Class of 1915
Fifteeners reported as seen (and heard) at the January 28 banquet of the Boston Alumni Association were Earl Clough, String Downing, Chan Foster, Bob Guest, Tom Hanson, Stu Hill, Bill Huntress, Johnny Johnson, Greg Lyon, Norvie Milmore, Kike Richardson, Leon Tuck, Shrimp Williams, Howie Wing, Speed Henderson, George Martin, Shorty Leary, Dale Barker, and Howard Fuller. One of the boys inquired if the "powers that be" thought 'l5 had deserted Boston, only nine of the above being seated together, the balance taking "pot-luck" wherever they could.
Johnny Mullin forwards a clipping from an Albany, N. Y., newspaper concerning Leon Aronowitz, who has but recently been appointed director of the New York state traffic commission, having control of all traffic on New York state highways. Since graduating from Albany Law School in 1918, Leon has been connected with the state of New York,—as statistician in the Labor Dept., as auditor in the income tax bureau, as assistant to the budget director, as auditor in the comptroller's office, and finally statistician in the motor vehicle bureau. Not too bad, Leon.
According to official data recently released by the federal government, our friend Al Bradley, treasurer of General Motors, appears to draw a fairly decent salary, well started in the six-figure column. Good for you, Al, but let us in on the secret.
From no less an authority than Dale Barker, we learn something about Bud Doe, the agriculturist and butter and egg man of Harvard, Mass. On occasion Bud and Tex play bridge with some of the neighbors, and Bud making sure that he plays against Tex, with a side bet as to who will wash the barn windows. When Bud loses, it's too cold or too dusty to wash windows, so the story goes (leave it to Bud). This winter he has taken up hockey again, playing up front with the boys as long as his wind lasts, and then going back to tend goal.
Paul Gibson writes from Richmond, Va. Paul left the newspaper business about four years ago, and is now with the ProTex Process Company, a manufacturer's agency selling a line of automobile products made in Detroit. Paul is secretary of the Dartmouth Alumni Club of Virginia, with a membership of about 100; but sad as it is, Paul is the only Fifteener in the Club.
If we could think up something mean enough to say or clo that would warrant our being sued for libel, we might get a response from some of our wayward brethren, some of whom we will attempt to get into print, at least. Take, for in- stance, Joe Comstock and Bill Hall of Los Angeles; Al Livingston of Altadena, Calif., and Howard Miles of Eagle Rock, Calif.— they couldn't have forgotten how to read and write. Then coming east we might mention Les Castle, the Chicago banker; King Cook, the Evanston insurance broker; Bill Daniell, engineer, of Green Bay; Dr. "Pop" Dennen of Toledo and "Oilman" Jack Ferguson of Tusla, and the Creamery King of Omaha, Don Howe. Then there is that landscape architect of Waukegan, George Ingalls; Carnegie Steel's Ed Jahn of Youngstown, and Prof. Ed Mabie of State University of lowa, lowa City; Real-Estater Clarendon Mower of Rockford and Coca Cola's Phil Murdock of Chicago; as well as Herb Lanterman, a chemical engineer of Charleston, W. Va. General Electric at Schenectady supervises its business training through the guidance of one Marvin Frederick, and Bordens in New York engineers its sales by virtue of Joe Harris. We are saving space for a letter from each one of them, and by the great jumping Mariah, if we are let down, well
A Christmas card from Matt Gately from Buenos Aires advised that he was here in the U. S. last summer. He wrote that he missed the Secretary when he (Matt) was in Boston.
Two of the class appeared in Time on February 1. At the convention of the National Retail Dry Goods Association in Manhattan, Jay D. Runkle was quoted:
"Not price-cutting but price-raising disturbed Jay D. Runkle of Marshall Field'sNew York office. In prices the merchant'sinterest is close to that of the customer, opposed to that of the manufacturer. Thelower the price the easier it is to sell thegoods. In viewing with alarm the commodity boom, Retailer Runkle opined: 'ltwould be a serious thing for all of us ifprices got out of bounds.' "
Then when Arizona's health was discussed:
"Boosters of Arizona as a health resort were last week obliged to swallow a bitter purge compounded for them by Field Director Carl Edward Buck of the American Public Health Association. Reported Dr. Buck, after surveying the state's health ambitions and failings:
In every single one of the largely or partially preventable causes of death, Arizona has a much higher rate, in some distances three or even four times higher than the country as a whole."
Cried Dean Lane when he read Dr. Buck's indictment: 'Astounding but never- theless a fact. A terrible indictment of our own citizenry and of the public administrations in the past.' "
This week Dean Lane and friends were t0 go before the Arizona legislature to demand that Arizona, only state without a utl-time health commissioner, employ one at once. Prompted by Critic Buck, Dean Lane was to urge further that each of Arizona's 14 counties and all its big cities hire full-time health officers, and that those authorities be empowered to deal peremptorily with water supply, sewage disposal and all other environmental health factors."
"To sugar his bitter purge, Critic Buck last week addressed these good words to Arizonians: 'Arizona has the justifiable reputation of having a very desirable climate, and because of this reputation enjoys a most favorable tourist trade. No one wishes to do anything which would interfere with this trade. The safest and surest method .... would seem to lie in emphasizing the fact (when that stage of development has been reached when one can honestly do so) that Arizona is carrying on a thoroughly modern, well-balanced program for health protection and promotion, insuring the health and happiness of its people and its visitors.' "
Mose Linscott planned his usual winter mountain-climbing trip for ten days around February 22. At the present writing he and all of us are still looking for snow The Secretary, for the Winter Sports group at the University Club in Boston, arranged a week-end trip at "Chuck" Emerson's hotel at Intervale, N. H., and about thirty were headed there to learn of "Chuck's" marvelous hospitality, but lack of snow caused the train and week-end to be canceled.
Nor Catterall and Dorothy are settled out in Garden City now in a very attractive new home. "Nor" is with Spencer Trask and Co. at 25 Broad St., New York City He, with Remsen, Dessau, Wells, Runkle, Stoddard, and Ashton, had dinner at the Dartmouth Club on February 2.
Parker Trowbridge's father, Dr. Edward H. Trowbridge 'Bl, died on January 20 at the age of 80. We will never forget his joy and pep last June in Hanover at his 55th Reunion. Parker has the sympathy of the entire class.
Thomas Scully died at his home in Montclair, N. J., on January 29 after a long illness. Obituary will be found on another page.
Harold McAllister, Shepard, Linscott, Enright, Munsey, Pishon, George Knight, Jiggs Donahue, Shumway, Bill Davis, Hal Tuck, and Wilkins attended the Boston dinner on January 28. Nine other regulars were absent for good and sufficient reasons.
Secretary, Orleans, Vt.
