Class of 1935

You remember Gallagher's letter from Oxford which had the pastoral touch .... he was working? Well, it seems to be true. The dignified invitation from the Cambridge Dartmouth Club inviting the "honorable gentlemen from Oxford" (Ted Steel is there too) to our Dartmouth Night Celebration received this reply: "Sympathize with Cambridge lack of honorablegentlemen but absolutely no can do. Regards and hail to the Green—DAVE." SO our subtle oriental courtesy (two Chinese vaguely related to the late lamented Empress Dowager live downstairs), was entirely lost on those hard-bitten hearties who are thinking only of how to win the forthcoming boat race. But we had a smashing great party, as they say here, even if the waitress did think we were crazy asking for a green wine. There are six Dartmouth men in Cambridge, although the sixth disappeared temporarily so we had Spang and Willis '33, Fitzhugh '35, Chase and Hutchinson '36. (Foreign columns please copy.)

A grand letter from Lowie Haas (the thin man), who uses the most dignified type I have ever seen. Omaha is quiet except for the Haas short wave outfit and a "twelve piece band which is constructed inthe tradition of this part of the country,but in spite of that is not too bad." In Duluth, Dud Russell, of flour millingfame, has got the whole town ski-conscious.A pep talk before the Chamber of Commerce started the business off. "Result wasthat they decided to have the Chambersponsor skiing parties every Sunday, withmembers of the ski club offering free instruction, and want me to write a series ofarticles for the paper on equipment, technique and such stuff. This is sort of amusing, since I am a hell of a poor skier, byDartmouth standards. Anyhow I accepted,and last night ground out a fine line ofbull on the above mentioned topics, andthis morning went out to the golf course topose for their camera-men in my best herring-bone, stem, running and side-steppingpositions. Some fun, but I hope OttoSchniebs never sees the pictures!" However, they're lucky to have Dud around. Aski meet gave everybody the jitters becausethere was no snow on the ground, and notmuch hope of a "tradition." "But said meetwas held as planned, as we had a big snowfall at the auspicious time. We had about1000 people out to watch the jumping andtook in $250 at 50 cents and 25 cents forkids." Lowie observes: "As the freshmanonce remarked in the Nugget, 'Somebodyhere hasn't paid.' "

Bill Mann is still in Chicago working for the Cannon 'Mills in the daytime and the Colonial Club Orchestra at night. "If hecontinues to do that he'll lose about fifteenpounds in six months, according to thestandard scale computed in 1936 by oneHaas in N. Y. City. Of course, I have alwaysmaintained that piano players can besound asleep and can be playing at thesame time "

Bill Mumler, Bill Butts, Dick Potter, Francis Brown and Frank Van Kirk have taken a lovely "non-heated, non-piped,non-clean apartment" in the Smiling Ray Club in West Chicago. It's on a boulevard no less, and on clear days when the window is up they can almost see across the street and count the chimneys on a batch of factory buildings. But they're near Rush Medical and everybody is happy. Frank says, "I'm trying to get some of this medical stuffthrough my head. At this point I am determined to specialize only in fractures ofthe fingernails and toenails, and treatmentand prognosis of fallen ears." Then he voices a common fen country sentiment with "How much fun it would be to seethe sky again, or a mountain—even a smallone would do. Or the late afternoon sunover the Norwich Hills " Then he looked up and to his intense joy found that at that moment he could actually see the houses across the street.

The other day Butts and Mumler ran into Dan Kerwin just starting for a free movie at the Y. M. C. A. Mumler, as a cinemaphobe, barged in to call on Julie Bromberg, who is going to Northwestern Med School. Harold Orenstein is also at Med school in Chicago- by the way. And if you are really interested in these bone choppers, Ralph Seeley and Cliff Mills are at Cornell Med in N. Y. City, Bob Quimby and Jim Higgins are at McGill in Montreal. Permanently in Montreal, gosh! and spouting French like natives. John Morrison and Harry M-Robinson fix the ills of the Quaker City at Penn Med, and Ted O'Brien and Bob Ross "slaying thepatients with their humour and goodlooks" at Columbia. Whew!

