1927
Oh what a wonderful morning January 29 turned out to be! A grand letter from our good friend Cug Daley, one of our most loyal Chicago wheelhorses, who very kindly took the trouble to sit down and telephone all the "local brethren" to dig up a little news for this column.
"You will be interested in news about the 1927 boys in Chicago. Most of them are in their usual locations. Those in the Armed Forces, I believe, are Bill Abbott, George Howell, Phil Thompson and Paul Woelfel. We miss them all and Bill Abbott, in particular, as he was always the local 1927 spark Plug.
"Woody Bergert reports that he is working hard at that gilt-edged banking institution, Chicago's Harris Trust and Savings Bank. While on a recent trip to Memphis he had the pleasure of running into Bob Slater who is located at the First National Bank there. He said that Bob had not changed and was in excellent spirits.
"Chuck Field is still at the Chicago Vitreous Enamel Cos. He has an interesting job as traffic manager of the company, and supervises the export division. His company has made some unusual conversions and among other things are producing both armor plate and dehydrated eggs, the latter at the rate of 10,000 pounds per day.
"Montgomery Ward still has the services o£ Ed Fry as buyer of ceramics. He says the job really calls for more expediting than buying, and Ed is faced with the many problems that most companies have now.
"Burt Snow continues with Butler Brothers and has had four departments placed under his direction. He lives out in Crystal Lake and reports all is well.
"Mrs. McGough tells me that Marsh has been doing his bit for the war effort for the past year at the Studebaker Aviation Engine Plant. They received Christmas cards from Lt. Phil Thompson, now somewhere in Australia, and Kroggy Krogstad on duty with the Navy.
"Jim Dalbey is with Sears Roebuck at their Irving Park store and is going along swell. Si Moran is also with Sears at their main office.
"For the past two years Bob Gilboy has been located in Chicago as advertising manager of The Instructor, located at Mather Tower. He says he occasionally can find a little available space after much searching. ,
"Merritt Joslyn is with Parker-Joslyn Insurance and at the present time is spending a few weeks on the West Coast.
"I ran into Harvey Jones at lunch recently and had a pleasant chat. Harvey has been with the Sixth Service Command on statistical work.
"From up in Lac du Flambeau, Wise., the Frell Owls sent us a Christmas card with greetings in the Indian language, Cherokee, I expect. It was nice to hear from him and his attractive family which I met three summers ago.
"Bus Turpin is with Sawyer, Ferguson, Walker Advertising. He has seen quite a few '27 men on their trips through Chicago—Steve Osborn of St. Paul, Lt. Ethan Hitchcock of Navy Bureau of Ordnance, and Lt. Coggy Broer of the Navy, recently at Oakland, Calif.
"Hank Orth is still with Gugler Lithograph Company at 400 North Michigan Avenue.
"Bud Kinne, who spent freshman year with us, and a neighbor of mine, is being congratulated for going to Winston, Strawn and Shaw, a prominent Chicago law firm, as junior partner.
"Yours truly after a year's tour duty as a civilian with the War Department, Chicago Ordnance District, is now back with Sponge Rubber Products Cos. in the Wrigley Building. We have our problems, too, but synthetic rubber is coming along in good shape."
Carroll ends this much appreciated report by saying, "Tell Gus his November 25 issue of 'The 1937 Speakeasy' was super-super!" To which we say 'Amen!'"
As of January 1, 1944, the law firm, Daggett and Hooker of New Haven, Conn., announced that I. Gordon Colby Jr. had become a member of that firm. Our best wishes and congratulations go to Gordon for this achievement.
A nice note from Fred Jackson, partially stirred up by our report of his activities in the December issue. He vows to get one on the "Deacon" who helped us scoop the aforementioned news. Fred also invites us to visit him in Jefferson, Maine, which invitation we definitely intend to accept when gasoline and vacations come a bit easier. Fred reports, "We are all well and I have son number 2. He is five months old and doing very well. I think that if, when he is one and one half years old, he walks and talks normally and can hit an apple barrel head with a .22 target pistol, he will do to adopt. We call him Joe after my Grandfather. Son number 1, Frederick Jr., is three and one half and all boy."
This column has several times reported that Reg Vincent has become an interested and hard working public servant in his home town of East Orange, N. J. The Newark StarLedger of December 30, 1943, reports that Councilman Vincent on the previous evening was chosen chairman of the 1944 City Council, after a 30-ballot deadlock. This must represent an all time balloting marathon record of some sort. The facts are, however, that for the first twenty-nine ballots, Reg received five votes, opponent Joya three, and opponent Vail two. Before the last ballot Councilman Joya released his pledges, whereupon the Council voted unanimously for Mr. Vincent. Reg is associated with a New York banking firm and has represented the Fourth Ward on the City Council since 1940. He is a deacon of the Munn Avenue Presbyterian Church.
On February 4 the annual dinner of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston was held at the Copley Plaza. The largest group of '27 men that has gathered in Boston for some time met in a hotel room before the dinner for a most enjoyable cocktail hour. Twenty members and one guest enjoyed the reunion and the dinner program, which was excellent. Those present were: Andy Rankin, Bill Auer, Dick "Bradley" Fox, Kern Folkers, Joe Kelley, Shorty Oliver, Ken Russell, Bill Prescott, Herb Hansen, Ding Heap, Meek Slotnik, Bob Sullivan, Sykes Hardy, Jock Davis, and his brother George, Rog Salinger, Bill Macaulay, Brownie Freeman, Bob Williamson, Tom Anglen and your secretary. It was exceptionally nice to have Ken Russell down from Portland and Dr. Joe Kelly up from Orleans on Cape Cod. Let's make those get-togethers larger and more often.
How about somebody else taking the ball from Cug Daley. Maybe we'd like to hear from your city, too.
Secretary, 152 Waban Ave., Waban, Mass. Treasurer, Box 1412 Pittsburgh 30, Penna.
