1927

'27ers from all over gathered at New York Dartmouth Club on April 27, to honor GusCummings. As Bob Stevens said, for the first time the New York dinner included " '27ettes," and the wives added greatly to the affair. Prize for coming from farthest away went to Brick Stone and Pauline back just a day or so from an extended South American trip, Charley Gibson up from Greenville, S. C., Doc Milliken from Annapolis celebrated his birthday (39th) with all of us. Art Lund up from Baltimore where he is now a member of the faculty of Eastern College. First '27 affair he has attended in many a moon. Down from Boston we had our New England Regional Manager, Cug Daley, Paul Hannah, and CharleyBartlett and Barbara. Among those with unavoidable conflicts but who still took time to come in and have a quick one with Gus and Sybil were Sid Voice (off to keep a promised date with his wife at the Bolshoi Ballet), Jack Thees who had convention conflicts, and Dud Bonsai who as former president of New York Bar Association had to make their annual dinner. Dud promises not to let Harvard Law, Bar and other associations, conflict with '27's 40th, June 1967.

Getting the dinner off to quick start was Ken Murray, sporting an early April tan, who outlined plans for the 40th Reunion. To repeat so you can get it down on your next year's calendar, mark off June 12-15, Monday through Wednesday - golf, banquets, Top of the Hop cocktail party, a big special event for '27 still in confidential development stage, are some of the items on the docket. Ruth Murray is actively at work on wives' schedule and at May Class Officers Meeting in Hanover, further plans will be jelled. Ken appointed Guy Bostwick as Golf Chairman. You will hear more and more as time brings this big event closer. If you have that big idea for adding to the schedule, be sure and drop a note to Ken, 100 Park Ave., N.Y.C.

Your chairman, Bob Stevens, did a masterful job in presenting the guest of honor to the dinner, the only treasurer '27 ever had, starting with freshman year, attended Boston University '34-5-6, followed later by Harvard Business School Advanced Management School. A distinguished business career in Boston, Pittsburgh, and Baltimore where as Bob put it, "he may not be Lord Baltimore but certainly can be properly called 'Mr. Baltimore' for his many activities and positions of leadership in the community."

Gus, working back through his business career, bragging with justification of his sons and grandchildren, recalled the picture fight in 1923. Did you remember, it was Gus who got us to the glen for that picture? The senior year Mt. Washington trip found Gus, Davis and Bartlett at the Base Camp with a very happy discovery of some back woods elixir which apparently warded off frost bite.

After Gus received a rousing hand, Charlev Gibson told us a little more about Frell Owl whom he had seen recently Frells "Piney Brook" Camp is on Cherokee land and Frell is active in the operation of the Cherokee Tribe. Doc MilUken added that Frell will show you on the land, which he inherited from his family, the spot where as a youth he sat around the tribal campfire

closed the formal session by reading warm messages to Gus from Doane Arnold and Howie Mullin. You should a been there.

Did you get "Get Turn Jump, Time Again cartoon from the pen of our one and only Gordon "Smitty" Smith? Smitty went into Salem Hospital on May 1 for some repair work, we all hope this finds him up and around, perky as ever.

Bob Long, some weeks back, sent m a clipping on Ceb Lee, which traces a most interesting career. Ceb is head of L. S. Lee & Co. in Oaks Corner, N. Y., a manufacturer of concrete products. I hadn't heard, but Ceb was a member of. U.S. Sailing team racing a Star at the 1948 London Olympiad. He left sailing and is now a nationally known breeder, rider and shower of Tennessee Walking horses. He stables some 55 at Leeswood Stable and Mrs. Lee recently won the Woman's Amateur Championship at Washington, D. C. "Society Souvenir," one of his better horses, won 23 blue ribbons in his last 26 starts. I knew him when, since we both lived in Sanborn freshman year. Ceb — ride a couple N.E. to Hanover, come our 40th, we all would like to hear more.

Others, and I am sure not all those at the dinner were Van Wie Ingham, Carl Lindenmeyer, Ed Marston and his charming wife, Will Shaw, Jack Draper, Ory Herwitz with Inez, Fritz Kortlucke, Tom Gillespie, and Lee Greenbaum back last week from Europe where he had crossed into Czechoslovakia from Vienna and had a glimpse behind the curtain.

Kroggie Krogstad was busy vacationing at Sanibel Island, Fla., Harold "Johnny" Blanchard breaks out of the "not heard from since" category with a nice note, complains that his business as a cattle nutritionist continues to multiply. His son, John, is in show business with Mickey Rooney Jr., and daughter, Rickey, is in Santa Barbara as Mrs. Richard Welch, and quoting, "Marge continues to master-mind our clan most efficiently."

Jim Van Loon, Norfolk, is planning to make the 40th. His son, John Ryan '58, a budding barrister in Norfolk."

Paul Revere O'Connell, a busy guy, has recently been appointed as state member of the Worcester Redevelopment Authority. Son, Paul '64, B.U. Law School '67, recently married to Tina Parker in Florida, and on April 23 daughter, Ann, married Albert G. Anderson. Whereupon Paul and Helen off for Europe, golfing at St. Cloud near Paris, Sunningdale near London, Muirfield, Northern England, and, why not, but also Gleneagles and St. Andrews, Scotland, topping off with Portmornock, Dublin. Guess the O'Connell's like golf.

Closing with one more retirement note: Nat Morey retired on his recent birthday, will report on what and where he does this and that at Fall Reunion. Remember the date in October, will be good practice for June 1967.

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