1927*
Another year has started which means we are just that much nearer to seeing you at the Fifteenth. Two years from this June, to be exact.
John Machen spent the first year out of college studying under the Kennedy Fellowship at the New York School of Social Work. The following year he did graduate study at Georgetown and George Washington Universities in Washington, D. C. In 1929 he matriculated at Georgetown Medical School from which he received an M.D. in 1933. After an interneship in a Baltimore Hospital, he started a general practice in that city which he carries on at present.
Walt Bowlby has been located in various cities in the East working as a chemist and inventor of industrial coatings. Walt has recently moved from Allentown, Pennsylvania to Meriden, New Hampshire.
Howie Risley is still living in Dallas, Pennsylvania, where he is doing editorial work on The Dallas Post.
Kermit Ingham has lived in Stillwater, Oklahoma, since October, 1928. He was married in that same year and has two children, Kermit B., age nine, and Nancy Ann, age five. Kermit is past president of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Rotary Club in Stillwater. He is proprietor of the Kermit W. Ingham Lumber Company which he established in 1932.
The following letter from Jack Wilson might put an idea into the heads of some of us city-dwellers: "You lads running the class are persevering cusses. Twelve years you've been after me now. So I can't hold out any longer. Enclosed is check for the MAGAZINE.
"Twelve years is quite a long time. I've been back to Hanover just once. Drove through a year ago last summer on the way to camp. One of the items I've acquired during the years is a commission in the reserves. .. .artillery. More of our lads should get commissions. Ours will be a civilian army. .. .if we ever need one. .. .
and it's an obligation we all owe a country that has given us the advantages we have. We need officers.
"Otherwise I've had more or less the usual ups and downs. Worked in a bank in Newark, N. J., had an insurance brokerage in New York for ten years .... have now retired from the hurly burly to a farm down east. Never raised a blade of grass before in my life but am having a swell time with a few hundred chickens, around 400 apple trees, several acres of blueberry fields and maybe a hundred acres of timber. It's really a swell layout with a big house, electricity etc. If I feel like it I can go outside and yell my head off and nobody will hear me. In the summer I can go swimming in the lake the farm borders. Skate on it in the winter Skiing, snowshoeing and hunting. Deer and moose sometimes wander through the orchard.
"Of course there isn't a hell of a lot of money in farming. Unless you figure in what it would cost you to belong to a city gymn to keep the waist line down and the biceps up to where a farm will keep them But it's a great place to keep the wife at home and bring up the kids. Nice for the dog t00.... he catches rats in the barn when he isn't chasing one of our four cats.
"One of these days I'm going back to New York, raise hell for a week or so and then have the supreme thrill of thumbing my nose at the place when I leave.
"This letter has got to stop here. The ribbon seems to be getting a bit dry on the typewriter and it takes four days to get a new one from Sears Roebuck during which time my agent would die ten thousand deaths waiting for me to finish a story he should have had two weeks ago. A couple of pardons, then, while I devote the rest of this ribbon to extricating my hero from a perilous situation far out on the briny."
"JACK."
Jack's farm is in Hope, Maine. Besides farming he has been writing short stories for LIBERTY, COLLIERS, AMERICAN MAGAZINE and THIS WEEK during the last three years.
The Talk of the Town in the December 16, issue of The NEW YORKER reports the first collection of Paris clothes ever shown here before being shown in Paris. A situation brought about by the war. We quote in part from the report: "A young man in a red tie and green suit was placing a large photograph of a smiling lady on the mantelpiece of the hotel dining room. He explained it was a picture of Mme. Bruyere, whose spring models were about to be exhibited, that her motto was 'Business as Usual,' and that he was Bravig Imbs, her representative. 'l'm the guinea pig of French couture,' Mr. Imbs said. 'lf I sell things, others will follow.' " The report goes on to say that Bravig (Wilbur to you) Imbs was born in Milwaukee, attended Dartmouth in the class of '27, and has been living abroad for a number of years.
Ed Johnson is still teaching at Thayer Academy in Braintree, Mass. He holds the Master of Arts Degree from Harvard.
A note from Don Lacoss dated last September from Cumberland, Md., says: "At present am confined inside the Celanese plant which happens to be on strike. Have been outside one night only during the last two weeks." We hope for his sake it didn't take him as long to get out as it took us to report this item.
Lyman Milliken worked for one year after leaving Hanover and then attended the University of Maryland Dental School from which he graduated in 1932. He is noW married and living in Annapolis where he has been practicing for seven years. Lyman is past president of the Kiwanis Club and in 1938 was president of the Annapolis University Club.
Since July 5, 1927, Bill Pelton has been with the general insurance firm of W. H. Mandeville of Olean, New York, and Port Allegany, Pa. The Agency is 79 years old and Bill and his brother "Red" '2B are now running it. Bill is still single, but admits he hasn't given up hope.
Howie Mullin has been with the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation since 1927, first in their mills and then as a salesman in Chicago and Milwaukee. Since 1938 Howie has been Assistant Manager of the St. Louis office in charge of the Kansas City branch. He was married to Miss Edna Schofield in June 1935, and they have one son, William S., born March 17, 1938.
UTILITIES MAN
Bo Head spent six years in Dallas, Texas, first with the Texas Power and Light Co., until 1929, and then with the Dallas Power and Light Co. In 1933 he went with the Oklahoma Power and Water Co., in Sand Springs, Oklahoma. Three years later, Bo moved to Warrensburg, Mo., where he now works as president of the Missouri Public Service Corp. He was married in 1930, and has two youngsters, a boy, W. B. Head III, age six, and girl, Eugenia, age three.
Ethan Hitchcock was with the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company until 1934, in Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Hartford. Since then he has been a Marine Underwriter with the Travelers Insurance Company, first in Hartford and now in New York City. Hitch was married last May to Miss Mary Kibbe of New York.
Bud Wesselmann started as an agent for the New York Life in September of 1927. In 1929 he was appointed Agency Organizer for that company in Toledo, and in 1936 became Agency Director of the Toledo Branch. He was awarded the C. L. U. designation in 1930. Bud was married in 1929 and has two sons, Glen age eight, and Lee, age four.
Ding Heap is living in Braintree, Mass., and is still "peddling paint." He is married and has two sons and one daughter.
Harry Benson writes from Walpole, Mass.: "Still at Kendall Mills in Walpole where I've been ever since getting out of Hanover. Have two sons, ages six years and six months. Played soccer for Bird & Son here in Walpole (damned old ringer!) until last spring when I got banged up a bit and decided I was getting a mite old for that game. Other than that have been leading a rather quiet family life."
We are rapidly running out of news so a couple of letters from some of "youse guys" would come in handy before the next issue.
Secretary-Chairman, 152 Waban Ave., Waban, Mass.
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