Class of 1934
With becoming but not at all journalistic modesty, Billy Scherman, our last month's class secretary without portfolio, omitted his own big news. When questioned about it, he merely muttered, "Iforgot." Nevertheless, on June 7 last Bill put on a clean shirt, straightened his tie, and forthwith was wedded to Miss Beth Rowland of Pelham, N. Y. Miss Rowland is said to have remarked the other day: "Well, if worst comes to worst we can livein the bass viol." According to latest reports they haven't yet moved in.
Despite the going astray of roommates and classmates right and left, your correspondent still confesses to membership in that fast-diminishing body of celibates. But I have tranferred my desk, figuratively speaking, from the domain of Boy Scoutdom to the advertising offices of Time, Inc., in the Chrysler Building. We lads on Floor 51 like to think of ourselves as "advertising representatives," but the boys in the agencies take us down a peg by mumbling "space salesman" and turning to more weighty things.
Our European trip worked into a tour review of "You're the Top." We inspected about every one of Mr. Porter's masterpieces with the possible exception of "the puddle made by Cavalcade, the horse." And incidentally, in response to Scherman's query on the subject of liters, Gilmore writes that Webster says this of it: "a measure of capacity in the metric system,being a cubic decimeter, or 61.022 cubicinches, .908 U. S. dry quart, or 1.0567 U. S.liquid quarts." Now we know. Gilmore also asserts that it took more than "a fewliters" to tie one on in Munich, but he must have been on the ball to say such things. In his travelogue, only recently received, he makes mention of Heidelberg beer horns, holding five LITERS, which "startup by your chest, curve down around yourwaist, and end up in the small of yourback." Probably Gilmore, in Scherman fashion, was thinking of living in the thing. More about Gilmore and the European situation in later months.
"NEWS-TIMES REPORTER SHOTBY GANGSTERS"Harry Wheelock Woundedin Delmar Raid
"Last night (in South Bend) HarryWheelock Jr. was shot down by gangstersduring a raid on the popular Delmar nightclub Leading the raiding party, hesuffered a painful shoulder wound.
"For the past three months Wheelock,because of his activities in the present driveon crime, has been a marked man. Beginning with his capture of the Plandonmurderer three months ago, Wheelock hasplayed an increasingly important part inthe gangster clean-up that is now sweepingSouth Bend.
"Accompanied by a picked group ofplainclothesmen, Wheelock entered theVelmar club at 11:30. The gangsters hadapparently been tipped off, and the moment the party entered the cafe Wheelockwas shot down. Three men are being heldby the police.
"Nine months ago Harry Wheelock became a cub reporter on the News-Times. Today his role in the community is provingan invaluable one. From informationgained because of his contacts in the underworld, he not only solved the Plandonmurder but has also been responsible forthe successful prosecution of severaldangerous characters. It was because of awarning from Wheelock that the attemptedhold-up on the First National Bank lastSaturday was a failure.
"Harry Wheelock, who has been deputized for the last two months, said yesterday,'I shall not relax in my efforts againstthe insidious activities of South Bend criminals until the last one of them has beenbrought to justice.'
"Doctors at the hospital where Wheelockis confined say that his wound is not serious, but that it will be several days beforehe can leave his bed."
This from the South Bend News-Times. 'Nuff said. Good going, Harry.
Deane Howland, says Professor Redington, is a successful and satisfied auditor in one of Hawaii's big accounting offices. And in the words of this same Redington are expressed the sentiments of this column on a tender subject. Remember it? "Can youtell me, Marty, why it is so hard to get guysto contribute as little as one buck to acause as worthy as the Alumni Fund?"
A word from Buz Hartman, who is acquiring "all sorts of experience" as a truck driver and furniture polisher in Madison. The Sigma Nu house, where he hangs his h., is bounded on the one side by Lake Mendotu and on the other three by sororities. What are they, father? Buz suggests a third-year reunion. Some classes have considered it recently but have turned it down. Let's have some reaction in your next letters. To get back to Hartman, I. H., he expects to return to Chicago in a few months to supervise a few stores. We wish him a few successes.
NEED A TEACHER?
Bob Newman, being now one of those M.A. fellows, is casting about for a teaching job. Subjects: English and/or French. Achievement: concentration in Chaucer.
