1929*
What a reunion the TENTH is going to be .... if the class suppers last month in Boston and New York are reliable indicators of the way the boys feel about it. They'll all be there, and they want to wear red shirts again and have a tent to congregate in, with 500 gallons handy for Buster Brown to tap and serve, and another ball game on the campus—but not 15 pitchers in the box at the same time—and a picnic complete with life preservers and guards to protect Mike Ferrini from Bob Lyle and to examine the qualifications of the Maynard-Leavitt high diving-tumblers before licensing their performance. That's what we'll HAVE, and more. The Executive Committee met in Boston before the class supper the night before the Harvard game and again in New York the night before the Yale game. At the Boston meeting there were: Gus Wiedenmayer, all the way from Newark, Bob Carr and Herb McCreery from Hanover, Dud Orr from Concord, Larry Shirley from Manchester, and Bill Coles, John Dickey, Gus Herbert, Chris Born, and Ben Leavitt from Boston. At the New York meeting were Van Jamieson, Bill Keyes, Trunkie Brittan, Gus Wiedenmayer, Eddie Walsh, Jack Blair, and Jim Hodge, all greater New Yorkers.
Each of the suppers had its own individual characteristics: New York's was noisier what with heckler-par-excellence Jack Moxon firing from right under our nose and Swope banging the table and bellowing for service and cigars. Boston's was more .... well, let's say, ribald, with Allah Lovejoy refusing to be outdone—or repressed. Herb McCreery's notes on the Boston supper follow: "Not much additional avoirdupois than at the Fifth. Hair lines about the same. Present, in addition to those already mentioned, Brooks White, banker at Boston First National; Phil Gage, with R. H. White's Department Store, Boston; Jake Jaquith, lawyer, Clinton; Dick Johnson recently moved his golf and specialty shop into new and larger quarters, Devonshire St., Boston; Joe Lovell, Lever Brothers, Cambridge plant; Don Simpson, lawyer, ex-assistant attorney general, inverterate cigar smoker; Hank Stein, lawyer, Newton resident; Morgan Baker, just returned from ten years in New York; Bob Brinkerhoff, advertising Boston office, N. W. Ayer; Hal Ripley, district manager, N. E. Tel., and candid cameraman; Doug Gray, Anaconda Copper; Nels Hartstone, lawyer, country squire, and passionate nimrod. Herm Liss, squash-playing investment counsel; Al Finlay, investment counsel, promoter of select after-game dances; Phil Rising, publisher, Curtis Publishing Cos.; Millard Tucker, investment counsel Highlights: Orr's stirring speech introducing the Danish Hamlet Gus Herbert, who made the startling admission that he wasn't in the mood for speech Herbert's political keynoter introducing Wiedenmayer, the Newark banker who flew all the way from Newark and right over Herbert's house (piano by Herbert) Orr turns the tide with a story about asphalt, brick, and crushed stone sidewalks Tentative plans for the Tenth Coles tells about Bradley's investment in a California dark horse so far scratched from the starting line-up Lovejoy and again Lovejoy till it's time to go home "
The committee for the New York supper, chairmanned by that redoubtable, One and only "Fiorello" Heath, sent the following report under the high-sounding title "MSS. FOR ALUMNI MAGAZINE":
"Nineteen hundred twenty-nine packed them in and rolled them in the aisles at a shambles held the night before the Yale game at the Dartmouth Club in New York. There were thirty-nine present to honor and heckle our good secretary Bill Andres, who was invited down primarily to bring the Chris Born movies of the sth reunion and incidentally to make a speech. As it turned out, nobody could hear the speech and only five members were left to see the movies. But they were swell, Chris! The trouble began by holding the dinner in one of the private rooms on the second floor instead of downstairs in the public dining room. Judging by their behavior, most of the boys must suffer from claustrophobia. A din machine would have registered a better score than 70,000 could produce the next day in the Bowl. In fact the game was an anticlimax. With this preliminary build-up it is only fitting to mention first that Swope was there. In fact, he fairly loomed in the place. It wouldn't have been the same without him. And while we're paying compliments, Breithut was there too. Turning next to those who come to listen we set down the following, not in any order of preference but simply as they appear on the record, or rather, come to mind: Middleton (just married, by the way), Baird Rogers, Fish, Carter, Hedges, Hanssmann (Dr.), Fisher, Hubbard, Morgan, Wiedenmayer, Gunther, Purse, Pratt, Lyt Johnston, Hank Marshall, Lougee, Small, Paul Jameson, Nivison, Joe Walsh, Hodge, Chinlund, Hughes, Miller, Blair, Barrett, Ellinger, Poeter, Moxon, Buckley, Bunn, Hannon, Joe Pritchard, who looked in briefly along with Scott. And the treasurer was there too, with a briefcase and snoot, full. We will spare you the names of those who weren't there.
