1912
40TH REUNION—JUNE 13-16, 1952IT'S A DATE
Well, the Class Notes will be short this month. In the first-place, I do not have much news. Secondly—and more to the point—I am writing them out in long hand, watching the blue Atlantic from the porch of a shoreside cottage at Pompano Beach, Fla., on a month's vacation—the first real vacation Irma and I have had in many years. This handwritten copy will then go to my efficient "Girl Friday" in New York to be typed and added to with any news she receives before the deadline of May 5.
Within less than two weeks from the time you read this, all good Twelvers will be trekking to Hanover for the "Fortunate Fortieth Reunion" (to borrow the characterization from Lyme Armes). By now you will have received the new Class Directory that Henry VanDyne has prepared, and the official information attendance blanks, etc. from Jim Steen's reunion committee. With Alice Brennock Day rounding up the wives, widows, children and grandchildren, attendance chores will have been performed. With Babe Hartshorn and Roy Lewis on the job, all necessary local arrangements will have been made. To finish the picture, all that is needed for a perfect setting is for you to load up the jalopy and you and the little woman head for Hanover.
From my old friend Jack Childs '09 (who edits the sheet for his class that is almost as good as Lyme Armes' editions of The Bill board) comes a clipping from a Cleveland newspaper and news of Mark Snow. As thrice potent master of his Scottish Rite Lodge, Mark arranged a meeting for 32nd degree Masons to witness films of heart operations for coronary artery diseases recently developed by Dr. Claude S. Beck of Western Reserve School of Medicine. Jack Childs accompanied the clipping with a letter:
"Chances are you won't be apprised of this piece about your classmate Mark Snow, which appeared in the Cleveland Plain Dealer on April 3. I had lunch the other day with Mark and 'Secretary' Warren Bruner. Mark and I matched to see who'd pay for the deal and I lost. Dammit. To refresh your memory about Mark, he was originally a New Hampshire boy who graduated from Thayer after getting his liberal arts degree in '12. He followed engineering for 15 years or so, working in various cities, including a few years in Chicago. Then he got a job in Cleveland, liked it around here and decided to study law and get out of the engineering game. For four years he studied nights at John Marshall Law School, Cleveland, got his degree in 1930, passed the Ohio bar exam, and has been practising here since—a highly respected member of the community.
"Warren has had some tough going with his career placement deal. A change of presidents at Defiance College, Defiance, O., eased him out of that picture, so he has turned up in Washington, D. C., as you know. Finding it difficult to sell his career idea at the present time, he is engaged in writing articles on women in engineering, a subject with which he became familiar during the war. He has had a couple of them accepted, one with Mademoiselle. Then he plans to combine his writings into a book in which a couple of publishers have expressed interest. Before he left Defiance he slipped on the ice and broke his left arm, leaving it partially unusable."
From Madrid, Spain, comes a postal from Syd Clark dated March 24 saying, in substance, he doesn't expect his travel letters to be quoted in full. They are so interesting, Syd, that I am sure all classmates enjoy them as much as I.
I was sorry to miss Bud Hoban's call at my office on his way home from the South. Will look forward to seeing you at the reunion, Bud.
Word has just been received from her mother, Mrs. Terese K. Butler, of the approaching marriage of Betty, daughter of deceased classmate Bill Butler, in Pittsburgh, on June 21, to Mark Larkin who is associated with Price-Waterhouse in Pittsburgh. Betty has been working as traveling home economist for Spice Islands Co. of San Francisco.
A month or two back one of the members of the Class was bragging a little at his record of nine grandchildren. Well, Alice Day has the record, so far as I know, with the birth of her tenth grandchild—a third boy presented by Priscilla Day Boekelheid. Incidentally, Priscill is the only woman M.D. in Riverside, IOWa. Joan Day Mallamo, of Phoenix, Ariz., has three children; Fred Day Jr., Elizabet , N.J., also has three; and Patience Day Weitz, Chevy Chase, Md., has one.
Changs of address: Morris E. Knigth, 150 Greenway Terrace, Forest Hills, Long Island, N. Y., and Brian W. Robie, 11679 Montana Avenue, Brentwood, Los Angeles, Calif.
SEE YOU IN HANOVER!
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