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July, 1930 1929 Continued During the summer I lived with John Sibert and Bill Saunders in the village of New York. We sublet an apartment and lived on shredded wheat. John and I worked for Thompson-Starrett Company. Our work was of extremely interesting character. Working as assistant engineers on large construction jobs we were able to get from the very bottom of a a forty foot excavation in rock to laying out grades on the steel several hundred feet in the air. Bill started out working for Hegeman and Harris of the Daily News Building. Later in the summer he switched jobs to the Thompson Starrett Company, giving us a perfect score with them. With the three of us working for the same company and living together we were able to find plenty of material for discussion concerning which one of us worked the most or the least, which had the best job, which of the supers was the best, and so on. At present Johnny is in the office after having made a remarkable record in the field, practically becoming assistant superintendent on one of the jobs. Bill is still working out in the field. Dinjian is still at the Institute recuperating from the results of last year's examinations and the more recent stock marked crash. Anderson and Brodsky are finishing up several courses at the Institute. Any is also holding down a job with a radio company on a part time basis. George is one of the mainstays of the Technology squash team. Bob Pride is working for Bishop in Worcester, Mass. Bob is about to leave the ranks of the bachelors and will be married this month. Congratulations and good luck, Bob! -- Bob Girling is located in some contractor's office here in Boston, that is, such was the state of affairs some months ago. -- Howard Pankratz went back to Toledo to work on dwelling house construction. From what I gathered, it seems that Howard's boss substituted him for a concrete mixer, five ton truck, laborer, engineer, salesman, and so on, thus saving himself considerable overhead but wasting much of Howard's energy. Anyhow, Howard is now working for the Toledo Scale but is very anxious to come East again. Tom Coe was working for his father this fall. Recently, however, he made connections with an up and coming construction company in Boston. Tom is entering the company with an eye to a share in the business later on. Good luck, Tom. Incidentally, Tom gave way to Cupid last summer and is now counted among the married men of the Course. -- I haven't heard from Prescott at all. He did some work for Professor Voss this summer. Other than that I know nothing of his whereabouts. Last but not least, Ed Jenkins is on his way to fame. Ed stayed at the Institute until the end of the first term. He did a remarkable job on his thesis and so impressed Professor Hayward with his work that Hayward recommended Ed to the director of the Johns-Manwille testing materials laboratory at Elizabeth, N.J. Ed had an interview with the Johns-Manville people and was given the job of none other than personal assistant to the director of the laboratory. Great work, Ed. You still owe me a letter. Incidentally, Jerry Geisman is living with me up here in Boston. Jerry didn't seem to be able to get things going in New York, so he decided to try his luck up here in Boston. he is now on Filene's training squad, and although as yet he holds no executive position, he seems very much satisfied and I believe that he will really make a go of it. -- Leonard C. Peskin, Secretary, M. I. T., Cambridge, Mass. 1930 For the first time the Class of '30 appears The Review. Unfortunately there is not much news for this first issue. Because of the excitement of exams and graduation about all we were able to get was a few bits of information as to where our classmates expect to work. Hal Spaans is going to work with the Bell Telephone Company in Philadelphia. Hughes is thinking of working for the same company, but expects to be in New York. -- Ed Hawkings and Bill Howard are going with J. W. Furgeson Construction Company, with headquarters in Paterson, N. J. -- Phil Holt, Teddy Riehl, Ralph Rowzee, Jim Holden, Ralph Teters, and Herm Botzow are going to the Chemical Engineers Practice School.-- Wally McDowell and Hugh Wallace are going to work for the Air Reduction Company in New Jersey. -- Dickerman is going to teach at Robert College in Turkey. He is the representative of Technology at that place and is sent by the Technology Christian Association "Tech in Turkey Fund." Charlie Ladd is taking the big step. He is to be married shortly after graduation to Miss Elizabeth B. Swann of Providence, R. I. He is planning to live in St. Louis where he will work during the day and attend law school in the evening. He will certainly be a busy boy, and we all wish him the best of luck. -- Charlie Prichard is also about to enter the hold state of matrimony. He is refinishing a house in Marblehead and will commute from there to Lynn Gas and Electric Company. This is about all the news we could gather. In the future we hope to have a great deal more to stay. If you hear anything about any of your classmates, write to your Course Secretary and tell him about it. The following men have been appointed Course Secretaries. It is their duty to supply information, but they can't do it unless everyone helps. If you haven't their address, write to the general secretary at the address given below and he will be glad to furnish the desired information. Course I, Richard N. Chindblom; Course II, Allen Latham, Jr.; Course III, Robert Henderson; Course IV, W.W.Wedemeyer; Course V, William E. Yelland; Course VI, S. George Lawson; Course VII, Sidney L. Kuposky; Course VIII, John M. Weaver; Course X, Howard S. Gardener; Course XIII, Parker K. Starratt; Course XIV, Richard R. Hartwell; Course XV, Robert W. Reynolds; Course XVI, Frank H. Hankins; and Course XVII, D. Tullis Houston. As soon as these men are definitely located, their addresses will be sent to all the members of the Class. -- Morell Marean, General Secretary, The Library, The R. and H. Chemical Company, Perth Amboy, N.J. 1897 [Because, by special arrangement, these Notes were written late, they are necessarily printed out of order.] We received a fine letter from Frank Bragg regretting exceedingly that he could not be at the Reunion and stating that only sickness in his family prevented his being present. He sent his regards to all in the Class. -- Walter Humphreys sent his regrets at not being at our great Reunion June 6 at the Weston Golf Club, owing to having been called upon to be chairman of the Inauguration Committee that planned the exercises for the inauguration of Dr. Compton as President of the Institute. -- Florence Wood Ewing, whom we all remember as Florence Wood of the Class of '97, and wife of William Ewing wrote that they would be unable to attend our Reunion on June 6. She advises that William is now director of state councils for the Stable Money Association of New York, which keeps him away from home most of the time. We received the following from Proctor Dougherty, which you will all be interested to read. "My term of office as Commissioner (President of the Board) ended April 10, after serving two additional months at the request of President Hoover, three years and eight months in all. Fortunately I have still a good reputation with the people of Washington. The work was hard, but enjoyable, and I am proud to have served under two good Presidents. I now enter upon my new duties as director of the Eyesight Conservation Council, a national organization backed by strong men. The purpose of the council is the promotion of the general conservation and betterment of vision, the improvement of those external conditions and circumstances of everyday life that infect and may impair eyesight. You see I am still an up lifter. I was with the Otis Elevator Company and I surely was as Commissioner of the D.C., and I hope to be in the future. I received a fine letter from E. A. Sumner stating he was sorry to miss the Class Reunion. He had been in New York but was sailing back to the mines in France on June 3. He also enclosed a copy of a speech which he delivered at a meeting in Los Angeles, Calif., on May 21, the subject being "Some Aids to American Business in Europe." Ed Sumner is Vice President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Paris. -- Alfred Hamilton writes from New York that he has just been away on a six weeks' pleasure trip in Europe, and has had a most enjoyable time. He finds so much work piled up, he says, that he will be unable to leave for a long time to come. -- Jere Daniell wired from New Hampshire that unexpected obligations at the last minute made it impossible for him to get to our dinner.
