Class of 1930
After two class letters, we will swing into the ALUMNI MAGAZINE year with a minimum of extraneous chatter and a maximum of good intentions. To the MAGAZINE reading "public" we dedicate these gossip columns with promises for as copious a clearing house of tasty morsels as can be garnered from a well-meaning but extraordinarily lazy group of prematurely senile alumni, and a pledge to tell the truth as often as it is convenientnever, in fact, to sacrifice the verities excepting in the interests of, shall we say, color. It is not to your credit that, as a public, you are somewhat "select"—only a tribute to the astounding inertia of some of your classmates and their extreme reluctance to spend money. It is encouraging, at least, that you are somewhat nearer to the "masses" this year than last, and without further preface we submit this to you—carrion to the general.
COLLIE YOUNG gave advance notice that he expected to show up in Hanover this summer, but apparently changed his plans meanwhile. His excuse for failing to write has been that on each occasion there was a yawning white space to be filled to make a closing date—"white space in such erudite journals as Hardware Age, Pacific CoastBreeders' Gazette, or the Archives of Pediatrics." Advertising is Collie's line.
GEORGE WRIGHT is, he says, frying his own bacon and eggs. He has been connected with the Illinois Power and Light Corporation in Chicago since 1928, and "now buys what few items our Illinois towns have the nerve to requisition," in the purchasing office. George refers to taking "the road that leads to Greece," whatever that is.
TAIL RUMPF picked up his Alumni Fund ante by combing the Chicago beaches and matching pennies with MICKEY EMRICH. Rumpf, of the investment department of the Harris Trust and Savings Bank, is one of those with fingers crossed about the new Securities Act.
GEORGE TUNNICLIFF wrote from the Aluminum Club, New Kensington, Pa., that if business continued to improve he hoped to be out of said town within a few months. This was written at the end of June, and for all we know George may be most anywhere by this time.
BILL MAY, holder of the position of assistant general manager in a textile plant, "five mills making approximately 60-70,000 yards of cloth weekly— (all fine men's wear worsteds)," wrote during the Fund campaign with great willingness to purchase a pair of pants for the pantsless Indian and urged all the boys to purchase pants and help the mills keep busy. It seems that BUNKY LEWIN had stopped in for dinner with the Mays, leaving in a great rush to keep a date. Bill brings the vital statistics up to date, saying "wife, Clara, May 28, 1931; daughter, Cynthia nee July 23, 1932. Both are fine."
CHICK POOLER changes his address to a new street in Belmont, Mass. He has so far managed to keep from falling into the soap vats of Lever Brothers Company at Cambridge.
Wis CLARK writes of being "transferredfrom the New York branch office to theHartford branch office of the TravelersInsurance Company" and gives an address of 9 Central Row, Hartford.
GEORGE FRANSON gives a new address at 85 Argyle Road, Brooklyn, N. Y., and a business address at the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1 Madison Ave., New York City, with no further '3O news excepting a phone call from HANK SALISBURY.
Apparently there was some twisting of envelopes this spring, because FRED TANGEMAN sent back a scrawled note addressed from Hanover to STU SEIDL, reflecting succinctly: "Here's probably one reasonyou haven't heard from Stu," which left us without any news about either Seidl or Tangeman.
HERM SCHNEEBELI, to return to that Swiss power house, passed on the news that GEORGE PORTER, who has one more year to go at the George Washington University Law School, has got himself engaged. No further details were given. BROWNIE (W. M.) BROWN discarded plans to attend our casual unofficial reunion to save himself for the arduous duty of standing up with KEN KULL at Ken's marriage to Barbara Nash in Wisconsin, July 3-
From Pittsfield there came in June a letter from BILL DEARSTYNE, who has found business "pretty much all-absorbing, volume good but profits shot." Business is tobacco. Bill gave the news of his marriage to Ellen Evans in Albany, August 26, 1930—news we ought to have had long ago. BILL BLAIS is the only Thirtyman whom Bill sees.
BUD BRY writes from Corn Lane Cottage, Shrewsbury, N. J., saying that he is now engaged in contracting and building. His own place is almost 200 years old and apparently provides an opportunity for the use of his constructive imagination during odd moments, for remodeling. His son, Neil William, aged eight months in June, already babbles about Hanover.
