Class of 1924
Putting the stakes at a bank president or better to open the column for the 1936-1937 season, we'll pass on the good word that Kip Higley was elected president of the Sandy Hill National Bank, Hudson Falls, N. Y., around Commencement time. He hied himself immediately to Hanover to spend a week of golfing, where Pinky Booth and his bride discovered him basking on the Inn steps between rounds.
Having introduced this second highlight of the summer, it might be well to expound upon the composure of Pinky the groom, as he took Miss Barbara Allen of Spencer, Mass., to be his wife on June 21. Two eye-witnesses of the class will vouch he never looked smoother, although Stan Lyon and the writer quickly conferred top honors for this quality upon the bride. P.S. He got a night off a few weeks ago to participate in a Worcester Dartmouth Club softball game, and valiantly held down the opponents by snagging many a prospective home run hit, as the ball car'omed off pine trees in the outfield.
Hap Jones writes from Atlanta that he hasn't seen anybody from the class since Ford Bowman left for Cincinnati, or the one time he ran across Rog Harris in Louisiana. Hap has been selling jacks, big and little, for the Walker Mfg. Cos. of Wisconsin for ten years. Has a Southern colored cook who spoils him and an Irish setter who runs the house.
Sorry this column couldn't be of help in publicizing Otie Jackson's return from Cincinnati the last of June to take over the Rev. Arthur Lichtenberger's services for the ensuing month at St. Paul's church in Brookline. He, his wife Arline, and their three children lived in the rectory next door, hopeful of class callers.
The Secretaries Association meeting last May included a sizable '24 delegationMony Monahan of the Philadelphia Club (Buts Crouter is president this year), Paul Gordon of Cleveland, Ken Davis of Manchester, N. H., Frank Montross of the Westchester Club, Whit Gowrie of New Haven, and Ed Spargo of Bridgeport. Reverberations of the report on subscribers to this publication still sit heavy on your scribe. The class has held uncontested honors for the fewest number of readers in proportion to class size for several years, but last year the total dropped further. If you feel chagrined, repentant of the past, or newly interested, forward that $2.50 now.
If you have any interest in badminton, check Don Wilbur's name as the moving spirit in a nation-wide organization of badminton clubs. He has served as director of the New England group, and last spring headed the committee to sponsor the American association. From his office in the University Club, Boston, he has done most of the detail work in forming a constitution, establishing rules, etc. The first national tournament is scheduled to be held in the Middle West next April. By this time Don has been elected president of the American Badminton Association.
Taking the privilege of spreading news from the Pacific Coast over more than one issue, we quote from Leon Rothschild's welcome letter in brief: "Herb Hoffman isnow a gold miner. He has had a very interesting time working a claim out in thedesert near Barstow, Calif. He says goldmining is a cinch—all one has to do is togo out and pick up a few nuggets, thencome into the city and enjoy life—untilone has need, of more nuggets. Mick Urisis back in Hollywood as a director ofdialogue at the R. K. O. studios."
Secretary, 12 Haviland St., Worcester, Mass.
