1935*
Some time ago: We received recently a formal announcement of the marriage on last April 30 of Dick Hurd to Evelyn Mary Coleman in Arlington, Mass. Has this been a secret since last April or is this apparently delayed announcement a way of informing us of an oversight? We can confirm the marriage of Jim West on June 10 to Calista Alice Crochroft, also of Arlington. Don Hagerman, Sel Hannah, and Bill George were among those present. Jim and his bride are now living in Hyde Park. Sel's farming takes on a serious aspect—with the acquisition of twenty head of cattle and all the trimmings. Bill George writes that since graduation "I have been buried in various graduate schools: Brown, Universite de Besangon and Columbia. Have been working for a Ph.D. in French, which I hope to get from Columbia. Am now in possession of the glorious title of assistant-professor of Modern Languages at Westminster New Wilmington, Pa. A wife and no children." Ted Steele was also at Columbia for part of the summer.
More recently: Bob McLellan was married on September gth to Lois Jones of Winsor, Connecticut. Fran Chase was among his ushers. I neglected to tell you that Fran and Bobbie Chase are the parents of a daughter Joan Standish, born last June 21st A postal bearing as signature only "The best man" brings word of the wedding of Charlie Ganzel and Dorothy McMurray of Southampton, Long Island, on September 29. Dot's competitor for Charlie's time is the Bethlehem Steel Company.
In prospect: George writes that the "Colton-Stevens nuptials have been moved up to November 25th. More details to follow." Perhaps incidentally, one more man avoids the first draft. Apparently George was among those of us who could not believe the war was really coming. We heard of a gathering in Baltimore over glasses of beer B.W. (before the war) at which George discussed the world situation with Art Flinner and Hall Colton. Hall admits their batting averages as prognosticators was in the vicinity of .0000151. Hall has blessed me with a fine long letter of which I can give you only part. Art and Hall took in "Winter Carnival" with Roy Ruether. "We did think the views of the Hanover-Norwich Station quite fetching." Roy has moved his headquarters to Baltimore, but American Sugar Refining has him on the road all but three or four days a month. Hall continues:
"Was in Washington early this August, and having time to kill, and being near the U.S. Army Medical Museum, dropped in to spend a ghastly hour or two among specimen of Corscuova (?), etc., when I ran into Ed Neff in search of a news story. He's a reporter on the Washington TimesHerald. From then on the afternoon became gory indeed—and we got first-hand information on all the worst things you can think of. I asked Ed if he was doing horror stories. He said no, but that occasionally printable material showed up at the museum. He said things were going along well with him, and that he was being paid more than he was worth. This was such a refreshing new attitude I told him I thought he had a story right there
"Also ran into Harry Libbey in the streets of Washington He's still active in the amateur dramatic life of Washington and my spies say he is pretty good. He's working for some Government Bureau but I have completely forgotten which."—Harry is with the Procurement Division of the Treasury Department.
During September Bo and Marg Fleming were in Boston for a chemists' convention and in York Beach, Maine, for a vacation. Bo is with duPont in New Jersey Ralph Colby, who was with us three years, graduated in '36, and is a member of our class by preference, reports he married Barbara Batchelder way back in 1934 and is now the proud father of a 4 year old daughter, Nancy. Since graduation he has been with the Lewis-Shepard Sales Corporation, his home now being in Belmont, Mass Stan Britten, who started off as a teacher, is in Akron, Ohio, with a finance company. Ken Webster is still with the L. W. Webster Corp. in Randolph, Vermont, his position at present being the millwork estimator. During the past summer Roy Shattuck, an instructor in Hanover, completed work on his Ph.D. dissertation for Johns Hopkins. Howie Ranson has left candy manufacturing and is travelling for Firestone Tire and Rubber. As an important sideline he is a partner with his brother A 1 of the Little Theatre, Inc., in Milwaukee.
Proof that there are '3sers everywhere: Bob Hage, stopping in Savannah, wrote a letter to George Colton and left it on the hotel desk to be mailed. Into the hotel to register walked Earl Arthurs and the letter caught his eye. After a bit of "Sherlock Holmesing" Earl and Bob were having a swell time together. We thought Earl was located in Atlanta, but when Bob found him he was ending a stay in Savannah and is now supposed to be in Indianapolis.
Harry Price, around New York during the summer, was reported to have been lapping up the European situation in order to dish it out to his history students to whom he was returning in Charlotte. The information has been gleaned that Jack Holloway has left General Motors Acceptance Corp. and is now somewhat permanently located in New York City with the purchasing department of National Distillers. It is claimed that Jack leads a double life, having a second job which occupies him in the evenings from 8 to 2. What about this, Jack?
Paul Van Antwerpen has been putting his two years at Harvard Business School to use in the advertising field and is now with a large Milwaukee concern. Bill Lingley is reported to be out in Tacoma, Washington, with the Penn Salt Cos. We just learned that Chicago barrister Owen Fairweather was a University of Chicago Law Review man. Graduating well up in that same class at Chicago Law was Charles Baker, who voluntarily left us after our freshman year to finish up at Chicago. Charles has passed the Illinois bar, married a young lady from Pittsburg, and is now associated with the Chicago firm of Knapp, Allen & Cushing Jumping to the Far West there comes news that Rudy Pacht has completed the University of California Law School and is now permanently located in Los Angeles. At present he is doing the "leg-work and a bit of research" for the firm of Pacht, Pelton, Warner & Black, but hopes in the near future to pass the bar and get his name on the letterhead. Also in Los Angeles is Harry Baylies, working for May's Department Store. United Airlines has brought Lowell Haas back to San Francisco after having "farmed" him out for experience with various lines in various cities. Frisco appears to be permanent now.
Moving eastward again we find that Frank Elliott graduated from Northwestern Medical School last June, and is now interning at Evanston Hospital with Boylston '34 and Ovitz '36. Frank has a wife Alice Louise and a daughter Ann Louise now approaching her second birthday. ... .Bud Hulett was rowing No. 3 for the Detroit Boat Club when its intermediate heavyweight eight upset the experts and won a national title in last summer's annual regatta of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen, held on the Detroit River. .. .Harry Ferries, spouse, and twins have moved to 103 Russell St., Atlantic, Mass Harry is supervisor of automo- bile claims for the Liberty Mutual in the Hub....1 wish that space would permit reprinting a column from the July issue of Future, the publication of the U. S. junior Chamber of Commerce. In the regular features entitled "Today's Young Men" is an interesting review of the full four years that Dick Lauterbach has spent since graduation. Perhaps we can give it to you later.
Future events Doug Ley is working on plans for a class gathering in Boston to be held very shortly. Frank Specht has accepted the important position of Chairman of the 1935 Fifth Reunion Committee. By the time you are reading this we hope to have a full committee under way laying the groundwork for the biggest and best Reunion ever held.
Hope to see you at "the game." But if we do not connect, send along news of yourself and those you do see.
Secretary-Chairman, 82 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass.
Treasurer, 1950 Hall St., S. E., Grand Rapids, Mich
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