Class of 1932
Due to your Secretary's late-summer lethargy no prompting or information- fishing was done from these offices during August, and as a consequence there is an almost complete lack of new material for this issue. A brochure describing the terms on which our class could subscribe to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE at new low rates was sent to all members the ist of September, and a special request for good response to it was sent out over my name. If you fellows don't do something about sending in your dollar for a year's subscription, of course this is in vain. Apparently at least two fellows have paid some attention to it, for in this morning's mail a copy came back with a note from Roger Benezet hen- tracked across it. "I've held off for threeyears now expecting something to happenworth writing you about, but aside fromrunning into you in two parts of NewYork upon two consecutive visits thereto Ican offer nothing of interest, and, still being a schoolboy (Yale Arch '36) I can seeno immediate prospect of news. One yearof not-teaching 13-year-olds wore me out,but unless architecture dawns soon I mayreturn to it I'll offer only this adnice if you've never spent a week in thesummer loafing in Hanover, try it by allmeans. You have no idea how differenteverything is, but the setting remains unsurpassable, and it is a great pleasure todrop in on the busy faculty."
The other reply referred to above is from the office of the dean of men at the University of Illinois, signed by Dave Larrabee. "I have just started my secondyear in this job of assistant dean of menfor freshmen and foreign students, and itts a mighty interesting one. In addition tohaving charge of freshmen and studentsfrom foreign countries, I am adviser forthe Interfraternity Council, and that workgives me a lot of fun. There are sixtyfraternities on the campus, and right nowwe are very busy with details of rushingweek, which begins this next Monday.Needless to say this office will be a mad-house next week.
"I spent a month in Vermont this summer doing field work in the colored slatebelt, as I am continuing graduate work ingeology.
"I made a flying visit to Chicago tospend Labor Day with Ronny Olmstead,who was going through on his way toColorado, Arizona, and New Mexico.There are very few Dartmouth menaround here. We have two ?nen in the class of '35 doing graduate work in chemical engineering, and I expect to get togetherwith them as frequently as possible.
"Give my best to any of the gang youmay see around New York."
From the July number of Squeaks fromthe Golden Gate I gleaned that Dick Clarke is assistant manager of the W. T. Grant store in Oakland. From earlier information it appears he was moved out there from some place in Pennsylvania on the ist of May.
Unless his plans have changed over the summer, Bob Black is now on the high seas on his way to the American University at Beirut, Syria, where he will assume an instructorship in English. He got his Master's degree from Columbia in June, and will be in Beirut for two years.
An announcement of the marriage of Roger Needham to Anne Nourse in Gardner, Mass., on the 31st of August, reached here a short while ago, followed by a note giving his. address in that town—32 Chest- nut St.—and his position—with the Simplex Time Recorder Co.
Other summer weddings of which I have knowledge but not details were: Jim North and Margaret Peters, in Glens Fall, August 17; and a week before, on the 10th, that of John Palmer and Georgia Gettins in Akron. I heard from someone that the honeymooning couples came within a day of seeing each other at Bonnie Oaks. The Norths are living in New York somewhere on E. 58th St., and the Palmers, I assume, will go back to Akron.
On July 9 Howie Wile was married to Margery Blahd in Cleveland.
John Clark drove out to Youngstown the second week in September, where I was at the time spending my vacation and ushering at the wedding o£ Jack Warwick '31 and my sister. Clark was hoping to rope John Keller in on a tour through the West, but J. K. couldn't get away from his job of helping Col. Louis Howe through his convalescent hours with the aid of detective fiction, and Clark had to go all the way with an Eli '29 whom he was planning to introduce around some of the Dartmouth households on his way to the ultimate objective of Denver. After two exhausting days of this in Youngstown, the next stop was Chicago and the next victim of the whirlwind tour, Ryan. Ferry was encountered in one of the country clubs on the way. Wilbur, at that time, was apparently writing social notes for the Detroit Times.
Max Wolff is with the Minneapolis Dredging Co. in Winona, Minn. Ed Judd, who passed through several night clubs in N. Y. on his way back West from Commencement with Dick Hazen, is now apparently studying medicine again, al- though I'm not sure whether he is at Rush, Chicago, or not. Ben Read, of the same profession, was interning, at last notice, in Atlanta. Dave Castleman is with the R F C in Washington, and other reports from the city are to the effect that Deak Mack is a G man.
Buzz Burrows was married sometime during the summer, but we're still waiting for solid news on this. At any rate he is working as an assistant sales manager for the Siren Mills Corp., chocolate and cocoa manufacturers of Chicago. John Wright is out there too, serving his apprenticeship in a law firm, living at 1117 N. Dearborn St.
Vic Ruebhausen is an assistant rating engineer, fire insurance, with the firm of Crum & Forster, 110 William St., New York. Mike Cardozo is downtown now too, beginning as a lawyer on October 1 with Parker, Finley & Benjamin, 16 William St.
One more matrimonial item, lost for a time in my temporarily jumbled files, is the marriage of Naomi Burd to Milt Lieberthal in Philadelphia on the 9th of June.
I could go on from here rehashing some of the stuff that Harry Litzenberger put in the Check-Up last June, stuff that Harry got together with much painstaking and wouldn't let me have any part of the last time I was hard up for something to put in this column. But most of that's old by now. Incidentally, some of you who don't see why the Alumni Fund committee had any right to be disappointed in the results of the drive have another see coming. Or maybe you don't think it's hard work.
One thing that Harry kindly did not include in the Check-Up but which finally got to me was a note from Jim Moore: "I'dlike to be able to read all the news thatOwsley fails to print. If what little he picksfrom any of my letters is a criterion of theamount he picks from other letters I'd sayour alumni news was cut in half everymonth in the magazine."
I'll see you in Macy's window, Moore, if there's any grounds for a statement like that. Don't believe him, men.
Secretary, 24 E. 38th St., New York
