Class of 1932
In Hanover, over the Virginia game, the only apparent '32 element was made up of Bob Lewis, Freddy White, Bill Britten, Don McPhail and Ping Ferry, who provided my transportation up from New York. He left his reporter's desk on the Detroit Free Press in October and at this writing is looking for a similar job on a New York sheet Bob Lewis left college his junior year and spent most of the intervening time farming somewhere north of Hanover. He says, surprisingly enough, that he broke a little more than even on the farm, and has made small sums of money on the side, boxing professionally. Late in the summer he decided to finish his college course, and now he is enrolled with 1936, a little forlorn that there are no Hanover traces of the peerless class of 1933 and a little rusty in laying aside the plow for the pen, but withal happy to be in college again, as who among us gaffers wouldn't be?
The task of blocking freshman rushes into the Nugget, once willingly assumed by a rugged Paleopitus, is now taken care of by a few adroitly flung tear bombs.
Ed Judd has transferred to Rush Medical School in Chicago as a third year student. Stan Yudicky is also there in the same class. Ed writes that his address is 1804 W. Congress St. . . . . that he sees a lot of Johnnie Sheldon in Glencoe, and has been on a couple of darn good parties with Ryan and Goodwillie. He closes his letter with the half nostalgic, half premonitory order to "please shed a tearfor me at the Yale gathering. First oneI've missed in seven years."
It was a good gathering, Ed. There were more '32 men than you could shake a pennant at, and consequently I gave up making notes of all those present. Davis and North, however, were very much in evidence in Portal 29, as were to a more subdued degree: Pletz, Adkins, McPhail, McGuire, Chandler, Benezet, G. Mac- Kenzie, Rushmore, Todd, the Zimmermen, Weisenfluh, Schneider, Keyworth, Carleton, Gage, Hatcher, Hazen, Jack Hall, JAmos Wright, Ben Hill, Hirschberg, Wilkin, Morton, McCall, Pettengill, G. S. Collins, Ferry, and Pierpont.
Whip Walser is "now on a beautifulranch, 1200 acres, at the foot of the Rockies. We had a successful deer hunt a fewweeks ago and came out with three 195pound, two-point bucks on each one ofour horses. Since then I've eaten venisonthree times a day and like it more thanever.
"We do a lot of riding and hunting andhardly ever come across anyone, since thisplace is way back in the hills and we comeout about every two weeks to take in adance thirty miles away."
Whip had bad luck at Randolph Field, where he and Frank Peart were flying cadets (F. P. still is). As a result of four changes in instructors he fell behind in his training and apparently tried to catch up by doing four and a half turns to a spin instead of two or three, and coming out of them not at the required altitude of a thousand feet, but just above the mesquite or whatever it is that grows out there.
He continues, "I then took a trip intoMexico, where I had a fine time celebrating their Independence Day and drinkingtheir famous 'toquilla,' made from thecactus plant. It tastes something like thegin we made in Hallisey's bathtub From Mexico I came up to Castle Rockto a friend's ranch, where I stayed amonth, doing a lot of riding and helpingout on the range. I went into Denveronce and saw Eddie Toothaker, his wifeand little daughter. Eddie is doing wellin the hardware business, announces forfootball games, and seems to be well onthe road to something."
Whitey Almert sends in the distressing news that he hasn't seen one Hanover acquaintance (except Hosmer) in the last two years, and consequently was in a bad position to answer my plea for news. A Sears, Roebuck man, Whitey has been in the Lorain, Ohio, store since last March. Why doesn't some missionary from Cleveland, twenty-five miles away, go out and rescue him from this sachem-less territory? His residence is 959 King Ave.
