A slim month for news, partly because yours truly has been too busy at the grubby task of making a living to get around amongst the boys. We'll try to average up later.
Cor Litchard and wife were in Hanover over Washington's birthday, motoring from Springfield, Mass., for skiing. At least, they brought the skis, but not much snow hereabouts.
Likewise, Dutch Bausher and wife from Reading, Pa., were registered at the Hanover Inn for a full week in February, taking a few ski lessons on thin covering among the Vermont hills. Dutch attended a Graduate Club bowling match, but refused to participate.^
Word comes from the Alumni Records Office that Jake Garfein has changed his address in San Francisco to 366 19th Ave.; Gene McCabe, who was formerly with the Tide Water Oil Company in Albany, has been transferred to Westport, Conn., as Southeastern Division sales manager; Jack Means has removed himself from Jacksonville, Fla., to 103 W. Vernon Lane, Fort Thomas, Ky.; Howard Slayton, formerly with the Socony Vacuum at Dover, N. H., is now with the same concern at Keene, N. H.; and Bob Wilson has moved his residence from Bloomfield to 11 Roswell Terrace, Glen Ridge, N. J.
Charlie Stickney writes:
"We have direct word of Ken Smileyfrom one of our roving reporters. Kenthese days is the dignified assistant directorof admissions of Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., where he holds forth with thesame smile he had back in Hanover. Kenand Gertrude reside with their 4-year-olddaughter in suburban Hellertown. (Isn'tthat the helluva name for a town?) He isreported as maintaining unabated the oldloyalty to Dartmouth, despite the fact thathe finished his course at Bowdoin and received a Master's degree from Lehigh."
The Wall Street Journal of March 4 says in its column, "Bonds and Bond Men," that among the bond men from out of town "observed strolling in Wall St." and environs during recent days has been M. O. Exnicios of Robert C. Jones & Co., Inc., Washington, D. C. No details of a sartorial nature are given.
Herrick Brown, true to newspaper tradition, sends the following letter special delivery to get under the wire for the April issue deadline.
"I've just left the annual New York alumni dinner at the Commodore, and the only way I know to get the dope to you in time is to dash it off on a telephone stand in Grand Central. Those present were: Bord Helmer, Bill Alley, Paul Nicholson, Cliff Hart, Howie Anger, Mac Johnson (who hasn't missed a dinner since he located in New York), Herm Noyes, Dud Robinson, who brought Bill Rex 'as along, Ort Hicks, Rex King, Artie Anderson, Doug Storer, Sumner Perkins, Doc Wilcox, Frank Livermore, Bandy Lowe, Jack Hubbell, who came down from Boston for the party, and yours truly.
"Roy Pollard was tied up earlier in the evening, but got in before the dinner was over. Mac Johnson reported seeing Leighton Tracy recently, and said Leight had a new job, now with Oilman & Co., the office forms firm in Pittsburgh. Bord Helmer, a vice president of Clarke, Sinsabaugh & Co., investment counsellors in the Chrysler building, admitted he was still an active skier, having competed in a recent meet at Pittsfield, Mass., representing the Amateur Ski Club of New York. He placed third in a large group of contestants. He drove to the Hanover Inn that night and slept peacefully through the biggest fire Hanover ever had, destroying the Campion store next door.
"The class is planning a dinner on April 6. More dope later."
Rog Wilde, keeper of the wampum, reports that 125 members of the class are now subscribers to the MAGAZINE and he has plans to corral about 50 more.
Secretary, Dartmouth Press, Hanover, N. H