Class of 1932
The summer has seen a very definite let-down in the sending in of news items to these quarters. I hope that this is only seasonal, and that by the 10th of October, which is the deadline for the next month's issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, there will be a great accumulation of notices regarding the events that have transpired since last June. The Alumni Records Office in Hanover has faithfully supplied me with changes of address that come to their attention, but these probably represent a small fraction of all the items that should go down in the class records before they are lost track of. Moreover it is highly important during these first few post-college years that the Secretary should be posted on the activities and changes of activities among the members of the class. Only in that way can any kind of biography be set down in the records of the class.
On May 17 a very incoherent telegram came from John Swenson announcing the birth of a seven-pound son, Stephen Shaler Swenson. John says with pride that this is the first boy born to a graduate, and as far as I know he is right. Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. S! There are at hand only two formal notices of weddings, although I have heard rumors of two more. Hank Kingdom married Margaret Smith of Atlanta on the fourteenth of June, and A 1 McLaughlin, on the first of July, married Mariance Blatchley of Meriden, Conn. Dick Hazen wrote me concerning the nuptials of Jack Hamel:
"I have just returned from Jack Hamel'swedding, and figured you will want thedope on it in the fall. Hence, I'll write younow before I forget it. Jack and MargaretMacKenzie were married yesterday (July12) at the bride's house in Syracuse. JeffJeffery was best man (he and Jack just reversed positions from last year), and MikeCardozo, Bob Harrison, Dan Gage, and myself were ushers. A very sxvell time washad by all for three days before the wedding. Bride and bridegroom managed toescape us only by hopping into the sidecar of a policeman's motorcycle while fiveother cops warded off all pursuers. I waswell scared and thought we had one of thecops dead at least twice. Jeff and Dotbrought along their three-months-olddaughter for the festivities, and alreadythe child can swim from one end of thebathtub to the other.
"Several weeks ago I was in Hartford atDan Gage's, and finally got Keyworthalso present—to admit that he had beensingularly honored recently. He is nowsecretary of the Baby Carriages and theDoll Carriage Manufacturers Association.That's straight stuff, and I defy anyone inthe class to present a more formidabletitle "
In Wall Street canyons I have seen: Pettengill of the Central Hanover, Morton of the Chase National, and Wilkin of Phelps Dodge. At lunch with various of this trio I gathered that Morton and Wilkin were thinking of going back for early football practice. Bat Collins finished second in his class at law school in Albany although he was doing library work on the side, which, together with his studies, kept him busy sixteen hours per diem. Modarelli is going to be at Pennsylvania Medical School this fall. Deak Mack was working in a factory in Westfield over the summer, and I think will be back in Washington at law school this next winter. Jim North is still with the U. S. Rubber in New York. He says that John Palmer is working for his father in Akron. George Bladworth had a bad case of pneumonia early in the summer, but has recovered fully and is back at Hemphill Noyes, 15 Broad St. Dave Kirby was working downtown during the summer and will be back at Harvard Business School this winter. I thought I saw Joe Fanelli on lower Broadway one steaming hot day, but never got through the crowd enough to speak to him. Latest of the Wall Street bunch that I know of is Warren Moore. Ed Marks, having had one brewing paper fold up under him, is now affiliated with another, the name of which escapes me at the time. John Clark, New Canaan's newest editor, and I went up to Waterbury to stay with Scully Smith and John Monagan at a villa thev have taken for the summer.
Last May a letter clearing up part of the mystery of those two beachcombers, Newcomb and Cleaves, came from the latter, postmarked Washington. He is secretary to Congressman Gillette of lowa. Last March, upon the offer of this position he left Martinique for Porto Rico, thinking it would be simple to get a job on a boat from there to the States. One refusal after another of any' kind of berth left him with no alternative in his financial straits other than stowing away. Which he did in very fine style—first class on a passenger liner—and suffered only a few hours in the brig as a consequence.
Walser was a towel and linen salesman at Gimbel's at last notice. Incidentally Cleaves' letters to Whip and myself describing life on Martinique were quoted in an article by Chuck O'Neill in the September Vanity Fair. Joe Slattery wrote a postcard in June from Vera Cruz, having shipped down there on the Oriente, wanting to know if Walser would consider him seaworthy enough to join the cruising fraternity. Hosmer has once more reached port after a trip around the world on the Steel Scientist, but I haven't had a chance to get verbal report of this latest voyage. And apparently we may have to wait for an account of that, for it seems that he may soon be going off again somewhere. John Keller has moved to Gainesville, Texas, where he lives at 213 Church St. From Rog Hofheins to J. Clark:
"Since my withdrawal from the environsof Hanover I have been battling the somewhat distressed business elements. Aftera rather vigorous training in the homeoffice of a large insurance company I hungout my own shingle, as it were, and havebeen going along fairly well in this lineof endeavor ever since. The general brokerage field is the principal position of thisoffice. However I have been specializing inmarine insurance of late."
John Bell was in New York early in the summer looking for a place on one of the local newspapers, but not having succeeded immediately, has gone back to Salem, Ohio, to rest up before the next assault. As of May 9, Ned Disque was at the University , of Missouri School of Journalism, but I haven't heard anything since then.
Secretary, 24 E. 38th St., New York
