Class of 1928
Slipped up on you gentlemen last month—will try to make up for it with some extra space this time.
Got a good letter from that guy Joe Smith a short while ago. Joe is back in the teaching business again, and it suits him fine. He switched from teaching and coaching into the chain store business with W. T. Grant about 1933, but after a year and a half the urge to teach again was too much for him. He entered the University of Michigan in Sept., 1935, and emerged last summer with an M.A. in school administration plus some additional information in. Latin and French. Got in some work on the side in football and basketball and collected a Phi Delta Kappa honorary key. Michigan, from all accounts, is a grand school and operated under very progressive educational methods. Joe says the coeds are not bad either. Why an old guy like Smith would observe such things I can't figure out, maybe being a constitutional bachelor keeps a fellow in practice.
However, right at present Joe has a very good teaching and coaching position at Culver Military Academy, one of the oldest in the business. Joe says you can't account for tastes, but in expanding the staff this year by some 13 additional men they let in two Psi U's, one of whom is George Werrenrath, Dartmouth '33. Joe and George have charge of inspections and live in the Black Horse Troop Barracks. Next time we see Joe he'll probably be wearing spurs. He coached an infantry football team last fall to within one place °f a chance at the regimental championships, and this winter is acting as indoor varsity track coach. He expects to assist in this sport next spring. Latin and French account for the balance of each 34 hours.
Dick Lee got himself hitched up to Rosemary Whearty on November 4 out there in Cleveland.
Bill Okie, who fixes windows for Marcus & Cos., was written up the other day by a New York columnist, when he had the good nature to wear at El Morocco a diamond gardenia fashioned in a moment of despair by someone at Marcus'. This little gadget is priced at a cool $101,000.00 and of course is quite practical, since it saves the daily cost of gardenias. They should sell a bucketful of them. Some time ago the New Yorker ran a piece about Bill, but didn't mention his name; it seems that when Marcus put in one of the early displays, using invisible glass, which is quite costly, incidentally, Bill tossed a wrench or something into a corner and busted into several million sections a piece of this invisible stuff which was just about to go into a window, delaying the installation some months. Bill claimed that anyone who made stuff that couldn't be seen should expect to get it broken now and then.
Bill Whaley writes that news from Oklahoma is pretty slim. Says he visited Gillie Swanson in Fayetteville over July 4, and that there was a return engagement at Oklahoma City over Labor Day. Bill says that he has been all tied up in getting caught up with his new job and hasn't looked up Jerry Sass as yet, but has heard plenty of news about Jerry's tennis playing, amateur piloting, etc.
Wat Dickerman resigned from his supervising job with WPA, and is now studying at the University of Chicago and living at International House. Hopes to have his A.M. by the end of the winter quarter, and if he can get a fellowship will probably go on to his Ph.D. Wat says that Clint Goodman has put on plenty of weight, is practicing law, and getting mixed up in politics on the side. Ranney has a small son and two Springer spaniels. Joe Goodwillie has recently appeared on the scene (his new job was reported to you a few months ago).
Al Bishop is at the Manchester High School, Manchester, N. Y.—teaching, I expect Nibs Dow is in the insurance business with John C. Paige, Boston. .... Parker Jacobson is a lawyer in Chicago with an office at 120 S. La Salle St. .... George Foster is assistant regional director of the Federal Music Project of WPA in New York Dave Willard is with Postal Telegraph at Newark, N. J Dick Wallis is the Southern California representative of the Cleveland Tractor Cos Ken Robbie is selling for International Folding Paper Box Cos., Inc. at North Bergen, N. J John Turkevich is back at Frick Chemical Laboratory, Princeton.
Secretary, Wm. Iselin & Cos. 357 Fourth Ave., New York
