1934

You see before you a mighty bewildered sort of secretary. For now, in an hour of shortages typified by a currently publicized scarcity of shoes, he finds himself incongruously facing a positive surfeit of foot-wear. No, not too many—just too big. What we're trying to say is that the ample oxfords worn in turn by Dwyer, Knibbs and Embry will take a heap o' fillin'. They say that a good way to absorb slack in a shoe is to stuff the toe with paper. And that's where you guys come in. Let's have a lot of letters.... hundreds of 'em. Let's hear about the new lives you're settling down to. The new jobs, the new wives, the new kids. Or the old lives you're returning to. It's all news.... and it's what the lads like to read.

Well now that we've wrung the last thin drop of symbolism from that much-abused metaphor we shall proceed to the matters at hand.

First, an official announcement: immediately following the Reunion class meeting the newly elected executive committee gathered to appoint officers and discuss policies. Out of this session came a break with the past. It was decided that the existing office of secretary-treasurer-chairman was too demanding in its duties for one man, and accordingly we are pleased to present Martin J. Dwyer Jr. as your new class chairman. Marty, administrator supreme, is already at work on plans for ganization, and you'll be hearing of these as time goes by. For the present, however, our chairman is concerned primarily with (a) the birth of 8 lb., 3 oz., Jacqueline Dwyer on August 19 and (b) his new California job in the advertising department of United Rexail Drug.

Speaking of California brings to mind Charlie Kehoe, who is reported by Les Reeve to have chosen instead the golden State of Florida where he is now engaged in the real estate business at Hollywood Beach. Real estate is currently occupying the time, too, of Arnie Golding, who recently made New York headlines through the purchase, by a group which he headed, of Manhattan's Hotel Chatham. Arnie is also president of Essex House, another celebrated Big City hostelry. Other recent success stories involve Tom Clark who became, during their last annual election, the youngest vice president in the history of the American Express Co., and Bob Ford who left Westinghouse to become export manager of the National and Transcontinental Trading Corp., in New York.

Colliers readers have probably noticed that not so long ago the name of Bud Hart took its place on the masthead as associate fiction editor. Bud, incidentally, was the subject of a column titled "Editors Are People" in the May nth Rochester Democrat if Chronicle. Another news-worthy '34er is Max Palmer who was selected by Pic Magazine as one of their four Young Men of the Month for August. If you have not seen it, that issue carries a fine spread 011 the achievements of our boy Max as secretary in charge of sales, sales promotion and advertising for the perfume house of Solon Palmer. And from Wilmington comes word that Chick Chickering, Navy Cross winner, has been selected as executive officer of the Second Division of the Delaware Battalion, U. S. Naval Reserve.

We have a vague feeling that either Embry or Scherman has already chronicled the following, but here's the happy news again, anyway: On June 1 Mrs. Mary Hart Cooke became the bride of Major Ken Keeley in Poughkeepsie and on June 4 Miss Charlotte Jones of Brookline, Mass., was married to Don Allen. Sey Dunn was Don's best man. And that's all we have at the moment on the marital side. Or any other side, for that matter. Oh yes—congratulations to all you good-looking girls and boys who made the August issue cover class! See you next month. And remember .... the more letters, the more news.

Secretary and Treasurer no Fulton St., New York 7, N. Y.