1938
By the time this reaches you you should have done two things, or perhaps I should say at least two things: You should have made definite plans to attend reunion; you should have sent your contribution to the Alumni Fund. And having inserted myself so abruptly into your private affairs, I hope I will now be forgiven for it. This digression causes me to go into parenthesis for a moment: I have wondered many times whether, for the sake of journalistic dignity, I should not have been referring to ourself as we all these months, or perhaps what I want to say is whether it is proper for us to refer to myself as I.
Coming out of parenthesis, it is safe to say that Bob and Nancy Archibald can refer to their family in the plural without much fear of contradiction: Robert Errett Jr. and Sarah Jane arrived in San Gabriel, California, on March 16. The jackpot as Arch says. And EdShumaker also reports a family addition:
"I am still on the staff out here at Culver (Military Academy) and my .wife and I are comfortably settled in an apartment on the campus, complete with a Boxer dog and Siamese cat. The reason for this note is to inform you of the birth of our first child; E. E. S. ILL put in an appearance on January 5 of this year after I raced the stork to South Bend over icy roads and beat him by only fifty minutes."
You guys must spend all your time making money (remember the Alumni Fund?), for you sure as hell don't waste much time writing letters. I am once more torn between the alternatives of pure fabrication and the second-hand reports which I get from the farflung spy system. However that may be, it can be reliably reported that John Wiggin,Syd Hogerton, Mr. and Mrs. Art Koeppel, DanMarshall and Ed Perrin were late-winter visitors at the Hanover Inn. Bob Carson, just as if he weren't busy enough with the Alumni Fund, recently became manager of the Men's Clothing Department at Macy's. (That's a store in New York, Rockwell). Don Badger has moved to Seekonk, Mass Lew Williams checks in with the Diamond Chain Company in Indianapolis Gene Waggaman is an account executive for Pedlar and Ryan in NYC Howie Rea has left New York for Washington and is associated with Randolph Paul Bill Collins was last heard from in Mukwonago, Wisconsin, and I wish he'd please explain what he's doing in a town with a name like that Here Brandis has moved out to the west coast with United Air Lines, San Mateo, to be exact, and has a new son Durward Porter, born in October AsherLans has a shingle out at 20 Pine Street in NYC Dave Polk is at Ashbury College in Ottawa Ridgely Bacher is with U. S. Sugar Corp. in Clewiston, Florida BobJones and Charley Tesreau recently took a short tour of the Southland, and it is reported that crime ran rampant in Lebanon during their absence..... Don Clark was recently at Chanute Field, in the weather school George Reynolds is reported to be working on a book, without the aid of his wife (Matti-more please take note) Gunner Tuck, Los Angeles banker, has a new son, born last July, Stephen B Carl Hecker is in the grocery business in Manchester, N. H Em Marsteller is still in Richmond Bob Linscott recently moved to Winchester, Mass. from Huntsville, Alabama .John Hall reputedly has a corner on the potato business in Houlton, Maine Duke Wales, still with TheNY Times, is living in Douglaston with wife and two youngsters, Pete and Sam FredBecker has answered the call and is now in law school, having left Abercrombie and Fitch.
Memorial services were held for Lt; RogerP. Warfield at the Memorial Congregational Church in Baldwinville, Massachusetts, on March 16. Members of the Roger P. Warfield Post of the American Legion provided a military escort. Roger was killed in action in the Far East on April 5, 1942, and his body has just been returned to this country for burial.
Bob Reeve writes that the War Memorial Committee have discussed the possibility of establishing our class war memorial in the form of a fund to be used for the benefit of Hopkins Scholars who are sons of men of 1938. I am not sure at this writing whether any of our classmates who were killed or died in military service left any sons who are eligible for these scholarships. In any case, the residue of our fund will need to be allocated for some purpose, and I would like to suggest for consideration, the, possibility of endowing a faculty chair. The committee is hopeful that the class will have given this question some careful thought before it is put to a vote at Reunion. Another possibility is the furnishing of a room in the new Hopkins Center—and there are innumerable others.
Enough, for if I don't get this in the mail soon it won't even make the June issue of the MAGAZINE. June did I say? JUNE moon .... spoon .... REUNE.
FROM INDIA: Joe Van Denburg '38, McGraw-Hill publishing representative in India, and Jim Wulpi 14, district traffic manager for Trans World Airline, with headquarters in Calcutta, pose with a couple of special cops at the entrance to the mansion of the Governor of Bengal Province, one Charkravarti Rajagopalachariar.
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