1927
I imagine that it will look as strange to all of you as it does to me to see any name other than Doane's at the top of these notes. As you all probably know by now, Doane, by his own request, retired as Secretary at our twenty-fifth reunion. For 25 years he served us loyally and well, in a job which was often difficult and always demanding. Following in his footsteps is going to be a difficult job, but with your help I will do the best I can. A few days after the reunion we sent Doane a silver cigarette box, suitably inscribed, as a memento from the Class and a very slight token of our appreciation for his many years of service. He asked me to say something in my next column which would convey to all of you his deep appreciation for this, and I can't think of any better way to do this than by quoting his own words:
"I want to thank you and all the members of the Class most sincerely for the very beautiful silver cigarette box I received from you recently. I assure you that it is and will always be one of my most prized possessions. The many interesting and happy associations that I have had as Secretary over the past 25 years have meant a great deal to me and this lovely gift of appreciation from the Class with its kind inscription will serve constantly to remind me of the many good friends in the Class of 1927."
Before leaving the subject of Doane, we should mention that just before reunion, he and his wife Marie made a trip to Honolulu, in company with the president of his company, to attend the 100 th anniversary of the Home Insurance Company of Hawaii. A picture of them arriving at the Honolulu airport shows them swathed in leis from waist to neck very fetching.
Jack Thees, who for the past four years has been retail advertising manager of the NewYork Herald Tribune, has been promoted to the position of advertising director. Jack went with the Herald Tribune in 1945 as head of department store advertising, after having previously worked for the New York WorldTelegram and the New York Daily News. Jack has had a good deal to do with the establishment of the very successful voluntary system of advertising censorship operated by the New York newspapers in cooperation with the merchants, which has been responsible for the maintenance of unusually high standards of retail advertising in New York City.
Ed RecLcay has been named acting president of Plattsburg State Teachers College in Plattsburg, N. Y. Ed, who is more formally known as Dr. Redcay, joined the college faculty in 1936 and has been Dean since 1945.
Roy Dreher was recently elected president of the Chappaqua, N. Y., Board of Education. Roy, in his working moments, is an account executive with Batten, Barton, Durstine, and Osborn, a small advertising agency in New York.
Fred Page has been elected a senior vice president and director of the American Express Company.
Dr. Carl Weiss, who has been president of the staff of Clover Hill Hospital in Lawrence, Mass., has closed his practice there and moved to Hastings, Minn.
Granville Libby, assistant marine secretary of the Fireman's Fund Insurance Cos., San Francisco, presented a paper entitled "Some Aspects of Protection and Indemnity Insurance" before the Section of Insurance Law at the annual meeting of the American Bar Association on September 16.
Dick Lougee, driving east from a trip to the Dakotas in July, stopped in to see FrellOwl at the Chippewa Indian Reservation in Red Lake, Minn., where Frell is superintendent. Dick had Sunday dinner with Frell, his wife Gladys, and his two daughters, Mary and Frela. Frell is the author of "Seven Chiefs Rule the Red Lake Band" in the spring 1952 issue of the magazine The American Indian, and is a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokees.
John Wilson Jr. is with the Iceland Defease Force, his address being c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y.
Dr. Bill Spinney has moved from Winchester, Mass., and is now located at 277 Woburn St., Reading, Mass. Joe Ryan has moved to 166 Valley Road, Dedham, Mass.
Word has just been received of the death of Leslie F. Jones in Brockton, Mass., 011 July 18, 1952. More details will be found in the obituary section of either this issue or the next.
Your new secretary has not been flooded with communications from his classmates. As soon as I got home from reunion I went right down town and bought one of those new oversized mail boxes. Living on a rural route I didn't want to take a chance on all the letters that 1 expected to receive overflowing the old standard size box that had served me well for the last 13 years. So far the only need that I have had for any mail box at all is to receive the monthly bills which still seem to arrive in the usual number. How about loosening up and making with the news about yourselves? I'd particularly like to hear from those of you who missed out on our 25th Reunion Class Book. There are some of you that we haven't heard from in many years, and we're anxious to know what you've been doing with yourselves or what the world has been doing with you. Eventually I hope to get around to dropping all of you a line, but don't wait for that. Just jot down a few sentences, and send them along. Let's fill up my new big mail box.
As you all know, at our class meeting in Hanover in June we voted unanimously to keep our Twenty-Five-Year Fund open until the end of this year. We were shy of the goal that we had set up, and everyone felt that a great many members of the Class had not yet done as much as they wanted to do. The end of the year is fast approaching, and I know that there are still many of you who want to increase your gift, and a few who still haven't given anything. Gus is still receiving mail at P. O. Box 1927, Pittsburgh, Pa., and a check from you, or an indication of what you plan to do before the year is out will make him very happy. We still have a chance to make 1927's memorial gift the biggest one yet.
CLASS DINNER, OCT. 30
A dinner for the Class of '27 will be held at the Dartmouth Club of New York, Thursday, October 30. Sam Wormser, 160 Broadway, New York 38, is in charge of dinner arrangements, assisted by Joe Russakoff and RoyDreher.
Secretary, Pine Hill Farm, West River Rd., Perrysburg, Ohio Treasurer, Box 1927, Pittsburgh 30, Pa
