1928*
Hope you all had a swell summer. We may not have four championship teams this year, but we have got a great football schedule and a team that looks able to handle it. Read this MAGAZINE every month and you will have the whole story on the team, the College, and what your classmates are doing. Because so many are enthusiastic about the Group Subscription Plan for 1938, your officers have approved the Plan for the second year, as you were notified two weeks ago. Send your check to Treasurer Bruce M. Lewis, 80 Eighth Ave., New York, N. Y., if you have not already done so. He has a big job and it's our job to see that it is done in the manner in which 1928 has done other jobs in the past few years.
Within the brief space of three weeks last summer four of our most eligible New York bachelors finally saw the light and joined the ranks of most of their classmates in accepting their due place in the community through assuming the obligations of matrimony. The total number of deserters from our bachelor ranks since June is five, the same as in the preceding summer.
"Mrs. George Merritt Reynolds announces the marriage of her daughter, Anita to Mr. Lewis Rexford Beers on Saturday the second of September, Port Chester, New York." Supplementing the above, newspaper clippings indicate the usual dope on tulle veil, Madonna lilies, pink roses, delphinium, and John Weser (usher). The gay young men rallying to the groom's defense (and partaking of Sherry's refreshments) were Hammie Hammesfahr, Norm Nash and your Secretary. Anita is a graduate of Skidmore. After a honeymoon at Montauk Point, the Beers are at home at 26 East 9th St., New York.
"Mr. and Mrs. William Witte Bowers announce the marriage of their daughter, Helen Elizabeth, to Mr. Herman William Graupner on Saturday, the nineteenth of August, Ambler, Pennsylvania." The Graupners took a two-weeks West Indies cruise; are at home at 424 East 52nd St., New York.
"Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey DePew Steele announce the marriage of their daughter, Gloria, to Mr. Edward Bartley Osborn on Wednesday, the sixteenth of August, Miami, Florida." Bud and Gloria hopped over to Nassau and Bermuda for their honeymoon; are at home at 1902 Summit Ave., St. Paul, Minnesota. Gloria attended the Scarborough School.
"Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Smith Poor announce the marriage of their daughter, Betsey, to Mr. Harvey Somers Fisher on Saturday, the twelfth of August, Andover, Maine." By Dodge and Bob Rockhill went up from New York as chief morale builders.
"Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Guiteau Underhill announce the marriage of their daughter, Jeanette Underhill Thomas, to Mr. Frank William Tindle on Saturday, the first of July, Buffalo, New York." After a trip to Europe they settled down in the peace and quiet of 99 Morris Ave., Buffalo.
If you're going to the Harvard game October 28 don't miss the '28 get-together which Don Norris, Larry Martin and Jack Phelan are arranging. As these notes are being written, the time and place have not been set. Out-of-towners should communicate with Don at 63 Goss Ave., Melrose, Mass., for details. The 1200 feet of colored film of our tenth reunion, and with numerous succulent titles added, will be shown.
A '28 dinner was held at the Dartmouth Club in New York September 19, and monthly get-togethers will be held at the Club. Out-of-towners are urged to write or call your Secretary to ascertain the dates.
Recent Encounters: Paul and Sonia Ahlers, tanned and relaxed after two weeks trip in a 33-foot ketch down Long Island Sound to Block Island, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Newport and back to Greenport Myles Lane doing some fancy plunging through the waves at Jones Beach trying to recover his modesty and his swimming trunks which a big wave had snatched just as neatly as Myles used to snatch forward passes out of the air. . . . .The Millikens (Roy, Mab and two- year-old Anne) visited in Scarsdale, full of plans for moving to larger house October 1st Joe Smith, crack Rand, McNally & Co. representative, dropped in for dinner and a few leisurely drinks; he has just taken over the northern New York territory, Albany west to Utica; Joe, Ruth and one-year-old Marcia live in Newtonville, a suburb of Albany Henry Williams, who on August 7 was appointed executive office manager of the Waldorf-Astoria and Secretary to Mr. Boomer, the president Howie Chapin, since August 1 advertising manager of the cereal group of General Foods Corp., wracking his brain for new ways to sell "Huskies.".... Curley Prosser, relaxing after hectic time helping Teachers College organize the Congress on Education for Democracy which was held in New York August 15-17; Curley was "on loan" from the American Banking Institute, to which he now returns A very pleasant Fourth of July week end with Rupe and Helen Thompson at their summer home at Westport Harbor, near Providence, during which we secured photographic proof that they are raising their two sturdy youngsters, Peter (6) and David (4) on beer. Every time Rupe started opening beer cans they ran for their little glasses and drank with the rest of us. Peter and David have a goat, pony, dog, cat and rabbits to keep them busy Another pleasant week end with Bill and Emelyn Rohlffs and their two attractive daughters, Carol (10) and Lindy (6), at their home in Merrick, Long Island.
A friend in Jacksonville sent us a big photograph clipped from the August 14th Jacksonville Journal in which we recognize Jerry Pitts being greeted by the president of the Foremost Dairies as he steps from an air liner. The newspaper article says: "Jeremiah P. Pitts, merchandising and buying executive of United Cigar Stores and Whelan Drug Stores, arrived yesterday to close one of the largest milk and ice cream contracts ever made. The contract will take in more than $3,000,000 worth of Foremost products."... .We're obliged to Ford Whelden '25 for a picture from the Automotive News, showing Rick Rickenbaugh, sales promotion manager of Cadillac-LaSalle, welcoming officers of the Cadillac Merit Men at their annual convention at Rye, N. Y.
Red Edgar did an excellent job as class agent and deserves a vote of thanks from the Class. With 409 contributors, which is 93% of the number of graduates, '28 was third among all the young classes from '23 on, as previously reported to you. Skipping abruptly to vital statistics, we are glad to congratulate Red on the arrival of William Harris Edgar on July 25. Red says, "This, with my daughter Carolyn, age 5½, rounds out the Edgar family." Red reports that he spent an evening at Don Solis' apartment with Al Kitts and his wife, Anne. Al was up from Salisbury, Md., for the month of July doing special work in pediatrics at Harvard. Lanky Langdell and Lane Dwinell both took combined business and pleasure trips to the West Coast this summer. Your Secretary took an automobile trip through England, Holland, Belgium and Germany this summer, returning to New York on the S.S. Nieuw Amsterdam just before the war started. In England, Holland and Belgium the tension was very great and the people expected war; in Germany the people were calm, and convinced that England was bluffing. This trip has given your Secretary new vim, vigor and vitality. With your help we can make this a bigger and better column. Write us right away, and enclose that ALUMNI MAGAZINE check which we'll turn over to Bruce.
Secretary, Tucker, Anthony & Co. 120 Broadway, New York
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