1937*

Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, Into New Hampshire My bicycle wandered.

It was early in June when we made the charge, my bicycle and I. We headed east, bound for the Hanover Plain, a pair of dirty white shoes and a notebook strapped on behind. Hold on, gents—the breeze was behind us—LISTEN:... .Free lunch with Jack Richter at Culver Summer Camp, 1nd..... north into Mich., Gail and his fiancee, Priscilla Hawley, found on the Compton farm. . . .same state at Frankfort, Roger Graves: "trying to manage my father's cherry orchards";.... Bloomfield Hills, June 11, just in time to see Ernie Kern married to Janet Bragaw ....into Ohio, Don Frank in Toledo: "My grades at law school were O.K.—am going out to Calif, for a while.". .. .on to Youngstown and Al Reinman: "I took a real estate license in February; in April I started clicking and had one accepted; now getting my share of what is being sold.". .. .then Cleveland—Bud Reed and Mort Berkowitz, latter said: "got my first by-line on a news story—You learn the hard side of life as a police reporter, a side of life that no book or written word can tell you exists. Life seems cheap one minute and dear the next. You take death with a passing word one morning, and that afternoon someone breaks out in sobs, and you stop and think.".... the smoke of Pittsburgh, some place around was Don Pease with American Wire and Cable, nearby is New Kensington, Jake Randolph's abode: "still doing correspondence work in the home office of the Aluminum Cooking Utensil Cos.". .. .farther north in Ashley, Pa., we found Mel Estey and Amra Helen White making wedding plans for August 20 The empire state, Mt. Kisco first stop, Austin tutoring on the Mandel estate: "Don Coggeshall was a tutor at a nearby estatenow is investigating the engineering prospects"....on to Hartford—Tom Veling employed since last June with Capital City Lumber Co.—Bill Newburger a section manager in the big store, G. Fox & Cos side trip to Great Barrington, Mass.—Garry Lowe: "My stay at the hospital terminated about the middle of June, no such thing as a complete recovery from ulcerative colitis, but I still look and feel fairly well, and while there is any hope we shall hope and fight too."

Back on the College Highway, past Holyoke, 'Hamp, Brattleboro, Bellows Falls—then Baker Tower standing out over the pines and glowing with lights as of old Sunday of Commencement, '37 piled on to Tuck Field at noon with a soft-ball, bat, and keg of beer—good ball game all afternoon. .. .next June was already on our minds—around and about were: L. Brooks, D. Branch, J. W. Brown, A. B. and J. W. Coggeshall, A. J. Cohen, R. Corie and wife, P. Conti, R. Cooper, E. Doremus, V. Edwards, R. Fuller, W. Griffiths, A. Guyer, L. Harris, R. Hall, J. Latchis, P. Lefebvre, J. Leslie, C. MacCarty, J. Milne, C. Moister, J. Newton, D. O'Brien, S. Ochsner, E. Patterson, A. Reinman, W. Rotch, A. Ryder, A. Ruggles, R. Sawyer, C. Schaaf, K. Stearns, W. Spears, G. Stock, W. Wallenius, P. Welldon, J. Wolfs. .. .sunrise Monday, off through the hills to Plymouth and innkeeper, Phil Robertson: "I have got to learn how to take care of gardens, cows, pigs, chickens, the house, the ski trails, and last, but most important of all, my wife.". .. .last N. H. stop was with Sherm Murphy at Ossipee: "So far so good at Albany Law; my average is 83 and I stand 4th in the class; until August 26 I'm a counselor here at camp.". . . .East Sebago, Me.—chubber G. Bennett: "spent about a week in the infirmary, missing my med exams which I will take this fall; am having a good healthy summer in the camp." .... then famous Bar Harbor—Gordon Torry: "trying to pass off some Mass. Mutual Insurance on the home folks." . . . .July s, wedding bells in Gloucester, Bill (W. G.) Brown and Jane Phillips of Smith—the Dekes were about. . . .over to Andover, Mass.: "Jerry Cross and Margaret Ostherr Cross will be at home at 53 Abbott St. after September 15.".... Ruggles and Mort Ely studying in the Harvard Yard, former stated: "Ad Parker has a swell wife and she was very helpful in mending my pants.".... bought a Boston Globe Thursday eve—found Hal Putnam's "New England Outdoors," Hal also on night city reporting staff... .found Jack Devlin in Filene's department store: "I'm an extra stock worker and so am moved all over the store to the points where the battle is the thickest—Mutt's job with Elliot, Underwood, and Fisher is a darb; he leaves Boston August 1; it means promotion—Les Barrett is working in a small lumber yard, just been promoted, the boss wants to teach him the business with a view to an executive position—Bob Aylward, Stan Lappin, Gil Reynolds are all in the store and doing stock work.". .. .out to West Roxbury to find Joe Fowler: "just finished ad yr. Tuck and heading for Harvard Law. Jaggard expects to spend '38-'39 in Switzerland on a fellowship—he's studying for the ministry."

