Class of 1933
We begin our current opus with several doleful, hollow, cheerless, definitely minor chords. This gloomy mood comes as a result of our perusal of the statistics of class contribution to the late Alumni Fund. The class of 1933 placed fifty-eighth in a field of sixty-four. Of 454 living graduates. 128 or 28% contributed $403.72. The per capita contribution of $3.15 was highly commendable. It is, however, disheartening and disillusioning to find that the College can count upon slightly more than one fourth of the class for financial support in one of the most trying periods of its existence. 1932 was in 49th place with 38% giving $-709.37. 1931 was 19th with 64% giving $1,052.75. 72% of 1930 put that class in 12th place with $1,452.56.
An administration officer cautiously chaiacterized the 1933 showing as "not so hot."
To prove that drought, shipwreck, and howling typhoon avail naught in preventing the ever-vigilant Amor from his nefarious work, we present the following: "Mr. and Mrs. Allen Conley Whetstoneannounce the marriage of their daughterBetty Jane to Mr. Henry Franklin Gump111 on Thursday, July twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, Alexandria,Virginia."
"Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Warren Allyn announce the marriage of their daughterHelen Claire to Mr. M. Robert Guggenheim Jr. on Wednesday, June the twentieth, nineteen hundred and thirty-four,Montreal West, Quebec At homeafter July the fifteenth, Mexico City."
"Dr. and Mrs. Charles P. Phillips havethe honour of announcing the marriage oftheir daughter, Dorothy May to Mr.Douglas Stone Kaplinger on Friday, thetwenty-ninth, of June, nineteen hundredand thirty-four, Longmeadow, Massachusetts."
"Mr. and Mrs. William Charles RobertWilliamson request the honour of yourpresence at the marriage of their daughter,Dorothy Marilyn to Mr. Howard RichardSchuemann on Saturday, June the six-teenth, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Syracuse, New York."
We also noted in the New York Times of September 9 the impending nuptials of George Dayton Edwards and Helen Weld Stevens of Greenwich, Conn. The date, September 29, Charles R. Jones Jr., one gathers, will be best man.
One cannot but express confidence in the future of Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Stuart Durkee sounds a pioneering note: "Once more I find myself moved (literally) by the inexplicable functions of BigBusiness. This time I have come to restmomentarily, in the Great Northwest. Ithas been a pleasant experience to find myself in country that is reminiscent of NewHampshire.
"My new address is: c/o General Petroleum Corp., Woodlark Building, Portland,Oregon."
Bill Jones, ardent seeker after culture at the Sorbonne, writes in part to Lym Wakefield:
"Here are a few class news items that Ihaven't noticed reported in Monagan's column yet.
"I. foe Searing is in the mortgage department of the Bowery Savings Bank'smain office in j2d St., N. Y.
"2. Paul Burtis is with the New Yorklaw firm of Gleason, McClanahan, Merritt,
and Ingraham, no more, no less—also working in the mortgage field."3. Ed Hutchings is making great stridesin Donnelly if Co., New York, phone bookand general advertising and publicity firm;also writing some. damn good literature onthe side."
Class Papa Await, recipient in these columns of a flamboyant literary bouquet last spring, writes (also to Lym):
"Your letter just arrived, and its coolgreen Dartmouth letter head sure looksgood in this hot jumping-off place of theworld. I can look at that and think of hillswith snow on them and otherwise waxsentimental while I sit here simmering inmy own juice.
"I've been having myself a time overhere tackling the rudiments of Arabic andsolving the intrigues of the script at theAmerican University. My fond hopes are toget into the consular service, specializing inthe Near East, but it looks like it'll be along time before I can write, 'consul' aftermy name. I'm leaving for home next monthas soon as I'm through here for the summer, and will spend most of my time inanother nice warm place, Washington,studying for the Foreign Service exams.
"This is a great country over here, theonly place I know of—unless it's Amherstwhere the men stoop to do what you and Istand up to do. There are quite a fewAmericans here, but they are mostly missionaries. Dartmouth is represented, be-sides myself, by the American consul, Gordon Merriam '2l, and Hugh Gibbons '3l,who teaches English in the University.
"Hugh and I were planning on taking atrip overland from here to Istanbul, andthen on to Paris where I was to leave him.
"After September my address will beMaadi, Cairo, Egypt."
We have exhumed a letter from Ted Okie sent last May which spoke of Jarve Chapman's having the International Business Machine Cos. and also part of Vassar under his thumb.
Ted also spoke of a class dinner which was to have taken place during the summer and of which we have heard no more.
Ken Jacques sent us a massive missive in re his summer vacation, which con tained the following meaty morsels:
He has finished at the Medical School and will enter McGill with Ralph Keyes and Vin Young In Yellowstone Park during a summer trip he met Bill Dewey and Bob Neibling, "both evidently attracted to Old Faithful by a sorority convention." .... He has received heartening reports of Satch Byers' pachydermic progress at the Penn. Medical School.
Babson isn't married YET.
Celebrates Reunion Dave Hedges '34 caught in the midst of festivities some years ago.
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