Class of 1937

"However, for all the new friends andexperiences—what wouldn't I give for justone good old bull session in a smoke-filledroom in Hanover town." Guess more than once such thoughts have hit all of us—yet the other side—"/ do want to do my shareand develop new friendships whichcouldn't be developed at Hanover"—is one to think about. "37 Night" seemed to be the crossroad where old friendships were renewed and new ones formed.

". . . . just returned from two weeks'skiing in the Pyrenees"—not bad, Ernie (April)—what about the rest of you chubbers?—" . . . . Thanks to skiing and thename of Dartmouth, ice have met quite afew really swell people of Salt Lake. Thus,our only recreation, skiing, has becomeeven more enjoyable."—". . . . Last Sunday Dave Camerer and I (M. Berkowitz)took the snow train from Grand Centralat the ungodly hour of 7:15 A.M. for GreatBarrington, but found we had other 'jy'sfor company—while up there we sawGeorge Andrews—also Doug Scherman andFrank Kahler '36. Wonderful day, thenback to New York at p:oo—tired and stifffor another week's work, but feeling adarned sight better for it all."—Phil White is putting to practical use his years of skiing—being head of the ski department at Warner Hardware Cos. in MinneapolisRip Ripsom is where we would all like to be—at Hanover Inn, where he is winter sports manager—on view from Dec. Ito Mar. 1 .... in out of the cold a minute: —Chellis French is counting out the money with the New York Life Ins. Cos. in Chicago—Steve Cochrane connected with the Buffalo-Niagara Hudson Electric Co.— John Osborne can be found these days in the Liberty Theatre at Wheeling, W. Va. Sounds like a soft life to us—eh, Mr. Barwood?—Walter Ross is connected with the famous St. Louis Post Dispatch.—George Zeiss is in the retail clothing department with Arnold Constable in New Rochelle, N. Y.—Walter Graf has followed the sun south to West Palm Beach, Fla., where he is a salesman with the Goodyear Tire Co.— Dana Douglass is working with the Atlas Corp. in Jersey City.—Roily Kent has found his way into the traffic department of the Export Division of General Motors in New York City.—Cal Eldred is temporarily at Augusta, Me., in the Socony sales service training school.—Bill Heneage is in the Windy City with Cribben & Sexton. .... "Evidently we must learn thatthe average man is emotional and reason ofthat type (logical) doesn't move him. Notthat we didn't run across emotion in college—for at times it was quite apparentbut we still have just started to learn." .... Mel Estey, teacher in Brewster Free Academy, Wolfeboro, N. H.—Burt French, stock and delivery clerk with Houston Oil Field & Material Cos Dick Kolstad, advertising manager of Church Mfg. Cos., Holyoke .... Lansing Moore, another advertiser, but in Detroit .... Augi Paeschke is secretary of Gender, Paeschke & Frey Cos., Milwaukee.

