CLASS OF 1929
We shall begin by offering thanks for the gentle shower of mail that our first appeal for news precipitated, and by announcing that the first prize for ready response is awarded to Herb McCreery, formerly of West Wheelock St., Hanover, now of Chase Hall, Soldiers Field, Cambridge. The prizewinning letter was the forerunner of many other exceUentcommunicationswhosebunched arrival made it impossible to determine the second and third place winners. However, don't let the lack of honorable mention be taken as any indication of absence of appreciation on the part of the receiver. We will get around to acknowledging each and every letter in due time, and that fact alone may or may not be somewhat of an inducement to the rest of you to favor us with a little attention. We have been rather busy through the summer, frequenting parts of the city which boast no college men, so we have not chanced upon very many classmates since that hot June harvesting of diplomas which transformed us from grand old seniors into the baby class of Mother Dartmouth's alumni. Thanks to the letters recently received, we are able to be initiated into the duties of a class secretary; from now on there will be no such rash expenditure of class funds as the printing and sending of those cards of appeal necessitated. You will be expected to receive sufficient prompting from each issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE itself to stimulate you to acquire the habit of keeping in touch with the Secretary. We regret exceedingly that we haven't Sachem Dick Barrett, with his mystical power of revelation and his uncanny intimacy with the Sacred Conch, close by, to disclose the fate of those innumerable young braves who have failed to send back any messages to the tribal scribe, reporting their progress along the trail they have chosen to speed. We have even searched through the paternal attic storeroom in hopes of stumbling over some oddity that might resemble the Sacred Conch enough to pass for a substitute. But success has frowned upon our unholy quest from a distance, and we are reduced to the one hope that you will not fail us in the future, and that our reliance upon you for information will prove sound and fruitful.
Johnny Howland is working as a machinist for Sleeper and Hartley, Inc., in Worcester from 7 A.M. to 5.30 P.M., for what he terms a rather paltry sum, and in a way that makes the memory of eight o'clock classes seem the height of indolence.
Noel Salomon plans to drive to California with his father sometime during the fall, and may locate there permanently.
Bob Brinkerhoff is with the N. W. Ayer and Son, advertisers, Philadelphia, Pa.
Ellie Cavanagh was married June 14 to Miss Marjorie Carroll of Rockville, Md. Congratulations, Ellie, and a hearty welcome to the bride from all of us. Mr. and Mrs. Cavanagh are at home since September 15, at 7 Cumberland Ave., Plattsburg, N. Y.
Bob Monahan is now at the Yale School of Forestry, rooming with Dick Goddard '2O. Bob and A 1 Finlay left Hanover by the way of the Connecticut, enjoying a highly successful and pleasant canoe trip through to the Sound. Bob spent the summer at the summer session of the Forestry School.
Edward Abbott left for Prescott, Arizona, shortly after graduation, where he entered the law office of his uncle, Senator A. H. Faron, a prominent attorney of that city. Ed intends to enter law school either at Leland Stanford or University of California. If we are not mistaken, Ed has found his way right into the home town of Joe Heap. If you can trace Joe and Mrs. Heap for us, Ed, we would appreciate it very much. We don't want to lose track of any of our newly-weds, their ranks are thin enough as it is.
Speaking of newly-weds, just the other day we received the announcement of the marriage of Edith Allison Lisle to John Read Arthur on Tuesday, September the third, at Clarinda, lowa. Again we proffer our heartiest congratulations and extend best wishes to the bride!
Bill Keyes, Freddie Breithut, and Charlie Proctor spent part of the summer taking a 200-mile canoe trip through the Canadian wilderness. Bill reports that they ran rapids and caught fish just like the story-books tell about; and that Freddie was perfectly contented every minute of the time because he was able to keep off his feet so much. We are glad Charlie was along to take care of the other two. Bill and Freddie are now in the wilds of New York city, the former with Charles D. Barney and Company, the latter with L. F. Rothschild. Charlie has made no report as yet.
