Class of 1929
It's "29 Up!" again, up where it belongs ahead of certain contemporaries who for several years have claimed a superiority. And it is Bill Keyes who did the trick. You have seen his report as class agent for the Alumni Fund, so there is no need to repeat the figures and standing, but on behalf of the class this opportunity is taken to give him hearty thanks, and in lieu of the laurel wreath and the sapling oak, whatever distinction there may be in having the first class letter of the new volume dedicated to him. Bill has already thanked you for the splendid support you gave him. The class adds its thanks.
Down in New York several of the boys got together for supper one evening during the Fund campaign. At Larry Lougee's suggestion a set of inlaid wood pictures of Dartmouth Hall and Baker Library were raffled off, the net proceeds being donated as a gift to the Alumni Fund. Larry has these inlaid wood pictures for sale and let them go on this occasion for cost. He made the same offer to us here in Boston. It was accepted, and Phil Gage ran a party attended by Nel Hartstone, Allan Lovejoy, Dick Johnson, Gus Herbert, A 1 Finlay, Brooks White, Eddie Harris, Don Simpson, Hank Stein, Nick Panords, Herm Liss, Bill Coles, Ray White, Hal Ripley, Joe Lovell, Perley Perkins, Chris Born, and Andres. Gus Herbert was his usual sparMing success as master of ceremonies, and the lucky boys carrying away the pictures were Don Simpson and Eddie Harris.
Right now weddings are uppermost in the memory, there having been two nearby within the space of a few hours.
On Friday evening, September 4, Frank Foster married Frances Clapp Brooks in Newton. There was a wedding we hated to miss, but we did talk with the groom several hours before the ceremony and he appeared fit. Dick Rogers and Johnny Bryant were ushers, and an eyewitness reports that they did everything they should and managed to do nothing they shouldn't have done. Frank is on the staff of the Mayo Clinic and will live in Rochester, Minn.
Then, on Saturday afternoon, September 5, Bill Coles married Eleanor Ward in Lynn. This was a very merry wedding party. Coles was an excellent groom. But lie should be, or even better than that, to match his bride. New Hampshire's Orr, Philadelphia's Bertch, New York's Mayher, Washington's Swope, and Boston's Doane Arnold and Andres were ushers. Charlie Bartlett was best man. Among the wedding guests were Mr. and Mrs. Gus Herbert, Morgan Baker (vacationing), Mr. and Mrs. Nel Hartstone, Mr. and Mrs. Squeek Redding, Mr. and Mrs. Maurie Rolfe, bachelor Dick Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. John Dickey, and Larry Lougee, another vacationing New Yorker. Mrs. Dudley Orr, sister of the bride, was matron of honor. So you see what Dartmouth has done for the Ward family! After a wedding trip to El Paso, Bill and Eleanor will live on Dartmouth St., Boston.
Sometime in August while we were off on a cruise (which is our excuse for not remembering what became of the newspaper clipping), Austin Starrett married Mahala Whitman of Cambridge. Austin is on the faculty of the Georgia School of Technology.
John Dickey has resigned his post in Washington with the State Department and has returned to Boston to become associated with the law firm of Gaston, Snow, Saltonstall, and Hunt. When John left Boston for Washington over three years ago the Dickey family was a dual affair. Returning to live in Winchester it has become a quartet, with plenty of harmonizing. Sylvia Alexander is two years old, and Christina Louise has been around only since last May.
Another baby was born in Washington early in the summer: Stephen Swope, younger brother of Gerard Swope 3d. And he's all right, too. He summered in Woods Hole, where, if you knew his habits and routine, you could join him for a drink.
It is one week an usher and the next week a groom for that Old Gray Mayher. This Friday, September 11, he will be wedded to Dorothy Ann Sawyer of Worcester.
A week or so ago the American Bar ASsociation held its convention in Boston. Beedie Brisbin of the Vermont bar was in attendance. Gus Herbert of the Boston bar as chairman of an entertainment committee ran one of the most successful dances of the two weeks of convention.
Herm Liss dropped me the following note:
"Among those finding greater Boston totheir liking are Mr. and Mrs. Dick Robinand daughter, age 1 year, who have recently moved to Belmont. Their prizepossession at the moment—not countingDiana—is a lovely garden, in which Dickand Helen Robin are ready to renew oldacquaintances."
A note from Brett Sine from far-off Edmonton, Alberta, enclosing his Fund contribution, states that he is still in the lumber business, and, what is more important, has had living with him since May 26, 1935, a young lady, Elspeth Lou by name. Johnny Schabacker's engagement to Mary Ann Mclvor of Erie, Pa., was announced of April 11. Johnny is in the sales department of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Company, working out of Pittsburgh.
