1930*

With Hanover weather shifting back and forth several times daily from the frozen Arctic to tropical rains, with hockey coach Jeremiah pleading in the local press for freshman goalies, with the stork crowdingout the turkey gobbler down in Bristol, R. 1., with a scant handful of nuptial items, and with a complete epistolary vacuum, we greet you for the New Year in the hope that you will be better boys in 1939, write letters with reckless abandon, pay your class dues like good lads, and ease up on your wife beating and baby belaboring.

Working from past to future we give you the last of the Latham bachelors:

Mr. David MacElroy announces the marriage of his daughter Kathleen Gail to Dr. David Ainsworth Latham on Wednesday, the twelfth of October nineteen hundred and thirty-eight. Saint John's Episcopal Church, Lowell, Massachusetts.

And then from the Concord (Mass.) Journal of December 1, 1938 (courtesy of Miss Maud French), the following item:

"Mrs. James Lynch of Salem announces the engagement of her daughter, Natalie, to Mr. John Stevens Whipple, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert F. Whipple, of Concord. Miss Lynch was graduated from St. James' School in Salem. Mr. Whipple was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1930 and from Harvard Law School in 1933."

The aggressive chimney bird produced the following message from old father Haffenreffer on November 24: "Leaving David Huffard Haffenrefler tipping scales at eight pounds fourteen ounces, turkey gobbler pinch-hitting for stork, pays flying visit on way rendezvous with platter and cranberry sauce. All well and out of trenches by Christmas."

For the Fuller Information Department mysterious Paul Maguire, whom our operative Les Godwin traced to the Texas oil fields, gives belated details on his April 11, 1936, marriage to Miss Mary E. McConn of Minneapolis, Minn, in St. Luke's Cathedral, Evanston, Ill. Writing from Houston, Paul confesses "Mine is a lone voice in these here parts.".... Charlie Rauch reports recent letter from Ben Finch, who was in Germany during the Czecho-Slovakian crisis but learned nothing about it until he crossed the border into France. Ben is, you will remember, with the Nat ional City Bank, and so far as we know still based in London with wife Faith The new house which Vice President Peck of the Cool Insuring Agency, Glens Falls, is building has got its roof and unroofed the Peck pocketbook, but not enough to stand between Phil and a recent athletic contest in Ithaca. Those who enjoy perf ection ought to look at the Peck record of Alumni Fund and ALUMNI MAGAZINE subscriptions.

Belatedly we report that Mort Wiese of the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York devotes himself to the design of new toll switching systems. Mort was married June 16, 1935, to Miss Eleanor V. Kuzsma. ...Bride Marjorie and chemist-bridegroom Doc Waters have settled down at 34 Granite St., Norwood, Mass All we know about Bill Truex of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company is that he lives at 9 Orchard Terrace, East Hartford Lt. Jack Smith, surgeon in the Navy Medical Corps, who may turn up anywhere from the Yangtze River to Lyme, N. H., pops up at the Penn Athletic Club at Philadelphia for no known good reason. ... Buzz Morley writes a pretty cheerful though uninforming letter for a guy within earshot of the toy department of Morley Brothers, where he dictates amid the din created by youthful Gene Krupas and Gmen and gangsters performing on instruments ranging from drums to machine guns and roller skates, and is conservatively encouraged by business progress George Sarles, aviator, continues to persuade the residents of Mt. Kisco that they need new Fords Everybody knows all about Attorney Johnny Sanders of Concord, his prospective nuptials and other affairs, except us Frank Ryder is the new prexy of the DOC of Boston and Harr Condon is on the directorate.

Thanks to the arrival of some of those green Alumni Records Office biographical blanks, we have some new information since this installment was begun. For example, we finally get the dope on the above mentioned Sanders, who was married June 18 last to Miss Jane M. Branch, Vassar '34, of Manchester, N. H. He is affiliated with Upton, Duncan, and Sanders, Concord attorneys And then Pat Patterson, of the Providence Journal's advertising department, gives us daughter Holly as of March 3 last And here is an unreported wedding from nearby Woonsocket, which took place more than a year ago—Charlie Reed, partner in the firm of Fred F. Reed and Son, commercial printers, was married in Woonsocket to Miss Annette E. Deslauriers on August 35, 1938 And even Alex McFarland, the Boston attorney, one of the more faithful brethren, had forgotten to tell us of the arrival of Alex Bruce on October 12, 1938 And Ben Demers comes across at this late date with a wife, the former Emily Thompson of New Rochelle, as of September 5, 1936, and a daughter, Katherine, born September 14, 1937 We thought we covered Walt Dresser adequately in October, but now learn that he is a partner in the Border Electric Company in addition to being assistant manager of the Summers Fertilizer Company of St. Stephen, New Brunswick.