"The committee for the next dinner was chosen by popular acclaim, or frenzy, and consists of Messrs. Hubbard, Fisher, and Morgan.
"Bill Morgan injected a serious note by proposing that a 1929 Class Fund be started, to be used for the purpose of helping defray reunion expenses, giving financial assistant to needy classmates, and establishing scholarships for sons of '29. The idea was accepted with uproarious enthusiasm, and those who had dollar bills insisted on making an opening contribution. (This committee received no part of such gifts.) It is hoped that we may hear more of this interesting suggestion.
"Brother Andres spoke intermittently and persuasively about reunion, and was hailed (or booted) to the echo in the course of his discussion of the subject. No man ever received so much free advice in the course of making a speech, but he accepted all suggestions as though he liked and adopted them, and got his message across. Red Kennedy guaranteed to furnish suspenders to all comers.
"The meeting adjourned at about 9 P.M. to join the club smoker. The only regret the Committee has is that because of the excitement it was unable to pass on the chairmanship to Swope. We suggest that this error be rectified by our successors when they lay aside the toga (P.S. We really love you, Jerry.)— The Committee (Babcock, Heath, Van Jamieson)."
Bill Morgan's explanation of his proposed 1929 Class Fund follows below. Essentially it would provide means for men to make voluntary, spontaneous contributions to the class after they have given to the College through the Alumni Fund and to the class treasury through dues and ALUMNI MAGAZINE subscriptions. The proposed Fund would not be permitted to interfere with or in any way prejudice '29's contribution to the Alumni Fund or the collection of dues and subscriptions. Bill writes:
"Regarding this 1929 Class Fund idea of mine (not original by any means), on which you asked me to write you; the following is the general idea:
"To establish a 1929 Fund based entirely on voluntary monthly, semi-annual, or annual contributions (this to be decided) from all members of the class who feel that they can afford to do so. Fund to be used for the purpose of defraying expenses on future reunions (this should materially decrease the class tax levied from each member attending reunions), giving financial assistance to deserving needy members of the class (and no matter how hard any of them try to laugh it off now, a few will find themselves behind the eightball some day), and finally, towards establishing one or more scholarships for the sons of 1929 class members who may want to enter Dartmouth and whose fathers cannot afford to loot the bill (incidentally I don't have a son, so I'm not counting my chickens).
"The above is no pipe dream, Bill. It is a plan which I believe could be worked out carefully for the mutual benefit of the entire class. Such a fund would not yield any returns during the next few years, but in ten, fifteen, or twenty years from today the possibilities for putting it to good use are incalculable.
"The reaction to the idea of those present at the dinner seemed most favorable, and in order to obtain a general consensus of opinion from the class as a whole, would you be kind enough to publish at least a part of this letter in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, inviting comment on the plan? The reaction of the entire class to the idea, of course, will be the deciding factor as to whether we should establish such a fund or abandon it entirely."
The formal claim of the William Goss Dodge family for the distinction of having the first twins has been received, as follows: Eleanor Ann, b. 9:27 a.m. and William Niles, b. 9:34 a.m. on May 21, 1937. If other claimants appear to contest the Dodge claim, further examination of the original records will be made. Until such time, however, the claim stands honored.
Speaking of claims, Bill Davenport sends in this correction: He played the piano in the Commons orchestra, not Charlie Gaynor. Bill received his Ph.D. from Yale last June, taught second semester at Smith ("probably the first Dartmouth man who ever went to Northampton with a serious purpose"). He now is assistant professor of English at U. of Southern California, sitting pretty and enjoying the climate. Married Frances Isobel Shriner of York, Pa., on October 21, living at 919¼ Leighton Ave., Los Angeles. Will be back for the Tenth, stopping off at New Haven to see his wife receive an M. A. from Yale.
