Class of 1933
As most of you know, I have been spending the summer working in Hanover at Mr. and Mrs. F. K. Sayre's old New England hostelry. At the present writing I am in Waterbury for a brief respite before
returning to the law, but I have been negligent in leaving in Hanover all the notes and letters which I had gathered together to fill this first, fine, careless, column. Thus I shall have to rely upon my none too dependable memory.
Commencement brought NED LORD, WILL DOYLE, a St. John's Law School man, KEN SPANG, JOHN MECK, who had just finished wowing them at Yale and was heading for one of the New York law mills; PHIL BYERS, who has one more year at Penn.
During the course of the summer I have seen the following:
ALVA Z. ALLEN, who walked into the Inn the other day and greeted me cheerily as "Bill." You remember me, Bill Monagan.
ALBAUGH, who has been driving around Hanover wearing a white uniform. This choice of costume is not as weird as it may seem, because he has been working at the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital and will return to Boston later in the month to finish his course at the Harvard Medical School.
BURBANK, in Canoe Club costume, confidentially informing a fellow member that "Old Nell," the red canoe, was a treacherous so-and-so and that it would be dangerous to trust her to amateurs.
CAMPBELL, who stopped in with his wife en route to Canada, the scene of many of his famous exploits in student days.
DAVIS (BARNEY), who had been teaching in Hanover, but who will do graduate work this year on a Cramer fellowship.
DEWEY, who beside filling the position as Woodstock's most eligible bachelor, supporting the Woodstock Inn's bar, and helping run the A. G. Dewey Cos., brought me the first news since graduation of Bill Smythe. Both were on the same boat, going to Bermuda last winter. Smythe, according to Dewey's report, was in good health and spirits, but was disinclined to engage in any natatorial activity.
DICKSON, who had left his mysterious, nocturnal accounting for several weeks to lose himself in golf and beer guzzling. He brought tidings of NIBBLING (still with Wood Struthers in N. Y.), ELLIS, and FOLEY, who is now in New Jersey, but still forcing Chevrolets upon the public.
GORDON, who has passed the N. H. bar exams and now has offices both in Hanover and Lebanon. For your further information, he is now known either as "THE SQUIRE" or "THE JUSTICE."
GERSTELL, who was successfully married in Andover, Mass., to Miss Vivian Southworth, and left almost immediately on a wedding trip to South America. By now he is probably back goosing pemmicans for the state of Pennsylvania.
HOFFMAN, who worked in Portland for the American Shoe Machine Cos. during the summer and now has returned to Hanover to help fashion the 1936 football machine.
HULL, who has been the fighting, slashing, tearing demon of the East Wheelock St. tennis courts during the summer season.
"Dear Jerry" (your remember me, Jerry Monagan) writes Class Papa Await, "yourletter reached me some time ago out inCalifornia. Since our return we have hadOscar's picture taken and I am sending youa print as per request.
"To be sure you get the particulars right. . . . Oscar's real name is Alan LeighAwait, and he was born in Cairo, Egypt, onMarch 5, 1934. I'm proud that Oscar hasreceived official recognition of his positionas the 1933 class baby." Thus, the picture.
LINGUISTIC NOTE
Among informed undergraduates at the present time, "to eat" is "to vulch," "Outing Clubbers" are "chubbers," "money" is bait," "playing around" is "syndicating." In referring to or speaking to another person, the adjective "big" is invariably prefixed to the Christian name, as "Big John," "Big Ted," etc.
The list of '33 men whom I have seen continues:
INGRAM, who is working as an architect in Hanover and has an office over the old post office in the Musgrove Building.
JAQUES, who stopped with an auto and trailer to gather up some of his scattered belongings.
JOHNSON (CUTTY), who is in Hanover and is working for John Piane at the Co-op.
JACKSON (DICK), who stopped on his way from camp to Boston. He will return to Columbia this fall in spite of the fact that the pedagogical urge keeps "cropping out."
LANG, who came in one night to harass me while I was trying to count the money in the cash register. He probably has written some of you about the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
MARDEN, who is working for Hunter in Hanover, but whose soul is wrapped up in his job as volunteer fireman with the doughty Hanover force. The depth of his devotion may be gathered from the information (received from his wife) that he insists on wearing his newest clothes to all fires.
MITCHELL and NOONAN (TOM), who stopped by to see that everything was in readiness for the opening of school. The latter is working for the government in Pennsylvania.
MURRAY, who has also been a constant strong contender for the Hanover tennis championship through the summer.
O'LEARY, who left Hanover to work at the Mount Kineo Hotel in Kineo, Me.
RIDEOUT, who still has his job in New York selling plays, but who, at the time we saw him, was being driven about town in the Gooding La Salle.
SCHLESINGER, who has been helping Dewey keep the social ball twirling in Woodstock and the surrounding country.
SAYRE, who has transformed the Hanover Inn, which task has left him time for very little extra-curricular activity, even limiting his attention to Ford Jr., who is the white-haired boy of the Inn.
SHAW, who, being an overnight guest, was favored with the full strength of your Secretary's best professional manner. He brought news of DAVIDSON.
SMART, who with Connie revisited Hanover for the first time in the best old grad manner. He examined the frescoes, went through the Tower Room (for the first time), the Art Building, the English House, the Alpha Delt house with reverent pauses in the latter before historic pictures and at the scene of noteworthy events which transpired in his days as an undergraduate. He gave a cocktail party at the Inn, at which Sayre and your sec. were rather thirsty guests.
STAIR, who has been curator of the Carpenter art museum and has been doing some painting.
UEBEL, who has been teaching in Germany and was back for a brief visit. He thinks that Hitler is the savior of Germany, that things are fine there, and will stay there for some time.
WARDEN, who is still at Perm. Medical and who was amazed at the news that the Phi Gams are actually going to build a new house.
EXPLAINING THE PICTURE
Secretary, 64 Cooke St., Waterbury, Conn
