Class of 1932
Hanover-bound for holiday skiing were at least five members of '32's hardy horde. Back in Washington after the best part of a week in the North Countree, HOWIE SARGEANT was "filled withnostalgia for clear crisp days—the sullencrunch of snow under ski boots." Howie observed WHIT DANIELS in various poses —sleeping peacefully in the Tower Room, as an enthusiastic skier, and at a New Year's party at the Hanover Inn. "Also seen were GATES HASTINGS and REUEL DENNEY. Denney showed me howto make use of the sybaritic ski tow onOak Hill, and assured me very truthfullyon my first attempt to run doivn the hillthat it was very slick and fast. It was. JIM MOORE appeared at the GitsisGreasy for a minute."
Howie's Hanover reactions, on his second trip back since graduation, are that people dress better and ski better, but that Dartmouth looks as it always did. His accusations that the main street was beginning to look definitely touristy; that no longer could one ski unless clad in proper outfit, and that ski tows were another symptom of encroaching decadence, were all dismissed by resident hearers.
CHARLIE ODEGAARD stopped over with the Jim Moores in Flushing before proceeding to a convention of historians in Philadelphia. At Urbana (I11.), where he is now teaching at the University, Charlie finds the work very absorbing, although 13,000 students are a lot to keep track of.
Marriage of the month involves JIM BROWN, who swooped down from New England to carry off Miss Dorothy Lindenmeyr of Tuckahoe, N. Y., daughter of Mrs. Ludwig Lindenmeyr. The wedding took place on Dec. 19, and serving among the ushers was MORRY HUBBARD. Mr. and Mrs. Brown will reside in Boston, where Jim is attending Harvard Dental School.
Gail Stephanie, their first child, was born to Mr. and Mrs. A. E. WEINBERG on Thanksgiving morning. The Weinbergs live at 270 Crown St., Brooklyn, and Babe is an executive of the Weinberg News Cos., which has its headquarters in that borough.
PAUL COOK, who formerly taugh at El Centro, is now principal of a school at Heber, Calif. Working with Firestone Tire & Rubber on the West Coast are MAL METCALF, at 92314 W. 36th Place, Los Angeles, and WIN SMOYER. moved from L. A. to 2343 Dwight Way, Berkeley. HOWIE NEWCOMB, in the service station business, is located in Los Angeles at 1155 Glendon. After a five-year trek west, which took him from Brookline, Mass. (1932), to Rochester, Minn. (1934) and Denver, Colo. (1936), JOHN CABOT is now living at 5129 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles.
Resplendent in white tie and tails, MARQ RICHARD was glimpsed for a second outside the Hudson Theater in New York, following the recent premiere of the Princeton Triangle Show. Marq's current address in 601 N. Rossmore, Hollywood, Calif., but the record shows him to be something of a continentcrosser.
RALPH WOOD is district sales manager for the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Cos., with offices at Niagara Falls, home at Falconer St., North Tonawanda, N. Y JIM CORBETT is with Moody's Investment Service at 65 Broadway, N. Y. C., while NATE PEARSON, at 44 Wall, is also involved in higher finance. JOHN RICHARDSON, living in Staten Island, is a law clerk with Wright, Gordon, Zachery, & Parlin at 63 Wall. CHUCK MAXWELL, in his third year as an attorney for Breed, Abbott, & Morgan, has moved to a flat in Tudor City.
Having completed his interneship, IRV KRAMER will move from Brooklyn to Great Neck, L. 1., late in January, setting out his shingle at 1 Buckingham Place, Belgrave Square. He complements an existing '33 roster of two in that suburban town, consisting of GEORGE KENWORTHY and the writer. Dr. WALTER MODARELLI, recalled by some as Butch, is on the staff of the Central Maine Sanatorium at Fairfield, Me. Si JACOBSON, winding up an interneship in Brooklyn, will do graduate work in surgery at the University of Pennsylvania, starting next fall. BEN READ is doing obstetrical service at the Sloane Hospital, Medical Center, N. Y.
Up New England way, MARC ROSE is with the Commercial Credit Cos. in New Haven, living at 660 George St. SHEET NAYLOR is in the furniture business at Springfield, Mass., with Proctor-Carnig, Inc. 808 BUCKLEY, an attorney in Manchester, N. H., with Sullivan and Sullivan, is now living at 195 Prospect St. JOE LANGLEY is in the office of the Hood Rubber Cos. at Watertown, Mass., where he lives at 35 Rear Cottage St. 808 MATTOX, at 92 Bellevue, is another Watertown resident. JOHN POCHNA, advocate, is at 342 Commonwealth Ave., Boston.