Talcum powder, some pins, and a diaper pictured on a card announced the seven- pound-3-oz. arrival of Robert Bassett to Mr. and Mrs. A 1 Ryder on Jan. 25, 1938 mighty fine, but we think there should be a lacrosse stick too—Just received the good news that Fred Mayo was married to Esther Lorraine Ellet of Waban, Mass., Nov. 27, 1937—hope the rest of you boys on Webster Ave. are as fortunate. .... On the 27th of June, Eric Rafter and Katherine Freeman will celebrate their second wedding anniversary—we're checkin' up on these non-single gents and will publish a list soon—always subject to additions! Here's one already:". . . . wedding bellswill be ringing out in June for that ( )roommate of mine, Bob Terwilliger, andBetty Blaike of West Hartford and Skidmore—announced their engagement onDec. 22—the wedding I imagine will be inJune—if they can wait tha.t long."—and an- other: ". . . . Ernie Kern at the Statlerlounge bar with his newly acquired andmost charming fiancee He's work-ing in his dad's department store—one ofthe two largest in Detroit He sawFrank Young when the ■ latter passedthrough Detroit recently." .... Back to busiiiess: "Retail Merchandising ....been thinking about the whole field—it'squite an insecure one as far as jobs areconcerned—they're having a purge at ourplace at present—and two vice presidents,several buyers and assistants, some mer-chandise managers, and about eight sec-tional managers have been 'closed out'—there's an old saying in department storework—'the longer you work for a store, thecloser you are to the door.' . . . ."—Art Sprague, Pawtucket Mutual Fire Ins. Cos. —John Ward, retail section of Eclipse Lumber Cos., Fairfield, la.—Rog Holler, with Motors Holding Div. of Gen. Motors, Buffalo—Ed Jenkins is a bank clerk in New York—Phil Johnson, credit reporter for Dun & Bradstreet in Buffalo—Fred Kennedy, clerk with R. H. White in Bos- ton.—". . . . popularly called 'kidnaping.'You've probably seen men taking picturesof children on ponies—we do the samething except we don't use ponies—l had togo around selling these—if they wantedsix—sell them twelve—if I can get threedollars, O.K.—but if more, O.K. too."". . . . About two weeks ago I was inHanover and remembered that I hadn'tanswered your letter."—Hope all you gents make a similar trip with the same encouraging results.—John Greenleaf, "withthe Mosler Safe Cos. in Boston and shortlywill go to Maine and have that as a territory .... seen Varnum, Bill Bell, andhave been skiing with Schaaf. The onlyMaine fellow I've seen is Dana Douglass,whom I ran across one evening in the Statler."—"Mort and his girl, Ted Bruce, andI (B. Geraghty) adjourned to the G. A.(first time since early Dec.) and there raninto quite a few of the boys—met TomCohen, whose. face and body have'chubbed' out almost as bad as yours usedto. He reports that law school is fine butvery difficult .... also joining us in theevening frolic were O'Sheel, Munkenbeck,and Art Whyte, who was in fine shape."— Jim Gray is teaching part time in the Classical H. S. in Springfield, Mass.—Bob Kenney is a chemist in Archer-Daniels-Midland Cos., Minneapolis—Art Kenyon, Aetna Life Ins. Co.—Andrew Eken, builder with Starrett Bros. & Eken, N. Y.—Anton Maggio, clerk for Cluett Peabody in the big city.—Here's a panoramic picture of "life on the road" that is too good to let wait: ". . . . advertising men, paranoiacs, pullman sleepers, executives, double-chins,hotel registers, Peruna, mountebanks,radios, bell-hops, movies, newspapers,tired waitresses, Edgar Guest, fruit-cups,sales taxes, evangelists, V'Bs, cigars, backslappers, gossip-mongers, megalo-maniacs,great guys, Western Stories, men's rooms,whiskey, hair-tonic salesmen, gas stations,and Coco-cola."—Frank Pickell, stock clerk in Woolworth's, Montclair, N. J Frank Robin, city reporter Dun 8c Bradstreet, N. Y. C.—Dave Taylor, section manager in Macy's—Jason Perkins can be found in Montpelier Seminary—Bill Cash with Washburn Crosby Cos., Kansas City, Mo—Ralph Griffith left school in Jan. 1935, but he and the Sec. spent a whole evening "talkin' Indian"—he's learning the fine art of selling jewelry for his father's plant—Dick Chase "still the champion escapist of the class of '37. As soon asI get the cash I am going to Rangoon.There is a girl there. Her name is Ursula. . . . A 1 Reinman with "Gen. Motorsown Insurance Corp am in chargeof the underwriting side of our branch..... Besides this, I keep all the branchbooks, and never having had any accounting it has been fun—however, I've gonethrough the corporation and state auditand am still not in jail for messing up thebooks .... had to put in many a nightand holiday studying up on the job Now that the smoke is no longer pouringfrom the mills in good old Youngstown we(the Reinmans) offer a little cleaner doormat with the welcome sign always out forthe gang .... there are ever so manyrugged mill workers' daughters about."— Rog Barney: ". . . . just in process of discovering that even Union TheologicalSeminary still believes in mid-years—and areading period! This may seem a round-about way to the bishopric Bill Leonard'sprophecy held out, but we still havehopes."—"Dick Newman glories in hisstatus as the only student in the Schoolof Medieval Studies at Yale—though arankling discontent with urban civiliza.tion generally causes him to turn with increasing enthusiasm to the thought of «farm in the New Hampshire hills."—"Ben(not Bud) Marion is enjoying more andmore his work at Buffalo under Behrendt."—"Ed Doremus, assistant editor for Prentice Hall, earned a rather remarkable number of plaudits from the authors of thethree or more books he has already had inhatid."—"Harry Schultz has been learningfood-broking in Cleveland under his father's direction . ... he is becomingquite a social light—in a modest way ofcourse."—Don Pease "still with the Barbary Coast and so getting around quite abit."

