Class of 1932
The New York crowd had a dinner last month at the Dartmouth Club and as usual your correspondent was after the boys like a hawk for news to fill up this column, but the evening later became very disorganized and the net result of my eager search for interesting items was a mysterious collection of little slips of paper which I found in my pockets on arriving home. Some of them had names and addresses, some bore scribblings which were totally illegible, and some had nothing at all. So that's where we stand right now But while we're on that ever tiresome subject of how to get news—a discussion arose at the dinner as to what made the most interesting kind of material, little squibs saying not very much about a lot of people, or the publishing of fairly lengthy letters saying lots about one guy. While the end of the year isn't a very appropriate time to bring the matter up, this office would appreciate any suggestions and would promise to ponder over the ideas all summer.
D. Cupid scored rather nicely during the past month or two On April 13 the engagement was announced of Miss Cynthia Clock Hawkins and George Hahn. The future Mrs. H. is a senior at the Yale School of Nursing, while George is a senior at the Yale Medical School and will interne next year at the Hospital for Women in Baltimore.
On May a the former Miss Elinor Dutcher was married to Ned Rollins in Scarsdale. Harold Plumb and Walt Rushmore were ushers.
On April 18 Charlie Doerr and the former Miss Virginia Klein were married in St. Paul. On May 8 they were seen in one of New York's swankier night clubs, having just returned from their honeymoon in Bermuda, but by the next day they had left the bright lights area and were bound for the West.
It is reported that Joe Carleton plus wife and sister also recently spent some time in Bermuda.
Bob Fisher is responsible for the news that Gene Freeman was married last December and that they are now living in Omaha Art Allen has become a man of property, having recently moved into a house in New Rochelle with a lawn that needs mowing, he says, about every three days. This together with taking care of the other manifold duties of the landed proprietor (including one small son, John, born last August) and rushing about ort bond expeditions for the First Boston Corporation keeps him pretty busy Herb Pike is boosting the sale of Champion Spark Plugs, working out of Philadelphia Red Drake and Don Simpson saw Hank Barber wrestle in Pittsburgh and came away tremendously impressed with the artistry of his grunting and groaning as well as his ability to dish it out.
. The following interesting letter from Ade Nitschelm in Bermuda was received just too late for last month's dead-line:
"After leaving Hanover in '33, via an M.C.S. at Tuck School, I became hooked up with the Prudential Insurance Cos. in their home office at Newark. The only redeeming feature of this job was the short hours and long week ends, which enabled me to go down home (near Asbury Park) or run over to New York frequently. In the mean time my hankering after a life in New Hampshire, plus a long-dormant desire to go into the hotel business, made me more anxious than ever to give up the insurance business. So last summer, thanks to Harold Rugg, I began working in the Hotel Franconia, near the Franconia Notch.. I did everything there but actually cook, and even made stabs at that. It was an interesting summer, both because I was enjoying my work and because I had time to get better acquainted with the White Mountains. While I was there, Dave Paulson of our class came up for a few days, and later on Charlie Meyers and Bill Lieson came up. (Dave, after trying the shoe business, is now doing graduate work in economics at Minnesota State; Charlie Meyesr is still with his father in the coat and apron supply business; and Bill is still 'banking' in Springfield.
"In the fall, when the Franconia closed, I went to the Lincoln Hotel at Lincoln, N. H-, under the same management, and did a variety of work there, even being comanager for a month. Lex Paradis '34, also interested in the hotel business, came to the Franconia later in the season, and then moved to the Lincoln.
"In November, having been given the opportunity of coming to Bermuda to work at the Princess Hotel, our lust for travel overcame our love for a winter sports season in New Hampshire. So down we came. Lex is the night auditor, and I am the cashier. It has been a grand hotel to work in, and besides we have had plenty of free time to get about Bermuda. We came down a week early, and spent the whole time traveling about, and we have been practically wedded to a bicycle ever since. There is more to see in a smaller space here in Bermuda than in any other place I have seen.
"Coming down, we met Dick Herman '34 on the Monarch, on a cruise to Bermuda and points south, and there have been several people from Hanover here during the winter. Lawrence Reeves and wife (he is '33) were down earlier in the season; Hobart Van Deusen '33 was down with wife and mother a short time ago. During spring vacation, Joe and Bee D'Esopo herded a gang from Dartmouth. They all stayed at the Bermudiana, but since the girls stayed at the Princess, most of the hell-raising took place under our noses. And any tall tales floating back to Hanover of their sojourn in Bermuda I would vouch for, sight unseen!
"Now that the season is coming to a close, I am busy with plans for this coming summer in New Hampshire. I am going to be married here in Bermuda early in May, to Terry Allan Papa. After a stay here, we are going back home long enough to repack our bags and head for Glen, N. H. There we are buying a place which we shall fix up and open as an inn. Lex Paradis will be with us. The inn will be known as Glenwood-on-the-Saco; it is located midway between Crawford and Pinkham Notches on the main road (State Highway No. 18). Our plans are to develop a place to appeal to people who come to the White Mountains to really 'see' them. We hope to see a lot of Dartmouth men, and any stopping for meals or rooms will be satisfied both with the quality and price of them.
"I have seen signs of a back to the land movement among those of our generation. I would like to get in contact with any Dartmouth men who have done something of the sort, or who would like to. My address from June on will be Glen, N.' H. I will keep you posted on any news from classmates who may stop in to see me on their way through the White Mountains."
Brandy Marsh says that Dick True and Tom Foss did a lot of skiing together last winter. Dick is now with Sales Finishing Cos. of Salesville, R. 1., Tom with Filenes in Boston.
Ernie Lanoue is a mediator with the New York Department of Labor.
Well, boys, it looks like that will be all for this year. And for the latest news look to Harry Litzenberger.
Secretary, 17 E. 96th St., New York
