CLASS OF 1917
excellence, enlightenment, and evident encouragement. You see, from time to time the Secretary sends out a few letters asking for news. This month the "E's" were included in the list, and those gentlemen whose surname begins with the fifth letter of the alphabet responded almost to a man. This is so much better than the average response that we wish to thank you particularly. However, please don't forget that unsolicited news is the ideal towards which these columnists aspire.
GLASSMAN ERB
Bill Erb is given the above title, not because lie is particularly fragile, but because he has been making a living for quite a few years by manufacturing glassware. His business takes him all over the Middle West, and although he says it's not booming right now, his profits seem to run into enough to indulge on the side in that expensive pastime of seeking out early American furniture.
THE VIRGINIAN (?)—EATON
Perhaps some of you can imagine an old Yankee like Bill Eaton acquiring a real Southern dialect and bearing; but you'd have to show me. Anyway, Bill was moved last fall to the plant of the Richmond Car Company in Richmond, Va., and says he has a swell office boy and clerk. (Bill isn't married yet, so his wife doesn't have to pass on the clerk.) When he wrote us, he had just returned from a trip to Boston and a blizzard to 60 in the shade and crowded golf courses. He issues an invitation to all classmates to stop off for a day or two on their way to Florida.
"Thanks, Bill, fop the invitation; but you see Richmond isn't a seaport, and most of us will probably go to Florida this winter on our yachts."
CREDIT MANAGER EMMONS
A 1 Emmons still is wresting his fortune out of Boston, and living in Lexington. He is one of those fortunate men who is bringing up two youngsters, and trying to put enough beef on them so that some day he can sit in the Yale Bowl and watch them score the winning touchdown for Dartmouth. Al reports that Mott Brown and Larry Nourse are still alive and moving around, because he has actually seen and talked with them.
HANDYMAN EMERSON
Sumner Emerson mentioned something about being a bond salesman; but as far as I could judge from his letter his main business in life is running the furnace, fixing loose doors and* windows and everything else around the house and garage—a regular bride's dream come true. Philadelphia seems truly the city of brotherly love; for Sumner reports having seen occasionally every '17er in the territory, including Vic Smith, Bruce Ludgate, Jim Duffy, Ralph Britton, and Fred Goodwin.
VICE-PRESIDENT EVANS
Since the first of the year Phil Evans has been vice-president in charge of sales of the W. P. Whitney Company of South Ashburnham, Mass. This company specializes in manufacturing early American furniture. Phil is still living in West Medford, and plays tennis to keep in condition.
CHOIR DIRECTOR EARLE
Arch Earle can't seem to get away from his old glee club activities, and is now training two Dartmouth boys, ages two and five, so that their voices will blend in true campus quartet harmony. Arch sells Ford automobiles down on Long Island; and either because of that or in spite of it he gives the best advice regarding business and the market that I have seen or heard. He says, "I am in favor of dispensing with both of them, because they cause too much trouble."
DOCTOR BAXTER
Doctor Raymond Baxter of Marion, Mass., claims to be a golfer. On a recent trip to Boston he says he saw the following pictureSaladine gargling Listerine down behind a lamp-post in the shadows of the Statler. Slats deduces from that incident that Jack is a careful boy.
PLAYBOY LOCKWOOD
This title does not mean that Larry Lockwood does not give any time to his job as treasurer of the David Pender Grocery Company; but just listen to his other titles: Sec.-Treas. Princess Anne Country Club, Cavalier Hotel Corp., Cavalier Hotel Golf Club, Vice-Pres. Beach Amusement Co., all of Virginia Beach. In addition to that he is a member of the town council of this famous resort where he resides. It looks almost like work to us, but Larry says that living at Virginia Beach is the best recreation in the world. We will now hear from the Southern California delegation!
BOYNTON'S BOUNCING BOYS
Bob Boynton, the genial hotel keeper of Rutland, Vt., is another classmate who is undertaking to train the youth of the United States. He says his main job at present is bringing up two healthy, peppy boys. In spite of that task, Bob is planning to go out to the West Coast for a few weeks this winter; so we gather that the Hotels Berwick and Crestwood are still doing a most profitable business.
OILMAN MAXFIELD
Don Brooks sent us a magazine clipping with a picture of big Pete Maxfield, who was with us freshman year. It announced that Pete, after eleven years of drilling for the Union Oil Cos. had signed up with the BurmaBritish Petroleum Cos. as drilling superintendent at Yenangyaung, out where the flying fishes play.
It is with the deepest regret that we announce that Hap Mason's wife, Evelyn, passed away last December, after a severe illness.
Secretary, 90 Colony Road, Longmeadow, Mass "E" IS FOR EMULATION
