Class of 1928
The class of 1932 with Uncle Jack Hamel featuring showed due respect for their elders and for legal precedents by citing our action in naming as our class baby Chuck Bennett's daughter Patsy. Only Secretary Owsley seems to entertain any doubt, as the participants in the case of Jeffery, B. J. vs. Swenson, S. S., seem to be positive enough either one way or the other. It would seem that Judge Owsley made an error of law in ever permitting the case to go to the jury. When the 1928 case came up for hearing a verdict was directed for Patsy, the sole evidence being the undisputed fact of her prior arrival. There being no court of appeals that I know of in these matters, the matter could not be reviewed when decided as a matter of law. But perhaps I'd better mind my own business and let 1932 solve its own problem by letting Miss Jeffery be class baby on the even years and her rival on the odd years.
Our supply of baby pictures continues undiminished. We have on hand no fewer than five snapshots waiting for publication. Among them are found four boys and one girl. The boys are Ellie Jones Jr., George Pasfield VI, Jerry O'Sullivan, and Charles Fleischer. The girl is Joan Woods and is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carter Woods. We present two of the boys in this issue. The first, because he's the older, is Ellis Jones Jr., the happy looking son of Ellie and Nellie Jones of Coral Gables, Fla. Little Ellie (that might mean either one) reports the arrival of a baby sister, Alice Gibbs Jones, on November 18, 1934, and says that his father is very busy selling advertising for the Miami Hctcild. On first glance that thing in Ellie Jr.'s left hand appears to be a campaign cigar, but closer examination will reveal that the youngster is air-minded. While Nellie was away arranging for Alice's arrival, Ellie moved all their furniture to their new residence at 1218 Salzedo St., Coral Gables.
The younger fellow is George Pasfield VI, and he looks considerably worried over being the sixth. He probably would much prefer to be the first or second, but since George of 1928 was the fifth, his son could scarcely escape being the sixth. His father wrote me a long letter about his potentialities, and asked me to announce that he was grooming the boy for the presidency to run against F. D. in 1936. Wishing to avoid the trouble of the Democratic party in financial matters, George V states that he is all set to receive any campaign contributions on behalf of his son. Pearl and I saw Suzanne and George V at the Princeton-Dartmouth game, and for the safety of the more generous among our classmates, we must state that they did not seem in very great need of campaign funds for George VI. The Thayer School apparently did well byGeorge V, because he states that he is employed by a company that is so busy that he only got a vacation of one week. George admits liking Philly very much, which seems very hard to understand when one pauses to realize that Jack McLaughlin lives there too. But maybe the Pasfields live far enough away so that they don't mind.
A very recent letter from Jack (on Alumni Fund stationery) sets out the present financial position of the class of 1928. I don't know what he did with all the money I turned over to him two years ago, but here's what he has on hand now: Savings Acct. Dartmouth
Nat' Bank
$475-54 Plus 1934 Interest
Checking Acct. Dartmouth
Nat'l Bank Total
75-65
If he doesn't send me a picture of Jay to publish in the June issue, I'll have to make him pay back the treasury in full, so that we'll have enough money to pay for all the pictures we are going to run in the MAGAZINE this year.
When the pictures were left out of the December issue per order of the editor, report on the Condon family stayed out with it, and when the picture popped back into the January issue, it was unaccompanied by any explanatory notes. Joan is being held by Dana's wife, who was Verna Rae Warren of Lowell, Mass., before Dana induced her to become Mrs. Condon and took her off to the tropics. They are in Costa Rica, and Joan has the distinction of being our first baby born outside of the States. She arrived at Port Limon, Costa Rica, on November 16, 1933.
My informers haven't been up to their usual form of late, and I have no short, pithy, poisonal items to give you this time. I understand that Os Skinner, over in New York, has barrels of information, even including a snapshot of Phil Orsi's baby, which he is holding out on me.
It would seem very sensible to me if I chose the present time to carry out one of my early fall promises. I threatened to deluge you with a variety of styles by various writers. To date, I have given you a variety of styles, but they were all my own. I am now going hunting for Red Edgar to prepare him for the task of writing the next issue, and if I don't start earlier than in the past, I'll be writing the next one.
Secretary, Wm. Iselin & Co. 357 Fourth Ave., New York
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