1927*
You have all received the very attractive mailing piece sent out by this MAGAZINE early in September telling of its new milestones of 1940 and its objectives for the future. Our 100% subscription to the MAGAZINE this past year aided it materially in reaching the new milestones. The 100% subscription plan also helped your class to reach new heights in obtaining the best record we have ever had in the Alumni Fund. There is more active interest in the affairs of the class and the college, and more widespread knowledge of the activities of the individual class members than ever before. Our continued support of this plan will help the MAGAZINE to achieve its objectives and moreover will make our own college associations more enjoyable and our class, as a unit, more valuable to the college. All of which is a more or less long-winded but sincere way of asking you to send Gus Cummings a check in payment of the bill for class! dues and the MAGAZINE if you have not J already done so. Prompt payment will save your class considerable expense, and L will save your treasurer considerable time
First let us give "heap thanks" to our three district agents, Josh Davis, Bill Abott and Rog Salinger and their many ' loyal assistants for the grand job they did for us on the Alumni Fund.
A note from Jerry Covert informs us that he is still busy in the finance business out in Billings, Montana. Jerry also reports that Ralph Miracle blows into camp there quite frequently.
Dave Merriam is now working at the Southbridge National Bank in Southbridge, Mass.
Charlie Allen writes that the big town of Barre, Mass., where he resides with his wife, Gladys, Charles IV, now nine and Jean, age two, is much too secluded from other members of 1927. How about you and Gladys coming to the class party the night before the Harvard game, Charlie! (For further details about party see below.) Besides keeping busy with his growing family, Charlie works for the Charles G. Allen Cos., of Barre, manufacturers of drilling and tapping machines. He also finds time occasionally for a few hours in the woods "shooting at Partridge," as he puts it.
The training and disciplining of boys should hold no difficulty for Marty Helfer, Superintendent of Schools in Massena, New York, for he has four sons of his own.,: This, to the best of our knowledge, constitutes a record for the class.
Cam Clokey writes from Youngstown, Ohio, where he has been working with the Ohio Bell Telephone Company for the past five years. Cam and his wife, Sara, have two sons, Donald, age seven and Richard, age four. His spare time Cam devotes to such worthwhile activities as being a Director of the Youngstown Junior Chamber of Commerce, and President of the Fresh Air Camp Corporation. This; latter organization is a Kiwanis project for the county which each summer gives forty-two tubercular contact children from poor homes, a six week camping period at one of their own camps. Cam also is reputed to be a deacon in the Presbyterian Church, but in spite of that will be back at the Fifteenth.
A letter from Bunny Barde reported that he was working for a mining companyin Butte, Montana last May. He planning then to travel to the West Coast For the past six years Bunny has been Chief Deputy in the Sheriff's office an Butte.
Chuck Field wrote last May that he with his wife and two daughters, Jeanne and Dee, were planning a trip east to summer which would include a visit Hanover. Chuck says that business with the Chicago Vitreous Enamel Product Company has been good, but that they could always use more. He suggests that if we would all demand porcelain enamel for the finish on refrigerators, stoves, washing machines, store fronts, etc., it would help a lot.
Kern Folkers has left Detroit and is now located in St. Louis where he is working for the Monsanto Chemical Company in their patent department. He is living at 260 South Brentwood Blvd., Clayton, Mo. Kern was in Boston on business last May. We sincerely hope that on his next visit time can be found to give us a call.
Ed Jacob is still busily engaged running Willowbank Farms and Food Laboratories in West Chester, Pa. "FlavorGlow" is the name of his product, and we understand his business is developing nicely.
Last May, Lloyd Moulton was elected to the position of Superintendent of Schools in Bloomfield, Connecticut. He succeeds the late Dr. E. W. Butterfield '97 who had held the position for the past two years. Lloyd left Old Lyme, Conn., where he has been Superintendent of Schools to assume his new duties on July first.
Don Burnham is selling life insurance in Connecticut and is also working for a chemical company.
The Ballantynes announced the arrival of a daughter, Maury Turk Ballantyne, on May 14. Not long thereafter the St. Amants announced the arrival of Tilton St. Amant. Maury is the first arrival in her family, and Louis is the third in his, having been preceded by his brother, Bill, and sister, Jane.
Johnny Wood is still busy practicing law in Gloversville, New York with the firm of Wood, Wood & Wood. John and his wife had a baby daughter, born about May first. This makes several girls in the Wood family, although we do not have the exact figures.
On April 15 last, the directors of the Home Life Insurance Company of New York announced the appointment of Marshall Cleaves as Assistant Secretary of that fine company. This is a real honor well deserved for the fine job Marshall has been doing as an underwriter in their home office for the past ten years.
Frank Coulter is living at 165 Veteran Avenue, West Los Angeles, California. I'rank is in charge of the west coast offices °f the St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad.
We were terribly sorry to hear that trank Cloran has been at Saranac Lake since last April, when it was discovered that he had a mild case of tuberculosis. Flank and his wife are living in an apartment at 28 Old Military Road, Saranac Lake, New York. We wish him a speedy recovery and hope to see him back in Boston in the near future.
A card from Wil Shaw informs us that he has been basking on the beach at Waikiki this summer. In spite of the apparent lack of Dartmouth men he thoroughly recommends Honolulu.
A most interesting letter from Bed Williams informs us that he and his wife are now in Quantico, Virginia, where he is taking a course at the Marine Corps Schools. Bed has been a Ist lieutenant in the Marine Corps Reserve for the past eight years in Chicago, and is now working for a captain's commission in the reserve. He will complete his course late in December. For a little over a year now Bed has been farming his 360-acre farm near Jefferson, lowa, although he took four months off last winter when he was Junior Officer of a CCC camp near Cadillac, Michigan. He seems to be enjoying farm life tremendously and hopes that world conditions will not prevent his being back in lowa next spring in time for planting corn and oats which seem to be his main crops.
All you local and visiting firemen are hereby notified that on Friday evening, October 25, the night before the Harvard game, the Boston Chowder and Marching Club of the Class of 1927 will hold its annual jamboree at the Copley Square Hotel. Dinner, dancing and good clean fun. Suggest you meet us there any time after six-thirty. Dress informal unless you want to be uncomfortable.
Please don't forget the check to Gus. $3.50 is the amount.
Secretary, 152 Waban Ave., Waban, Mass. Treasurer, 244 Dorset Rd., Waban, Mass.
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