Class of 1934

They tell me that the class agents are on the job. The best wishes of this column and its adherents are extended to Tom Hicks and his '34 cohorts in their drive for 100% subscription to the Alumni Fund.

The annual Dartmouth dinner, replacing in its modest way the monthly class dinner for March, was a great success. Statistical reports have it that, although the noble first-year-outs were edged from victory on the attendance cup, which is governed by percentage, '34 did bring the greatest numbers to the banquet. The following odds and ends, scribbled amid the rosy effect of Orv Dryfoos' pre-grub hospitality, were found resting near the Secretary's plate during the dessert course, and we accept no responsibility for what they may or may not contain.

"BILL KNIBBS keeping nose above waterin the banking busitiess, finding consolation at the Dartmouth Club each monthin learning that I'm not the only man in'34 who isn't making 10 M a year and notthe only one who misses Carnival and thelittle home town."

"Having triplets in a week or so, accord-ing to rumor."—PEANUTS. (The result of a story, circulated by various scalawags, that the Davies family has erected guard rails outside the apartment windows.)

"ORV DRYFOOS in the bond, and bankinggame who said game?—and wishing hecould be in Hanover to lake week-ends toHamp and Poughkeepsie at will . . . ."

WILLIE LEVEEN: "Bud Ballard '34, if youread this please remember you haven't answered my letter and why not? Are youcoming to N. 17.I7.- the U. S.-this spring? Ifso, let me know. Willie."

MEL EARL: "Have been seeing quite a bitof Junie Kneisel, whom some may remember. He wants very much to be remembered to everyone. Junie had a toughbreak .... sick and lost a year at Harvard Med. Also want to join Willie in saying Ballard might enlighten some as to hiswhereabouts and why . . . ."

AN UNKNOWN HAND: "Dave Hedges is going to accept an assistant Treasury postwith the administration—salary $10,564.95per annum, with all week-end expenses atHamp, Wellesley, and Vassar, etc., extra

WILF MAYNARD: "Just trying to get onegood printing account which will pay forthis Friday and Saturday nite dates (?)Consider the Dryfoos Scotch par excellenceand sufficient to enjoy a rendition of OhEbaleena a la Scherm Scherman, Leveen,Hedges, and Dr. Meigher."

At this point in the dinner 700 throats heaved forth Eleazar, and we tearfully pocketed these fragments without further electioneering.

Milestone of the week: Miss Julia Anne McVey was married to Mr. Charles Edwin Rolfe Jr. on Saturday, April 37, in Lancaster, Pa. Our best wishes and congratulations follow the bride and groom on their nuptial journey.

Studying hospital administration in Chicago keeps him "busier than a one-leggedrooster in a hen-house," says Bill Wilson. Though registered in the University's School of Business, a good part of the work involves chasing about the city to observe the procedures of various hospitals. Study in the University ends next September, at which point managerial interneship is provided, to help the boys prove their managerial stuff. Will misses Hanover so much that last fall he made an attempt to simulate the customs and folk-ways of our northern home. Having purchased a jug of cider from a merchant of good repute in hopes that the elements would work it into the proper mixture of devil and friend, he hung it out the window in true Hanover style, only to find the next morning a mere string and bottle-neck, with a few clinging chunks of ice to tell the tale. .... Bob Engelman, Bill advises, has attractive quarters next to four raving beauties, and Ed Moore is still rustling about in the shirt market.

George Collins, rattling around the archives of Bissell Hall after elusive thesis material"thesis no fun/' he injects makes the following definite statement of fact: "If the Dean sees fit to make me theengineer 1 am embryo of I will get the jobI have my fingers on and announce my engagement to the girl whose name I will tellyou when I announce it."

