1929*
Local gossip closest at hand concerns old Doc Foster who'll never break his neck tripping over his hair. From the far off Jersey shore where he had pursued a general practice, he moved his household, late this summer, to Newton, the town of the Risings, the Rogers, the Calvers, the Steins, once of the Herberts, the Borns. Here, not long ago his first child was born, a daughter, Robin. Meanwhile, Frank joined the staff of the famous Leahy Clinic in Boston where he can be found daily, except Sundays and holidays.
Another local lad who deserves mention is rotund Donald R. Simpson recently appointed full professor at Northeastern University Law School. Since graduating magna cum laude from Boston University Law School Don has served as an assistant attorney general of Massachusetts, and is now associated with the law office of his father, Frank J. Simpson.
Our other teacher of the law, perhaps better known to Reuners as an expert in the field of arm pummeling, Carl B. (for bucket, maybe?) Spaeth is now an associate professor at Yale Law School, after several years at Northwestern. He missed having Karl Michael as a neighbor and fellow member of the faculty, however, for Mike is now in Hanover, as swimming coach. Mike brings the number of our Hanover residents to six: Bob Carr, faculty; Joe D'Esopo, travel bureau; Herb McCreey, Coop; Charlie Dudley, merchant and author; Ellie Cavanagh, physician.
Still another of our teachers, bird-calling Ben Leavitt has forsaken the Massachusetts Department of Conservation for an appointment to the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Ashville. He has promised a field bulletin in due course.
Eddie Walsh made his way a little to the southward when he moved to Baltimore as salesmanager for American Can Cos., which explains why the New York boys are looking frantically for a new jester, or perhaps they will have to give up Class dinners until Eddie moves back as president of the company. And not very far away, in Winchester, Va., Wen Barney has settled down with his wife and son, to be resident manager for his accounting firm.
But, perhaps our greatest traveller in point of miles covered is George Hersam, one of the regular transport pilots on the Chicago to Washington run of one of the major air lines. The way George reached Hanover for Reunion is a story: Friday of that week-end he flew one of the earliest trips, then doubled right back to Chicago where he hopped a New York plane which connected with the Boston plane and landed him on the B. & M's milk train of fond memories.
The holder of the record for "coming the greatest distance to Reunion," Jack Lynch, is back at his real estate office in Honolulu ready to help any wandering brother find that spot of paradise which he told us awaited our coming.
Morgan Baker has got what he has been looking for: the management of a country inn. His is the Publick House, Sturbridge, Mass. And so has Gene Davis: his own optometrist office in Manchester, Connecticut.
Recent visitors from New York were "What's the news etc." Blair who reported that his new daughter, alias "Tenth Reunion" had survived the shock of having her birthday coincide with the opening date of her father's decennial; and President Larry Lougee whose chief concern was the serious business of assisting Bill Keyes to apprehend that jolly classmate who attended Reunion accompanied by his wife but who, according to the records, (otherwise complete to the last penny) failed to make the small though essential payment required of each celebrant who gladdened the gathering by bringing his spouse. Suspicion, borne out by the cash book points its finger at a heretofore respected member of the New York bar, a small, but powerful figure of a man. Some might term him Falstaffian in appearance and wit; others harking back to undergraduate days and recalling the dexterity with which he used to wield an oversized (for him) hockey stick might be closer to the truth in comparing him to the great Zybisco, especially with reference to the belly contour and the crowning baldpate. But, suspicion is not enough. Accordingly, no accusation will be published until the facts are ascertained beyond doubt.
Other than this horrible scandal, Larry brought pleasant tales of a visit in New York with Dick Black and his wife. Larry and Mo Heath gave a small dinner for them, the other guests being Mrs. Heath, Fred Breithut and wife, Bill Keyes and Myles Lane. During a trip through Glacier National Park last August Larry met up with Will Torbert and wife returning from a very successful tour to Alaska with fifteen boys.
Over the summer we received announcements of two weddings: that of Stan Friedberg and Martha Asher on July 8 in Chicago, and that of Ed Canby and Frances Westervelt Boyd on July 5, Short Hills, New Jersey. The Canbys were assisted at their nuptials by best man Harry Huston of Dayton, are now living in Dayton, Ohio where Ed is manager of the Malone Camera Shop. Stan is a physician in Chicago.
Polly Parrott is in the advertising department of Curtis Publishing Cos., San Francisco.
Rich Rimbach is president of Aerated Products Cos. of Minn. Inc., Minneapolis.
Hal Leich is a field civil service examiner, San Francisco.
Frank and Pete Small, with their two daughters have recently moved from Linden, N. J., to Brooklyn. Frank's work with the accounting firm of Pogson & Peloubel takes him occasionally to Ft. Wayne, Ind., and to Mexico.
Several classmates who have called on Si Snider recently in Chicago report that he has established a well earned reputation as a specialist in children's diseases.
Norm Bankart is the second of the Bankart-Bertch-Bissell-Brinkerliolf gang to leave the Philadelphia office of N. W. Ayer. He is now in the Chicago office.
Dick Burke buys firearms for Sears Roebuck.
Chuck Darling is teaching English in the Belmont (Mass.) Junior High School.
Bill Davenport is assistant professor of English, University of Southern California.
Dick Eberline is a sales engineer for U. S. Rubber Cos., Detroit.
Doctor Jerry Harris is associate in pediatrics and biochemistry at Duke University Medical School.
Karl Pittelkow is an assistant accounting executive in the Detroit advertising firm of MacManus, John & Adams, Inc.
Bob Walsh is with Monsanto Chemical Cos., Everett, Mass.
Charlie Dudley, after several successful books on skiing, has started doing the research on his first juvenile; reports seeing Fred Chase in Hanover, looking in the best of health.
Fred Armstrong is an attorney for American Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Cos. in Portland, recently transferred from New York. He married Jane Gillelan April 7, 1934 and has two boys, Frederick P. 3d, born September 8, 1935 and David G. born May 7, 1939.
Harry Baehr is a feature writer for the New York Herald Tribune, with an A.M. from Columbia in 1930 and a Ph.D., 1936. He married Jean Campbell Bogart, March *27. 1934-
Bill Hudson is an instructor in Fine Arts at New Jersey College for Women (Rutgers) where he has been for the last six years. He got his M. A. at Yale in 1932.
Jack Loucks is space buyer for a Chicago advertising firm. He married Frances E. McCoy April 1, 1935 and has a daughter Diane.
George McLachlan is secretary of the hat manufacturing concern of H. McLachlan & Cos., Inc., Danbury, Conn. He married Louise Connors Jan. 28, 1932, and has three boys and a girl; George Jr., J. Richard, Louise, and Peter.
Ted Baehr plays the part of a Dartmouth professor in Walter Wanger's "Winter Carnival." He is under contract to 20th Century Fox, was previously with Columbia Studio. He married Evelyn Pierce Jan. 2, 1931, has one daughter, Katherine, born Dec. 27, 1936.
John Conlon, the Squire of Pittsburg was recently in New York and joined iiarrett, Keyes 8c Brittan for dinner. Dick's chief present cause for joy is the birth of a daughter on Sept. 13.
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