Class of 1930
By the time this issue reaches you the Princeton and Columbia games will be over and Dartmouth will have completed what is already at this writing a highly pleasing football season. Thanksgiving will be over and all of you but the chronic dyspeptics will have recovered from gastronomic orgies over stuffed turkeys; Dun snow clouds will be coming down from the mountains, and the weatherwise undergraduate will look into the gray sky over the Library Tower and upward toward Moosilauke and begin to think of the first snow and wonder where he put away his ski poles.
Meanwhile it is the 10th of November and the Cornell game hasn't been played yet' and there is a motly collection of information spread out on the desk in our hideout up at the top of Parkhurst Hall, some of it dating back as far as the Alumni Fund campaign and other bits in our Winchell file looking forward to blessed events and you would never guess what happy nuptial ventures of the future.
Not to be humdrum, we will nevertheless begin with GENE ZAGAT, who has deserted the business department of the New York Times (where all our secret service reports indicate that he was doing a swell job) "fora really hard job with my father in realestate." In a note last July on the paper of the Sunlight Realty Corporation, Gene spoke of the honeymoon visit to Barbados "and almost any island that you care tomention in the West Indies." Gene's marriage, which we surely must have mentioned in a newsletter in the spring, occurred just at reunion time Even though 808 KOHN is still a fugitive from justice, Gene, in response to last month's note concerning an Aegis, has promised us one from his personal collection JOHN TOLAND is a Sterling Fellow in Celtic at Yale, after having gotten his doctorate in the classics at Harvard last June And now that we are among Thirty-men of erudition we mustn't forget WIN STONE, who, while still holding his instructorship in English at George Washington University, according to an item contributed by Charlie Widmayer, is at Harvard this year working toward his Ph.D. degree. (This is news to us, who thought he already had it.) "Win recently announced his engagement to aWashington girl," Charlie's note adds, "andexpects to be in Hanover on his honeymoonnext summer." .... "It's ancient historynow, but you asked for it!" confesses BURT CRANDALL. "Was married last March 23 toMiss Ruth Strickert—daughter of Mr. andMrs. G. W. Strickert of Oak Park, Ill.
Honeymoon in Bermuda." Burt added an item about a visit from ART HAYES en route to Minnesota for a visit with "an old SmithCollege friend." The ED HOLMESES live practically across the street from the Burt Crandalls in Oak Park HERB MANDEVILLE will be leaving shortly for a trip which will cover much of South and Central America, "primarily to investigateopportunities, and incidentally for pleasure." .... DICK PARKER is in his second year of study at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, where he is gradually being converted by a mummifying process into an Egyptologist, work of long hours but great interest. He has a service scholarship for the year.
F. P. A.'s Conning Tower not too recently contained the following item about a learned psychologist, late of Harvard, now of Dartmouth: "DR. HENRY S. ODBERT, of the Department of Psychology atHarvard, has been making some tests, the general result of which is that the more haste,the better result in sound logic. That is,fast workers show more taste and originality than slow ones. One of the tests, however, was condensing verse and prose; andthe twenty-five students who took the testwere excellent and rapid. Well, they neverwill be any good as columnists. One of thefirst things that this freak of journalismlearns is that the way to do your workrapidly is to be able to dilute verse andprose." .... A note from LES GODWIN, who is our ambassador to Priscilla DORAN("What's this about no wives?"), writes that PAUL MAGUIRE is in Cambridge with the Webster Company, that ROLLY BOOMA is dispensing considerable quantities of oil burners and fuel, and that HAL BOOMA does very well for United Shoe.
Gradually some of the long-time holdouts begin to come through. Take WALT BIRNIE, for instance, who after five years of neglect has finally given us a break with the following items tabulated by himself:
"Graduated Dartmouth, June, 1920."Graduated M. I. T., June, 1932."Married, June, 1932.
"Employed United Shoe Machinery Corporation as Mechanical Engineer, July,1932.
"Baby daughter—Sally Hart—August,1933.
"Baby son—Arthur Kidder—February,1935.
"I am still working in the experimentaldepartment of the U. S. M. Corp., mixedup with the design and testing of new machines. Spend about one-third of my timein shoe factories with the machines." Walt is now at 53 Yale St., Winchester, Mass.
