1925
Ken Hill, who's in the lead for our annual $5,000 prize for the most prolific contributor to this column, reports from Boston:
"Lloyd Brace has recently added to his many directorates that of Gillette Safety Razor Company.
"Our genial shoe manufacturer, Niel Peabody, is now a Trustee of Derby Academy, Hingham, Mass. one of the oldest private day schools in the country, having been founded in 1784.
"On July 19th Whitey and Bill Sleigh now expect to enter the ocean race from Marblehead to Halifax with Don Gardner '27 who isfleet commander. It's under the auspices of theCruising Club of America and Don's boat,the Borogrove, is a 45 ft. yawl. The returncruise would be strictly ,of the vacation type.
"Eddie Pease has just been made the V.P. ofthe Mutual Boiler- Insurance Co. here. Hecontinues as secretary.
"The coming Greater Boston family all daypicnic for '25ers at Mt. Hope, Bristol, R. 1.,some Sat. in June promises to be a bang-upreunion."
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Jerman have forsaken the Bohemian life of Greenwich Village for the bucolic life of Stamford, Conn. Their address is 39 Lanark Road, where they gaze out on acres of salt water.
Nate Bugbee reports that the class dues, which pay for your ALUMNI MAGAZINE and class expenses, are coming in fine but wants to remind those who haven't done so to send in their checks. Nate's address is 49 Federal Street, Boston.
If you haven't done so, Please Mail YourAlumni Fund Check Today!
One of '25's few remaining bachelors joined the ranks of us other unfortunates when CurtAbel was married on April 12th to Marian Felch Davis in Marietta, Ohio. Mr. & Mrs. "A" are living at 38 Park Avenue, Old Greenwich, Conn.
Here's a letter from Win Brown in Hartford: "Am district manager for the Trane Cos., manufacturers of heating, air conditioning and air handling equipment. Located in the Professional Building, 10 N. Main Street, West Hartford. I also live in the Penthouse on this building so weary 'asers may drop in day or night for mental, moral, or liquid sustenance. Have been married for 15 years to Edie and have been father to Erica for one year. Hobbies: golf, music, etc. Member Hart-ford Rotary; vote the straight Republican ticket, sir, and no nonsense."
We didn't know Parker Merrow's mother, who died at the age of 79 on April 11th, but we do know she was a wonderful character. Having preceded Parker as editor of the Carroll County Independent for 10 years, she showed that she was a newspaper woman to the end by writing her own obituary under her own by-line. All that was lacking was the time and place of her death.
Mrs. Merrow, who was Elizabeth Rena McLauthlin of Bridgewater, Mass., studied at the Mass. School of Art in Boston and became supervisor of drawing of the schools in Maiden. She later studied portraiture and attended Stanford University. In 1902 she married Lyford Ambrose Merrow of Center Ossippee, N. H. and Boston. Mr. Merrow was president of the Underhay Oil Co., a subsidiary of Standard Oil of N. J., treasurer of Boston University and editor of the Carroll County Independent.
Here's a 22-year resume from Paul Hommeyer of Minneapolis:
"Married a Wells College girl, Grace Bishop Hoaglund, in December 1925. Since we couldn't induce either family to support us and W.P.A. wasn't born, went to work in the Sales Research Division of the Union Central Life Insurance Company in Cincinnati. Since that date I have proven my complete lack of initiative by the fact that I am still living with the same wife and working for the same company. Continuity of effort, however, does have its compensation and in my own case it is three future Dartmouth candidates, ages 17, 14, and 11.
"We spent the first ten years in and out of the Home Office ending up as Assistant Superintendent of Agencies in charge of the Southern territory. How, in the name of heaven, we ever wound up as General Agent for Minnesota and North Dakota is one of life's mysteries. But this north country has been good to us, not only from an economic standpoint, currently we are running third in the Company behind New York and Cincinnati, but better still in a spot where we can enjoy informal outdoor life. The homestead on Lake Minnetonka 20 miles west of town offers sailing, fishing and swimming in the summer and a sunset black with ducks in October, ice boating or skiing in the winter, and the damndest best excuse you ever saw to get the hell out of here for Florida long come March or April.
"Guess that about covers it except for a three or four year interlude with Uncle Sam. That is another of life's little mysteries. I had been trying for 10 years to get a copy of my file out of the War Department but they could never locate it. It only took them two weeks after Pearl Harbor, however, not only to find the damn thing but to decide one broken down Reserve Cavalry Officer was indispensable to the War . effort. Shipped out in early 1942 on the original cadre for Eisenhower's Staff, later transferred to the Ist Army and ended up as a Lt. Colonel on Bradley's Staff, 12th Army Group. In short, I was one of the lucky ones, sitting top side, who could pick and choose his assignments. Participated in two invasions, had a flat in Mayfair, London, in between and got kissed by General de Gaule on Liberation Day. All of this brings us more or less up to date and also reminds me that there are a couple dozen struggling life insurance agents that need my time a lot more than this so called 'life history.'
"P.S. Damn, I intended to get a plug in for Harold Stassen in this letter but somehow forgot it!"
Our thanks to Paul for a swell letter!
NEW EXECUTIVE: Richard C. Colton '25 was recently appointed General Traffic Manager of the RCA Victor Division, Radio Corp. of America.
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