CLASS OF 1929

The class will not have an organized third year reunion this June. Slightly over three hundred of you returned us the questionnaire card we sent out two months ago. We hope the other three hundred and fifty were riot all wrongly addressed. At least very few were returned for that reason to us. Only a very few of the class want the reunion, and of that small minority only a still smaller number are certain of being able to attend. So, with the full approval of the College, the quorum of the class executive committee that is gathered around these parts decided to have no reunion this year but to wait for a better day which will be in June, 1934. By that time the class baby will be able to be present himself. But who is the class baby? Be patient, you aspiring Da-Das. It will soon be known. We hesitate to make the important decision until all possible claimants have been heard from. We want no forced abdications.

213 Calhoun St. Cincinnati, Ohio March 5, 1932

Dear Bill

Received your duly appreciated request for information. I have just a few minutes before the Saturday afternoon quiz class meeting—enough to tell you all I know of interest to the class. I have enjoyed the class news in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE under your able editorship, and if I can contribute a little news of interest to others, I'll waive my usual charge for this super-reporting service, Bill.

I am comfortably situated in a pent-hole in Cincy and applying myself to the general law and that of Ohio in particular. The Cincinnati College of Law of the University of Cincinnati is the full title of my Alma Mater, and I like it. It's a great school. As a side-line I report twice a week at review class conducted by one Judge Gusweiler in specific preparation for the Ohio bar at the end of June.

other possessions include a manor house on Zumstein Ave., an Auburn, and an amiable hospitality for Twenty-niners. I see Bill Wiley occasionally, and everything about him bears retelling. He is married to a swell gal named Jane and has an infant of heroic proportions called Peter. His

I'm sorry my news is so sketchy, Bill, but as you know the law student's life is not the adventurous, roving one, and consequently the contacts and the news items are few.

Give my best to the classmates who still decorate the halls of Langdell and Austin. Yours ever,

DICK OWSLEY

Hammond, Ind. Feb. 29, 1932

Dear Bill

Thanks for the letter—it's always good to hear from you even though you're Walter Winchelling for news. I'm afraid you will be disappointed—I've been out of contact with '29 men lately, but will give you what I have.

I left the Glens Falls Indemnity Co. in January, '31, and spent two months in Florida with my folks. Say, that's great down there! I enjoyed the fun while it lasted, but since then I've been busier than a cat on a glass table. Went into the hardware business with my father in Hammond, and we've been doing a bit of reorganizing during the past year. Bill, this merchandising is a fascinating game—on the go all the time, trying to beat your last year's business or attempting to keep out of the red. I can truthfully say I like it.

The bachelors' army has promoted me from private to captain! And I don't look for an honorary discharge in the very near future. It's tough enough buying tomatoes for yourself!

Eddie Deans is still making toilet paper up in Muskegon and laboring hard, although he stole a few days to visit me last summer. George Pitts '28 came out from Chi. last week—he plans to go into business after he finishes at the University.

Sorry I haven't more news, Bill, Best of luck to you,

JOE RUFF

New York City March 5,1932

Dear Bill

It was a real pleasure to hear from you again and to learn that you still give very generously of your time to our class in spite of the more, serious duties which you have accepted since leaving college.

As to startling news, my feelings are skeptical, but living in this vicinity one does bump into a classmate or two quite often.

There were several fellows from our class who stopped in at Ellie Cavanagh's home out in Maplewood, N. J., not so long ago. Among them was Bill Keyes, Walt Hetfield, Fred Breithut, and Ed Walsh. Also Mr. and Mrs. Ed Chinlund (formerly Jane Cavanagh).

Ed Plumb is now a New Jerseyite. After spending a couple of years studying music in Vienna, lie decided to remove to this country in order to continue with his professor, who now has a studio in New York. Haven't ascertained how much Vienna improved him along musical lines, but he's more of a pastmaster than ever when it comes to telling jokes. We've heard tell of a possibility that Ed will combine his efforts with Dr. Seuss (of Dartmouth fame). Such a merger could possess great potentialities!

Herb Wollison is now located in this neck of the woods with the Bankers Trust Co. Fred Ingram could be spoken of in the same breath. He is working in Bayonne, N. J., so we get to see him in New York every now and then.

Talked with Jack Blair recently, who is associated with his father, a patent lawyer. Believe Bill Williamson spends some time in Jack's father's firm and is studying law at Columbia along with his job.

