1928
Bud Weser is about to take the big step, for on March 13 the contract was sealed and delivered, the banns read, and the jumping-off date announced in the New York papers as June. The girl involved is Miss Ruth Georgina Stuart, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jasper A. Stuart of Meaford, Ontario. Ruth is associated with the British Overseas Airways Corporation in New York. Bud spent three years overseas with the 8th and 9th Air Forces, and is now president of the Weser Piano Company, New York.
After the '28 dinner in New York on March 20, the boys took Bud on a tour of some of the town's lush night clubs.
At the same dinner we learned that IrvEngelman and Mrs. Sylvia Degner were married October 24, 1946, the culmination of a twenty-year romance. They live in Rahway, where Irv recently bought the Beverage Shop formerly owned by his father. Irv commutes every day to the Capitol in Trenton where he is Assistant Director of Administration, Division of Old Age Assistance.
Class Agent Bill Morton and Bobby announce the birth of Albert Harry, their third child, on February 28 in Syracuse. Bill says it took two weeks after the event to agree on a name, a predicament that seems likely to be repeated this month in the Skinner household.
The news is a shade ancient, but nevertheless vital—Ed Hanes and Mary Catherine of Cleveland have further responsibilities in the person of a daughter, Edna, who arrived September 11, 1946. Edna is their fourth child, the first three being boys.
Twenty-four attended the class dinner in New York March 20: Lew Beers, Cal Billings, Elliot Brooks, Holyoke, Mass., attorney Chuck Bruder, Bill Cogswell, Red Edgar of Boston, Irv Engelman, Esty Estabrook, Mai Halliday, Ed Heyn, Jack Herpel, Court Keller, George Klein, Ed Lyman, Springfield attorney, Budd Mat ing, Bill Morton, Barney Nova, Phil Orsi, George Pasfield, Herb Russell, Bill Treanor, Bud Weser, Jack Zellers and yours truly.
Woody Isham has resigned from the Standard Register Cos., for which he has worked for the past 13 years, to take a job with California Tel. & Tel. Co., 6075 W. Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles. By so doing he has bolstered the sagging fortunes of the Bell System, which recently lost the services of Jack Cook and Bill Dietz.
We have just completed a geographical business directory of the 650 members of our class which Jack Herpel will publish in the '2B Campaigner. It reveals that "Mother Bell" and the United States Government are the largest employers of '2Bers, with 15 and 17 respectively. This represents quite a comedown on the part of the Government, which two years ago employed—in varying degrees of servitude—over 200.
The armed services, which had 182 of us, now have two: Col. Costello and Major Reed. Veterans Administration has: Hyman, Goodwin and Dugdale. Others on the Federal payroll are: R. L. Clark, Harris, Hartjens, Vandenberg, Herb Adams, Alec Kerr, Myles Lane, Porter, Perkins, Warner in China, Monaco and Myers in Germany.
Working for the Bell System are: Lawrence, Boston; Newton, Salem, Mass.; Fowler, Cleveland; in New York City—Jack Barry, Beers, Chamberlain, Hodson, Simpson; in New Jersey—Bennett, East Orange; Emery, LongBranch; Herpel and Jenkins, Newark; Van Nortwick, Kearny; and Zanger, Trenton.
Wes Wood writes that Dohrm Sinclair and Victoria have sent him an announcement of the birth of a daughter, Wilma Irene, on February 5. The Sinclairs live in La Jolla, Calif.
Wes called Al Mavon when he was in Chicago recently but it was only 10:30 and he hadn't come down to the office yet.
Herb Russell and Dot of Suffield, Conn., spent what Herb termed "a second honeymoon" at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York recently by special dispensation of Assistant Manager Si Simons. Incidentally, Si has done a wonderful job of taking care of '28ers during the room, shortage which has existed since the war started. Over twenty classmates have mentioned to me how grateful they are to Si.
Harry Jewett has resigned his position with the Johns Hopkins University Laboratory and is living in Short Hills, N. J.
Jerry Sass, after a year in Denison, Texas, has moved back to Oklahoma City. He is president of Trans-Southern Airlines.
Dave Foster has moved from Los Angeles to Harmony Rancho, Star Route, Mariposa. He is now a neighbor of Charley Proctor who lives in Yosemite National Park.
Tavey Taylor, another Northern Californian, says he and Louise are planning on attending the 20th in Hanover next year. Tavey is a lawyer in Santa Rosa.
On a recent trip to New York I talked with Franklin Folsom and learned he has been working for Tass, the Russian news agency, for the past seven months. He served in the Merchant Marine from January to December 1944 but left because he broke a leg at sea and was laid up for six months.
He said that Alex Taylor, who formerly worked for Tass, is traveling in Europe for the American Joint Distribution Committee, 19 rue Teheran, Paris.
Lanky Langdell and Judith announce the birth of their first child, Sarah, on December 28.
Rupe Thompson says that when he and Eleanor stepped off the plane in Nassau recently they met Mary Kruming who was meeting a friend arriving on the same plane. Mary and young Martin have been living in Nassau while Paul is on a business trip to Africa.
For ten years we have been unable to locate an address for Jack Ullman. However, on March 27 I read the following in an Associated Press dispatch from Springfield, Mass.:
Four CIO Unionists in sympathy with strikers at four Springfield daily newspapers were fined a total of $80 today in District Court in charges based on demonstrating outside the building of The Morning Union and Evening News. All appealed the fines.
John A. Ullman, 41 years old, of Worcester, New England secretary of the American Newspaper Guild, CIO, was fined $20 for violation of a city ordinance relating to the throwing of tacks in the highway. He appealed and was released on personal recognisance
I got in touch with Dick Canton in Worcester who talked with him and found he is themissing classmate. Jack is married and has twogirls, ages 5 and 2. He worked for the Worcester Telegram from 1942 to 1945.
Paul Ahlers is busy getting his Herreshoffsloop ready to put in the water in NorthportHarbor, half a mile from his home in Northport, Long Island.
The class is off to a flying start in the Alumni Fund drive, thanks to the excellent work of Bill Morton and the 45 classmates who are helping him. In the Green Derby competition for the classes from 1927 through 1930, !928 was in first place. To stay there we must have increases!
SOPORIFIC: Bill Heep '28 needs no lullaby as this picture will attest. It was taken without his knowledge while he was at Daytona Beach, Fla.
Secretary, Van Dyne Oil Co., Troy, Pa Treasurer, Providence National Bank Providence, R. I.
