Class of 1924
Many were called but nobody answered. As appended last month, Pinky Booth spent ten days en route to and in Chicago, Des Moines, Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Toledo without locating a classmate, except Ax Coffin on the tenth phone call. Pinky's lungs failed him when he spotted Owl Keyes riding by the Des Moines RegisterTribune.
Don Wilbur, Ken Harvey with his older son, and yours truly made the annual pilgrimage via the Flying Yankee to Warren and Moosilauke on the Dartmouth Ski Special last month. This followed by six weeks a skiing trip to Hanover by Jim White. Jim reports five eventful days in Moosilauke and the hills around the College with two feet of snow and excellent skiing. Rufs Miller gave Jim a pretty fair idea of how the "fratres in urbe" do it with his movies of Hell's Highway. Rufs incidentally is shifting his activities this winter to Europe for six months of study in pathological clinics and Alpine skiing. Jim heartily recommends the winter Hanover sojourn, to get better acquainted with the College and to more fully enjoy the sports available.
Time magazine in its January 13 issue reviews the newspapers' first-of-the-year efforts to summarize business and finance for the 12 months past, and sketches a few of the leading financial writers. "AssociatedPress today feeds financial news to 1300newspapers. A huge service requiring 25,000 miles of wire for its exclusive use, AP'sfinancial department is headed by ableyoung Claude Jagger."
A few paragraphs from Newc Newcomb's recent letter rate quoting in full. "I had avery interesting letter from Ray Shane, located in Rigby, Idaho, doing road workfor the government. (Not the kind youthink.) As nearly as I can tell his job consists of looking up and down the roads. Atthat he seems to be kept busier than mostgovernment employees these days.
"The most I rated from Don Coyle was aChristmas card. It seemed to be postmarked Saddle River, and I thought itmust be in Wyoming until I looked it upon the map. He didn't put any return address on the envelope, so I guess he was taking no chances on my looking him up thenext time I'm in New York.
"It is probably no longer news thatCharlie French is now in Cleveland. Shortlyafter his arrival here he called at our plant(Lake Erie Provision Cos.) in search of anorder, completely unaware of my connections here. When he discovered I was thepurchasing agent, he gave up immediately.
"Did you happen to notice that '24 didfairly well in the last election of officers forthe Dartmouth Club of Cleveland? DougGorton was made president, Paul Gordonsecretary, and Russ Treadway treasurer. Asa member of the nominating committee Irefused to let my scruples overcome myclass loyally. You can see from this howfar-reaching and insidious are the influences of a certain party in Washington.
"Our daughter Barbara is growing upinto quite a gal. hi another month I amgoing to begin grooming her for CarnivalQueen in 1954. She already knows how tohold a glass. She'll be six months old the25th of this month."
Bill Fawcett also did his good turn for the New Year and provided a note or two. Harry Brough, living in Santa Ana, Calif., sent Bill a card announcing the arrival, January 2 of Arthur Brough, 8 lbs. 3 ozs. During Bill's stay at the Mid-Winter Furniture Market in Chicago he bent an elbow or two with Fred Diehl, resident of Evanston and legal light for the H O L C, and with Bob Branson, organizer for the Crusaders and recent groom. Chick Austin, resident of Melrose, Mass., and with the Telephone Co. in Boston, has been shifted to Springfield and now resides in Longmeadow. Bill incidentally gets around this way every two months or so and patronizes the local hostelry together with Red Holbrook and Bob Davidson, still Johns Mansville's Worcester County promotion chief.
Secretary, 12 Haviland St., Worcester, Mass.
