Class of 1930
By the time this issue of the MAGAZINE gets into your hands, Hanover will be on the verge of the abyss which is locallv known as "March." You won't be thinking of March though, but of June, which is a different story, and which is particularly notable in 1935 as the season for the foregathering of 1930 under the Hanover elms. It is high time "that plans were made, railroad timetables investigated, and all that sort of thing.
We have a small crop of vital statistics: Mr. and Mrs. Kelly C. Robinson announce the marriage o£ their daughter Bonnie Verda to MR. ALLAN BOLTE, Sunday, January 6, 1935, at Greenwich, Conn.
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Tietig 111 announce the marriage of their sister, Miss Betty Carew Flach, to MR. GEORGE DREW MOSHER, Friday, January 18, at Cincinnati. At home after the first of March: Colonial Village, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. Emmanuel James Block announce the marriage of their daughter Majorie to MR. HENRY LAWRENCE STEIN, Saturday, February 8, 1935, in Chicago.
Something very unusual in a nuptial way is described in a large clipping which shows MR. AND MRS. ROBERT S. KOHN, several members of their respective families, and a pullman porter in a large illustration. Even railroad men will disarrangethe split-second schedule of a crack flyerto aid Cupid," the Denver Post declares in large type. "And they did it to permit thenewly married Mr. and Mrs. Robert S.Kohn to slip away from friends and boardthe Burlington Aristrocat at the little townof Derby outside of Denver, which is usually nothing but a xuhistling post for thefast train." Following Bob's marriage to Miss Marie Cosgriff by Judge Luxford at the county courthouse in Denver, the bride and groom began their honeymoon by climbing down a stepladder to be whisked away to the train and off toward the Mediterranean sea. Unfortunately the clipping has "no date on it anywhere, but the event apparently took place about the first of February.
At Shanghai (described by Will Rogers and KIP CHASE as "Brooklyn grown up andgone English"), Ryland Ellis Dickinson Chase was born October 17, weighing 914 pounds, to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Ryland Chase of various cities. He will be brought home in April by grandmothers, while his more immediate ancestors wander home via Paris, etc., arriving too late for reunion.
William Frank Seidl just missed arriv- ing at the hearth of the STUART F. SEIDLS at Milwaukee on Christmas, making his appearance December 28.
THIRTY-MAN GETS QUOTED
Vic Borella, who leaped to the fame of authorship in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE last month, was quoted in the New York World-Telegram recently: "'Three thousand licensed hackmen now depending onpublic relief—their families cost payers ofthe sales tax and other taxes about $1,260,000 a year—could earn a living driving taxisif they would take the trouble to apply,'V. G. Borella, personnel director of theTerminal Transportation System declaredtoday," reports the World-Telegram. "Mr.Borella said the terminals alone wouldabsorb one thousand such persons and thatwith their tips and bonuses for safe driving they would average more than $2O aweek." This may be a tip for some of you who have always wanted to drive a taxicab Incidentally, Vic's 1930 per- sonnel committee has gotten off to a good start, has received fine co-operation from many New York Thirtymen, and has been of real assistance more than once.
AL HAYES reported from Pittsburgh on the day that he arrived there and before he had got used to perpetual walking up and down hill. He is teaching English at Duquesne University. His report included an account of a visit with GEORGE MCCLELLAN. Here is a varied report for you from George himself: "Since Commencement (so they call it) I have spent one year preaching (you should have heard myprayers, for they were quite different fromthe Hubbard Hall one of freshman year)and quite in high dudgeon before theyfired me for insubordination, communism,intoxication, and sedentary proclivities; Ihave spent some four and a half years (forty-eight months, since thirty-sixmonths make four school years) doing graduate study, research, and dissertatingon the contemporary novel and composition; I have owned a hole-in-the-wall restaurant and operated it for over two years; I have spent over four years teaching, supervising, and directing upperclassmen in their composition improvement before they teach English, at Ohio State;and I am now in my second month ofteaching the English language to shopboys in Mansfield. Add it up! As far as Ican see, totaled with the twenty-one oddyears before I graduated, it makes something like thirty-five." He had reports to make on WIN STONE and AL HAYES, but we have covered these brothers pretty fullv already.
