Chestnut Hill Academy - Caerulean Yearbook (Chestnut Hill, PA)

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44 THE CAERULEAN 0112155 lgrnphvrg l 4 ln the year of 1919, a meeting which had been conceived many years before, at last became an actuality, the Class of 1929 of Chestnut Hill Academy celebrated the twentieth anni- versary of its graduation. Unfortunately, circumstances pre- vented the members from attending in person, Thanks to the development of radio-television, however, this did not, in the least. detract from the pleasure or realization of our reunion. Through the new and miraculous invention. we were enabled to see and converse with our former schoolmates. Frank Laverell. the president of the Class, opened the meeting with a short talk from Shibe Park, in Philadelphia. At the time, he and George lVlontgomery were allowing full sway to their athletic ptroclivities 'by playing pro-fessional baseball under the guidance of Benny Nlacfarland. Each of the three delivered a short address, outlining their activities for the past years. Frank. it seems, was shortly retiring, because, as 'he said, he was no longer content to receive orders from such a perennial youth as Benny. I gathered that fifteen years of strenuous exercise had rather taken the spring from Frank and George. although Benny had bloomed increasingly as he grew older. Wes Woltman and Neil Bogert were the next to appear before us. Both, were professors at Yale-Wes, in the depart- ment of physics. and Neil in that of English. Wesley de- scribed to us in detail. the various theories of the universe which he had nursed to a stage of perfection. It was then rumored. I had heard, that he 'had completely surpassed Ein- stein in the accuracy of his conceptions. As Neil stood be- fore us, it was apparent that time had made few inroads upon his appearance. He remained a quiet, unassuming young man. In his short talk, he recited these few lines from his latest work. a poem which recently had won the Pulitzer prize in poetry : 'How many people we meet in life Who are just like the sea. They nod t'heir heads incessantly Afraid to disagree. We turned next to Bill Dilks, who spoke from his ma- chine shop in Detroit. ln the years since his graduation, he had given more and more of his efforts to the occupation that had always engrossed him-mechanics. As he stood before us, greasy and blushing, we could readily surmise that his chief interest of the moment was not his stammered speech. but the motorcycle which he had been avidly dissecting when we turned to him. Finally, we allowed him to continue his labors and set the dials for South America. Charlie Crane stood before us, resplendent in his latest sartorial creation. Vague gossip concerning his many con- quests in the game of love had reached our ears from time to time, and this wealthy planter, the cynosure of the eyes of girls on two continents, gave every evidence of his conquer- ing charms. We realized then why his whims were capable ol dictating the fashion in menis clothing. Larry llloway, Philadeltphiais leading sportsman, was al- most too occupied to entertain us. However, he was pre- vailed upon to speak a few words from a social function which he was attending. His quest had taken him along the path of bleeding heartsg for his principal attribute, the one which lent to him his former nickname, had little difhculty in inspiring eternal devotion in the debutantes at whom he deigned to glance. Charles Landreth and his business associate, Frank Gump, were revelling at a street cleaners' ball in Pittsburgh. Both otf these men were energetic go-getters in their youth. and we had always prognosticated great achievements for them. In Charlieis case, an unrequieted love affair had brought about disintegration of business verve. Yet both had

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