Class of 1933
Mindful of the vagaries of the Hanover climate and the treachery of the soft insinuating early spring days, it is with the greatest wariness that we announce that spring has come to Cambridge.
From the windows of our modest pension, we can see the gleam of the sun on the gilt-topped Georgian cupola of the local telephone company. We are enjoying the sort of weather that used to bring the sunbathers out of their hibernation to laze luxuriously on the grass behind Topliff, Hitchcock, and Gile.
On the river, the rowing set are getting to know practically all the other men in their respective boats. Even Henry Wa:dsworth Longfellow Dana has been playing wood nymph.
Oh, it's quite a bully season, to be sure.
ODD ADDENDA
Some time ago we received a lurid-covered pamphlet, bearing the title "Program of Clinics," and, at the bottom, a firm name Fawcett and Fawcett, 435 Fulton St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
On that particular day, our stomach had not been performing with its customary effectiveness (the War, you know), and we decided that some pitying friend had quietly sent us this suggestive brochure rather than bicarbonate of soda.
We turned over the pages inquisitively . . . . Miller of McKesson would demonstrate the Euthesor for GAS-OXYGEN ANAEGESIA .... Dr. Harry Albert would demonstrate the Liquid Sterilizer (rather suggestive) and Gutta Percha Tray (that's better) .... and then finally on the last page, we discovered the reason for Fawcett and Fawcett's apparent interest in our dilemma.
On the last page with a coy '55 penciled after the name was the following blurb; Friday, December zist, 9 A.M. to 4:30 P.M.
Mr. O. E. Merkt (here the '33 was penciled) of the Heidbrink Company willdemonstrate the Heidbrink Gas-OxygenApparatus for Analgesia and Anesthesia.Doctors having the older types of apparatusare urged to attend and investigate the possibilities of Analgesia, using their presentequipment.
The following self-explanatory clipping was sent us recently. It is apparently from the Boston Herald.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Leavitt, 48 BanksRoad, Swampscott, are announcing todaythe engagement of their daughter, MissRuth Lea:vitt, to Maxwell Field, son of Mr.and Mrs. Samuel Field, 78 Washington St.
Miss Leavitt was graduated from Classical High School and the State TeachersCollege in the class of 1934.
Mr. Field is a graduate of Classical HighSchool and Dartmouth College in 1933 andfrom the Tuck School of Business Administration there the following year, holdingtwo degrees, Bachelor of Arts and Masterof Commercial Science. He was a memberof the College Band.
The couple are planning to be marriedin the spring.
Lew Chester writes from the windy east shore of Lake Champlain that he is studying at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and is living at 135 North Willard St., Burlington, Vt.
Mr. A. P. Fairfield of the Hanover Inn has sent us a note suggesting a variety of mental pictures of idyllic beauty. We could almost swoop into the rapturous mood that characterized the writings in the MAGAZINE of Wilbur Weltschmerz Ferry during his occupancy of the Undergraduate Chair. Mr. Fairfield to get back to him suggests that certain week-ends in the summer be set aside for informal or unofficial class
reunions.
To insure nominal rates, if the response were adequate, one of the dormitories would be opened. Although the idea is still in the embryonic stage, we think it a splendid one especially for the New Hampshire boys and perhaps for a good part of the New England group.
From Hal Mackey comes a brief note to the effect that Jarve Chapman makes googoo eyes every time Vassar is mentioned. We may look forward to see the announcement that (in the language of Dave Hedges) "he has planted a sparkler on his old flame."
.... BUT THE MID-WEST
And now—a letter—so complete, so vivid, so replete with news of men long given up for lost, that it warms the cockles of what Grandma Woolcott would call "this foolish heart." We can even afford to overlook the frequently, confident references to the younger and more athletic Bates. On Equitable Life Ins. Co. paper we read:
From the depths of despair and theheights of happiness (to say nothing of Shaker) this one so unworthy member ofour presumably great and questionablyglorious class, Dar Bates, salutes you
And quite agrees with the sentiments expressed in the final paragraph of lastmonth's news letter in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE (which I read in the Public Library ofour so great city) . ... to wit, viz., i.e.,e.g., namely .... that enough had beenheard about lawyers and doctors and bankers ... . and that something should besaid about the great fraternity of life insurance men
And now that enough has been said aboutlife insurance men, let us go on to the moreimportant things
1. Whatever Bill Doyle does is not news,even though the bull throws him for a
change 2. That even in spite of the aforementioned, we wait for the ALUMNI MAGAZINE with great eagerness
3. That, with Brother Arnie Salisbury, we saw Orosco's frescoes one day, andwondered how anybody ever studiedany more (we did, once)
4. That, with Brother Salisbury, we diddrink beer with Prof. Pressey and wonder about English 33, and swam in theWhite River
5. That Cleveland is full of drunkenDartmouth men, that the DartmouthClub of Cleveland is an institution lessgreat only than the College itself ....if you follow us
6. That if you haven't anything else fornews, you may quote me to the effectthat the halfback who will play on thefirst Dartmouth team that beats Yalehas just celebrated his second birthdayin February . ... he was born duringthe Carnival of 1933 (just on account of how somebodyought to start the question of classbaby again we hope you appreciateour efforts in this respect, SieurJohannie.)
