St Marys High School - Tower Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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- Qwivf if Lf It f CINCINNATI, OHIO June IO, 1942. MR. EDWARD ALF, DETROIT, IXIICHIGAN. Dear Ed : Mighty glad to hear you are settled.lNIoving a central office is a mean job, I know. I have some very good news for you. I have just the man you are looking for to take care of your interests in the Cincinnati Aeroplane Accessories Co., and you will be surprised to hear whom I recommend. I'll tell you the whole story. Surely you remember Cyril Ruilman, one of the junior members of our class. lfVell, he has an oflice in the same building with me. We've been having lunch together every day. He asked about you, so I told him how you had expanded the Edward F. Alf Co., and found it necessary to move your head office to Detroit. He was very glad to hear of your success, and, as I told him of our correspondence, he asked me to send his congratulations. Cyril tells me that he does not intend to remain much longer in town, for the Philadelphia Gas and Electric Co. has asked him to accept the office of Auditor. It will be about a month before he starts for that city with his wife and two boys. Cyril is surely proud of those boysg his only regret is that they will not be able to attend St. Il'Iary's. . I regret that Cyril is leaving town for he would have been just the man for you. However, he gave me a whole file of recommendations for Joe Nordloh who was formerly an accountant with Cyril.' Now Joe is with Brown and- Hill, and will be glad, I am sure, to accept your proposition. You can write or wire him at 473 Brink Building, Sixth and Walnut. By the Way, that is the first office building I designed, and some Detroit firm is thinking of erecting one of the same style up there, so if the contract goes through I suppose I'll have to bear with your company for two or three weeks. Detroit is a beautiful city, but Cincinnati, the old town, will always be Hhomei' to Yours truly, ALLEN VVALSH. E0 LD CINCINNATI, OHIO HUGOER AND COSTELLO April 18, 1942. ATTORNEYS AT LAW RAPID TRANSIT BLDG., CITY. Dear Sirs: I don't want to use that formal salutation at all, but I guess something else would look strange in addressing one's counsel. Yes, that is the capacity in which I must regard you. The Schenk-Kremer mail order business is in trouble. You know our business has grown beyond the capacity of the small place on llladison Road, so we bought in Indian Hill and began to erect what is really a worth-while place. When we left high school if anyone opened a business in Indian Hill, he'd have to beg for an OHice force, but with the subway and the volors, it's only a block from Fountain Square. Q1 7 J' . y . ' N Q 973 I f U gs 3 - Qi X ' Page Seventy-thfree .C5 I R r R of 'Qi H Tx

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y K' K u Y D9 Q I 0 4 44 ST. LUKE TERRACE, E. E. LONDON, ENGLAND, October 21, 1942. MR. WM. CASSADY CINCINNATI, OHIO Dear Bill: Your letter certainly cheered me up, but it did not exceed the wonderful news that I received from the home office this very morning. My joy knew no bounds when I opened the letter which gave me the long-hoped-for news, Your being in London is no longer necessary to our interests in England, you may return to Cin- cinnati and assume your duties as soon as you can arrange to do so. You can't imagine how happy I feel to know that next week I shall be aboard the S. S. Mer- cury bound for home, and if everything turns out all right, I shall probably be in Cincy next month for the big game: U. C. vs. Harvard. From what I hear, it seems U. C. is the favorite this year. Let's hope so. , Speaking of Harvard and football reminds me: I just received a letter from Gene, but I guess you have already heard the welcome news of his success. He is Dean of the Department of Engineering. I surely am proud of our class mate. I addressed him in this fashion, MR. EUGENE ADAMS, PH. D. CE. EE. DEAN OF DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING, HARVARD UNIVERSITY. Doesn't it sound big? He is to spend Thanksgiving with his mother, so I am trying to make arrangements to meet him in the east and come home with him. We certainly shall have to celebrate when we get together. O yes, I have read all about it. The papers carried the story from the start, and the Pall Mall Gazette today came out with these lines. City of Cincinnati wins Supreme Court decision over Harry Ford! Reilly and Cassady counsels for the city, evinced great ability in handling the case, and there was no doubt in Washington from the beginning, what the decision would be. Cassady who has been for some years in the public eye is a possible nominee for governor next year. VVhen I read of the glory of my old school friend my chest swelled until the but- tons on my top coat strained like hounds in leash. Well, this must be all, until I see you. I sincerely hope that your political ambition will be realized. Your friend, CHARLES GRUBER. 2' -2- -1- - A - 9 X 1 r vb' 'X Qt Page Seventy-two

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U 2 . , J 'W We had all necessary permits, etc. etc., and now when our work is Well under Way, the residents of the vicinity are trying to take out an injunction to stop the work, which, they say, violates the zoning ordinance. Since Indian Hill wasn't zoned, and since no one said zoning until our building began, it looks like ex postlfacto stuff. However, it is a big difficulty for Benedict and me. You see we began that mail order business, mostly on good will and prayers. We have now a plant that does a big business. Our profits last year were nearly 5S300,000 and I know you'll admit we have been fair with our employees and with the public. - For this reason, and because you have known us all our lives, we think you will appreciate our integrity and work hard to avoid this hold up. Even for friend- ship's sake I should not ask you to plead an unjust cause, but our slates are clean. Please let us hear from you, and do all you can to help your old friends. Sincerely, KREMER-SCHENK MAIL ORDER Co. M. J. SCHENK President Gai? HOTEL NEY, PARIS, FRANCE June 10, 1942. MISS MARIE KLUMP, Goon SANIARITAN- HOSPITAL, CINCINNATI, OHIO Dear Marie: The agonies I underwent this morning, while finishing my secretarial work for lWrs. Donald, with your letterunopened on my desk, were excruciating. Yours was the first news I've received from home for ages, and how I did devour it. So Doctor Dunham has at last persuaded you to give up your independence and become his partner for life. How could you forsake our ranks, Marie? 'I send my sin- cere congratulations and wish I could be there for the wedding, but we leave for Italy next week and as you know a companion cannot very well forsake her place even to attend such an affair. - Elsie Dermody is in the Qpera here, and I attend whenever possible. I love to watch her little hands seemingly skim over the keys. By the way, do you remember Cecilia Higgins' fairy tales about being wedded to her career? Well she's wedded, but not to her career, unless one would call the author, Henry A. Valmer a career. I received the dearest letter from Sister Mary Ann, better known to us as Anna Cox. She is teaching Spanish at Elizabeth Seton High School, Chicago, and IS happy in her work. And did you hear about Dorothy Carr? She is designing the mural panels for the new courthouse in Cleveland. Her designs were chosen by the Art Academy from those submitted by two hundred or more artists. What is K. doing? She is still teaching Algebra and more Algebra to little girls and boys in the Western Heights High School. How do I sign my name? You asked me that too. Why asalways I sign, Your friend, MARY JANET BRAUN. C 'ACC QCD -6556529337 u' r Q tw' -A 'X Page Seventy-four