1927
If you happen to remember that beautiful and touching swan song we wrote for the June issue, you are entitled to a hearty chuckle or one loud boo, depending on your mood when you read above that same old butcher of the King's English from the same old address will continue to bore you in this particular spot for another five years. We were really serious in that swan song, and dispensing with all that bunk about the great honor that has been thrust upon us, we assure you the Twenty-fifth reunion will bring you a new, brighter and more efficient secretary.
To be brutally frank, the job isn't so tough if you are single, have an independent income with no time clock to punch, and a secretary to do all the work. Unfortunately, we have to work for our living, have no private secretary, and no independent income. Fortunately we are married and have a family. This copy has to be mailed to Hanover tomorrow and it is now late in the evening. Sure, we should have started earlier, but this evening the architect came- over to show us his preliminary plans for an addition on the house which reminds us to report that Walter Humphreys Arnold arrived at "Head Acres" on August 4. With Louis, age 3, and Barbara, 21 months, that seems to make three and hence the addition to the house.
Now that we presumably have you all crying let's come to the real point of all the build up. The job can and will be a lot of fun and a great deal easier if we have plenty of news to print. It's trying to write a good column out of nothing that takes the time and ruins our usual happy temperament. So all we ask is that each of you write one letter a year giving news about yourself and other classmates you may know about. Not much to ask, is it?
We have been most selfish and dilatory not to start this opus with sincere thanks from all the class to the individual members who did so much to make our Twentieth Reunion last June the best class gathering we can ever remember. Ross Nichols, your quiet, good-natured and efficient chairman, deserves a heap of praise. Through it all he seemed to be enjoying the reunion at least as much as anybody there, and to date his main reward for a grand job well done has been the unanimous election as chairman for our 25th, at which we shall expect even bigger and better things. To Dr. Dow Mills who did the uninteresting but important treasuring" of the reunion, our grateful appreciation. To our kindly hosts! BobFunkhouser, John Tanzi and Mike Choukas, the fratres in urbe, many thanks. Bob spent a lot of time on arrangements in Hanover and the clambake on Mouse Mountain. John spent many sleepless hours to keep things running smoothly and cool to delight the palate and make our tent most popular. Mike also added much to the local hospitality committee and we owe him personal thanks for the splendid job he did for us in reporting'the reunion in the July issue of this MAGAZINE.
Old Gus Cummings seemed mighty dignified and a bit quiet at the reunion, but perhaps the realization of having a son in the freshman class this fall was responsible. Seriously, we are trying to say he was the same guy with the same good sense of humor, loyalty and friendship, quietly doing a fine and difficult job for the class. When it comes to handing out thanks, tops in that department should and does go to our longtime treasurer, erstwhile class agent, director of the 25-year gift, advisor to reunion chairmen and prodder of the scribe and other class officers, Gus Cummings.
Class Agent George Howell accepted a really tough assignment this year. Last year the class outdid itself in dollars contributed and percentage of contributors. Again, thanks to George's leadership, the work of his many assistants, and the generosity of all of you, the class had an outstanding record. George has also been rewarded by unanimous reelection as class agent for next year.
In the July issue of this MAGAZINE the names of the officers and executive committee were announced. We would like to repeat that Bob Williamson is Chairman of the Executive Committee and representing New England; Ross Nichols represents New York and the eastern states; Cug Daley, Chicago and the central states; Frank Coulter, the Western states; and Nelson O'Rourke, the southern states. If you have any questions or suggestions, constructive or otherwise, please send them to your member of the committee or your secretary. Committee members are hereby notified that they are expected and required to send the secretary at least two pages of news every month from here in.
Having already devoted too much space to our report on "the State of the Nation" we will follow with nothing but news, and further avow that future columns will contain mostly news if you will send it in to us.
Elsewhere in this MAGAZINE you will probably read the Alumni Council has adopted a new system of scheduling reunions so that at each future reunion classes that were in college with us will be reunioning at the same time. The plan happens to be arranged, however, so that we have our reunions exactly five years apart until 1973, which shouldn't upset us very much.
