Class of 1930
However you may view the prospect of three delicious summer months, unbrokenin-upon by floods of 1930 verbiage, we view this prospect with unrestrained joy, and there is a definite lilt in our voice as we confide these farewell notes to a dictating machine, which is entering into the spirit, squeaking merrily along. By fall the bouncing new class of 1937 will have pressed us still farther back into the wilderness of aging classes, and those of you who by faithful disposition or happy chance are still seeking these columns will have to delve some more.
It may be the long, cold, dreary spring, but for some reason or other we haven't our usual May crop of matrimonial news. For that matter, 1930 propagation has likewise fallen off. Under the circumstances let us turn to the Alumni Fund, a fruitful venture. Up to this point, in early May, the boys are coming through nicely and the class is back in a respectable position at the head of our sundry upstart contemporaries. This is not a promotion column for the Alumni Fund, but we must needs give it our moral support, with the confident assurance that by the time you read this you will have sent off your own gift to the Fund. It would be gilding the lily to make any further references to the effective handling being given to the '30 Fund campaign by Bud French and his colleagues.
We had a miniature '30 reunion last week-end, as the secretaries convened to enjoy a Hanover springtime amid rain and wind. Among those present were CHARLIE RAYMOND of the D. O. C. of Boston; ART SHURTS of the Alumni Association of New London, Conn.; FRED SCRIBNER of the Portland, Me., alumni; and the omnipresent CHANDLER, secretary-at-large. .... There is definitely a FUNKHOUSER Movement taking place in Hanover. On the heels of last month's announcement that Bob Funkhouser '27 would come to Hanover in July as assistant bursar, we find the Tuck School announcing that our DICK FUNKHOUSER will this fall join Tuck School to teach statistics, and be an assistant dean. Dick is leaving the Central Statistical Board of Washington, a governmental agency in the Department of Commerce. You will recall Dick's earlier career as teacher of mathematics and physics at the Valley Ranch School in Wyoming, followed by three years' study in economics at the Princeton Graduate School There is also a '3O Movement, what with the JEREMIAH and Funkhouser arrival in the fall. Our Hanover delegation now includes BEN BENSON, manager of the Wigwam; WIN HATCH of the biology department; OLLIE LILLEY, one of our reference librarians; HANK ODBERT of the psychology department; and CHARLIE WIDMAYER, our immediate neighbor in Parkhurst Hall, dispenser of information about Dartmouth, graduate manager of the Aegis, promotor of de luxe concerts, news editor of this incomparable MAGAZINE, etc., etc. JOE HANCORT, recently departed for the money marts of Boston, represents our only recent defection.
As this goes to press the Thirtyteers of Boston are about to foregather at Steuben's Restaurant for a dinner, at which Si Chandler will put the Alumni Fund finger on the boys. Then they will follow up with an outing on June 5 or June 19. Those that missed the dinner mustn't miss the laying-on-of-fingers at the outing. Si Chandler is, as always, the man with the dope. If you don't receive a notice, call Si The subscription blank which we hear the business management of this MAGAZINE (which is full of sharp practices) is going to enclose with this issue, is just a joke. Don't give it a second thought.
CHRIS CHRISSINGER, that fire insurance engineer of the National Inspection Company (an occupation handed down from father to son in the Chrissinger family), has now settled down at 17527 Indiana Ave., Detroit, where he has already seen EARL SELDON and has found an address for ROOSTER HOFFMAN. Chris was last reported on from God's Country The last record we had for SHAW COLE was entered in 1932 as draftsman for the Pitometer Log Corporation. It is more accurate to say that Shaw is a hydraulic engineer with the same firm, and now goes around from place to place, experting on water mains and the like. While working recently over near Whitehall, N. Y., Shaw dropped in at Hanover HERM SCHNEEBELI and JIM DUNLAP, that redoubtable Lancaster, Pa., pair, have lately returned from a respite from their respective stock yard and Gulf Oil responsibilities in Bermuda. On one of those gay Bermuda cards which drive us homebodies crazy, Jim speaks of "our cmnual rest period." .... We are just about where we were before on this GEORGE FISHER matter. He recently sent to the Alumni Records Office the information that he is in the advertising business—or, to be exact, that his occupation is advertising—at 1021 Guarantee Title Building, Cleveland. .... We are also about where we were concerning ED HERZ. We have one of those forms showing Ed's occupation as "insurance" and a business address at 2 East Ridgewood Ave., as against our former address from him at 4 East Ridgewood Ave. The natural guess would be that Ed has moved from C. L. Hargert and Company next door to the Connecticut Mutual, and that his three-year-old daughter, Susan, is doing nicely From Spearfish, S. D., comes a note from RANNY HOBBS with a picture of a couple of large extinct animals on an ostensible South Dakota sand desert giving each other a Wah-hoo-Wah. Ranny threatens a Hanover visit in July.
Here's some matrimonial news after all —thought not very fresh. Our new hockey coach confessed some time ago that on February 3 he married a childhood playmate, Constance Curran, with Bart McDonald playing best man.
It was AL MCGRATH who was responsible for that record breaking 1930 dinner in New York. By the way, the last official dope we had on Al was in 1931, when he was "bank clerk" in the National City Bank. This is far from up-to-date, because we know that bank clerks don't write such pretty letters on engraved stationery. . . . . Here is some new dope on AD RUGG. Ad is now working for Price, Waterhouse, and Company, accountants in New York, where DICK TILT may likewise be found. Ad reports hearing from LIEUTENANT KEL CLOW at Christmas time, when Kel was still ("very still") at Fort Meade, S. D. Others mentioned in Ad's letter were DOUG HUMPHREY, JOHNNY HOLME, BUD FISHER, and JOE GUILFOY We have finally got the information on GENE SEAGLE'S daughter, whose name is Leslie, and whose birthday was April 15, 1935. We have Gene as brokerage statistician with H. G. Einstein and Company, New York. The Seagles, by the way, had one of those ocean weddings on the S. S. Kungsholm Buzz WHITELAM sends along with his Alumni Fund ante apologies for the delinquency in correspondence which he shares with most of the rest of you, explaining that he has been very busy in merchandising activities for the Fisk Rubber Corporation in Chicopee Falls, Mass.
This ought to be about enough to make you appreciate your summer's respite. If you haven't had all you can take, follow AVE RAUBE'S example and spend your summer vacation in Hanover, which will give you an opportunity to come over and watch us hoe our beets within full view of the Main Street of Norwich. Have a good summer, as you used to say in college. We shall be greatly pleased and hardly less surprised to greet you in these columns come October.
Secretary, Administration Bldg., Hanover, N. H.
