1927

As I start out to put this column for the June MAGAZINE together it looks as though it is going to set some sort of record for brevity. There are reasons for this, the main one being that it is being written about two weeks before it normally would, due to the fact that after a long, hard winter, your secretary and wife are leaving the day after tomorrow on a trip to the West Coast, and as a result, there has only been about half the normal time for news to filter through. For some strange reason, that news which does come to me seems to concentrate itself on the latter half of the month. What has arrived since the notes for the May issue were written is nearly nonexistent. I have high hopes of seeing a lot of the members of the Class while I am in California, and perhaps can dig out a little information about what they have been doing. In a Class which is distinguished by extreme reticence about their doings, the West-Coast brethren are outstanding for secretiveness. We'll try to smoke them out on this trip.

Those of you who remember a somewhat enigmatic clipping from a Boston newspaper relative to Dinty Gardner, and his advertising agency, Donald W. Gardner Advertising Inc., may be interested in the news that Dinty has been knocking off new accounts in rapid-fire fashion, and that he has acquired some eight or nine new ones in the last few months.

This morning's mail brought an announcement of the marriage of Jeanne Noreen Field, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Charles NewcombField, to Mr. Thomas Anthony Huffmon, on April 10, at the First Congregational Church in La Grange, Ill. Jeanne is Chuck's eldest daughter, and the other members of the family are Ethel Dee, who is now 17, and Charles Frederick, just barely turned 7. It's encouraging to see that there are others in the Class whose offspring are spaced as widely as the Broers'.

Doane Arnold left the early part of April on a trip which was to take him to Chandler, Ariz., Phoenix, Alberquerque, Dallas, Houston, and New Orleans. I haven't heard from him yet about the trip, but I hope that he will have seen some of the members of 1927 who live in the Southwest, and that his report, combined with what I may be able to dig up out on the Coast, may bring us up to date on the inhabitants of our far-flung outposts.

Most of the news this month seems to be about marriages of daughters of 1927ers, but I suppose that we might as well face the facts that we are coming to that time in our lives. Merle Brush writes that his daughter Beverly is to be married in June.

Kroggy Krogstad has recently moved from Oklahoma City, back to Tulsa, where he had been previously. Kroggy is district manager for International Harvester Co., and has been with them practically since graduation. Born in Minnesota, Kroggy has become a great rooter for the Southwest, and thinks that it is the only place in the country to live. He is one of the few fortunates who happened to be assigned to the Navy Indoctrination School at Dartmouth in 1942 and says that this assignment was one of the greatest "kicks" he ever had.

We are now in the final stage of another Alumni Fund campaign, and 1927's standing at the end will be determined by what each one of you do. If you have already given, I hope that you will give some thought to whether what you have already done represents what you consider your full share. If you have not given I hope that you will do so now. 1927 should be represented in this year's fund by a thoughtful gift by every member of the Class.

Have a good summer. See you again in October.

Secretary, Pine Hill Farm, West River Rd., Perrysburg, Ohio

Class Agent, U. S. Steel Corp. 1221 Locust St., St. Louis 3, Mo.