We still have a representative in Cairo, HUGH GIBBONS occupying the old Horn address at 113 Sharia Kasr-Al-Aini. The news about Hugh is relayed through NELSE ROCKEFELLER. Hugh spent the summer in Cairo, saying the hot weather was highly agreeable, working mornings in his library at the American University.
We are now getting up to more recent times.—DlCK BUTTERFIELD sends a beautiful picture of the Matterhorn while on a supposedly architectural journey through Europe.—BlLL HARRISON writes from 1438 East Lake Road, Erie, Pa., sending his MAGAZINE subscription and crossing out the blank for marriages and engagements, reporting himself as having been working at various things and at present testing paper in the chemical lab of Hammermill Paper Company with a view to "selling same later on."—JOE PLACAK is sailing for Germany this month for a half year's study in Freiburg. He reports WARREN PARISH starting his interneship at the Philadelphia General Hospital in October; CHRISTMAN interning in the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit; HARRIS married and with a berth at the Cleveland City Hospital, etc. He is trying to track down the rumor that 808 RIX is married, which we have on the authority of BEN PARISH as false.—ED WARREN has been vacationing in Europe with his family, where he saw WENT SAWYER, WIN STONE, FRAN HORN, and WAYNE VAN LEER. "Went is working again after his illness," Ed reports, "and the other three are traveling millionaires." Ed flew to Berlin to verify the reports concerning Herr Hitler, and avers that we, even we, would be surprised.
AL MARSTERS has had a grand tour through the West as counselor for a young man, doing 6500 miles by automobile and taking the boat through the Canal, visiting Havana on the way home, then departing immediately for New York to act as usher at BOTTOME'S wedding. Al is starting his last year at the Boston University Law School and is assisting in coaching the football team at Beverly, Mass.
PETE LILLARD dropped in during July on his way through town, leaving a note. He was reported to be on his way to Andy Kerr's coaching school at Colgate.
Two letters from DICK ZEIGLER at the end of June and the end of August, reporting no Thirtymen excepting JIM TAYLOR, who apparently was lost soon after beingdiscovered. Dick is still with the Chittenden Hotel at Columbus, auditing.
Among the other callers was AVE RAUBE, who likewise left a note. He was here with STEW WARNER pushing golf balls, as he expressed it, "into, through, and once in a while over," the gorges.
TED TOBEY was in the other day, leaving a great collection of news. He was accompanied by his wife and police dog. He is now local manager for the Curtis Publishing Company in Lawrence. Ted attended GUNNAR HOLLSTROM'S wedding and reported on BILL WALKER'S small daughter Joanne. We apparently have never had notice of Bill's marriage to his wife, Edith, of Gardner, Mass., July, 1931. Tobey reported seeing 808 HOOKER recently. Bob is at present at home in Melrose, Mass., and expects to be doing landscape gardening in Florida this winter.—ROLLY BOOMA is reported to be a dealer in oil burners. JAY ALEXANDER was GUNNAR HOLLSTROM'S best man at the wedding. JAY, TOBEY, and WALKER represented the class there.
AD RUGG writes of his affiliation with John W. Stokes, certified public accountant, of 1775 Broadway, New York City. The Stokes firm is in the General Motors Building, and does auditing for several dealerships throughout the country in which General Motors has an investment. It is a new organization and Ad is in on the ground floor. He plans to continue studying at Columbia in the evenings this winter. He reports seeing STEW WARNER at the Yankee Stadium, the latter still working for his father and living out in Paterson. Ad also saw Vic BORELLA checking up on his taxi-drivers in Grand Central station. GEORGE PARKHURST attended the Alpha Chi Rho convention in New York, but was not to be seen, according to Ad, who reports FRED HOLDEN with the Boston Corporation at 100 Broadway, living at London Terrace. This about concludes the Rugg installment.
RUSTY MORRILL is a "cog in the Macy wheel" in New York and "much interested." Rusty makes cheerful references to the CARNELLS and to the BLANCHARDS, including the Blanchard twins. He also reports a practically incomprehensible card from PAT WEAVER, the Los Angeles advertising man.—Another cog in the Macy wheel, one JOHN HOLME, appeared one August day in Hanover en route to the White Mountains, full of questions about the Aeronautical Club.
Now by the inexorable progress of the vicious cycle we come back to the insidious question of Blessed Events.—There is, for example, HERB CHASE, who was encountered on Main St. here in the company of his new wife.The latter recently had been one Marjorie Allen. The minute we spotted an orchid on her shoulder we knew there was something significant. They were on their wedding trip.
