Class of 1929
This time Hanover was the Hanover of our fondest memories: the early dusk of an autumnal Saturday lighting up the Main Street widows; eager crowds studying the score boards at the Co-op and across the street at Campion's the strain over when the glance revealed: Dartmouth 14, Penn 7. Students everywhere, the town free from week-ending alumni and visitors. We were neither, for the moment we belonged in Hanover; we wore duxback trousers, heavy boots, and a green-checked shirt, and we hunted all Sunday long with Rip Heneage, Buster Brown, and the young fellow who used to foot all our bills, just like we used to do six, seven, eight, and even nine years ago. Somehow, Hanover has never looked better. Perhaps it was because the newer buildings have lost their look of newness, have been definitely worn into the Hanover landscape, or perhaps it was because the town was the College and the College was the town, living the same quiet sort of week-end we experienced but probably did not appreciate back there prior to 1929. And back in that same Hanover today live Jimmy Cavanagh, Ellie and Marjorie Cavanagh and family, Paul and Janet Woodbridge, Johnny and Virginia Parker and the little Parkers, Joe and Beatrice D'Esopo. They say that they will have the place all warmed up for the best Fifth that Hanover Plains have witnessed since the day Eleazar welcomed the Big Chief back to reunion and bid him broach another keg as of yore.
A LETTER FROM A BANKER 472 Ridge St.,Newark, N. J.
Your letter in the MAGAZINE and themention of this being our fifth year sincegraduation and our ninth since matriculation was a jolting reminder of how fast timepasses.
During that time I have managed to staywith one institution, the National Newarkand Essex Banking Co., starting two weeksbefore the first break in the market in 1929in the investment division, and for the pastyear trying to determine whether such athing as credit was still existent. Leavingout the payroll, I doubt that even youlawyers can deny the extremes of that experience. The picture seems a bit more rosynow, though.
As far as seeing '29ers is concerned, myrecord won't add much.
I see Jack Ackley, who is with the CentralHanover Bank and Trust in New York, andoccasionally Eddie Walsh, Cliff Purse, andArt Rydstrom. Jim Hodge is still active inthe New Jersey alumni group in spite ofhis marriage. Fred Breithut used to be aregular attendant at our monthly luncheons in Newark, but hasn't appeared lately.I was in Chicago in August and managedto reach Dick Burke on the telephone andalso George Case, who had driven out withhis delightful wife from Cleveland.
Jim Hudson finally wrote a lengthy affair from Seattle, indicating that he andPolly Parrott are still alive. Slim Corrigan,whom I saw a year ago, was up this wayfrom Florida about a month ago for a fewdays. Remember me to the Boston boys.
Sincerely,
Gus Herbert, who of late has been extremely active in the Boston mayoralty campaign of Joseph F. O'Connell, married Bernice Burns of Winthrop, September 14 last. In addition to his Boston activities Gus was a candidate for the Winthrop school committee. In addition to being an excellent cook, Mrs. Gus is a graduate of the Massachusetts Art School.
Other matrimonial ventures recently launched include that of Robert Sharp Jones Jr. and Marion Janet Moser on October 20, at Cleveland. The bearer of those tidings was an engraved card, so we can't elaborate upon the fortunes of the groom. The same is true in our story of Frank Weeks, who on the 18th of November married Elsie Crane Watkins at Highland Park, 111. Then there is the report that Larry Shirley was married some time ago to Mary Shaw of Manchester, N. H., a graduate of Vassar. The Shirley homestead has been set up in Goffstown, a suburb of Manchester, whence Larry commutes daily to the Manchester offices of the West Side Lumber Cos.
Still another matrimonial report has it that Bobby Jones, who is head of the educational department of the Northwest Mutual Life, instructing salesmen, took as his wife Carol Agar. When and where we do not know, but report further has it that the bride was a neighbor and childhood playmate of Bill Alexander and that in addition to her household duties she has the time and inclination to study law.
