1927

So hard has it been to get information with which to fill this column that during the month of September your scribe decided to take a trip across the country for the sole purpose of digging up a little news. Pressure of business and lack of time prevented us from seeing as many of the fellows as we would have liked. However, in Portland, Oregon, we saw and talked with Sam Martin, one of the coming young lawyers of the Northwest. Sam told us that George Friede is making quite a name for himself in state politics in Oregon. We tried to reach George by phone, but unfortunately he was out, making a campaign speech at the time. We were successful in reaching Dud Sercombe by telephone and had a nice chat with him. Dud was very sorry he could not be present at the Tenth, but promised not to miss the Fifteenth. The following morning we flew from Portland to San Francisco, and that afternoon had the pleasure of entertaining Rollie Howes, Francis Bruguiere, and Bruce McKennan in our hotel room. They are all steamed up about the Stanford game, and were anxious to know how many of our class were planning to go out to see it. Rollie is still keeping very busy at the Independent Pressrooms. Bruce is manager of Wood, Struthers office in San Francisco. Bruggy is editing a publication for Shell Oil. All three seemed to be in the best of health and prospering well. Unfortunately Al Clifton could not join us because of illness.

From San Francisco we moved on to Los Angeles for several days, and then started home via Chicago, where we saw Bill Abbott for a few minutes between trains. Bill has been elected to the Alumni Council, being the first one of our class to receive that honor. We are looking forward to seeing him in Boston at the time of the Harvard game, when he will attend his first meeting of the Council. Bill and George Howell, with whom we talked by phone, are both going west for the Stanford game.

We left Chicago on Wednesday, September 21, expecting to arrive in Boston. The fates decreed differently however, for the now famous hurricane struck that afternoon and our train was re-routed into New York City where we were forced to cool our heels for three days before we could get passage to Boston. Spent a very enjoyable evening in that town with Ken Ballantyne, recently returned from his honeymoon in Europe. Ken and his bride were to move shortly to Riverside, Conn., where they will make their home. Talked with Josh Davis by telephone in his room at the Montclair Community Hospital, where he had returned because of a flairup of the phlebitis from which he suffered last summer. Reports have just reached us this evening that he was seen at the Princeton game, so we judge that he is back in his usual good health.

Dr. Phil Corliss writes from Somerton, Arizona, the announcement of his marriage to Miss Carmen Ganong of St. Stephen, New Brunswick. In his own words: "It was probably one of the merriest and maddest marriages ever seen in Yuma, marriage center of the world. It was to have been done at 10 P.M., but I had to leave wedding dinner to deliver a Chinese baby, and then the Yuma sheriff's office bride-napped the young lady. Police short- wave radio finally brought them in and just in time for the knot to be tied while it was still April 28." The wild and woolly West, we calls it.

Did you know that: Dr. John Greener has moved to 919 Ocean Ave. in Brooklyn. Dentist Bill Spinney has moved his office to 178 Tremont St., in Boston. Bill is living in Arlington. Frank Collier now lives at 47 Ferdinand St., Melrose, Mass. Al Bliss is with the National Life Insurance Company of Vermont, in Montpelier. Henry Copeland is with DeWitt-Boag Co., silk manufacturers, in Hornell, N. Y. Urban Lauber is now with the General Chemical Co., in New York City. He lives at 99 Boulevard, Glen Rock, N. J. Dick Mommers sells for the Bridgeport Brass Co., in Washington, D. C. George Morcroft is practicing law in Pittsburgh. He makes his home at 123 S. Euclid Ave., Bellevue, Pa. Bill Ward is working as personnel investigator for the Western Electric Co., in Kearny, N. J. He lives at 739 Boulevard, Bayonne. Les Battin is advertising manager for the Mason-Neilan Regulator Co., in Boston. Les lives at 47 South St., Foxboro, Mass. Houston Gray is with the Baird-Ward Printing Co., in Nashville, Tenn. His home address is 211 Lauderdale Rd., Nashville. Lee Slinkard is an advertising salesman for the Indianapolis Times. He lives at 5315 Central Ave., Indianapolis. Joe Hill is now in New York City, living at 344 West 72d St. Clint Bradley has moved to Philadelphia. He is a salesman, and lives at 3800 Chestnut St. Bed Williams is selling life insurance for the Penn Mutual in Chicago. He lives at 6133 North Kenmore Ave. Bob Voorhis, Boston lawyer, has recently moved his office to 73 Tremont St., Leonard Stern is a broker with Talbot & Co., in New York City. Len lives at 22 Midland Ave., White Plains, N. Y. Al McClure is. now division facilities supervisor for the New England Tel. and Tel. in Springfield, Mass. Al lives at 8 Alhambra Circle, Agawam, Mass. Ross Guyot now lives at 1146 South Lucerne Blvd., Los Angeles. Ken Anderson is working for the Department of Commerce in Washington, D. C. Ken lives at 317 South Royal St., Alexandria, Va. Harry Wallace is now assistant general manager of the United Fuel Gas Co. Harry lives at 1633 Quarrier St., Charleston, W. Va. Art Armstrong is special assistant to the Attorney General in Washington, D. C. He is working in the Tax Division of the Department of Justice. Hugh McGrath, New York insurance broker, is living at 26 Siebrecht Place, New Rochelle. Ed Fry lives at 483 Hawthorne Lane, Winnetka, Ill. Dave Climenko is doing research work at the Biological Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. Bill Satterfield has been transferred to the Cincinnati office of the Maryland Casualty Co. Bill lives at 37 Rivard Drive, Covington, Ky. Vernon Whitney is now working for the Walla Walla Canning Co., in Walla Walla, Wash. His address is 722 Washington St., Walla Walla. Marshall Lovegrove is with the Mutual System, Inc., of New Haven. He lives at 152 Angell St., Providence, R. I. Joe Staubach is president and treasurer of the Yonkers Lumber Corp. Joe makes his home at 31 Emmett Place, Yonkers, N. Y. Stew Schackne is with the Sonotone Corporation in Elmsford, N. Y. Bob Long is selling advertising for Conde Nast Publication, Inc., in New York City. Bob lives at 64 Mercer Ave., Hartsdale, N. Y. Norman Swift is teaching history and economics at the Middletown High School in Middletown, N. Y. Bill Montgomery is now associate editor of the Hanover Gazette, in Hanover, N. H. Kroggy Krogstad is now retail sales manager for the International Harvester Co., in Houston, Texas.

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