Class of 1927
We are very happy to report that we attended the Dartmouth dinner in Boston on Saturday, January 28, at the Copley-Plaza, and had the pleasure of seeing and talking- with many '27 men. Among those to whom we had a chance to say "hello" were: Bob Mix, Roy Blanchard, Bob Voorhis, Shorty Oliver, Gus Cummings, Bill Cusack, Bill Macaulay, Frank Coulter, and several others whose names do not come to my mind at the present time. We also had the pleasure of hearing our name read on the slate of officers for the coming year for the Boston Alumni Association as assistant secretary.
The '27 weekly luncheons in Boston have been running for two weeks now, and at each gathering the number has increased. They are held every Tuesday noon at 12:15 at the Ambassador Restaurant on Winter St. I hope groups of the class in other cities have started some such idea, for it "really is a lot of fun to sit around and compare the duties of office boy in your business with those of some other business.
The New York '27 men are holding dinners on the fourth Tuesday of every month at the Dartmouth Club, and I understand from Hale Ham that they are very well attended, drawing anywhere from twenty-five to forty at each gathering.
Evidently our exhortations have not been in vain, for every morning our desk has been literally flooded with letters, and unless the typewriter ribbon wears out or our two index fingers grow weary we shall have considerable news in this issue.
Gus Cummings and Mrs. are living at 288 Chestnut Hill Ave., Brookline, and Gus is working for the Industrial Appliance Company of New England, in Boston.
Gordon Smith is designing for the Dennison Manufacturing Company in Framingham, and is doing free lance work on the side. He sent us a very interesting and clever sample of his work, giving his portion of news towards the notes, in which he says that "Dick (R. Bradley) Fox is in business in Haverhill, Mass. Art Mullin is a second year medic at Hanover. Bunny Smith is back at Tuck School. Nick Carter is studying at the Chicago Theological Seminary. Hank Murray is at the Yale School of Dramatics. Ros Guyot is still trying to sell California to the rest of us."
Joe Russakoff is at the Harvard Divinity School, and is also taking one course at the Business School. We had a long and newsy letter from him, which was much appreciated.
Among those we have not previously mentioned as being fortunate in spending another year in Hanover at Tuck School are: Chuck Field, Hue Norris, Bob Page, Emmy Ross, Bob Tucker, Frank White, Bob Williamson, and Sam Wormser.
We saw Sid Harris and Hank Bayles at the Dartmouth dinner. Both are attending Harvard Law School. Art Armstrong and Wilbur Kennedy are also among the future Blackstones.
Bunny Barde, besides pursuing his studies at Harvard Graduate School, has been doing considerable boxing around this vicinity, and we noticed in the paper recently that he was awarded a decision in a fight down in Lynn.
Gus Buschmann is studying German at the Harvard Graduate School.
Frank Coulter has completed his course at the Halsey, Stuart Bond School, and is now selling from their Boston office.
Frank Collier has just returned from a tripto Bermuda. He has written a series of articles on aviation and aviators for the BostonAdvertiser, and has been doing considerable flying himself.
We were glad to notice an announcement of Joe Kelly's engagement. Congratulations, Joe!
Dave Merriam is working for the First National Bank in Boston.
Ray Reed is working selling Buicks. In just what locality our report does not say.
Ed Ruth is working in the personal department of the Western Electric in New York.
John Rintels is at the Harvard Law School, and Stew Schackne is at the Business School. That makes two more added to the crowd who have ceased to feel green and begun to see red.
Joe Ryan spent the summer at Harvard, and is now teaching at Turners Falls High School in Massachusetts.
Red Cleaveland is working in a department store in Torrington, Conn.
Lyn Smith is studying theology out in Chicago, where they need it badly.
Marshall Schacht has been working at Lord and Taylor's in New York, but has recently returned to Boston, and is planning to study at Harvard. Marshall received honorable mention in a poetry contest conducted by the NewYork Times.
We have also received a long letter from Hale Ham, which was greatly appreciated. Hammie and Jack Draper are busy dissecting arms, legs, and whatnot at the Cornell Medical School in New York city.
From New York comes the rumor that Josh Davis is doing very well in the bond business, and in a few years will be sent to Boston to open an office for Kissel, Kinnicutt and Company. We are looking forward to the time when Josh will arrive in the Hub, and have already secured the services of a band and are polishing up the big brass key.
Bob Birch is working at Macy's, where one will also find A1 Welty and Ed Fry.
Jim Kennedy and Orey Herwitz are both at the Columbia Law School.
Roy Dreher is working with D. Appleton and Son, book publishers in New York.
Doc Harris spent several months this summer in the oil fields in Texas. Since then he has sailed for Brazil, where he is working for the National City Bank.
Fred Fellingham is located in Fort Stockton, Texas, where he is "doodle bugging," which seems to be a technical term for prospecting for oil.
Among the future "sawbones" of the class we may include A 1 Dick, who is at Rush in Chicago, and Doc Harvey at the University of Pennsylvania.
Cebern Lee is located at Oak Corners in New York, where he is busy in his work of concrete road construction. Far be it from us to introduce business into these columns, but we would be glad to write any surety bonds that his company might need.
Hale tells me that Don O'Hara is selling clothes in New York, and at the same time rooms with Ed Marston, who is selling steam shovels.