Chris Born is back from his studies abroad, returning home in time to see the Yale game. Chris did quite a bit of flying while in Europe, and made a study of European airways and flying fields. Within a short time he enters the Guggenheim School of Airport Design.
Late one afternoon shortly after the Harvard game as we were hurrying down Devonshire St. we were beckoned into Dick Johnson's store to say hello and how are you to Wen Barney, our Yankee Virginian who works and resides in Richmond and who has enough granite of New Hampshire in his system to take his vacation during the football season and follow the team from Philadelphia to Boston to New Haven. It developed that Richmond is a good place, that a living can be squeezed out of it, that there are not any Dartmouth men in the vicinity, and that too few classmates traveling through stop by to enjoy the treat of hospitality that can be found only in the Old Dominion. Wen told about Ollie Holmes' greatest achievement to date —Nancy Louise, born in or about June, And Ollie rocks the cradle in Jackson Heights, L. I. Between the three of us it was recollected that the following men were seen at the Stadium: Bill Alexander, Paul Kelsey, Bob Waterman, Maurie Rolfe, Johnny Bryant, Phil Gage, Nat Barrows, John Dickey, Paul Woodbridge, Bill White, Dick Rogers, Bill Coles, Phil Mayher, Dud Orr, Ellie Cavanagh. And there probably were many more.
The other evening we rode out on the 5:35 with Chuck Darling. Chuck, somewhat more rotund of face and figure than of old, is a married man, lives in Waban, and is in the newspaper and publishing business, having recently acquired an interest in the Newton publication, the Newton Journal.
Levon Nahigian writes, in part: "SorryI have no news to pass on to you concerning '29. 1 seem to run into collegematesrather than classmates. As for myself, I amin business with my father. (K. H. Nahigian,fine oriental rugs, 2j6 Fifth Ave., NewYork. Ed. note.) A year in Wall St. after college didn't pan out so well and, althoughthis business has been in the well-knownrut for some time, the outlook has brightened considerably the last six months."
The following items are culled from the cards returned to us re the ALUMNI MAGAZINE subscription. It is all good news, albeit some is rather old:
Edson Phelps is principal of Quechee, Vt., two-year high school and grammar school, where he has been teaching for the past four years.
Carl Linn is with the Travelers Insurance Co., Hartford, Conn.
The first of the year Dr. George McKelvey will begin his interneship at the Lakeside Hospital, Cleveland.
Wen Schuh married Arlen Hall June 3, 1931, is in industrial banking, and located in Washington, D. C.
Wat Spangler is employed as a clerk by the McKinney Manufacturing Co. of Pittsburgh.
A. A. Washton (Ted Watchinsky) is working in a law office in New London and studying for the bar.
Bill Wieler received his master's degree from Harvard in 1931, is now in his third year as member of faculty at Eaglebrook, a junior school for boys in Deerfield, Mass.
We are glad to hear that Tux Small made a successful fight against a serious illness, and that he is making good progress toward recovery at his home in Brooklyn.
Arch Crowley is a graduate student at the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge.
Charlie King is with the American Dry Ice Cos., New York.
Ralph Butler married Evelyn P. Boyd, Oct. 1, 1932, in Rochester, N. Y., is a cost accountant with the Dennison Mfg. Co.
Dr. Arch Diack married Frances Novy in June, 1931, will be serving his interneship at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, beginning February 15, 1934.
Dr. R. D. Fairchild is an interne at the Receiving Hospital. Detroit.
Wes Nord married Margaret Randell October 22, 1932, is factory superintendent, Union Furnace Co., Jamestown, N. Y.
Jim Hodson is married and practising law in Seattle.
Dr. John Payne is practising medicine in Washington, D. C.
Noel Salomon married Frances Abigail Delfs, January 1, 1932, is with Crown City Dairy, Pasadena, Calif.
Brettsy Sine married Elspeth Sinclair, July 22, 1933, is superintendent of the Revelstoke Sawmill Co., Calgary, Alberta.