Hal Leich from Washington, D. C.: "Here for almost four years in Research Division, U. S. Civil Service Commission, developing new types of entrance examinations for federal service .... a real task, there being as many as 250,000 applicants for single examination, such as railway postal clerk .... recent improvement should hasten establishment of career service for government employees Started a ski club during heavy winter of '36 and hope for snow trains to Pennsylvania Dutch country See Duke Barto, Percy Russell, Bob Lyle, and Bob Monahan at weekly luncheons Bob Monahan in headquarters of U. S. Foreign Service; has skiing articles frequently in SkiBulletin and American Forests."
Bob Drake of the Chicago law firm of Alden, Latham, and Young sent in the following . report for the Chicago area: "The center of population for the class of 1929 in and around Chicago seems to be the corner of Adams and LaSalle Sts. A directory of Dartmouth men gotten out last year shows that five classmates have offices at that corner. They are: Earl Fyler, Carnegie Illinois Steel; A 1 Welch, Washburn Crosby Cos.; Ed McGibbon, John Minary, and Robert Drake—all in law offices. The same directory shows there are about 36 '29ers in the metropolitan area. Eight are working in manufacturing concerns. In addition to Fyler and Welch there are: Benjamin, with the Benjamin Electric Cos. in DesPlaines; John Brown Cook, Reliable Electric Cos.; Bob Harris, Continental Can; Charley King, Dry Ice; Jack Meany, Jones and Laughlin; and Joseph Odell, Northern Paper Mills. The law business has six: Lew Clarke in Waukegan; Carl Spaeth at Northwestern Law School, and Art Ryan as well as Drake and McGibbon. Minary is working in a law office and studying law as well. Retailing takes the time of Joe Ruff and Steve Balkam in Hammond, Ind.; Nahigian in rugs, Dick Burke at Sears Roebuck, and Ken Page, who has been selling automobiles. There were three physicians until Sim Cantril, his wife and new son Simeon left for Seattle. The other two are Stan Friedberg and Si Snider. Frank Weeks is with Commonwealth Edison and David Wilson with Illinois Bell Telephone. Johnny Ristine is with R. R. Donnelly & Sons Cos., printers; Fred Martin sells coal at wholesale; Francis Wilson is in the securities business; John Clements is a casualty insurance specialist with Marsh and McLennan. George Hersam gives his address as American Airlines, but there is no telling where he is. A report on Dick Johnston is Chat other building contractors on the North Shore can't get the business because his bids are too low. Nelson Lehman is teaching at New Trier High School in Winnetka. Ayres Boal is a real estate man with a lot of civic offices and interests in Winnetka. Ralph Sherberg is in a chemical laboratory."
Bill Wieler, on sabbatical, is a student again after teaching English for seven years at Deerfield; now at Columbia, working for his doctorate, putting in overtime without benefit of the Wage and Hours Act; hopes to be ready for his orals next November.
Gus Wright is carrying on the old family business, Grey G. Wright & Sons, Cincinnati, manufacturers of production tools, is married to another redhead, Harriet E. Wiggers, and proudly announces that he's expecting another one for Christmas; says Bill Wiley is filling the Cincinnati Enquirer with ads, and Ed Merkel is making a legal name for himself in the office of the Democratic nominee for governor.
Jim Armstrong, insurance and real estate, Wilton Me., says that Maine is really not as bad as our President pictures it and that more of the boys should drop by on the way through. Jim has two boys, one five years old, the other two; sees Asst. Atty. General (New Hamp.) Frank Kenison occasionally.
Some time ago we wrote Dick Sanders. The other day he writes, "Such promptness! You congratulate me on the birth of my son Dickie, and I answer as he leaves for school on his bike." He then catches us up a bit on the news: abandoning a chance to go to Alaska to drive reindeer, he went into his father's retail book business in St. Paul, later transferring to the school supply department, which furnishes most of the schools in the Northwest with everything they can possibly use. Plans to take his vacation in June, and will bring his wife, 5-year-old Dickie and 6-months-old Bobbie back to Hanover for the Tenth; Jim Kelley, Stan Piatt, and he are the only 'agers around.
