Class of 1937
"THE FIRST THIRTY-SEVEN NIGHT"—148 of the lads present—New York City gets the steam-heated skis with 51 playing "Commons" all over again! Bill Greenwood has found "the spirit of the age" in his report: "In the end we had36 present, and I am certain that this number could be greatly increased whenever'37 night, is celebrated in Hanover again" (just leave out the name Hanover).—The evening's excerpts:
"Words fail me, I look down at the side of my chair and there's my head, all wrapped up in green ribbon. But that only explains the tail end of the evening of December 11"—"size of the group exceeded the committee's highest hopes"—"between courses and after dinner Bill Storck led the crowd in song"—"success of after-dinner entertainment .... Art Guyer . . . . five excellent reels of college movies"—
"Johnny Latchis .... sound movies of our best beer-drinking technique, our voices raised in song,"—"3:30 in the morning, Rog Graves, Bob Heneage, Dave Samson, Bill Brown, Tom Von Tacky, Ken Stearns, and O'Brien still hitting on all four down in Graves' room on first floor in Chase"—"all will be anxious for a repetition"—"it was all very embarrassing"— "there were Bills all around me"—"we had merely chosen one of the local pubs and meeting places and alas! couldn't even sreserve a large table beforehand . . . . but .... pulled a couple of tables together . . . ."—"had a few beers and found out what every one was doing"— "trucked with the waitress"—"big attractions singing and beer"—"ended up in a bowling alley"—"closed with a rousing rendition of 'Men of Dartmouth' "—"Management of Stell served up a fine meal consisting of . . . ."—"inadvertent solo by Timbers"—"suggestions for a return performance"—"all loyal '37's present or accounted for" (this from Cohen in Ithaca) —"concerning who knew what about the 487 members of the class who were unable to attend"—"month of March tentatively decided upon"—"Doris' piano-playing ability, eight lusty voices, and the traditional thirst for Eleazar's 500 gallons"— "gathering around the bar looked like one of Macy's bargain counters"—"What Are You Doing stuff going on all the time"— "th« menu consisted of . . . ."—"it took one back to Commons and from the com- plaints about the food from Cabbie and Munkenbeck, one would have thought that we were actually there. If Whitaker had only stood up and started pointing his finger this way and that . . . ."—"enjoyed immensely some movies that Berkowitz showed of Commencement (in color)" "would go for another one next spring"— "our first '37 dinner was a whopping success."—All this wasn't just luck—red ribbons should be tied on Berkowitz, Bialla, Bullen, Cohen, Gehaghty, Greene, Greenwood, Guyer, and Lansburgh. How about some more volunteers from the missing districts?— Washington, D. C.—CaliforniaOhio— Michigan are definite possibilities.
We are going to have an awfully big class by 1942—two more marriages and two more engagements to make public. Hope all this spurs on you single gents—if we can get enough ladies in the class we won't need any professional cooks for our dinners and clambakes Josephine Ham is now Mrs. Henry Franklin Irwin Jr.,—bet that sounds pretty fine to both of them, just as it does to us! They were married on the 23d of December in Radnor, Pa.—Have you ever heard of the "Hillwinds"?—it's the new home, near Plymouth, N. H„ of Mr. and Mrs. Phil Robertson; the bride's name, previous to Dec. 18, was Edythe Virgin. They claim to have plenty of room for skiers and "special discount to Dartmouth men."
The engagement we have all been wait- ing for was announced the night after Christmas in the headquarters of the now famous PAOC—Ann Hopkins and Johnny Merrill! Don Sieburg's plans are also very definite, he "hopes to be married in May" to Doris Kirch, who was his Carnival date for four years—they were engaged last New Year's day.—Four Lucky Girls .... secretly, however, we are very proud to num- ber you among the "500."
Have to get started before the snow melts; Mo Cartwright and Ike Collins are members of the Council of the D.O.C. of New York—latter is " 'official exchanger'which he explained (on the nth) carriedthe honorable duty of exchanging membership cards for one dollar"—other members are Camerer, Luneborg, and Strong. . . . . Louis Valier, well again and starting for the Islands in January—Bill Dixon looking in case books for the legislative intent— Ced Jaggard living at Pendle Hill, Pa., "a Quaker school of social and religious study," and working in nearby Haverford for master's degree in philosophy"Jim Risk asserted that he is not at M.I.T.as last article stated. Rather he is a historymajor at Harvard." (O.K. with me if he takes the bow-ties away from Bennett and McCray).
