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

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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

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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-A ri 'Y P 7 if J -I Z : Jr CINCINNATI, OHIO February 23, 1942 MIss DONOVAN, DENVER, COLORADO. Dear lNIary Agnes: Long ago, I heard an old man say- All tinners is got a interest in all other tinners. A good philosopher, even if a poor grammarian. Thinking this applies to teachers I am writing some recent campus news. Last week the Federation of Catholic Alumnae met in Chicago, and since I was free at that time I decided to attend. I did not go alone, Helen Kennedy was with me. She teaches Spanish in the city schools here, as I suppose you know. My past experience has been that conventions are seldom exhilarating, except in a professional way. This one proved to be an exception. I met five girls of our class. Lest I forget I list three of them here. l Anna Garnish, teacher of Botany in Thomas High School, Chicago. Rose Marie Olinger, teacher of Latin in La Crosse High School, La Crosse, Wisconsin. Isabelle Gardner. Dean of Women, Chicago University. Now that's all the teachers, and I suppose you not only know that they taught, but what they taught, and whom they taught. and how and when and where. However I dare say you did not know that hlrs. -I. Compton who lives in a superb home in Lake Edge is, or rather was, Stella Bauman. She attended nearly. every session of the convention, and on the last evening we dined at her home. Her exquisite taste is apparent as well as her executive ability. Another guest that evening was lllary Knecht Barker. She is not nearly so fortunate in a monetary sense as in Stella, but they are very close friends. Mary expects to visit her sister this summer and promises to give me a day or two. Please write and tell me of your work. I have heard that Claire Iylueller is in Denver. Is there any truth in this report? Don't keep me waiting too long for a reply. llfluch love. i Your friend, HELEN SACK EOD CINCINNATI, OHIO February 12, 1942. MIss FRANCES ZIMMERMAN, ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN, , CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY, WASHINGTON, D. C. Dear Francis: A As I havenlt time for a lengthy letter, I'm writing just a word in answer to your request for some Cincinnati news. llly opportunity to acquaint you with, village gossipl' Came when I picked up the February number of the Catholic Women's News. There is a large and quite lovely picture of lllrs. James Coolin CRuth Staceyl under which is an ac- count of her travels in Africa with her husband. He was appointed Secretary to the American Legation at Cairo, she surely is far from her girlhood home isn't she? , 1 C N 7 R Page Seventy five