Curt Howard, living at 50 Washington Square South, unrolling yarns from the typewriter, claims he is papering his wall with rejection slips, but adds that he has had encouragement in the game and loves it. Curt's contribution to the secretarial files is a travelogue of last summer's boat job around the world, and it's so good that I've read it over some seven times and intend saving it for a rainy day in the class notes. This much we release:

"I have lunch now and then with TedI hompson, who still prances about atRadio City in a neat blue page's uniform.He's recently been made a second lieutenant, so that he has a desk now upon whichto rest his feel. Chickering called me theother night from a gin-mill near here andannounced that he was drinking beer withBob Mann, who, you remember, left schoolin 32 ... . and why didn't I come over?Bob has just arrived from Cleveland,where he has been reading script and writing plays for the Cleveland Playhouse.He's here now to seek his fortune and tosee whatever plays Bagdad-on-the-Subwayhas to offer. Chick is still promoting ournewest American institution, Cellophane,and is trying to introduce it into ladies'wear the rascal. Also see Johnny Lasharquite often. He comes to town periodicallywith a brand-new idea for startling theworld, and incidentally selling a thingcalled Bede-o-vette, which he can tell youabout better than I can. Bill Adams is atpresent journeying through the South ona survey tour of some kind for J. WalterThompson."

While waiting for his. ship to come in, Bob Ford tore off a letter to the effect that he has deserted the legion of landlubbers and has become a cruise director. He hops about the east coastline, jumping via the Cunard White Star Line between New York and the ports of Jamaica, Colon, Panama, and Nassau. Bob reports that Bill Gay has just come home from the hospital, but is mysterious about what the operation was .... that Les Reeve is now punning with the boys on the Street .... and that Jack Gilbert is with the Lumbermen's Mutual in Boston.

On April 22 the Guild production of "The Taming of the Shrew," starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, will open in Pittsburgh. In the fall it will hit New York. In it will be our own A. E. H. '34, who has found a berth with the Theater Guild after some months of making the rounds of the New York theatrical offices. Al looks forward to the road "to see whatsome other parts of the country look like,and to see a lot of the fellows whom Ihaven't seen or heard from since we saidgood-bye on June 18.1 hope that they willdrop around to the theater, wherever weare playing, and allow some time for a gettogether. Sorry, no free tickets, howevermanagement's orders."

"Risberg is recuperating from his eyetrouble sooner than he. had expected andhopes to be back in New York by the beginning of May Rinaldo continuesto write for MGM. A short which he wrotewith a couple of other people has alreadybeen made, and the same team is in hopesof gelling a feature accepted for production . ... I have met Paradis once ortwice on the standees' line at the Metropolitan .... and have run into CharlieStrauss several times. There is talk of abook, title, and description not yet readyfor public announcement . . . ."

Mike Joseph sends the glad news that he has been promoted to the position of advertising manager of Kaufman's Downstairs Store, apparently the Filene's basement of Pittsburgh. Mike felt so good about it that the other day, in the springlike air, he donned his senior blazer, and the next day "it was snowing to beat allhell." To get down to the overworked brass tacks"My job as manager is not asrosy as it sounds . ... it is just an extension of my former job as copywriter. I nowmake all the layouts, write the copy, govern the amount of space, and manage nosubordinates but myself and two lousy artists. Nevertheless, it is rather a large stepforward, as I have complete responsibilityfor every ad that appears in the paper.Everyone is pleased with the new ad manager, including himself, as you no doubthave discerned by this time Had abit of a surprise a month or so ago in meeting up with Bob Wilmot on the dance floorof Ihe William Penn. He had just been inspecting the Johnstown plant of theBethlehem corporation."

American Radiator's promising young sales supervisor, Ralph Brabbee, has recently been switched from the Westchester territory to the hither portion of Long Island. Lefty is still keeping up with law school at night, but we spend our spare time wondering when he does the studying .... Lee Eggleston, erstwhile '34, has left Macy's and at last report was starting out as a selling agent for a leading calendar advertising firm in New York .... Bill Scherman is still with the Columbia Blue Lions, who are hiding their light temporarily under a bushel, and in addition is working with Paul Wetstein '33 on orchestrations for Phil Harris. .... Having accounted for my three roommates in the one paragraph, I might mention that the fourth is expecting to conclude his work in scouting with this fast-approaching June, to visit in foreign fields during the summer months, and to tackle the unfriendly world again in the fall.

Thanks for writing in. Keep the letters flowing, and as a last word .... remember the Alumni Fund. Till June.

Secretary, 193 Brookdale Ave., New Rochelle, N. Y.