Charlie Townsend holds one of the better titles of the class, being the vice-president of the Anglo-American Trading Company located in the Woolworth Building.
After a long and evidently very enjoyable fishing trip in Northern Minnesota, A 1 Macdonald started work with the Milwaukee Stamping Company, in West Allis. He has recently changed jobs, and is now with the Wisconsin Telephone Company.
Kroggy Krogstad has finished his studying at Wisconsin, and is now working for the International Harvester Company.
Cliff Randall is in Milwaukee, learning the bond business with the purpose of becoming a salesman in the near future for the Second Ward Security Company.
Cal Voorhis is working as reporter for a San Francisco newspaper.
Another letter has arrived from Larry Dun can, who is also at Harvard Law. He tells us that Wayne Hancock is sub-principal at the North Stratford High School in New Hampshire. Avery Keenan is selling bonds in New Hampshire, and Glenn Hannaford is working in Berlin, N; H.
Paul Hannah has been in Boston since this fall, first writing for the Christian ScienceMonitor, and since then working as publicity agent for some New Hampshire interests.
Don Woodworth is in Boston working with Lee, Higginson and Company.
Chuck Brewster is at Chicago University pursuing further study.
We received a very welcome letter from Jo'e Hardin, and find that he is located in Greensboro, N. C., which is self-named "The Pivot of the Piedmont." Joe has been there since the middle of October, getting the lowdown on the tobacco business with the American Tobacco Company. We understand that it won't be long now before the crying need of the world is satisfied; a good five cent cigar. Rumor has it that there are two girls' schools in the general vicinity of Greensboro which are attended by some two thousand young ladies, so we believe we are safe in assuming that the American Cigar Company does not receive Joe's undivided attention.
Bo Head is working for the Texas Power and Light Company in Dallas, and is attending night school in the evenings.
Jack Thees has gone on a Mediterranean tour with his mother.
Dick Simpson is working for an oil company in Oklahoma.
Harry Dey is coaching football, basketball, and baseball, and is teaching history at Staunton Military Academy in Virginia.
We were very glad to hear of Bill Elliott's engagement to Miss Marjorie B. Stevens, which was announced in Hanover on January 5. Congratulations.
Bob Stevens has traveled all over France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, and Italy, making most of the way by bicycle. Bob is now located in Antwerp, where he is working for the General Motors.
Clark Edmonds is working in Schenectady for the General Electric.
Ted Selig has recently been elected secretary and treasurer of Fuel Savers, Incorporated, located in Harrisburg, Pa. His territory includes the New England states, and we are looking forward to seeing him in Boston before long.
Ross Lyon is working with his father in the coffee business in Harrisburg, and we understand their sign now reads "R. H. Lyon & Son, Coffee Merchants," and that all the best restaurants in Harrisburg are now serving Lyon's "Golden Roast" coffee.
Had a letter from Dud Sercombe from way out in Portland, Oregon. Dut is at the present time in the shipping room of the U. S. Rubber Company branch, and says to tell Charlie Paddock that some day they will have a contest at throwing crates around. He also says that Paul Woelfel is at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he finishes this February. Art Thompson is happily married to Miss Margaret Bruer of Tacoma, Wash.
Bill Glenn, who left college at the end of sophomore year, dropped in at Hanover recently for a short call. He has been traveling the many seas as a common sailor and recently as assistant purser. He has now left for a trip through Mexico, where he will act as guide for a party.
Jock Davis also made a brief call on the Tuck School and Hanover the other day. He is planning to enter M. A. C. to take a few courses in apple growing, which vocation he intends to pursue.
Jack Munro is a second year medic in Hanover this year, and also has a job as junior interne at the hospital.
Larry Scammon has followed the footsteps of many others in our seemingly matrimonially inclined class, and on November 5 was married to Miss Ora Myrtle Dining of Stratham, N. H. More congratulations!
Fred Thompson is attending the Detroit Business University. It is rumored that Fred intends to take up flying and then enter the manufacturing end of aviation.
Merle Brush is traveling for a machinery tool supply concern of Baltimore, Md.
Ed Ripley, who spent his junior year on the World Cruise and since then studied in Paris, returned to Hanover this fall, where he is finishing up for his degree.
Ed Biggs, who left college in his sophomore year because of illness, is back in Hanover this year, and is taking courses in Tuck School.
We received a very interesting letter from Dick Lougee, who is back in Hanover this year as an instructor in geology. The day after Commencement Dick left for the Mississippi valley, where he spent three weeks working at the U. of C. geological field station about forty miles south of St. Louis. He then spent a week in each of two lead mines in Missouri and Oklahoma, and from there traveled eled to the West Coast, stopping to study geologically the Petrified Forests and the Grand Canyon. While studying the latter he had a rather interesting and exciting encounter with an earthquake. Next he spent time around Los Angeles studying oil wells. After visiting the Catalina Islands sfnd Yosemite and climbing Mt. McCloud, he returned to Hanover, stopping off at all the points of geological interest along the way. Since the Vermont flood he has had some interesting work making danger maps for predictions in regard to future floods.
We are very much pleased with the increase of letters lately and hope it will continue. We wish to say that if some have not as yet been answered it is only because we are pressed for time, that they will be answered as soon as we have recovered from a severe attack of writer s cramp.
Dressing for breakfast on Ledyard Trail
Secretary 101 Milk St., Boston
