brush,swamp beaver flowage, heat, and the like.Most people through that country intendto stop at hunting camps—about every 15miles apart on the trail ($4 a day, however). Pemadumcook Lake, Lower Joe MaryLake, Nohuiokanta, and others were verylonely yet immense in beauty. I saw muchcountry. Hard work, but I needed it. Sleptwell on a rocky beach, a sandy one, and atelike Polyphemus. Works begins Monday,but I hope to see the Yale game."
Don Simpson, assistant attorney general of the commonwealth, has recently been appointed to the State Board of Insurance Appeals.
Morris Hartman married Frances Atwater Gabriel on September 28, Shaker Heights, Ohio.
And Beedie Brisbin married Ola Katherine Mcl.cary on September 22, in Barre, Vt.
Secretary, 89 Pleasant St., Newton Center, Mass.
