Class of 1937
The FIRST YEAR OUT! It's over now, gentlemen, and the chimes in Baker are striking three. If our marshals, Ray, Stearns, and Whitaker will summon into Dartmouth Hall the men lying out in front on the terrace, we shall proceed with our annual June meeting. Since the time is limited and the weather is so bloomin' hot, we'll ask those who speak to do so briefly. DAN CUPID has some announcements to make for his committee: "Ronald Brown was married on Feb. 22 and is now a clothier in Waterville, Me..... Sandy King got married . .very impressive it was, their two handsomefaces happily smiling themselves down theaisle .... among the ushers was DaveCamerer .... good reception afterwardsonly the champagne was diluted and quiteineffective; .... Phil White marriedMuriel White (no relation prior thereto)on April 19—they're now living in Lebanon Carl Nichols is engaged toBarbara Grover of Athol, Mass., whosefather is 'O5 Dick Sawyer is engaged to Ruth Marquard of N. Y. C. andCornell '37 Dana Douglass is engaged to Barbara Anderson—to be marriedon Oct. 1 atid live in N. Y DongButman is engaged Bill Hoyt andAnne Silsbury of Milwaukee plan to bemarried sometime in the future. . . . .Bob Cone is another proud meinber of thisengaged group—Lillian Carney is the luckygirl."
THIRTY-SEVEN NIGHT committees: Boston—Lenny Harris has the floor: "Onthe 28th forty-two showed up J.Handrahan, A. Geniawicz, N. Hosford, ].Cross, B. Doran,. A. Chester (Chernesky),V. Edwards, C. Ferguson, G. Skinner, A.Guyer, R. Sullivan, F. Evans (working inJordan Marsh with the training squad), R.Cooper, C. Nichols, R. Bankhart (with theAmer. Automobile Ass'n), R. Ekin, E. Timson, J. Latchis, J. Otis, E. Perry, J. Risk,R. Wood, D. Prescott, P. Smith, H. Gordon, A. Shapiro, W. Hoyt, J. Daniels, N.Pratt, R. Knapp, R. Tompkins, L. Barrett,J. Devliti, G. Bennett, T. Reck, S. Lappin,S. Berenson, R. Sawyer, W. McNeil (ex'3B), and the fixers: Lansburgh, McCray,and I After the football movieswhich Handrahan admirably explained,McCray decided to tell a joke. He got thefirst half but forgot the punch line, so hewent into the corner to read it over againwhile Bank told another one, Mac finishedthe joke but we had forgotten the first half,so it wasn't too funny. Bank then sat downat the piano and we looked for the lostchord till midnight."
Chicago—Chuck Kligerman has the floor: "At the Bierstube we sang with suchpower and beauty that soon free schoonersof beer came floating across from othertables. These were accotnpariied by numerous requests ranging from Bach to Benny.Further, the blond singer of the band, afull-skirted, fetching Gretchen, fairly outdid herself to win the applause of the gallant crew Park Johnston, havinghis head sketched by an admiring femaleat a nearby table Don Kimball ledthe singing of the 'Winter Song' whileEaton, Demmon, and Timson (hiding fromM. I. T.) carried on a contapuntal jam session Fred Castle produced a hideouscigar and proceeded to collect for theAlumni Fund .... the supporting basseswere: Dingle, W. Johnson, Lindsay, McKinlay, Nast, Sanders, Carl Stern, Wonder-aker Ward, and myself .... a swellevening and the guys who missed it probably won't be hard to get next time."
Uri Munro had a broken elbow and was absent of necessity.
Hanover—Art Guyer has the floor: There was about an even representationof medics and Thayer men with the Tuckers on the weak side .... after the corkingstories of McKenney we retired to theA.K.K. lodge with Latchis and his soundcamera to record the medics in a risquescene from the local stock of humor ....the '37's present were: S. Ochsner, D.Bauer, R. Stearns, J. Coggeshall, D. Matin,M. Wright, D. Branch, J. Latchis, and thefixers: Will Brown, Ken Stearns, and myself." .... Don Bauer, did you wish to add something?
"Yes—the D. O. C. has a real sport inthis man Ross McKenney, who's a masterat French Canadian dialect. He began histalk with an anecdote about moose hunting, and it seemed as though we were backin the woods with him."
Hartford—Phil Wentworth, will you make the report: "Rusta Biff and Roundelay .... five staunch '37ers gatheredin the cabin Harty Beardsley rolledup his sleeves and did the sausages andflapjacks .... the rest of us discussed theaffairs of the world. The respective insurance companies of Fenn and Wentworthwere laid on the table; Cone was found tobe a combination of supervisor, timekeeper,errand boy, and bill collector in his father'sconstruction co.; Hart's machine-shopwork and Newman's studies at Yale ofancient civilizations were in turn takenup."
