Class of 1935
Once more I bob up as the temporary keeper of the class notes, and this time for the reason that Bill is finishing his stay abroad with a motorcycle trip through Asia and the Far East. In describing his plans he was more than brief, but the general idea is that he will proceed through Greece, Syria, Persia, and India, arriving home some two months hence.
Under these circumstances it is more necessary than ever for you fellows to polish up your pens and write some letters. This first column may lack a little breadth, as I have to depend on my personal contacts for information, but there must be plenty of news, and if you will drop me a line, we'll pack the next few right up to the brim. So let's hear from you—soon!
Bill Fitzhugh's letter brings Dave Gallagher back into the spotlight, and also reminds us of those other travelers, Ted Steele and Link Washburn.
Dave has been passing part of the summer as a guest at the chateau of ex-President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia. Bill spent a few days with him there and reports the occasion in glowing terms. Dave is returning to America this fall to enter Yale Law. Ted, having garnered his Master's from Oxford, returned home about August first, and before anyone had time to catch up with him, set off for the West, where he planned to visit friends and look for a job. Bill Moran saw him one night before he left and spent two hours laughing at the stories Ted had to tell of experiences abroad.
Link sailed for Iceland and Greenland away back in June, and no word has been received from him to date. However, it is safe to say that he has been intimate with all the best glaciers in those parts, and that he'll turn up this fall at Yale where he has some more work to do.
Getting away from this international merry-go-round, there are so many weddings to be reported that I hardly know where to begin, so to save all trouble, I'm going to take them in chronological order —here goes! Bartow Anderson leads off with his marriage to Marie Rigg on May 8 at Angola, Indiana. Next in line are Ben Harriman and Mary Clements, who were married June 1 at Bellefonte, Pa. On June thirteenth, with a fine disregard for conventional superstitions, Joe Sholkin married Florence Levi tan at Tarrytown, N. Y. On the nineteenth, our demon highjumper, Bill Northcutt, married Nina Joyes at Louisville, Kentucky, while a few days later at Lexington, Mass., Neil Roberts and Mildred Roberts were married.
While no official announcement is at hand, the story goes that Gardner Cushman was married sometime in June and took his bride on a trip to England. Perhaps we can get some details of the trip later. That man of money, Bobb Chaney, married Mary Elizabeth Sheldon on June 30 in Minneapolis, after which they spent their honeymoon on a lake nearby. Bobb's attitude toward married life might be conservatively described as enthusiastic, in fact, the propaganda for marriage is becoming so strong these days, that it takes some effort to preserve immunity.
As you can see with only half an eye, most of this information comes from wedding announcements, which are pretty barren of all except the essential details. Having been an usher at the Hagerman-Eames affair, along with Sel Hannah, Bill Clark, Rand Stowell, and Jack Hill (the Best Man), I'm going to spread myself a little on that and give you the details of an event that will go down in history as one of the best of all time.
Without going into too much detail, there was a party for the whole group on Friday night, June 25, at which Dartmouth chatter flowed so fast one could hardly put a word in edgewise. Saturday night the wedding went off in a blaze of glory. I trust you'll forgive me if I don't tell you what the bride wore. I feel enough like a society page reporter as it is. However, Don and Ibba made a splendid couple, and the wedding was so well attended that we began to wonder where we would put the late comers. The reception followed and such people as Bob Roundey, Bill Adams, Herb Stearns, Ed Dyer, Rocky Rockwell (with a young lady on his arm), and Danny Reagan were wandering about shaking hands and exchanging stories. Don and Ibba departed in a hail of confetti and rice, and were considerably disappointed that no one chased them, since they had worked out elaborate plans to foil any pursuers.
A very select and enjoyable Dartmouth party followed the reception with most of the above mentioned people attending. Songs and toasts were the rule of the evening, and it was at a very early hour when the last die-hards gathered over scrambled eggs and bacon in a Harvard Square cafeteria and wrote finis to the affair.
We can't seem to get away from the girls, so here is news of engagements and possible future engagements. Bob Kugler and Hilda Rolfe have decided to take the fatal step sometime in October. Bill Moran and Jan Barnes have been buying furniture and accessories, and are planning to be married in November.
