1929
I don't know what my daughters will do to me when they see what I have done (quite incidentally) to advertise their teeth-straightening programs, but the accompanying candid shot is probably the prettiest picture ever taken of Swope, even though it be the least flattering of the father of the young ladies who, in order, are Anita 13 and Katherine 15. The cause of all this recorded hilarity was Photographer John Swope, a renowned professional, whose photographic work has appeared in Life and other national magazines, as well as in his own publications.
Another family party that was full of laughs and kids took place in Marion Harbor this past summer when the Six Seas dropped her anchor alongside the Katina mooring and the Carter and Andres families had their own private regatta, highlighted by a series of dinghy races, which was climaxed by old Skipper Carter beating out Cap'n Andres by a scant three seconds due, of course, to extra ballast with which Bing is so plentifully supplied. The six Carters who comprise the crew of the Six Seas were pretty pleased with their new craft, a brand new 34 ft. sloop, which they had just picked up at Essex, Conn., for its shakedown cruise. The movies we have of Captain Carter supervising the on-deck activities of his crew as they got away next morning should be added to the Class Reel. It is now easy to understand how Bing's Howard Johnson restaurants are so shipshape and well run.
One day a short while ago, into the office walked Willy Coles and his very lovely lady back in Boston for their annual visit. Years in the big time in Caracas, Venezuela have not changed Seilor Coles in any noticeable respects (other than time has changed even you and I). He still likes to go to ball games and smoke fragrant cigars. He still talks like a Texan from El Paso even though family conversation is more apt to be in Spanish than in English, especially when young Jonathan who, when he arrived here this summer, knew no English, is being addressed. Now the Coles are back in Caracas. They like it there.
Another colonist was welcomed back this summer—this one permanently. Bill McCaw has ended his tour of duty with the Allied Reparations Commission in Brussels and has brought his family back home to join the staff of the United Nations at their brandnew headquarters in New York. His voice sounded as hearty as ever over the phone. Bill seemed delighted to be back.
Had a nice visit with Ralph Ardiff the other day. Red's insurance office is in Danvers where he also has a beautiful home but his activities take him all over the country and he is frequently in Boston where you are as apt to run into him as many of the boys whose offices are here. Red spoke of having recently attended the Chartered Life Underwriters Institute at the University of Connecticut, a rather exclusive organization of which he was President last year. In addition to his widespread insurance activities, Red has been very generous in devoting time and giving support to his home community, having become an outstanding leader in fundraising activities for church and other community purposes.
Bob Drake reports: "Allen Benjamin, JohnClements, John Brown Cook, Charlie King,Ken Paige, Joe O'Leary, Baird Rogers, AlWelch, Frank Weeks and Dave Wilson and their wives and children, a total of 35 persons, came to our house on Saturday, June 3. We had a baseball game with people in it ranging in age from 6 to 44 and we had a dinner, the class movies were shown, Cook did some legerdemain that had all spectators, young and old, baffled and the party wound up at midnight after banjo playing by Benjamin and piano playing by Mildred Clements. Those who came said they wanted it to be an annual affair."
The Class Movies are really good and we will gladly send them to anyone who would like to see them.
A most satisfactory report of progress on Harry Enders discloses that he has recently become Secretary and Treasurer of Young & Rubicam.
Jack and Claire Knight are enthusiastic about their new home in the country—Stone Chimneys, Country Club Road, Newton Center, which, says Jack, will always be open to any '2ger on his way through. Jack will continue to function as the Junior Warden of Emmanuel Church in West Roxbury to which position he was recently elevated.
Six sons of 1929 were among the 20 campers who assembled at Moosilauke Ravine Lodge on August 20 for the two-week session of Camp Jobildunc, a junior woodcraft camp operated by the College under Bob Monahan's general supervision. The younger generation included Reed Banks Jr., Stratford, Conn., Arthur J. Bergeron Jr., Berlin, N. H., John S. Dickey Jr., Hanover, N. H., Edward D. Fowler, Suncook, N. H., Robert E. and Daniel H. Monahan of Hanover.
Bob Lyle's Sidwell-Friends School in Washington opened its new year with a full enrollment and a new Middle School building ready for occupancy just in time. That should certainly get the new Headmaster off to an excellent start. Bob also reports that the Washington Dartmouth Club's Annual Picnic on the school grounds last summer was a huge success although it was distressingly clear that the standard of baseball played is increasingly poor by the year.
Mike Ferrini, who helps run the Perkins Machine and Gear Company in West Springfield, reports that all is well in the Connecticut Valley.
WHAT THE PHOTOGRAPHER SAID must have been hilarious to produce this gay picture of Jerry Swope '29 (left) and Class Secretary Bill Andres '29, with Bill's daughters Anita, 13, and Katherine, 15. The •photographer was John Swope.
FUBLIC AFFAIRS CHIEF: Shepard Stone '29, recently named Director of Public Affairs in the Of- fice of the U. S. High Commissioner for Germany, shown speaking at the opening of Amerika Haus in Weisbaden. He was formerly Deputy Director.
Secretary, 75 Federal St., Boston, Mass. Treasurer, 1728 Beech wood Blvd., Pittsburgh 17, Pa. Memorial Fund Chairman, Air Reduction Cos., 60 E. 42nd St., New York 17, N. Y.