Dutch Sharpe writes enthusiastically about his initiation into the teaching profession. He is a member of the faculty of the Nashua (N. H.) High School.
We have our teachers and our coaches and our business men, but here we have our first big league ball player! Bob Walsh played summer ball for the Nashua team of the New England League, and carried on so well that he was bought by the Detroit "Tigers." Congratulations, Bob. We will all become rabid rooters next season.
Bill Kennedy, Harry Enders, Dick Rogers, and Bill Alexander are working for the Gorham Manufacturing Company, makers of fine silver, in Providence.
Shep Cohen recently embarked aboard the Bremen for a three-year stay abroad. He will attend several of the German universities, and prepare for a diplomatic career.
We hear that Jim Armstrong was married soon after graduation, but we regret that we have no further information.
George Yeaton is connected with a textile firm in Augusta, Me., and reports that the work is interesting, and that he is getting along finely.
Paul Woodbridge, George Salyer, and Prescott Randlett are working for the Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, although Pres plans to return to college in January to complete requirements.
Wendell Schuh is working for the Aetna Life Insurance Company in Washington.
Mason Ingram is with the Massachusetts Industrial Service, Inc., at Lowell, Mass.
Mo Heath is working for the Chase National Bank in New York, and during the summer spent his week-ends with Ichie Little at Letchworth Village, N. Y., where Ichie laid over awaiting the opening of Yale Medical School, which he and Beau Ehler are attending.
Archie Crowley, after spending the summer at a boys' camp in New Hampshire acting as a councilor and athletic coach, is now teaching history at the Breed Junior High School in Lynn. He says that it is a good life to lead, but that the kids do not know what the inside of the books look like yet. We hope they will before long.
Roger Turnbull got settled as soon as he returned home in June, and is working in a real estate and insurance office in Lynn.
Francis McEntee, the receiver of one of the $5OO prizes last year, left for Minneapolis last week to join a newspaper. He spent most of his summer traveling around visiting different newspapers throughout the country. We think the name of the paper is the Minneapolis Journal.
Bob Dolphin has entered Ms father's leather business in Lynn. Bob reports that at present he is doing hard labor, but is hoping for an advance before long.
A 1 Finlay is now in the Boston office of Scudder, Stevens, and Clark, attending the firm's training school.
Mai Mather is located in his home town, Hartford, Conn., with a financial house.
Hal Leich has been tramping through Europe this summer, including the summit of Mont Blanc in his itinerary. Hal plans to remain in Germany for a while with some relatives.
Bob Lyle, after a summer spent doing physical labor in a garage, which deprived him of ten pounds of his figure, has now turned to other pursuits, and is teaching English and Latin at St. George's School, Newport, R. I. But probably his most important activity is coaching the football team. Bob reports that his team looks fair, that he is in a fine school, and that the group of boys seems very good.
It is rumored that Inches Pierce and Tom Maynard, after spending the summer together at camp, are going to come out of the country and do real estate work in New York city.
We were in Hanover for a short day and a half just as college was opening, but m the hurly-burly that marks that time we did not see all those classmates who we understand have returned to Hanover for graduate work. We were impressed and depressed by the absence of our own class, and we could not get used to the new condition at all. However, in spite of our misgivings, Hanover seemed to be getting along all right, which, we are sure, will be good news to all of you. Ben Leavitt deserves our congratulations. He is now Mr. Leavitt, instructor in the zoology department. Earl Fyler, Sim Cantril, and Frank Foster are back at Medical School. Frank is, as well, coaching the freshman line. Phil May and Bob Walsh are back for one semester, and Johnnie Clements and Fred Chase have re-entered college.
Dick Sanders and Larry Hale are back in Hanover for another semester, living together across from the Graduate Club in the same house that Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Dudley occupy, which bit of news gives us occasion to congratulate Charlie and extend our best wishes to the bride. We understand that Charlie is a partner in the newly formed Hanover firm of Dudley Company.