Charley Collis "an honest to goodnessbusiness executive. His title is president ofthe College Athletic Shoe Cos., a Mass. or-ganization"—guess, there is more than one way to start from the ground up.—Listen to Areson's Christmas vacation: Puppy Love alias Phluther alias Bullenwith a more expanded waist-line thanever .... Big Birger (the class agent) issociety editor, sports columnist, ladies'fashion department .... for the NewRochelle Bugle .... 7 was good to mylast penny for about eight bucks. Gibsontried to pull some Harvard Business Schoolstuff in getting away from the bill, but thatmust come next semester."—Dick Smith in the Montgomery Ward training school at Nashville, Tenn., was home in Pontiac, Mich., for Christmas—Herb Bottjer and Don Johnson (with Street and Smith) were two of the many '37's present at the Michigan basketball game—"3 feet of snow" in Hanover and "about one thousand peopleat the Ski Tow last Sunday"—Bill Breitinger, cadet engineer in Wyomissing, Pa.— Walter Adams, printing for Magil Weissheimer Cos., Chicago—Briggs Austin, skiing in Wasatch mountains, "beautiful, evenwhen you fall down"—Lawrence Brooks, Russia Cement Cos., San Francisco—Fred Mayo, general manager of Paragon Products Corp., Wisconsin—Henry Esberg, salesman for B. Altman & Cos., New York Don Albertsen, recovering from malaria in December, "I don't have the strength towrite much, but when I do, I'll let youknow what I know of the Orient"—Don Bauer, "Write me down for some information on this proposed Hanover description contest"—it's not limited to doctors, even English majors may try. George Andrews has just signified his desire to participate in the contest—hope all the entrants will send the column copies of their worthy attempts.
Please take notice: "Mort got up andsaid a few words about the purpose of theAlumni Fund, its value to the College, andconcluded by suggesting that we all setaside a few pennies a week for it"—you see there is a definite responsibility attached to being an alumnus, but really, after four vears in Hanover, it seems more like a privilege—Bob Dunham "astounded thelocals with some Hanover methods ofgetting down a hill." "December storagereports show that there are over two million bushels more apples in the U. S. thanever before in history."—New England Tel. & Tel. watching the progress of Jim Luttrell and George Skinner, former in the accounting Dept. and George in the tax department—Jim's skis are all ready for the first good week-end of snow in the mountains.—Heck Tweed mentioned in the roll of the PAOC—"Paul Wentworth isunderwriting and Russ Tompkins is selling group insurance for Aetna Life—Paulin Hartford and Russ in the Midwest"— doctors have ordered Garry Lowe "to relax regardless of everything else," guess that would be a man-sized job for any of us—Two students whom we have missed behind all their books: Dave Kenerson at Tuck and Jack Detlefsen at M.I.T.—Don Sieberg, assistant engineer of manufacture at the Western Electric Cos. in New Jersey— who wouldn't get married?—the KermitSun, a newspaper from Winkler County, Texas, arrived here with a big picture of Jock Francine and his dog on the front page. An article tells of his 2000-mile trip into northern Canada to catch a fish (the natives can't figure it out)—"was commissioned by Field and Stream to write thestory of his trip"—"it will appear in anearly issue of the magazine."
Have you ever considered the reason be- hind the Administration's Policy of having a wide geographical distribution of stu- dents? A letter from a '34 friend makes it quite evident: "One who is reared in NewEngland is constantly reminded of the pre-vailing attitude of being 'civil and strange.'What a contrast is the cooperative andfriendly spirit of the West—of course, lamnot ignoring New England, bat merelypointing out the strong features of Arizona." The "alumnus recommendation" blank for entering students inquires as to the boys' "intellectual curiosity," "character," "ability to grasp new ideas." Do you not see how this Dartmouth graduate, equipped with an original desire to learn and for four years in contact with boys from all sections of the country, has learned to understand and to respect people in a new locality?
