Class of 1929
This is the year Fifth, and of our matriculation the Ninth. Five and four years ago the familiar cry was "29 Up," and the imposed, but unimposing, headgear was a silly saucer-like piece of green flannel that was a cap, or so we were told. Some of us were still beardless; many who later became notable in one way or another were awkward and diffident, several of those who towered above the rest of us in stature were graceless, ungainly. But in spite of our diversities we had a common bond in our resentment of Delta Alpha, our pride in our class football team and our enthusiastic admiration for that superlatively fine varsity team.
In those days Johnny Howald and Bob McClure lived in 4 Top; Sonny Hetfield and Bob Lyle in 404 Russell Sage; Dick Black and Bob Walsh in 31 Reed; Carl Spaeth and Dave Alvord in 28 Hitch; Jack Ackley, Johnny Davis, Harry Baehr, Ollie Holmes, and Bill Alexander at 21A School St.; Jack McQuiston and Jack Meany in 14 Crosby; Bing Carter and Baird Rogers in 29 South Mass; Frankie loster was captain of our first organized team, Rusty Ayers, our full-blooded Indian, helped design the Green Book, a redheaded lad by the name of Bob Friend from the steps of Top serenaded the east side of the campus with his sax on soft evenings in the springtime, a stout little fellow named Jack Brabb made silver tones on a silver horn at Commons ... all nine years ago. And they say we have a reunionin June!
You are all going to receive the MAGAZINE this year, that is, all of you who send back the card we recently mailed out to you. With so many of you reading the column this year perhaps there will be an improvement in its contents. Together we ought to be able to raise the standard. Personally, it will be much more satisfying to be writing for and to the entire class once more. We shall try to match the column to the year.
As for actual news we are afraid that the season is against it. This is being written the first of September at a time when your scribe has been too busy to see anybody during the irregular half-hour lunch period and too engrossed in the details of moving the domicile and the class archives during the evening to have time for anything but a screwdriver and a handful of curtain fixtures. Our new address is 89 Pleasant St., Newton Center. Our quarters are no longer too cramped to welcome an over-night guest. We have half a house, and an extra bedroom, and if some of you don't make use of it, shame on you.
The chief news seems to be matrimonial, and therefore significant enough to make up for the lack of small gossip. During the course of the summer several announcements came in. In order, and with rejoicing, the list of husband and wife:
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Robin (Helen Laura Vass) married at Hanover, May 29.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hodge (Julia Sutermeister Merritt) married at Ithaca, N. Y., June 5; housekeeping at Abbot Court, Redburn, Fairlawn, N. J.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hodson (Grace Marion Hess) married at Victoria, British Columbia, June 7; housekeeping at 750 Belmont Ave., North Seattle, Wash.
Dr. and Mrs. George McKelvey (Anita "VVainwright Andrews) married at Cleveland, Ohio, June 17; housekeeping at Torloot, Hubbard Road, Youngstown, Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe D'Esopo (Beatrice Fraser Thomas) married at Rangeley, Me., July 2; housekeeping at Parker Apartments, Hanover.
Mr. and Mrs. Herb Ball (Florence Ruth Levy) married at Newport, R. 1., August 9.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Nighswander (Esther Mary Richardson) married at Manchester, N. H., August 14.
An undated clipping from a Boston paper tells of the receipt of a cable from England "announcing the betrothal ofMiss Poland Olivia Jackson, daughter ofMrs. William Jackson of Hurst Grange,West Parring, Sussex, England, to Mr. M.Russell Goudey of Brookline and Paris,France. The wedding will take place onTuesday in the parish church of West Parring. Miss Jackson is a member of theyoung Mayfair set in London and Mr.Goudey is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H.Russell Goudey of 32 Welland Road,Brookline. He ... is now composing anddirecting radio programs on the continentand in Great BritainSo there at last is news of Russ, and it seems that the young man is getting along!
We have a letter from Jack Hubbard (not Johnny Hubbard, but John Clark, the diver and golfer) announcing his engagement to Susan Kent, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Gruet Kent, of Madison, N. J. The future Mrs. Hubbard graduated from Vassar in '3l and took an M. A. at Columbia in '33. Jack wrote, in part: "I'mstill pounding the pavements trying to workout mortgage situations, problems, andwhat have you in the city. I must admitthat the present economic conditions havemade this work extremely interesting although maybe not too lucrative. I see JimHodge and Bill Morgan quite often at theDartmouth Club for lunch. Jim pulled asurprise wedding on us the sth of Junealthough we had been somewhat expectingit for quite a while. Haven't met his wifeyet but hope to sometime soon. Jim saysbusiness is booming for him, taking ordersas fast as he can write them out. Am looking forward to our sth reunion, but hopeto see you before then."
A LETTER FROM A FORESTER
Bob Monahan writing from the Darby Field, C. C. C. Camp at Gorham, N. H., under date of August 16, says, in part: "The only '29 man I have seen this summer is Frank Kenison, who is in his father'slaw office at Conway, A 7. H.
"Since late May I have been associatedwith the C. C. C. and am now in chargeof the Darby Field Camp in PinkhamNotch. Our chief projects are the relocation and extensive improvement of theTuckerman Ravine Trail, the construction of a network of special ski trails onWildcat Ridge, the recairning of existingabove-tree-line trails on the PresidentialRange, the policing of the Dolly CoppCamp Ground, and the improvement ofsuch scenic spots as Glen Ellis Falls,Thompson Falls, and Emerald Pool.
"The work is very interesting and themen are reliable. My own experience withthe C. C. C. leads me to believe that thesame partial remedy for unemploymentcould be carried on in smaller scale moreor less permanently, for we haven'tscratched the surface of the non-competitive projects that could be undertaken onthe National Forests in this way.
"My Yale Forest School thesis, 'An Ecological Interpretation of Tree Line,' wasreprinted in the June Appalachia, published by the Appalachian Mountain Club."My first book, 'Mount Washington Reoccupied,' is now about finished and willbe on sale October 1.
"My two companions on the mountainlast winter are still carrying on, but theopportunity for so much worth-whileachievement with the C. C. C. could notbe denied, so I moved to the lowlands. Isee Charlie Proctor quite often in connection with the six ski trails being builtby men of this camp, and yesterday HerbMcCreery dropped in on his return of aclimb up Washington via HuntingtonRavine."
Bill McCaw dropped in on us the other day, vacationing with Mrs. Bill at Narraganset Pier, R. 1., and just returning from a visit to Nashua, N. H., to call on Mr. and Mrs. Trapper Bryant. The trapper is a shoe baron—Thom McAnn. Bill is with the General Electric in Cleveland.
Larry Lougee and Jack Yellin recently passed the New York bar exam.
We hope that the many sectional and city groups will organize and carry out a program through the fall and winter in anticipation of the reunion in June.
"We are sorry to have to announce that Shorty Wemmer died May 16, 1933. A notice appears in the Necrology section of the MAGAZINE.
Secretary, 89 Pleasant St., Newton Center, Mass.
