Glass of 1929

Another Outing Club president is born in St. Paul—a '29er's lady is presented at Court—our Alaskan explorer flies across the Arctic Circle—'29 leads '2B—naturalist attacked by falcon.

The Outing Clubber is Robert Bruce Sanders, born April eighteenth, son of Dick Sanders of the St. Paul Book & Stationery Company, retail and wholesale library, office, and school supplies. He has a brother, Richard Miller Sanders, who will be five years old the middle of June.

The lady who is presented at the season's first royal court is Mrs. WarrenSew ell Lockwood of Washington, wife of one of the assistant trade commissioners at the American Embassy at London, none other than our own "Soup," who has been carving out a career, first at Singapore, then at Washington from 1932 to 1935, and for the last three years in London. As old Bob Mofiahan remarks, "it isn't everyyear that the wife of one of our classmatesis in line for presentation to King Georgeand Qiieen Elizabeth, especially underAmbassador Kennedy's new limitations." Bob himself carries on with the Forestry Department in Washington, has recently discovered that Walter Scott is with the Department of Agriculture, living not far from the Monahans in Alexandria, Va.

Beedie Brisbin explains we haven't seen each other recently because "a Vermonter has not dared to leave his state very often since the last presidential election unless he goes to Maine. Lately there is some indication that there will be a great exodus from other states into Vermont this summer, because many have that uncomfortable feeling that Vermont and Maine may have been right.

"Forgetting for the moment a dull subject like national politics, I might state that at present I am still practicing law at the same old stand, and as outside amusement I am serving as a member of the Board of Aldermen of the city of Burlington and the president of the Young Republican organization of Vermont. At legislature time I go to Montpelier and act as assistant secretary of the Senate.

"Recently I had a talk with ForestBrown, who is connected with a CCC camp at Underbill, Vt., as educational adviser. This talk resulted from the recent Hanover institution known as Dartmouth-in-Politics. Although Forest is a Democrat, our mutual Dartmouth connection led us to cooperate despite our political differences. Occasionally I see Bill Wheaton, who lives in Barre and frequently he brings his wife to Burlington either to a dance or on a shopping tour. The Dartmouth Glee Clubs with the Barbary Coast Orchestra recently visited Burlington, and I renewed acquaintances with various Dartmouth alumni throughout the state. There is a small number of Twenty-niners living in Vermont.

"Last summer Johnnie Parker camped near Burlington, and we went to a number of summer baseball games together. As you probably know, he has moved from Hanover and acts as superintendent of schools in Bath, Me. 'Brud' Woodman comes to town quite often, is still working for the W. T. Grant Company, but generally gets to Burlington a few times each year because he married a Burlington girl."

Joe D'Esopo runs the Dartmouth Travel Bureau with a new office in the new college building, across Main St. from the Western Union. Joe reports that CharlieDudley is planting fruit trees around his ranch and building a dam for a swimminc pool in his trout brook, probably all in preparation for the Tenth. The place is six miles out on the Lyme Road and a great place for a picnic.

Larry Lougee, who from time to time has been reported as an expert utility lawyer and author of several articles in that field, is a mighty fine reporter, too. Without a word about himself, he has all the news about the New York boys and the Alaskan explorer:

"Lit Johnston, on January 1, 1938, announced the formation of a new insurance partnership the name being McGuinness, Johnston, and Flanagan. The firm will have offices at 99 John St., New York City. Lit's son, George, now a three-year-old, is reported to be as good a lacrosse player as his father.

"Watty Turkevich is an investment counsel with Burden & Co. at 30 Broad St., New York City. Wally certainly has the right information on investments and is kind enough to pass on free information to '2gers (if you cannot afford to pay for it).

"Al Fisher is still with the New York Telephone and Telegraph Co. in Brooklyn and makes his home in Roslyn Heights, Long Island. Al is an ardent amateur movie photographer and has collected a beautiful set of colored moving pictures of his children.

"Will Torbert, the Mamaroneck high school teacher, is again taking a group of boys on a trip during the months of July and August. This year his trip will leave in three new Fords and will tour across the United States and then down through Mexico. Will has arranged for hunts and various other sports for the boys which they would not find in any other country.

"Si Morse was married in Tampa, Fla., on June 19, 1937, to Mary Clare Milner. He is now working for the Morse Blacking Co. in Danvers, Mass., and lives at 61/2 Merritt St., Marblehead, Mass.

"Bud, Stickler is with Firestone Tire Company in Brooklyn and lives in Hollis.

"Frank Williams is with the Schulte Cigar Stores at 386 Broadway, and is doing a good job in helping reorganize that company.

"George Scott visits New York occasionally and is establishing a widespread reputation as a tax accountant who specializes in Pennsylvania taxes.

"Ken Robinson is a play producer and is about to produce a new play on Broadway.