Proctor Martin was married on Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1935, to Helen Elizabeth Clement of Silver Creek, N. Y. They are living at the DeVeaux School, Niagara Falls, N. Y., where Proctor teaches music.
From the Psi Epsilon Review, dated June 10, 1936, published by the Elders of the Dartmouth Chapter of Zeta Psi, and edited by Os Skinner, whom we have to thank for sending the copy along, we have the following news:
"The most recent news about the '29ers is that EDDIE DEANS was married April 11 to Alice Louise Murray, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John G. Murray, of Potsdam, N. Y. WILL TORBERT was best man. Torbett is still our foremost travel expert, but instead of dashing down to Northampton in nothing flat, he is taking three new Ford phaetons full of prep school boys on a tour of the country this summer. The itinerary takes them to the Grand Canyon, through the National Parks to Banff, with time off for mountain climbing and horseback trips, and then down the Pacific Coast. The return trip is by boat. Will is teaching English at the Mamaroneck Junior High School, and he and Dorothy live at 59 Fenimore Road, Mamaroneck, N. Y. Will got his M.A. from Columbia in 1934.
"Word has reached these parts that JACK LYNCH is living in Hawaii and is a regular attendant of meetings of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Hawaii ED MERKEL (Harvard Law '32) is still writing the Great American Novel when not practicing law in Cincinnati Gus HERBERT graduated from Harvard Law the same year, now practices at 665 Atlantic Ave., Boston. He and Bernice Burns were married September 14, 1933, and have a son, John William 11, now two years old. .... CHARLIE SHAEFFER is a district manager for the General Electric Contracts Corporation in Cleveland, having been just transferred from New York City. GEORGE NAYLOR, also Harvard Law '32, is with Tyler, Eames, Wright, & Reynolds, in Boston. He and Constance Garrod were married July 2, 1934, and live in Cambridge.
"Our most illustrious member of the legal profession is PERCY RUSSELL, who since graduating from Harvard Law in 1932 has been secretary to Justice Cardozo of the Supreme Court. Percy and Marjorie Alleman were married June 10, 1933. SHERM LITTLE received his M.D. from Yale in 1933, served a stretch at the New Haven Hospital, and is now on the first year of a two-year appointment at the Philadelphia General Hospital; his father died of a heart attack last week READ ARTHUR is office manager of the Lisle Motor Cos., Clarinda, Iowa; married Edith Lisle in 1929 and has an heir, John Read Jr., born December 17, 1931 .RALPH ARDIFF is selling insurance for the Metropolitan Life in Salem, Mass., and lives in Beverly; married Marjorie Birrell on October 14, 1933.
"AL FISHER is doing his bit toward keeping the Nordic race from dying out—he and Sara are justly proud of James Mackoy, born August 25, 1931, and Sara Andrews, born October 7, 1934. Al has been in the commercial department of the New York Telephone Cos. in Brooklyn since graduation. Moved to Roslyn, L. 1., last month. .... CLIF BANKS; is a salesman for the William Post Carpet Cos., Hartford, Conn., and we suspect he must have gone to work in a boat during the flood in the spring. He married Marion E. Smith, of Hanover, N. H., October 13, 1934 RICH RIMBACH is another General Electric employee, working for Electric Appliances, Inc., in San Francisco. He and Frances have a son, Peter King, born May 20, 1934, and report that they will soon tie the Fishers as the most prolific '2gers ARCH DIACK (U. of Michigan Medical '32) is a physician at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston; he married Frances Novy, June 13, 1931 CY MORSE is with the Morse Blacking Cos., Peabody, Mass., and lives in Danvers. When last seen by a representative of this scandal sheet, he was doing a Harpo Marx in the corridors of the Copley Plaza in Boston after the Dartmouth-Harvard game. Cy's brother Sam is graduating at Dartmouth, and is a Phi Bete! .... JIM STEWART was instructor at the Ethical Culture School, New York City, and is now looking for another private school job. He is now Dr. Stewart, having received his M.A. and Ph.D. in history at Columbia. He and Mary E. Stearns were married June 21, 1933, with Al Fisher and your editor assisting. James Miles Stewart arrived May 18 last. MOON VOSSLER is still tearing around as of yore, only now he is selling hardware for the Ott Heiskell Cos., Wheeling, W. Va. Our scouts report that he behaved himself at EDDIE DEAN'S wedding."
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