Class of 1930
Some of the biggest obstetrical news since the quintuplets seems to be featuring around a "deuces wild" story involving the LATHAM brothers. A number of thoughtful friends have sent associated press clippings which carry the lead sentence "Poker playing is barred at LowellGeneral Hospital, but Dr. ERNEST H. LATHAM and his twin brother, Dr. DAVID A. LATHAM, agreed tonight that 'the deucewas wild there today.' " The two surgeons, according to the story, performed a Caesarean operation upon Mrs. George A. Byam to permit the birth of twins, a boy and a girl. The Boston Post featured pictures of the two doctors, and if Dave's hair weren't parted in the middle the photographer could have saved a negative by making two prints of the same picture.
PETE LILLARD, who is one of the skiing enthusiasts who returned dejectedly via Hanover from the snowless Laurentians during the Christmas holidays, is in the happy position of not having to think of subscribing to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE again until 1940, in spite of the fact that three other Dartmouth men within a stone's throw read his Time, Life, overdue bill notices, and his calendar, leaving it logical enough reciprocity for him to read their ALUMNI MAGAZINE. We have just been scanning the list of Pete's Dartmouth ancestors, which just about matches the long Green line of the Cobb-DoRAN's. They include his father, three uncles, a great-great grandfather, and a great-great- great grandfather, named John Vose, of the class of 1795. Can any 'Thirtyman match this?
The news which the New York HeraldTribune heralded as in the offing has now officially broken as follows:
"Dr. and Mrs. Willis Storrs Lemon announce the marriage of their daughterKatherine Ethel to DR. GEORGE ALEXAN- DER LORD Wednesday, the seventeenth ofFebruary at half after eight o'clock, 510Tenth Avenue South West, Rochester,Minnesota."
AL MCGRATH, whose position with the National City Bank hasn't been reported on since 1931, writes that he is still "trading in foreign exchange" with an intimation that his activities were not devoted primarily to the interest of F.D.R.'s dollar bill. Alf might give us a new official report on himself.
WILLIAM R. MOORE of the firm of Munger, Wagner, and Moore, an insurance outfit, now joins the nuptial column as follows:
Mr. and Mrs. James Durrell Pudgitt announce the marriage of their daughter Carolyn to MR. WILLIAM REECE MOORE on Monday evening, the first of February at half after eight o'clock, Saint Matthew's Cathedral, Dallas, Texas.
CHARLIE RAUCH must be afraid he will be a third of a ghost if he communicates with us directly, but in any event he has confirmed through Si CHANDLER the rumor that he had opened a branch head- quarters for Wood, Struthers in Hartford and lives at 255 Kenyon St Long ago CHARLIE RAYMOND gave us a copious installment of '30 news, a large part of which has been recorded in one form or another. At the risk of repetition here are some of the Raymond items: PAUL SHANLEY is a distributor for Gulf in Ithaca under his own management; GEORGE CLARE is with J. S. Bache Company in Boston; GUNNAR HOLLSTROM works for the Norton Company in Worcester, and Russ GRAY has been promoted to business exchange supervisor in the commercial department of the New England Telephone Company. This Raymond letter, we blush to admit, is dated November 9, whereas we have at hand a November 16 note from Russ, saying "Am living in Lawrence, Mass., atpresent with a very interesting job as salessupervisor with good old N. E. Tel. ir Tel.Company, covering New Hampshire and aportion of Massachusetts." If these items are mutually contradictory, take your pick. Meanwhile, the most consequential Gray news, taken from the Boston Herald of January 24, is:
Mr. and Mrs. John Leonard Brothers of Lynn and Stockbridge announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Mary Louis Brothers, to MR. RUSSELL CAMPBELL GRAY, son of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Gray of Portsmouth, N. H. Miss Brothers attended school in Beverly Hills, California, and was graduated from Williams Academy, Stockbridge, and Miss Traphagen's School, New York.
Ann Judith Rubin—just a shade under ten pounds—joined Rose and DAVE RUBIN January 20, with DICK BLUN holding the father's hand during the vigil Another development among the younger generation was the christening of Anita Pauline Smith on Sunday, January 31, after which the EGGIE SMITHS, playing with appropriate modesty the role of parents, entertained at tea.
