Class of 1930
As the feminine invasion sweeps down upon our little Arctic village, nestling cozily on its plateau with a temperature of minus thirty degrees, we write to greet all nostalgic Thirtymen who may be in warmer climes and to suggest succinctly that any place whose temperature is on the sunny side of zero is well worth staying in.
Excepting for the sad news of the death of AUSTIN MOORE (see Necrology) the '30 dispatches are of distinctly happy nature. Pretty optimistic, for example, is BLAIR WOOES who flung out his lawyer's shingle to greet the December breeze and who is awaiting the twelve new clients which are needed to finance the next step, which is marriage to Miss Eleanor Parfitt. Blair's letter comes out of Waterloo, lowa, and it is worthy of note that Miss Parfitt, whose home is in Manchester, N. H., is doing social work out in lowa's Black Hawk county under Blair's own watchful eye. Skiing enthusiast that he is, Blair has the hills and presumably the snow, but laments the absence of Dartmouth men for company. He also laments his unfortunate position "too far east to fling roses riotouslywith CHUCK FAYE at the Golden Gate andtoo far West to sing at ARCH CLARK'S wedding."
A unique printed item from CHUCK JACOBS is ostensibly a handbill for a theatrical production worthy of note. The illustration presents, in the gleaming footlights of a stage, an object in swaddling clothes clutching a bottle. The handbill reads "Presenting The First LegitimateProduction of Charles R. Jacobs, starringBabette M. Jacobs Entitled 'CharlesRonald.' Opening date: January 15. Admission: 7 pounds and 6 ounces." By this time, overlooking all the nuances, you will have assumed that Chuck has given up his department store job to become a professional playwright. Though he has two plays in the hands of a Broadway agent, the aforementioned is the first actual production. His new address is 375 Lexington Boulevard, Richmond, Va.
Continuing in this blissful vein we have the following two items:
"Mr. and Mrs. Edward Clifton Thomasannounce the marriage of their daughter,Mariana, to MR. RICHARD LANDIS FUNKHOUSER, on Saturday the sixth of January,'KirksideSilver Spring, Maryland."
"Mr. and Mrs. Harry Chester Bruneiannounce the marriage of their daughter., Sara Louise, to MR. EUGENE FRENCH MAGENAU, on Saturday the tenth of February, South Congregational Church, Concord, New Hampshire."
We wrote a long and humble letter to thirty-five Thirtymen who failed to renew their ALUMNI MAGAZINE subscriptions, asking the reasons why. A few acknowledged that it was sheer lassitude, while others described ingenious arrangements for reading other people's copies, and one or two suggested that it simply wasn't worth it and that they didn't have the dough. One of the thirty-five, however, came through most nobly, not only with a MAGAZINE subscription, but with an invitation to be an usher at his wedding in Hanover in March—this being none other than BRUD CROSIER. Brud's various activities include work for the Blackinton Company at Blackinton, Mass., (worsteds) during the day and in the evening the promotion of "Crosier's Super-Creamed Ice Cream. It's Delicious." More about the wedding when the time comes.
JOHNNY MARSH, 808 RELYEA, FRANK DOHERTY, ED HARTWELL, DAVE RUBIN, PETE FORD, EI.LIE GILBERT, HANK ODBERT, 808 KIMBALL, KEL CLOW, GEORGE PARKHURST, and DICK NEWMAN crashed through with replies. It was especially good to get a letter from John, the recent benedict, inasmuch as he had been uncommunicative for so long. As for 808 RELYEA, his frequent change of address makes it clear that the Travelers Insurance Company is a well-named institution. We have referred before to Bob's various blessed events, but to be sure that names and dates are placed on record, he was married to Ruth Phyllis Avery in December, 1931; moved to Washington, D. C. in May, 1932; and become the father of Richard Lee Relyea, November 18, 1932. MERRILL BUSH, according to Bob, is working for a Newark insurance company, and Dr. HANK BIRGE is an obstetrician Hartford.
