1927

Hope you all had a swell Holiday Season and that the New Year has started auspiciously for you and all your family. The Arnold menage at "Head-acres" with three little youngsters, had a very exciting, though strenuous, Christmas, and a quiet, but pleasant New Year's. Our thanks for the many cards with their friendly greeting and wishes of the season. Not that it will be of much interest, but at one point, Louis, our oldest (3½) asked us what we wanted Santa Claus to bring us. without batting an eye, we replied that if Santa could arrange to have every member of our class write us once a year with a little news for this column it would be about the finest Christmas present we ever had. Doesn't seem like too much to ask for, or does it? Seriously, the demands of our business and our family leave little extra time, and making up a column with practically no material takes a lot of time and gives little satisfaction. Pardon us for a little griping, that's the last time we'll mention it this year.

Never have discovered whether Carl or Betty is the artist in the Lindenmeyr family, but again we enjoyed receiving one of their very attractive Christmas greetings, a sketch showing a portion of their living room and the faces of their three lovely daughters, Tibby, Penny and Chips.

Had good news from Frank Cloran. His card reported that recent surgery had improved his health considerably and that he hopes before long to get back into the casualty insurance business in an agency connection.

From our good friend Mike Choukas and family, a card with the following note:

"Just read the class notes and it brought tears to my eyes thinking you only got one letter last month. (Say, that wasn't propaganda you were slinging!) Best of luck." But what could you expect from a guy, we mean a professor, who teaches a course in Propaganda. All of which reminds us of an incident where your stupid scribe used his squash for once. It goes back several years to those carefree days when we used to get to Hanover fairly often. The aforementioned professor had only recently started his course on propaganda, and during the course of a friendly little gathering at our room in the Inn, did us the great honor of inviting, nay, insisting that we attend his class the next day as a guest speaker. As we recall it now, he said we could talk on our chosen profession, life insurance, or any other subject which might tickle our fancy. The guy wouldn't take "no," so. it ,was left that I would show up for the class next day unless something interfered. Fortunately, something did interfere. In the light of the next day it seemed like a lousy idea and we figured not to have any words of great wisdom on which to pontificate to a crowd of sophomores, and anyhow Mike was getting paid for it and we weren't, and what's more we were on a vacation, so we decided not to show. Later that day we met up with our friend, the professor, and noted with some chagrin that he was not too upset that we failed to appear so asked just what he would have done if we had shown up. To the best of our memory we quote his reply:

"I would have introduced you with a few wellchosen words and then let you talk as long as you wished. When you finished, I would have spoken to the class as follows: 'Gentlemen, you have just heard an excellent example of propaganda. Class dismissed.' "

We suppose old Mike will even say it's propaganda when we tell you that young Mike, who is a freshman at Hanover this year, played a lot of football in the backfield of the freshman team this past fall.

Another clever and interesting Christmas greeting from Helen and Cary Stiff gives us an up to date story on the Stiff Saga. You will remember that Cary had been working for some years in the merchandising end of Wurzburg's department store in Grand Rapids, Michigan. You will also remember that not being able to resist any longer that urge to move to the country, the Stiffs took their four children, Dave, Nona, Martha and Cary, and moved to a lovely old country home in Ada, Michigan. About a year ago Cary terminated his employment with Wurzburg's, and has since established at least the beginning of a chain of stores. Early last year he purchased Doepping's Dry Goods Store in Grand Rapids, and last August organized Cary's Inc., to take over and operate the Weekes Dry Goods store in Lowell, Mich. Add to this the rains of last spring which brought the highest flood in 42 years; mud which necessitated leaving the car on a highway six miles from home for many a night; planting 1,000 pine trees on the estate; a brokendown heating plant; and a Great Lakes cruise for papa and mama, and you realize that the Stiff Saga has been a busy one. They still love the country life and wish it had happened years ago.

, Hadn't had any news of George Ritchie and his wife Hope for some years until recently when one of our best reporters, J. Davis, dug up the following during one of his trips to upper New York State. In Corinth, New York, there is a newspaper, The New Enterprise, published every Thursday by Hope and George Ritchie. Editor and Publisher is George Ritchie, and Associate Editor, Hope Lawder Ritchie.

From the latest issue of Dartmouth Club News (N. Y.), we note that Don McCall and Tom Hession are both on the Board of Governors of that excellent club.

Wayne Hancock has recently moved to Colebrook, New Hampshire, where we understand he is still engaged in secondary education work.

