1924
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT TO OUR LOYAL PATRONS
Beginning this month this spot is under new management! We have been honored with a five-year lease on this space, and it will be our objective to continue to dispense class news and notes in accordance with our time-honored formula. Take fact and fancy in equal parts, lace well with a dash of humor, add a drop or two of imagination, and flavor to taste with a wee smidgeon of "corn." Stir vigorously, and serve as hot off the griddle as possible. This formula can only be adhered to with religious devotion, if our friends and clients provide the house with a continued flow of news, so let's start the show off right!
With the view of putting "first things first" it seems entirely fitting to start this inaugural column with a citation to Jim White, our retiring secretary, who, for so many years, has worked untiringly and well to promote the interests of the Class of 1924. It is the good fortune of but few classes to have within their membership a man of Jim's ability and energy, plus the priceless ingredient of the will to do. Our debt covers a span of many years of constant activity, culminating in a successful term as Class Agent and, finally, as our able Class Secretary for the past five years. Still demonstrating his willingness to serve not only the Class, but the College, Jim has accepted the post of Class Chairman, where his experience and advice will be available to the new officers as they take up their duties in the days to come. We feel sure the entire Class joins in expressing our sincere thanks and appreciation for a big job, well done.
A. J. Liebling, eminent reporter for TheNew Yorker, has recently published a second successful book, dissecting the wayward behavior of newspapers not only in this country, but from all over the world. This book, MinkAnd Red Herring, has received high praise from the reviewers and seems destined to duplicate the success of its predecessor. Regular readers of The new Yorker are thoroughly familiar with Liebling's style and scarcely need the suggestion to get hold of this book and have a delightful evening with A.J.'s cheerfully saturnine barbs at the public press.
While Ted Lamb was in Hanover for our big 25th Reunion he couldn't forget his official duties with The Erie Dispatch, and filed a column anent our reunion activities. It is so true it hurts! Speaking of us as the graduating class, Ted wrote, "we saw that the oldsters had come back, donned silly costumes and a few drank a lot of beer, but we doubted that many of the old buzzards would hold together long enough to participate in the gala alumni parade.
"And today we're holding our twenty-fifth class reunion! The halt and the lame of the class of 1924 have returned for their quarter century check-up. And here again are the Dartmouth graduates of 1949 staring at us incredulously and wondering that men should live so long." Oh, brother! Can't you remember feeling just that way twenty-five years ago, and realizing that the positions were reversed last June. Perish the thought! We're just as young as we feel—it says here.
Frank L. Harrington, insurance tycoon, and well known man-about-Worcester, was accorded national recognition this spring by being elected President of the Health and Accident Underwriters Conference. The Conference is composed of 142 Companies writing health and accident insurance in the United States and Canada. Frank had been chairman of the national organization during theShip Ship ous year. In his spare time, Frank takes care of his duties as President of the Massachusetts Protective Association and the Paul Revere Life Insurance Company, and manages to pull his weight in several worthwhile civic enterprises in his old home town.
This past summer Frank took an extended business-pleasure trip to the West Coast. After clearing up his business affairs, he met his family at the Grand Canyon and proceeded to "do" the scenic highlights of that beautiful country. Frank Jr. is a Junior at Dartmouth, and Tommy is at Tabor Academy, working with an eye to future admission to the College.
Another famous Worcesterite, one C. JerrySpaulding, has been accused of participating in amateur theatricals, with his daughter, Sue, as a supporting member of the cast. What new talent is this, Spud, that you so shyly hide beneath the grease-paint? Come forth and give with the facts. We would know more.
Hank Hartshorn has written to announce the arrival of the most recent addition to the Hartshorn menage on June 14. Hank writes, "That expected daughter arrived at exactly 5 A.M. today. Wasn't she a good girl to wait just long enough to give her Daddy a chance to attend Reunion! Am glad to report that all concerned, Mother, Daughter and even the OLD man are doing very nicely." Our congratulations to Pauline and Hank. To the best of our knowledge, Hank holds the distinction of being the most recent "Class Father" and will be accorded the honor unless proof to the contrary comes in from some other precinct. Any competition?
NEWS AND VIEWS
Ann Woodbridge, daughter of JohnnyWoodbridge, was married on July 30 to David Francis Butler, a neighbor in Larchmont. Ann is a member of the Class of 1950 at Vassar, and her husband is an honor graduate of the Webb Institute of Naval Architecture. In writing, Johnny also reported that his son Jolly will enter Cornell this fall in the College of Agriculture Alfred J. Hailparn, long associated with the New York Department of Welfare, and an expert on child welfare work, has recently accepted a position with the Fresno (Calif.) County Department of Public Welfare, where he will be in charge of the new adoption service. A 1 is now living at 867 Orchard Street, Fresno, Calif Word reaches us that Spaulding is not alone among the Worcester thespians, only this time it's serious. Douglas McKoan, son of Joseph E. McKoan, has every intention of making the stage his career. He spent this past summer playing summer stock with the Red Barn Players in Westboro, and has his eye on bigger things as his training and experience develop Fred Maguire, Assistant Professor of Journalism at Michigan State College, has recently completed a textbook in collaboration with Dick Spong '36. Work on this book was his very good reason for missing the 25th. Fred's address is Box 574, East Lansing, Mich. Itinerant peddlers may inquire at State College
That seems to clear things up pretty well for the present. In parting please remember that these notes can only be interesting and worthwhile if you, the members of our Class, will help to make them so. The football season will soon be here. Many of you will attend one or more games, frequently in company with other Classmates. Tell us about it! Let us know who you saw, what you did, and give us any information you may pick up. It'll all help, so don't forget to write.
NO WORRIES FOR THE DAVISES OF '24: Reunion Chairman Ken Davis, wife Ann, Midge, and Alan smile contagiously as they watch classmates check in for the big 25th.
Secretary, 328 Orchard PI., Ridgewood, N. J. Treasurer, 1312 Greenleaf Blvd., Elkhart, Ind. Memorial Fund Chairman, RICHARD A. HENRY 151 Ridgedale Ave., Madison, N. J.
