1927
This will undoubtedly be the craziest, if not the stupidest, column we have to date perpetrated in sixteen long years of column writing. Some of you hardened benedicts can probably hark back to the week before you were married and remember that you had about a million things to do and no time in which to do them. Add to this a swell bachelor's dinner held at the University Club a few nights ago, plus the fact that we have received only one letter since last month, and you will understand why this column starts in a pessimistic vein.
It was a grand bachelor dinner given by a swell crowd of friends with all the appropriate toasting and speechifying, and the blushing groom was presented with a very beautiful silver tray on which is inscribed, among others, the following 1927 names: Bill Abbott, Dean Askew, Charlie Bartlett, Frank Coulter, Gus Cummings, Josh Davis, Sykes Hardy, Hank Orth, Bill Prescott, Andie Rankin, Bill St. Amant, Rog Salinger, and Bob Williamson.
Rog Salinger informs us that Coggy Broer is now Lt. Broer USNR. Coggy is at present studying at the Navy Supply School at Babson Institute in Wellesley. We hope to get a chance to see him before he leaves this neck of the woods.
We received a swell letter from Rufus Choate, the first in many years. Rufe starts out by imagining that I will have to consult the Aegis to find out "whoinell" he is. We hasten to assure him that this was not necessary, and that we have enjoyed tremendously the good news which he sen t us. Rufe has been in the advertising business since 1928, having spent ten years with N. W. Ayer and Son, Inc., in Philadelphia and New York. In 1938 he joined Donahue & Coe, Inc., in New York, and at present is a vice president of this large and successful advertising agency. Rufe was married in 1932 and has two fine sons who were born in 1933 and 1940, respectively. He has a home in Teaneck," N. J., and claims that the northwest corner of the cellar is his. He says his extracurricular activities in recent years have "included first vice president, Industrial Advertising Association of New York, chairman of Teaneck Branch of Red Cross, secretary of Northern Valley Chapter of Red Cross, Defense Council of Teaneck. Lost 9 years' growth last year when a P-40 crashed, exploded, and burned across the street from the house (we settled for a .50 through a window, and about 5,000 spectators who stood on my newly seeded front lawn)." Rufe closes his letter by informing us that he is now a lieutenant (j.g.), A-V(S) USNR at present awaiting active duty orders.
Last Thursday night we were assigned to special Coast Guard duty out of the Post Security Base at Constitution Wharf in Boston. We were piled into a large truck for transportation to our detail. We thought the fellow sitting across from us looked quite familiar, and he apparently thought the same of us. We finally figured out in spite of our disguises that he was Ray Reed and I was Doane Arnold. Ray has been serving in the Temporary Reserve at least twelve hours a week since July first. He informed me that Bert Gustin is also a member.
Jerry Allis and his family have returned from Texas and are now living in Hartford, Conn. Jerry is working as an auditor for the Hartford Fire Insurance Co. We have just had a change of address for Capt. Charles A. Carroll, care of Mrs. C. A. Carroll, 1130 Woodford Ave., Ft. Collins, Colo. We wonder if this means that Chuck has been transferred from Ft. Stevens, Oregon. You may have noted the joke he played on us in the June issue of this MAGAZINE. We had reported in the column that he was stationed at Ft. Stevens and our cousin, Lt. Frank Doane 1938, also stationed there, apparently read that item. The two jokesters then proceeded to get together and have a picture taken of Capt. Carroll treating Lt. Doane. The results were forwarded to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, and much to our surprise and pleasure appeared at the heading of this column in the June issue.
Lt. John Pfanner Jr. USN, having finished his training course at Harvard, is now stationed in Seattle, Wash. His address, 4008 37th Avenue, S.W. Nelson Robinson now lives at C-l Elliston Apartments, Nashville, Tenn. Nelson, to the best of our knowledge, still works for Kroger Grocery and Baking Co. Gordon Smith is still working as an artist for the Boston Sunday Post. He lives at 13 High Street, Marblehead. Evan Wilder now works in the U. S. Engineer Office at Ocala, Florida. Gordon Hope is lieutenant in the U. S. Navy. His address, 3310 Starmount Drive, Greensboro, North Carolina. Farrington Kinne is practicing law in Chicago. He lives at 1248 Ridgewood Drive, Northbrook, Ill.
Although it is impossible to keep the records accurately, because we learn each week of additional members of our class who have entered the Service, we do know of over seventy 1927 men who are members of the Armed Forces. Among this group there is one lieutenant colonel in the Army, seven majors, sixteen captains and nine lieutenants. In the Navy we find thirty-one lieutenants. In the Coast Guard, one lieutenant commander and one lieutenant, and in the Marines we have one major. Please send us word if you or any classmate you know of have joined the Armed Forces, and if this information has not appeared in this column. We hope shortly to be able to give you more definite and accurate statistics. Dr. Lowell Wormley is now a captain in the Army Medical Corps, as is Carl Weiss, who formerly practiced in Lawrence, Mass. Al Lawrence is a lieutenant commander in the Coast Guard, and is stationed at the Academy in New London.
On July 26 the Cleveland Plain Dealer carried a picture of Roger Bury under the heading, "Becomes Manager Here Roger M. Bury Promoted by International Business Machines International Business Machines Corp. announces the appointment of Roger M. Bury as manager of the Cleveland office. He previously was a special representative here. Bury joined the company in 1927 in Indianapolis and subsequently served in various capacities in Newark, N. J., New Hatfen, and Boston. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College."
When last heard from Jud Bellaire worked in Chicago as manager o£ Hills Brothers Co., and lived in Evanston; Lew Beyer was a merchandise broker in Tyrone, Penn.; Chuck Brewster had a church in Manhattan, Kansas; Bill Browning was a practising physician in Bennington, Vt.; Howie Camph was with J. R. Clancy, Inc., Stage Equipment Manufacturers in New York City; Nick Carter was minister of the First Church of Christ in Suffield, Conn.; Al Clifton was production manager of W. S. Warner Advertising Agency in San Francisco; Jerry Covert was with the Finance Service Corporation in Billings, Montana; Al Dick was practising medicine in Kingman, Ariz.; Clark Edmonds worked for International Harvester Co. in Hartford; Ros Guyot was accountant for General Petroleum Corporation of California in Los Angeles; Reg Horton was vice president of Smith-Murray Co., Department Store in Bridgeport, Conn.; Al House was an instructor in History at Wilson Teachers' College.
During the next few weeks we hope to have the pleasure of seeing many classmates in New York, Washington, and points south. We also hope to receive much news from the rest of you, so that the December column will be full of the latest dope.
Secretary, 152 Waban Ave., Waban, Mass. Treasurer, Box 1412 Pittsburgh 30, Penna.
