1925*
"The year's at the spring And day's at the morn;"
And the 15th reunion is now only six weeks away.
A letter from Homer Tilton tells of a "most enjoyable and enlightening twenty-four hours in Hanover" getting arrangements made for the reunion committee. As of April first, sixty '25ers announced themselves as definitely coming to the 15th—the majority of the Class is still to be heard from.
The following are definitely signed up for reunion. Many more are uncertain and will let us know this month. We want to see your name in the next list of "definites" in this column next month.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmquist, HafEenreffer, McKown, Lyman, Joe Leavitt, L. P. White, Wallis, Chet Eaton, Neil Williams, Ross Beatty, Homer Tilton, Clif Hill, Ken Hill, Milt Hart.
Messrs. Phil Coykendall, Dick Holden, Bill Sleigh, Ken Nugent, Larry Leavitt, Tippy Tower, Newt Tobey, Neil Williams, Bob Borwell, George Scott, Bob Reading, Steve Ryan, Park Merrow, Eddie Ober, Coop Rhodes, Chet Bolles, Bill Boies, Tib Marshall, Charlie Jameson.
Messrs. Jack Roche, Line Price, Lou Kimball, Blair Gilbert, Curl Abel, Bill Griffin, Deke Blodgett, Rad Tanzer, Line Davis, George Stevens, Sid Milnor, Ham Thayer, Eddie Pease, Hal Stevens, Pete Blodgett, Jock Brace, Bud Petrequin, Ed Burns, Stan Smith, Bob Canfield, Fred Smith, A lManning, Lang Spring, Marty Huberth, Ralph Thompson, Ed Hewitt, Jack Reeder, Woody Wilson, Chuck Babcock, Chance Hawley, Hal Elder, Stan Copeland.
Pete Blodgett broke his foot skiing in New Hampshire. The bone was set at the Littleton Hospital Johnny Robison represents the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company in Tacoma, Washington, ... .Ford Allen is now in San Francisco, Milo Clapp in Columbus, Ohio, and Jimmy Walls in Youngstown, Ohio Al Perkins is with Walt Disney Studios in Hollywood The George Moore's are being congratulated on the birth of a baby boy Red Tanzer is located at the Hitchcock Clinic in Hanover Line Price is now at duPont's home office in Wilmington, Delaware.. .. .George Scott, headmaster of the Morgan School, writes that he will be held back by his own school's activities but that he will arrive in Hanover on Saturday.
A letter from Joe Leavitt, Chairman of the "Wives Committee," shows that the wives are going to be well taken care of
Don't forget that the Fourth Annual Session of the Hanover Holiday will begin the day after reunion ends. Twelve 1930 men with their wives have already signed up, while 1925 has three—Curtiss Mathews, Homer Tilton and Neil Williams. We were fortunate in taking in the first Hanover Holiday and have always been convinced of its advantages. A fine list of lectures for mornings and evenings leaves the afternoons free for golf, tennis, swimming, auto trips, the Baker Library, the art gallery, card games or just "sitting on the Inn Porch." It's a great institution—and it is our guess that some future year will find a "Sold Right Out" hanging over the door of the Inn while the Hanover Holiday is on.
Larry and Dorothy Leavitt were here in Detroit for two days this week and the Leavitts and Wheldens had a fine day together. We again would like to call the attention of the Class to the grand job that Larry has done in bringing Vermont Academy up into the ranks of the leading preparatory schools in the east. We are now getting to the age where our own children and those of our friends are approaching preparatory school age—and you will all be doing yourselves and your friends a favor if you call attention to and investigate Vermont Academy. Larry was also in Cleveland and Chicago. We quote from a letter from Ben Werntz—"We had a meeting in Cleveland yesterday that might be of some interest to you for the May issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. The occasion was Larry Leavitt's first visit to the City of Cleveland. We had always thought that everybody in our class had been to Cleveland at sometime or another, but it turned out that our headmaster of the Vermont Academy at Saxtons River, Vermont, had never included us in his itinerary. Larry reported that the growth of the Academy has been coming along so well that this trip was occasioned to meet in person some of the possible recruits for his Academy. Larry reports also that he has rearranged the school calendar so that the boys hold their carnival one week before we hold ours and we hold our reunions one week after their commencement. Undoubtedly, his cleverness extends beyond the ability to handle a football team. There were many new faces at this luncheon yesterday, because although often the boys will not leave their offices to attend our weekly luncheons or to attend our evening affairs, practically all of the Class of 1925 turned out to welcome Larry. Among the others present were Dr. Bob Reading, who has recently moved his office from the City of Shaker Heights into the most modern of the down town medical buildings; Bud Petrequin, who engineered the luncheon; Dick Taylor, looking much heavier but still able to reminisce with Larry over the Dartmouth Freshman and Penn State game in 1921; Dick Heydt, who signed the luncheon check but then collected from the rest of us afterwards; Norm Smith, still acting as Treasurer of the Osborn Manufacturing Company and reminding us that next week will see the first half year anniversary of his son; Paul Hexter, who devoted much time to explaining the intricacies of the Novachord invented by Mr. Hammond, and which instrument Paul insists is the "hottest thing he ever had in the living room"; Church Bacon; and your correspondent. An additional guest of honor was Dan Harris, Class of 1917, who is the new Dartmouth Club President for this year. There was some talk of reunion, and as near as I could determine all those present had very serious ideas of coming back, so we find that on a showdown, the Class of 1925 is much better represented in this city than I thought it was. With reference to reunion, Ford, I already notified the Committee not to count on my returning, which is occasioned by possible conflict with an excise tax suit against our Washington Collectors of Revenue. Two other lawyers and myself had the trial set up for the month of May but ithas now been postponed theoretically to start sometime in June, and inasmuch as we have been working two years to get it from its initial stages into the Court of Claims, I am not in a very good position to ask for further postponements. Consequently, if at the last minute it works out, I'll be there."
Barry Mahool is with the Junior Programs Players Co., who lately played TheReward of the Sun God in Shreveport, La. From Shreveport TIMES: "Mr. Mahool got his first part supporting Judith Anderson in As You Desire Me. Successful from the start, he obtained roles in a succession of hits, including one with Mae West, the role of Valerius in Lucreece, starring Katherine Cornell; in Shooting Star with Francine Larrimore, and many others. Mr. Mahool is the veteran among the group of young stage, screen and radio actors who comprise the Junior Programs Players Company.
The annual Alumni Fund campaign will be on by the time you are reading these notes. Two things should be called to the attention of the Class. This is reunion year and we naturally want to make our best showing yet—in order to do so contributions must be increased. The quota of the Class is greater by several hundred dollars. Chairman Reeder is hoping that we can get our end of the campaign over by June first—before the reunion starts. That sounds reasonable and sensible —but it means that a large number of you who usually hold out until the last couple of weeks will have to change from past habits. Walt Vom Lehn was the man who drew the lucky number from the ranks of the Wampum Club. Our fund record has been very good for some years—but we were quite badly beaten last year by two of the classes in the group in which we fall. That certainly shouldn't be true in the year of our 15th. It needn't be true if we can all dig down and find some sort of an increase possible.
Six more weeks—then Hanover again
CURT ABEL '25 He was good to the last drop—but the lastdrop was a precipice! "X" marks the drop.
Secretary-Chairman, 344 Buhl Bldg., Detroit, Mich. Class Agent, Young and Rubicam 506 New Center Bldg., Detroit, Mich.
