1923

Our Cleveland reporter has again mailed in newspaper pictures of Mr. & Mrs. Raymond M. Barker attending Grand Opera in that city. Ray is certainly photogenic when he puts on the soup and fish. Ray regrets the opera season conflicts with his skating club carnival. As a result he devotes three nights to opera and three to seeing his twelve-year-old boy in the carnival. All business activities are thus curtailed for the week April" 21-27.

For the past fifteen years Horace F. Taylor Jr. Associates, Buffalo, N.Y., have represented a national plan of financing for clubs, churches and private schools, known as the Columbian Plan of Financing. Lately they have been mostly engaged in raising funds for golf and country clubs who have expansion projects. This plan is being recommended by the National Golf Foundation and several golf course architects.

The latest bulletin of the Eddie Rowe Select School for Girls informs the class that one daughter graduated from Colby Junior and is presently teaching skiing in Winter Park, Colo., one is a freshman at U. of Colorado, one is a high school sophomore and the youngest attends junior high school. Eddie keeps up with the tuition bills by practicing as a lawyer, specializing in trademark work. In this work he deals with the trademark division of the patent office. He continues as Acting Police Justice of Pleasantville. This involves dispensing justice whenever the regular police judge is away.

Ed Stacker continues with the law firm of Thompson, Hine and Flory of Cleveland. Ray Barker, Clarence Robinson and TexTexbush all report that they see Ed regularly.

Owen Smith in his Owen Smith Agency plans your insurance to insure your plans. He travels around his native city of Portland in his little Borgward. Owen has two Wellesley daughters; one a graduate, was married last summer. The junior delinquent graduates this spring and is being married in June.

Larry Miles left the Army in early November; quoting from his letter, "I am now associated with two of my former commanders in Germany in an investment house specializing in mutual funds. It is a game I was in during the go's and one I always liked. My capacity is district manager of the Eastern Maryland office, situated at 5 Rowe Building, Aberdeen, Md." Larry has a son John in Washington and Lee and a daughter, Martha, in Bel Air High School.

Your treasurer, Pete Jones, your secretary and his wife, Barbara, represented the Class at Class Officers Weekend, May 2 and 3 in Hanover. Much was accomplished through panel discussion and exchange of ideas.

Nick Bernard is still with Doc O'Connor '12 and the March of Dimes. The March issue of the "Ladies Home Journal" contains on page 65 a picture of Nick's wife, Peg Bernard, in full color, page size.

The latest information concerning our class babies Biffy, age three and Todd, age two, sons of Dean Baker, is that they are safely over the measles. They are lively as a barrel of monkeys and the perfect recipe for keeping Dean from growing old too fast.

Our other baby, Wallis, age two and one half, is leading Walter and Martha Rohmanop a merry chase.

Chick and Hope Burke are busily engaged in Haverhill during April, May and June, directing a campaign for a half million dollars for Haverhill's Hale Hospital, Chick as director and Hope as associate director. They are connected with the Haney Associates of Newtonville, a 35-year-old fund raising organization, specializing exclusively in hospital drives for funds. Prior to coming to Haverhill the Burkes managed a successful campaign of eight months' duration in Alton, Ill., for two and one half million for three hospitals.

Secretary, 170 Washington St. Haverhill, Mass.

Class Agent, 980 Chapel St., New Haven, Conn.