Class of 1930
Administration Bldg., Hanover, N. H. Some of our boys just seem to be unable to keep out of the public eye. VANDERBECK, bored to death with an attack of the grippe, chanced to listen in on WOR's Women's Hour, when 10, the electric syllables of the name of COLLIER YOUNG came through the ether. Collie, as all the readers of the New York Woman know, is frequently listed among the city's most eligible bachelors and most lavish hosts. And now Martha Deane puts him on the air over the Women's Hour. Dear me. Collie, it seems, confessed in a facetious vein to a slight hardening of the arteries and other ills that make Collie (we fear none too sincerely) look wistfully on the benedict's lot. After Collie had titillated his listeners with his wistful eligibility, Miss Deane, according to VanDerbeck, then told the damsels they could address mail to him in care of her and that she would send it on to him "unopened." And—the ultimate in revelations—she added that the following week she would broadcast his telephone number Beyond this colorful news Van had nothing comparable to offer, having only occasional glimpses of HUMISTON, GALBRAITH, BROWNIE, and PHILLIPSON to mention.
HARRY DUNNING now pops up in Columbus, Ohit), and answers a query as to what excuse he has for showing up there, explaining that for the past eight months he has been doing a combination of research and sales promotion work for Scott Paper, with three months in one town about as close as he comes to taking root. The apartment at 633 Linwood Ave. is his thirteenth abode in three and one-half years. Lately, in Dayton, he found BOBBY LARKIN "healthy, happy, and unmarried.Works hard for his dad's company, a millsupply firm." .... Another wandering classmate is POOCH MEYER, who sends a postcard from Brussels during a flying trip covering Ireland, England, France, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Czecho-Slovakia, and Italy. How much of this is in the line of Pooch's business as buyer for Bamberger we don't know From CHRISSINGER'S Dartmouth Diddings of Chicago we find a note that GEORGE WRIGHT is in Urbana, Ill., as purchasing agent for the Illinois Power and Light Company, is married, and had a three-months old daughter, Ann, at the time of Chriss' release date in February. At last report in 1931, George was with the same firm as chief clerk in the purchasing department in Granite City, Ill Our rapidly decaying memory leaves us doubtful whether we have ever reported that the DICK BUTTERFIELDS are in Litchfield, Conn., where Dick is working with the wellknown architect, Ernest Sibley JOE HANCORT, after considerable astute service in analyzing securities for the College as assistant to the treasurer, has now been signed up by Brown Brothers, Harriman & Company in Boston, and simultaneously Professor and Mrs. Prescott O. Skinner announce the engagement of their daughter, Margaret, to Joe BILL MOORE is manager of the Wagner and Moore Insurance Agency, recently mentioned in these columns.
PARKER SOULE '31, who is in Hanover helping build up the Hanover Gazette, has done a little helpful unprofessional newsgathering for our benefit. "NELSE RANNEY has moved to Detroit, where heruns an office for his father-in-law's company," unnamed. "ED SPRANKLE," he goes on, "has bought a house and has died in itfor all I know." Conflicting directly with our assumption that GEORGE FISHER is working with Fisher Brothers Company, chain stores, in Cleveland (which we still believe he is doing) this report has him "with an advertising firm." We suspect our information that he is in the advertising department of Fisher Brothers is authentic While on the subject of Cleveland we may already have mentioned that JOE PLACAK is doing surgery in association with his father and John Martin '29. . . . . Here we have another doctor in HAL WARREN down in Providence, R. I. . . . . A flash from Wis CLARK confirms our newspaper report of his contract with Universal Pictures Corporation in Universal City, with his residence in West Los Angeles NELSE BLAKE, recently dubbed "Doctor" in these columns, is now instructor in history at Syracuse U.
Among Hanover visitors of the past month were the FRANK RYDERS, here in town for a snowless Washington's Birthday. The 808 BOTTOMES and party, and the JOHN FRENCHES made similarly snowless skiing visits to Hanover around the same time.
Every month we find tucked away in an obscure corner some news item that has been ripening for a year or so. Here, for example, is CHUCK ADAMS' letter of March, 1936, in which we learn of his transfer from command of his camp after two years to duty in the Fort Lewis district headquarters of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Fort Lewis, Wash., as assistant adjutant. He was having a swell time at that point. We hope he has a forgiving spirit for secretarial delinquencies.
We have been doing a little sleuthing to fill in some of the blanks on our records. One gap we filled in was the marriage of BILL MARSLAND to Miss Olive Darling, October ill 1930, in East Corinth, Vt. A report last year placed Bill in the photo-engraving business in New Britain, Conn. .... It is a wise father who knows his own daughter's first name. All contempory records showed that the first daughter of the ELLSWORTH ARMSTRONGS was named Sally Ann, whereas a card from Ellie showing his score now of two girls, names the October 14, 1930, one Patricia, while the latest edition is Joan, as of Washington's Birthday, 1934 We have also finally managed to discover the name of CHUCK SIMMONS' bride of May 9, 1936. She was Miss Jane Hempelmann We'll have to go back to HIRAM SAVAGE for more information, but we have discovered that his bride of May 26, 1928, was Miss Ruth I. Davis of White River Junction, and that they have three children of vintages 1930, 1933, and 1936. Here is the official marriage of the month:
"Mrs. Frederic W. Beckman and MrFred Loyd Richards announce the marriage of their daughter Barbara to Mr. CLIFFORD WILLIAM MICHEL on Monday,the fifteenth of February, Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-seven, Palm Beach,Florida. At Home: The Surrey, TwentyEast Seventy-sixth Street, New York City."
Looking toward the future we have the following:
"Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Scharen announce the engagement of their daughterFrances Catherine to MR. HOWLAND GRAFF ZIEGLER, December, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, Brooklyn, New York."
The CHAITS bring us up to date with a very pretty little booklet picturing the youngest, 21/2-year-old Neil Stuart, followed by Phyllis, who, according to Maurie, is the first baby born to any member of the class of 1930, now 8 years old; and finally Lynne and Maurie, who are responsible for it all Which reminds us that this example, if followed by all '30 men, would provide us with the complete pictorial record that we will want some day when we publish the greatest class book of all time.
This April issue's crop of '30 offspring includes ROBERT A. JORDAN JR., born January 30; Jane Elizabeth Allyn, born to Al and Mary Elizabeth ALLYN, February 21; and Gregory Weimer DICKERSON, born at an early hour this morning, March 8, just in time to get under the wire.
Secretary,
