Class of 1932
The class's matrimonial curve shows no sign of seasonal decline. This item is rather late, since the wedding occurred on the. 28th of November, but is inserted here for those of you who have not heard of it and for purposes of issuing felicitations to the couple: Charlie Boak and the former Eleanor Fritz of Ashland, Pa. Whit Daniels was responsible for bringing it to my hands, also for bearing news of Howie Sargeant, who hadn't been heard of since departing last fall for alphabetical work in Washington. It transpires that he is personal assistant to the executive officer of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. He points with some pride, it seems, that the FHLBB is one of the more venerable of the numerous governmental agencies, created under Hoover. Howie lives with another Rhodes scholar, from Vanderbilt, whom he knew well at Oxford, and sees Dartmouth men frequently. Dave Castleman was his opponent in a match preliminary to a Round Robin squash tournament, and John Clark was reported to have faced him in a hash-hurling competition at one of the local luncheries lately. Whit and Howie got back from Europe simultaneously on different boats last fall.
A Newburyport, Mass., newspaper clipping dated December 24, 1935, chronicles the announcing of the engagement of Miss Martha Louise Schmid of Boston to Ellie Noyes. The wedding will take place in the early summer.
Mel Mac Lean, according to a letter from joe Pipe, is with the MacFadden publications in Lynn, Mass. Also from the same note, I learn that a second little girl has arrived at the Bill Harlows' .... that DeStefano works for the Liberty Mutual Insurance Cos. in Boston .... Johnny Weston is still in Fryeburg, Me., successfully trading cattle. Joe Byram is wrestling with the problem of low money rates as an investment counselor in Boston . . . . Buster Sails travels for the Beachnut Products Cos. in the advertising department. The supplier of all this material, Mr. Pipe, is completing a two-year training course with the Gulf Refining Cos.
There has been considerable publicity given lately to what was to be considered as an informal downhill ski race between the Mt. Greylock Ski Club, the Skidreiverein, and the Dartmouth Ski Club of New York. It occurred February 2 on the State Borest trails near Pittsfield, and was won by the Greylockers with the Dartmouths second. Marve Chandler took second individually, with Tom Mann '33 fourth. Your correspondent and Brandy Marsh, the only other '32 entrants, were distanced, as they say in trotting horse circles. Brandy had the serious misfortune of breaking the only other pair of skis he had ever owned besides a pair bought years ago at the Little Store. He was hopeful, returning on the train that night, that his wife would see fit to bestow a new pair on him on an approaching birthday.
John Swenson and wife paid a surprise visit to New York not long ago, and seemed surprised that I wouldn't come out through a raging blizzard to the farthest reaches of Flushing to see them the night they were here. It was John's first trip since 1928. They were on their way back North from a junket to Miami, which had extended itself to Havana.
Joe Wilson loomed up through a swirl of somewhat less than white Manhattan snow the other morning on his and my way to work. After leaving Dartmouth his sophomore year he attended the University of North Carolina, then Harvard Business School, and is now with Price, Waterhouse, public accountants.
Bill Huse, after a short residence on 52d St., packed up and went to Cincinnati to work in the advertising department of Procter & Gamble. He found Browny Dickinson there, in the treasurer's department. Bill will kindly note this acknowledgement of his letter, he being next to Jim Moore the biggest complainant o£ unanswered, unrecorded messages to this office.
The following comes from Mike Cardozo:
"Bill "Walton, one of Dartmouth's mostfamous bankers in Portsmouth, N. H. wasin the city the other day primarily, he said,to see the motor boat show. He said thatmembers of his profession are none toopopular in the smaller cities and towns, buthe seems to be doing well enough, andquite pleased with married life. He told usabout it at lunch with Chuck Maxwell, StuThatford, and Bill Lewis '55.
"Maxwell is now established as one ofBreed, Abbott, & Morgan's bright youngmen—which also seems to have brightyoung stenos. Incidentally, since thereseems to be a vogue of mentioning whatour classmates get printed, Chuck wrote anarticle for the Yale Law Journal last yearin which he coined a new word. It was sogood that it was shortly used by a justice ofthe Supreme Court of the U. S.,—in a dissenting opinion, which, I gather, is asChuck would have had it. (The word, youwill be glad to know, is 'additur.')
"Stu Thatford is working in an insurance firm in Brooklyn still, and studyinglaw during the rest of his waking hours.Those of us already struggling in thatovercrowded profession have subtly triedto find out why he wants to, but he justgoes on. Stu said he isn't married by anymeans; just a quiet house date now andthen
"Walton told us that Ken Perry is working in Washington in some capacity. Wegathered that he's a Democrat these days.Peyser is practicing law near PortsmouthN. H. Harry Rowe, whom I saw at theColumbia game, is teaching various subjects to fresh young minds at the Montgomery School, at Wynnewood, Pa. Heseems to like it very much.
"Frank McGuire is his father's partnerin a fine law practice in New London,Conn. Frank has argued cases successfullybefore the highest court of the state already. He and his wife are living in a delightful house of their own, and it alllooks very pleasant to a strap-hanging lawclerk!
"The last I heard from the brothers-inlaw Hamel arid Jeffery was that Jeff, withwife and daughters, is studying ceramics atColumbus, Ohio, and Jack with wife andson is 'accounting' in Syracuse. Incidentally, I haven't given in on the class babystuff. I still hold out for 'Babs' Jeffery—ourfirst born, with no personal feelings against'Kid' Swenson.
"Here's an idea that might be of interestto any of our classmates in the Wall Streetdistrict: Every two weeks or so, our lawschool class has a luncheon, attendance entirely optional and without previous signing up. We just fix a place, and those whocan, show up. It might be a good idea to doit for the Dartmouth '32ers, too."
Secretary, 17 E. 96th St., New York