DR. RIX LEAVES OMAHA
Whoever it was that was going over to Omaha to look for 808 RIX might as well save himself the trouble. Dr. Rix is at the Newton Hospital, Newton Lower Falls, Mass., where, if we remember correctly, he has a surgical service. He has visited Hanover and looked pretty well withal. . . . . We are pleased to announce the affiliation of 808 BLANCHARD with the "ran-into-Wasmer Club." .... Here is something worthy of notice: "It's just astart out of my shell—or should I say'hibernation here in the Northwest,' butif my plans hold good you can count onme being there for the fifth reunion—TED MCDONALD." (Tacoma, Wash.)
We are giving gold stars to our medicos. After having been completely unapproachable for three or four years, suddenly they are blossoming out into exemplary correspondents. We owe a recent letter from HUB CHRISTMAN "to a sudden stupendousslump in the steady stream of sufferingsimps who usually manage to keep theNew Patient Clinic of the Henry FordHospital busy. Having no patient to pump,pound, and poke at the moment, I shallimprove my time—if not yours—by scribbling a line with one of Henry's scratchypens." On a recent vacation in Lakewood he had enjoyed a Dartmouth stag party. JOHNNY MARSH, HANK OBERT, now in Hanover, and 8088 MARR were on hand. We have already reported that Johnny is selling insurance for Northwestern but sings too We are pleased to note the coming to light of CLIFF MICHEL, who in a quiet moment at Tupper Lake relaxed from the pursuit of the golf ball and the trout and came clean with the information about his affiliation with J. & W. Seligman & Company, New York. It was a nice letter, but now that we comb through it for news this is about all we can find Our anonymous reporter records HEINIF. GARRETT of Union Carbide as a frequent bridger at the Dartmouth Club; CHUCK SIMMONS "pursuing the somewhat elusivegutta percha" over the greensward at Oak Park, 111.; GEORGE FISHER as Cleveland's most enterprising young grocer, who, according to the newspapers, had to take over most of the A & P business during the recent hostilities in Cleveland; Cheery HARRY CASLER covering the federal court for the Herald Tribune. BROWNIE is back on his feet again HOWIE ELDREDGE rose to our taunt in a recent column and came through with the promised letter on the paper of Eldredge & Sons, Inc., of Wareham, Mass. His letter is studded with '3O names. Howie seems to have wasted few words in extraneous comment, so we quote verbatim his report on Thirtymen in his area: "Si CHANDLER seems to have beendividing his time between Bermuda, Marblehead, and Plymouth—l've seen himfrequently on the Plymouth week-ends enjoying the festivities at the Beach Club. Siis working with Irving-Casson in Boston,but it seems to give him plenty of freetime. He is still, I think, a gay bachelorand, incidentally, before I forget it, so amI. Also see HORACE WESTON at the BeachClub occasionally—he is located in Kingston To come closer to the hometown, LESTON GRIFFIN is married and liveswith his wife and family here in Wareham,where he is working with one of the largelocal cranberry concerns. AL SCHUMAKER was on to visit with the Griffins this summer, but unfortunately I did not get tosee him. I understand that he has beenconnected with some chemical outfit inthe. Carolinas. PETE LILLARD seems to findthe academic life to his liking—he is working with his father at Tabor Academy.Saw BILL FLETCHER one night while dancing at the Hotel Puritan roof in town, butnot long enough to find out how life hasbeen treating him. KIRK JACKSON took timeout at Dillon, Read & Company, longenough to write that he is married anddoing nicely, thank you. HARRY CASLER and I were members of the mournersgroup at a wedding in Jersey early in thesummer."
BOOF PERKINS is another of the holdouts who has broken down and come across. He claims to have withheld comment on his activities, feeling that by comparison with our boys who trot from Berlin to Budapest via San Francisco, his adventures were about as "eventful as a winter eveningin Lyme, N. H." However, he writes on natty stationery of the Robert S. Perkins Company, agent for the Connecticut Fire Insurance Company, and he has some vita] statistics to record. He is married and has a daughter Penelope, who was three years old on November 3, which he thinks puts him well up on the list of 'go fathers. He took over the insurance office in the spring of 1932 .... CUPE BURNS (you remember "ln the Heart of Kansas") returned from one of his thousand-mile flour trips through New Mexico and Arizona, and declared that "Being a sales manager isplenty broadening." As a matter of fact, we confidently expect that as we view the silhouettes of many '3O men in June we will discover that numerous occupations are pretty broadening. On some of Cupe's trips from the Heart of Kansas into the surrounding plains, he doesn't see anything alive all day excepting a couple of desert lizards. Cupe hasn't been on the east bank of the Mississippi since June 1930. He expects to make Hanover in June, even though this is harvest time.
Administration Secretary, ALBERT I. DICKERSON
