1927
A small mid-winter reunion of the Class of 1927 was held on the evening of January 20 at the Minikahda Club in Minneapolis, attended by Steve Osborn, Reyn Guyer, SteveMills, Howie Mullin, and your secretary. The occasion was the reception and dinner given by the Minneapolis alumni in connection with the mid-winter meeting of the Alumni Coun- cil. Steve Osborn and Reyn didn't have far to travel, being residents of the twin cities, or at least their suburbs; Steve Mills came from Rochester, where he is connected with the Mayo Clinic, and Howie and I came from New York. This is a new routing for the trip from Toledo to Minneapolis, but quite satisfactory. The evening was very enjoyable, the Minneapolis alumni being very superior hosts, and the five of us had great fun catching up on the happenings of the past 25 years or so. Reyn has just resigned as vice president and director of research for the Waldorf Paper Co., to open his own office as a research and design consultant. Steve Osborn is still busily engaged in the business of raising and feeding cattle and hogs, and wishes fervently that someone would figure out a formula so that meat prices would advance and feed prices remain the same. Before the evening broke up we all made a solemn pact to meet again in Hanover at the 30th reunion in June of 1957.
While in New York I had lunch with JoshDavis, Lee Greenebaum, and Howie Mullin. Lee seems to be well recovered from the heart attack which he suffered a little over a year ago. At least he looked far healthier than any of the rest of us, though the fact that he had just come back from Florida may have had something to do with it. I also had dinner with Roy and Lillie Dreher, who are enjoying being back in their house in Chappaqua, after having been away from it most of the time during the past year, due to deaths in their family and the illness of their daughter in Paris last fall.
Si Morand, who has been one of the pioneers in the effort to get our automobiles equipped with safety belts, seems finally to be getting results from his efforts. He is the Chicago regional representative for Automotive Safety Associates, and now has over two hundred dealers in the Chicago area, and four jobbers out of town. Si says that he gets great satisfaction when he hears from his dealers of the lives that have been saved and the injuries that have been prevented by the use of his belts. He sees Bill St. Amant frequently, saw Phil Thompson last August, when he was in Chicago on a trip from the coast, sees KroggyKrogstad once in awhile when he is in Chicago, and saw Marsh McGough in October in Atlanta. Evidently they are all well and happy, though Si doesn't say, and no direct reports have come from any of them for a long time.
Dud Bonsai writes that he is still practicing law, with some emphasis on the international side, and that they divide their time between the city and a little place near Bedford. Dud is on the executive committee of the New York Bar Association, and in addition is chairman of a special committee which is making a study of the Federal Loyalty-Security Program. For some time, he has been very interested in the dangers posed by the Communist conspiracy, and he has been active, along with some other members of the New York Bar, in supporting an organization in The Hague known as the International Commission of Jurists. This commission tells the jurists of the world what happens to law and its administration in Communist countries, an activity which is more useful in countries in Asia and Europe which are nearer the shadow of the Kremlin than here. The Commission held an international congress in Athens last spring, which Dud attended, and which adopted a declaration of principles concerned with the rights of the individual and the bearing of these rights on government and law, known as the "Act of Athens." Dud's children are now all grown, his daughter is married, and he became a grandfather on November 9.
The 1955 issue of Dogwood Farm Doin's brought news of the activities of Cary Stiff and his family during the past year. Cary's oldest, David, graduated from Dartmouth in 1953, but Cary Jr. is carrying on the tradition and entered with the freshman class this past fall. Cary has joined the ranks of the grandfathers, courtesy of his daughter Winona. The highlight of the Stiffs' year seems to be a trip that they made last summer to Colorado, and the highlights of the trip were an evening spent with Don and Ruth Kinney in Greeley, and a trip from Durango to Silverton on the narrow gauge line of the Denver and Rio Grande Western, one of the last of the old-time narrow gauge railroads still in existence, where the scenery is magnificent.
Kroggy Krogstad's daughter, Miss Gertrude Margaret Krogstad, was married in November to Robert Ward Graddy in St. Pius X Catholic Church, in Tulsa.
Joe Gintzler says that he is continuing the family business, the J. H. Gintzler Press, in Buffalo, N.Y., and that he has the usual quota of one wife, two sons, protruding paunch, bifocals, and shortness of breath.
Bill Neilson, who has to live in the spot that nearly all of us can only dream of visiting someday, is manager of five airports for the Hawaii Aeronautics Commission, and lives on the island of Maui. The airports which he manages are located on the islands of Molokai and Lanai. He has just completed a term as vice president of the Maui Chamber of Commerce. The Neilsons have two children, Tim, 5, and Marjorie, 3.
Those of you in the advertising business will be interested in a talk given by Joe Russakoff to a meeting of the League of Advertising Agencies, Inc., on the subject of media relations, which was printed in the December 10 issue of Editor and Publisher.
Jim Picken, who recently retired as football coach at the Clifford J. Scott High School in East Orange, N.J., was honored at a testimonial dinner given by the Scott Boosters on January 18.
Either you've been unusually stable for the past few months, or the Alumni Records Office hasn't been able to keep up with its work. At any rate, I haven't had any address changes lately. And while we're on that subject, if you haven't yet returned the very short questionnaire that was enclosed in the Speak you received in January, please do so at once. Les Battin has taken on the formidable job of compiling a class directory, and he naturally has to depend on your cooperation to make it complete. The more complete it is, the more value it will have for each one of you, and if you all do your very small part, this will be the best thing that we have ever had. It only takes three minutes to answer, and this is a fact, because I timed myself.
Word has just been received that the spring Class Dinner in New York will be held at the Dartmouth Club on April 11. In the absence of Sam Wormser, who will be vacationing in Europe at that time, Joe Russakoff will be in charge of arrangements.
Secretary, Pine Hill Farm, West River Rd., Perrysburg, Ohio
Treasurer, Box 1927, Pittsburgh 30, Pa.
Bequest Chairman,