MILT FLEISCHMAN keeps an eagle eye out for '30 items and discovered in a mimeographed release from the WOR press department the following item concerning the versatile MR. STARK: "SHELDON STARK is the new author of the 'FatuousJury Trials' programs, which are heardover WOR and the Mutual BroadcastingSystem Mondays at 10 p.m. EST. Stark isa triple-threat man. Besides luriting theseweekly courtroom dramas, the bespec-tacled scripter is also an advertising agencycopy writer, comic strip author, and gagman. Martin Young, noted New York triallawyer, collaborates with Stark on the'Jury Trial' broadcasts, supervising thelegal details." Milt adds an item about the discovery of JESS LICHTER in Newark finding outlets for costume jewelry HEINIE SWARTHOUT, recently reported as manager of the Tobin Pack Company in Detroit, now describes himself as salesman with a business address at 3411 14th St. and a residence at 3300 Chicago Boule- vard. Will our Detroit agents please follow up? .... WALLY WASMER telephoned during Carnival from the Chi Phi house, where tears were beginning to come to his eyes as he found himself in the role of the oldest living graduate, accompanied by his wife, the recent Gladys Olive Olsen of Gwynedd Valley, Pa. We were unhappily unable to adjourn to the Chi Phi house to brighten the horizon of the Wasraers, our hearth being surrounded by company PHIL WATERMAN, who is like CHARLIE RAUCH in refraining from contact with your low-caste secretary, like- wise supplied a scrap of information for SI CHANDLER, which reads thus: "Newdaughter .... Tally—i M—i F. Best ofLuck.—Phil." And the best of luck to you, Mr. Waterman. Our records show that Philip G. Waterman Jr. is going on three years and that Phil is an engineer with the National Tube Company in Lorain, Ohio —or was, two years ago.
GEORGE FISHER concludes our nuptial department this month as the following item is recorded:
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Marshal Sprague announce the marriage of their daughter, Jean, to MR. GEORGE CHRISTIE FISHER on Wednesday, the twenty-seventh of January, Cleveland, Ohio.
Much more time was taken than is usually taken by excited fathers when BUD FRENCH sent to us "The Sixtyteer" or "Bob Strong—Take Note."
The Time: 2.01 P.M. The Date: December 29, 1936.
The Place: Mountainside Hospital, Montclair, N. J.
Leading character: Wayne Gordon French.
Supporting Cast: Celie French-Bud French.
D. J. Main '06 is the source of our information that FRANCIS GARIEPY is at the John Sealy Hospital in Galveston, Texas. He was last reported in the surgery service at the University of Minnesota Hospital. He went from Dartmouth to the University of Detroit, but as for his medical school interlude we have no information. .... PORTER HASKELL, late of the National Resources Planning Board, has joined the United States Bureau of Mines as economist, while 5-year old Ann brightens up the Haskell household out in Arlington, Va ED HERZ reports not much news beyond the enticing prospect of a Florida jaunt. His note to Si makes some reference to a good crowd of Dartmouth men in Newark and to the Connecticut Mutual, which conflicts with our 1933 record of Ed's affiliation with C. L. Hargert and Company.
We grieve to report that Carter's Little Liver Pills and the advertising firm of Street and Finney both must get along without the aid of RED HOLME, who has been "a would-be scribe with William Esty & Company since September working, in a very small way, on some very big stunft in the cigarette line. Also Tea (for Vital ity)"—and from here Red goes on into trade names which we must avoid as free advertising. We have given the ALUMNI MAGAZINE a picture of Red's impersonator, which leaves us wondering how the wily Mr. Humpheries could have gotten away with it. Red's good letter reports that the recent New York Motor Boat Show was a Dartmouth reunion, where he saw GEORGE STEERS and CARL HAFFENREFFER and learned that Carl will be taking care of all four of Sopwith's boats this summer. BILL O'BRION, Red adds, recently has gone over to Kimball, Hubbard and Powell (which we judge is an advertising shop) as space buyer. The far-wandering Holme had likewise seen 808 BOOTH in the Grand Central, CHARLIE RAUCH in Hartford, RIP VOGT in New London, and AD RUGG at Otto Schniebs' first New York ski meeting in November.
