1927
We have just finished reading the April issue of this MAGAZINE which to your correspondent always serves as a grim reminder that it is time to sit down and grind out another column. This time it must be made largely out of thin air, so if a few letters come in between now and about May 8th, it won't hurt our feelings. We got a great kick out of reading the long list of '27 men who so loyally supported the Alumni Fund last year. Let's make it even longer this year. To our way of thinking a most important angle of the defense program should be to encourage and support a college like Dartmouth in its work to train the type of men God knows we will need to help reconstruct the crazy world when this present mess is over.
Did you read in the News from Alumni Clubs that George Howell was recently elected Secretary of the Chicago Alumni Association?
Andy Rankin, Rog Salinger, Charlie Bartlett and your Secretary went to Hanover a couple of Saturdays ago where we joined up with Bob Funkhouser and Bill Auer for a very pleasant evening. We also saw Bill Auer at the opening game of the Boston Bruins-Detroit series for the Hockey championship, last evening.
Recent issues of Squeaks from theGolden Gate caused by the Dartmouth Association of Northern California inform us that Rollie Howes was on the committee for arrangements for the celebration of Dartmouth Night in San Francisco last fall. Also that A1 Clifton has gone into the advertising business by himself as of January 13' 1941, at 369 Pine Street, San Francisco.
One of our New York and Connecticut Winchells" reports that on March 25th, last, the home of A1 Chabot was blessed with the arrival of a new daughter. Suzanne Louise Chabot was born at the French Hospital in New York City.
Walt Bowlby who is working this year as an assistant in the Chemistry Department at Boston University is living at 161 South Main Street, Franklin, New Hampshire.
A note from Harv Jones in Chicago advises us that he will have to miss the Class Agents' dinner since he is taking a winter vacation and won't be in town. Sounds like the Public Utility business may be improving. Harv will be one of Bill Abbott's loyal and enthusiastic workers for the Alumni Fund in the Western District this year.
Kern Folkers writes from St. Louis that after leaving Boston in January, he spent some time in Washington on business before returning home. Apparently Kern enjoyed his reuning in Boston sufficiently to be looking forward to another visit in the near future.
Clark Edmonds reports from Hartford that he is still pounding the roads in that vicinity for the International Harvester Cos. He says that he sees the Gordon Colbys and Don Burnham occasionally.
Our item in the last issue regarding Ed Fowler was somewhat incomplete, having been written largely from memory because we had mislaid the newspaper clipping which Bob Mix so kindly sent us. The clipping has now been retrieved. The February 19th issue of the New Haven JournalCourier carried an excellent picture of Ed and a splendid account of his activities which we quote in part. "Edwin H. Fowler of this city, a former Journal-Courier reporter, has been appointed a regional district manager for the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company. The district organization of the company is divided into six regions, and Mr. Fowler has been placed in charge of the southeastern region, with headquarters in Philadelphia. Since 1937, Mr. Fowler has been in charge of the Connecticut territory in the position of field supervisor, and during this period production of ordinary life insurance was nearly doubled and other forms substantially increased In 1939, he was awarded the degree of chartered life underwriter by the American College of Life Underwriters He goes to Philadelphia with his wife and two sons on March 3 to assume his new duties."
Bob Mix, we are informed, did a grand job as head of the Educational Conference sponsored by the Connecticut Association of Life Underwriters held in New Haven on March a Ist.
A long letter from Bill Satterfield claims for himself a new class record and to the best of our knowledge the leather medal goes to him and we hereby award it. Bill's honor, if you care to call it such, is that of the first '27 man to be, shall we say, chosen under the Selective Service and Training Act. Yeah, he's been drafted. Bill will not be 36 until July of this year and so the little word "inclusive" forced him to register on October 16th, even as you and I. Lady Luck then proceeded to bring up Number 354, so Bill was called to report on or about January 27th. Being a swimmer and not a ballplayer, he didn't even have fiat feet. To fix things up proper, Bill decided to get married, which he did on January 25th to Frances Lee Callaghan of Owings Mills, Maryland. Then to assure being stationed around Baltimore for a while at least, he enlisted in the 110 th Field Artillery of the Maryland National Guard, where he expects to be for the next four months wondering what a guy can do to spend $21.00 a month. He says he hopes to be a retired Army man by the time our Fifteenth rolls around, as he has not been back to Hanover since June, 1927. Bill rather plaintively adds that in case anyone wants to drop him a line of commiseration, his address is: Sgt. W. J. Satterfield Jr., Ist Battalion Headquarters Battery, 110 th Field Artillery, Fort Meade, Maryland.
Charlie Allen, Assistant General Manager of Charles G. Allen Cos., manufacturers of Machine Tools in Barre, Mass., is kept very busy these days with government defense orders. Ken Andersen is assistant to the president of American Management Association. He is living at 12 Priscilla Avenue, Tuckahoe, N. Y. Fred Auer is Supervisor of Bridge Construction for the New Hampshire State Highway Department. Manny Benson is Art critic for the American Magazine of Art in New York City. Russ Blanchard works for Blanchard Brothers Granite Cos., in Uxbridge, Mass., where he is plant manager. A1 Bliss is a clerk in the Actuarial Department of the National Life Insurance Cos., of Montpelier, Vt. Coggy Broer is Secretary and Treasurer of Broer-Freeman Cos., jewellers in Toledo, Ohio.
Reeve Brokaw is working in the Actuary Division of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Cos., in New York City. He is living in North Plainfield, N. J. Chuck Burwell lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he is Superintendent of the Aetna Casualty and Surety Cos. Johnny Carey is Vice President of the Martin Dry Goods Cos., in Cedar Rapids, la. Chuck Carroll practices medicine in Fort Collins, Colorado. Mort Cavis is manager of Cavis Brothers, General Store in Bristol, New Hampshire. Bull Cheatham, Tobacconist with the Pennsylvania Tobacco Cos., lives in Kingston, Pa. Rufe Choate is in the advertising business with Donahue and Coe Inc., of New York City. He is living in Teaneck, N. J. Dick Clapp is working as Security Administrator for Rural Rehabilitation under the United States Department of Agriculture in Western Massachusetts. Dick still lives in Gill, where he has a large strawberry farm.
Spence Cook is Secretary and Treasurer of the Cook Iron Stove Cos., in Rochester, N. Y. Heinie Copeland is Manager of DeWitt-Boag Cos., manufacturers of broad silks in Hornell, N. Y. Mark Copeland is an accountant with the Mills Novelty Cos., in Chicago. Fritz Court is also an accountant for Durkee Famous Foods in New York City and is living in Bloomfield, N. J. Mert Cotton is Assistant Treasurer of the Laconia Savings Bank in New Hampshire. Cug Daley is midwestern sales manager for the Sponge Rubber Products Cos., with headquarters in Chicago.
See you next month and in the meantime let's set a new record for 1927 in the Alumni Fund.
Secretary, 152 Waban Ave., Waban, Mass.
Class Agent, 244 Dorset Rd., Waban, Mass.
