Class of 1933
Letters from 1933 men continue to be mushed through to gelid Waterbury in delightfully surprising numbers. Curled up before a frozen radiator, we have spent several pleasant evenings mulling over these missives while the eternal snow fell outside and the wintry silence of the night was broken only by the pitiful moaning of the brass monkeys on the neighboring hillsides.
We print herewith a long delayed note from Bill Gillies: am workingfor the Stock-Goble Advertising Agency inChicago. Dartmouth luncheons ....
popular place to eat on Wednesdays atMundel's in Chicago. Reported that BurtHack is over here on the Chicago campusas is Stan Lucas ex-'33. John E. Colemanactually a butter and egg man on WackerDrive in Chicago."
The formal announcement of John Schulte's engagement, mentioned in these columns some time ago: "Dr. and Mrs.Maurice Fried of 40 East Eighty-eighthStreet have announced the engagement oftheir daughter Miss Marjorie Elaine Friedto John Stephen Shculte, son of Mrs. Edouard Jonas of this city and David A. Schulte,also of New York. Miss Fried attended theScoville School and the American Academyof Dramatic Arts. Mr. Schulte went toDartmouth College."
A brief shot of New York life from Hal Mackey, whose letter output will eventually rival Voltaire's in bulk and pungency of epithet if not in philosophy
"Dartmouth is a grand college. It setsup so many fine young men in the insurancebusiness. And. such great lads! I really believe that 90% of the graduates of Dartmouth go into the insurance racket. Atleast it seems so to me. Every day I get acall from some old true Dartmouth man. ... in the insurance business. 'Hello,Hal, blah, blah, blah, etc., etc.'
"I spoke to Skipper Okie the other day,and he informs me that he is still fillinginkwells. I might add that he must be inlove, as he is making trips to Vassar!"
Bill Hitchcock writes from cloistered Stag Hall, Sparrows Point, Md.:
"I am one of the 12,800 that the Bethlehem Steel employs at its Sparrows Pointplant. In case you know as little as I didabout the place the day before gettingthere, it's about 12 miles from Baltimore,and I suppose as nice a place as any purelyindustrial town could be. I started inworking after that nice long summer andfall vacation on December 4, and lest onethink that my economics courses entitledme to wear a white shirt to work, I mightadd that I put in my time—which would bewritten 'work' had I not more consciencein the wire mill.
"There are about a dozen of us ex-collegians, though I am the freshest of thelot; that eat and live here together—ratherlike a fraternity house, but a little lessnoisy. Being the sole representative fromDartmouth, I sometimes have to stick upfor the Big Green against sons of Lehigh,Oregon, Penn., etc. Thank the Lord webeat Penn. in football and that there areno Yale men here!
"When Dartmouth's hockey team madesuch an excellent showing against theleague leading Baltimore Orioles last December, I saw a couple of '33 men there.Charlie Shafer is working for some meatpacking concern and his 'economics suredoes come in handy.' Bob Swinehart isstudying here in Baltimore—dentistry, Ithink.
"Saw quite a bit of Hank Dericks lastsummer, in fact we took a two weeks' cruisetogether on a sloop that managed to sinkoff Newport. He has been working in theoffice of the Hegeman-Harris Co. in NewYork and is living at his home in ColonialHeights, Tuckahoe."
Though the Ice-Gnomes are marching from their Norways and the Great White Cold is stalking abroad, the waters of the matrimonial mill-pond seem to remain as inviting as ever, the spring board seems to be in good working order, and organs still seem to be soothing fluttering grooms with reassuring Lohengrins.
"Mr. and Mrs. John Walter Mercer havethe honor of announcing the marriage oftheir daughter Alice Katharine to Mr.Dunham Kirkham on Sunday, the eighteenth of February, Nineteen hundred andthirty-four, New York City."
Also a curt note from Bob Saywell with a touch of the old Liebestraum on the end: "Moving to 34 Nayatt Road, West Harrington, R. I.—working for the R. I. Laceworks—Have been playing in bands in NewYork—Been to South America and havedone a bit of broadcasting—Also got myselfengaged." (We shall refer this to our own private Ho-Hum department.)
Evidently our information about Paul Wetstein was correct, for we have received a notice from the Alumni Office giving his address as 84 Northumberland Road and his occupation as "In hospital." . . . . Carl Shineman has moved to 140 Goodman St., So., Rochester, N. Y Al Jennings now lives at the Witherbee Court Apts., Pelham Manor, N. Y Ed Holmes is with the Tri-Continental Corp. at 54 Wall St. and resides at 1010 Park Ave. in New York .... Art Boisseau is pressing ardently forward in production and cost accounting with the Royal Typewriter Company in Hartford and is again living at 47 Levesque St.
From Jack Huntress on the stationery of the Boston Herald: .... "Had a letterfrom Bob Macgregor, who is working withthe Greyhound Bus Lines in Chicago. Heconfides that he hasn't been cracking thewhip 'very much,' but has had severaloccasions on which to sing his old themesong (I've got a Right to Sing the Blues).Have you heard anything about Bob calling up Bonnie Oaks on the night of fallparties? (No.)
