Class of 1916
By the time you read these notes, the Harvard, Yale, and Princeton games will be events of the past. I hope the Manhattan Mohammedans will send me a report of the Yale and Princeton parties. Because the Harvard night-before party is so near, New England Balmacaaners will not be able to experience the hospitality of Senator Ralph George, New Hampshire's Racing Commissioner at Rockingham Park. I'm sorry because we will miss the shark mathematicians, Jim Coffin, Tut Marsden, Johnny Mullen, Bob Steinert, and Bill Caldwell doping out via calculus just which nag is going to win, place and show. The system almost won last year, but Tog Upham, the neophyte, using the pencil punching system, was more successful.
Please dig out a copy of September Harper's and read George Cock's article on "Why Birds Leave Home." It's well worth reading, but what I can't understand is how a former public relations advisor to the Federal Home Loan Bank in Washington and the financial advertising genius of Doremus & Company could write such a study! George, it's a most in teresting article.
Speaking of authors, 1916's former Boston Globe correspondent, Charles K. Everett, has a fifteen-page article in the September issue of the Annals of theAmerican Academy of Political Science on "Cotton Consumption in the United States." Chuck is now manager of the New Uses Section of the Cotton Textile Institute of New York.
The New York Times informs us that Alexander Dean of the Drama School at Yale is to re-stage and help edit "In Clover," which is soon to open on Broadr way. I guess the dramatic critics had something to do with calling for Alec's help, for they paid him a high tribute for a similar job he performed on "Russet Mantle" a couple of seasons ago.
The Boston Traveler of October 4 carried a picture of Mrs. Andrew B. Mc Clary and her two beautiful children, Sarah Frances, and Susanna. The dignified but homely Windsor, Vt., banker, one Andrew B. Mc Clary, should have appeared in the picture for a contrast. If I read the papers correctly, one William Reginald Gough took unto himself recently a charming bride, the former Mrs. Luke de Bustamente, whose lovely picture graced the New York papers.
Now for the news of the month. The Freddie St. George Smiths are boasting of the birth of a beautiful daughter on September 13. I really can't credit Perc Burnham's description of the little girl, that she looks like her father, for you know without my saying it, that Freddie St. George is not a Hollywood matinee idol. By the way, Balmacaaners at the Yale and Princeton games should be able to spot that redheaded Mohammedan for Perc said he was going to both.
Alec Jardine, the Sears Roebuck tycoon, has bought himself a building lot in Wellesley near the Fullers. We will help him at the house-warming when the chateau is built.
The Gilbert Tapleys have a champion in the family, Priscilla Tapley, one of the four Tapley heiresses, won the girls' doubles at Winchester and Tedesco during the past season.
No news out of China from our Oriental Balmacaaners, Bob McClure, at Foochow, Fukien, Carl Eskeline, since he escaped from Tientsin, or Bill Hale in Shanghai. Anyone with news please send it along.
Letters received this month from my able and reliable correspondents, John Lincoln Ames of New York and Roger Flagg Evans of Philadelphia. Mr. Ozite Kiley wrote me a sharp note, just a bawling out but no news. Get busy, you men, or I'll tell stories.
Speaking of stories, you can't keep the sons of 1916 from getting together. Dick Parkhurst was visiting his son John at a Maine camp this summer. Dick spotted a sturdy-looking lad nearby and asked young John who he was and John said, "He is mybuddy, my best pal, and his name is BobbyBurlen. Do you know him, Daddy?" The bond that unites us is carried unto the second generation.
The football applications bring out changes in addresses. Here are some recent changes. Reginald Chutter is living at 1210 N. Wynnewood Rd., Wynnewood, Pa.: Jack Dancer is with Clark Aiken Cos., and living at the Morgan House, Lee, Mass.; Viv Fletcher has forsaken Young 8c Ottley and has joined Kean, Taylor, Inc., at 14 Wall St., Viv is living at 15 Wight Place, Tenafly, N. J. Dr. Cecil W. Tucker has put up his shingle again after years in the Veterans' Hospital. I'm glad to hear you are up and around, "Red," Louis H. Bell is now associate editor of Poor's Investment Surveys, Wellesley Hills, Mass. Dr'. Phillips N. Davis is now located at 205 Humboldt Bldg., St. Louis, Mo.
I really should open up my mem book and bring to light some of the antics of i<)i6ers, as freshmen, twenty:five years ago. Ros Magill as a heeler for The Dartmouth, J. Gile plugging away as an end on the freshman team, King Cole trying out for the Glee Club, Bob Burlen waiting for the football season to end so he could smoke, Rog Evans, sole note-taker of SMUT 1, Dick Parkhurst lugging trunks for those tough sophomores, Louie Gove tutoring, Shorty Hitchcock, Eskie, Shrimp Murchie, Raymond Forsythe DeVoe, J. Patrick English, and Tug Tyler in Math 1, Happy memories.
Secretary, 37 Maple St., Stoneham, Mass.