It was interesting to hear of King Nickerson's marriage to Miss Clarissa Mayo of Scarsdale, N. Y., the wedding having taken place on the third of February. Nick is with the Chemical Bank and Trust Co., and seems to be setting a good pace.

As you can surmise from the enclosed announcement, the New Jersey alumni are a very active crowd. Sorry this list isn't complete, as I'm sure there would be a much larger representation of the class of 1929. (Ed. note: The list includes Art Clow, Jim Hodge, Gus Wiedenmayer, Fred Breithut.) No doubt, the Dartmouth Club of Plainfield started the ball rolling, and now the fellows in Northern Jersey expect to go in for local reunions on a big scale. Several of the ringleaders from our class seem to be Gus Wiedenmayer, Jim Hodge, Art Clow, and Fred Breithut.

Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Pratt are now living in New York. Lowell is with his father in the publishing business. He has recently organized a bronze tombstone company, which seems to be his chief hobby. He will probably find Jim Hodge a keen competitor in this line.

There are other members of the class that you hear of and bump into around New York; some of them are—Morgan Baker, who is with Guaranty Trust Co., Mike Sherman is also with the Guaranty. Eddie Ellinger is with the brokerage house of Halle and Stieghtz. Charlie Hardin is with a brokerage house. Bill Kennedy, Dick Rogers, and Harry Enders with Black-Starr and FrostGorham Co., Ed Heister is with a New York newspaper. Meagrim Fryberger is in University of Va. Law School.

Bumped into Bill Henretta recently. He was only here for a short visit, as he is located in business in his home town down in Pennsylvania.

Since leaving college Ed Walsh, Art Rydstrom, and I lived together in New Jersey. Our combination has had to get along without Art since October, at which time, as you will probably recall, he was married to Harriet Lowry of Montclair. Since their marriage they have been living in Bloomfield, N. J. Art is still with the Bankers Trust Co. in New York. Ed is with the American Can Co., and should you ever desire any information on the stock, just ask him, because he's learned the real low-down from the ground up.

Bill, this epistle is rapidly becoming longer, and since it's taken me all these many pages to tell you very little real news, I had better fold up before I tell you less. I'll have to leave it up to you to do all the shaping-up, and I dare say you're one of the few people who can probably do it with this great conglomeration to work on. I wish you success!

Thanks for the opportunity of shooting off my mouth about the people I get to see some. Best of luck,

CLIFF PUHSE

P. O. Box 400 Cleveland, Ohio March 6, 1932

Dear Bill: As a result of your letter requesting information on my doings since graduating, I have decided to break down and explain my whereabouts. My present job requires that I write numerous reports at night, and by the time I get through I hate the sight of paper and ink. This I offer as an excuse for not answering sooner your plea to members of the class for news.

In the fall of 1929 after graduating I got a job as a cadet on the S.S. Western World and went to South America, stopping at Rio de Janeiro and Santos, Brazil, Montevideo in Uruguay, and Buenos Aires. Spent two months in B. A., and then secured a job on a British freighter and went down through the Magellan Straits and up the west coast of Chile. Took on a cargo of nitrates in Chile and then continued north, going through the Panama Canal to Mississippi and Florida and thence to New York.

After arriving back in the States in January of 1930 I obtained a job in the laboratories of the Goodrich Rubber Co. in Akron, Ohio, and worked there for nine months, until the tire business went flat. Through Goodrich I became connected with the Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp., subsidiary of the Union Carbide and Carbon Co., and am now representing them in Cleveland and vicinity.

Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp. make organic solvents from natural gas and oil by synthetic processes, and I can honestly state that the company is revolutionizing the chemical industry in U. S. by putting laboratory curiosities on the market in commercial quantities. My work consists of promoting new uses of our solvents, giving out information on properties of our various chemicals, and dishing out formulas for everything from cosmetics to lacquers.

Spent first seven months with present company in Pittsburgh at the Mellon Institute, learning about various organic chemicals. In Pittsburgh I had occasion to attend several gatherings of the Western Pennsylvania Dartmouth Alumni Association, and can say that that organization is a real live one. Frequent banquets were given at the Pittsburgh University Club and were well attended by members of the class of 1929. As I am in and out of Cleveland on dashes to various parts of Ohio, I have not yet had an opportunity to contact the Cleveland Alumni Association, but hope to do so in the near future.

The above, I guess, brings me up to date, Bill. I might add in closing that I am doing all my traveling alone, with not even a possibility of jumping into the sea of matrimony. With kindest personal regards, I am Sincerely,

BOB BEADED

Secretary, 20 Prescott St., Cambridge, Mass.