Dick Doe is a gentleman farmer of Dover, N. H.
Bob Simonds is selling for the Eberhard Mfg. Co. of Cleveland.
The combination of Mo Heath, Bill Keyes, and Trunkie Brittan continues. Mo is with Chase National Bank, studies law at night; Bill is with Barney and Co., is their railroad expert; Trunkie is unaccounted for, but we trust he keeps pace with his two little roommates.
Dick Robin was married in St. Thomas', Hanover, in presence of Hi Liss and Heinie Block. We are stupid enough to be uninformed as to the bride's maiden name. However, the groom is selling for Becton, Dickinson Cos. of Rutherford, N. J., druggist, surgical, and dental specialists, covering the New York territory.
George Lane married Emily Apgar, August 8, 1931, became the father of Leman George Lane on October 15, 1932, is teller in the mortgage department of the New Haven Savings Bank.
Charlie Proctor married Mary Miller of Winnetka, 111., September 13, 1932. We saw Charlie one evening last summer at Peckett's, Franconia, N. H. He was laying out some ski trails in the region. Without knowing just exactly what Charlie is doing at present, we do know that between his interest in the sporting goods store of Asa S. Osborne, Federal St., Boston, and his recognized position as an authority on all matters relating to skiing, he is much in demand and extremely busy.
Jack Blair and Herb Wollison are living together at 150 East 49th St., New York. Jack has been studying law and preparing for the late October New York bar examinations. The class is about to have another lawyer. It might be well to open a class bar association.
John Reilly received his A.B. degree in June, 1933.
Walt Kirkpatrick is practicing law in Lexington, Ky.
Johnny Neal is with the Division of Investigation, U. S. Department of Justice, and is located in St. Paul, Minn.
Walt Gutterson is doing graduate work at Harvard.
John Sherwood married Priscilla Noyes of Omaha, Neb., June 30, 1930, is manager of the Walbrath and Sherwood lumber yard.
Mr. and Mrs. Al Fisher have a son, James Mackay Fisher, born August 25, 1931.
Buff Buffington married Dorothy Wadsworth, in Council Bluffs, lowa, September 6, 1931, and is the father of John W. Buffington, born Aug. 10, 1932. On last report Buff had just moved the lares and penates to Minneapolis.
Charlie Goldsmith is still at his post in Trinidad, B. W. 1., as foreign representative of Metro Goldwyn Mayer. His address is 10 Brpadway, Port of Spain, and somehow sounds as romantic as one of Charlie's movies.
Percy Russell came back to New England to find the girl to marry: Marjorie Allemann of West Newton on June 10, 1933- The young jurist and wife are residing at 1716 H St., N. W., Washington, D. C.
Les Townsend is an interne at the Bellevue Hospital, New York. Though many probably knew it as undergraduates, still many others never knew that Les was married to Eleanor Wallace of Gilmore City, lowa, on August 29, 1928. Which goes to show that the tribal scribe is no sleuth.
Reed Banks is in the insurance business in Hartford, Conn., living at 17 Haynes St.
Sonny Hetfield, the broad jumper, has turned lawyer these many months, and is practising in Plainfield, N. J.
Kin Batchelder is with the Pemigewasset National Bank, Plymouth, N. H.
John R. Hubbard is a lumber salesman with the Stone Lumber Co., Boston. His marriage to Marion Walsh of Quincy, Mass., took place September 19 of this year.
Bud Purdy is with the Fundamerican Corp., 40 Exchange Place, New York, which deals with living trusts, we are told. Previously Bud was with the brokerage firm of E. A. Pierce & Co. On June 1, 1932, Bud married Rachel Eleanor Lewsen of Mt. Vernon, N. Y., where the Purdy home now is at 136 Park Ave.
We regret to announce the death of Lawrence S. Martin in September of this year.
Secretary, 89 Pleasant St. Newton Center, Mass.
