1927*
There is always pleasure in preparing the column for the June issue, since that means a vacation for yours truly until next September. It would be even more pleasant if we didn't have to scratch so hard for news.
The February issue of the Colby Alumnus, alumni magazine of Colby College, has a two page article entitled "Introducing—the Successor to a Great Tradition." On the first page we find a picture of Professor Richard Jewett Lougee holding a miniature skeleton of what appears to our uneducated eyes to be a dinosaur. The article gives a splendid account of Dick's life to date and of the fine job he is doing in the Geology Department at Colby, as well as an interesting account of his trip to the International Geologic Congress at Moscow in 1937, where he delivered a paper. We quote one paragraph towards the end; "The Dartmouth in him crops out here and there. He is never seen with a hat and likes to wear a ski jacket as an outdoor wrap, but a snow storm always brings out the old undergraduate sheepskin and green ski cap with the Outing Club pin on it."
Brad Harrison has been teaching in the Department of English at Ohio University since the Fall of 1937. He received his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Ohio State University in 1939. Brad lives at 24 East Washington Street, Athens, Ohio.
Ken Murray recently announced the formation of the firm of Ring and Murray, Counsellors at Law. Ken's partner is Carl E. Ring and their offices are in the International Building, Rockefeller Center, New York City.
A long and reasonably intelligible letter from Johnny Roe leads us to believe that we have done him dirt and got him in considerable of a pickle. To explain the situation we will quote a few printable parts of said letter. "In the current magazine my good wife tells me I'm working for Whittlesey when all along she's had the idea I was working for McHutchison and Cos. Well you know me, honest Abe with my chin hanging off my big bare face a mile. I tell her you know I'd never lie to you, Maw, I'd never deceive you like that. So then she gets me with that look and feints me out of position and gives it to me from another angle, off the cushion, so to speak. Well it's that way back and forth for a while, finally.winding up with your word vs. mine. Unfortunately, she doesn't know you, so I'm a stinkeroo, and you know what you're talking about. I wouldn't mind if I could collect every month from Whittlesey and get the regular mazooka from McH. and Cos., besides, or vice versa, but no chance." John finally breaks down and tell us that McHutchison and Cos., are Horticultural Merchants and then to prove it lists a lot of long names we wouldn't even attempt to spell, pronounce or understand but assume they are names of some of the horticulture in which he deals. After a lengthy dissertation about the unprintable blockade and resulting difficulties of importing horticulture, not to mention the unprintable differences in rates of exchange, John informs us that he and his wife and two daughters are living at 39 Howard Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.
A 1 Macdonald is now located in ville, Tennessee, where he is working for the United States Department of Justice.
Jack Andrews has recently been transferred to Leominster, Massachusetts where he is working for the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Ed Ripley is Treasurer of Food Freezers, Inc., in Los Angeles, Calif. Ed lives at 4463 Tyrone Street, Sherman Oaks, Calif.
It is with deep regret that we learned recently of the sad death of one of Nat Morey's youngsters, a daughter age seven. Nat is still working in Buffalo with the Ralston Purina Co., where he has been for the past twelve years. This company manufactures the well known products, Ralston Cereal, Rye-Krisp, and Shredded Ralston, although at the Buffalo plant where Nat is credit manager they manufacture and distribute animal and poultry feeds. Nat gets to Boston occasionally on business and we sincerely hope he will not fail to give us a call on his next trip here.
Your scribe wishes to report that he has recently been appointed Manager of the Underwriting Department of the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company for which organization he has been working for the past eleven years.
Dinty Gardner, new Commodore of the Boston Yacht Club recently made the news when he ran a large banquet at the Copley Plaza celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of that organization.
Dick Bowers Fox is chief inspector for the Toledo Steel Products Company and is living at the Miltimore Apartments in Toledo. Dick Bradley Fox is manager of the Corporate Tax Department for Colonial Beacon Oil Company in Boston.
Reg French is still teaching at Amherst College where he is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages. Ed Fry is a buyer for Montgomery Ward and Company in Chicago. Owen Garfield is still working on the technical staff of the Bell Telephone Laboratory. He lives at 463 West Street, New York City. That address doesn't read right to us, but maybe it will draw a letter out of Owen. Carlton Gilbert is doing sales promotion work for the United States Rubber Company in New York, he lives at 19 Roosevelt Avenue, Larchmont, N. Y.
Bob Gilboy works as advertising representative for F. A. Owen Publishing Company in New York City. Tom Gillespie is a Junior Accountant with Price, Waterhouse and Company in New York. His home is at 2420 Ocean Avenue, Brooklyn. Ted Girault works for the New York Telephone Company with the title of Collection Methods Supervisor. Lee Gore is office manager for E. D. Briggs, Wholesale Grocers in Ogdensburg, New York. Lee Greenebaum is President of Metro Distributors (Auto Renting) in New York City.
Glenn Hannaford is working for the Brown Company, manufacturers of pulp and paper. He is Paper Control Mail and Chemist and is living in Cascade, New Hampshire. Herb Hansen is still selling for the Mosler Safe Company in Boston. Syd Harris is practising law in New York City and lives at 270 West End Avenue. Bill Hoge is in the real estate and insurance business in Washington, D. C. He lives at 3815 Lee Highway, Arlington, Va. Bill Hollands lives in Hornell, New York, where he works for S. Hollands Sons, Lumber Company. Dr. Jack Holleran is still carrying on a busy practice in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Dick Hood teaches engineering at the Waltham Senior High School in Waltham, Mass.
Dick Hoskin is Vice President of the Hoskin Morainviile Paper Company in Menominee, Michigan. Win Howland works for the Soft Water Supply Company in Des Moines, la. Dan Jennette is an engineer with the New Haven Water Company, New Haven, Conn. Dr. Pete Johnson is a Dermatologist practising in Washington, D. C. Mike Ketz is assistant to the Controller of W. T. Grant Cos.
Ed Knapp is manager of the Dog Food Department of Kasko Mills in Waverly, New York. George Koles is practising law in Toledo, Ohio. A 1 Lagacy sells for J. P. Stevens and Company Textile Manufacturers in New York City. A 1 and his family live at 598 Standish Road, Teaneck, New Jersey.
Gus Cummings, Bill Abbott, Ross Nichols, Rog Salinger and their many loyal assistants are devoting much thought, time and effort to the Alumni Fund Campaign. With the Fifteenth coming up next year this ought to be our year to go to town. Our pride in President Hopkins and the splendid record of the College during the twenty-five years under his leadership is an added incentive to increase our contributions materially this year. The cold facts are that in the past although our percentage of contributors has been about as good as the college average, our average contribution has been considerably below the average of the alumni body as a whole. If we can boost them up this year wherever possible, we'll be right in there pitching. Hope you all have a swell summer!
Secretary, 152 Waban Ave., Waban, Mass.
Class Agent, 344 Dorset Rd., Waban, Mass.
