CLASS OF 1919
Dick Dudensing is representing the Dudensing Galleries, selling paintings to those who go in for that sort of thing. Recently we met Dick in the Dartmouth Club early in the morning. We asked if he were living there, to which he answered no, that he was just in for breakfast and a shave. Sadly we went up to the lounge and sat alone, thinking back on our own bachelor days.
In my mail the morning after writing the above came a card on which Mr. and Mrs. Henderson announce the marriage of their daughter Margaret Henderson Hutcheson to Mr. Richard Dudensing. Ah well, Dick will have his memories too.
Mai Drane and Paul Clements are now undertaking to keep the Dartmouth man in New York well dressed without their old stand-by George Rand. George has gone into some other branch of the suit and cloak business. The new and very elegant Drane and Rand shop is on 44th St., East.
We have heard that Fat Jackson, the bread and big bun man from Pittsburgh, is coming to New York to pull Ward out of the ruck. Mayor Walker has been notified, and it is hoped that the subway problem will be amply solved before his arrival.
John Goss has been until recently in the insurance business. As a matter of fact (as John used to tell the faculty) he may be still. We have, however, a strong suspicion that he has changed lines or passed on or something, for he hasn't been in to see us for nearly two weeks now.
Report has it that Max Norton arose recently at 1.30 A. M., dressed in his faculty meeting suit, and went forth into the still Hanover night. Softly chanting the Star Spangled Banner, he hoisted Old Glory to the top of his own personal flagpole. This ceremony completed, he rushed into the house and phoned J. Gile, his next door neighbor, instructing* him to come at once. Dr. Gile, true to the fine old traditions of the medical profession, jumped into his clothes and rushed forth into the blackness. Max took him by the arm and pointed proudly at the stars and stripes. Silently they entered the Gile house, ginger ale was opened, toasts drunk. A son had been born to Max.
Spider Martin is in Syracuse with Graybar Electric, and this is no news to any man who ever had anything to do with the class Nineteen. Spider has been the Nineteen class agent for the Alumni Fund, and year after year has done a very remarkable job. We owe Spider a pile of thanks for the painless way he has put our class over its quota each year. Doubtless the best way to show our appreciation is to co-operate even more promptly and one hundred percent on the fund next'year.
On October twentieth Miss Ruth Reynolds was married to Carl A. Babcock in Cleveland, Ohio.
Our pleaT to the hinterland for letters brought a single answer. It came from Danny Featherston, the Asbury Park medico, and though he challenge our accuracy we are so appreciative we quote in whole:
"May I take exception to the implied sarcasm in your paragraph in the last issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE concerning one Mr. E. W. Edwards? Those who remember No. 3 College Hall in the late fall and early winter of 1915 will testify that Mr. Edwards' early training in interior decoration was received from the inspiration of one side of the room as occupied by the writer; notwithstanding the detrimental influence of the parties who occupied No. 4, being none other than E. E. 'Spider' Martin and W. H. 'Prof.' McCarter.
"Mr. Edwards' training before arriving at Hanover was undoubtedly very adequate for window dressing in Chicago as his knowledge of shot guns, bowie knives, bombs, machine guns, etc., received on the plains of Colorado in his early youth, no doubt accounts for the pleasing decoration of many of the Chicago jobs.
"This is just a way of leading up to the fact of informing you, of the glorious class of 1919, that a son was born to Dr. and Mrs. D. F. Featherston, of 509 Fourth Ave., Ashbury Park, N. J., on July 23, 1928. Jess Hawley and Jack Cannell have been duly informed of this fact.
"I hope you keep up the work in collecting the 1919 news for the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, and that we will have the pleasure of seeing you all in New Haven on November 3."
We remember well Featherston's dazzling end play in one or two of those fiercely contested battles of the century, when Medics met Turfk School, and we have no doubt that Hawley and Cannell are real excited. However, in our slow plodding way we have been doing some figuring and we find that the younger Featherston will be in college at the same time as young Champ Clements. Shouldn't some one inform Jake Bond's successor?
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