Class of 1929
You were promised a story or two, and plenty of news. Well, read between the lines of the following communication from Forester Bob Monahan and perhaps you will catch a breath of the hill country, a glance at autumn showing off, an echo from Balch Hill:
"At the request of the supervisor of theWhite Mountain National Forest I haveprepared what is known by the rather impressive name of a 'Ten Year Justified WorkDevelopment Plan,' which consists of scheduling all justified, projects that could beundertaken during the next ten years onthe White Mountain National Forest.
"While gathering information upon proposed jobs, I have enjoyed the opportunityof re-exploring much of northern NewHampshire and Oxford county, Maine,even wandering as far south as easternHanover, which may be included in aproposed extension of the National Forestpurchase boundary.
"It is expected that this information, together with similar data furnished by otherNational Forests, will be considered by thenext Congress as a source for permanentreemployment opportunities.
"Much of the time has been spent at thesupervisor's office in Laconia, where I sawlawyers Lord and Nighswander '29.
"I am still located at Camp Wildwood asproject superintendent of Forest Serviceactivities in the Moosilauke region. Youmay be sure that I appreciate my proximity to Hanover these fall week-ends!"
Ed How, reporting from Chicago, says "See Joe Ruff down in Hammond occasionally he is busy doing a real job managing his hardware business. John Clementspasses on the street once in a while. ArtBuffington has left this vicinity for Minneapolis with his family. Adie Berger ismarried and teaching somewhere in Cleveland. Charlie Shaeffer is with the GeneralElectric Contracts Corp. in Nashville, having gone there recently from Cleveland.Eddie Deans is a budding paper salesmanin Muskegon. Joe Odell ex-'29 is doingsimilar work in Chicago. John Ristine,ex-'29 is with the Donnelly Printing Co.here. I've been with GE since '29, and amnow peddling pots and pans (an affectionate name for electric irons, percolators,fans, cleaners, sun lamps, clocks, etc.) todealers and jobbers here in the city.
"John Minary is a brass hat in someslot machine factory in Benton Harbor,Mich., and says the odds are all his."
The May issue of The Diapason (national paper of the American Guild of Organists) carried an article about Proc Martin which reveals such high merit that we give it to you in full:
"H. Proctor Martin, whose work withthe choir and at the organ in the De VeauxSchool at Niagara Falls, N. Y., is doingmuch to educate the boys under him sothat they will appreciate music in theirlater years, is one of the young leadersamong the organists of today, of whom nodoubt much will be heard in view of theachievements he already has placed onrecord. Mr. Martin is a graduate of Dartmouth College, where he majored in musicand received his degree magna cum laude. One of his activities at the De VeauxSchool, which is a military academy of highstanding under Episcopalian auspices, isthe training of a choir, which is doingwork that attracts favorable attention. ItsChristmas candle-light service December19 in St. Ambrose Chapel was a distinctsuccess, and was repeated outside the schoolby special invitation.
"Mr. Martin began study of the organunder Miss Gladys Gale, A.A.G.O., at hisboyhood home in Barre, Vt. For three yearsduring his high school days he was organist at the Universalist church of Barre.Then he attended Dartmouth College andtook organ under Professor Homer P.Whitford. He was a member of the GleeClub, which won fame in 1928 and 1929by winning the intercollegiate championship in the contest at Carnegie Hall in NewYork. Throughout his college years hewas organist of the First Congregationalchurch at . Lebanon, N. H. In 1928 hedirected the combined choirs of Lebanon,in a production of Stainer's 'Crucifixion.'He has been on the faculty of the De VeauxSchool since his graduation. During vacations he has been continuing his organstudy under Pietro Yon in New York."
"Mr. Martin passed the associateship examination of the American Guild of Organists in 1929."
Russ Holbrook, sending in his regrets at not being able to come East this year for reunion revealed that he is with the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and that
"There hasn't been any '29 activity here.In fact, I have failed to meet a '29 man inSt. Louis. But this doesn't mean that wehaven't plenty of Dartmouth activity. Thelocal association is growing into a big-timeclub now numbering well over 50 members. But so far, no brother classmates haveappeared outside of Johnny Lafey, and hewon't commit himself on which class heconsiders his own."
DAN LUTEN A DOCTOR
Dan Luten, after five years of silence, faithfully reports from the Department of Chemistry, University of California, and says
"The main course of events since I'vebeen out here may be summed up in thebreath-taking statement that I won throughto the doctor's degree last summer. Thatachievement influenced not a whit myhealth and wealth nor, consequently, myhappiness. I felt somewhat better sixmonths later, after I had overcome theshock of the realization that I was facinga life devoid of examinations. Felt awfullylost and purposeless during that period.
"For the last year I've been one of thevery least of the jackals circling about theoutermost fringes of the University budget. They pay me enough to live, but notenough to discourage me from welcominga real job, if and when such arrives. But,on the other hand, I have only one sectionin organic chemistry to handle, and Inever have to be at work before one, andat that hour on only two days a week. Therest of my time is devoted to research or,perhaps better, to the contemplation ofresearch. It has got to be a dreary proposition when one has so many and tenuous ideas in his head that he daren't stayaway from the laboratory for a day forfear that the only one of them worth atinker's dam may slip away from him. So Ihaven't been more than forty miles fromBerkeley in ten months.
"The one solace is that when they revived rugby here on the Coast a year agothis spring I had guts enough to get in "onit. I've had more enjoyment and receivedmore shin scars than in any game I've everplayed. Played for California against Stanford last year before they ruled that ineligibles were ineligible. Does that makeme some sort of a renegade? This year theywouldn't let the ringers play, and so wehad to work in on a club team. Season'srecord: won two, tied two, lost seven plustwo ties in trial games not bad, eh?