. . Another uncommunicative Yankee turns up with an unrecorded son, Winslow S. Durgin Jr., born October 25 And Charlie Humiston has sired two plays which have been produced by theater groups but not yet published And Charlie Ingram of Ingram and Ingram, attorneys, Lynn, Mass., married Mildred Reichert—graduate of Texas State College for Women—on September 13, 1937, and introduced Wendy Carol on July 23, 1938. .... And Rad Kilbourne has gone right up through the works from secretary (1934) to treasurer (1935) to vice president (1937) to president (1938) of the Philadelphia Association of Security Salesmen. Rad is chief statistician for Paul and Company, Philadelphia, and boasts a 3 1/2-year-old son And finally, Cup Harris brings us really up to date, beginning with marriage June 15> 193S> 'n Cleveland, Ohio, to Elveta Lee, graduate of Cleveland College; birth of Joseph Wilfred, November 30, 1934; birth of Ethylyn Ann on January ?, 1936; and has shifted his medical assignments from the Cleveland City Hospital to practice in Atlantic City, N. J., to a senior assistantship at the Provident Hospital, Chicago, and now back to general practice in Atlantic City, where he is medical inspector for the Atlantic City public schools

And now back to a few odds and ends before closing the books for 1938. Here is Art Behal in stock brokerage at Room 1700, 1 Wall St The elusive Shorty Garratt, late office manager of the American Tung Oil Products Corporation, Gulfport, Miss., turns up at 59 Joralemon St., Brooklyn. .... George Geiger, a typical fraternity brother, continues to sport an absolutely blank sheet, although our scouts discovered his marriage in February, 1933 to Lelah J. Hardwick and the birth of George Thomas in 1934 We learn that Hank Gilbert's Pacific Company, where he is statistician, is a brokerage outfit Red Gould finally comes to light as sales engineer for Phelps Dodge Copper Products Company, 40 Wall St., living at the Crescent Athletic Club, Brooklyn Bill Lawson moves without further information from Fort Bliss, Texas, to El Paso Dick Loring appears as range and fuel oil distributor in Portland, Me Gil Lowery has a new title as cost engineer for Johns-Manville Corporation, Manville, N. J Red Lynch dispenses information and works in the office of the handsome new Veterans' Hospital that you see as you turn the big curve just before sliding down the hill into White River Junction Larry MacKenzie, into whom Bill Smith runs in the Equitable Trust Building elevators in Wilmington, Del., is estate analyst of the Connecticut General Life Insurance agency there The bonds of brotherhood are still strong, as Alec Hughes, about whom we know nothing, tells us that Bruce Mackey, whom we know still less about, can be found at Route 1, Prairie View, Ill According to our maid Gene Magenau, architect of Concord, N. H., has been in town about a week but didn't call back again and didn't say where he was Bob Marr, credit man for National Bond and Investment Company, has a new address out at 2055 Elmwood Ave., Lakewood, Ohio We find Johnny Marsh in foundry sales for the Riverside Plant of Otis Steel in Cleveland

Kit Merrill is claim adjuster for the Mississippi Valley Barge Line Company, New Orleans Architect Hank Newell has a new job with the New Hampshire State Highway Department Bill O'Brion moves from Kimball, Hubbard, and Powel to Bowman and Columbia, advertising agency, as space buyer Did we tell you that Hank Odbert is now assistant professor of psychology at Dartmouth College? .... Dr. Warren Parish is in private practice in the Carnegie Medical Building, Cleveland And Dick Royce, assistant buyer of men's clothing at the May Company, Cleveland, has a nice new five-digit address at 13660 Fairhill Road, Cleveland.

We now pause for station announcement and the formation of your 1939 resolutions (see above). As for us, we expect to plague you roughly as before, living impeccably as ever: devoted husband, adoring father, rich provider, voluminous, if boring, scribe.

Secretary. Hanover, N. H.

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