Back in the dim past there was a nice note from ED SPRANKLE, the old Eccy major, who has found his way into the Central United National Bank in Cleveland, Ohio Word came in from all sides that AL MARSTERS served as a football official last fall. We have recently been under the impression that all football officials are blind and only about half-bright, but if AL can blow his whistle with the same finesse that he used to have in his tightrope act along the sidelines he will be a very snappy official. Often last fall in watching the football team's deep reverse opening up with the interference out in front, we thought how nifty it would be to see Marsters transposed into that picture. As a matter of fact, probably most of us will continue for a long time to recall the rhythm of movement as Al, in that old Number 4 jersey, used to pivot, in those ancient pre-huddle signal-calling days, to come around for the ball and for one of those beautiful off-tackle slants or end sweeps. For some time now Al has been examining attorney for the Federal Trade Commission in New York JOHN BISHOP dated a letter (which was received literally years ago) October 8, 1939, on the letterhead of the Fairfield State Hospital, Newtown, Conn. He had just become at the time, whenever it was, resident dentist at the hospital. Bish got his degree from the Harvard Dental School in 1934 In some of this hoary correspondence which got waylaid somewhere in the dim past, there is a nice letter from ED HERZ on which there isn't even a notation indicatting one of our scribbled replies. Ed, in case this has never found its way into the class chronicles, was married in May, 1932, to Eleanor L. Smith of Leonia, N. J., and has a daughter Susan, born in 1934. Ed mentioned occasionally seeing JOHN GARRISON, who at last report was investigator for the Retail Credit Company in Paterson. John asn t exactly showered us with news of imself through the years How we get from Garrison to TED WOLF is not your problem, but anyway we haven't heard from Ted in A LONG time—only once, in fact,since the Wolf cub was nine months old and Ted was announcing his invaluable relationship to the Tarrytown distributing office of the Chevrolet Motor Company GAL GALBRAITH . did himself proud way back in the glacial age with a swell letter on a '30 dinner in New York, which developed a lot of steam in spite of a pippin of a snowstorm. At this gathering BUD FISHER gave some timely advice on income tax reports, which is now timely again. There was some reference to AVE RAUBE'S keen interest in amateur theatricals in Maplewood; to BILL BLANCHARD'S new ski manufacturing enterprise; to SNUB POEHLER'S successful East Orange High School football team; to WARNER CRANE'S haberdashery business; and to Judith Anne Phinney's importance to the PHINNEY family of Massachusetts, where Judith was born in June, 1935, and where PHIN is in the banking business following some early factory research work for the Dennison Manufacturing Company JOHN TOLAND hasn't graced these columns very frequently. Sid Hayward recently sent a request to John to represent Dartmouth at the inauguration of a new president at the Catholic University of America in Washington, but John, instead of being in Washington as expected, turned up in Chicago at Loyola University, where he is an instructor in the classics. John's interesting biography since his senior fellowship included study at the University de Paris, at the Sorbonne, where he got his A.M. in 1933; at the Harvard Graduate School; and finally at Yale as Sterling Fellow in Celtic in 1935
BILL JESSUP, September bridegroom, reported before the event that he had seen FRANK TRAGLE on the latter's return from his wedding trip to the West Indies. Frank was a June bridegroom, and so far as we know is still covering everything for the Reading Times. He likewise hasn't been heard from since the event. HARRY CASLER at the time of Jessup's letter was still doing a fine job as picture editor on the HeraldTribune. Bill's final report before lapsing into the obscurity of matrimony was that he occasionally saw LARRY RICHMOND, the musical captain of industry, or captain of musical industry, or what you will, tearing around in his Lincoln 12 Unconfirmed rumor has it that CHARLIE RAUCH may be found in Hartford where, according to prevailing legend, he has set up an office for Wood, Struthers, and Company, the investment firm.