"Larry Worth, our intrepid explorer, writes the following from Haycock, Alaska, under date of March 3, 1938: 'My present address—Haycock—may suggest to you rich farming country, but such is far from the case. The soil is so sour and the seasons so harsh that not even a house garden can be made to succeed. This is a little settlement of not over seventy or so if the babes-in-arms are counted in, with the Eskimos and half-Eskimos far outnumbering the whites. Gold mining is the only activity, and the village lives dependent upon the gold that is taken out of the around. There are only two white women in the village, the married school teacher and the Old Maid. The children in the school are all Eskimos, full-blood or various fractional. Several white men are married to half-Eskimo women, and hence the racial fractions.

" 'This is one of the few places in Alaska, with the exception of the Goodnews Bay region, where platinum is recovered in the placer gold workings. The amount of platinum recovered is never very great, but during the war period when its price was so high the platinum was a very helpful item. There has been no U.S.G.S. examination of this immediate region, though the camp was struck in 1915. Judging from the direction in which the pay streak seems to lead upstream, its source seems to be under a hill, which I found to be topped by a basaltic lava flow. I spent some time last fall before the snow came wandering over the hills with a hammer, but found little of interest and less of value.

" 'Last fall I gratified a rather childish ambition of mine by going northwards by plane to a little town which is above the Arctic Circle. In Kotzebue I hired an Eskimo to take me with his dog team up the Noatak River to Noatak Village. I spent a week in Noatak with the two teachers, who were the only whites in an Eskimo village of a hundred or so. I remember that on the first of December in Noatak the sun only rose twice its apparent diameter above the horizon at noon and had set again by one-thirty in the afternoon. The trip wasn't made solely to satisfy a foolish whim, however, for I had a necessary objective in mind, and I am certain that I attained it. I was in search of a different position for the coming summer season, for I was not satisfied with the one I had at Nome. I made a very favorable contact, and have a position with the Arctic Exploration Company at Candle awaiting me when the spring weather shall permit preparation for the dredging season. This is a much smaller company than the one at Nome, but whereas I was there kept at a routine and unimportant position in the engineering department, here I shall be on the dredge and gain the dredge experience which I have been eager to acquire.

" 'Had I written to you that I intended t0 get a Leica camera? Last fall I bought one, an {.2.0, and have had no cause to regret doing so. I took pictures on the trip to Noatak which turned out good negatives under adverse light conditions, such that with the average camera a picture would have been out of the question. I shall soon be starting a series of portrait study pictures of Eskimos in Haycock with the hope of getting one or two which may have real merit. About the first of next month I shall be starting out on snowshoes on a trip which is certain to be sixty miles long and may well be over two hundred. I have to go to Candle, sixty miles away, and from there probably to Deering and possibly to Kotzebue. At Deering, which I visited last fall, there is a better opportunity to photograph a little Eskimo village than is available anywhere else. Those Eskimos are active hunters and I should be able to get some good shots of them hunting seals at the edge of open water out on the ice. I also have a roll of color film which I am saving for use there. After I have ended my travelling about I shall return to Candle and develop my rolls of film to check on the results.

" 'Last night I returned from a fortymile hike. I left day before yesterday for Koyuk, on the coast twenty miles from here, and came back yesterday. I had to walk that distance to send an order for two rolls of film and some chemicals for developing. The film will be here in two weeks but the other items have to come from the Outside and will be over a month on the way. If I were in a city instead of being in this isolated spot I should have had but to go a block or two to the nearest photo shop.

" 'This coming fall I am going to make the trip Outside if I can afford it. It will be the first time since I came up here, four years ago.. One earns good money during the summer season, but that lasts only about five months at most, and during the winter one is left idle, for this whole region practically hibernates.' "

The '29ers around New York City held a very successful dinner at the Dartmouth Club on March 22. Credit for the record turnout of forty-eight members is due to Bud Foulks and Fred Armstrong. WillTorbert showed his colored moving pictures of a summer trip through the Rocky Mountains, with return to New York through the Panama Canal, and EdWalsh entertained with more of his famQus stories. The following '29ers were present: Morgan, Jamieson, Wiedenmayer, Walsh, Enders, Alexander, Purdy, Dodge, Hedger, Nivison, Clow, Maclcay, Armstrong, Foulks, Poeter, Austin, Heath, Brittan, Ackley, Baker, Fisher, Morse, Moxon, Johnston, Piret, Swope, Torbert, Lougee, Latham, Wilson, Gill, Sherwood, Babcock, Fish, Laffey, Breithut, Ellinger, Hodge, Porter, Wood, Middleton, Purse, Loveland, Hannan, Bunn.

Jack Hubbard has interested a group of '29ers in having luncheon at the New York Dartmouth Club every Wednesday noon. If any of you out-of-town '2gers are in New York on a Wednesday, be sure to drop around at the Club for lunch.

The next New York dinner and the last one to be held before next fall is scheduled for June sixth at the Dartmouth Club. Special entertainment has been prepared, and Frank Williatns will be on deck with his famous swing quartet, which is well known around New York as the "Roger Bird Quartet." If you have not heard this quartet sing, then don't miss attending this last class dinner, as you really have something in store for you.

