CLASS OF 1924
Make way for the fondly received letter of Speck Ramsdell, lost to this column but a few hours before P. 0. closing time last week —one of two communications pushing through the Christmas clutter of greeting cards. "It's a long cry back to the day we stood up against the wall in the Dartmouth Club last summer for a few moments and I threatened to write you a news letter some time. Well, here she is, and the purpose is to announce my desertion from the rank of the bachelors. It happened last July, and smack in the middle of one of the season's hottest heat waves. That didn't show the benefits of a Dartmouth training, did it? The place—in northern Pennsylvania—very romantic setting, elopement and all that. The girl—she was a preacher's daughter—but—also a light opera star—having taken soubrette parts in 'Robin Hood'—'Die Fledermaus'—(is that spelled correctly) etc., and having been an understudy to Queenie Smith in 'The Street Singer' on Broadway last year. Might I also say she is a graduate of Syracuse—and in spite of all this—pint size and a grand cook. That's enough for the time on that subject. Of class interest, there is little doing. Phil Van Huyck is still doing insurance and submitting to one lunch a week with me. I never have been able to get him in a sufficiently unarmed state to pay for my lunch, but then neither has he had any success in that direction. Roger Carlton also helps out the unemployment situation by eating a noonday apple with us now and then. You probably heard some time ago that Harold Ranney has become Harr F. Ranney, published of the Boy's Buyer in the city. Now and then I run into Phil Marston with his nose to the ground smelling out missing dollar signs for the National City Bank midtown branch. The rest of the boys keep under cover pretty well. Don't know why I'm not an insurance man."
"It is our pleasure to announce that S. Warwick Keegin, who has been associated with us for several years past, has become a member of this firm," signed Semmes and Semmes, Investment Building, Washington, D. C.
Bob Fenderson has picked himself another cage, leaving the Shawmut National Bank of Boston for the Belmont Trust Company, Belmont, Mass.
Hanover has farmed out Parker Hicks, professor at Clark School, to the adjacent open country of Norwich, Box 42. The Sudbury, Mass., high school has a '24 instructor Dick Bittinger.
A 1 Hailparn, long advertiser for Filene's, is now scouting for prospective copy to fill the pages (paid) of the Boston Daily Record. Hatrack—118 Riverway, Boston.
Lew Erckert oversees the education of a coming generation at the Largo public schools, Largo, Fla. Lew had his training not far away at Lake Worth, Fla.
Walt Emerson, last heard from as returning from the Tacna-Arica locale, now turns up on the staff of the Manchester UnionLeader, former undergraduate training ground for such journalists as Hal Springborn, George Traver, at al.
Walt Blanchfield, movie display and magazine space salesman, is now a Vogue-VanityFair representative with headquarters in the Graybar Building and at 80 Grand St., Fleetwood, Mount Vernon, N. Y.
The one time Coffin shadow, Whit, ne Elroy Whitaker, has endowed the College with an address for the first time in six years —114 South Carroll St., Madison, Wis., occupation, publisher.
Ed Streater, long interned in South Dakota's woods superintending a lumber camp full of Indians from a nearby reservation and more recently listed among those present in Minneapolis, has taken flight to Sparta, Wis. Cause—unknown.
Hank .Stevens in spite of Joe Butler's efforts to have him re-establish one of Bermuda's hotels dedicated to visiting Dartmouth men, remains in New York peddling for Menasha Products Company, 52 Vanderbilt Ave.
Whit Gowrie writes from New Haven: "I really haven't much news, but if you can use any of it I shall be more than pleased. Last July I spent a week in Hanover, and while in the movies saw Ot Grauer and his better half directly in front of me. I knew it was Ot by the wonderfully groomed and shining hair. He is the only member of the class I happened to see. At the game here in New Haven, I saw and talked to Gordy Bridge and Larry Marshall. There were other familiar faces there, but my memory failed and the names were unknown. Every one was very quiet after the game, which was to be expected. In addition I ran into Bill Knox on the way out from the portal. Charlie Wood is about the only other member of the class I see around. He is now representing the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, having left the firm of Eddy Bros, as a security salesman. I also see Paul Wright about town now and then. He is a prosperous farmer in Orange, Conn., a suburb of New Haven. That's about the limit of my news. Best wishes of the season to any of the boys you see."
Sam Stickney announces the removal of his office to 225 Broadway, where he will continue his life insurance business.
In case you didn't see it last month, Frank Mandel and his brother Dick in the class of '26 have donated to the College an annual prize for essays on subjects related to American thought. The subject this year will be "Thoreau on Education." A committee composed of Professor W. K. Stewart and H. F. West and the donors will award prizes of $50 to the winner and $25 to the man taking second place.
Secretary, 7 Harvard St., Worcester, Mass.
