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his income on it. Selling something to those who want it is one thing, but creating the demand just in order to sell is another. So I have practically slipped back to the rare book business. Much of my time is spent on historical research for book and autograph dealers or private clients. I don't turn down insurance policies when they come my way, but I don't go looking for them. I haven't got rich, but at the end of each year I am always astonished, things being as they are, that I have managed to do so well and manage to convince myself that the ensuing year will be much worse. So far it hasn't been and I'm still surprised. It has been chiefly luck, I think. The last couple of years I have spent a month or two each year in the offices of Ely Culbertson's Bridge World, grading the scores of contestants in International Bridge Olympics. There are several other Harvard men there. You can see that I have a pretty interesting time of it-I really think I enjoy myself most of the time. I still collect cats, but the total number is kept in equilibrium by my wife who promptly sends one to an untimely death as soon as another arrives, but the Gambet cat factory, whose name is Tinker-still, produces eight each year with the utmost regularity. Oh, yes, in the autumn and winter of 1931 we took a little jaunt through Europe; France, Switzerland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Estonia, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, and England. My monograph on the comparative rough- ness of the Baltic, North Sea, and Atlantic Ocean in storms is still in preparation and I can assure you it will be the result of ex- tensive, first-hand observation. I guess that's all for five years more!
MERRILL GARCELON
Mailing Address: 35 Church St., Newton, Mass. Occupation: Insurance.
FRANCIS HARDING GAVIN
Mailing Address: 250 Pond St., Jamaica Plain, Mass. Occupation: Lumber.
In the retail lumber business.
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JOSEPH CARY GAYL
Mailing Address: 4900 N. Eighth St., Philadelphia, Pa. Occupation: Medicine.
Married to Jeannette Orleans of Philadelphia, June 15, 1930. One daughter, Constance Orleans Gayl, born in Boston, December 3, 1931.
ERNEST GEORGE GEBELEIN
Mailing Address: 93 Longmeadow Rd., Taunton, Mass. Occupation: Manufacturing.
I am treasurer of the Eureka Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, Taunton, Massachusetts. I was married, September 17, 1931, to Roberta Seaver of Belmont. Up to the present time we have been living in Padanaram, but this winter we are planning to move to Taunton to eliminate my daily sixty-mile drive. Robert Seaver Gebelein was born May 7, 1934.
CLARENCE REXFORD GEDDIS
Mailing Address: 66 Hobson St., Brighton, Mass. Occupation: Chemistry.
Still an ink-maker with the Forbes Lithograph Company. I was married to Dorothy Jane Bates, of Medford, on June 29, 1933. The depression has prevented us from "out-Dionne-ing" the Dionnes, as yet. For the future - quién sabe? My avocations are bridge, scenic photography, and the reading of travelogues. So far, I have been unaided by various sweepstakes winnings. However, I still prefer the "sweeps" to the stock market for an amateur -it's a more certain loss. Let me add that my weight is not yet on the increase.
EMANUEL NUN GERSTEIN
Mailing Address: 84 Ocean Pkwy., Brooklyn, N. Y. Occupation: Electrical Engineering.
I am in the distribution department of the Brooklyn Edison Com- pany, Brooklyn, New York. A son, Alan Kibbe Gerstein, was born September 4, 1931.
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LEWIS MILLS GIBB
Mailing Address: 1112 Park Ave., New York, N. Y. Occupation: Mercantile Business.
I am now president of Frederick Loeser & Company, Brooklyn, New York.
HERBERT GIBSON
Mailing Address: 904 Main St., Hartford, Conn. Occupation: Architecture.
After receiving the degree of Master in Architecture from Harvard and spending four years with the firm of Mott B. Schmidt, I have returned to Hartford for private practice. I am now actively in- terested in public housing and city planning. My professional activities include: member of the American Institute of Architects, Hartford delegate to the National Slums Clearance Conference in Cleveland (1933), member of the discussion group of the International Housing Conference in Boston (1934), director of the Hartford Slum Clearance Survey, consultant to the mayor's Housing Com- mittee on its five million dollar program for slum clearance and low-cost housing for the city of Hartford, and member of the City Planning Commission of Hartford (1935-38). My publications in- clude: a report on the slum clearance and low-cost housing surveys (June 1934), supplemental reports, and weekly newspaper articles on the Federal public housing program.
