Class of 1930
Floods of water rush down East Wheelock St., beginning a devious circuit via Mink Brook to the river; pleasantries about the imminent danger of drowning are bandied about the sidewalks as people pick a cautious way through several inches of mushy slush, dormitory windows hang open, and fools, not recognizing the wolf in lamb's clothing which the weather really is, leave off coats; a large pale green smear spreads over the center of the campus where stood the proud green ice statuary of Carnival; the duck boards go down across the campus; and March comes to Hanover, not like a lion or a lamb, but like a fish.
All of this is irrelevant to the fact that the executive committee of the class met in New York on Tuesday, February 27, with HERM SCHNEEBELI, PETE CALLAWAY, ED JEREMIAH, NELSE ROCKEFELLER, the treasurer, and the secretary-chairman present, a quorum. 808 BOTTOME was invited and came to the slaughter with lamb-like docility. For the first item of business was a letter from CARL HAFFENREFFER, class agent, asking to be relieved of the main responsibility of the Alumni Fund this year in view of the bustling activities at the Herreshoff boatyard, where a new cup contender is being built and probably a few other cup boats are being furbished up for the coming season, not to mention the usual variety of yachts from six feet up to what have you. So the first action of the executive committee was to vote appreciation to Carl for the cheery way in which he induced Thirtymen to do their bit by the College and to vote the title and responsibilities of class agent for 1934 to Robert Rathbone Bottome, Esquire.
On to the unsuspecting shoulders of JOSIAH BARTLETT CHANDLER, Esq., were loaded the responsibilities of chairman of the reunion committee, the weight of which responsibilities he hasn't yet begun to suspect. Si is to all intents and purposes a non-resident Hanoverian and a frequent visitor to Dartmouth haunts. He recently led a mass migration of Dartmouth folk from Boston to Hanover on skis, a horde of some four hundred coming up the hill from the Norwich station on Sunday to dash up and down the Hanover hillsides.
Other deliberations of the committee were devoted to the suggestion of names of potent Thirtymen to Bottome as assistants to the work of the Alumni Fund.
Here is a blessed event with real news value. On February 20, 1934, weighing eight and a half pounds, Joanna Lee Doran was born into the following blissful Dartmouth relationships:
Daughter of BILL DORAN '30 Niece of BEN DORAN '37 Cousin of SUNNY SANBORN '17 Grandniece of SAM BARNES '07 Grandniece of PERCIVAL COBB '04 Grandniece of STANWOOD COBB '03 Grandniece of TOM BARNES '02 Grandniece of FRANK SANBORN '87
Almost anything would be an anticlimax after the previous item, but the formal card announcing that JOSEPH DAVID EPSTEIN is opening offices for the general practice of law at 215 Broad St., Elizabeth, N. J. (Elizabeth 2-6151), is worthy of note.
Also worthy of note is the engagement of GEORGE PORTER to Lois Koerth of Washington, D. C., the approaching marriage in June, and a honeymoon visit to Hanover.
The CROSIER-Jones affair is slated for April 7, and your correspondent will be fumbling cheerily about the aisles of St. Thomas' church on that date in serious endeavor to make everything as difficult as possible for everyone.
Persistent, if not annoying, communications to the following men have produced replies of neither good cheer nor annoyance; DICK BLUN, FRED BRENNAN, CHUCK FAYE, AL FINK, JOE GUILFOY, JOHN HAHN, ALEX HARROUN, DICK KIRKMAN, and BROOKE WILLIS. Any Thirtymen who can get a word of direct communication from any of these lost souls to class headquarters in Hanover will be rewarded with a Shetland pony and three free subscriptions to the American Home.
At Carnival: CLIFF VOGT with his fifteenyear-old sister for a week's vacation, not looking tired and harassed as an over worked medic should; CHARLIE RAYMOND at the ski jump with bloody hands on account of being too proud to wear gloves skiing; at lolanthe, Mr. and Mrs. FRANKRYDER, who were alleged to be keeping the party at the Phi Sig house on a high plane; and the class's non-resident Hanoverian SI CHANDLER. Also some others.
KEN JOHNES got himself engaged last fall to Elizabeth V. Wood of Bloomfield, N. J. (Ohio State '31), but isn't making any predictions about dates as yet.
Unable to resist a stamped envelope, TONY WEINSTEIN sent in a belated subscription to the MAGAZINE along with the information that after the coma in the construction business thrust leisure on him last August, "a beneficent governmentstarted the CWA, and the fortunate Weinstein landed a job as engineer and superintendent on a grading job requiring theremoval of ten thousand cubic yards ofearth excavation and three thousand yardsof rock," which Tony expects to have moved by summer, granted a continued kind Congress and spared annihilation by the ax of some intoxicated workman.
PAUL THOMPSON, who has been "acting for the past two years the Uncle Tom to about six professorial Simon Legrees," is on the last leg of his Doctor's degree at Northwestern. He is relenting having sold the MAGAZINE down the river.
The Jarnvagsstationen at Helsingfors greets us on a postcard from BUD FRENCH, who arrived there on the first day of Carnival in Hanover, found it a "typical Hanover winter day," and wished for his skiing equipment.
NEWELL RUMPF and his wife tossed coins and she won, whereupon the WheatonAlumni Magazine graces the Rumpf library table instead of these sprightly pages. Next year is our inning, even if Time has to go.
The letterhead of the Scotch Plains High School Athletic Association is headed by the name of PAUL F. POEHLER JR., Coach. Snub's summer was devoted to a continuation of his hotel career, his fall was filled with football coaching, and he hardly caught his breath before basketball was upon him. Presumably he had to get a little teaching in his schedule, too.
