Class of 1930

George Hotel, Roodepoort, Transvaal, Union of South Africa, is the spot in which HERB MANDEVILLE sat down to make a slight report on August 28. When last heard from he was planning a South American jaunt, but, hearing of the African boom, set out for the dark continent instead. He is glad he did. It seems there is a great boom there due to the high price of gold and the resulting expansion of gold mines. He is near Johannesburg, the center of the world's greatest gold mining industry. "For one hundred and fifty miles alongthe 'Reef,' " he writes, "can be seen thehuge silver mountains of sand which arethe refuse from the mines after the gold hasbeen extracted. I have been down aboutfive thousand feet into two of the mines,and I tell you it is some sight." Herb left New York on the Silverash, a first class motor ship freighter, as one of four passengers "We reached Capetown afterthree weeks of the most peaceful, pleasantsailing one could enjoy. We took anotherweek to come up the coast to Durban. Ithen traveled four hundred miles inland toJohannesburg." He got a job very shortly as town engineer of Roodepoort—where he has been since April. "I am in love withthe country and climate. The nights arecool because of our six thousand feet altitude, and the days are warmed by a nearsun. Every day has been cloudless, the rainsall coming during the summer [i.e., Africansummer] in the form of short showers. Thispart of South Africa is just rolling plainslike parts of our West, but someday I expect to get up into Southern Rhodesia, toVictoria Falls, and to the Wild AnimalReserve. Who knows, I may even manageto get overland to Cairo someday—andwhat glorious wild country there is between!"

During late summer there came a postcard not from Tokio, signed FUJIYAMA. It had been written on a plane somewhere in the West, and Fuji was heading for the National Cash Register Company in Dayton to learn about cash registers. What he is going to do about cash registers we don't know yet. He is waiting until he gets to Hanover before or after the Harvard game to tell us all this. Apparently he isn't spending all of his time in Dayton, because he has seen "NELS ROCKEFELLER inNew York, PETE CALLAWAY in Chicago, SHAW COLE in Toledo" not to mention DUD FERGUSON when the latter went through Dayton. In the spring he is going to gather in his brother, Yo, who entered Dartmouth with the class of 1938 and thoroughly enjoyed two years, and go back to Tokio Incidentally, the September issue of Fortune, which was devoted to Japan, has a very dressed-up picture of Fuji with a broad smile. Before going any further afield we had best get the nuptial news on record, as follows:

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cary have the honor of announcing the marriage of their daughter, Eleanor Margaret, to MR. HAROLD STEWART WARNER on Friday, the eleventh of September, Paterson, New Jersey.

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Burns have the honor of announcing the marriage of their daughter, Winifred Dorothy, to MR. PHILIP JOSEPH TROY on Saturday, the twelfth of September, Maiden, Massachusetts.

Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Ward announce the marriage of their niece, Thelma, to MR. ROBERT PAUL JOHNSON on Saturday, the nineteenth of September, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Robert McLaughlin" have the honor of announcing the marriage of their daughter, Lois, to MR. WILLIAM ROGERS JESSUP Friday, the twenty-fifth of September, Garden City, New York.

Mrs. Elizabeth Bailey Beaman has the honor of announcing the marriage of her daughter, Grace Wynona, to MR. ANTHONY WAYNE VAN LEER on Thursday the twenty-second of October, The Falls Church, Falls Church, Virginia.—At Home after the first of Deceimber: Colonial Village, Arlington, Virginia.

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Anderson have the honor of announcing the marriage of their daughter, Helene, to MR. LLEWELLYN LINK CALLAWAY JR., on Saturday, the tenth of October, Westport, Connecticut.—At Home after the fifteenth of October: 2251 Ridge Avenue, Evanston, Illinois.

Then from LIN SAVAGE comes this: "Ibecame engaged to Miss Helen Mills ofEast Orange, N. J., in July, and during thesame month left the Irving Trust, NewYork City, to take a position in the trustdepartment of the Neiv England TrustCompany, Boston."

