Class of 1924
Mike Fitch, president of the Greystone Press, 11 W. 43d St., New York, has just published a novel by Larry Goldstone, "Run Far, Run Fast." Mike thinks the book shows considerable promise for Larry, who these past few years has been writing under the pen name of Lawrence Treat. "Seeing Sherlock Home," a series of puzzle stuff, gathered quite a following. If you wander into the Dartmouth Book Store, Ruby Daggett will be featuring Larry's latest. Copy of same, thank you, Mike, has arrived in this department, but such homely duties as preventing two offspring from tying knots in kittens' tails has so far prevented more than a cursory examination.
Football games have been poor producers of news this fall. At the Amherst game only Bob Morgan hove into sight. He's a V. P. of the Boston Five Cent Savings Bank. The Harvard game cloudburst offered too few moments to risk even a turn of the head without threat of drowning. Red Holbrook and fair guest soaked up their share of the downpour nearby. Pres Smart stood it for awhile, also Gordy Richards. Too early yet to expect reports from appointed correspondents at the Yale and Princeton games. Of the games to come, Ax Coffin is expected in Hanover for the Cornell game. He figures it will be cheaper to come East than to pay for all the telegrams which were sent to him collect from Ithaca last year at fifteen-minute intervals by Horace Taylor '23.
Doc Chris tophe hopped off for Chicago last month to receive his diploma as a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Between movie bugs and workouts on the violin, Doc conducts a private surgical practice, serves as secretary of the Natick Hospital staff, attends meetings of the Alethian Club and Boston Orthopedic Club (both medical) and the Masons. His home and office are at 750 Great Plains Ave., Needham, Mass.
John Dregge spends considerable time selling lumber, creosoted products, and flooring for the Nichols & Cox Lumber Co., Grand Rapids. This has not been too strenuous however to keep him from serving East Grand Rapids as city commissioner, and Kent County as supervisor. His membership in the Grand Rapids Yacht Club signifies a keen interest in sailing, which is shared with aviation as president of the local chapter of the National Aeronautical Association.
A sample of what the post card habit gets you into has come from Bill Buettner. He goes to Memphis for a session of the National Pest Control Association and sends back a snappy personal greeting.
Ned Mansure, president of the E. L. Mansure Co., Chicago, manufacturers of drapery and upholstery trimmings, auto and railway car trimmings, curtains and yard goods, covers the country with considerable frequency and dispatch. Sample -St. Louis, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, five Texas cities, New Orleans, Atlanta, and back to Chicago in thirteen days. Between hops he gathers funds for the Illinois Republican organization, chairmans the 43d Ward Republican organization, serves as founding director of the Young Republicans, Inc., member of the Chicago Crime Commission and a half dozen other civic groups. Every second month in New York he makes a bee line to visit his old roommate Bob Hall.
A Math professor in Hanover, Robin Robinson no less, can keep just as busy both as national councillor for the Dartmouth Chapter of Gamma Alpha (graduate scientific fraternity) and as a stamp collector, bowler, bridge player, and close follower of all classical music recordings. Robin has a boy and a girl—Peter 5, and Julia 2.
Ed Shnayerson, obstetrician and gynecologist of Brooklyn, N. Y., 659 Linden Blvd., long silent, unburdened in the questionnaire. Like Christophe he keeps up his violin playing and on the side has made quite a hobby of collecting records. (Robinson please note.) He keeps track of his roommate Fat Stone, who has only recently returned from Kansas, Lieb Liebling, and Red Bloom, but Fitz FitzPatrick, classmate at Cornell Medical College, he hasn't been able to locate since. Ed warms to the subject of medicine, and at present is deep in laboratory research work.
Bob Smith, building a home in Wellesley, Mass., where Jeff Adams is president of the Dartmouth Club, is director of Poor's Advisory Services (investments), also with headquarters there. He has a whole corps of Dartmouth graduates working for him.
Anyone traveling the Vermont highways this summer in the vicinity of Bethel and the Sanford farm would have discovered Bill DuBois turned farmer. He still serves as assistant manager of the Foreign Department of the Chase National Bank, 18 Pine St., N. Y. C., and keeps up his golf, squash, and ping-pong. The family, Estelle 7, and Charles 4, together with Mrs. Elizabeth, live out in Englewood. Bill is on the board of governors of the Aldecress Golf Club, and belongs to the Englewood Club, the N. Y. Dartmouth Club, and the University Club of N. Y.
Ken Ward lives year round in the same territory. He is mill superintendent of the Ward Lumber Co., Moretown, Vt., oversees four lumber mills, purchases logs for same, and directs the planting and caring for some 900,000 trees. The first of his two sons, Owen 12 and Wyman 3, unquestionably plays on his father's ball team, the Moretown Sluggers, consisting of boys from eight to fourteen. Sidelines include the Masons and trusteeship of the Montpelier Seminary and Vermont Junior College. Ken says he sees Putty Blodgett, farmer from Bradford, who occasionally has the bull by the horns.
The ever mysterious Lyme Thompson, Arkansas gold or'silver miner, has left St. Paul for San Jose, Calif., as salesman for the Food Machinery Corp. Stu Shimonek is a St. Paul surgeon with offices at 1127 Lowry Medical Arts Building. Bob Towse also follows the medical profession at 1 Old Mamaroneck Road, White Plains, N. Y. Joe Egolf, working out of Pittsburgh as salesman for the Ludlow Valve Mfg. Co., who was married just a year ago to Claire Reese, holds the balance of power with Shirley Austin as vice presidents of the Dartmouth Club of Western Pennsylvania.
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