John Rintels has remained in the U. S. Army. You will remember that during the war he did a grand job in Military Government work in Germany. His address is now: Legal Div., OMGUS, APO 742 c/o P.M., N. Y. C.

Paul Staab is associated with St. Stanislaus Seminary in Florissant, Missouri.

Bill Satterfield has a very important job as Chief of the insurance office at the Oak Ridge, Tenn., plant of the Manhattan Project. We see quite a few letters with his signature on them and hope some day to visit him at Oak Ridge.

Fund Contributors for 1947 305 Gifts (Participation Index 71). Total gifts: $12,289.64 (116% of objective). GEORGE E. HOWELL, Class Agent.

1927

Abbott, Frederic E. Abbott, William R. Jr. Allen, Charles G. Jr. Anderson, Kenneth B. Andrews, John G. Jr. Anglem, Thomas J. Armstrong, Arthur A. Arnold, Doane Askew, J. Dean Auer, Frederick M. Auer, Hildreth Baker, Charles P., Jr. Baker, H. Edward Ballantyne, Kenneth C. Barde, Bernard L. Bartlett, Charles W. Batchelder, Edgar M. Battin, Leslie B. Bayles, Henry L. Bell, Bennett D. Benson, Harry N. Besse, Seth J., Jr. Birch, Robert W. Blanchard, Harold E. Blanchard, Royal I. Bliss, Robert W. Bogart, Donald W. Bonsai, Dudley B. Bostwick, Guy B. Bowlby, Walter D. Braman, Roger P. Brewster, Charles T. Brickett, Gerald S. Broer, Carleton G. Browning, William H. Burgert, Woodward Burnett, James R., Jr. Burwell, Charles E. L. Bury, Roger M. Buschmann, August Byrne, Albert H. Calcagni, Joseph O. Camph, Howard W. Carroll, Charles A. Carter, Richard P. Carver, Frederick E. Cavis, Morton H. Chabot, Alfred T. Chandler, James K. Chapman, William D. Choate, Rufus Choukas, Michael E. Cleaveland, Stuart W. Cleaves, Marshall L. Clokey, Frank C. Cloran, Francis B. Cohen, Abraham Colby, I. Gordon, Jr. Congdon, Robert D. Cook, Spencer S. Copeland, Henry N. Copeland, Mark A. Corliss, Philip G. Cotton, Merton L. Coulter, Francis L. Crane, "William B. Jr. Creamer, Joseph M. Cummings, Harry B. Cusack, William C. Daley, Carroll F. Davenport, William H. Davis, Jonathan Davis, Joshua A. DeWolf, Lewis F. Jr. Dowe, Neal R. Draper, John W. Dreher, Leroy H. Duncan, Laurence I. Dunn, Leonard A. C. J Dwyer, Edward M. Eaton, Lester R. Elliott, William P. Ensinger, Stuart M. Fellingham, Frederick C. Field, Charles N. Flannery, Roy L. Fleischer, Charles H. Folkers, Kern E. Fossum, Niels B. Fowler, Edwin H. Fowler, Philip Fox, Richard Bowers Fox, Richard Bradley Freeman, W. Brownell Friede, George W. Fry, S. Edwin Fuller, Bradley Funkhouser, Robert D. Gardner, Donald W. Garfield, Owen R. George, Frank E. Gibson, Charles A. Gilbert, Carlton H. Gilboy, Robert C. Gillespie, Thomas V. Gore, Lionel C. Gray, Lawrence H. Greenebaum, Leon C. Greener, John H. Gruver, Elbert A. Jr. Gustin, Bertram P. Guyot, Roscoe E. Hale, Henry F. Hall, Richard D.1 Ham, Thomas H. Hannah, Paul F. Hardin, J. Lawson Jr. Hardy, Charles L. Harris, Burton Harrison, John B. Harvey, Rolfe M. Haynes, Charles H. Hazelton, Robert C. Head, William B. Jr. Heap, Hargreaves Jr. Heifer, Martin A. Herwig, Karl E. Herwig, Kenneth O. Herwitz, Oren C. Hession, Thomas A. Hill, Joseph J. Hitchcock, Ethan W. Hodell, George T. Hoge, William S. 11l Holdsworth, Edward L. Hollands, William G. Jr. Hood, Richard F. Hope, Gordon