Class of 1932
The wedding of Miss Barbara Cates, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Cates of New York, to Robert Wilkin, took place on April 25 in New York. Matt Leonard '28, A 1 Boncutter, and I were ushers at the ceremony, and later marshaled a large group including other Dartmouths to the pier, from which the amiable president of our class and his bride departed for a five weeks' tour to Europe. They will live at 925 Park Ave., New York, on their return.
Although Boncutter did not catch the bridal bouquet at this affair he has made the announcement anyway of his wedding on June 30. Miss Frances Fraser of Geneseo, N. Y„ a graduate of Wheaton College, will be his bride. Al has divulged no further plans, being more than well occupied at this writing with the founding of the firm of Bonstok Securities, Inc., 40 Wall St., doing a business of general investment.
On the 28th of April, Victor Ruebhausen married Miss Anne Caroline Knudsen, daughter of Mr. Anton Knudsen of Bronxville.
To all these three couples the class will want to express its wishes of happiness and success.
Charley Doerr returned May 8 from a three weeks' cruise through the Caribbean, including a week in Mexico City, than which there is no more charming place according to the well-traveled Mr. Doerr. He confessed, however, that the problem of acclimation there presented more difficulties than he is used to. The altitude of the plateau of which the city is situated makes drinking anything more stimulating than weak tea a dangerous habit, resulting in dizziness and a pounding in the region over the eyes. Rod Hatcher, with whom Charley and I had lunch on the latter's return, says that certain of the high spots of Manhattan have given him the same symptoms.
Johnny Sheldon, now somewhere on the China Sea, has written despatches back to New York indicating that he is not the least enthusiastic of the class wanderers. In beween the panegyrics on the uniqueness of certain parts of Hong Kong, Peiping, and Shanghai, he reports on only one other member of the green clan, namely, Kip Chase '30, who is in Shanghai with the Chase Bank.
Shorty Keller, writing from Gainesville, Texas, where he is employed by the Empire Oil and Refining Cos., says, "I am gettingalong great. I think I saw the superintendent looking at me the other day although there was a fellow standing in backof me at the same time and he may havebeen looking at him. At any rate he didn'tsay anything, so I guess he was satisfied, ifthat is what he wanted to be."
John Merrill writes that Ed Crafts, who transferred from Hanover to the University of Michigan, married Sara Sherwood in Oak Park on December 30, 1933. Merrill wanted me to let him know whether there are any more '32 men up in his neck of the woods (Elmira, N. Y.). Looking through my records I cannot find anyone in that immediate vicinity. But changes of address are being made so frequently (and many times, unfortunately, not to my knowledge) that he may expect company at any time. The class, as one of our professors was wont to say, is in a state offlux.
As a result of meeting the captain of the good ship City of New York, plying from here to South Africa, on a dinner given for Bob Wilkin shortly before his wedding, R. Bushnell Ryan is now somewhere down around the propeller shaft of the aforementioned vessel keeping the machinery spotless on another run to Capetown. When he gets to Beira, Bob hopes to be able to spend a few days bagging wildebeeste and other fair game that the surrounding wilderness or veldt may provide. The safari will be home sometime in July.
A few notes from here and there: Hank Kingdon's new address is c/o F. P. Smith, 1135 Sullwater Rd., Atlanta Ellie Noyes is helping Harry Hillman with the track squad in Hanover Max Wolff is residing at 254 Front St., Memphis, Tenn John Keller at 403 S. Dixon St., Gainesville, Tex Joe Sawyer is .u'ith Maynard & Child, Inc. (importers), of Boston. His address is still listed as 576 Farmington Ave., Hartford, Conn.
On April 13 the United Press ran a story of the 231-mile wind that blew on Mt. Washington. MacKenzie, one of the reoccupants Bob Monahan has written about, is quoted with the following: "It wasn'tso bad, though, wearing our windproofparkas, our storm pants and our woolenhelmets." And then the ultimate in understatement "We crawled over the snow androcks, bending as close to the ground aspossible, because the breeze had a tendencyto bowl you over."
The announcement came to me today, and we forthwith despatch the congratulations of the class thereon, of the arrival of William MacKenzie Hamel to the home Mr. and Mrs. John R. Hamel of Evanston, Ill.
Jim Moore writes that Charlie Odegaard has won another scholarship, which will take him to Paris for further historical studies. Jim is a hardware merchant in Macy s, having to keep track of some 3000 different items on the nut and bolt line. During the winter Jim did a lot of sailing in the "Frostbite" meetings, and a certain amount of iceboating to boot.
I heard from somebody that Johnny Nutter is one of the assistant stage directors at Radio City.
It is comfortable to feel that the inadequacy of this month's column is being made up for in both news and general verve by the splendid bulletin put out by Harry Litzenberger and his associates, John Clark, Charley Doerr, and Johnny Wright Think over the question before you let these men and the College down in the matter of the Alumni Fund.
Secretary, 24 E. 38th St., New York
