Class of 1929
Hanover in her brightest autumnal grab, Delta Alpha's freaks, a Norwich game with few, very few, familiar faces in the stands, and best of all the Class Baby. We drove back on a fair, warm week-end, picking up Dud Orr in Concord, in time to see the tail end of the Delta Alpha parade. The Lebanon road was so crowded as we drove into town that we had to leave the car at an auto park. It was Buster Brown's, and he said that the birds were plentiful this season, thanks to a favorable spring and summer. After the game, when we returned to the car, Buster had disappeared —he was out in the street, fully uniformed, directing traffic. During the game we noticed that there wasn't a single hot-dog or "crispies" vendor who could approach our memories of that best salesman of all —Steve Balkam, that the head cheer leader didn't seem to combine size and grace as well as Phil Mayher used to (or didn't Phil, either?). But we did see that Hughie Mack (Mr. Hugh MacLaughlin) still sits on the players' bench ready to hurry back to the Field House to nurse an injured player back to condition, that Harry Hillman is still the best-dressed trainer in the East, and that Balch Hill has not forgotten how to put on its loveliest dress when dusk begins to shadow Memorial Field. A few rows below us we discovered the Class Baby's parents, also a gentleman from Plattsburg, a certain Mr. Phil Fitzpatrick. The Cavanaghs invited us to call and talk old times over with Jimmy, that youngster who drinks his Hanover milk from out a silver mug that bears legend: "Class of 1929, Dartmouth Class Baby, James Ellsworth Cavanagh Jr." We accepted eagerly and made our way to a residence out in the countryside just opposite the ski jump on the road leading to Mel Adams Cabin. There we met Jimmy, had a long talk with him about the class and what sort of alumni body it was developing into. When we told him that he would have a chance to look us all over next June at our Fifth, he was unable to conceal his enthusiasm any longer and set about to express it by standing on his head, much to our amusement and delight. His excitement made it difficult to understand all his words, but the idea he successfully expressed to us all was that he found it difficult to wait for the approach of June and the Fifth, and that he believed the entire class must have the same keen anticipation for the reunion. "My," he managed to say, all breathless from his acrobatics, "if it's such wonderful fun living in Hanover, just think of the fun we can have holding our Fifth here next June." So say we all, Jimmy, and the only regret we have about our visit with you is that your bedtime cut it short as early as it did. Before saying good-bye to the Cavanaghs, we should say that the reason for Jimmy's presence in Hanover is that Ellie is studying medicine, enrolled in the Medical School. And we might further say that Jimmy has a kid brother to look after now, a little fellow no more than five or six months old, a worthy addition to any man's family.
While in Hanover we also saw Paul Woodbridge, who is entering his second year as a Hanover resident, carrying on an advertising business very successfully and living in the home on Occorn Ridge formerly occupied by the widow of Professor Young.
The other Saturday evening, thanks to Herb McCreery and the Dartmouth Outing Club of Boston, fourteen of us had a good supper out at the Outing Club's cabin in Groton, and later saw the class movies at a near-by farmhouse. Those present, in addition to Herb, were Jack Knight, George Foss, Dwight Allen, Al Finlay, Hi Liss, John Dickey, Pinkie Flannery, Squeak Redding, Dick Johnson, Brooks White, Johnny Calver, and Ralph Ardiff. It seems that Jack Knight is a doctor now, interne at Boston City Hospital, that Ralph Ardiff is with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. and is to be married October 14 to Marjorie Burrill of Beverly, where they will set up housekeeping and where Ralph will be in business, that Johnny Calver is at Boston University Law School, that Pinkie Flannery is at Harvard Medical, that Al Finlay married Lucy Allen Morrill July 23, 1932, that George Foss was married to Barbara Cowles of Westfield in May, 1932, works for the General Motors Truck Co. in Boston, is the father of Edna Cowles Foss, who hasn't had her first birthday yet, that Hi Liss has just returned from a Bermuda vacation, that Squeak Redding has just been admitted to the Massachusetts bar, having graduated from B. U. Law School last June, that Squeak's engagement to Loretta Clark of Medford was recently announced.
From various sources—mostly Dick Johnson and the cards which have been returned to us in response to the inquiry regarding the class unit subscription to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE—we have gathered the following news items:
Frankie Foster, now Dr. Foster please, is serving his interneship at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
Ray Hedger married Eva Dorothy Lang ley, August 26, 1933.
Bill Williamson is in the ice business in Niagara Falls.
Bob Collins is practicing law in Los Angeles.
Bob Ramage married Statia Brill of Ithaca, N. Y., August 18, 1933, and is living in New York.
George Yeaton is a headline writer for the Springfield Union.
Beau Ehler received his M.D. cum laude from Yale last June, and was awarded the Parker prize, which is given to the student who has shown the best qualifications for a successful practitioner.
Bob Monahan's engagement to Alice Denton Haynes of Pawtucket, R. 1., was recently announced.
Chris Born is studying at the Ecole Americaine Des Beaux-Arts at Fontainebleau, majoring in sculpture and doing water colors on the side.
Jerry Swope was in Boston recently as counsel for an affiliate of International Paper, attending a meeting of a trade association drafting an NRA code.
Another man to whom the NRA means business is Bill Magenau, who has an important administrative job with the New Hampshire branch.
Proctor Martin is teaching Latin at the DeVeaux School, Niagara Falls, N. Y., is basketball coach, organist, and choirmaster. He is also a member of the Guild of Organists.
Nat Barrows is learning the wool business with Draper & Co. of Boston. Nat's daughter Elizabeth Ann was born March 6, 1933-
Bill Page of the Page Milk Co., Merrill, Wis., reports that David Page was born May 24, 1932.
Potsy Poeter married Justina Klebsattel April 17, 1933, and is serving his year of law apprenticeship in Newark, N. J.
Karl Pittlekow is a member of the faculty of the Cranbrook School, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
Will Christman is chief clerk in the Sun Oil Co. offices in Cleveland.
Jim Morse is teaching and coaching in Rumford, Me.
Jim Stewart is teaching at the Cranford, N. J., High School, and was married to Mary E. Stearns June si, 1933, in Scarsdale, N. Y.
Bob Drake is studying law at Columbia, and reports the birth of a daughter, Janet, August 9, 1933.
Dick Sanders is in business in St. Paul, and reports the birth of a son, Richard Miller, June 16, 1933.
Fred Martin is in the wholesale coal business in Chicago, Ill.; was married to Martie Davison December ag, 1932. Bill Davenport is instructor in English at Columbia.
And that is enough for the present. Next month we shall have more time to write a more intelligent and interesting letter. This past month has been devoted to filing and noting the statistics sent in by those of you who returned to us the card regarding the ALUMNI MAGAZINE subscription. The returns, by the way, were rather disappointing. We had hoped that regardless of your determination to take the MAGAZINE you would return the card to us, just to let us know that you are still active members of the class.
Secretary, 89 Pleasant St., Newton Center, Mass.
