Class of 1919
Word has reached us of a protest from New York that there is not enough New in this column about the New York city group. We have been set up no end ever since we heard. The mere thought that those New York guys, supposed to be blase the furthest North yet reached should even know there is such a thing as the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, let alone this column, let alone read it, is exhilarating In spite of the fact that freshman year when a New Yorker rose in a meeting and announced that there would be a dance in The City, we in our provincial unsophistication asked what city, we are in our later day broad minded. The only reason there has been no news about New york City lately is that we have had no word from or about anybody therein. Just to show our heart is in the right place we! will devote this whole column to New York.
Apparently the whole thing started when 19 had a dinner in New York, quite a piece of news in itself. As is generally the case at such events, things eventually reached the point where the boys felt like protesting about something. What suggested us is a mystery, but we were elected. Those present and protesting follow: Mose Robinson. Eddie Fiske, Vaughn Little, Batch Batchelder, Bri Greely, Chet DeMond, Fat Jackson, Art Brentano, Bob Paisley, Hal Parsons, Art Palmer, Tom Prendergast, Red Colwell, Dan Feather-stone, Spider Martin, Tom Bresnahan. Oscar Lewis, and John Moriarty. Paul Clements, George Rand, and Bill Mo Mahon also showed up prior to the dinner but had to dash off to other engagements. After dinner Lou Stone arrived all dressed up in soup and fish, and with a story no one believed even in part. Bill Picken struggled in about nine and Lew Garrison managed to put in an appearance about 9:30; his first question being when would dinner be served.
And that, boys and girls, is New York. Unlike Boston where everybody arrives at the appointed hour, has dinner on schedule, and dashes off for the 9:45, in a highly respectable manner, you find the dinner in the Metropolis filled with mystery and glamour. People come early and leave for other places. People come late with unbelievable stories of adventure. People come even later in evening cloths obviously delayed by unpremeditated and unexplainable romantic encounters with the city's whirling life. Ah, to be young again, and not in Framingham Centre.
The protesting must have reached a pretty pitch as the evening wore on. we imagine some particularly ardent protestor stating that evidently our secietary has forgotten we even exist, and carrying a motion to send out for a photographer, lor we have received pictures. We have never aspired to compete with Life in these columns-have never gone in much for pictures. But we feel that while we are doing something for New York in a big way, we might as well do it right.
(PICTURE A)
In the picture above, they have endeavoured to show, not only that some of the men mentioned above were really and truly there, but they have leaned up against a table to show that it was a dinner. Reading, as usual, from left to right: Red Colwell, Oscar Lewis, Art Brentano, Fat Jackson, Bri Greely, and Chet DeMond. Now, don't ever forget these guys again, will you?
(PICTURE B)
Obviously this picture above was intended to be quite a group. However, Moriarty, Featherston, and Colwell rushed the camera at the last moment and sort of took the play away from the rest of the boys. If you look carefully, however, you will see Prendergast sticking his nose out from under Moriarty's chin, Paisley's right eye being put out by one of Featherston's big ears, and Batchelder bracing himself up against the other. And so ends '919 NOTES GOES TO A PARTY.
Other news: Chet DeMond is just back from St. Louis where he suffered the loss of 25 pounds due to the excessive heat and bum bridge partners. Red Murphy has taken a cruise on the Kungsholm to South merican-ports. San Treat has been made vice President of the Coca Cola Bottling Company of New York. Tom Prender-gast and Oscar Lewis, whom the above Patty.brought out of hiding for the first time in a a great many years, were a joy to behold and made the party. And Spider Martin, in case you didn't know, is working on the Alumni Fund.
NINETEEN-NINETEEN GOES TO A PARTY-LEFT PICTURE A. RIGHT PICTURE B. (SEE CLASS NOTES BELOW)
Secretary, Framingham Center, Mass
