1926*
The old saying that no news is good news doesn't work out in the case of a class secretary. October is one of those months between the encouraging accumulation of summer news and the usual meeting of '26ers from the hinterland at football games. While you are reading this column in November as the season goes into its final phase, it was written October Bth before the many gala week-ends got under way.
Word has come from Clarence MacDavitt, our keeper of the privy purse, that those $2.50 checks for the MAGAZINE are arriving in each mail and he hopes that they will continue. If you have overlooked this matter, your remittance will be very welcome, but most welcome of all would be a few lines of news informing the class of your whereabouts and state of health.
A recent letter from Nate Parker tells of seeing the Darlings who were still raving about the good time they had at the class meeting in Hanover this summer. He also said that Joe Batchelder was in Pittsburgh attending the Fox Chapel Country Club invitation golf tournament.
Bill Hughes, who is in the Boston office of the Standard Oil Company of N. Y. and living in Andover, Mass., broke down after a long silence and wrote a very newsy letter. He says the demand for his products has been so great that he had had to turn down orders. His territory has recently been expanded and he has been as busy as the proverbial one armed paper hanger. He did, however, take time to report having seen Walt and Billie Rankin who have just returned from their new cottage at Falmouth on the Cape. Apparently, the telephone business is good too. Bill saw J im Oberlander, who as you know is Head Physician at the University of New Hampshire. He also saw Carroll Peavy who has resumed work as headmaster of the new Spaulding High School ill Rochester, N. H., one of the finest and most modern structures of its kind in the country we are told.
Tom Murdough, who is living in Oklahoma, writes that he is now the proud father of three sons. We knew of two, Samuel aged 6 and Charles aged a. How about the vital statistics on number three, Tom? Incidentally, Tom says since Hitler, he prefers Oklahoma to the Rhine trip that he took with MacDavitt some years ago.
Red Merrill and his wife spent the summer in Europe this year and returned on the He de France after the declaration of war. The return trip was a rather harrowing experience for them considering the overcrowded, blacked-out condition of the ship and the tension on board as they passed through the submarine zone. They are both glad to be back to Hanover.
Larry Wolf reports that eight years with the Metropolitan Life and the remainder of the time in the general insurance brokerage business hasn't changed him much.
Holt McAloney is now living on Wakeman Road, Darien, Conn., where he is a neighbor of Champion, Raisbeck and Esquerre.
A 1 Louer writes that Bill Nigh called him on the phone in Chicago recently. He was on his way from the coast to New York.
Word has come to us of the death of Bob May's wife. She had been ill for some time and passed away during the summer. We all extend our sympathy to Bob for his great loss.
Dick Eberhart continues his place in the literary sun, having published two poems in the summer issue of Furioso, Poem inConstruction and The Human Being. Others which he has recently published are Irving Babbitt and The Twenty-Thirdof the Sonnets, appearing in the HarvardAdvocate, Rumination published at Cambridge, England, and To a Poet which appeared in the New Yorker of September 9-
Ed Fowler, who is one of Gotham's prominent young eye, ear, nose and throat specialists recently published Petrositis which we are told is a roentgenologic and pathologic correlation written in collaboration with Paul C. Swenson.
Another of our classmates with a flair for writing is responsible for many articles in a recent two volume collection issued by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Tom Colt is the boy. He, as you know, is Director and Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Museum. .
Bob Cleary reports having had lunch with Johnnie Heavenrich in September. Johnnie was in New York on business for his Detroit emporium.
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