BERNARD BARRETT GILMAN
Mailing Address: 30 N. Anderson St., Boston, Mass. Occupation: Medicine.
A short time ago I accepted the position as epidemiologist for the Massachusetts State Department of Health. Although this has meant forfeiting my assistantship in pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School and my staff appointment at the Massachusetts General Hospital, I think it is all for the best.
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RALPH LAWRENCE GILMAN
Mailing Address: Storrs, Conn. Occupation: Medicine.
I am still resident physician at Connecticut State College. I am also engaged in general practice. We have two sons: Donald Lawrence, born October 15, 1931; James Irving, born January 31, 1934.
FRANCIS NICHOLAS JEAN GINDORFF
Mailing Address: c/o J. P. Morgan & Co., 23 Wall St., New York, N. Y. Occupation: Finance.
I am living at 444 East 57th Street, New York City.
MYRON GLASER
Mailing Address: 136 E. Bradley Lane, Chevy Chase, Md. Occupation: Journalism.
I am manager of the resort and travel department of the Washington Times and Herald. I was married, on December 15, 1931, to Carolyn Cook Buckwell, Swarthmore '27. We have a daughter, Susan Buckwell Glaser, born June 5, 1934.
ELI ALEXANDER GLASSER Mailing Address: 58 Bicknell St., Dorchester, Mass. Occupation: Law.
For the last four years I have been incapacitated for work by rea- son of serious illness. However, I am assured by the physicians that I shall be able to resume the practice of law before the ex- piration of another twelve months.
JOHN JACOB GLESSNER, II Mailing Address: 69 Brattle St., Cambridge, Mass. Occupation: Student.
I was married to Martha Greenfield Sloder of St. Louis, Decem- ber 27, 1930. We have a son, John Jacob, 3d., born October 28, 96
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1931, and a daughter, Ellen Cochran Glessner, born December II, 1933.
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MILTON GLODT
Mailing Address: 2159 Washington St., Roxbury, Mass. Occupation: Medicine.
SAMUEL GLUECK
Mailing Address: 859 Hutchins Ave., Cincinnati, O. Occupation: Advertising.
When I graduated in '25, I had high hopes of entering some brokerage house or some bank and shortly dominating the financial world. One day in a brokerage house was enough for me. Later, a well-meaning friend suggested that I try advertising. I did - becoming an office boy in one of Cincinnati's smaller agencies. Six months after that, I found myself catapulted into the smallest of small agencies with a capital of two hundred and fifty dollars. It was a case of sink or swim. Since then, we have grown slowly but surely - and hope some day, soon, to go tearing around the country securing a few of the million dollar accounts which are regarded by everyone as the "plums" of advertising. As vice-president and treasurer of the Key Advertising Company, I find my life rather busy. There has been little time for reading and less time for social affairs. Married? No.
GEORGE WILLIAM GODDARD
Mailing Address: 6 Otis Pl., Boston, Mass.
I am married, and I have a daughter, Georgia Slater, and a son, Nathaniel - both under two years of age. Nat was born October 12, 1934, a few hours prior to Parker Pond's son.
MILTON JACOB GOELL
Mailing Address: 70 Pine St., New York, N. Y. Occupation: Law.
During the past four years I have been actively engaged in the real estate business and studying law at St. Johns College, School of
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Law. I was admitted to the bar in September 1934. About this time I was married to Miss Amy E. Jacob, whom I missed meeting when she was at Wellesley and I was finishing up at Cambridge, and later when she was at Barnard and I was studying across the street at Columbia. But we finally met while I was clerking down- town in Manhattan - and the rest is history. January 2, 1935 I opened a law office at 70 Pine Street, New York City. During the coming year I hope to publish another book of verse.