RED TUCKER spent Christmas with his family in Omaha for the first time in years. Usually, he is "winter sportsing at Placid," according to JOHN CLARK, informant. Tucker and Sargeant (plus W. L. Scott '29) live in rooms beneath the Clarks at Alexandria, Va. The Wash- ington Post correspondent reports recent meetings in D. C. with DAVE STERN, Chicago lawyer, and JOE FANELLI. Also squash with DEKE MACK.
News of Dan Gage's engagement to Eleanor Culver Hills, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Robert Hills of West Hartford, Conn., is relayed by Dick HazenDick spent New Year's week-end skiing in Vermont. Reports that he "saw the NewYear in square dancing, drinking hot chocolate!"
JOHN WRIGHT, Windy City railroad solicitor and custodian of class funds, hopes to be in New York for a few days EAR]V in February. HOWIE WILE plans to flit the big town in January, en route from Chicago to a winter vacation in who knows what glamorous tropical ports! 808 KEANE was in town for the holidays; regularly he is handling the Ohio and Western Pennsylvania territory for the Joe Lowe Corp.—popsicles and bakers' supplies. DICK CLEAVES visited New York over Thanksgiving, primarily to assist a precious parcel of freight down the gangplank of the S.S. Manhattan.
WALSER is news again. This time the wandering Whip conveyed a cluster of ophthalmologists on a Cook's tour to Cairo, where they attended a convention. From a letter, written on board S.S. Excambion, Dec. 18:
"At Gibraltar I saic some of Franco'stroops on the Spanish side of the borderaate and visited some of the many men-ofwar anchored at the quay. On our boat wehave Admiral Lackey, going over to Villefranche to take charge of the Mediterranean fleet, which entitled us to manysalutes and special attention. Crossing byPalma a big plane flew over us with theInsurgent colors, but luckily the Italianpilot did not drop any eggs.
"After Marseilles we hit Naples, wentout to Pompeii and the Amalfi, drive, thendown through the Straits of Messina weran into nine Italian submarines holdingmanoeuvers; they were diving in andaround us like a bunch of porpoises—somefun!
"At Alexandria we continued to Cairo,and there I started a little journey of myown, as I did not have any more workuntil my ship came back from Syrian andPalestinian ports. I teas anxious to see Upper Egypt, and took a train to Asyut tocatch the first Nile boat of the season, thathad started from Cairo three days previously. As we were the first boat the nativescame out and greeted us with bonfires atnight, tom-toms, yells, and cries, with firecrackers and once in awhile shots fromrifles. It was just like a pioneer trip up theMississippi, except that instead of buffaloswe had herds of camels and donkeys runfrom us as our paddle-wheeler churned upthe muddy Nile waters.
"At Luxor after three days I touredaround the tombs of the kings, goingdown into the tomb of Tutankhamen,Seti I, and Rameses XII, then across theriver by small Nile boat (felluka) to journey to the temples of Luxor and Kdrnak.The latter is one of the original sevenwonders of the world; its size is overwhelming and beyond description. Then toAbydos, Dendera, etc. I was close to theheadwaters of the Nile and where thebranches of the White and Blue Nile begin—the Blue Nile going off into LakeTsana and Ethiopia.
"I had to travel fast to get back to myship, six hundred-odd miles to the northof me—so hopped on a long, long trainbearing troops out of the Sudan, and thenext day grabbed a plane at Cairo, flewover the Pyramids and the Libyan desertto Alexandria—catching my boat as thewhistle was blowing.
"Yesterday I was climbing around theAcropolis in Athens, tomorrow I shall go.up Vesuvius after seeing flaming Stromboli do its stuff at two this morning. Thenon to Livorno, the Tower of Pisa (stillleaning), and to Genoa for Rapallo andthe Ligurian Riviera, Marseilles, andChristmas and New Year's on the NorthAtlantic's heaving tossing carpet. Well,another holiday spent at sea—last year atChristmas I was recuperating from malariaat Cuernavaca, and spent New Year's on aGerman boat in Teliuantepec, dancingwith some crazy Indian girls."
Why don't you drop us a note sometime, Whip, and let us know what you've been doing?
Seriously, this column is grateful for your picaresque account of journeys far afield and hopes that others of '32, perhaps more sedentary in their habits, will also put pen to paper and pass on the news.
NORM STEVENSON, business manager of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, gently reminds me that of those who signed up in June on the group subscription plan 37 have as yet failed to come through with their checks.
Secretary, 215 Lakeville Rd., Great Neck, L. I., N. Y.