"Right now I've gone tabloid and amworking with the Boston Daily Record (advertising department). I loafed in Washington until Thanksgiving, having watchedquite a few Thirty-three men come to theCapital. Not enough scandal in Washington, so I set out for Boston and ended upwith a tabloid newspaper. Have seen quitea lot of Walt Douglas and Vernon McKane. Between studies at the Harvard Engineering School, Walt tends to Radcliffe.And Vernon is working nights withCushman's Bakery in Lynn—but likes Boston and Cambridge on week-ends.
"Bill Dewey was down for the weekendand put me on probation with the landlady Saturday night. Lowell Textile seemsto have given him more drive than ever."
(Address—59 Commonwealth Ave., Boston.) Also from Boston comes the story from Earle Gordon of a 1933 "feed" at the Groton cabin of the D. O. C. which just failed to click:
"Taking advantage of a holiday to geta bit of news off my chest. I had hoped tohave more, but because of some poorplanning or choosing of week-ends, a gettogether which Bill Starr, Fritz Meyer, DickGoldthwait and I had planned at theD. O. C. of Boston cabin at Groton fellthrough. Other classes have been very successful in these feeds, and not to be outdone, we shall try again and hope andpray to get a better weekend. (These meetings are functions which your secretary approves of highly, but which his distance from the metropolitan area makes difficult for him to organize.)
"There were a large number of '53 menat there were probably manythat I did not see. Bill Dewey flew up in aplane from Boston, but from rumors he didnot have too pleasant a trip. Frank Ripleywas there, being genially sarcastic. (Imagine Ripley being genial!) I saw Mr. andMrs. George Theriault (the former Ray Speight, daughter of Prof. Speight of the biography department) at the ski-jumping,and understand that they were chaperonesat the Chi Phi house. Doug Kaplinger wasthe escort of the Carnival Queen. OthersI saw were Cupe Farmer, Harry Osborne,Dick Goldthwait, Don Murray, Hob Van-Deusen, George Metzger, Nick Xanthaky,Swede Branson, Manny Sprague, DickRocker, Bill Gaynor, Bob Dickson, WarrenBraley, Jack Masten, Bill Starr, Ro Burbank, Ted Almy, Wes Beattie, Bob Burns,Ed Halligan, and Ed Knapp.
"Heard from Bill Jones by a letterwhich was written just before the rioting,and he was a very good prophet, for he hitthe political situation just about right (in Paris naturellement). He says that he ishaving a good time, but also mentions thathe is getting fairly well acquainted with theworks of a foreigner named Voltaire.
"Buster Fairfield, who was with our classfreshman year, is working for the EasternShell Pet. Co. at the main office on Commonwealth Ave. He is living in Allston,but I've lost his address. One can get intouch with him at the Shell office."
Henry Carruth writes from Kingsport, Tenn., that he has been living in that surprisingly forward community (which has a heart according to its founders) since August as assistant timekeeper for the Mead Corporation, which makes pulp and paper. He has an important position which entails making out reports for the federal government and the Paper Industry Code Authority, neither of which, he sneers, knows its own mind. He is living at the Homestead Hotel.
Also at hand is a welcome bulletin from a former master of the wine cellar at the Wood Club, John Trost. He writes:
"For some time I've been trying to tearmyself away from my legal pursuits so as tolet you know how I am spending my timeand why. However, this business of becoming a barrister requires so much concentrated effort and strains my literary andintellectual faculties to such an extent thatin my few and far between leisure momentsI have little or no appetite for letter writingand such. I'm living here at home on thefarm, where I can enjoy the benefits of asimple life close to nature .... it's 10 below outside now and a blizzard is tryingto tear the house down. I'm going to Marquette Law School in Milwaukee. I used tothink it was bad to cross the campus for aneight o'clock, but now I've got 25 miles togo and one of these days I'll probably breakmy neck trying to make those 25 miles in somany minutes. However, I don't want togive you the impression that I've become amartyr to the legal profession. I find thestudy of law extremely interesting, andMarquette, although entirely different fromDartmouth, is a mighty good school.
"Living here in Grafton is pretty muchlike living at the North Pole as far as keeping in touch with people is concerned. StillI have a few contributions to make:
"W. S. (Dutch) Donner is working asassistant superintendent of an office building in Albany. His address is 423 WesternAve., Albany.
"Bob Kay and Chuck March are attending the Wisconsin Law School at Madison.Bob is living at the Phi Gam House outthere. Bob Macgregor is living at 1433 E-65th Place in Chicago. Vernon McKane isliving at 13 Portland St. in Lynn, Mass.E. H. (Buster) Hymen is selling insurance inMilwaukee. Dave Kelley ex-33 is workingfor the Barnsdall Oil Company (B square with your motor, dominated by Uncle Tycoon, an elfin relative of J. B. [Abe] Keller '32) in Milwaukee.
"Marty Kerwin is working for some company or other (very definite) in Chicago,and he's making a living collecting statistics on paper box manufacturing. Heexplained it all to me when he was in Milwaukee a short time ago, and as I remember, it seemed like a very complicated anddifficult job for a Comp. Lit.Biog. major (N. B Pierpont)."
Outside, the wolves are howling, the hounds are baying and the brass monkeys are moaning again. Inside, the whirring of the oil burner sounds like the nocturnal chirping'of frogs on a summer evening. And snow sifts softly down upon my paper as I write .... or is it dandruff?
Secretary, 64 Cooke St., Waterbury, Conn.