LESTER GOLDBERG
Last Known Address: Excello Hosiery Mills, Hawthorne, N. J. (Lost.)
MEYER GOLDBERG
Mailing Address: 523 N. Eutaw St., Baltimore, Md. Occupation: Manufacturing.
I moved south with the depression and I am now waiting for the big wind from Washington to puff up the building industry and inflate the Chesapeake Plate and Window Glass Company of Balti- more, which I now own, to a proportion commensurate with the length and dignity of its name.
GEORGE TALBOT GOODSPEED
Mailing Address: 7 Ashburton Pl., Boston, Mass. Occupation: Mercantile Business.
Bookseller.
CECIL ROBERT GORDON
Mailing Address: 6 Risley Rd., West Newton, Mass. Occupation: Law; Mercantile Business.
I am at present president and treasurer of the Clear Weave Hosiery Stores, Incorporated, operating a chain of forty hosiery stores throughout New England. I am also assistant treasurer of the Clear Sylk Hosiery Stores, Incorporated, operating a chain of hosiery stores throughout Ohio. I have a daughter, Ann Louise Gordon, aged one year and ten months.
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HUBERT FIELD GORDON
Mailing Address: 82 Myrtle St., Shelton, Conn. Occupation: Finance.
With the Shelton Trust Company.
EDWARD JOSEPH GORFINKLE
Mailing Address: 44 Cummings Rd., Brookline, Mass. Occupation: Mercantile Business.
Now connected with the Mclellan Stores Company at Providence, Rhode Island.
HILTON PROCTOR GOSS
Mailing Address: P. O. Box 424, Ridgewood, N. J. Occupation: Advertising. .
Since 1930 I have been engaged in advertising and marketing counsel work here and overseas. During most of 1930-31 and 1932-33 I travelled through western and central Europe and north- ern Africa, with headquarters in London and residences of vary- ing length in principal cities of the Continent. Because of the almost total disappearance of international trade and of the dollar's depreciation abroad, my recent activities have been confined within the boundaries of the United States. I have been elected a mem- ber of the local Board of Education, and appointed to the New Jersey State Committee on Education.
THEODORE DAVID GOTTLIEB
Mailing Address: 515 Main St., Racine, Wis. Occupation: Mercantile Business.
President of the Porter Furniture Company.
ARTHUR LEON GOULD
Mailing Address: 42-05 191st St., Flushing, N. Y. Occupation: Law.
I was graduated from Columbia Law School, admitted to the New York Bar in February 1929, and have continued to practice
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law since then. I enjoy my work except for the fact that I am irked by the unnecessary and cumbersome technicalities which still burden our improved and modern practice and procedure. To some extent I have been active in professional groups having recently been selected as a member of a new and important com- mittee (forum and social) of New York County Lawyer's Associa- tion. A short time ago I moved from Manhattan to Flushing, Long Island and have become a member of a local social group known as the North Shore Men's Club. I have also dabbled in politics, but my experience has proved most distasteful.
WILLIAM HENRY GRATWICK, JR.
Mailing Address: Linwood, N. Y. Occupation: Landscape Architecture.
Emilie has two brothers: Timothy Saltonstall, born November 27, 1932, and Lee, October 27, 1934.
KIMBALL GRAY
Mailing Address: 415 N. Walnut St., East Orange, N. J. Occupation: Finance.
Stock analyst with Fenner & Beane, 67 Broad Street, New York City.
JOSEPH MAY GREELEY
Mailing Address: Quaker Oats, Ltd., 11/12, Finsbury Sq., London, E.C.2, England. Occupation: Manufacturing.
Our son, Samuel Joseph May Greeley, was born January 18, 1935.
HOWARD DUSTIN GREEN
Mailing Address: 9 Concord St., Ashland, Mass. Occupation: Manufacturing.
One (1) offspring, Elaine Dustin Green, was born at Hartford, Connecticut, December 1, 1931.