Deserving of mention is this—"Personally, I don't think this law racket is half ashard as it's cracked up to be "

Speaking of chains reminds me that Lowie Hass suggested the possibility of a chain letter to all members of the classsomething on parchment perhaps which could be circulated far and wide and receive the signatures of everybody. Lowie estimates a couple of years for the task. Knowing you mugs somewhat better than that, I think it might be ready in time for our fiftieth reunion. Still, you never can tell. What do you think of this idea?

Here comes another pedagogic convert. Gene Burnkrant writes from Marshfield, Wisconsin, where he is coaching football and hockey and teaching biology—note the order! Seriously, though, he is doing very well, "finishing up my hockey schedulewith a second place in the Wisconsin Valley Conference."

Now for the reverse. Bob Richter writes from Harvard Business School. "I shall befinished here in June. I think that if anyone should suggest more schooling to methen, that there would be a case of first degree murder in the courts; I've had aboutmy fill of this sort of thing and I'm readyto go to work. I am to start with the American Smelting and Refining Company onthe ist of August in the Accounting Division." One year of that and then out to the Pacific Coast plant. Bob roomed with Bob McLellan last year. Bob number two is now with the New England Mutual Life Ins. Co. "Fred Axelrod is still upstairs." Bob number one is sold on the west coast idea. He was out there two summers ago and worked in the open for two months on a pipe line, "clearing brush and fallentrees away from the pipe which was 5 miles long, 4 feet in diameter, and whichran through some very rough country." Wonderful title for a book—"Two Monthson a Pipe Line." .... Richter.

"To the casual observer I suppose itseems easy to grow flowers. I thought sountil I actually got into the middle of it. . . . Guil Richmond is with Butler and Ullman Inc. in Northampton, Mass. Good 01' Hamp! Karl Ullman Jr. is also horticulturally interested. And here is a lot of news about various secretive personages of the class of '35. Guil had a note from Walt Holmes the other day. "He is working forthe 'Mutual System' of Bridgeport, Conn an accounting job." He is rooming with Phil Hemphill. "Al Tacy is now withCadillac in Detroit. Shorty (K. P.) Rogersis working for an insurance company withheadquarters in Manchester, N. H. Suncook, N. H., will reach him." Doc Cornthwaite is still in Albany Law School at the last report, and Bill Serrat, after chasing milk wagons around at five o'clock in the morning in order to get bacteria media, is still somewhere in Boston.

Commiserations and congratulations are due to Larry Sommer and Mrs. Sommer (nee Ruth Clifford) upon the birth of David Lawrence S. on December 3. "His firstwords were wah-hoo-wah, with an accenton the wahs." But hopes of class babyship unfortunately were dashed by the far east. Larry has had an interesting time since 1935. He started to work for Montgomery Ward in Albany, N. Y., then was married (Sept. 1, 1935) and after a year decided to go West. So now it's work in the Technicolor Film Corp. "That's the company which makes Minnie Mouse blush forMickey." Near him works a Harvard man who spilled quite a line about how "ducky" skiing in New Hampshire can be. Larry let him babble on and gradually worked up to the statement that he'd skiied a bit in those woods: in fact he had gone to Dartmouth; "So the old rivalry lives as farwest as Hollywood."

ODDS BODKINS: Jack Irish is still holding out strong in St. Louis. Dean Couper is a government at Washington, D. C., playing soccer and hockey as a sideline. Who's the guy living in Waucan, Wise.? The date of the great Hagerman-Eames wedding has been set, but just when is a mystery. Dan Close is at Western Reserve Law. Bob Ferry did not marry Louise Butts, but Harriet Butts, better known as "Butter." This comes from Frank v. K. who started and stopped the orchestra with great skill and watched Bill Blakesley and Ed Ramsay ush competently up and down the aisle.

Secretary, Trinity College, Cambridge, England