1927

Somehow it seems odd to be reporting to you the first of October when you won't see this until after the October 9 Fall Reunion. But that, in turn, will be covered in the next issue.

Len Dunn reports that he spent his birthday (39th) with 18 holes of golf, followed by dining and dancing with his wife at the Safari, Scottsdale, Ariz. Still long on Arizona as a retirement location and says too many of us are wrong in picking Florida. Len also says he is helping Nick Zaro find some desert property for a client.

Since Baltimore papers have been full of stories and pictures of your handsome Class Treasurer, thought you should see how well preserved he is, both in looks and energy. Gus Cummings has recently taken on the job of Chairman of the Baltimore Civic Center Commission (Commission is referred to as "embattled" by local papers). Gus is now engaged in a nationwide search for a new executive director. You should know that in a note a month or so ago, Gus said he was gradually getting out of civic activities!! Incidentally, DocMilliken sent along the newspaper stories and I will see that Mike Choukas gets them.

Doc's letter includes "Last month I dropped in on Hoot and Gladys Owl. I missed Charlie Gibson who was there the week before. Also, Gob Des Marais '26 visited this summer as well as Adrian Bouchard who took many pictures of Hoot's layout.

"Hoot has many campsites for tents and for trailers. They are shady, well drained and near a swift river. My Gladys and I enjoyed Hoot's recount of his boyhood on this ancestral ground. He showed us where he watched his elders dance around the campfire and the clearing is part of Hoot's plans for future use. Although living in a trailer, at this time, they are developing a permanent home. Right now they are planning to make a fall visit to their daughters and grandchildren and then a visit back to Idaho. They look and feel fine." Doc himself is now retired from Army Reserve as a Colonel. — says he is back to Doctor.

Jock Davis, according to Clinton, Mass., paper, has been re-elected to Agway, Inc., the big Farmers Co-op - Jock runs a 1500 acre dairy farm with 250 milk cows and 250 acres of orchards.

Bill Elliott says he is just an average grandfather, three in Massachusetts, three in Illinois and one in Colorado - "other than checking these important spots, I am still working with the secondary school lads who get brighter every year and find it more and more difficult to get into the 'good' colleges - whatever that means. Lots of '27ers in education - might be interesting to get a list together." O.K. - here's a starter: Bill Elliott - Brown & Nichols School, Cambridge; Harry Dey - Supt. Staunton Military Academy, Staunton, Va., Fred Carver - Headmaster, Kimball Union; Bill North - Registrar, Dublin School, Dublin, N. H.; Dick Hood - Chairman English Department, Waltham High School; CurtWright - Prof. Law, Temple University Johnny Hough - Chairman Classics Dept, University of Colorado.

Johnny has just been appointed Marshal of Commencement for a four-year term, according to the papers, at Colorado University where he has been since '46. Prior to that he taught in Hanover and Ohio State. Other highlights of his career, he is an authority on Roman comedy, was president of Classical Association of the Middle West and South and was a Fulbright Professor at the University of Australia.

Will add to foregoing list as data is received, since it is very incomplete and only partially correct, I'm sure.

Bob Bliss, a regular correspondent (a practice I recommend to all), says he can't make October party "too busy screening talent for a good newspaper (Janesville Gazette) and putting our fine arts radio station, WCLO-FM, into stereo broadcasting." Sounds great, doesn't it, and what has been keeping you busy this past summer?

George Woelfel from England reports "The London alumni under guidance of Bob Breyfogle '26 had a meeting in August with the Dean of Thayer School as speaker. We spent last winter in Spain, taking freighter this fall to Montreal and will drive south stopping in Hanover." George and Amy will be back in Manchester, N. H., this winter.

Bob Stevens, before leaving the other day for London, reported dining with HowardRussell and his wife, Cathy, on from Akron where Howard is with Firestone. Purpose to check on a daughter in Briarcliff Manor and a son in New Hampshire, Howard reports word from Bud Wesselman of a Cleveland '27 get-together.

Al Byrne, retired Colonel of the Air Force, is in Shalimar, Fla. His good wife, Peg, reports on the family news. Both sons are married, Robert, a Navy lieutenant is serving aboard the destroyer "Honson." He recently married Karen Lewis of Westfield, N. J., and Donn is a Navy flyer married to Joyce Simpson of Arlington, Va. More wives should keep the '27 secretary on their correspondence list.

Gordon (Hopie) Hope has just been elected to the Board of Morgan Memorial of Boston, the largest voluntary agency in New England serving the needy with jobs and rehabilitation. Hopie is Treasurer of Gilman Bros, and lives down Hingham way on Crow Point.

A note from Joe Russakoff, your best local New York correspondent, sends in a clipping regarding Ed Miner, president of the Voorhies Technical Institute on the occasion of its relocation to West 41st Street in New York.

Do you know that Howie Mullin is back in Pittsburgh again from Chicago where he had been located for a year or so? He is vice president for Special Line sales products for U.S. Steel which sounds like a national assignment, therefore, we ought to be able to catch him most any place in the country from time to time.

Nick Voorhis welcomed Fred Fellingham to Denver from Oklahoma City when the Rocky Mountain Division of Pan American Petroleum for whom he is Administration Manager transferred its headquarters. Says they hope to see each other fairly frequently. Nick complains that he has a son in Casper, Wyo.; a twin daughter in Media, Pa., and the other twin in Los Angeles and they are hard to get together simultaneously. He brags with much justification over Titan Gemini which his company, Martin Marietta, built.

Follow-up on the "lost at sea" report about Gene Sullivan in the form of a letter from P. O. Box 4224, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Gene says it ain't so - he now is back on land, owns an apartment house on a canal with 80 feet of dock and has no boat. Says Johnny Shaw checked in while over seeing his son Bob's Giant spring training. Gene and his wife are planning on Alumni College. We hope to get a report on this from him or Chuck Baker who also planned to attend.

Rudy Preuss represented the College at the recent inauguration of the new president of Hofstra University. Don Proudman in reporting on a spring European trip comes in with a very, strong recommendation on Locarno. Put it on your list.

Bill Pelton, we're glad to report, sends in good news that after his long illness this year sees him back in sufficient shape to drive a Farmall Super C with three gang mowers over the lawn of his farm. Says he doesn't farm the place, however, rents it for beans for taxes.

Carl Lindenmeyer spent several months recently in Louisiana and says he was fully exposed to Southern hospitality; got a real good image of the South, quite different from what we were reading in most of today's newspapers.

Secretary, Orchard Hill Rd. Westport, Conn.

Treasurer, Apt. IOC, 3908 N. Charles St. Baltimore 18, Md.

Bequest Chairman,