"At the Northern California annual dinner there were four Twenty-ninersBlyth Adams, Steve Balkam, Dan Marx,and myself. All looking much the same except Balkam who has-er- grown. I didn'thear any news nothing ever happens inCalifornia, anyway. Aside from these I'veseen no Twenty-niners since I was last inHanover. Concerning several recalcitrantfraternity brothers, I find these driblets ina recent letter; some of them may still benews officially. Stan Piatt was married recently (to whom?) and is now living inChicago. Paid Heftier is hanging on withthe Patent Office in Washington, ProcMartin at the De Veaux School in NiagaraFalls. Al Starrett was at Harvard this year was he ever seen in Cambridge? Probablyowns a Ph.D in math by now."
Jim Hodson, way out there in Seattle, couldn't get East for reunion, lost a five-year opportunity to make the lanes of Hanover echo that nasal Yankee cry, "Whoa Emma!" He's a lawyer, married. We hope he hasn't neglected his talents as an actor. Anyway, he wrote last May:
"A few months ago I got a chance to takea job as escrow officer with the Puget SoundTitle Insurance Co. here, in charge of theclosing of all the Home Owners' LoanCorp. loans. It offered a better salary thanthe connection I had at that time, and invaluable experience in the hundreds ofdetails involved in property law under theCommunity Property system in vogue inthese western states, so that it was too goodan opportunity to pass up. At that time weexpected the Home Owners' to finish itsclosing by June 1, and I thought we wouldbe in the clear by Commencement time.However the state of Washington has pro-duced thirty thousand loan applications, soit looks as if we shall fight it out on thisline for the rest of the summer and possibly until next Christmas."
JOHN HUBBARD'S CHILD
John R. Hubbard couldn't make reunion either, because, as he put it, "There is afirst get-together with a brand-new memberof our family scheduled for just about thattime." The event transpired as scheduled; it is a girl, we hear. Though John is no longer of much importance around his place, he has this to say for himself:
"I have had a job and been able to getthree squares a day since '29, and that'sabout all I can say. I am hoping that a lotof you fellows will be building homes ofyour own that will take plenty of lumber.
"I haven't much '29 news to offer. However, I served as best man for Jack Pillsbury, who married Jean Adams of Quincyon April 21 this year. Jack is doing verywell on the Boston Globe. He and his zoifehave a place of their own out in the country in the large town of Hanover, Mass.Jack works nights in Boston and is a busyfarmer by day.
"I also saw Dick (Red) Kimball, whowas home here in Quincy for a few daysbecause of his mother's death. Red is traveling out of Bangor, Me., this summer forSwift & Co.
"I forgot to mention that one of theushers at the Pillsbury-Adams affair wasRay White."
Larry Lougee is the author of "Reducing the Expense of Regulation," an article appearing in the September 27 issue of Public Utilities Fortnightly. On the editor's page of the magazine appears a photograph of Larry, with a paragraph describing him as "a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School. ... a member of the Massachusetts andNew York bars, and for the past severalyears associated with the legal staff of aNew York utility company." All of which seems to point to very good work, sir.
A son was born to Steve Balkam in Sacramento, April 29, 1934. His name, Gilbert James.
More news from California's excellent alumni publication: "Squeaks from the Golden Gate" relates that Harry Lewis has been in Oakland temporarily, possessor of a son one and a half years, a daughter four and a half.
Ollie Holmes called up the other day to report a residence in Belmont, Mass., and a new office at 145 Tremont St., Boston; the same job, Trixy of Boston.
POLITICIAN KENISON WINS
In the New Hampshire primary of last September Frank Kenison of Conway defeated the present incumbent, Preston B. Smart '24 of Center Ossipee, for the Republican nomination to the office of solicitor of Carroll county.
Bob Brinkerhoff has recently come to Boston to join the staff of the local office of N. W. Ayer and Son, Inc., rating a news story therefor in the Transcript. For the last five years Bob has been connected with the Philadelphia headquarters of that agency.
We report the following affairs of the heart and the hearth:
George Naylor and Constance Mary Garrod, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Arthur Garrod of West Somerville, were married in Hanover, July 2. Mrs. Naylor attended Wheaton College and the Boston School of Occupational Therapy, of which she is now assistant director. George has breakfast and supper at Holden Green, Cam- bridge, is associated with the Boston Law firm of Tyler, Eames, Wright, and Reynolds.
Bill Henretta married Susan Adelaide Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Swett Smith of Kane, Pa., on June 30.
Hal Hirsch married Barbara Ritchie Honeyman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Honeyman of Ilwaco, Wash., on May 21; they are living at 2042 S. W. Madison St., Portland, Ore.
Gus Wiedenmayer married Margaret Louise Morse, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Cary Morse of Newark, N. T. April 27.
Don Simpson married Hazel Virginia Dolphin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Dolphin of Marblehead, Mass., July 25.
Millard Tucker married Marjorie Hoyt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Hoyt of Lynn, Mass., August 31. Tuck is with Loomis, Sayles, and Co., Inc., Boston investment counsel.
Dick Clark married Lucy Dewey Bloom, daughter of Mrs. Emma Bartens Bloom, of Rockport, Mass., September 24. Dick and his bride are living on Adams Hill Rd., Annisquam, Mass.
The engagement of Gene Higby, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Higby of Rochester, N. Y., to Rev. Archie Crowley was announced on August 13. Miss Higby attended the University of Rochester and is now director of religious education at Christ church in Cambridge. Archie graduated from the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge last June, and is now on the staff of St. Paul's Cathedral, Boston.
Jake and Peggy Jaquith have announced the birth of Mary Dorr Jaquith on April 15, 7 1/4 pounds.
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