Wayne Bryer and Bob Fairchild are back at Hanover attending the Medical School; and Sawyer Kier, Will Christman, and Dick Morgan are back at Tuck.
We hope that our next visit to Hanover will be less hurried, and will allow us to see and speak to the rest of the '29 men who have returned.
The good news of Johnny Parker's wedding has just been received. It took place on July 7, and the happy bride was Virginia Musk of Lawrence. We wish that Mrs. Parker would urge Johnny to write in to the Secretary so that we might know where to address our congratulations, and where to stop by for a short call.
Herb McCreery's prize letter informs us that he and Hank Marshall are at Harvard Business School, trying to understand the principles of accounting and finance; and that Charlie King is one of the large delegation in New York, and is working for the Dry Ice Corporation.
It has been reported that Soup Lockwood is sailing in December for Batavia, which they tell us is on the north coast of Java, where he will hold down the post of government inspector. Good luck, "Soup." We wish Soup would inform us in more detail what his expedition is all about, and what sort of place he is getting into.
The class has another full-fledged member of the teaching profession in the person of Stuart Palmer, who is teaching civics in the New Haven Junior High School.
We have heard from several sources that Phil Fitzpatrick is attending McGill Medical School in Montreal.
Jack Hubbard is working for his father, attempting to sell mortgages. This rather distressing report comes from Bill Keyes, one of our most faithful reporters, who says that it is all work and no play for the boys on Wall St. It seems that Bill and Eddie Chinlund and Trunkie Brittan have been living in the Chinlunds' family apartment while Eddie's family are in Europe. Somehow that doesn't seem like a very poor arrangement. Bill also reports that Ed Walsh is working in Jersey City, making tin cans for the American Can Company.
Charlie Gaynor, after spending the summer in Hanover as an assistant curator in the Museum, is about to desert the shores of the Connecticut for the somewhat more colorful romance of the Banube, where he hopes to gain the training and inspiration for the pursuit of a musical career. Charlie is going to be in Vienna, where the winter season is reputed to be very brilliant and gay. We expect Charlie to keep us well informed.
Throughout the summer we have had long, delightful letters from Dud Orr, who left for France around the first of July by reason of the traveling scholarship awarded him by President Hopkins. Dud spent the summer at Clermont-Ferrand in southern France, where he endeavored to bring his French up to a workable degree of fluency. After sitting in on the recent sessions of the League of Nations at Geneva, he launched upon what he says promises to be the biggest, fastest tour of Europe on record. He plans to visit every country west of Russia, Poland, and Roumania, and a goodly portion of northern Africa. During the latter part of the fall and throughout the winter he will be in Paris, attending the University and living with Professor Mollon, ex-Dartmouth professor. He reports that he is well, happy, and in good moral health.
A card from Chicago from Johnny Bryant brought the good news that Johnny is with the International Harvester Company. He says that he is gradually whipping the farmers into shape, and that he seems to fit right in with their ways without any trouble at all.
Pinky Elannery writes that he was married to Miss Ruth Donaldson of New Castle, Pa., on June 27. Congratulations! We are glad to welcome still another fair lady into the class. This fall Mr. and Mrs. Flannery will be at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, where Pinky will study for his M.A. at the Graduate School of Theology, while his wife will study at the Music Conservatory. They will live at 44 West Vine St.
We have learned that two more '29 men have become coaches. Mike Sherman is coach of football and instructor of mathematics at Peddie School, and Karl Michael is assistant coach of swimming at Yale. We would enjoy seeing Mike's Peddie team play Bob Lyle's St. George team.
From now on your tribal scribe is a struggling law student, studying some eight or nine hours a day along with innumerable other Dartmouth classmates, about whom we hope to have something to write in the next issue. So please take pity on us, you bankers and teachers and merchants at al., and send us plenty of material in order that we will be saved the discouraging task of scratching around for something to say.
We are planning to have our first '29 dinner here in Boston within a couple of weeks, and we suggest that groups in other cities start arranging to have theirs soon, as well.
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