Class of 1917
Mrs. Charles Oscar Ponthan announces the marriage of her daughter, Helen Gray, to Doctor Raymond Harding Baxter on Saturday, the thirtieth of March, Nineteen hundred and thirty-five, at Marion, Massachusetts. Congratulations, Slats, and very besf wishes from us all. We understand the honeymooners went to Hanover, so feel that more detailed reports are in order from Arch Gile.
Towler has started something again! This time it is a little class competition between the Boston and New York groups. It seems that recently he made a few little wagers with one Spike Maclntyre first, that the New York contingent would have more representatives at their annual dinner than Boston would turn out for their dinner. Towler won this with a count of eleven to eight. Second, that the New York contingent will send more representatives to our Twentieth Reunion than the Bostons will. Though two years away, that promises to be a real contest, and New York is giving fair warning now that they are starting their campaign, so if Boston sits back too complacently and takes too much for granted they might have a rude shock in store for them.
The class was represented at the Boston dinner on March 7 at the Copley-Plaza by Sunny Sanborn, Johnny Wheelock, Curly Carr, George Currier, Will Fitch, Mott Brown, Roy Halloran, Spike Maclntyre, and from New York, Towler.
The annual New York dinner on March 13 was a huge success. Our group—Fowler, Towler, Marschat, Myers, Whiton, Stewart, Ford, Sewall, Read, Thielscher, and Brooks foregathered in a very special room at the Club and very thoroughly and successfully prepared themselves for the dinner at the Commodore.
Early re.turns for the 1935 Active Group are only fair so far, and we must have a better response during the present month or else the number will fall behind even the unsatisfactory list of last year. To date we have Aldrich, Baxter, Mott Brown, Carr, Doty, Duhamel, Eaton, Emerson, Friedrichs, Gates, Gile, Green, Haggerty, Halloran, Harris, Hill, Holt, Knowlton, Lynch, Melvin, O'Leary, Richardson, G. L., Richmond, Robie, Scott, Sewall, Shackford, Shattuck, Steiger, Stillman, K. G., Swett, Thielscher, Thompson, Towler, Tracy, Whiton, Gilmore, Brooks, Gregory, Fowler, Marschat.
The fourth annual dinner of the North Jersey Alumni Association was held on April 5 at the Essex County Country Club with an attendance of 125. The class of 1917 certainly stands out in this organization! As commented upon by the association president, Max Switzer and Karl Koeniger (one of their past presidents), were prime movers in the original formation of the association, and among their present officers we find that Gil Swett is treasurer while Koeniger and Towler are on the board of governors. Eight Seventeeners were present at this dinner (Boston please note!) Switzer, Marr, Tbwler, O'Neill, Gregory, Koeniger, Swett, Arch Earle, and the latter did a grand job as guest conductor of the evening.
Thanks to a grand report from Spike Maclntyre on the New England contingent, we can give you some brief items here and still save a few for next month.
Fritz Ainsmith-seen around Boston lately engaged in public accounting as a C. P. A.
Pot Alger as far as we know the big cloud of smoke is still selling fire engines. Andy Anderson-engaged in establishing Covo as the premier shortening of the world for Lever Bros. Company.
PLAYS THE PONIES
Pay Barber and his attractive wife, Marion, are now holding forth at 90 Myrtle St., Beacon Hill, Boston. Pay is a partner in the insurance business of Field & Cowles. Pay is anxiously awaiting the opening of the horse racing season, of which sport he has become quite a fan.
Sunny Sanborn is just around the corner from the Barbers at 19 Joy St. Sunny is also in the insurance business with the Sanborn Agency. He has been adding to his many other laurels by unusual photographic artistry, and he has contributed at least one cover to the AI.UMNI MAGAZINE. His prints are much sought by the administration at Hanover, particularly the winter scenes of Hanover and Hell's Highway. Sunny gets to Hanover for at least one week each February, and you may have noticed in the last issue of the MAGAZINE he was mentioned as one of their best contributors. Walt Barrows seen around Boston lately, always with that faraway look of a judge pondering some complicated legal technicality. (Walt is practising law in Boston.)
Asty Bartlett still catering to the elite on Boylston St. for Bartlett & Sons Company, opticians.
Mott Brown one of the too few Seventeeners at the Dartmouth dinner. He is with the Lewis Mfg. Company at Walpole, Mass. Same old Mott and evidently getting along very nicely.
Curly Carr still in the investment business and wondering how and when the alumni quota is going to be met. Confidently anticipating the class will make a real showing this year.
Rowdy Clark in investment business and from last reports was doing very well. (How do you do it, Rowdy?)
George Currier is a big booster for the weekly Dartmouth luncheons (which he attends regularly himself) and wonders why more Seventeeners don't take advantage of this opportunity for a weekly gettogether. He tears himself away from his contracting business for periodic trips into the North Country (no information about what he does there).
Tracy Dibble another C. P. A. with the firm of Dibble & Anderson in Boston.
Ping Doty—still in the wool business in Boston. Am not sure but believe he is with the firm of Chester Brett Co.
Chuck Downer—still in the laundry business with the New England Laundries, Inc.
Forrie Emery-Debonair Forrie is keeping the wheels going for F. S. Emery Co., investments, Boston.
Al Emmons still with H. K. Noyes & Son, distributors for New England of Buick cars. Getting along famously.
Phil Evans still in the furniture business, but I have not seen him for a long time, says Spike.
Walt Ferguson no longer "fat," but now a sylph like figure, and I believe is still in the banking and investment business.
At the time of his appearance in New York last month, Barney Thielscher announced his transfer from Buffalo to Philadelphia, where he is now general merchandising manager of that district for the Graybar Electric Company, office and home address not yet received.
Last but most important at this time comes the Alumni Fund. The 1935 campaign is now reaching its most important phase. A class committee of three is working from New York to assist our agent, Curly Carr. Before these notes are published every man should have received an urgent request, and in the case of the Metropolitan area a demand, to get behind this drive. We must increase the total number of givers and in many cases should increase the individual donations. If you can only spare one or two dollars, send that inas there are many men in other classes doing just that, which is one reason those classes are able to keep so well up on the list.
SUPPORT THE ALUMNI FUND JOIN THE ACTIVE GROUP
Secretary, Craig House, Beacon, N. Y.
