1927

Secretary, 29150 West River Rd. Perrysburg, Ohio

Class Agent, Massachusetts Automobile Bureau 89 Broad St., Boston 10, Mass.

It's hard to get back into the habit of working after a vacation, and while writing this column probably shouldn't classify as work, it does take a certain amount of thought and effort, qualities which I find almost completely lacking at the moment. Combined with a dearth of news about your activities, this doesn't augur well for a very interesting installment in the history of the Class of 1927. At this point, all of you who feel the urge to skip to more fascinating reading material are hereby given permission to do so.

A letter from Nick Voorhis, dated March 20, announces his retirement, effective June 30, from the United States Army, where he has been serving as a Colonel in the Judge Advocate General's Corps, his most recent assignment being Staff Judge Advocate, U.S. Army Pacific, stationed at Fort Shafter, Hawaii. Nick has been legal advisor to the senior Army Commander in the Pacific, and in addition has had technical supervision of all Judge Advocate and legal officers in the Pacific area, consisting, principally, of Hawaii, Korea, Japan, Okinawa, and Taiwan. Prior to this, he was Staff Judge Advocate, U.S. Army Japan, where, in addition to many other duties, he was responsible for day-to-day relations with the Japanese government concerning its exercise of criminal jurisdiction over U.S. personnel (probably the best remembered example was the Girard case). Nick has been in the Army since November 1942, and prior to that time engaged in the private practice of law in Boston, following graduation from Harvard Law School in 1930. His address, after June 15, will be: c/o John G. McCulloch, 60 Hemlock Rd„ Short Hills, N.J.

John Hough, Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado, is president of the Classical Society of the Middle West and south, Inc., and in this capacity delivered the presidential address at the 57th annual meeting of the Society in Cleveland, on the subject "History and Literature."

It is real news when a member of the Class of 1927 leaves the ranks of bachelorhood these days, so it was with great interest that we noted the report of the marriage of Miss Ruth Rudin to Hank Bayles, which took place in the home of the bride's brother-in-law and sister, Rabbi and Mrs. Joshua Haberman, and was performed by Rabbi Haberman, in Trenton, N. J., on February 27.

Art Thompson says that he is more or less retired, so that all he does now is operate the largest funeral home in Tacoma, Wash., a cemetery, a farm, a 70-acre mobile home site, which he is developing on the Dungeness River, fly his Cessna airplane from one business venture to another, and fill in his spare time, other than that claimed by his eight grandchildren and one college-age daughter, with hunting and fishing, plus taking an active part in most every civic endeavor in Tacoma. He recently returned from a six-week trip to Mexico, and a steelhead fishing trip in Washington.

Frank Senn has moved from San Francisco to 3405 Spring St., Pompano Beach, Fla.

The other day I received Larry Scammon's list of Class Agents, and for a moment I wondered who would be left for them to work on, but then I remembered that ours is still a pretty big class, and even though the list of agents is a long one, they are all going to have a pretty big job to do if 1927 is to hold its customary place of honor at the end of the Alumni Fund campaign in June. I should say that they all have a big job to do if we all don't co-operate and make their job easy - which means that we ease things for them considerably if we will just get our checks off without the usual prodding, and without waiting until the last moment. Giving to the Alumni Fund is a privilege, and we should not wait to be asked.

Art Thompson '27 displays the trophies of asuccessful fishing trip over the nose of hisairplane. Not a bad catch.

Elliott Donnelley '28 sits aboard the newest addition to his backyard railroad. His hobby consists of one mile of track, three steam locomotives, one gasoline locomotive and about fifteen cars. Elliott, vice president of the celebrated Chicago printing firm, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., calls his line the Stet & Query Central, after two well-known proof marks.