We have some new offspring, too. There is Thomas Glenn ALCORN September 1, Chez Janet and RED ALCORN in Suffield, Conn Also Ann Butterfield, who arrived September 17 to the joy of the DICK BUTTERFIELDS in Litchfield, Conn. And finally, a daughter of the DICK BOWLENS, on September 15, whose middle name is Ann and whose first name was apparently blotted by an excited parent who was in no condition to handle pen and ink. We subsequently discovered that the first name is Calista Various and sundry other 'go men have been to Hanover recently. Mr. and Mrs. BILL Fenton came to town with Bill's Indian 1mo, who entered the freshman class Then there was MAC Horwitt, Lead Fellow in Physiological Chemistry at Yale, who got word of his reappointment while he was here, and pulled out at once for New Haven. We must needs report the subsequent arrival of a reprint from TheJournal of Nutrition of an article entitled

" I he Availability of the Proteins and Inorganic Salts of the Green Leaf," of which Mac was joint author with two other physiological chemists of Yale. The data used in the paper were taken from a dissertation presented by Mac in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Also there was a reprint from Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, describing "An Overhead Heater for Rapid Evaporation, Drying and Charring," this having been devised by Mac and another colleague The tonic of autumn air in Hanover has been beckoning broken-down newspapermen in the persons of JERRY PEARRE of the Pontiac, Ill., Daily Leader, and BILL RICH, of the New York Herald Tribune, who arrived in Hanover almost simultaneously with a tired look and a slight jitter, and reappeared several days later, clear-eyed and refreshed All we know at this writing about Jerry is what could be gleaned at midnight in front of Allen's when he was encountered in the company of one BOD FISHER of your own class, and Lew Stilwell BILL RICH has lately been covering crime news for the H. T., and is, it seems, a bit fed up on the evil doings of New Yorkers at this point. In fact, the life of crime and violence has taken on for Bill a very considerable pall of ennui. This column might be longer and brighter, however, if we hadn't spent so much time finding out about the seamy side from Bill.

"CHARLES J. MCDONOUGH wishes to announce he will continue the general practice of law at 280 Broadway, New YorkCity.—Worth 2-3171."

"HERBERT E. CHRISTMAN, M.D. announces the opening of offices for the practice of medicine .... 306 Detroit WarrenBuilding, Lakewood, Ohio."

Less formally than the above two announcements we learn from George Simpson that he is civil engineer for the Alphons Custodie Chimney Construction Company, New York. The following concluding sentence baffled us, but we submit it for whatever it may mean to a more clairvoyant mind than ours: "I'm planningto make Hanover my first point of callafter Ireland when I hit the sweepstakeson October 28 (he said, confidently)."

Here is our opportunity to put a lot of you fellows with only an elementary education in your place, or places, and we will now toss off the following esoteric information. "Ostraca" is the plural of "ostracon," as 808 RIX, BEBE ZEY, TOMMY DONOVAN, KEN KULL, or some of the more brilliant contemporaries in Greek 1, such as ourself, can tell you; and an ostracon is a piece of an old pot with writing on it. And while hieroglyphic writing is with pictures, and hieratic writing is the next phase, somewhat quicker and slicker but the same general idea, demotic writing is the sort of scribbling that SI CHANDLER, for example, might have dashed off on an old pot if he had had this at hand instead of his present writing materials, which may be anything from toilet paper to an old Quincy telephone directory. And demotic ostraca are what DICK PARKER, research assistant with the Oriental Institute in Chicago, is studying. Dick was recently in Hanover, or rather Lyme, with his wife, and having failed to contact that old Egyptologist, SPEN FOSTER, came in to learn about ostraca from us.

September's honeymooners were the above-mentioned STEW WARNERS, and beside them at a Saturday afternoon scrimmage game was that elderly, white-haired gent, MEM KING, of the Fessenden School faculty. Stew's most recently submitted title with the Warner Woven Label Company was assistant sales manager (January, 1935). He may be chairman of the board by this time .... we forgot to ask.

Our ugliest punning temptation since the betrothal of BILL BLANCHARD to Miss Dorothy Dew Wright is the announced engagement of DR. LORD to Miss Lemon. She is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Willis Storrs Lemon, of Rochester, Minn., where Dr. Lemon is head of one of the divisions of the Mayo Clinic, at which Dr. Lord holds a fellowship. Her name is Katherine, and she attended Carleton College and graduated from the University of Minnesota, and we thank the New York HeraldTribune, not George, for the information.

That gripping series, the "Thirty Boys" ("The Thirty Boys Among the Ostraca," "The Thirty Boys in Africa," "The Thirty Boys Not in Japan," "The Thirty Boys on a Newspaper," "The Thirty Boys at the Altar," etc.), will be continued next month with "The Thirty Boys in the Yale Bowl" and "The Thirty Boys at a Loss," two of the most thrilling tales you've encountered since "Peter Rabbit."

Secretary, ALBERT Administration Bldg., Hanover, N. H.