FRANK DOHERTV and the governor continue to keep the commonwealth of Massachusetts on the map with their co-operative efforts. Among Frank's contributions are the items with regard to FRANK LEAHY and GEORGE CLARE. Frank has taken over his father's coal business in Randolph, Mass., and George "is back at the stock andbond pastime on Milk St., Boston."
Thirtymen aren't numerous out in Lincoln, Neb., avers ED HARTWELL, who has moved to 3127 South 35th St., and supplies Nebraska with wire products, fencing, nails, barbed wire, etc., for the Colorado Fuel and Iron Products Company.
DAVE RUBIN, the old fox, reads the ALUMNI MAGAZINE at the Dartmouth Club. He declares there were fifty of the boys at the New York dinner, January 16, and that Stacy May talked at the dinner. Dave, himself, was absent, but attended the Boston dinner on the 20th, sitting with FRANK LEAHY, MEM KING, JACK FITZPATRICK, and NELS FLANDERS. DICK BLUN, says Dave, is thinking of writing detective stories for his employer, Alfred Knopf; and BUD FISHER is every whit a banker.
PETE FORD lamented the departure from Rochester of the KEENES. Pete has shifted back from the accounting department to the service department of Socony.
ELLIE GILBERT, whose resonant voice used to re-echo in the corridors of New Hampshire Hall, will one day boom at us across the footlights. He is attending the New England Conservatory of Music, taking voice lessons and dramatics, and if he doesn't end up in a tomb with Aida in the Metropolitan Opera House, we will lose a bet. Every time Ellie sings down on the beach at Cohasset, he brings on a storm.
HANK ODBERT is very much absorbed in theses and things down at Harvard. He keeps in touch with Hanover by watching the skiing bulletins at the Harvard Coop. Weekly informal meetings of the social psychologists are more than fifty per cent Dartmouth with Professor Allport, late of Hanover, playing host to Hank, two other Dartmouths and three "furriners." Hank has seen the JOHNNY MARSHES well established and beaming in their new home, and has also seen the ALEX MCFARLANDS and BUD RANNEYS, not to mention singleton 808 MARR.
808 KIMBALL, as already reported, is teaching at the Canterbury School for Young Men. There is another Dartmouth man on the Canterbury faculty and, he subscribes to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Bob is faculty baby by some ten years. The only way we managed to prod a reply out of him was by asking if his silence came from melancholia brought on by thinning of the hair, or what. He reported himself somewhat out of the beaten path, mentioned several '30 encounters, but managed to contribute no new items. He just gets credit for good intentions.
"'Our cadet' is doing nicely, thank you,smugly and snugly enjoying the benefits ofa limited amount of u?ili?nited credit" at the United States Military Academy. He (Clow) predicts a happy career at Dartmouth for Army-men Blaik and Ellinger, and looks forward to the day when his income from the government reaches a more than theoretical phase.
GEORGE PARKHURST is the "lassitude" lad who finally came through with two bucks. This resulted in his being faced with the problem of reading ALUMNI MAGAZINES from October through February. Probably we won't hear from him for a while. WIN HATCH seems to be the only Thirtyman in George's area.
CHARLIE RAYMOND is starting the 30 lunches in Boston again. The greater Boston boys ought to get in touch with Charlie and save him some postcards. He reports ART BROWN in Boston for a week's vacation around Christmas. Art, the Proctor an Gamble kid, is living with DICK SQUIRE in Cincinnati, the latter getting along very well with one of the Hahn department stores. 'BOB WALKER is now in WindsorLocks, Conn., with the Medlicott Company," Charlie writes, adding: "KELSEA MOORE is living in Boston and preparinglimself for investment counsel work."
