1927*

Boy, how this month has flown! Seems like we just covered up the old typewriter and here we are again. As usual not much in the way of news has been handed on to your suffering scribe, but thanks to attendance at the Columbia, Yale and Harvard games we have managed to dig up a little.

It took Dick Lougee exactly a year and one month less one day to inform us of the arrival of Gerard Rom Lougee, who was born on September 8, 1939. Dick is starting his 51th year as the geology teacher at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.

Bob Tucker was in Boston for a short visit early in October, and spent an evening at the home of Rog Salinger in Waban. The date for Bob's wedding to Miss Genevieve Winans has been set for November 16th. They will reside in Columbus, Ohio.

Farranginton "Bud" Kinne lives in Chicago where he is working for the. Pullman Company. Bud is married and has a son about two years old.

Ed Fry works as a buyer for Montgomery Ward in Chicago. Ed is married and lives at 483 Hawthorne Lane in Winnetka.

Burt Snow is Manager of the stationery department for Butler Brothers, wholesale dealers in Chicago. Burt is married and living at 704 Lake Street, Crystal Lake, Ill.

Jim Dalbey, also in Chicago, is Personnel Manager of the apparel division of Marshall Field & Co. Jim is married and has one youngster.

In October we had a very pleasant visit with Brick Stone and his good wife, Pauline. They were in the States on vacation from Mexico City where Brick is working for General Motors. Brick and his wife have two fine daughters, and they seem to be enjoying their life and work in Mexico City tremendously.

A note from Howie Camph informs us that he is located in Syracuse where he is working for J. R. Clancy, Inc., purveyors of "dependable stage rigging for more than half a century."

Howie Mullin writes from Kansas City, Missouri, as follows: "Only other class stray I meet in this isolationist belt is Johnny Pfanner, Assistant Professor in Business College of Nebraska University at Lincoln. John appears quite happy in his work, although Lincoln ain't no Hanover."

Chuck Field writes that he and his wife and daughters did make that trip to Hanover reported in the October issue, and enjoyed pleasant visits with the Funkhousers and the Paschens.

Don Lacoss has informed us of the ar- rival of a daughter, Elizabeth Louise, born on May 29, 1940. Don is living at 1035 Braddock Rd., Cumberland, Maryland.

Larry Scammon has just written us the sad news of the death of Bill Stearns. A more complete report will be found in the Necrology of this issue of the MAGAZINE.

In Hanover for the Columbia game we saw Jay Willing and Sykes Hardy. At New Haven we had too brief but pleasant reunions with the Ballantynes, Hitchcocks, Herb Rubin, and Wil Shaw. Wil had just sailed back from Honolulu to San Francisco in an 80-foot schooner, the Wanderbird, and was sporting a fine coat of tan from his three weeks on the sunny decks.

Dave Climenko is now working as Research Pharmacologist for the Winthrop Chemical Company in Rensselaer, N. Y. He lives on Euclid Avenue, in Elsmere, N. Y.

Franklin "Brownie" Brown lives in Avon, N. Y., where he is District Office Manager for the Niagara, Lockport & Ontario Power Company.

Paul Woelfel now works in Chicago for the United Air Lines Transport Corp. Paul is living at 1 Jacqueline Drive, Downers Grove, Ill.

Clint Bradley is New England Sales Representative of the Orange Crush Company of Chicago. Clint and his family are living at 72 Linden Street, Wellesley, Mass.

Merle Brush lives in Williamsport, Pa., where he is running his own business, the General Machine and Supply Co.

Bo Head has left Warrensburg, Missouri, and is now in Houston, Texas, where he is working for United Gas Corporation.

Brownie Freeman informs us that he is working for the Graphic Microfilm Service, Inc., of Waltham, Mass. He is living on Wellesley Street in Weston.

Charles Levison is a moving picture actor and lives at 820 Chula Vista, Pasadena, Calif.

Johnny Blanchard is owner and proprietor of The Mica Seal Company of Peabody, Mass. Johnny is living at 32 Orne St., Marblehead.

Dick Prouty lives in Newport, Vermont, where he is in the lumber business.

Ken Meyercord is an auditor for Western Electric Company in New York City. Ken lives at 33 Woodland Road, Madison, N. J. Marshall Lovegrove now lives in Hartford, Conn. He works for the Pratt Whitney Aircraft Corporation.

Bill Abbott was in Boston the week end of the Harvard game to attend the Alumni Council meeting and incidentally to see the game. He had with him his daughter, Dana, age eleven, a most attractive young lady, who seemed to be enjoying thoroughly her first visit to Boston and a Harvard-Dartmouth game.

Dean Askew and his good wife came up from New Canaan, Conn., for the same week end. Both were looking younger than ever, and to prove his youth, Dean is taking some graduate courses at Columbia University School of Business.

On Friday night before the game a goodly number of the Class and their wives, if any, gathered at the Copley Square Hotel for dinner, dancing and general good fun. Those present included the Salingers, Askews, Bartletts, Fowlers, Cummings, Gardners, Anglems, Hardys, Burys, Prescotts, St. Amants, Hams, Bill Abbott and your secretary. Although it is regretable that more classmates could not be present, those who were there had a most enjoyable evening. Several of us met for lunch the next day at the Hotel Puritan and went from there by bus to the game. The many class gatherings plus the results of the game made it an extremely pleasant week end. Other '37 men seen at the game or one of the many parties included Herb Rubin, Bob Williamson, John Rintels and Andy Rankin.

This past week-end, we blush to admit, we spoke at a meeting of Class Agents of Mount Holyoke College on Class organization and Alumni Fund work. Alice Welty, sister of Al, is a member of their Alumni Fund Committee. She informed us that Al is still in the banking business in New York City. He and his wife are living in Larchmont, and they have two sons, one six and one-half and the other approximately age two.

Johnny Carey is Vice President of Martin Dry Goods Company in Cedar Rapids, lowa.

Bill Cullen lives in Wayzata, Minnesota. He is Secretary and Treasurer of Carr-Cullen Company, wood working mill.

Please don't forget your check for $3.50 for Class Dues. If you have not already done so a check for that amount to Gus Cummings would help him clean up the whole business before January first. And when you send the check we hope you will include a little story of how you are and what you have been doing.

Although at the writing it seems a little early, we are wishing you and yours a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS.

Secretary, 152 Waban Ave., Waban, Mass.

Treasurer, 244 Dorset Rd., Waban, Mass.

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