Class of 1916
3589 Avalon Rd., Shaker Heights, Ohio No matter how badly off we think our- selves to be, remember that it could be worse. Remember too, that in spite of all things material, Dartmouth has to carry on, and that each one of us has a share in making this possible. In other words the Alumni Fund drive starts this month. You readers of this column have been in the past 80% of our total, just as you have been the backbone of all class and college activities since graduation. This year we need that support, and as you know the sooner you contribute it the more time Rog Evans has to give to those whose support has been spasmodic and who need continual reminders that they have a work to do and have not as yet done it. Remember too that your contribution early has more value to it in that further follow-up expense is eliminated. Rog and his committee has no easy task, but they are prepared to go after it with all their might. Help them by sending your contribution upon receipt of the first call.
Jock Fletcher, located in Detroit, is now an investment counselor with R. W. Halsey and Company.
Horace Fishback, after considerable banking experience with National City Bank and International Banking Corporation, has settled in Brookings, S. D., where he is cashier of the National Bank of that city.
To George Smith I am indebted for the news concerning Bones Joy. George is connected with the advertising agency of McCann and Erickson of New York city. George has as one of his duties the advertising of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. Their latest radio program has been the presentation of the Marx Brothers. When they were broadcasting from New York city studios, Bones Joy did the music and conducted the orchestra for them. When the Marx Brothers departed for California, Bones very nearly decided to go with them. But due to another program, "Dancing Strings," on the air Thursday nights at 9:30, he had to abandon this idea. No doubt but you men in the East and South have heard it. George says that it is the best thing of its kind on the air. So, if you have not heard it, better tune in. Many thanks, George, for the news of Bones and yourself.
John Butler and George Smith because o£ the lateness of application for tickets were unable to hear President-elect Roosevelt when he recently spoke before a Harvard Club dinner. You see both took graduate work at Harvard. To assuage his sorrow John bought a farm in Vermont to serve as a summer place for his family. Have not heard what George did.
Leigh Rogers spends all his spare time and effort on his new book. Hence any direct word from Leigh is of course out of the question until said book is finished.
In the January issue of the ALUMNIMAGAZINE you all no doubt read of the Hitchcock Clinic as described so well by Natt Emerson. Well, 1916 representation is none other then J. Gile. John during January had to spend ten days in Dick's House to recuperate from an illness, just to show you that even doctors get that way.
Ken Henderson reports from Chicago nothing of importance. Yet I learn from Hen Green that a two-man 1916 reunion was held in Dallas the first part of the year. The two present were Hen Green and Ken Henderson.
John Ames as secretary and treasurer of the officers of the First Division will stage on March 11 at Hotel Commodore, New York city, the fourteenth annual dinner of that group.
Neal Brewer for the past ten years has been connected with the Standard Oil Company of New York. Is at present superintendent of the Maine district and has headquarters in Portland.
Burton Lowe is vice-president and secretary of the Chemical Catalog Company of New York city. With his family, wife, daughter, and son, lives in Scarsdale. Adds that fortunately no deaths and bankruptcies and unfortunately no trips to Europe either on business or pleasure.
And word comes from the hills of West Virginia that not only is he a good judge of that but also a good judge of dogs. On the "that" we all know his prowess, and for proof of the dog part he adds that he is to be a judge in a Cleveland show in March. Details of his visit here will be listed after his appearance. Welcome, Ed Knight.
To Bailey Van Ness Emery goes the banner for the month—a real nice letter, such as Bailey can write but which I have never had the good fortune to receive before. The Emery Company of Tulsa, Okla., keeps Bailey occupied most of the time, though he has taken time enough off to get East every year and take in some of the football games and a few "hashings over" of old times with men in New York city especially. Bailey lost his first wife, but is married again and has one girl, and still hoping for a boy to be a bigger and better man than his father. Bailey reports that Arno Behnke is in Fort Worth, Texas, where he is employed as office manager for the Amerada Petroleum Corporation. I think that Bailey expresses our feelings exactly: "Things in the oil industry, likeeverything else, are pretty much on therocks, and Tulsa has been particularly hardhit, and, of course, we have suffered alongwith everything else. But, 'while there islife, there is hope,' and paraphrasingRobert Henley, 'our heads may be bloody,but not bowed.'"
For a little local news of Cleveland and vicinity—Bill McKenzie has transferred his efforts from the original tire equipment division of Goodyear to the mechanical sales division, where he is the chief. Spent the week of the auto show in New York, and no doubt but some of you automotive men saw him there, though I have had no report of details from him.
Carl Holmes, in order to carry out his hockey program at the Hawken School, where he is headmaster, constructed two places on his campus for flooding when cold weather appeared. Up to date this weather has been like prosperity, just around some corner. So his basketball team receives all the publicity and deserves it, for they have not as yet lost a game this season.
Ruby McFalls was elected to the executive committee of the Cleveland Club two weeks ago—even though he was not present.
So keep in your mind: "That check for the Alumni Fund is to be sent upon receipt of first appeal."
Secretary,
