With this issue we try to fill the Size 12 shoes of Parker Merrow, who has slugged away at it so long and so valiantly in spite of such time-consuming activities as being a judge, a newspaper publisher, a politician, a flier, a woodsman, and the Sage of Center Ossipee, N. H.
If you fellows will be as generous with your notes as you were for the class letters during the Alumni Fund drive, your editor should be able to sit back and let our beautiful manager —Miss Polly Rowe—correct your deplorable spelling and fill the column until its teeth float.
Major Paul Hexter has returned to thArco Company, Cleveland paint manufacturers, as vice president and director of consumer sales. Paul spent a year and a half on special missions in Europe and the Pacific, previous to which he ran the practical visual testing at the AAF Proving Grounds at Elgin Field. He played an active part in developing techniques for the night camouflage of aircraft to
prevent detection by search lights. Lt. Col. Brice Disque has come back from Europe with a lot of ribbons on his chest, and is now a radio writer for Compton Advertising, Inc. Brice, you will remember, wrote "Gang Busters" and a lot of other radio programs. His pop, General Disque, admits thaBrice's war record is pretty good.
We saw a man-mountain walking along Madison Avenue the other day, and it turned out to be Al Perkins, Film and Radio Editor of Look Magazine, in New York.
The word is out that 1925 will tear up the Algonquin Club in Boston on Friday, November 30. Nate Bugbee plans to have a hot but brief entertainment program. It looks like a big affair as many members of the class are planning to travel to Boston from the surrounding territory. Doug Archibald, for one, ;s going up from New York for the affair.
Monty Chapman writes: "After serving as an officer with the AAF, I'm located in Boston with Jones, McDuffee & Stratton (Sales Mgr. Commemorative Plates—remember your Dartmouth plates?). Married after coming out of service and have a new daughter—plus inheriting a stepson and two daughters. The lad is in the Coast Guard. See Ken Hill, Jim McAndrews and others on trips through New England."
Major Frank Wallis' father died very suddenly on September 17th. He had suffered from a heart condition for some time,
Bob Bishop is sales manager for the Lamp Division of Sylvania. He works in New York and lives in Marblehead (1925's long-distance commuting champion).
Jim Martin is an estimator and engineer with the Del E. Webb Construction Cos., in Phoenix, Ariz. His new address is 2546 North Richland St., Phoenix.
Captain Hank Bjorkman is back from the wars and is in the investment business at 120 Broadway, in New York.
Theie is a plot under way for an informal 1925 Reunion in Hanover in the spring. We'll give you the details later; meanwhile, start thinking up alibis for getting away from your job.
Secretary, Room 1100 420 Lexington Ave., New York 17, N. Y Treasurer P. O. Box 428, Bristol, R. I.