1927
Visitors to Boston this past month have supplied a little news for this column. Several weeks ago your hard-working treasurer, Gus Cummings, was in town for four or five days attending a convention of New England gas manufacturers. Gus appeared to be in fine spirits although terribly busy. He did take time off to attend the Class Agents' dinner at the Algonquin Club and assures us that in the near future an issue of Speakeasy will be forthcoming.
Much to our pleasure Brick Stone paid a fleeting visit to Boston last Sunday, and very kindly dropped in at Headacres with CharlieBartlett for a short call. Brick was looking in excellent health in spite of a very busy week he had just spent in New York. He is now on his way back to Havana, Cuba, where he represents General Motors. Brick and his wife Pauline, with their three daughters, are coming back to the states for a two months' vacation about the first of July, and they hope to spend much of it on Cape Cod.
We recently saw Bob Funkhouser, Bill Auer,Andy Rankin, Rog Salinger and Charlie Bartlett at a dinner in Boston. Charlie's name has been much in the Boston papers for the past three weeks inasmuch as he has been chief defense counsel, appointed by the government, for one Mr. Best who is being tried for treason in the Boston Federal Court. The trial has been going on for about three weeks but is due to go to the jury sometime the week of April 12.
Johnny Upham is working at Suffolk Downs, where he is one of the chief auditors and calculators.
Phil Fowler has just returned from Kansas where he witnessed the bringing in of a new oil well in which he has some interest.
A nice note from Charlie Gibson written early in March informs us that the Gibsons were looking forward to a weekend visit from Lee and Dotty Gore. The Gores were on their way to Florida. Charlie is living in Abbeville, South Carolina, and is busily engaged as president and treasurer of Calhoun Mills in Calhoun Falls, South Carolina. Recently, Ely and Walker Dry Goods Co., purchased F. W. Poe Manufacturing Company in Greenville and Charlie has been elected president of that company in addition to his other aforementioned responsibilities. Charlie cordially invites any member of the class who may be near Abbeville to call him on the phone and he holds out the tempting offer of some southern fried chicken.
A nice note from Dow Mills now well established at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, from which we quote: "As to news—and I know you are looking for that—l might say that our classmate Tom Anglem paid a visit to the Mayo Clinic not as a patient but for a look at how the other half does things from a surgeon's eye. Tom belongs to a group of younger surgeons who call themselves the Surgeon's Travel Club and visit one another's cities for shop-talk and exchange of ideas. We hope to see Tom back here later this year for one of those meetings. Don't mistake me—l am not a cutting doc—but still minister to the wants and ills of small fry short of surgery.
"I might also contribute a very short-short on an old acquaintance of Dartmouth Medical School days whom I see too infrequently—J. Arthur(Moon) Mullen whose address is Benham, Kentucky. He stopped in unexpectedly to call on us in Westfield just before we left for our new location here. He had his good wife, Marcella, and two healthy daughters along with him en route from God's country, where they had been on vacation, back to Kentucky, where he is a large part of the medical staff of the International Harvester Company's plant there. I have always suspected that he might come out of the woods and settle down near the rest of us but he seems to have found his place down there and grown accustomed to it. However, you can't tell about these things; a year ago, I never thought that I would be out here now and here I am and I do like it.
"I should be able to tell you something of my first roommate at Hanover, Ed Baker, who is engaged in the practice of Law in Newark, N. J., as far as I know now. I haven't seen him recently but used to see his youngsters through the measles and whooping cough while he was working on his bar examinations."
A nice chatty letter from Monty Phillips giving an entertaining account of some phases of life in Pultneyville, New York. At the start of "his letter Monty says that the contents for obvious reasons, are not for publication, but we can't overlook mentioning a community theatre project started by Jane and contributed to by Monty first as an actor and then as a scene builder. There is also mention of a new enterprise which might be called "Better Mousetraps, Inc.," but we predict you may hear more about that enterprise in the better gift shops in the east. Monty expects to visit Boston this June en route to his twenty-fifth reunion at Andover and we are looking forward to seeing him at that time.
"Joe Russakoff, founder and president, Vanguard Advertising Agency, New York City, has been appointed to the staff of the Advertising Unit of the City College Midtown Business Center, 430 West 50th Street, New York City.
"Publicity consultant and Director of Press Contact for the Advertising Federation of America since 1938 and Public Relations Director for Direct Mail Advertising Association, Mr. Russakoff will instruct the trainees in agency procedure.
"A graduate of Dartmouth College, Mr. Russakoff won his Master's Degree from Harvard University School of Business at the age of twenty. He has been active in the advertising and newspaper field for twenty years during which time he was financial editor of The New Bedford (Mass.) Standard, and associate editor for Advertising Age."
Advertising News, the weekly publication, ofthe Advertising Club of Boston says that JoeRussakoff has come into the limelight in theBig City for the exceptional course he isgiving on Agency Procedure.
Had a fine letter from Bill Elliott, who also sent a fine picture which you should find reproduced close by. Bill says these are the less photogenic members of the family and that he is holding pictures of his wife Midge and daughter Barbara Anne in reserve. Bill Jr. is at Westminster School under the patient and understanding eye of Ron Michelini. Bill reports that Ron and his wife Fran have two charming daughters and that Ron organizes Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in Simsbury each year so that he can keep his lush baritone voice in good resonance. Ron says it's to raise money for the hospital but Bill claims to know better.
Bill's oldest boy Bob finished at Mt. Vernon School last June and is now at Trinity in Hartford where he is battling the books, played some basketball and looks forward to ball season. Barbara finishes at Northfield this June and is headed for Wheelock School in Boston, next fall. Bob is 19 years old this spring, which must make him close to the oldest son of a '27 man if not the oldest. Bill senior is still at St. George's School in Middletown, R. 1., where he has been since graduation from College. He reports that he is doing a bit less teaching now and more administrative work and less coaching. He says that after being told at his last medical check up that he was getting no younger, he has now resorted to telling the boys how to do it and letting someone else show them.
Hall and "Hotspurs" Harwood. Not in the room at the time but waiting patiently nearby was the Dura ango Kid's sterling charger, "Sam." BILL, 808, 808, BILL—ALL ELLIOTTS! The young looking man on the right played left field for Dart- mouth some years ago. The fellow in the baseball suit was voted most valuable player in the National League last year.
Secretary, 501 Boylston St., Boston 17, Mass. Treasurer and Memorial Fund Chairman Box 101, Westfield, N. J. Class Agent, 120 S. LaSalle St., Rm. 1845, Chicago, 111.
