1927*
Your scribe spent three October weekends snooping around at football games and discovered that a few of you old buzzards are still young enough to enjoy that strenuous game as it is played by the average alumnus. In Hanover for the Colgate game we saw Russ Blanchard, Fred Holden, Professor Mike Choukas, Bob Funkhouser, Hugh McGrath, Rog Salinger, Gus Cummings, Charlie Bartlett, Nat Morey and Don McCall. Nat Morey and his wife were in Hanover for the first time in some years on what seemed to be a well timed business trip. No doubt the hens and chickens in New Hampshire hadn't been eating enough Ralston Purina Pellets. We were looking for them in Boston the following week-end for the Harvard game but apparently the Massachusetts poultry situation was alright because Nat did not show up.
On the following Saturday a 1927 cocktail party and luncheon was held at the Hotel Puritan in Boston. Some twenty-one members of the class and their wives were present making the best and largest '27 gathering we have had in Boston. Those present included the Prescotts, Williamsons, St. Amants, Heaps, Gardners, Hitchcocks, McCalls, Cummings, Fowlers, Bill Auers, Bartletts, Burys, Hams, Hardys, Spinneys, Colbys, Charlie Paddock, Rog Salinger, Clint Bradley, and Paul O'Connell. From the hotel we all went by private bus to the stadium. At the game we saw or heard tell of Ed Johnson, Seth Besse, the Dick Foxes with their guests the Cleavelands from Torrington, Connecticut. Les Battin and his wife joined us on the return trip to the hotel. Les looks much the same as he did in college although we must in truth report a few gray hairs creeping in around the edges. Clint Bradley looking no more than two days older than he did freshman year appeared for the first time since being transferred to Boston. He'is now District Representative of the Orange Crush Company. Lawyers O'Connell and Colby from Worcester and New Haven respectively, were both in fine fettle. The Hitchcocks and McCalls were the guests of the Salingers, expecting, no doubt, a quiet, pleasant week-end. This was efficiently interrupted by a group of callers who "just happened" to drop in on them Saturday evening after the game. We can assure you that the callers had a swell time and so can the Bartletts, Prescotts and St. Amants.
We spent a most delightful week-end with the Bartletts as guests of the Ballantynes for the Yale game. At the Bowl in New Haven we saw Dud Bonsall, A 1 Chabot, Will Shaw, Johnnie Greener, Herb Rubin, Red Cleaveland, Hank Bayles, Bob Long and Syd Harris. On Sunday afternoon we called on Dean and Iris Askew at their lovely new home in New Canaan. Before closing on the Yale week-end, we wish to advise you that if any of your sons are wondering who they will ask up for Carnival in about 1957 we can recommend most highly Miss Maury Ballantyne, our choice for carnival Queen.
If we have failed to mention the names of any who we saw at these three games kindly blame it on our usually efficient secretary Miss Take. We took her to all the games with her notebook and pencil but sometimes she has difficulty in transcribing her notes particularly those made during the second half.
The October gist issue of the EasternUnderwriter, one of the largest insurance trade publications carries a picture of Marshall Cleaves under the heading: "Cleaves Heads Home's Underwriting Department." The article says in part: "Mr. Cleaves, 36, thus becomes one of the youngest officials ever to head the underwriting department of a leading American Life Insurance Company. His appointment as Underwriting Secretary becomes effective November 1. Mr. Cleaves is a graduate of Dartmouth College, Class of '27, where he received his B.S. Degree. For the first two years following graduation he was a member of the faculty of the Coburn School in Miami Beach. Mr. Cleaves began as a clerk in the underwriting department in 1929, and seven years later was promoted to underwriting supervisor. In 1940 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the company."
Guy Bostwick has recently moved to Merrick, New York. Guy is still working for the New York Telephone Company in Hempstead, Long Island. Syd Harris is a lawyer and works for the Securities and Exchange Commission at 120 Broadway in New York City. Jack Jones is in the banking business at 1 Wall Street. He lives at 6 Woodside Road, Madison, New Jersey. Howie Levis is in the insurance business with J. S. Kemper and Company, Philadelphia. He lives at 214 Dudley Avenue, Narberth, Pa. Ed Mahoney is also in the insurance business in Lawrence, Mass. Hank Murray is now a motion picture director in New York City. He is living out in Pelham Manor. Bob Tucker has recently been transferred to Richmond, Virginia.
Nick Nichols reports on his questionnaire a thirty-eight waistline and that he will be back for the Fifteenth. Bill Mason reports from Waterbury, Vermont, that he hopes to be at the Reunion although he is so busy with his growing ski manufacturing business that he had no time to give us news. Professor Dick Lougee with a mere thirty-five waistline, says he'll be at the Quindecennial with the Mrs., and young Gerry, now aged two years and two months, and sporting a "D" sweater. Dick also says: "I have bought a piece of land near the new campus of Colby College, and if the priorities don't get ahead of me I'll build a house next year. We are expecting the college will move to its new campus next year, at which time my department (Geology), will have entirely new headquarters and facilities." Thus far, Bill Abbott wins with a thirty-one inch cummerbund. He sends regards and promises to be on hand next June. Fritz Auer says "Family same but growing older, Suzanne 2 1/2, Billy and myself. Job same, bridges, with New Hampshire State Highway Department. Living in Hopkinton and the latchstring is out, the only yellow house in town. Very little golf but can now mow a lawn close to par." Ken Russell with a mere thirty-four inch waist suggests for a reunion costume "something suitable for a bay window and a bald head." He adds in parenthesis "still have my own teeth, though." Ken is still in the screen and weatherstrip business in Portland, Maine. He has two sons Harry aged six, and Kenneth aged three. Bob Voorhis will attend the Clambake, next June. Dr. Dow Mills reports that he is still doing pediatrics (baby doctoring to you) at the old stand in Westfield, New Jersey. Dow has recently been appointed instructor in Pediatrics at College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. He has recently been remodeling and enlarging his house and we suspect Winchell could tell us why. Harry Wallace returned a blank questionnaire which probably means that the gas business is so good down in Charleston, West Virginia, that he didn't have time to fill it out, or maybe he was embarrassed about his waistline. At any rate we hope to see him in Hanover next June.
Kroggy Krogslad promises to be with us in Hanover for the Quindecennial. Among suggestions for the reunion program, Pat Partridge suggests "Avoid asking Jeff Tesreau to speak from on top of a table—he'll never make it." Pat also says: "saw Sam Martin a few minutes in his Portland law office last May and accused him of being on somebody's track teamhe's that thin. He allowed as how it is work that does it. I must be on the wrong track. See Gilly Gilbert on the train once in a while and he is planning on being present at the Fifteenth."
Our brilliant Miss Take just had a brain wave and figured out a way to transcribe some of those Second Half notes from the Colgate game. She now informs me that also seen in Hanover were, Rog Braman, Doc Harvey, Guy Bostwick, Seth Besse, and Don O'Hara. This reminds us that we also saw Jack Draper in a terrific traffic jam on the way to the Yale Bowl.
If you haven't already sent in your questionnaire about the Reunion please do so and then there is that little matter of the check which we are sure Gus will appreciate. Early returns indicate a record crowd for the Quindecennial. In an early issue we will print a list of those who are definitely planning to attend. Let's have your name on that list.
Secretary, 15a Waban Ave., Waban, Mass. Treasurer, 244 Dorset Rd., Waban, Mass.