Into Connecticut, Morgan McGuire situated in New London: "Roily Bialla, Paul Olson, and I going on a canoe trip later—Bob Woodruff seems to be getting along well with DuPont, works on one of their papers, got a raise and a vacation all at once.". .. .back to New York looking for barrister Frank Butler in Bronxville, alas, he had gone, the note read: "On June 20 I am sailing as a member of the crew on the Nordlys, one of the sailing yachts in the Bermuda race."... .next Manhattan and a free bed with Bruce, Geraghty, E. Stearns, Weeks—Bill began: "Tom Cohen going to Columbia Summer School and taking up accounting, figures it will be valuable in law—George Vennum working with an accounting firm here—Ray Bauer is with Guardian LifeStorck and Falion also are in insuranceI'm to be an assistant buyer soon, maybe in boys' clothing," and Weeks added: "hit the insurance exams, now studying for C. P. A."....at the Parachini residence Joe '35 was found at home: "Hal sailed July 27 to spend the rest of the summer in Jamaica with my uncle.". .. .in the Grace Line office was Wayne Ballantyne: "Life in New York—two small raises —the meeting, greeting, and reserving liner space for people from So. America traveling via Grace ships—had to go to school for 8 months to learn to speak Spanish.". .. .The S. S. Normandie was in, a note from Ernie April in Paris arrived: "I was selected to play on the AllFrance team which defeated Belgium by a score of 9-8. Imagine my surprise when I looked out to the pitcher's box and saw a Dartmouth '27 whom I met about a month ago.". . . .chatted with Ham Mathes in Brooklyn: "a few months in a dept. store in Mass., played the violin in several N. Y. restaurants and cabarets for a living, quit this business, am working without pay for a certain working-class union helping organize, to marry Marya Neer on August 20."... .lunch with Art Guyer at N. Y. U.: "summer has been a long grind but swell fun; we work from 8 A.M. to 3 next morning—a year from September I'll be entering Med. School." ....Roily Bialla in the surf off Long Island: "Wes LaCour has a good job with a fertilizer Cos.". .. .a short ride to Westfield, N. J.—Bob Taylor's mother and father are thinking a great deal about Dartmouth, the class, and Bob. . . .next day in Forest Hills with Ike Collins: "in the personnel dept. of Macy's interviewing prospective employees—thousands of them.". .. .then to Hopatcong, N. J.—Bill Sayre home from 2d yr. Tuck: "We were made 'Masters of Commercial Science,' Neophytes would be more appropriate or some word which hinted we'd been formally introduced.". .. .Bill suggested a weekly gathering for lunch in New York City. .. .on to Tom's River, N. J., where Chuck Hotaling works in the advertising dept. of a local paper. . . .next Philadelphia, Bill Greenwood with an insurance Cos. and still single Bob Koury discovered in Atlantic City: "graduated from U. of Pa. in June with an A. B.—still managing the business (convention decorating) here, am entering Pa. Law School this fall. My affection for Dartmouth was only strengthened by my attendance at another school."....

Yes sah, we is down in Montgomery, Ala., now—Pat Uhlmann: "Dartmouth can take the credit for this romance (engaged to Helen Weil) as I roomed with Bobby and Dick Weil."... .northwest to Memphis and the newly-weds (June 30), Fred and Frances Reitler Asher—the former working for Sears & Roebuck.... the young man went west—to Grand Canyon, Ariz., Foster Bruner (left in '34) working as a U. S. ranger and studying mining at U. of Ariz arrived with a cloudburst in Los Angeles—George Loff coming along famously on his novel—one noon spied a '37 coat at the next table, it was Les Ivoenig, working in the writing dept. of Selznich International Johnny Merrill home in So. Pasadena for a minute: "I get a terrible yearning at times to walk again across the campus, to watch the sun glisten on the white walls of Dartmouth Row, to hear the crowd yell as the team runs on the field, and to sing my throat dry on a Saturday eve.".... 2 letters at the Amer. Express—Don Miller in Hawaii: "came out here on a lark, planning to live here, am district circulation mgr. of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin."....and Louis Valier in Tahiti: "takes 2 1/2 months for a letter to get to the States, more primitive and less expensive than Hawaii, I'm just vacationing for a while."

Homeward bound... .stopped with Wally Fisher in Minneapolis: "Competition is fierce in the grain business, hundreds of young fellows all trying to get ahead, all doing the same job, earning the same pay, studying at night, and all impatient with the slowness of advancement and the petty trifles and routine that must be endured.". .. .Jim Hathaway was at Stone Lake, Wis.: "had 2 small-mouths on at the same time (2 flies).". .. .arrived in Chicago as Pete McLane was passing through on his way back from Alaska, was bound for M. I. T a postcard from Monk Amon in Europe: "Will write later.". .. .intended to sleep but September 10 and our '37 picnic organized by Dingle, P. Johnston, Timson on the latter's farm "with dates" is almost here. Bill Cash here with General Mills till February and will be at the feed. .. .hope Skip Brown, here reporting with Rochester Soft-Ball Champs, will stay too.

You can settle back now, gentlemen, and plan for the future, plan to be at the YALE GAME and THE '37 PARTY FOLLOWING in NEW HAVEN. Come to the Hotel Taft immediately after the BOWL-ing and IF YOU HAVE A DATE bring her with you. The '37s at Yale will have something extra fine fixed up. Wonder if Papa Jack Morrison could bring THE CLASS BABY?

Secretary 10314 So., Hoyne Ave., Chicago, III.

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