Class of 1936
Once more your scribe takes up his pen, scratches his head, and tries to remember who of the class of '36 he has bumped into and what various members are doing to keep out of mischief.
A recent trip to New Haven, which turned out to be very satisfactory, although a little nerve-wrecking, brought to light some of our class, who up until then had not been heard from at all. After the game I saw Walker Lewis for a few minutes at the Waverly Inn, just outside New Haven. After discussing the game with him I found out that he was going to Harvard Law School and was hard at work at the books.
Steve Barton was also at the game with Betsy Wheelock and six or eight other Theta Chi of the class of '36, including Ralph Butler, Jack Squires, and Tommie Thomas. I tried to remember what each said he was doing and where each was located, but since it was a Dartmouth-Yale game and the usher was trying insistently to convince me that I was in the wrong section, I consequently remember very little of what I was told, except that Thomas is studying at Hanover and that Steve Barton is working for E. W. Bird in East Walpole, Mass., on a job which he likes very much (I can just hear irate classmates softly cursing at your correspondent's incomplete report, and all I can do is to promise to write things down another time). Dick Taylor was also at the game, and reported a bit of news to the effect that Spike Daniels, of Adams, Mass., was serving as a temporary vice president of some local Republican club.
I also saw Dick Holt for a minute, which contact was productive of the following inspiring conversation: "Hello, Dick, howare you?" "Well, how are you?" "I'm fine,great game, how's everything in the hotelbusiness?" "Fine, how's everything in thetelephone business?" "Be sure to look meup when you come to New York."
Although I was unable to attend the first class supper on October 14, in New York, George McCleary reports that there was a very good turnout, twenty-two to be exact. It was decided by the club to have a class supper on the second Thursday night throughout the winter at the Dartmouth Club in New York.
The following excerpts from McCleary's letter have a sprinkling of news which I will pass on. "From what I could gather,the class of 1936 has taken complete control of the messenger duties down on WallSt. Nights most of these boys are going tothe Brooklyn Law School. Button, Gidney,Doyle, Towers are these grinds. Lynch andCoppedge are aristocratic law students,for they go in the daytime to Columbia.Ballantyne started to work for WesternUnion this last Monday. They are teachinghim the business from the ground up.Pretty soon they may give him a crack atbeing a messenger. McNulty is slavingaway at the Graybar Electric. Larry Jumpis now in the sporting goods department atAltman's. He has been taken on as a skiexpert. I understand that Langlois is outin Marshall Field's in Chicago. Accordingto Charles Dudley both of them are getting s>so per zveek. Sounds like a fortune to me.
"By the way, Jump had a terrible timegetting his job because he is semi-colorblind. Dark red, brown, and green are allthe same to him. He lets the customers dothe choosing and thus saves himselftrouble. Dink Gidney said last night thathis brother just got back from China.What he did there I don't know. Blake isworking for an investment house in atraining school."
Dick Dorrance reports that he is chasing "fires, wrecks, and other inopportune butintriguing acts of God" for the Rutland Herald, Rutland, Vt. He passed on the information that Dave Putnam is abroad for his father, and that Frank Kapper is working for the classified-ad department of the Long Island Daily Star. Monty Greenbaum, who is working for the Lion Match Co., informs me that Clark Sorensen worked for the Goodrich Rubber Co. during the summer and that Art Levin is located at Harvard Law School.
Gene Anspach is grinding lenses for an optical firm in Elizabeth, N. J., and Tom Towers is working at the Irving Trust in New York.
As yet your correspondent has had no word from the Golden West, where Bob Morris and Bud Schulberg and others are located. Joe Bishop writes that he is rooming at the Dartmouth Club and "workingfor R. H. Macy along with about one halfof Dartmouth College." He also reports that Jack Arnold is working for the Union Bag and Paper Co. and is doing well, having already been promoted from office boy to head of the stock room. Also Roy Bergengren is working for his father in Madison, Wis., but expects to make a business trip East sometime this fall. Joe Bishop's observation on Roy was that "when last heard from he seemed to behappy and said that he had no expectationsof getting married within the year, whichis unusual." Joe also said: "Part of mywork at Macy's is connected with the wineand liquor store, which sometimes gives mea very nostalgic feeling, it looks so muchlike the old state store in White River, Vt.No I can't give anybody a discount."
Brad Chase is located at the Y. M. C. A. in Springfield, Mass. Roily Hastings, who left our class after freshman year, has had a number of interesting experiences since being an undergraduate. He began in the summer of 1932 working for the Interna- tional Business Machines Corp., and after working for them for a while worked as a ranch hand up in Yuba City, and recently landed a job with Irving Lundborg & Co., located in California.
Joe Smith is doing graduate work at Princeton and I presume will be holding open house there during the week-end of the Dartmouth-Princeton game. Jack Klauer is working in Porto Rico and Jack McKallagat is a student at Boston University Law School. According to his friends he is largely responsible for the heavy Roosevelt vote in that city, having made a number of radio addresses and campaign speeches. Lem Florsheim is working for the Pheumatic Tool Co. "Topper" Kane is reported to be working for the WPA in West Hartford, and Jack Kenny is at Georgetown Law School. Bob Bennett is a night school student located at 416 Huntington Ave., Boston. Ralph Cockroft is working for the B. F. Goodrich Co. in Albany, N. Y., in the capacity of budget manager of the tire and accessory division. Ralph, however, was pretty badly burned recently in an accident and has been laid up for some time.
Len Mead, who dumfounded his intimate friends last spring by receiving five A's, has a fellowship at the University of Rochester and is doing work in the psychology department.
Jim Whipple is working for the Cleveland Welding Co. of Cleveland, Ohio. Reece Hatchitt is studying law at the University of Michigan and may be reached at the Lawyers' Club, Ann Arbor. Clason Lambert is an adjuster in New York City and Jack Patrick is working for a lumber manufacturing company in Portland, Oregon. Paul Cleveland is studying Law at Yale Law School in New Haven, but, I am sure that there was no confusion of loyalties on his part at the Dartmouth-Yale game.
Herm Dock is working as a stock salesman for the National Petroleum Corp. in New York. George Fraser, ex-circulation manager of the Daily Dartmouth, is studying law at Harvard. One other person that I saw at the Yale Bowl, but wasn't close enough to say hello to, was Bill Frick, who was sitting on the fifty-yard line. Bill is working as a salesman for the Laros Textile Co., Carnegie, Pa. Russ Page is living in Burlington, Vt., where he is attending the University of Vermont medical school. Johnny Weisman is working as a detailer in an engineering department in Jamestown, N. Y. Bill Hall was married on September 19 to Miss Mary E. Simmons, and is now working as a bookkeeper for the Bituminous Paving Products Co., Quincy, Mass. This brings us to the bottom of the folder of "hot dope" about the '36ers, with the exception of a news item concerning your Secretary, of which he is inordinately proud. "Rev. Dr. Roy B. Chamberlin andMrs. Chamberlin of Hanover, N. H., announce the engagement of their daughter,Miss Martha Cecil Chamberlin, to RichardFowle Treadway, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. G.Treadway of Lynde Lane, Williamstown,Mass."
This news item should effectively silence those members of the class who have made the statement that Treadway would be the last man in the class to get married, if at all.
Secretary, Williamstown, Mass.
