1927*
"My Fra-ands," here we are sitting down to punch out the last fireside chat of the college year. Perhaps our feeling should be one of pleasure and relief that this chore does not have to be performed again until next September. Actually, however, we find a feeling of regret. This has been a most happy year for us, and we hope it has been the same for you. For the first time in ten years our feeble effort each month has been reaching every member of the class. Concrete results of this may not be very evident. We have been neither damned nor commended by many. Yet we have derived much pleasure from the thought that many of you have enjoyed with us watching the slow but steady progress of our friends. With your help we will have one hundred per cent subscription to the MAGAZINE again next year. Also with your help we can make this a better and more newsworthy column. There are many names that should have appeared upon these pages. With your help we will get them here next year.
The honor of being the first member of our class to be written up in a national magazine goes to Fred Stubbs. TIME magazine of April 8 says in part as follows: "Outstanding Negro thoracic surgeon in the U. S. is young, gentle Frederick Douglass Stubbs of Philadelphia. Son of a wellknown doctor, graduate of Dartmouth, a leader of his class in Harvard Medical School, Dr. Stubbs spends most of his time at dingy Frederick Douglass Hospital. Here he looks after a ward of some 25 patients with advanced tuberculosis,
"Frederick Douglass welcomes all types of cases, gets along somehow on a State grant of $4,500 a year, dollar contributions from poor patients and friends Its hundred general beds, says Dr. Stubbs frankly, could easily be absorbed by other Philadelphia hospitals. But he fights to keep 45-year-old Frederick Douglass alive, for it is the only hospital in the U. S. where Negro doctors can undertake thoracoplasty (rib surgery for collapsing the lung). Dr. Stubbs chooses his patients carefully, for they are all test cases. Since 1937, when he started thoracoplasty at Frederick Douglass, Dr. Stubbs has operated on 40 patients, almost all of them 'poor risks' (some even over 60), has lost only five." Fred is doing an outstanding pioneering job in the battle against tuberculosis which disease stands in second place among the causes of death within his race.
Western States and New England take warning! Rumor has it at the time of going to press that Agent Davis of the Eastern States division has a practically invincible organization. Ross Lyon and Vic Reynolds have put their stout shoulders to the wheel down Pennsylvania way, and Paul Hannah and Ed Ruth will bat in the clean-up position in Maryland and Washington, D. C. Ed is now in Washington working for Oldsmobile. Bill Satterfield, recently returned to the home office of the Maryland Casualty Company in Baltimore, will also help out around the capital.
We find that Dick Lougee has not spent what you would call an idle winter for he has an article in THE BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE CONNECTICUT WATERSHED, entitled, Geology of the Connecticut Watershed. He has also had reprinted from the January 19 issue of SCIENCE an article entitled, Stagnation of Ice in Connecticut.
Also among the authors this month we are pleased to list Ted Selig. He is, the author of How Many Returns which appears in AMERICAN ARTISAN for February.
Dr. Dow Mills is soon to leave our bachelor ranks, for his engagement has been recently announced. The bride to be is Miss Alice Mullin McGough of Westfield, New Jersey.
Norman Swift, who is now teaching at Middletown, N. Y., has recently been appointed social studies instructor at Hastings Junior High School, effective the beginning of the new term in September. Norm is married and has two youngsters.
On February 18, the Portland, Maine, TELEGRAPH PRESS HERALD carried a two-column article headed: "Plight of Maine Farmers Stirs Author Jay Wilson." The article goes on to tell of the many interesting activities of our author-farmer, Jack Wilson, about whom we reported in an earlier issue. We quote in part: "Wilson is more than a writer; he is really a dozen men in one. He is a farmer, orchardist, an inventor, a poultryman, a maker of ship models, a soldier, and has tried his hand at cabinet-making. From the 200 trees in the orchard he obtained a clear crop of apples last season which was his first. In him are the traits of a native New Englander for ingenuity. He built his own sprayer for his orchard from bits of discarded machinery, and uses a secondhand gas engine for power. He has done much of his plowing, mowing, and cultivating with a home-made tractor. He believes that he has managed to do everything wrong at least once, but delights in the work and is determined to make the farm pay for itself." Among his other writ ings, Jack is author of the Boll Weevil stories which appear in THIS WEEK.
The Chicago DAILY TRIBUNE for April 6 reports the three major changes in the executive personnel of Marshall Field & Cos., made by the board of directors following the annual meeting of the company's stockholders. Under a picture of Wilbur Munnecke, looking much the same although slightly older and more dignified, we find: "Wilbur C. Munnecke, who had been in charge of the manufacturing division under McBain's supervision, was elected to one of two newly created vice presidencies and placed in complete charge of the division." The article further reports that: "Munnecke has been with the Field organization for seven years. He has held several positions, including that of controller of the former wholesale division, controller of the manufacturing division, operating manager of the Chicago retail store, and assistant treasurer of the corporation. His home and offices are in New York City, headquarters of the manufacturing division."
We regret being so late in reporting the arrival of another son in the home of Larry Duncan of Concord, New Hampshire. This youngster, now over a year old, is their second son.
Brad Harrison, now Doctor of Philoophy, is spending his third academic year as an instructor in the Department of English at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.
Ros Guyot writes from Los Angeles: "I'm still with the General Petroleum Corp. of California, a subsidiary of Socony-Vacuum. Had the pleasure of seeing Bert Gruver this summer on his first trip to the coast with Helen Hayes' company. Have been doing a bit of sailing on Hank Hartman's boat with Ed Ripley as part of the crew."
Bob Gilboy is selling advertising space for THE INSTRUCTOR MAGAZINE, a leading publication for teachers. Bob lives in Hawthorne, New York, is married and has a son, Robert Michael, age two.
Van Ingham, justly proud father of Sandy who is pictured above, claims that this shot was absolutely unposed. We prefer to think, however, that daddy was holding a 1926, or maybe a Harvard banner while taking the picture. Van says that Alexander Van Wie Ingham who was born April 7, 1939, was aiming for his mouth, but missed. At any rate it's a swell picture and let's hope, it is what we will be doing to the other classes around our time when the final results of the Alumni Fund are published. Van was married to Marion Fraine Rousell of Dover, New Jersey in 1934. They are now living in New Brunswick where, since July 1939, Van has been Assistant to Dr. William H. Martin, Dean of the New Jersey College of Agriculture and Director of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Stations. Prior to this Van had spent one year in the investment banking business and nine years doing newspaper and editorial work.
In closing this final column for the current college year we want to take this opportunity to thank you all for listening, and to wish you all a pleasant summer. We want to give a real pat on the back to our treasurer, Gus Cummings, for the most efficient manner in which he carried out the 100% subscription plan to this MAGAZINE. As ever, your class is not in debt. Let's make it a perfect year for the Class by getting behind Gus, Bill Abbott, Josh Davis and Rog Salinger to push the Alumni Fund way over the top as far as 1927 is concerned. Take your tip from the picture above and we will all be able to thumb our noses at a lot of classes we can think of. See you in October, and till then, the best of everything for all of you.
THREE CHEERS FOR 1926 Posed by a '27 son.
Secretary-Chairman, 152 Waban Ave., Waban, Mass.
Class Agent, 244 Dorset Rd., Waban, Mass.