There was a hot time in the old town of Kane, Pa., on October 14 when Holgate Brothers Company opened its new building, Factory No. 5. Bill Henretta is secretary of this 150-year-old company, which is the world's largest manufacturer of brush and block handles and of educational toys. Bill's father is president and his brother is vice president.
GOOD NEWS
The class response to the unit subscription to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE has been remarkable, and most encouraging and gratifying to the members of the class who as officers and executive committeemen made the decision to undertake it. With only one known exception, everyone has hailed the group subscription enthusiastically, and the percentage of payments received by Trunkie Brittan is already high. However, if you haven't gotten around to sending in your check, please do so now before you forget it again. Send to T. Truxton Brittan, c/o Arthur Anderson & Cos., 67 Wall St., New York, N. Y. Many of the boys have written in, enclosing their checks and bringing us up to date on themselves. Wishmore would do likewise.
For example, Beau Ehler writes from the Department of Surgery, University Hospital, University of Michigan: "I am enclosing my check for the ALUMNI MAGAZINE —willingly because I find that my contacts of old have become more and more infrequent and that my chances of revisiting old scenes become less and less likely since I am moving to Los Angeles in January. The life of a thoracic surgeon seems to become more and more like that of a peripatetic pillpeddler. However, I have thoroughly enjoyed two years of teaching and will soon have acquired another degree; so it seems time to move along to another place."
Wat Spangler thinks the group plan a good one, will see us in June, reports he's doing accounting work for H. H. Robertson Cos., manufacturers, in Pittsburgh.
Bob Brandt's first son was born August 6, 1937.
Herb Morse is still teaching in Teaneck, N. J.; has two sons, aged 4½ and 5½.
Ray Talbot is doing accounting work for Petroleum Heat and Power Cos., Stamford, Conn.; he occasionally sees Red Hein, who is doing well with his Tydol Service outfit; is all set for reunion and suggests an alliterative name, such as the TitanicTenth.
BUSINESS DATA
Johnny Schabacker is still going strong with Colgate-Palmolve-Peet Cos., Kittanning, Pa.
Bronse Purdy is in the real estate and insurance business in Mt. Vernon, N. Y., with C. S. McClellan Cos.
Dick Eberline is a cost engineer with U. S. Rubber Cos., Detroit.
Henry Baker is a chemist with Hoke Inc., New York.
Another chemist is Dan Luten, who works for Shell Development Cos., Emeryville, Calif. And still another is Dmitry Shiriaeff, who is located in New York.
Art Clifford is office manager of Hatha- way Bakeries, Inc., Boston.
Walt Green is in the auditing department of the Wilmington Trust Cos. Eddie Kennard's new address is Toreca Day School, Polacca, Arizona. George Piret is now with Atlantic Photo Engraving Cos., Inc., New York. John Rogers is make-up editor on the Standard-Times, New Bedford, Mass.; lives in Fairhaven.
Herb Fish has become manager of the clerical department of Shell Union Oil Corporation, New York.
Dick Stickler is also with Firestone, working in the Brooklyn office and living in Lynbrook, L. I. Dick Stone is in the National accounts division of Firestone Rubber Cos., Akron.
Ed Carpenter is in the slate manufacturing business in Poultney, Vt.
Bob Brandt is an investment counselor, lives in Interlaken, N. J.
Ross Hughes is a general salesman with Standard Oil Cos. of New Jersey, Flemington, N. J.
Bob Tunnell is store manager for J. J. Newberry Cos., Shenandoah, Penn.
Nick Vincent is practicing medicine in East Orange, N. J.
Dick Exton is a broker associated with H. G. Einstein, New York.
Edson Phelps is teaching at the Springfield High School, Springfield, Vt.
Cal Soriero is practicing law in Houston, Texas.
Dan Delaney is with Bird & Son, Inc., Walpole, Mass.
Bill Condon is doing surgery at Mayo Clinic, where Frank Foster was until just recently.
Another of our doctors, Sherm Little, is with the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic.
Bill Page is assistant secretary and treasurer of the Page Milk Cos., Merrill, Wis.
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