Ithaca—guess that's Tom Cohen: "Thedinner was a very quiet affair Shevlin and Whitehill were unaccountably unaccountedfor Claude Clark andChuck Bassett managed to sneak back tolaw school in quest of a label for 'A to Bfor so lojig as my dog Fido shall live.'. . . . Hank Doremus, Bar Moseley, andI managed to work down to the village fora couple of beers, Hank again with abeautiful girl in tow. George Elmore wentoff to work for the campus hobby show, atwhich he lectured Kim Hall foughthis way back to the Lab to correct papers.. ... It was worth getting together, Ithink, even without any planned entertainment or liquefication."
New York City—Bill Geraghty's ready: "Forty-nine of those pea-green freshmenof 1933 gathered at the new DartmouthClub Al Bryant, Roily Bialla, andBill Dixon with the aid of a ringer (JoeParachini '35) formed a quartet to lead thegang through the Dartmouth songs Berkowitz attempting to formulate abang-across speech for the Alumni Fund(he did very well and walked out of theClub with his pockets full of contributions,thus bringing us closer to that 100% we'reaiming at) Milt Goldberg fixed themovie projector and ran off some of thereels taken last spring . ... at ten thecommuters began to mutter about the lasttrain home and soon left the bar only twodeep." The register is at the desk here and we'll post it now:
Ike Collins, E. Kelley, D. Morgan, D. Taylor, S. Atwater, J. Wise, M. Berkowitz, J. Duffy, W. Hund, T. Jenkins, C. Dumont, H. Bottjer (National City Bank), V. Turecamo, J. DeMay, "Egberto Cabello" (as he signed it), C. Gordon (L. C. Typewriter Cos.), D. Sieburg, G. Rube, R. Kent, T. Ripsom (real estate business in Mineola, N. ¥.), M. Burke, R. Weeks, J. Vaiano, D. Herrmann (selling vacuum cleaners for Gen. Electric), J. Strong, W. Newburger (back from Paris), W. S. Perry, R. Hahn, D. Griffin (with Cunard Lines), A. Munkenbeck (has dropped law to concentrate on insurance), P. Swain, R. Allen, H. Levine, Y. Mintz, L. Koenig, F. Danzig, W. Dixon, W. Coe, W. Parenteau, G. Dearborn, A. Bryant, P. O'Sheel, M. Goldberg, S. Wagner, J. Low, R. Bialla, T. Bruce, W. Geraghty (now an aid to an efficiency expert in Lord & Taylor's).
Philadelphia—here's Halsey Bullen: "The '57 boys in Philadelphia and environs turned out to be very apathetic, unenthusiastic, anti-rah-rah, backward, unsentimental bunch of All American . Bill Greenwood, Don Otis, Mike Petti,and I waited till ten and no one elseshowed up (later we heard that Hal Parachini had arrived before us and that wejust missed him). Don took us out to theNavy Yard, where we put in some very enjoyable time at the Officers' Club."
THE FOREIGN COMMITTEE: Any news from France, Ernie April: "I'm helping to start a baseball league in the Frenchschools. The French first saw baseball during the war, when our soldiers brought itover. The sport never took, and it haspractically died out."
Will the chubbers please lay aside their pipes for awhile, it's getting too hazy to see, and someone is liable to sneak out on his stomach!
Tony Geniawicz has a word from the RECESSION COMMITTEE: "I haveworked at a clog track as publicity agent,also in Filene's department store, for theBoston Community Fund, in an auto garage, and finally with a book-publishingfirm, which I am associated with at thepresent Mutt Ray a?id I used toeat our dinners together—can you imagineus eating for ten to fifteen cents a meal,every single day in the week?"
Let's get the SECRETARY'S REPORT out of the way: Number of married men—33. Number of letters received—2o9 (all answered).
Geographical distribution of letters (first five states): N. Y— 44, Mass.—35 N. H.—2B, Conn.—27, Mich.—ll.
Number of men mentioned in the MAGAZINE—443.
Rowley Bialla represented the class at the recent Secretaries Meeting in Hanover on May 13-14.
No class baby has been selected yet—any applications?
I wonder if someone would wake up that noisy fellow in the third row—thanks, now we can look into a couple of communications: Report from U. S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: "Walt Hard isopening a book store in Bangor, Me Bob Dunham in Yakima has been able toturn over a car or two of apples but claimsthat the brokerage is so low that it hardlypays for wires and bank collection charges..... George Snyder has been made assistant buyer of boys' clothing at Barnburger's (a store connected with Macy's)..... Jack Williams is now a fruit andproduce salesman for Sawyer & Co., Westminster Station, Vt."
