Class of 1934
This is a dreary week. What with memories of the blizzard of '88, what with no skiing within a thousand miles of anywhere, what with having no letters to use in this column, and what with no trip to Hanover to follow up my boastful plans of last issue .... what with all these troubles this department can't remember what a bed of roses looks like.
But the other night we made a very successful attempt to get away from it all. Ploughing through lower Fifth Avenue's heavy wind, Scherman and I found ourselves chez Hedges, where a few of the boys were whiling away the time between 5 o'clock and the dinner bell for the alumni banquet. For two hours the glasses clinked and the words of wisdom flew, and we all felt sorry for Gruen, who was merely a spectator and had to report to a law exam within the hour. No one else had exams, and behaved accordingly. This goes for Morton, Tom Clark, Davies, Callaway, Knibbs, Griffin, Hartman, and Meigher. Henry Werner arrived late, sat by with an amused, knowing look beaming on his face.
Baldwin was expected, but when he failed to show up we guessed that his recent radio appearance on the Horace Heidt hour was about all the New York he could handle for one week.
Along about 7 someone sounded a reminder of the dinner uptown, so we hopped into cabs, decided we were hungry and would give the meal a fling.
Mr. J. W. Knibbs .... not our ownhis dad .... president of the New York association, proclaimed the largest alumni dinner ever held in that city. The figure Was somewhere in the middle 700's, a good 50 more than the attendance in the banner spring of 1929. Of these, 1934 contributed a good number .... I would guess in the neighborhood of 35 or 40. Ears strained when the percentage attendance cup was awarded, and when it failed to fall our way, Callaway suggested that what this class needs is some good, cold-blooded way to get a few of its members out of the way, in order to pull the class total down.
Evident among the diners were: Bill Gilmore, who confessed to the recent purchase of an airplane Harry Wallace, just up from the underworld for the evening. That crack doesn't .mean much, but Wallace is getting me down, and I've determined on a policy of nasty remarks about him Bud Yallalee, who didn't get a chance to say how Lord & Thomas was pulling for him Bill Haist, who fiercely demanded retrenchment of my last month's statement that he is with G. E. Hasty Bill was over-zealous in his demands, because his boss was with him as guest. He told me the name of the Bridgeport firm, but afterwards I had to run for a train and couldn't check up. .... Charlie Henry, who looked healthy and wealthy, but I didn't get a chance to find out his new work. .... Walt Blood, who reported that Bob Adam has gone back to Akron, to work in, was it Firestone? .... Jack O'Brien, who is now engaged to Miss Lois Freyberg, Connecticut graduate, one-time New Rochelle girl, and present resident of Mt. Vernon
And there appeared in- the distance, or for a brief handshake, the countenances of Buzz Edson, Ducky Gilmore, George Copp, Len Harrison, Jeff Jackson, Perry Woodbury, Bob Koibe, Dick Welis, Orv Dryfoos, Al Jacobson, Fred Robbe, Link Daniels, Walt Crandall, Bob Brown, Al Marks, Bill Adams, Wil Maynard, Bill Stein. Lord, what voluminous notes I could write had I talked with all these birds instead of loving my dinner so much.
I have no doubt that the banquet itself, speakers, etc. are amply covered in another section of this issue. However, although it almost goes without saying, it can well be mentioned that Prexy's talk was up to his usual fine standard, full of ideas, and a great treat for those of us who see or hear him only too seldom. Going out of town for some news .... a long delayed clipping from Boston announces the December engagement of Theresa Dodge of Hyde Park, Smith '33 and Prince School '34, and Walter Munroe Bryant.
Barbara White and Donald Webster Crowther were married on Saturday, the sixth of March, in Chester, Conn.
Last week Lester Littlefield stopped in the office for a brief hello. Les had recently left the real estate business in Lynn, and like most of the rest of us, had migrated to New York to find something better and bigger.
The remainder of these notes will be devoted, yea dedicated, to a few of those long-happy fellows who have heretofore had scant, if any, mention in this column. The following scraps of information are gleaned from the latest records which your scribe regularly receives from the College. Some of the stuff is old, and therefore shot through with inaccuracies. Whether the dope is right or wrong, it is meant in large part to incite these many recalcitrants to pen up the typewriter or inkstand, correct errors, or acknowledge accuracies.
Herb Andreson apparently went through Harvard Business School Thor Fraser is in Chicago now with the T. Johnson Co Charlie Faulkner is listed as an industrial engineer at the Onyx Knitting Co Jim Benson may still be a Boston representative of the Household Finance Corporation Bill Barrett's work is in Boston, as a contact man for the tire department of the U. S. Rubber Co Ed Kaiser teaches in the geology department of Washington U., St. Louis Walt Draper delves into chemical formulae for Johns-Manville up in Nashua, N. H George Kimball is in time study work with the Pacific Mills in Lawrence, Mass Gardner Brown is rather recently listed with the C. I. T. Corporation, as an adjuster, in Manchester, N. H Ed Heffernan does accounting work for Haskins & Sells, Detroit. . . . . Bill French's latest listing in the Baraboo Bank is that of teller and assistant cashier Bill Ball is in Cleveland as an agency clerk with the New York Life Insurance Co.
Harry Brague is office manager of the Hinsdale, Mass., firm somewhat cryptically known as Brague, Inc Russ Ireland is an underwriter for the Massachusetts Protective Association Stu Barber is in England with Technicolor, Ltd. .... Bob Bennett is lately associated with Truscon Steel in Boston as a sales engineer Emil Kluge is down in Pottsboro, N. C., working for Chatham Mills. .... Tom Cass is associated with the investment house of Suplee, Yeatman & Co. in Philly Bill Hackley is assistant manager of the Chicago Club Hafey Arthur changed over some time ago from Til ton to Hebron, still instructor and coach Chet Birch belongs to the New York advertising agency of Fletcher & Ellis, who among other things carry on that exotic Canadian Club campaign. .... John Lyle has for some months been a student at Boston's Palmer Memorial Hospital.
Ed Corson is among those present at the American Smelting & Refining Co. in New York Paul Fitzpatrick seems to be doing sales promotion work for the GMAC in St. Louis Tommy Beers is probably with R. R. Donnelley & Sons, who are, if I'm not mistaken, not only printers of Time and Life, but the largest printing establishment in the world Mel Gunst is in a textile firm, the Cohn-Hall-Marx Co. in New York Bill Ely teaches at the Emerson School in Exeter, N. H Ike Besse is using his engineering training in the sanitary end, as an employee of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Charlie Armes is listed in St. Louis, an employee of the Association of American Railroads Bran Brennon was credited some time ago to the Star Biscuit Co Joe Bender may still be with W. T. Grant in Newark. .... Bill Barnet is perhaps in the title of William Barnet & Sons, Inc., textile house in Albany.
And so on it goes. All right, come along with the brickbats. The above undoubtedly contains more false facts than you can shake a stick at. But, working on an offshoot of Barnum's theory, even if they're wrong, they ought to make good reading.
Perhaps you will allow me to fill in the rest of this space by mentioning for the records my own recent appointment as assistant to the advertising manager of Time.
Secretary} 126 Beaufort PL, New Rochelle, N. Y.