Visitors at the Hanover Inn this summer included Mr. and Mrs. Jack McQuade and son, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lyman, Mr. and Mrs.Paul O'Connell, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Long, and Mr. and Mrs. Roger Salinger, who were in Hanover the week before Reunion attending Hanover Holiday. They were all most enthusiastic and urge more classmates to plan their vacations to include the Hanover Holiday program.
Ed Miner, recently of Sheldon, Vt., has just been appointed Associate Commissioner of Education in the U. S. Office of Education. Before going into the Army, Ed was Superintendent of Schools at Wellesley, Mass., from 1936 to 1942. He is married and has two children, Jean, 12, and Bobbie, nine. They will live in Hamilton, Va.
Another recent appointment in the field of education honors one of our classmates, MartyHeifer. He has been appointed Superintendent of Schools in Binghamton, N. Y., where he took over his new duties October 1. Marty has been Superintendent of Schools in Massena, N. Y. since 1939, where he has been active in community and educational affairs. He served as director of the Massena Chamber of Commerce for seven years and during the war was a member of the Massena Ration Board and Chairman of the Fifth War Loan Committee. Marty has a grand family of five boys, the oldest of whom is a freshman at Dartmouth this year.
Someone kindly sent us a page from the June issue of the New England Printer including a very fine picture of Banker Bill Auer, Vice President of the Maiden Trust Company. Bill was the featured speaker at the May meeting of the Boston Typesetters Division and the Typographers Association of Southern New England.
Other visitors at the Inn in Hanover this summer included Mr. and Mrs. Ray Reed of Lexington and Mr. and Mrs. Kern Folkers of Winchester. Red Cleaveland is Assistant Treasurer of the W. W. Mertz Company, a department store in Torrington, Connecticut.
Rog Bury has been transferred to the New York office of the International Business Machine Company. The Burys are living on Mellwood Lane in Westport, Connecticut. This change no doubt is much to Rog's liking because it puts him back on the Atlantic Ocean where he can again pursue his yachting hobby.
Ilrad Harrison is now living in Athens, Ohio, and Ken Lee has moved to West New York, New Jersey. Rumor has it that GordonHope has moved back to New England and is now living in Hingham, Mass. Milburn Murgittroyd is living in Bellevue, Washington. Bunny Barde is out in Berkeley, Calif., living at 26 The Uplands.
Bob Birch has moved to Northampton, Mass., where he is living at 81 Bridge Street. Fritz Cort is working for the Curtiss-Wright Corporation in West Caldwell, New Jersey.
Manny Benson is chief of the division of education at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, Pa. Seth Besse has been transferred to New York where he is still working for Kendall Mills. He is living in White Plains. Ed Fry has also moved back to New York where we understand he is a merchandise buyer with offices at 200 Fifth Avenue.
Herb Hansen is working for Production Machine Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Ding Heap has recently purchased a new home on the South Shore in Marshfield, Mass.
Leon Loeb is Editor of the Frederick Times in Frederick, Md. Ed Marston is working for American Viscose Corporation in New York City and lives in Briarcliff Manor, N. Y. LloydMoulton is district superintendent of schools at Vergennes, Vt. Joe Ryan is still teaching English at the Dedham High School and is living at 10 Barrows St., Dedham.
Bill St. Amant is sales manager of CampbellFairbanks Exposition with head offices in the Park Square Building, Boston. He is presently located in Chicago. Lt. Col. Bob Voorhis is now stationed in Washington, D. C., and is living out in Arlington, Va. Jacob L. Afros, who has recently changed his name to John L.Afros, is now living in Washington, D. C. EdBiggs is with the New York Telephone Company in Brooklyn and lives on Staten Island. Carl Christman is with Ballman Carbonizing Company in Adamstown, Pa. Dr. RichardYoung is Dean of the College of Medicine of the University of Utah, Salt Lake City.
The pictures appearing in this issue were taken at Reunion by Sid Voice.
It is with deep regret that we report the deaths of our classmates, Ed Holdsworth and Paul Messner. In Memoriam notices will appear in this or an early issue.
PATIENTLY WAITING FOR THOSE SUCCULENT LOBSTERS
MMMM!—THEY WERE GOOD
Secretary, 501 Boylston St., Boston 17, Mass. Treasurer and Memorial Fund Chairman Box 101, Westfield, N. J.