The 2d report is from "The College Bulletin": "The honorable sir Hugh Elsbree was down (Ithaca) for the week-endwith Malcolm Keir, Jos. McDonald, MikeChoukas, and others. He of course laid itinto us as having turned conservative, etc.—the old stuff about looking forward andbackward at the same time." .... "Timson is taking an English course at M. I. T.under Jim Risk and finds it easy to polishthe apple." .... "Jack Devlin (HarvardBusiness) with a steady round of reportsand assignments, finds that he has lost hissense of what is tough."
Mort, will you explain to the gang that we have less than a month to go before our total for the Alumni Fund is due?
Sorry, I guess he's over at the Ad. Bldg. making one of his many check-ups. You know, at first a goal of 100% seemed almost an impossibility, but the men in our class have been so conscientious and willing to do their part that it looks as though '37 will achieve it. The committee hasn't been expecting big contributions, but they do hope that everyone will want to give something Hal Parachini, would you mind repeating what you told me a few minutes ago? Thanks
"This fund is one way of keeping oarcloseness to the College, and it really is aprivilege for us to give. My only regret isthat I couldn't give more than I did. Butliving away from home (at Chestnut HillAcademy, Pa.) costs plenty, and of necessity I gave little. But with years to comeand with years of hope ahead maybe thingswill look up."
We have some OLD BUSINESS to look into:
Roily Bialla learned much on a recent trip to Manhattan—you have the floor "Yalie": "Don Dumont has moved fromMacy's and is working for the Corn Products Ike Collins is still with Macy'sbut on the financial side of things Les lioenig is doing well with WNYC inNew York Gail Dearborn andJerry Schmer at Columbia, Jim Wise atNYU Arch. School, and Paul Smith atBoston V Law School are all suffering withexaminitis."
Prior to this meeting have there been any peerades to Hanover?
O.K. Bullen, your hand was the highest:
"Land it was wonderful, the most fun inyears, though my strongest impression wasthat I'd only been away a month or so,which last seems to be a commo?i reaction• • . . had two swell days at Tuckerman's.■ ■ . . Bill Brown and Rip Ripsom wereamong those present, said they hadn't donemuch skiing—only about 30 times—theplutocrats .... had a milk-shake in Allen's."
Another chubber just sang out that Berenson and Lappin, Stan and Stan, were up on Pinkham Notch one week-end. Any more going to confess?
NEW BUSINESS is now before us—it's illegal to stand on the seats—you'll all be heard. First, let's consider the prospects for future '37 nights:
Bill Greenwood has the floor: "I suggestonly one meeting a year, as then there'dbe less excuse for missing one, though it isnice to see the boys more often."
What do you Hartford fellows propose, Phil Wentworth?
"We think that the individual classdoesn't seem to make so much differencenow that we're out; that the HartfordAlumni Association would be much improved by more get-togethers, beer-parties,ski trips, etc.; that the things we of ourclass have in common can be had in common with alumni of other classes; that weshall have more, bigger, better, and moreinclusive gatherings in the future."
The New York crowd has had some fine dinners—what about this problem, Bill Geraghty?
"The two dinners have gone over so wellthat I think it is a good idea to have themmore often; Danzig in particular thoughtthat it would work, and so what do youthink of one for early June?"
Frankly, New Yorkers, I think We're all for it. The Chicago group intends to have one some time in June, and Timson said that his farm might be available. The thing to do is for each local tribe to organize their own during the summer and early fall, inviting other alumni, ladies, or whomever you wish to have. Please keep in touch with the column and let us know the results of your experiments.
Tom Cohen, what was that you suggested concerning a feast at Commencement? You have the floor: "I imagineBenny or Craivf Hinman has written youabout the feasibility of having a picnichere in Hanover at that time. Sounds sicellto me, and I think there will be a prettysizable group to work with."
No, they didn't write, but we'll put 'em on the committee with you and Will Brown and Art Guyer. Guess, Gordon Bennett can make you all work. Notices can be placed on the Commons Board and on the C. & G. Fence.
It's time to stop now, gentlemen, and to wish you good luck and fine health over the summer. Pat, would you read that little poem you wrote last fall when we were just beginning our "first year out"?
. . . watching a great Dartmouthclass carry its songs and hopes to all comersof the world, to all kinds of lives, someended too soon, some to be spectacularand others quiet, weddings and promise,death and frustrations, grand good timesand not a few mornings after. It's a fullpicture."
The meeting is adjourned!
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