The history of one Jeff Jackson stands out in bold, black type in the beaming style of the Jax himself. "Maybe you'd liketo hear about my water. (This refers, please,to that business of water over dams.) Well,sir, I began immediately with the insurance brokerage business. But it soon became evident .... that a knowledge ofthe score would not be at all remiss, if yasee what I meanandithinkyado. Your deponent thereupon began a period of intensive training in the intricacies of anawfully interesting business. The first, orwhat I like to call getting-a-grasp, stagewas a course given by the Aetna companiesat their sumptuous home office in Hartfordlast fall. Then came the big hurdle in theform of a broker's examination. The feefor this little quiz is twenty round ironmen, and represents an honest attempt toclose the doors to a pretty crowded field.Yet the exam holds no terrors for anyonewho is well prepared and who lives right.Well, to make a short story short-short, oldfax eased through fairly enough and hasbeen an insurance broker since fanuary,and happy enough at it, too "
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE
At the last '34 dinner at the New York Club (attendance: 37), Dave Hedges handed me a mighty-looking document, the gist of which follows: Joe Lehmann is teaching school in Isabel, Porto Rico. (Remember that old gag about Elizabeth?) Joe is the only American in the whole town and is a highly respected citizen Bill Baird married his childhood sweetheart, Miss Grace Staves, on September 14. They will make their home in Ann Arbor, where Bill is continuing his law studies. . . . . Bob Adam and Walt Blood have been added to the staff of the Bank of New York and Trust Co., making four '34 men therein. Says Hedges: "Give us a little moretime and we'll be practically running thething!" .... Jack Risberg has been transferred by the Sherwin-Williams Co. from Newark to Chicago.
More from Citizen Hedges: "At a Dartmouth get-together on September 8, at thehome of Mrs. Hal Mackey on Long Island,I saw Ray Hulsart, Al Baldwin, and TimInglis. It was the first time Hulsart, Baldwin, and I had been together since wegraduated. Ray did very well at HarvardLaw last year .... rated near the top ofhis class. The Ace is with Eugene KellyReal Estate Co. in South Orange, N. J., andat present is merrily palming off Jerseyswamps and sand dunes to unsuspectingsuckers.
"Reading a review of the 'Taming of theShrew,' starring the Lunts, I tioticed thename of our good friend, Alan Hewitt. Heis playing the part of Lucentio, and according to the Daily News gave 'an earnest performance.' Found no mention in the Herald Tribune, but of course they haveno eye for the spectacular. ....
"Ike Powers will attend Boston University Law School this fall, and Hank Wernerhas started at N. Y. U. Jerry Danzig rushesin and out of the Dartmouth Club occasionally on the trail of some big scoop forthe Journal. Bill Knibbs and I visited Hanover for the Norwich game. There werenot many '34 men on hand, but I did seeCallaway, Carter, Wilmot, and Thor Fraserprowling about in the streets in search of afamiliar face. Steve Meigher is back in townnow to resume his studies at Cornell Med.Stevie did so well last year that they gavehim an extra week of vacation."
Jack Feth is back on the faculty of Bronxville High (N. Y.), and this has managed, he says, to climb to a "fingerhold onthe tailboard of the payroll." He spent the summer in some town up New Hampshire way called Hanover, mostly sailing and loafing, but did enough studying on European history to be a bit peeved when Bronxville booked him this fall to teach American history. Jack reports Johnny Roberts safe through a summer of Buffalo and Bangor steel and machinery mills, and back at M. X. T. for another go at the books. S. B. Dunn, after summering as counselor at Camp Dudley on Lake Champlain, returns to Cornell to work further 011 his doctor's degree and to act as assistant to one of the top-notch historians on the faculty.
"Don Allen," continues news-gatherer Feth, "docked in June after his year inEngland, possessed of a glorious Oxford inflexion, which was knocked out of him thissummer while he washed dishes, madebunks, and packed 150 pounds every dayor two while crewing at the A. M. C. hut atLakes of the Clouds on Washington. Hegoes to Harvard Law this fall BenTwiss has an assistantship at Princetonagain, goes gaily on toward a Doctor's inPoli Sci Em Day and Franky Le-preau are back at Harvard Med., and BillEmerson is doing Chem again at the samehaunt. Dick Emerson, I think, sells insurance up Manchester way."
Of all the startling words from the lips of men, the most startling, when descending from a clear sky, are, "I've just returned from my honeymoon." Mike Joseph came through with just that, and then spends the rest of the four pages of his "wife's stationery" raving about the merits of the married state. Mrs. Joseph is the former Miss Marion May. Mike has seen some of the boys recently, he says, but he's still too excited to remember who they were.
POISSON AT TABOR
Blue-lined paper is what Dick Poisson writes on, because, he says, it's the "everlasting symbol of elementary pedagogy." Dick joined the faculty of Tabor Academy only a short time after June, 1934, and spent his breaking-in period having all the school's odd jobs wished on him. During this summer he and five of Tabor's ace musicians served long hours of dance music to the patrons of the Majestic, and spent three weeks in Paris, "keeping the Tabor tradition ever in mind." The group also managed a brief sojourn in Switzerland, and Lausanne was notable only as a relief from the heat of Paris.
The latest matrimonial report filed at headquarters is that of Miss Katherine I'herson, graduate of Sweet Briar and resident of Cincinnati, to Richard Wichgar Barrett, during the first week of September.
Secretary, 193 Brookdale Ave., New Rochelle, N. Y.