Mike Cardozo writes that French Dickey is still studying at the University of Pennsylvania Medical school, and doctored for a while last summer at a Transient Relief Camp Sey Jacobson is studying at Bellevue Medical School, as are a number of other '32 men Frank Peyser and Johnny Richardson are still plugging at Harvard Law School. Johnny has lots of news about Dartmouth men, which he ought to send in Jack Perrino is at Harvard Business School. .. . . Harry Rowe teaches English and Latin at Silver Bay School, Silver Bay, N. Y..... Stu Thatford is working in an insurance office in Brooklyn Dick Williams teaches English and history 'n a Scranton high school Bill Walton is married, to Mildred M. Mustin, on Sept. 11, 1934, at Newburgh, N. Y. ..... John Wolff is working hard on the distribution of fine cigars "KenLaVine, Mike Isaacs, Frank McGuire,Chuck Maxwell, and I are absorbing asmuch law as we can at Yale Law School,though we are suffering under the handicap of having many of our best profs inthe hands of the NRA and other alphabetical government agencies......... Ispent the summer seeing ahnost 11,000miles of the U. S. by auto, in company ofa Yale undergradute. We alternated visiting Yale and Dartmouth households, andhad a swell time doing it. On the tripI visited or saw Jeffery, Hamel, Maxwell,Sam Allen, Dave Stern, Art Spiegel '31,and some others." .... Mike is very anx- ious to start a campaign for the purpose of reinstating Ben Jeffery's daughter, Babs, as Class Baby, an honor stolen from her at the arrival of John Swenson's later, but male, offspring, Even Stephen. The issue arose when I awarded, unauthorized, the class babyship to Miss Jeffery shortly after her appearance on March 31, 1933. 1 was then met by a storm of two or three protests, the essence of which was that this particular honor belonged only to male descendants of class members married after they had earned their degrees. With an abrupt about-face, therefore, I handed the palm to Stephen Shaler Swenson, whose first awed glance at his pappy occurred on August 17, 1933. This situation, gentlemen, must be faced fairly. Sometime during the next month a non-partisan jury picked from talesmen representing our nation's best institutions of legal learning will decide on this delicate question. In the meantime any briefs or opinions must be submitted by the 8th of December, on which date a non-appealable decision will be handed down.
Morgan Hobart, writing from Hollywood, notes that "Joe Davidson is learningprinting and lithography in his father'splant here, and waiting for the mountainsto be covered with enough snow for skiing.We are both members of the ArrowheadSki Club, and are going to try to imagineourselves back in Hanover by indulgingin that sport this coming winter. Incidentally, there is some fine skiing in the HighSierras nearby, although the season is atits best for only about a month and a half.Jack Eliot is working for a real estatefirm, as you already know. Howie Newcomb is still employed at one of the UnionOil Co. fillitig stations (pardon my mistake—if I remember correctly, such menare described as oil distributors in ourannals). I spent several week-ends last summer down at La Holla (La Hoya to you),staying with Bob Morris, class of '36, whois assistant football manager this year.While there I ran into Mark Richard several times. He was out here on vacation,and now has returned to New York.
"I am still a member of the Dartmouthin-Firestone organization. There are threeof us here now. Win Smoyer, Mai Metcalf,and myself Smoyer is in the Eastnow on a vacation of a month or so—notbad, eh? Mal is working in the curingroom, and I am in the development department. At present I'm engaged in analyzing rubber in the laboratory. The workis very interesting, and I like it a lot."
RANDOM NOTES
Bill Bennett sells for Standard Brands, Inc., in Brooklyn The General Dyestuff Corp., 230 5th Ave., New York, employs Ken James as a chemist Eddie Marks is an associate editor of the American Wine and Liquor Journal, published in New York. His residence is now 215 Lakeville Road, Great Neck, L. I Dick Clark is one of the chain store, therefore hard-to-keep-track-of boys. W. T. Grant Co., this time in Pottsville, Pa., where he's assistant manager of the store. .... The Hartford Cement Co. has Cal Kierstead in its credit department Lawrence Robinson is with the John Hancock Life Insurance Co. in Danielson, Conn I hear Dick Cleaves has been in his home town of Cherokee, la., for some time, but expects to be back in Washington this winter as secretary to a congressman Jack Hall is with the Sheffield Fisher Co., evidently a printing firm in Rochester Ed Crafts calls himself a forester, and lists 304 Agricultural Building, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz., as his address Clarence Farr gives his occupation as engineer with the French & Heald Co., of Milford, N. H Wholesale liquor's got Ed Dearborn. He is selling in that department of S. S. Pierce in Boston Johnny Whitcomb is with Baker, Young & Co.—in Boston too Warren Moore wrestles with the statistical problems of the North American Aviation Co., 1775 Broadway, New York Jim Fletcher has gone to Boston, still employed by the Liberty Mutual! Insurance Co. Don Richardson is in their New York office John Keller finally appeared from the West, was seen about New York for a couple of days, and is presumably studying at the New School for Social Research, but he has evidently been very careful to conceal his whereabouts from his friends.
I attended Bill Morton's wedding the 26th of October. Bill and his bride were as handsome a pair as it has been my privilege to see for a long time; and Deak Mack won the Season's Most Genial Usher Prize. Bat Collins, Georgie Pettengill, and Fred Gage were also present.
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