1927
We start the new year with a better collection of letters and news items than we have had for quite a long time, thanks to your Christmas letters, the notes on your Christmas cards, and your replies to Gus's letter of last October, querying you on your wishes about our class dues, and the use of the surplus that is accumulating.
The vote was nearly unanimous that we keep our dues as they are, and there were nearly as many suggestions for use of any surplus funds as there were answers. This will certainly give your Executive Committee plenty of food for serious thought and discussion, and any further suggestions that any of you may have will be most welcome.
One suggestion that was made was most welcome to me, and while it will not involve any expenditure from our treasury, I hope that each one of you will follow it. It is that we have more pictures in connection with our class notes in the MAGAZINE, and all that is involved is for you to send me the pictures. The only rule is that an alumnus must be in the picture. Subjects that would be particularly appropriate are photos of any member of the class taken in connection with any promotion or honor received, any interesting events participated in by several members of the class, or members of your family, shots from the last reunion, or the fall reunions, and if you still have any in reasonably good condition, pictures from our undergraduate days. You send the pictures we'll get them in the MAGAZINE.
January 1 marked 32 years of service with International Harvester for Kroggie Krogstad. Since 1940 the Krogstads have lived in Oklahoma City and in Tulsa, where Kroggy is district manager of the Motor Truck Division, and they have become what he calls good "Okies." Since Harvester has a plant in Emeryville, Calif., Kroggy has sufficient reason for a trip to the West Coast each year, and on his last trip he saw Phil Hunt, Bus Turpin, and Bed Williams in Los Angeles, and Phil and Jane Thompson in San Francisco. He also occasionally sees Dick Simpson, Bill Jamieson, Ken Herwig, Fred Fellingham, and Kerm Ingham on his trips around Oklahoma.
John Pfanner sent news of himself and family from Corvallis, Ore., where he is Professor in the Division of Business and Industry of Oregon State College. His two sons, Johnny and Duff, are at school in Corvallis, and his wife, Eleanor, is executive secretary of Panhellenic at the college.
Cam Clokey had the privilege of delivering the Charge to the Ordinand when his son, Donald, was in the Presbyterian ministry at the Church of the Covenant in Cleveland, November 1. Don is now located in Glens Falls, N. Y., as assistant minister in the Presbyterian church there. His younger son, Dick, is at the University of Wisconsin, taking his doctorate in history.
Frank Cloran has added another activity to his accounting and tax work, and is now a registered securities representative, associated with Gordon B. Hanlon and Co., of Boston.
Bill Cusack is active as head of the Pattern Gifts Division in the drive to provide funds to expand and remodel the hospital in Winchester, Mass. In addition to serving as chairman and general manager of our annual fall reunion, Bill's extracurricular duties comprise the vice-chairmanship of the Town Finance Committee and chairmanship of the Industrial Development Commission of Winchester, serving as a trustee of Crushing Academy, and as president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston.
Woody Burgert, who is vice-president of the Harris Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago, has been elected treasurer of the University Club of that city.
Dick Lougee, whose new theory relative to Ice Age glaciation has stirred up quite a controversy in geological circles, spent the past summer on a 15,000-mile tour across the North American continent, in company with Dr. Esa Hyyppa, chief of the Pleistocene department of the Geological Survey of Finland, and his son Gerry, in a search for further evidence which could help decide the conflicting explanations of Ice Age history. Dick was able to take time out from his busy schedule for a visit with Frell and Gladys Owl, at the Fort Hall, Idaho Indian Agency, where Frell is superintendent. In addition to his regular duties as superintendent of the Agency, Frell spends a good deal of time speaking to various groups in the interest of interracial unity, and is on the Governor's Committee on Children for the White House Conference, and chairman of one section. Their daughter Mary is teaching home economics and music at Genessee, Idaho, while her husband completes his studies in electrical engineering at Idaho State University. Their younger daughter, whom those of you who were at the thirtieth reunion will remember, entered St. Luke's Hospital at Saginaw, Mich., for nurses' training at the end of her sophomore year at Michigan State.
Cal Voorhis writes that he has been in New York most of the fall, trying to find a college publishing job that doesn't involve "such incessant traveling as my last one," which was southeastern representative for the educational department of the World Publishing Co., of Cleveland.
New grandfathers include Bo Head and Bud Wesselmann.
Either shortly before or after you read this, you should be receiving a questionnaire, which I hope you will all take the time to fill out and return as promptly as you can. This was authorized by your Executive Committee at the meeting in October, and will be for the purpose of bringing our records on each of you up-to-date. It will also serve as the first step in collecting the necessary information for a possible Class Book or new Directory, whichever it is determined we can afford to get out prior to our thirty-fifth reunion. The absence of any up-to-date information on a great many of the members of the class in the files of your secretary is appalling, and it is our hope that, with your cooperation, this situation can be remedied.
Secretary, 29150 West River Rd. Perrysburg, Ohio
Treasurer, Apt. 10C, 3908 N. Charles St. Baltimore 18, Md.
