Class of 1930
As the year comes to an end for the class notes, with few tears trickling down the deep lines of your Secretary's harassed face, the class's news-contributing momentum runs down very near to zero as we grind out the farewell gossip column until autumn. We thank those friendly Thirtymen who have contributed to this column during the year and invoke shame and remorse upon the leaden and inertia-laden classmates who have not.
It is a late hour for entering the Getchell COLE news flash, but through some tardiness we have not been able to produce until now. Here it is: Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Eugene Getchell announce the mar- riage of their daughter, Joan Ellis, to MR. EDWARD SHAW COLE on Saturday, the twenty-fourth of March, 1934, at Woonsocket, Rhode Island.
Local news seems quite scarce this month, probably because the home-coming of the two-weeks-old son was precisely simultaneous with the spring house-parties and the Green Key Prom, at which doubtless a number of Thirtymen were present. FRANK RYDER was good enough to telephone before leaving town Sunday, reporting that he and his wife had duly chaperoned the Phi Sigs. RIP VOGT, who was glimpsed while cruising about the town in his roadster, gave us a break by leaving a note with regards from a good friend in New London and by implication from himself likewise.
The Alumni Fund returns usually bring in news dividends. This year (even though at this point 1930 is leading the classes of the last decade in the Fund) the news items have been scarce, but we present such as have arrived. BUD FRENCH, for example, is back from his extensive European inspection tour of the juicy fruit centers on the continent, and is already playing with the idea of Bermuda with the BOTTOMES on June 30. We are glad to observe the date of this project, because it is precisely the date on which the Bottomes' Alumni Fund responsibilities for 1934 are ended.
Ev Low no longer must soothe irascible female customers of Lord & Taylor, having formed on May 7 a connection with Hahne and Company, Newark, as a divisional controller. Son Dana grows apace.
Dartmouth's Harvard Law School delegation knows about FRED SCRIBNER'S study of the relative tangible and intangible compensations for young lawyers in metropolitan centers as compared with smaller cities and towns. The results of the study may be expected in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE next fall. For light reading in some odd moment, we have at home an impressive copy of the Boston University Law Review containing an article by Fred on some esoteric legal subject which for the moment we cannot remember with sufficient assurance to quote. We believe that Fred is having fun as a young lawyer in Portland.
We got whimsical with LARRY RICHMOND in acknowledging his Fund contribution, in incorporating therein what we believed to be excellent representations of musical notes, which he didn't get at all. I quote a few sentences from Larry's letter: "Myescapades, by the way, have been anythingbut what the word usually connotes. Whatwith flitting from New York to Chicago acoupla years ago and a frugal existencethere and a subsequent return to New Yorkand a hectic existence here, I have beenpretty much on the go. And anyhow, it alltuould not make very interesting copy forthe alumni column.—l haven't seen manyof the boys. I did hear some time ago that LEE EISLER was attempting to crash thesong-writing business. JOE EPSTEIN, as youundoubtedly know, has finally dragged outa shingle and is now a promising legal'obstetrician.' JESSUP has his hair cut in thesame barber shop I use—once a week, andwe never see each other."
CLARK DENNEY elected to affiliate himself with the inferior class of 1931 to escapehe said at the time—our scurrilous pen. We believed that by careful restraint against quoting him in our gossip column we would win him back, but a telegram came to our house addressed to Albert I. Dickerson Jr., as follows: "Don't quote thisto your father, but I'm glad you are a boyand hope you are feeling well and willlearn to walk and to talk at an early agebut that you never learn to write—ClarkDenney." We don't know just how to take this.
ED BENOIST sent, with a very generous fund ante, a similarly generous letter. We have written previously about Ed's interesting but vacationless work with the Automatic Electric Company. He had hoped with the new position that some element of graceful leisure might be anticipated, but unless we read incorrectly he was quickly shifted to the manufacturing end of the dial telephone business amidst great quantities of standard costs, burden rates, efficiency variations, and "all sorts ofstrange and, at first, somewhat terrifyingcomputations"-, and is now treasurer of the Automatic Electric Company! "After fourmonths of gradually diminishing bewilderment," he avers, "I feel that I am beginningto understand a few of the basic ideas." His sister was a guest at the Sigma Chi house during the recent house-parties, but for the aforesaid reasons and a few not mentioned we didn't get to meet her.
We have had many promises from PETE CALLAWAY and others in New York for the details of the 1930 dinner that was held there, but the sum total of information gleaned thus far is that there was a good crowd and Elon G. Pratt '06 was the speaker.
Our Cleveland Bureau attended the wedding of .808 WILKIN '32 in New York, where he found the HAFFENREFFERS and DUD FERGUSON. Callaway was met on the way to do night work for Cond6 Nast. Other items: WES WILKINSON is with the Western Reserve Law School; DAN LOESER is with the law firm of Mooney, Hahan, Loeser, and Keogh; GEORGE FISHER is in Honolulu; and NELS RANNEY is still in Majorca. Apropos of the HAFFENREFFERS, the new cup defender, Rainbow, is going into the water within a week, and thereafter Hanover will have a visitation from Carol and Carl. A small female dachshund named Hitty (short for Hitler) has joined the Haffenreffer family.
RANNEY HOBBS showed up in the Wigwam the other day. Said he was visiting the Herb Wests, promised to come to see us, and was not seen again.
CLIFF WILLIAMS succinctly reports on himself as follows: "I'm doing cost accounting for the Oswego Candy Works,leading a quiet life, am unmarried withno prospects, and hope to get to Hanoverin June, 1935."
These Bermuda-goers rather depress us, somehow. Here's BILL JESSUP lamenting that he will probably miss his annual spring trip to Hanover inasmuch as he and ART HAYES have hopes of getting off to the sunny island.
FRAN HORN is planning on a Ph.D. from Yale and will thus be more accessible to Hanover during the coming year. Fran spent five days of Easter as WIN STONE'S guest in Washington. He also spent an evening with WAYNE VANLEER, the CWA engineer. Wayne, after having supervised the construction of a swimming pool, was engaged in the engineering feat of removing some 80 tremendous trees somewhere about the Capital City. HUGHES GIBBONS, Fran's erstwhile colleague in Cairo, will remain there next year. According to Fran, he will be working in the American Library in Paris this summer.
HANK EMBREE and CHRIS CHRISSINGER were the only Thirtymen at the annual Chicago banquet, about which they apparently remember very little. Certain importunate duties have interrupted Hank's study at the University of Chicago after two scholarly quarters.
DICK BARNARD warns us that he is to be feared as an insurance man with the New England Mutual, but is temporarily connected with the National Re-employment office in Boston and is frequently depressed and always interested in the contacts involved in this job.
PHIL PECK has been forced to give up the pleasant life in Glens Falls during recent months, leaving Liz and the two wirehaired terriers, Itchy and Grunter, to fend for themselves and their litter of wirehaired pups as well as possible while Phil learns about the business of the Glens Falls Insurance Company, "in the field"—particularly in New Jersey, "this festering state."
We again commend to you the Alumni Fund and urge your careful attention to the communications of Bob Bottome and the henchmen of his high-powered organization. It will be a source of some shame if the class of 1931 noses us out, as they did last year in number of contributors.
Secretary, Administration Bldg., Hanover, N. H