All sorts of reflections are evident:"Sophomore year I remember when business was tough and I had two or three jobsaround campus—among them the RhodesClub. .... Oh well, those were the days,and they seem so long ago—l guess becausewe knoic we are all through and can neverhave that same 'undergraduate feeling'."—And—"Hitler, Mussolini, and thencountries .... you don't believe all youhear and read and it tends to tame a guydown who has just gotten out of schooland knows everything"

A 1 Mayer, "hope to finish up my workhere (Detroit) in the near future and thenI'm Philadelphia-bound for more study atanother plant"—Briggs Austin, "my mucker's blood rises in tortured pride when Iread that we are, first, shoveling gravel, andsecond, mining in Wyoming. Shovelinggravel, I'll bet would be a breeze comparedto most of the shoveling we have to do;moreover we are located in Utah and surrounded on four sides by Mormons. ....Jobs are too scarce for these guys to go outon strike—the union, also, is having hardtimes for that reason."—Ernie April in St. Cloud, France, "teaching and coachingbasketball at the Mac Jannet CountrySchool (country club?) for Young Americans.... want to get back closer to theCollege, to American sport, and a M.A.degree. I see a lot of Bill Newburger—so itisn't necessary to reminisce alone ....heard that Johnny Milne is in Paris too,but ugly rumor has it that a mysteriousblond monopolizes his time."—"Sam Dillon seems to have the right things—a seasonal business—apples—which means he'sleaving for the West Indies in a week or sofor three or four weeks."—"Dana Prescottskiing .... he's skipped away from Harvard Bus. for a few hours and was practicing 'stemming for Carnival or Tuckerman's and the like."—"Lenny Harris—"in"terested in the excerpts of Hart Beardsley'sletter .... for once I've heard part of myown philosophy agree with that expressedby someone else .... am at Tufts Dentalat Boston and haven't much time for anything but work."—". . . . Hugh Harley,who is now in Geneva, Switzerland, for theStudents' International Union. As youknow, he spent the summer studying international affairs over there by having won ascholarship of some sort. He's planning onstaying the year with the eventual hope ofgoing to the London School of Economicsand I suppose growing another beard."—"Jere Duffy—working for the HartfordAccident Ins. Co."—"Al Romanow has ajob with Wiebar Shoes—main branch inBoston—and seems to be very happy withthe work."—"Stan Lappin is holding downa job at Filene's."

More than a few have suggested that another '37 night be held in the spring—we are taking you at your word—going to try a FRIDAY night in APRlL—save the ssdl Giving advance notice now, so there will be no excuses.

Perhaps you'll feel as a classmate did on a recent trip to Hanover: "However, Ican't imagine it changing much. For me itwill always seem like it did last June withthat grand bunch of fellows in 1937 goingout into the world."

DAVE BRADLEY '38 WINNING NATIONAL JUMPING TITLE AT MINNEAPOLIS

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