1925

The first reservation for the 1950 Reunion comes from Colonel (Honorary, State of Virginia) Charming Walker and the most beautiful blond on Millwood Lane, Washington, D. C. That's OK with us, providing the Walkers take an off-campus room where other fellows in the class don't have to go through what we went through when we roomed with them at the Reunion in 1940.

It's none too soon to make your plans foi the 1950 Reunion. The only time when your scribe gets away is when he asks the boss and starts saving his pennies three years and eight months ahead of time.

Ken Hill—bless him—comes through with a few notes as follows:

Dick Holden has been appointed 2nd Vice President and Superintendent of Agencies of the Columbian National Life Insurance Com. of Boston as of November 1.

I had to make a quick trip yesterday to Concord, N. H., and took the plane. Whom should I sit beside but Dr. John Spring, the pride of Nashua, N. H. After Hanover, Jack went to McGill Medical School and was heading back to Montreal to attend the 125 th Anniversary of the founding of that University. If memory serves correctly, we used to have different and better excuses twenty odd years ago.

In trying to corral seats for the Dartmouth-Harvard game in Hanover, I find that applications are coming in from distant places .... from Ford Wheldon in Detroit and from Bob Weinig, V. P. and General Manager of the Windcharger Corp. in Sioux City (pronounced SI-OX City by Julius in the Hanover post office in our day). Bob finds he has important business in the East at that time—or darned well will.

Ken Hill's letterhead informs various tycoons that he deals in "Municipals and Corporates" at 80 Federal St., Boston. In case you want to get him on the Teletype, his number is TWX Boston 100. Reverse the charges.

We saw Jack Per-Lee at lunch in the Dartmouth Club of New York the other day so we judge that he's back from his airplane trip to Europe to buy a few million dollars worth of merchandise for Bloomingdale's and their associated stores throughout the country. Jack has a permanent buying organization that combs Europe now that shipping's available. His recent trip overseas kept him from the recent Reunion in Hanover but he's figuring not to miss the one in 1950.

In a quiet but very effective manner, Bob Borwell has been doing an excellent job on the 1925 Class Memorial Fund. This Fund, you know, is an endowment to be presented to the College at our 25th Reunion, with additions in later years. The tentative goal is $50,000 by 1950. This is big money but the surprising fact is that through Bob's work and the generosity of the '25ers who have already come through, about one-fifth of the goal has been subscribed. This is all the more remarkable in that many of the donors will give additional amounts periodically during the next few years.

The new address for Dick Gratz is 23 Rue de la Paix, Paris, France. Dick is Director of Communications for Transatlantic & Western Airlines after having served as a Commander in the Navy Dr. Herb Talbot is stationed at the Veteran's Administration Hospital in Richmond, Va Nate Colwell is radio di- rector of the Grey Advertising Agency in New York and lives at 6 West 7th Street, Mount Vernon, N. Y.

Keep the news coming in! Shoot us a little dope on what you and other '25ers are doing.

A RECENT RETURNEE to the legal profession is Comdr. Harold E. Stevens '25 who resumed his practise as a member of the Boston firm of Putnam, Bell, Dutch and Santry after four Navy years.

Secretary, 420 Lexington Ave., New York 17, N. Y.

Treasurer, 49 Federal St., Boston, Mass.

Memorial Fund Chairman, 164 West Jackson Blvd., Chicago 4, 111.