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MARVIN HOWELL GREEN
Mailing Address: 2700 E. Genesee St., Syracuse, N. Y. Occupation: Manufacturing. District sales manager for the United States Hoffman Machinery Corporation, Syracuse, New York.
RICHARD MARTIN GREENE
Mailing Address: Griffen Ave., Mamoroneck, N. Y.
BERNARD HAROLD GREENMAN
Mailing Address: 933 Mayfield Rd., Woodmere, Long Island, N. Y. Occupation: Manufacturing.
I am at present sales manager for H. Jacob & Sons, Incorporated, of Brooklyn, New York, manufacturers of shoes and slippers. I have two daughters: Katharine, aged three, and Linda, one and a half.
MALCOLM WHELEN GREENOUGH
Mailing Address: 416 Beacon St., Boston, Mass. Occupation: Finance.
Still a broker.
JOHN GRIFFIN
Mailing Address: 21 Fore River Ave., North Weymouth, Mass. Occupation: Education.
During 1925-27 I attended the Harvard Business School. I'm still attending the Graduate School of Education because I bought common stocks for the long pull.
FRANZ WALDO GRILLI
Mailing Address: Wisconsin Steel Co., South Chicago, Ill.
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[The information printed above is from the secretary's files. Grilli did not return a questionnaire.]
WILLIAM ALEXANDER GRIMES
Mailing Address: 1335 Baltimore Trust Bldg., Baltimore, Md. Occupation: Law.
I am still practising law in Baltimore. On January 1, 1931 I was admitted to membership in the firm of Janney, Ober & Williams, successor to the firm with which I had been associated since my graduation from Law School. Governor Ritchie has rejoined the firm, which is now Ritchie, Janney, Ober & Williams. I was married to Mrs. Adela Ax Anderson, February 13, 1934.
GEORGE MORTON GRINNELL
. Mailing Address: 124 E. 8Ist St., New York, N. Y. Occupation: Finance.
We have a son, George James Grinnell, born June 1, 1933.
ANDREW CLARKE GUNBY
Mailing Address: 333 Medical-Dental Bldg., Seattle, Wash.
[The information printed above is from the secretary's files. Gunby did not return a questionnaire.]
ROBERT PALMER GUNKEL
Mailing Address: Box 216, Route 10, Cincinnati, Ohio.
GORDON BANCROFT GUPTILL
Mailing Address: 381 Newtonville Ave., Newtonville, Mass. Occupation: Real Estate.
Associated with Cabot, Cabot and Forbes, Incorporated, care and management of real estate, 60 State Street, Boston.
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MORRIS HARRY HADLER
Mailing Address: 2146 Vyse Ave., New York, N. Y. Occupation: Medicine.
After completing two years' interneship, I entered the practice of medicine in this large city. I am on the surgical staff of two recognized hospitals. I'm not married, nor even engaged.
CHARLES EDWARDS HALL
Mailing Address: 21 Buckingham St., Cambridge, Mass. Occupation: Real Estate.
I am married to Alice Cornelia Bradford. Our daughter, Cornelia, was born July 13, 1933.
EDWARD MATTHEW HALL
Mailing Address: 1901 Heliotrope Drive, Santa Ana, Calif. Occupation: Finance.
At present I am engaged in orange ranching and investment broker- age. I am vice-president and director of the Golden West Citrus Association and of the Red Hill Water Company. I was married to Margaret Lyon, Mills College '23, on August 27, 1932. We have one son, Thomas Lyon Hall.
HENRY ENGLISH HALLORAN
Mailing Address: 160 Brush Hill Rd., Milton, Mass. Occupation: Insurance.
In June 1933 I was transferred to the Great American Indemnity Company's home office at I Liberty Street, New York City. I am an associate of the Insurance Institute of America, treasurer of Northern Valley Chapter, Reserve Officers' Association of the United States, and a first lieutenant in the 303rd Chemical Regi- ment of the United States Army Reserve Corps.
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ROBERT HAYDOCK HALLOWELL, JR.
Mailing Address: Burr, Gannett & Co., 53 State St., Boston, Mass. Occupation: Finance.