.... "How about some news from FRED SCHMIDT in your column?" Walt asks. We'll give you the answer. Fred is one of the most incorrigible hold-outs among our perverse Chicago element, which is one of the toughest spots in a class which generally is distinguished for recalcitrants and orneriness FRAN HORN alleged that he would be taking tickets at the Yale Bowl, but he was not seen either by ourself or any of our scouts. He is putting another year in at New Haven towards his Ph.D., with classes in Chaucer, Tudor prose, and the age of Johnson; hopes to take his orals in the spring. He is, furthermore, teaching a class in ancient history in a girls' preparatory school. This would seem to be an appropriate point to get into printed records a fact which we may have mentioned in one of the newsletters last spring, that Fran was married in New Haven, Conn., on June 8 to Miss Xenia Beliavsky, graduate of the Sorbonne and the Yale School of Nursing. Fran, whose fidelity according to his own story withstands the wiles of all his ancient history pupils, nevertheless managed to come to reunion just about one week after the wedding date While we are on this point, so did BUD FRENCH, who brought his bride with him. We told you about Bud's wedding last spring MR. and MRS. GEORGE PORTER visited Hanover on a bit of vacation in the early fall, and unless our memory fails us they mentioned finding MR. and MRS. GORDON SHATTUCK at the Hanover Inn. The Shattucks gave us no break
AL SMITH (you remember about radio operator Smith and the rum-runners) gives us, along with some slightly unprintable material, the following items: "1 haveheard from Buzz WHITELAM, who was atthe moment in Texas or New Mexico, traveling for the Fisk rubber people. ED FROST reports gargantuan steps upward with theMarshall & Bruce Company, stationers, inNashville. At the present time I am in asmall and active law office at 150 Broadway,R&om 120 j, and doing all sorts of jobs, fromauditing books to serving papers, while trying to whip up my nerve and knowledgesufficiently to take the bar exam." Condé Nast PETE CALLAWAY is now with his "old palsy walsies' in the "really great" (sic) town of Chicago, where, working out of the Conde Nast Chicago office, he covers Michigan and Indiana. "No joke—it's thenuts to be out in the country these swellfall days and far from the hard and chillysidewalks of New York. Although I do likeNew York fine it is still great to sniff theold new-mown hay." (This is the lad from Helena, Montana, speaking.) After this bucolic ecstasy, Pete goes on to say: "I'veseen MICKEY EMRICH, SCHMIDT, HANK EMBREE and beautiful wife and a stvell daughter, age, verra, verra young, also 808 GLASGOW. Had a letter from BILL LUCAS, whofrom reports has Portsmouth, Ohio, in thewell-known bag, and enjoys his work. Alsoreports that ART BROWN is now located inMilwaukee, the I knew what hisaddress was. I also saw ED 'COTTON' HOLMES and NEWELL RUMPF, who are working withthe Harris Trust, the same outfit that employs Mick. All appear prosperous andeverything 0.k."
A great wonder similar to the wonder of many why Hoover should be in politics is raised in our minds by the desire of RAY TALBOTT to give over the joy of life in the big happy Thirty family in order to affiliate himself with the class of 1929, a dull outfit if there ever was one. Ray appeared in Hanover with his camera, to which he is wedded, on a vacation from his work as a traveling auditor for the Petroleum Heat and Power Company, covering the Atlantic coast from Boston to Washington—a pretty pleasant life, he finds On the paper of the Scott Paper Company (get it?) writes HARRY DUNNING from Miami, regretting that his changing address will make it impossible for him to be a regular reader of the MAGAZINE (get it?). He was pleased with the shift from Fuller Brush to Scott Paper, which he finds a pleasant company to work for. He adds: "I suppose you know that BROOKE WILLIS now has a teaching fellowship at George Washington University, orsome place like that in Washington, D. C.Also I think I told you that GEORGE COVELL is working for the above company in NewYork, a lot nearer the football games thanI am. GEORGE MOSHER is still in Philadelphia, and we had some nice visits with himand his wife, thanks to your notes, tie wentto Charleston, W. Va., for a visit with Kip CHASE over Labor Day. Kip just back fromChina, and rumor has it he's going to London for Chase National the first of the yearI can't vouch for the veracity of thatthough. That's quite a bit of news formeto think up." .... The KIP CHASES in early autumn dropped in on us one Sunday afternoon in the course of an excursion from their quiet vacation in Lyme. From here they went through the mountains at the height of the autumn foliage, to Maine. Kip hadn't at that point yet decided on his plans for the winter. From Shanghai he wrote us a swell letter on the Far East which we kept saving for an opportunity to print it in full in a newsletter until now he is back and it is out of date and hence goes into the Thirty archives DAVE RUBIN, writing on the letterhead of the Probation Bureau of the Domestic Relations Court of the City of New York, says he is still in social service work. As he looked back, on September si, over his first year of married life he found pleasure in this contemplation. His work, on the other hand, is among people who are in domestic marital difficulties Architect GENE MAGENAU has made some Hanover appearances in connection with the house which he did for Eddie Griffin '25 on the West Lebanon road. Business is good.
.... The 808 BLANCHARDS came through Hanover late in June on a leisurely vacation through Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine and then back to Long Island to finish out the vacation in surf fishing.
We could go on and on like this indefinitely, ranging back and forth between the news of last spring and the news of next spring. We are saving some of it to dish up in a newsletter which will go out before this MAGAZINE is printed. This is enough for the present and maybe too much.
Secretary, Administration Bldg., Hanover, N. H.