The young son of HAL KNIGHT will tell anyone who evidences the slightest interest that he is going to St. Paul's and then to Dartmouth. Hal is sporting, besides an up-and-coming youngster, a five-year service pin with the Appalachian Electric Power Company at Charleston, W. Va. Hal's sister, who just returned from the Orient, reports attendance at KIP .CHASE'S Chinese marriage to a Charleston native.
Our stream of reproaches brought DICKFUNKHOUSER to terms. In the first place, he reads the MAGAZINE in the Princeton library, and in the second place, he reports on himself as follows: "In the Septemberfollowing graduation I journeyed to Wyoming to teach in a private preparatoryschool near Yellowstone Park—a duderanch in summer and one hell of a coldplace in winter. Horses and schoolboyscompleted the set-up, with a very occasional 45-mile drive to town to celebrate.
. ... A year ago last September I cameback East and began some graduate workhere in Princeton. Since it is in economicsI find it. especially interesting during thesetimes The chief item of interestlately of course is that I was married lastmonth to Mariana Thomas of Silver Spring,Md We are staying here at least therest of this year—perhaps next year also."
On a business card o£ the Consolidated Flour Mills Co. which looks slightly like a Valentine ("In the Heart of Kansas"), appears the name of EWING I. BURNS, SalesManager, which is the reason why a letter from Cupe may come on the stationery of almost any hotel from the Brown Palace of Denver to What Have You in lowa. While Cupe and wife put 2500 miles on a new Ford in the course of one week's business in lowa, a neighbor's dog makes sport of the third-class mail that accumulates around the Burns mailbox. Cupe saves the ALUMNI MAGAZINE (third class) from this gruesome fate by not subscribing.
MERRILL HAYES looks forward to an M.D. in June and an interneship at the Episcopal Hospital in Philadelphia. JOHN MAITLAND started the study of law last fall at Pitt. "Ran into RED TELLINGabout a month ago, when he was here withthe latest in ladies', gents', and children'sshoes," John writes. "Dick Hood is now asenior at the law school and so I see himoccasionally. Also see Wally Wasmer, whois, I believe, working for the InternationalAccounting Company."
SAM ALLEN, back in Akron, is reporting back for his job of last spring "hatchingchicks."
BILL PUTNAM, acting as scribe for a group of '30 medics, gives us the following good report under date of February 8:
"While still strongly under the influenceof the Dartmouth spirit engendered by thereunion last week-end of a goodly portionof my Dartmouth Medical School class,I'll scratch off a few lines to you with whatodd bits of news, if any, I may be able tothink of. To begin with, said reunion, thesecond edition of what has to date provento be an annual affair, was a grand success,more than half of us, comprising nearlyall of those conveniently located in theEast, being present, to consume the goodcheer provided by Art Ecker '31 and GEORGE LORD '30, and to solemnly agreeonce more that Dartmouth Medical Schoolis the only institution of its kind worthmentioning. The class of '30 was represented by George Lord, DON HIGHT, andmyself; the only other Thirtyteer we have(I still don't like that word) is BILL BLAIS, who is at McGill and probably snowbound.
"The chief news as far as I am concernedis that George Lord, Art Ecker, Ollie Hayward '31, and I are returning to Hanoverin June for interneships at the HitchcockHospital; the first two for one year, andHayward and I for a year and a half. Formy part, two years in Philadelphia, thoughhappy ones in many ways, have increasedmy already great fondness for Hanoververy markedly; and each one of us islooking forward to June with considerableenthusiasm. This, incidentally, serves tocorrect your flattering misprint of last fall,which had me interning rather than merelybeing a senior student at Jefferson thiswinter.
"Thirtymen seldom cross my path, withthe exception of HEINIE STEWART, whom Ifrequently see at the A K K house as well asin classrooms and clinics. He will be interning in the Jefferson Hospital for thenext couple of years; that is a coveted andvery desirable appointment. He has alsobeen honored by election to Alpha OmegaAlpha, which has possibly even more significance in medicine than Phi Beta Kappahas in undergraduate circles.
"I saw WARREN PARISH at an A K K dancelast fall, but didn't get a chance to speak tohim. He is interning at the PhiladelphiaGeneral Hospital."
Paul and Company, investment securities, claim the services of RAD KILBOURNE in Philadelphia, and the Philadelphia Association of Security Salesmen has elected him secretary and a director. The N. Y. Times Annalist published an article entitled "Bonds Generally More Satisfactory Than Stocks as Long-Term Investments" which was the result of five months' study of the security markets by Rad and another fella.
With as lyrical an address as 255 Golden Gate Ave., it is hard to imagine how HARRY DUNNING can wander all over the West Coast the way he does.
Neither carbide nor the Herald Tribune keep HEINIE GARRETT and HARRY CASLER, respectively, too busy to get in a game of B-minus ping-pong at the Dartmouth Club of a New York afternoon.
Here are some new addresses unadorned by secretarial gab: BOYD T. WOLFF, El Cid Apts., West Palm Beach, Fla.; FREDERICK K. UHLEMANN, C/O Western Adjustment and Inspection Co., Fairfax Building, Kansas City, Mo.; JAMES H. TYLER, traveling auditor of the General Electric Com- pany, with a residence address at 1049 Wendell Ave., Schenectady, N. Y.; ROBERT M. BRUCE, 570 Lexington Ave., Room 1210, New York; MILTON L. PATTERSON, 16 Congress Ave., Providence, R. I.; GEORGE H. MCCLELLAN, instructor in the department of education at Ohio State, 20 luka Ave., Columbus, Ohio.
Secretary, Administration Bldg., Hanover, N. H.
