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A bang-up '32 gathering took place recently at Ed Eichler's Fin 'n Feather Club, a private club located on the Fox River, two miles north of Elgin, Illinois, and known as one of the garden spots of the Middle West. It is a very unusual placetake it from correspondent John Sheldonwith many ponds full of bass and trout, many pheasants and other birds, and a very fine skeet shooting range. The club is located on a 200 acre farm, with four big artificial lakes connected by fast moving streams. The public is allowed to come in and fish, paying $2.50 for privileges and $1 per pound for fish caught. The class got a special rate.
The picnic was the most successful ofthat kind I've ever attended, reports John. We arrived about noon on a perfect warmfall day, sat around, drank beer, took toursof the estate, and did some, trap shooting.At five they grilled some steaks and serveda delicious meal. We were fortunate tohave that traveling representative of theclass with us—Whip Walser. Others attending were Kiddoo, Ackerberg, Don MacPhail, Jaburek, Brookby, Cochrane, Hulbert and Dyche zuith their wives; alsoCleaves and lreys with girls; also Stern andWright stag; also Joe Betmett and fiancee(Betsy Sharon at that point, but now Mrs.Bennett); also host Eichler with wife andsmall daughter Susan.
One of the best Winchells in the business, John provides the following additional Mid-West data: Cleaves is still traveling a good bit for Armstrong Cork Dave Kirby is western manager for the American Boy Magazine Ackerberg was married Sept. i and has a new job in the Claim Dept. of the Continental Casualty Cos., an outfit also employing Homer Tiffany Bennett is one of the youngest members of the staff of Chicago's Presbyterian Hospital Bunny Rich is selling foundry equipment, living in Glenview, 111 Steve Harwood recently spent a month in Schenectady, N. Y. at the expense of the American Locomotive Cos., taking a course in something related to his work.
Bill Morton is one of the proudest of proud fathers. He recently shot a 75 on the golf links and according to John may decide to take the game seriously Barney Fitzsimons, local legal light, married Lenore Elliott on Aug. 12 Cap Ireys is one of the latest additions to the Chicago class group. He's with the Russell Miller Grain Cos. John reports having lunch with Harry Litzenberger during the summer. Harry was on his way to N. Y. on business and spoke of a trip around the world later this fall, but has probably been discouraged by now. Red Tucker also visited Chicago on an extended trip to the West Coast for the FDIC. Sheldon, Tucker and Wright—the latter just back from a Michigan vacation—plan to take in the Yale game.
On a rapid reverse to One Monument Square, Beverly, Mass., we find Barney Todd who slipped out from the tutelage ofBoston Professors in Medicine a year agoto hang out a shingle down here on theNorth Shore. In Barney's non-professional moments his behavior has not changed much from campus days. Last summer he spent a night with the trail crew in Jobildunk Ravine. The new Ravine Camp is awhale of a good place to make headquarters, if anyone is thinking about a skiingexpedition next winter, he enthuses. Newtrails have been cut this summer on Moosilauke to fit various abilities.
Anent other 'g2ers, Barney relates that Red Porter lives here in Beverly and stilllooks as though his food were agreeingwith him exceedingly well. Bob Woodmanhas moved recently from Cambridge to 30South St., Marblehead, so that he can keepcloser watch on his growing insurancebusiness located next door in Salem. Indirectly I hear that Mac Lean has successfullyentered town politics in Swampscott. LeePotter continues to play the role of bachelor schoolmaster, but I gather from talking with him that his life is not as drab asthat title might imply. Tom Dublin leftthe Boston circle of alumni a year ago andis living in Baltimore, where he is traininghimself to be a future guardian of the public health.
Barney himself confesses to being "somewhat of a heretic" since he is going in for the old-fashioned practice of general medicine in this age of specialism. He also has a job visiting at a local state mental hospital. He figures it will give him an introduction to state medicine when the time comes.
Speaking of doctors, Ralph Elias is established in new offices at 1010 Fifth Ave., N. Y., while Francis Browning sees patients at 9400 Euclid Ave., Cleveland.
Back to the mailbag, we scoop one out from John Clark, now in Washington working under John Winant for the International Labor Office. A small bit uncertain in my plans (along with severalmillion more, I imagine) as a result of theEuropean flare-up. With a head office inGeneva, I'm somewhat neglected here inWashington. However it looks as if we'dpull off a conference in Havana in November, toward which end I recently spent atime in Cuba. Pete Cygan scared the witsout of Rhoda and me some weeks ago byscowling (we thought) at us from behinda pair of dark goggles and a ConnecticutState Police Badge at one of the toll stations on the Merritt Parkway. Lives, itseems, in my old home town of NewCanaan, along with a chipper wife andthree kids.
John also bumped into Paul Fox while tooling down one of Washington's avenues on the way to work the other morning. Paul's law firm, Wright, Gordon, Zachry & Parlin, has shifted him to their Washington office for a matter of months anyway. John was in Hanover during Commencement: he reports Ferry prospering in Concord, still on the Concord Monitor and the possessor of a lush but weedy garden.
Howie Sargeant was in Washington all summer except for trips to St. Louis and the University of Arkansas on official business for the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. He played tennis with Tucker and Softball with the Dartmouth Alumni Association team, including a game in which Jack Pyles participated. Howie was in Hanover for his father's reunion (Class of '99) and shared rooms in Middle Mass with Bill Kendall whose father is also a member of that class. Also present, Howie writes, were Ben Burch, John Clark, MalcolmMac Lean, Dick Hazen, and undoubtedlyseveral others I did not see, including TomCurtis. Mike Cardozo, says Howie, is now in Washington with the SEC.
We received recently a strange message dated—Noon Hour, and written from Bradford, Pa. by the Sage of Cuba, N. Y. After decoding it reads as follows: Don'tlet the dateline of this letter fool you. I'meven farther behind than that. It may bethe twilight of civilization but it's stillthe noon hour in Western Pennsylvania.With day-bef ore-yesterday's New York Times unread, with only 148 pages read in Grapes of Wrath, and with my vacationstill unpaid for, you can see where Kellerstands. In fact, every one has left the officeand I haven't started my sandwiches yet. And then, in graver tone, 1 shudder whenI see the orders piling up in this office andthe prices of oil in this district sky-rocketing. It makes the debate over the Neutrality bill seem academic or merely a chancefor the Lion of Idaho's eloquent swansong to the U. S. Senate.
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