Bud Fraser has been losing a lot of sleep over a beautiful damsel in New York lately, which rather tickles his friends, but Bud claims there is nothing to it. Dick Hube and Bud Hinman are gloating over the fact that Don Cameron has finally succumbed to the wiles of a young lady named Betty. Don takes his "riding" with a good deal of calm and grace. Just incidentally, Don is making excellent progress with R. H. Macy.
Saw Reg Bankart the other day accompanied by a very attractive girl. Reg made a very sudden change from studying art to being a Junior Supervisor (write Reg for details) in Hood Rubber's Boston plant. Reg claims that he decided he should be earning his own living, so out he went and got a job. There is a chance to work into the design department and that is where Reg hopes to go.
If report be true, Willie Ogg is now a father, but he will have to write us and give some details. Charlie Fleming sent in a card stating that Margaret Ann was born on March 30, weighing six and three-quarters pounds. Congratulations, Charlie!
It should be reported that the class held its second reunion at the last Commencement. Numerically the representation was poor, but the quality was excellent. Answering "present" at the roll call were Wiley Hubbell, Gus Davis, Bud Steinle, Reg Bankart, Jim Berkey, Dick Hurd, Sel Hannah, and Rand Stowell, who, it seems to me, is getting around a lot. Full details on the reunion are lacking, but it is surmised that the celebration was in the best tradition.
Speaking of Gus Davis reminds me that he spent the summer as a logger, but just before the end of August he mistook his foot for a tree and had to retire until he should be well again.
Sel Hannah has secured a fine teaching job at Wilbraham (Mass.) Academy. Naturally he will coach winter sports on the side, as well as making various social trips to nearby 'Hamp and Boston. Bill Clark also has a new teaching job, in fact he has fulfilled an ambition of long standing by securing a post at Exeter, where he will teach English, and help to coach football and baseball. Bill has every right to be proud of landing the job so soon, and we extend our congratulations. I would also like to extend, on behalf of the class, our sympathy for the death of his brother Gordon, who was killed in an auto accident late in August.
Doug Ley has spent the summer acquiring actual practice in the law by working for Reynolds, Richards, & McCutcheon, New York attorneys. While speaking of barristers, it reminds me that Jerry Spingarn is going to Columbia Law this fall, while that terrible trio from Brooklyn, Mac McMullen, A 1 Keenan, and Marsh Frost are going to Brooklyn Law at night. Louis Bookheim, at Yale Law, reports satisfactory progress with only one more year to go.
Rocky Rockwell will be at Princeton this fall, continuing his studies of Political Science.
The rest of the boys, of whom we have news, seem to be working hard and successfully. Hal Ritter has been advanced to Assistant Buyer for the Household Goods Department of Macy's. Dick Turner is covering Vermont and New Hampshire for H. A. Johnson & Cos., purveyors of canned goods. His ex-roommates are wondering why they don't hear from himhow about it Dick?
Frank Wright has spent the summer conducting tours for the Burlington Railroad, an occupation in which he has had much practice. Halsey Loder, on the other hand, is conducting his own trip to the Orient. We hope he conducted himself out of China before the shooting began!
Ed Freeman, having wearied of collecting installments on furniture, is now selling advertising space for an insurance handbook. His territory is Wisconsin, and he has painted such remarkable pictures of the country that his friends have suspected him of selling out to the Chamber of Commerce. Dick Millard has gone south, where he is an Assistant Buyer for a Jacksonville, Florida department store. Dick O'Daniel has graduated from Harvard Business School, and is now working in Buffalo for a small concern which manufactures incinerators.
One of the best stories of the month concerns Bud O'Brien, who has capitalized on one of his "pipe courses." It seems he studied Navigation at some time in his career, and although it seemed pretty funny at the time, he secured a job as navigator on a schooner going to Iceland this summer.
Carl Funke has moved into his father's business, lending new emphasis to the firm name of Herman Funke & Sons. He and Fraser get together nights and try to surpass each other in depicting the sales resistance they have encountered during the day. It sounds discouraging if you believe them. Carl says he saw Vic Luneborg a while ago in Forest Hills, where Vic was vacationing from his job in the Southwestern oil fields. According to Carl, Vic has acquired an accent of some distinction.
That's all for now, but please don't forget to help out poor Jim Farley by patronizing his business to the extent of a few letters to your harassed correspondent.
Secretary,Acting Sec., 100 Park Ave., East Orange, N. J.