7. That the twenty-seven drunks whobroke up the meeting at the UniversityClub last Saturday were Messrs. (andGod, how messy) Moatz, Wagner, and Schlesinger .... God, here we arebach to bankers and lawyers and doctors again . ... to say nothing of ourselves .... which brings us back toinsurance men God bless 'em.
8. That for four years of Dartmouth education I was only in the dean's officetwenty-three times—and I still graduated .... and will be willing to receive any medals due me
9. That I never did like the editorial "we"anyhow, and never could sustainit
10. That 1 am in the market for a goodused electric train.
11. That Dartmouth in Cleveland is looking forward to a very successful banquet with Prexy tomorrow night, andso I will continue this letter then
12. That Eddy Eldridge, who works forthe Nat'l, Refining Co., runs out of gasmore frequently than I, who graduatedfrom Standard Oil in 1934 .... oneyear of P. G. education was enough.(Explain to the boys that P. G. meansPump Gas, will you, Johnny?)
13. That Jay Newton is in Cincinnati.... that Hal Payne is in New York.... that Jack Hunley is helping Chan Roettig do nothing in southernOhio somewhere That Bob Swander is moving onto Winslow Road,which is what young married people dowhen the three-room apartment gelstoo small That Oswald Eugene Decker Merkt is still the largest singleconsumer of Leisy's That Ted Holmes, having been Wall Street messenger, deckhand, and stage carpenter,is now a chatter columnist in New Jersey or something. That Dick Bradshaw writes and neglects to say what it is thaihe is doing
14. That I wish Frank Neff would stoptrying to sell insurance to the same people I do ... . just 'cause he went to
Dartmouth too 15. If I knew a Dartmouth man who sellsPlymouths I'd like to buy one. . . . .
16. A Syracuse man asked me the other daywhy and how the Dartmouth Club ofCleveland, and the Dartmouth alumniclubs everywhere were so strong . . . .how did they get the crowds out . . . .and when I told that it was because wehad gone to Dartmouth, he said well,he went to Syracuse, and nobody cameto his alumni luncheons, and I saidwell, you should have gone to Dartmouth, and then everybody wouldcome to your luncheons, and he said,"Well, I went to a Dartmouth luncheon once, and all they talked about wasDartmouth College .... you wouldhave thought they were undergraduates!"
So we went to the banquet, and we saw Pony Schuemann moving to DiaperAlley Bob Fairbank .... service managerfor Firestone in Cleveland. Chas. Finfrock .... another lawyer,s'help us Bill Schlesinger . ... in a lux. McKee H. H. Jr., still youthful in spiteof the many cares thrust upon him asbanker Dar Bates .... busy with a notebookin one hand, a cigarette in the other, anda drink in the other hand Eldridge—E. K., .... passing out creditcards from Nat'l Ref. Co.And,as a special extra feature, and the bestshot of the evening, Robert Fulton Swander and Herbert Charles Moatz Jr., starting for the squash courts to play tenpoints of squash in their tuxedos, between soup and steak Dartmouth.mother of men:and Prexy made a swell speech andeverybody sang songs and the drunkenDKE's of '25 had a very extra specialgood time with champagne at their table,and the punch was all that could be desired .... and all in all it was a verysuccessful evening and one that hasgreatly strengthened our determinationto get back to Hanover for this Commencement . ... or at least for theFifth, or anyhow the Tenth .... andpositively once more before we die ....and if anybody ever wants to knowabout when we're going to beat Yale, tell'em to wait for '55 and Halfback DarivinTeachout Smokey Joe alias The BratBates ....
this from His DADDY.
Secretary, 64 Cooke St., Waterbury, Conn.