Gus Wiedenmayer's latest figures on the Alumni Fund are encouraging. Participation is about 100% ahead of this time last year, though the amount of contributions is small. The best news, however, is that we are ahead of '28. Can we stay ahead?

Harlan Taylor, who used to help us with Geology I, is a geologist with the Petty Geophysical Engineering Company, specializing in seismological investigations. In a letter just received, he says, "I amstill in geological and geophysical work,and have been with the above companyfor five years, working out of San Antonio,Texas. Spent most of last year in Kansas,but this winter have been in Louisianaand will soon go to Texas for the summer.Louisiana is very interesting, and there ismore activity here than in the other oilproducing states—more exploration activity.

"I am, planning very strongly on beingback in Hanover next June, 1939, for our 10th. Certainly doesn't seem like 13 yearsago this fall that we used to gather inyour corner room in Topliff for variousconversations. I don't feel much different,but probably look quite different. I amstill a bachelor, but may try to correctthat before the 10th."

Phil May, living in Toronto, where he is marine special agent for the Aetna Insurance Co., is also planning to get back for the Tenth.

Bob Leigh is now a resident of Pottsville, Pa., after being in Texas and Louisiana since 1931. He insists that he did not select the town as a place of residence but was sent there by his employer, National Carbon Co. ("you know, Phil Dinsmore's company"). So, now, says Bob, Patricia, aged nearly two, has lost her native Texas accent and is acquiring a delightful (?) Pennsylvania Dutch brogue.

The other evening Ben Leavitt regaled us with all the harrowing details of the dangers and thrills experienced by him in searching out the nests of the rare duck hawk, or falcon, the same bird that Henry VIII and the rest of the old sports used to hunt with. There are only twelve known nests in Massachusetts, all in almost inaccessible spots on cliffs. To get to the nests the searcher must be a mountain climber and know how to lower and raise himself on a rope. On one expedition Ben was perched precariously on a ledge high over a gorge, examining the clutch of eggs and marking them for future reference; the old girl who had laid the eggs stood it as long as she could and then let Leavitt have it—a razor sharp beak and a hooked talon opened up a deep cut on his scalp.

They say down on the Cape that KenWilson's boy, who won't have his first birthday until July and who weighs twenty-nine pounds in swaddling clothes, is going to be quite a big lad when he manages to raise himself off his tail.

Ben Scales of Reynolds Reports, Pittsburgh, Pa., raises a welcome voice from out the hills and dales of western Pennsylvania:

"Little tribute is it to your unfailing efforts in behalf of our class that this should be my first letter to in the intervening nine years. Usually I have been in some section where you have had adequate correspondents, and thus is partly explained this inexcusable lack of communication. However, here in Pittsburgh you apparently have no one except SawyerKier, who is a bit sporadic in his efforts, though endowed with considerable more energy than I.

"Kier tells me that there are some sixteen Twenty-niners in this general area, though somewhat spread about over West Virginia and Ohio. They turn up now and then for the major occasions, such as the recent Glee Club concert, which was a big success with the more muted Barbary Coast and versatile Club program. Ed,Heister was an active member of the local alumni organization for two or three years here, but has recently been transferred by Hearst (advertising work) back to his native heath near New York. SawyerKier is his usual contemplative self as an accountant or auditor for the Pittsburgh Coal Company, and recently returned from a two or three weeks' junket to Milwaukee to smooth out the books there. He is, and has been for several years, the treasurer of the Dartmouth Club of Western Pennsylvania, and is noted for his merchant trading and tight-fisted tactics in managing the treasury, which balances nicely each year on the point of a needle. Herb Simpson WAS just elected, "appointed" is more the word in this unique organization, president of the same Club. He has been very popular hereabouts and does a good selling job in the Atlantic Refining Company in Pittsburgh and has a hard time keeping the numerous Gulf Oil Corporation hirelings in the Club in hand. Watt Spangler, the medico, is an able assistant to Kier and balanced the cash box at the recent annual dinner. He was also a much harassed chuck-a-luck attendant at last year's Barn Party, where the Club gleaned some $125 for the Scholarship Fund. Bill Hood is often seen, but departs so early from the various occasions that I do not get a chance to talk to him. Sawyer is a much better man on the vital and employment statistics than I am. Moon Vossler came up to the Glee Club concert, and is quite chubby but still the same gleaming personality. Wheeling is his home base.

"As for myself, I am still engaged as Sawyer so graciously reported me last, as 'doing credit research.' That is a very dignified term for credit reporting, investigating, snooping, and assorted less complimentary names. But it really is very interesting work for a former psychology major and a blessing to be one's own boss. Marriage has occurred but not happened to me as yet. Hope I shall have a wife to present at the next reunion.

"That is the works, Bill, and if Kier does not get busy in the meantime I shall send you some reports from the prospective picnic of the Club."

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