Johnny Doukas of Keene remembers what he learned—Duke "ran from the foreign ward as a Democrat and won 232-231. . True Macchiavellian politician thathe is, he visited every house before election(the night before) and showed the peoplehow to vote on a sample ballott. Saidboukas: 'By God, they remembered overn'ght, and put me in.' " . One of the Virginians in the class has just written ex- pressing the great sorrow which he and his medical classmates feel at the temporary departure of George Arnold, through no fault of his own, from the study of medicine. The whole class highly respected George, and I know they are confident now that no circumstances can for long keep a man of his caliber from pursuing his chosen work.
New England Winter is the name of a new magazine of which Hal Putnam is the editor—many fine articles on skiing, skating, and the necessary terrain—with the name Dartmouth very prominent.—Jack Sheffield was in town on a hurried business trip to sell his new bridge board to Marshall Field & Co.—had some fine arguments as it was easy for him now to take the part of a capitalist.—"lt looks as though someof the boys of '37 may be swatting mosquitoes and smearing on black fly dope in theGrenfell Mission Country (Labrador andNewfoundland) this summer"—so says a Hanover medic—in Philly "Al Sutter ishelping mankind against that rainy day byfoisting off insurance on them and BudKnorr is getting a few more courses hereso he can enter Med. School next fall."— Ed Smith in Temple medical—Bob Koury studying english at the U. of Penn. and running a business in Atlantic City also.
Gentlemen .... The First One Hundred and Forty Eight:
BOSTON: Aylward, Ingersoll, R. Ross, Mathes, J. Otis, Heuer, Marshall, Taft, Risk, Edwards, Collis, Cooper, McCray, Jones, T. O'Brien, Roewer, Kaufman, G. Bennett, Hinman, Geniawicz, T. Mclntyre, Sawyer, Cross, Ferguson, Dipson, and Lansburgh.
CHICAGO: S. P. Johnston Jr., Munro, C. French Jr., Carhart, Dingle, Sanders, Kligerman, Greene, Butz, T. W. Johnson, Lindsay, and McKinlay.
HANOVER: Graves, Von Tacky, Samson, W. Brown, Pingree, H. R. Heneage, D. Bauer, Sayre, Falion, Storck, Greenwood, Guyer, Ripson. Doukas, Latchis, Roos, Carter, W. R. Miller, Vogt, D. Meredith, R. J. Crabb, Welldon, Jacobs, McGregor, Vennum, Wright, Stock, Butman, D. E. O'Brien, Moister, Maloon, K. Stearns, J. H. Wolfs, Ochsner, and MacCarty.
ITHACA: Bassett, C. Clark Jr., Moseley, Doremus. Shevlin, Elmore, and A. J. Cohen Jr.
NEW HAVEN: Timbers, Manternacli, Forsch, Bialla, Fenn, Beardsley, Nichols, DeVarney, and Tallberg.
NEW YORK: Munkenbeck, Cabbie, O'Sheel, G. Snyder, Hunter, Berkowitz, Allen, Burke, R. Olson, Ekirch, Cardozo, Kent, Dixon, Leonard, Rotch, Danzig, F. Young, Martocci, Harloe, Duffy, W. Pa- renteau (ex '37), Anstatt, Rideout, Van Nostrand, Clay, Schmer, Levine, Koenig, Mintz, D. Hermann, T. Jenkins. Dumont, Wise, Morgan, Barry, Bruce, Collins, DeMay, E. Sterns, Beckel, Whitaker, Weeks, Umpleby (ex '37), Ashe, Bohlke, Halm, Luneborg, J. Strong (ex '37), Taylor, Wagner, and Geraghty.
PHILADELPHIA: D. Otis, Petti, W. Bennett, Knorr, Sutter, L. Smith, and Bullen.
VISITORS: Doris.
Upperclassmen: Bill Russell, Ed Redington, Grant Crane, Sol Blum, Bob Turner (at New Haven), Tom Lane (at Philadelphia), and J. Vernon McHugh (Hanover).
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