I am still working for Burr, Gannett & Company. On March 31, 1934, I married Nancy Means and we are now living in Dedham.
HAROLD HALPERIN
Mailing Address: 1362 President St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Occupation: Real Estate.
With the Lourose Realty Corporation at 789 St. Marks Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.
CHARLES NATHAN HAMBERG
Mailing Address: P. O. Box B, Foxboro, Mass. Occupation: Science.
Though ostensibly vegetative (assimilation!) my private interests show sufficient variety to justify continued hope for myself. More- over, frequent assurance that I was born to be hanged has given me courage to risk drowning, and if my plans mature I may achieve a handy sloop or cutter and a change of scene before the next report.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
Mailing Address: I Sutton Pl. S., New York, N. Y. Occupation: Municipal Government Service.
I am deputy commissioner in charge of weights and measures in the Department of Public Markets. Failing to establish any re- markable or lucrative connection in the slim years following 1930 and with considerable idle time upon my hands, I decided to devote my energies and what was left of my resources to political activity. Having had a special interest in government and history and a previous practical baptism in the political arena such a decision was more a fulfillment of an ambition than a last resort. The first step I suppose in embarking on any career is to learn the game from
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the bottom up. In politics unless you have a knowledge and ap- preciation of election district and club-house campaigns your "irregu- larity" is sure to prove a problem. Politics while by definition being the science of government, must like other sciences be of sufficient practicability to be an applied science rather than a restricted field for research workers. Being a Republican by both birth and con- viction and a resident of New York City by only the former, I found that ample opportunity could be found for political activity by any- one who was reasonably honest and had no particular axe to grind. To my mind a varying interest and experience in politics and govern- ment is an obligation and responsibility that has been evaded too long by all of us. Through my associations with the New York Young Republican Club and other organizations predicated on the same beliefs and ambitions, I have already seen the encouraging signs of young fellows engaged in various fields of endeavour who in addition to their business and social entanglements are willing to sacrifice time and effort to the shouldering of the responsibilities of good citizenship.
RICHARD KING HAMLEN
Mailing Address: 119 Elmer Ave., Schenectady, N. Y. Occupation: Manufacturing.
My daughter, Ann Schuyler, was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico November 7, 1931. While I was in Puerto Rico, my house was destroyed by the severe hurricane of 1932. I was in the house at the time, but escaped with a mere wetting. Most fortunately, Mrs. Hamlen and the baby were in the States. In September 1933 I returned to Schenectady and transferred to the market research division of the General Electric Company.
JOHN WILLIAM HAMMOND
Mailing Address: 53 Howard St., Norwood, Mass. Occupation: Manufacturing.
Sales engineer with the Aluminum Company of America, 20 Provi- dence Street, Boston. We have one child.
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MASON HAMMOND
Mailing Address: Lowell House D 31, Cambridge, Mass. Occupation: Education.
Assistant professor of Greek and Latin and history at Harvard.
RICHARD LOCKE HAPGOOD
Mailing Address: 47 Sparks St., Cambridge, Mass. Occupation: Educational Administration.
Since the last class report, I have continued working at the Harvard Dental School as assistant to the dean. I am often asked what my duties are in such a capacity, and I find it difficult to reply other than "assisting the dean." From the simple answering of letters to participating in faculty committee work and other broader proj- ects, the work is constantly various, never monotonous, and just as interesting as when I commenced it about five years ago. My principal hobby outside has been the sport of figure skating. My interests have been both competitive and administrative, although as a competitor I have won no outstanding distinction. I have been treasurer of The Skating Club of Boston since 1932; I served two years (1930-32) as chairman of the competitions and rules committee of the United States Figure Skating Association, and also two years (1932-34) as the association's secretary. In the latter capacity, I took an airplane trip about Christmas time, 1933, to visit skating clubs in California, and had an opportunity to chat for a few minutes with Jim Dwight in Los Angeles. I was secretary of the 1932 Olympic Games figure skating committee, and assistant manager of the team at Lake Placid. I am chairman of the same committee for 1936, and also the sport's representative on the American Olympic Committee. On the whole, skating has been a hobby worth while playing hard, and I have derived unlimited pleasure therefrom. Although we skate only in winter, the in- tricacies of the sport are always an absorbing topic of conversation in summer, so we never lose touch.
