1927
The Holiday Season is now over and we trust it was a happy time for all of you and yours.
The season brought many pleasant greetings from classmates. Among them another most attractive etching of an interior of the Carl Lindenmeyers' home and their three pretty daughters. Also Dogwood Farm Doings, a clever and interesting account of the activities for the past year of the Carey Stiff family. Their "doings" included a September trip down east" taking young Dave back to Hanover for his sophomore year. This trip also included a visit with Chuck Burwell and his family in Portland, Me.
For special attention of our new Class Agent Spencer Cook, we learn that Van Wye Ingham is acting as co-agent for faculty and staff of the Rutgers Alumni Fund. Maybe we could get him to divert a certain percentage to our fund. And speaking of our Class Agent, we owe him and particularly his wife Dorothy our abject apologies. In the December issue we noted that the Cooks have two daughters, Mary Louise, 16, and Dorothy, 14. Spence writes that he doesn't dare show his wife that issue of the MAGAZINE because we do not give her sufficient credit for her productivity. Therefore, this correction, that also included in their family are Spencer, age ten, Sandra, seven, and Baby Deborah, age two.
From the Dartmouth College Club of New York comes the following: "Argosy Magazine's G. W. St. Amant '27—in from Chicago to cover the National Hardware Show at Grand Central Palace—took time out to rest his 'hard worn' bones at the Club early last month." Bill is doing a fine job as manager for Argosy in Chicago.
Dr. Hale Ham, who for some ten years was assistant professor of medicine at Harvard and assistant director of Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, left these parts in September. He is now at Western Reserve University in Cleveland as full professor of medicine and chairman of a committee to determine the materia and method of teaching medicine.
Sykes Hardy as of January 1 was elected president of the Joseph T. Ryerson and Son, Inc., and also was made a director of that company. Sykes has been with that company since 1927 starting at the Boston plant. In 1945 he was made manager of the Philadelphia plant and in 1949 he was transferred to the general offices in Chicago as assistant vice president of procurement. Later he was made assistant to the president with executive responsibility for both procurement and sales.
We recently learned that Ross Lyon is a city councilor in Harrisburg, Pa.
A letter from Curt Wright reports that at the Michigan game he saw Cliff Randall and his wife Renate, and Bill St. Amant and his wife. Also Si Morand. Curt and his wife are spending this year at Ann Arbor, Michigan., where Eleanore is studying at the Ypsilanti State Hospital doing a residency in psychiatry. Curt is studying jurisprudence at the University of Michigan College of Law and is writing an article, or perhaps a book, on "method of instructing the jury." Curt, we believe, is intending to teach law after he has completed these studies.
It is with deep sorrow that we report the death of Langley Stevens. Lang died quite suddenly after an operation at Beaumont, Tex., where he was superintendent of the grease department at Pure Oil Company's Smith Bluff refinery.
Dick Lougee sends us a picture of himself with Fred Thompson and his family taken recently when Dick went through New Mexico. He also encloses a clipping from the Las VegasDaily Optic headed "Oft-Loser Turns Up Ballot Winner." The article goes on to explain that Fred Thompson of Wagon Mound who has become accustomed to running close political races and losing now has tasted the fruits of victory. It seems that Fred was a Republican candidate for state representative for the Seventh District and on the basis of the first returns lost the race by two votes. Previously he had lost another close one for village counsel at Wagon Mound by one vote. In the final recount Fred had 1642 votes to 1635 for his opponent. Fred and his wife run a sheep ranch in Wagon Mound and have two sons, Fred, age 11, and James, eight.
A nice long letter from Lloyd Moulton gives us news of the Vermont area.
"My own activities are such that I do not see many 27 men. We did get to New Haven for the Yale game, making my 20th in succession. I sat deside Frenchy Abbott, whom I probably hadn't seen since 1924 or thereabouts and in back of RegVincent. I usually get over to Hanover a couple of times a year; This year it was for the Holy Cross and Columbia games but I failed to see many of our classmates. Occasionally I see J. L. (Lynn)bmith, who is a successful and popular clergyman m the nearby town of Shelburne. Dick Prouty's wit? and mine come from the same town of Hyde Park (Vermont, that is) and on rare occasions our paths cross there.
"I have two stepdaughters, both married, and each with a child. I am not claiming any class grandfather honors on that basis, but I have hopes of encouraging the stepgrandson Robert Platka, now one and a half years old, to look toward Dartmouth tor his education. The other stepgrandchild Carol Stone, one week old, will probably have to get to Hanover as a 'Carnival Date.'
Although our 25th is still a year and a half away, I am hoping and planning (as far as a superintendent of schools can plan that far in advance) that my various school graduations and accompanying events will not conflict with the reunion.
"Recently I was embarrassed by Dartmouth's basketball defeat at the hands of the University of Vermont. You see my wife and both my stepdaughters are all U.V.M. alumnae and both of my stepsons-in-law are still students there."
Lloyd is superintendent of schools for the Addison Northwest District with headquarters in Vergennes, Vt.
Lew Beyer now lives in Coral Gables, Fla., where he is in business with Penrose Associates.
Howard Camph is living at 20141 Strathmoor, Detroit, Mich., where he is working as a manufacturer's representative dealing in stage equipment. Howard has two sons.
Harry Milner has moved to Larchmont, N. Y., and has transferred his business to New York City where he is in the retail merchandising field. He has two daughters, Joan and Elizabeth.
Henry Hale has been working for William H. Coburn and Company, investment counselors, since 1948 as a statistician and is still in Jamaica Plain, Mass.
Lewis Kesaris is living in Augusta, Me., where he works for the Kennebek Beverage Company.
Glenn Hanniford lives in Denver, Colo., at 1540 Steele St. He is in the florist business.
John Pike who has been in Mexico City for Bauer and Black Division of the Kendall Company is now in the same city working for Commercio Mundial S. A.
Bill Nielson is out in Hawaii where he is working for the Hawaii Aeronautics Commission. He has been in the Pacific Paradise since 1946.
Dr. Allan Stinchfield is specializing in orthopedic surgery in Augusta, Me. Charles Yeege lives in Evanston and works in Chicago for McClure, Hadden and Ortman, Inc., consulting management engineers. Harry Pettingill lives in Essex, Conn., and works as an accountant in New York City for W. D. Conor Engineering Corporation. Harry has two youngsters, Harry B. 3rd, age 18, and Mallory Lee, 16.
Bill Montgomery has moved to New York City where he is working as a copy writer, we assume with one of the New York papers.
We are happy to learn that Henry Vietor has moved to Boston from Minneapolis. He has been made real estate manager for Shell Oil Company in this district.
George R. Kapitzky lives in Bratenahl, 0., and works as an auditor for Sherwin Williams Company out of Cleveland. Avery Keenan lives in West Newton, Mass., and is in business with Arc-Less Switch Company. RayKing lives in Auburn, N. Y-, where he works as a production manager for Marshall, Meadows and Stewart, Inc.
RAILROADER: Herbert H. Harwood '26, who has been named General Passenger Agent at Cleveland for the New York Central System.
AT WAGON MOUND, New Mexico, 1927 lines up (left to right) with Fred Thompson, wife Frances, their two boys, Robert and Fred, and, last but not least, Dick Lougee from Worcester, Mass.
Secretary, 501 Boylston St., Boston 17, Mass.
Treasurer and Memorial Fund Chairman Box 1927, Pittsburgh 30, Pa.