Then early this month there arrived MAX HORWITX and his wife, the latter of whom until September 3 had gone under the name of Frances Levine, of New Haven, Conn. They will be living at 516 Orange St., New Haven, while Max continues his work in physiological chemistry. From Max we obtained two learned pamphlets, ctne reprinted from the Proceedings of theSociety of Experimental Biology and Medicine and the other from the Journal ofPharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. The title of the first was: "Obserations on Behavior of the Pigment from Concord Grapes in the Animal Body." The other composition was the joint work of Max and two other fellas, and dealt with "The Water Content of the Rat Liver in Shiga Vaccine Fever and Amidopyrine Antipyresis." You may readily see that we are over our depth and we dare say you are too. Max is doing swell work, and will no doubt bring fame on the class before he gets through.
Then there is the following announcement: "Mrs. Henry Clay Dickinson requests the honor of Mr. Blank's presence at the marriage of her daughter, Sally Lewis, to MR. CLARENCE RYLAND CHASE at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Shanghai, China, on Monday, October 9, at 12 o'clock."
From SAM BUTLER comes news of an event scheduled for November 8, being the marriage of himself and Barbara Stark, of Worcester, Mass. Sam reported a letter from GORDON GRANGER, who is doing welfare work in New Rochelle, and an encounter with AL FINK, who is selling his famous shoes to Worcester's leading stores.
Going on with these B. E.'s, we have the date from HARRY DUNNING for his marriage to Kathleen Elaine Mulligan of Hartford, Conn., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Mulligan. The date is October 10, and the couple sails for California on the 13th. They will pause at Havana, Puerto Colombia, Balboa, Cristobal, San Salvador, Guatemala, etc., and will probably send us an address in San Francisco.
Reaching a climactic pitch, we come to the letter from Skipper HAFFENREFFER, not only reporting on the BOTTOME fracas, in which he was the field marshal, but giving a news scoop. See for yourself:
"Back from New York. Got BOTTOME married in fine fettle. Paul Kruming '2B, PETE CALLAWAY, BUCK STEERS, BILL JESSUP, A. K. MARSTERS were ushers. I was headman for Bob. Mike Sherman, Myles Lane,Mulrooney, and W. R. Hearst were not inthe line-up, but sat in the cheering section. Bob and Kathleen sailed for Bermuda on the Monarch of Bermuda. . . . Fun was had, decidedly.
"And now for the real Big Scoop of theyear, nay, of the era. HAFFENREFFER (hisself) is bewitched! On Saturday or thereabouts of this week [mid-September] oneMrs. J. B. Huffard of Plandome, L. 1., willannounce the engagement of her daughter(a lovely flower) to C. W. H. of your ownclass! Miss Carolyn Huffard—met by C. XV.H. at Tom Patterson's wedding—in whichboth of them were bathing (f)—was bawnin V'ginia .... New York .... San Francisco .... got her larnin' in Bryn Mawr. . . . Harcum .... college below the M.ir D. line The Big Parade will be inJanuary or February—do come!"
CHRISSINGER'S item, a true B. E., can hardly be anti-climactic. "After a fewweeks' practice, I can now put on diapers,using any boy scout knot," Chris writes. "On August 16 the stork (sissy, says you)brung the swellest little girl to our house,so we called her Jean Blaine; the Jeanfrom nowhere and the Blaine from herdaddy."
That seems to polish off the '3O efforts in behalf of the race.—A few miscellaneous items and we're done. ELLIE ARMSTRONG, Peg, and child, a delectable morsel, came to Hanover early this month, but by an inimical chain of circumstances were seen only in passing.—DlCK FUNKHOUSER will be back at Princeton doing graduate study in economics FRED SCRIBNER is settled down as a practicing attorney in Portland, Me. He is with Cook, Hutchinson, Pierce, and Connell, in the Fidelity Building, available to any '3O man who becomes embroiled in the toils of Maine laws (although he forbade us to mention this, inasmuch as advertising is against the legal code of ethics and he might be disbarred.) .... Somewhere there is a later note from KELSEA MOORE, but in June he was working as a sort of assistant in a chemical laboratory in La Tuque, Quebec, after two years' graduate work at Tech.
Secretary, Administration Bldg. Hanover, N. H.