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KYUNG-DURK HAR
Last Known Address: 10 Farwell Pl., Cambridge, Mass. (Lost.)
FREDERICK KNOWLTON HARDY
Mailing Address: School of Business Administration, University of Texas, Austin, Texas. Occupation: Education.
My last report was written in the shadow of the capitol dome in Wisconsin. In that beautiful state, I acquired forty pounds of avoirdupois and a Ph.D. I left behind me in return a chain store tax law which grew out of my thesis. Dr. Wilford White, Harvard Business '26, was called to head the Bureau of Domestic Commerce in Washington, and I am his understudy in Texas. My academic degrees now total eight letters, and today a letter arrived from a London, England, magazine asking for another article like the one published in the Wisconsin Law Review last June.
ARTHUR BROOKS HARLOW
Mailing Address: 225 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Occupation: Insurance.
In 1930 I was lucky in sailing to Bermuda on the schooner Saispas in the race from New London. In 1931 I was lucky again and sailed on the sloop Pellegrina, with eight congenial fellows, from Larchmont to North Haven, Maine and back to Larchmont. One of the prominent members of our crew was Hollis Thayer who is a grand sailor and one of the best fellows I know for company on a long cruise. April 2, 1932 saw me sailing out on the real voyage of life when I was married to Alice Williams Kelley at St. Peters Church, Albany, New York. We spent our honeymoon in Bermuda in a cottage on the edge of Elbow Beach. We are now living at Five Mile River Road, Darien, Connecticut. In 1933 I was initiated into the problems of welfare work in New York City. I had the six weeks thrill of working for James G. Blaine 'II on the
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Citizens' Family Welfare Drive as vice-chairman of the special gifts committee. Since this drive I have worked for the Salvation Army, the Red Cross, and other similar worthy causes. Once you get on the John Price Jones list in New York, try and avoid participating in any worthy fund-raising drive. I am conducting a life insurance office at 225 Broadway, and a general insurance office, c/o Stewart, Hencken & Will, Incorporated, 7th Floor, 80 Maiden Lane, New York. My son, Arthur Brooks, Jr., was born June 13, 1934, at Stamford, Connecticut. I am a member of the Harvard Club of New York, the Lunch Club of New York, and the Ballast Reef Beach Club of Roton Point, Connecticut.
RUDOLPH JOHN HARPER
Mailing Address: 150-03 88th Ave., Jamaica, N. Y. Occupation: Finance.
Municipal bond specialist with Moody's Investors Service, New York City.
WILLIAM CUTHBERT HARRISON, JR.
Mailing Address: 7 Avon Pl., W. Hempstead, Long Island, N. Y. Occupation: Insurance.
Married, November 18, 1932, Mary Elizabeth Snow. Anne Hart- well was born November 13, 1933.
ABRAHAM JOSEPH HART
Mailing Address: 18 Tremont St., Boston, Mass. Occupation: Law.
I was married to Jean Feldman September, 1931. Our daughter, Elinor, was born January 29, 1933.
CEDRIC MUNROE HASTINGS
Mailing Address: 32 Eden St., Framingham, Mass. Occupation: Manufacturing.
My family includes one good wife; one fine boy, Dana Munroe, born May 28, 1931; possibly another child about the time reunion 108
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rolls around. I am still assistant merchandise manager with the Dennison Manufacturing Company, especially involved in mer- chandising gummed papers, pyroxylin metallic coated papers and the numerous office and home conveniences which you find in stationers' Dennison departments. Semi-professional singing sup- plies some renumeration and considerable pleasure. I am choir- master in Marlboro, Massachusetts. In addition to the above there are intermittent sessions of tennis and golf in season. Should I include contract bridge?
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