1927*
We hope you are liking it better than ever and that you have demonstrated your approval by sending your check for three-fifty to Gus Cummings.
By the time you have read this third "blurp" of the year from your Secretary the football season will be but a happy memory. Among the more pleasant aspects of that memory will be many meetings of '27 classmates. We hope you will write us something of those gatherings so that we may broadcast them in this column for the benefit of the unfortunates who could not attend.
The night before the Harvard game was the occasion for the second annual 1927 Dinner Dance, held this year in conjunction with our sister class, 1929, at the Copley Square Hotel in Boston. The party was an especially happy one due to the presence of three couples from out of town. Don McCall and wife were up from New York visiting the Salingers. Monty and Jane Phillips were here from Rochester, and Ed Fowler and his wife were in town from New Haven. Local yokels present included: Rog Salinger, Gus Cummings, Bill Prescott, Charlie Bartlett, Rog Bury, Dinty Gardner, Bill Auer, Shorty Oliver, Bob Voorhis, Sykes Hardy, and their respective wives. Also present were Pal Fowler whose husband, Phil, was out west on business, Bill Macaulay, and your Secretary and gal. If you don't believe it was a swell party, come on up next year and we will prove it to you. Our thanks for the grand time go to Rog Salinger and his committee of Bob Williamson and Bill St. Amant who did the arranging.
Charlie Fleischer has been with the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Cos., since graduating. He was first located in New York City, then Cleveland, Columbus, and now Pittsburgh where he is sales manager for that district. Charlie was married in 1932 and has three sons, Charles, Frank and Steve.
Rog Braman is still in the general insurance business in Newport, Rhode Island. He now lives out in Middletown in a new home near Bill Elliott's. For diversion Rog plays a bit of golf and is a yachtsman of note in the waters of Narragansett Bay. He was married in December 1933, to Jean I. Bull of Springfield, and they have a daughter, Edith Laurie, age four.
Dow Mills graduated from Dartmouth Medical School in 1928. He then spent two years at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia whence he graduated in 1930. After a year as interne at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover, Dow went to the Mayo Clinic as Fellow in Pediatrics from 1931 to 1934. Since then he has conducted a private practice specializing in Pediatrics in Westfield, New Jersey. The doctor is still single, a Republican, and his weaknesses are golf and travel. He returned early this fall from a trip to the Scandinavian Countries and the North Cape.
Len Dunn was with Flour Mills of America from 1927 until 1938. He spent two years in Kansas City, four in St. Louis, one in Philadelphia, and three in Kingston, Pa. In December 1938 Len went with Washburn Crosby Cos., makers of "Gold Medal Flours." He is representative of the Bakery and Bulk Sales Department with headquarters in Richmond, Va. In June 1937, Len was married to Miss Jane C. Price of Scranton, Pa.
Except for the two years between 1936 and 1938 Bob Stevens has been in France and Belgium with General Motors Overseas Operations since graduation. Early this year Bob returned to this country and is now located in New York City with the same company. We had the pleasure of talking with Bob recently on a trip to New York and he seemed to be in fine fettle.
Rumor has it that Hooker Horton, Rudy Preuss, Fritz Kortlucke, Guy Bostwick and Bill Abbott were seen at the Yale game. The latter was on from Chicago for the fall meeting of the Alumni Council.
On Tuesday, November 7th, we had the pleasure of casting a vote for one Harry B. Cummings for Alderman from Ward 5, in the City of Newton. Although Gus was not victorious he polled an excellent vote considering that he was running against the present incumbent, and we predict that you will hear more of this budding young politician in the not too distant future.
Dick Swartzbaugh graduated from Harvard Law School in 1930, and that same year was admitted to the Ohio Bar. He then practiced with the firm Fraser, Hiett, Wall, and Effler, now Fraser, Effler, Shumaker and Winn of Toledo. In January of this year Dick was admitted to partnership in this firm. He was married in April 1938 to Miss Jane Grey and they spent the following two months honeymooning in Europe. They have a son, Richard Grey Swartzbaugh, born July 24, 1939.
Bob Williamson of T. O. Metcalf Cos., Boston Printing Tycoon and Publicity Expert for all Dartmouth affairs in Greater Boston, lives in Norwood, Mass. Bob and his good wife have three youngsters: Molly, age eight, Margie, age seven, and Rusty, age two.
Ed Batchelder works for the Hytron Corporation of Salem, Mass., makers of radio tubes. He and his wife live in Lynn with their young son, James Edgar Batchelder, born September 3, 1938.
In 1927, Ed Ruth went with General Motors Export Division in the Sales Promotion Department. He remained there until 1931 when he became District Manager of Buick-Olds-Pontiac Sales Cos., in New York. In 1934 Ed spent a year in Bombay, India, as advertising manager for General Motors India, Ltd. The next four years he spent as District Manager for Oldsmobile in New York, and in 1939 took over the same job in the Washington, D. C., district where he is at present.
A 1 Pulsifer spent the first two years after graduation teaching history. He then matriculated at Albany Law School from which he graduated in 1932. Since then he has been practicing law in Johnstown, New York, with the firm of Dennison and Pulsifer. Allen was married to Miss Cecile Alexander on July 2, 1932. They have a son, Allen H. Jr., born September 18, 1937.
Good old Charlie Huntley is still ranching it down in Harlingen, Texas, which we take to be somewhere on the Gulf of Mexico. Charlie is a little brief and indefinite about what he is doing, but we gather from the following that it is something in the construction line. We quote: My activities are too varied and common-place to jot down. However, I will mention my present occupation, a line nearerthe Thayer School of Engineering thanthe Tuck School. I am connected with theconstruction of one of the largest irrigation districts in the country, the cementgunite construction contract for which isthe largest ever let in the U. S. A., andsecond largest in the world. (The largestwas in India.)
Another rancher, but of the medical variety, is Phil Corliss who is now practicing Medicine and Surgery in Somerton, Arizona.
Larry Scammon for the past three years has been Statistician for the Massachusetts Automobile Bureau and Massachusetts Rating and Inspection Bureau. He lives at 172 Green Street in Stoneham, Mass.
Chuck Carroll received his M.D. from the University of lowa Medical College in 1932. He then spent a year as interne at Lucas County Hospital in Toledo, after which he started a private practice in Manchester, lowa. Chuck remained there one year and then went west to Ft. Collins, Colorado, where he has since been practicing. He is also Assistant County Physician which he says "just means more work." He does, however, manage to get time off for an occasional fishing trip. Chuck was married to Miss Marjorie Petrovitsky, University of lowa graduate, in 1933. They have a son, John Fenton, born July 23, 1937. This last item Chuck says accounts for his not being present at the Tenth Reunion.
Ed Watkins spent the first four years out of college with the Guardian Detroit Company as a bond salesman. In 1931 something happened to that company so Ed organized Watkins and Fordon, Inc., Investment Bankers in Detroit. The latter company is still solvent. Ed was married in 1933 and now has two sons.
Ed Fry was with R. H. Macy in New York until 1935. Since then he has been with Montgomery Ward in Chicago, buying and merchandising chiefly in the china and glassware department. Ed lives out in Winnetka.
Pardon us if we add a parting shot about that check for three-fifty to cover this MAGAZINE and class dues. We want to put this plan over for the college, for the class and for your own personal satisfaction. So if you haven't already sent it along to Gus—please!
Secretary-Chairman, 152 Waban Ave., Waban, Mass.
Treasurer, 244 Dorset Road, Waban, Mass.
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