Class of 1927
Last month we published in this column a fictitious letter as a decoy to sort of show what we would like to. receive. Imagine our surprise and extreme pleasure upon receiving TWO letters this month, both of which were so much better than the decoy that we shall quote them verbatim.
From Monty Phillips, securities salesman
with Albert A. Houck & Co., Inc., in Rochester, the following.
"Your column has been read for someten years more or less in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, with no news sent from thisend for the simple reason that nothingever seems to happen in Rochester.
"As a matter of fact there are six orseven '27's here, including Ted Ward, Stan Manson, Spense Cook, Jack Delmarie, and Justin Doyle, with Cebe Lee, Bill Hollands, and Hank Copeland nottoo far away.
"Returning from lunch the other day,it was a very pleasant surprise to find Bill Fryberger sitting in my office, lookingvery much the same as he did ten or moreyears ago. Bill came East on a legal matter in connection witfy a steamship company of which he is a director. He and Hersch are practicing law together inDuluth.
"Hope to see you the 13th and 14th inHanover."
In his last sentence Monty refers to the annual meeting of the Secretaries Association, which is to be held in Hanover on May 13 and 14. We are certainly looking forward to seeing him at that time.
From Waterville, Me., Dick Lougee writes:
"Dear Doane:
"Your plea for more news in the May issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE spurs me to volunteer some information about myself. Perhaps the classmates would like to know what became of me after I broke away from the gang on the first night of our reunion last June. The next day Clare and I were on our way to Russia via London, Brussels, Berlin, and Warsaw. We crossed Europe in 10 days, and joined a party of international geologists in Moscow for the first of two long tours that we made last summer in the Soviet Union. Our first tour under the leadership of the Russian geologists was to the Caucasus Mountains in southern Russia. We crossed this range at 11,000 feet elevation via the famous Georgian Military Highway, descended to dirty old Tiflis, and then went up into the Armenian Caucasus above tree line past the great Lake Sevan, more than 6,000 feet in elevation, before descending again to Erivan at the base of Mount Ararat on the Turkish border. All the while we were studying the rock structure but seeing the conditions of the country as well. Returning to Moscow via the Black Sea shore resorts and the Donets Basin, we spent eight days in sessions of the International Geological Congress in Moscow and two days in Leningrad. High lights of this part of the trip were visits to the palaces of the Tzars, delivering a paper and having it simultaneously translated into eight languages for my polyglot audience, a five-hour banquet with fifteen courses of food in the Kremlin Palace, and spending two hours in an O.G.P.U. jail for taking a photograph of a public building! From Moscow we started on our second long trip, into the Arctic, by rail through the prison lumber camps to Archangel, where we boarded a 200-ton steamer and steered for Novaya Zemlya. We made eleven landings on this weird island, studied its icecap and its Esquimaux by the light of the midnight sun, and encircled the northern tip of the island within 850 miles of the Pole. Our boat landed at Murmansk, and we returned to Leningrad on the Polar Arrow, northernmost railroad in the world. Leaving Europe via Finland, Sweden, and Norway, I got back to Colby College in time for beginning classes. I got a few thousand feet of movie film, much of it in color, out of Russia, and have been kept busy with more than 40 public lectures this winter. Hope you can see them sometime.
"Being an associate professor now and head of the geology department here, I have been made Commencement marshal at Colby, and am wondering if I can ever get back to a Dartmouth reunion againeven for my Dad's 50th this June.
"I don't see many classmates up this way, but would welcome visitors should they be driving through Waterville, Me."
Some of our classmates may have been in better jails and for different reasons, but we bet Dick holds the record for making one the farthest away from home. We hope that by the fifteenth reunion Dick will have trained an able assistant to take over his marshaling duties at Colby, so that we can all hear more about his interesting trip and perhaps see some of his pictures.
Will someone please keep up the good work so well started by Monty and Dick.
From that famous Cape Cod weekly, the Falmouth Enterprise, we learn that Art Mullen has recently left Chicago to
take up the practice of medicine in Benham, Ky. Natch Corregan is doing sales promotion work for Curtis Publishing Co. in Albany, N. Y. He is living at 7 Millington Rd., Schenectady.
Frank Marsh is a special agent for the Phoenix Insurance Co. in Philadelphia. Frank lives at Parkwood Manor Apartments, Bywood, Pa.
Evan Wilder has recently moved to 7154 Gillespie St., Philadelphia.
Don't forget that this is the last month to get your Alumni Fund contribution in to Hanover. Make sure that 1927 has a 100% record by mailing your check NOW!
Secretary, 152 Waban Ave., Waban, Mass.
