Class of 1928
Had my issue of the MAGAZINE not been a day late no one would have been as surprised as I was to find that I was due to contribute to this issue. However, Jack called me up in time to break the news before it came to me in print and thus modified the shock. Greetings from the University City.
The latest entry in the 1928 Baby Derby is the cute little lass with the duck upside down. She answers to the name of Patsy, and is the daughter of Carter Woods. Carter is teaching sociology at Wells College, Aurora, N. Y., and writes with an invitation to call when any of the classmates are in what he calls "these old Indian hunting grounds." Joan Patricia Woods is now twenty months old.
The next in order of receipt is the muscular mite posed beside the streamline perambulator. This is Charles Francis Fleischer, thirteen-months-old son of Charlie Fleischer, who writes from Columbus, Ohio, in part as follows, "Got an announcement from D. Benson from Pulaski,N. Y., that he became the father of a sonon October fifth. Mother and baby aredoi?ig fine. Ed Sawyer, who is doing bigthings in our fresh fish department, ivashere from Boston about three weeks ago,and in betxueen making plans to sell morefish to the natives of the Middle West wetalked plenty about Dartmouth." Thanks, Charlie, and may you and Ed make the M. W. cod-conscious.
Don't miss the next issue, which will have a picture of Johnny O'Sullivan's son Jerry, and, believe it or not, the son and daughter of Bruce Lewis. And while 011 the subject let us report the arrival of Dick Canton Jr., who appeared six weeks ago to brighten the lives of the Cantons. Dick is now in Worcester with the Liberty Mutual Insurance Cos.
Two weddings have taken place under our very noses during the last two months. The first was that of Gene Andres to Helen V. Snyder of Seattle, Wash., which took place on December 23 in Boston. Gene is still the traveling house dick for Phi Gamma Delta, and after a little Christmas vacation in Newton with his family started again on the rounds, heading for the West Coast chapters and the bride's home. Helen has just resigned from the position of field secretary of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, and is a graduate of the University of Washington, where she was the winner of a major "W."
The other shower of orange blossoms took place in Cambridge on February 8, when Don Solis and Elizabeth Smith of that city were married in a home ceremony attended by members of the families. The bride and groom were given a raucous send-off at the Eastern Steamship boat on which they sailed for New York. Alter a short cruise to Nassau, where they intend to get thoroughly de-frosted, they will live in Burlington, Vt., where Don now represents the Cities Service Refining Cos.
Johnny Phillips, who is still single, recently paid a visit to Boston and dropped in at the Dartmouth Lunch Club at the Parker House. While still speaking of Boston let us announce that Larry Martin has been transfered to the credit department of the National Shawmut Bank, and is now busy acquainting himself with the intricacies of what is still optimistically referred to as Boston's business.
We are glad to learn that the appointment of Dud Orr '29 to the position of assistant district attorney of the state of New Hampshire has not given the youngsters a monopoly on the politics of the state. We can raise them one by telling the world that besides Lanky Langdell's recent appointment we now have Bill Kimball and Tacks Connell on the State Planning Board.
While in Holyoke last June we came across Ed Lyman, who is practicing law in Springfield and is doing a bit of all right, thank you. Having just emerged victorious from a tilt at the Supreme Court, Ed was about to garner the loot and hie himself to Europe for the summer.
Pour moi, I am still in the freight traffic department, of the B. & M. in Boston, growing thin with the constant combat with freight tariffs, rates, and routes. Although nobody makes any money here, we have a lot of fun and occasionally see a classmate or two. Topper Robinson, the crushed stone magnate of Greenfield, Mass., drops in once in a while and reports on the quarry and family. Hank Milton appeared several months ago, and at the time was selling clay and tile products for some western outfit, the name of which has escaped me. One more personal item tells us that J. B. McGrath, who started with the class, but left college, is now with Abrams & Straus and lives in Herjipstead, L. I.
Don't forget that every Friday is 1928 day at the Dartmouth Lunch Club, and all you proud fathers don't delay in sending in the pictures of the young sprouts.
Joan "Patsy" Woods Daughter of Carter A. Woods '38.
Charles Francis Fleischer Aged 13 Months.
Secretary, Wm. Iselin & Cos. 357 Fourth Ave., New York As prepared by 41 Grozier Rd., Cambridge, Mass.