One of the busiest young men we know about is one NELSON ROCKEFELLER. Among the activities of his which we have heard a out are places in the management of Rockefeller Center and the Williamsburg estorations, directorships in the Metroporitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, and God knows how many other enterprises. Now we see that he has been ected to the editorial board of The American Scholar, quarterly magazine of phi Beta Kappa, along with President Neilson son of Smith College, and Professors Frederick J. E. Woodridge and J. H. Herman Randall of Columbia University. Almost any issue of Time or The New Yorker apparently will have Nelse's name in it in one connection or another. Now we find that with nominations for the Alumni Council coming in, there are various ballots inquiring why Nelse shouldn't be elected to represent the youngest generation of Dartmouth men. He will probably have to fall in line for this job sooner or later.
HUB CHRISTMAN describes himself as one of the lethargic boys. He is the sole representative of Eleazar's college in the otherwise enlightened Henry Ford Hospital of Detroit. The routine of an interne is so exacting that Hub can't sneak off for the Dartmouth Club lunches in Detroit, there being nothing in the NRA code, Hub says, to prevent an interne from working until he drops. A hundred hours a week is Hub's record to date. This communication was signed impressively "Herbert E. Christman, M.D.," but more chummily underneath was the parenthetical "Hub."
808 CHITTIM has been transferred to Pittsburgh as office manager for Chase Brass and Copper Company, and may be addressed in care of that company at 855 West North Ave., Pittsburgh. He found WALLY WASMER installing International Business Machines for accounting at Carnegie Tech. At the time of writing he hadn't yet managed to see Wally through the smoke and fog. He thought he glimpsed HEINIE GARRETT but was not sure.
The publication of ED FROST'S poems is nearer but still pending. He is secretary of the Dartmouth Club of Nashville, which is functioning smoothly.
TOM DONOVAN is profanely busy down at Mt. Hermon, what with teaching English (he now has senior courses, we are told by someone else), running a press club, and directing dramatics. In vacation he runs off to New York and does a complete job of the theaters. Among his theatrical productions has been the "Second Shepherd's Play," which the Alpha Delts performed with such profane gusto as the first of their medieval plays in 1929. In the midst of all this, Tom finds time to cull the sheep from the goats among those who aspire towards Hanover, and to give the sheep due encouragement.
Activity was so brisk in the Herreshoff headquarters, what with a new cup defender and various other things, that the Haffenreffers deferred their Egyptian expedition and set out for the Caribbean for their honeymoon. Nothing has been heard from them since. BROWNIE (W. M.) BROWN has given the only first-hand report of the nuptials, at which MARSTERS, COLE, and BOTTOME officiated with many Thirtymen at the reception—including particularly one BILL JESSUP. Brownie was at the class dinner, and reports VAN DERBECK as another of those present. He may be in Hanover this week-end.
PHIL PECK has recently been sent to a lot of tough towns in New Jersey (Paterson, Passaic, Bayonne, West New York, Hoboken, Jersey City) by his Glens Falls Insurance Company. He rushed home to Glens Falls in time to stand in loco parentis at the birth of a litter of pups to his happy couple of airedales.
Here's a brief report on some of the Cleveland boys.—GEORGE FISHER works arduously for Fisher Brothers Company, a large chain store grocery outfit with many stores in and about Cleveland. For a while he managed a store, but he is now thought to have something different to do. ED SPRANKLE recently announced his engagement to a girl named Jean and works at the Central United National Bank, where he had a fellow toiler in NELS RANNEY until the latter took the marital vows and left on a year's vacation. CLIFF VOGT is at the Western Reserve Medical School, apparently well up in his class. LEE CHILCOTE married Katherine Hodell, as previouslyreported, and is thought by the Thirtyteer Cleveland Bureau to be working with his father. A very good letter has arrived from CLARK DENNEY, but his reticence forbids quotation.
HERM SCHNEEBELI has been home in Lancaster, Pa., having his tonsils out. This seems like a good place to end this.
Secretary, Administration Bldg., Hanover, N. H.