R. Horton, Henry R. Hough, John N. House, Albert V. Jr. Howe, Herbert A. Howell, George E. Howes, Roland L. Ingham, Albert Van Wie Ingham, Kermit W. Jackson, Frederick Jacob, Edward H. Jr. Jennette, Daniel E. Johnson, Edmund R. Jones, Harvey P. Jones, J. Franklin Joslyn, Merritt L. Kelly, Joseph N. Kennedy, Thomas G. Kennedy, Wilbur G. Ketz, Michael J. Kilmarx, Leslie F. King, William C. Jr. Kinney, Donald M. Knapp, Edwin M. Kortlucke, Frederick Jr. Krogstad, Earl E. Lacoss, Donald A. Lagacy, Alpha O'C. Lauber, Urban S. Lee, Cebern L. Lee, Kenneth E. Levis, Howard T. Libby, Granville E. Lindenmeyr, Carl E. Long, Robert L. Lougee, Richard J. Low, Harold D. Lowell, James B. Lyman, Arthur C. Lyon, Roswell H. Jr. McAnulty, Ralph H. McCall, Donald F. McClure, Alfred B. McGough, Samuel M. McGrath, Hugh A. McKee, Hiram W. McKennan, Bruce McQuade, John S. MacKay, W. Howard Macaulay, William L. Macdonald, Albert G. Machen, John W. Mahoney, Edward M. Manson, Stanley H. Margolies, Asher F. Marston, Edwin L. Martin, Samuel H. Mason, William V. Megathlin, Donald E. Merriam, David H. Jr. Meyercord, Kenneth N. Michelini, Ronald J. Milliken, Lyman F. Mills, Stephen D. Miner, Edwin H. Minnich, John H. Mix, Robert C. Montgomery, William H. Mooney, Richard D. Morand, Simon J. Morey, Nathaniel B. Moulton, Lloyd W. Mullen, James A. Mullin, Howard J. Munro, John H. Munsey, Everett D. Murdoch, Kenneth V. Murray, Kenneth H. Murray, Warren E. Nichols, Roswell S. Jr. Norris, Arthur H. O'Connell, Paul R. O'Hara, J. Donald O'Rourke, T. Nelson Oliver, Warren D. Orth, Henry W. Osborn, Stephen A. Owl, Frell M. Paddock, Erwin B. Page, Norman F. Page, Robert W. Partridge, Melvin H. Pelton, William M. Phillips, Montague B. Pierson, Richard L. Pike, John B. Prescott, William S. Preuss, M. Randolph Proudman, Donald W. Prouty, Richard P. Provost, George W. Jr. Pulsifer, Allen H. , Pulver, B. Jordon Randall, Clifford A. Rankin, Andrew M. Reed, C. Raymond Reynolds, Edward C. Reynolds, Victor G. F. Risley, Howard W. Rodormer, E. Winston Roe, John ? Ross, Emerson A. Rubin, Herbert Russakoff, Joseph M. Russell, Howard I. Russell, Kenneth H. Ruth, Edward D. Ryan, Joseph H. Salinger, Roger B. Sands, Robert A. Satterfield, William J., Jr. Scammon, Lawrence W. Schackne, Stewart Schuster, Carl E. Selig, Ernest T., Jr. Sercombe, Hubert D. Shaw, John H. Shaw, Wilfred E. Sheldon, John P. Simpson, Richard W., Jr. Slater, Robert H. Smith, Warren B. Smith, Willard H. Smith, W. Gordon Sprague, Willard F. St. Amant, George W., Jr. Stevens, Langley B. Stevens, Robert N. Stiff, Cary P. Stowe, Richard E. Strong, Frank P. Sullivan, Eugene R. Swartzbaugh, Richard B. Swift, Norman G. Tanzi, John S. Thees, John D. Jr. Thompson, Fred H. Tobey, William R. Tracy, Joseph L. Turpin, Miles A. Upham, John H. Vincent, Reginald P. Voice, Sidney P. Voorhis, Sheldon S. Watkins, Edward B. Webb, Edward G. Wellman, Albert A. Wesselmann, Roy A. Williams, J. Palmer Williamson, Robert W. Willing, James B. Wise, Allan L. Woelfel, George L. Jr. Wood, John D. Wormser, Samuel Z. Worth, Elmer H. Wright, Curtis Jr. Yeaton, Kenneth J. Zaro, Nicholas J. MEMORIAL GIFT FROM: 1 Mother, Mrs. E. K.Hall.

CLASS AGENT GEORGE E. HOWELL '27

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