Now that ED BENOIST is safely back in this country, we make timely reference to his communications of last summer, one of which was written on board the Sarnpo (not Little Black S.), a plane of the Scandinavian Air Express Route. He was at the time between Helsinki and Tallinn (or Reval), the capital of Estonia. During the half hour across the "tideless and saltless Baltic" Ed told us that at Tallinn (or Reval) he would await the machinery in Moscow to produce his visa for a Russian visit. He had previously been quite a while in Berlin, "which while much be-uniformed is just as pleasant as it ever was,and although the economic sitation in Germany is quite likely as bad as it is rumored,the country nonetheless seems very prosperous and happy." Apparently using planes quite generally, Ed visited all the Baltic states and the Scandinavian countries. He lamented one of those bitter twists of fate through which in countries where nude bathing is customary, even wild beauty was so dreadfully scarce. The promised postcard from Russia didn't come, but there had been an earlier letter from Antwerp. So far as we can gather there is no European place that was missed by Ed, unless it should be Latvia. Now he is back in the horrific surroundings of Chicago, where, as you all should know by this time, he is treasurer of the Automatic Electric Company.
ED HAZEN is principal of the Junior High School at Hampton Center, N. H. He recently completed work for his master's degree in education at Columbia, having previously instructed the youth of Keene and Newport. We are now surrounded by educators, with BILL BRAGNER in Windsor and Ed at Hampton, but we don't see them any oftener than we see HUGH GIBBONS out in Cairo, Egypt.
In the ALUMNI MAGAZINE for December we mentioned the recent settling down of the Finches in a two-century-old cottage out in the country from London, but as we delve around here we find Ben's letter from Barcelona before hell broke loose down there. He had met Bob Breyfogle '36, who taught citizenship during our freshman year, there. In flying back from Madrid to Barcelona the day before he had overheard a man in front of him say to his companion, "Dartmouth must be in a badway, for I have received three notices formoney." It would be hard to believe that this unknown Dartmouth man is subject to the tender mercies of anyone other than our Mr. BOTTOME, but before identities were established Ben was out at Barcelona and the other lad was proceeding on his way to India What has happened to the erstwhile Cadet Captain CLOW, our late good correspondent? We last heard him reported as a cavalry officer at Fort Meade, S. D. That was a long time ago. . ... In June we were glad to get a letter from a fellow long unheard-from, MIKE COGAN, now MICHAEL COGAN, M.D. After polishing off his degree at the Vanderbilt Medical School, down in God's country, he is now an interne at the Mercy Hospital in Springfield, Mass. Mike has been around a bit during his academic career, having attended the University of North Carolina, Massachusetts State College, and New York University before finally finishing up his career at Vanderbilt Doc WATERS, we learn from Si CHANDLER, changed jobs last spring. He changed from Hollister Mills at Norwood, Mass., where he was a chemist, but what he changed to, we don't know.
NELS BLAKE is now DOCTOR BLAKE to anyone but '3O men, having got his Ph.D. in history from Clark University last June. He got his M. A. in 1931 at Brown and, in case any of you have forgotten, got his A.B. in 1930 at Dartmouth, where he graduated magna cum laude and with distinction in history, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, in which merry brotherhood he had no opportunity to enjoy the inimitable company of ourself or, for that matter, of many of you We are sorry to learn that Ev Fox was seriously ill for a month in the spring and later had to take time off for three months to recover. Ev is assistant secretary of the Fox-Vliet Drug Company, a wholesale organization in Pueblo, Colo NED GRANT, that wild rancher of Denver, told about a spring visit of RANNY HOBBS, whom Ned put on a Mulligan cow pony (whatever that is), in which position Ranny "looked like Icha-bod Crane, but he seemed to enjoy gal-loping over the prairie in spite of the factthat it was his first introduction to a horse."
You would of course like something about JULIO HERRERA, SO here is CARL HAFFENREFFER'S picture of Julio, "with twenty-four trunks, twelve suitcases, two dogs, twochildren, a nursemaid and wife" (the order is Julio's) en route from Paris to Guatemala, where he has taken up permanent residence and is assisting in the operation of the coffee and banana and sugar plantation left by his father. For the past few years Julio has been with the Chase Bank in Paris.
HANK SALISBURY served as co-pilot for the Northwest Airlines during the summer. Hank, as you will remember, was in the aeronautical engineering department of the University of Minnesota, but resigned to take a permanent job at the end of the summer with the Northwest Airlines.
STOOPNAGLE (left) BUDD AND WEAVER '30 (right)Pat, on extreme right, is agency production man for this funster broadcast,
Secretary, Administration Bldg., Hanover, N. H.
