1925*
Secretary-Chairman, 344 Buhl Bldg., Detroit, Mich.
It's difficult to write the Class Notes this day. The nations of Europe are at war again—with Oxford and Cambridge men of the Class of 1925 destined to meet and kill men of the Class of 1925 from Heidelberg and Wittenberg. All the progress made by the great world powers in science and in wisdom now will be turned to thoughts of death and destruction. All the combined intelligences of hundreds of millions of so-called civilized people must of necessity now be centered on wiping out the enemy. With all sincerity and without a trace of the dramatic, thank God that Dartmouth's Class of 1925 still forms a part of that portion of the world seeking to live in peace, and trying to use intelligence, wisdom, and what leadership we may possess, in the pursuit of happiness builded on life and not death, liberty and not subjection, the love of mankind and not the hatred of our nearest neighbors.
You have all received the results of the Alumni Fund and we are sure that you were all proud of the part 1925 played in the most successful fund campaign in many years. Jack Reeder did a splendid job in his first year as Class Agent. The assistant class agents should get their usual thanks—but the job was done by all of you men who did the contributing.
Now it is time for our second job of the year. The class dues are again your obligation. This is Reunion Year. The ALUMNI MAGAZINE again will go out to 19,25 on the 100% Group Subscription plan. The record last Fall was good—for the first year. This Fall with our 15th coming next June, there should be no reason for anyone failing to support the Class. You will have heard from Pete Haffenreffer before this first issue of the MAGAZINE reaches you. Those who have neglected to send him a check—Please!
This will be your Secretary's last year. Someone else will take over the job in June. It would be great if we could have, once more, the able assistance of the district secretaries. We will try to make the Class notes interesting and stimulating between now and the Reunion. But it can't be done without help. News Letters from district secretaries and any class-mates who wish to write direct, should be in our hands by the first day of each month.
"Pictures used in class notes columns this year will be paid for by the management of the MAGAZINE for all classes operating on the group subscription plan." This means that 1925 will be allowed one picture each month. Park Merrow has been strong for getting pictures in the notes section for a long time, and he is hereby appointed to see that we have a suitable picture in, each month from now through June. What the MAGAZINE wants is "good pictures of classmates engaged in some interesting activity—on vacation or in action in their business or professional life. Family groups and especially groups of men in the class, and their families, who get together for formal reunions, are fine subjects Glossy prints are reproduced more satisfactorily." Send all pictures to Parker Merrow, Center Ossipee, New Hampshire.
Before turning to news we will give you the returns on the two questions which we asked you in the June issue to answer. The first was the question of whether to bring out a 15th year report of the Class. 100% of those answering voted for the report. The second was the question of whether to have wives present for the 15th. This brought a response—one-third being for the wives and two-thirds for inviting them to Hanover, but not to reunion. By the by, Walt Vom Lehn, Deke Blodgett and Homer Tilton make up the 100%!
Mary and Ken Hill on July 4th announced the birth of a little sky-rocket, Mary Bradford Hill, a direct descendant of Mary Bradford of the Mayflower. Dr. Thomas R. Goethals, son of the Panama Canal builder, attended the birth, and Dr. Eddie Gardner '25 was in charge of the maternity floors of the Massachusetts General Hospital at the time. On July 4, 1937 the Joe Leavitts also had a Fourth of July daughter and Mary Bradford VI used the same bassinet Whitney White and Mrs. White celebrated their first anniversary with a three weeks' cruise to Grand Manan Island and the Bay of Fundy. Wally Wallis and Bill Sleigh were guests.
.... Paul Jerman sends the following brief regarding Bill Farnsworth. Bill has opened a law office at 70 West 40th Street, New York City, and is specializing in theatrical and copyright law. Formerly a deputy administrator with NRA in charge of motion pictures, radio broadcasting, and the legitimate theatre, and a member of the Code Authority for the same, he was more recently Deputy National Director of the Theatre Project Lane Goss, during the early summer, attended the Graduate School of Banking conducted by the American Bankers Association at Rutgers University George Scott wishes the word passed along that he would welcome seeing any at his place on the Sound just off the Boston Post Road in Clinton, Conn Norm Clark, who on May 20th, married Miss Audrey Everly of Chicago at Christ's Church, Cooperstown, New York, is Labor Standards and Personnel Director of the Norwich Pharmacal Company in Norwich, N. Y Milt Emerson writes that he is still with The United Piece Dye Works and that "as long as women wear dresses I'll probably be in the business of processing the goods for them." Milt reports that Neil Williams, while on his honeymoon to Bermuda, lost all his travelling funds in the form of express checks Charlie Haywood wrote such an interesting letter to Park Merrow in June (too late for the Alumni Fund letter) that we take the liberty of quoting most of it. "I will assist you by unbosoming myself. I am practicing law in Boston. The foregoing I have told the last 10 editors of 'The '25ers.' With me that consists at present in (a) pondering upon the best defence for a man who, in a Tarzanish moment, swung on the plaintiff and disconnected his jaw so that said plaintiff had to have said jaw wired up and had to guzzle soup through a straw for 7 weeks; (b) wondering how to reinvest the proceeds of nice 5% bonds in various trusts when the debtor corporations are so mean as to call them and pay them off; (c) figuring out whether the owner of a mill pond has a right to keep canoes off his pond because they interfere with the flow of water to his power wheel; (d) how best to inter a deceased corporation; (e) and puzzling out how much I ought to ask the insurance company for my client's myositis ossificans of the left knee. See: no murder, no armed robbery, no malodorous and interesting divorce problem. Who gives a damn for such news. However, I have done a little spying on other members of the Class. (1) Bob Sharp: alive, well and teaching English at Wheaton College, Norton, Mass. Looks very professional. (2) Frank Wallis: Seen in a restaurant. Could not hear him but his digestion is obviously good since the grub on his plate disappeared with speed. (3) Larry Bankart: Lives in Watertown, has an important post with New England Laundries. Is a fisherman and an honest one, since I have not heard a single unbelievable yarn from him. (4) Ken Hill: I saw him woddling by the Old State House in Boston with a half a cigar in his mouth. I shouted across the street and asked him where he was going and he indicated an elderly lady respectfully following three paces in the rear and said 'I am taking this lady to the City Hall.' My first throught was quite erroneous, for Ken is already married, and I had no second thought so you will have to ask him what he was taking her to the City Hall for."
Thank you Charlie. If we could only receive more letters like that the job of compiling the Class Notes section would be very easy.
Frank Shea was featured in an AP dispatch on August 7th with his inductment as an assistant attorney-general. In the August 28th issue of Time, speaking of the substitutions in the Department of Justice: "Francis Michael Shea for Samuel Estill Whitaker in the Claims Division. Out of Dartmouth and Harvard Law School (1928), Mr. Shea worked on AAA, SEC and Puerto Rican Reconstruction before becoming, in 1936, Buffalo Law School's prodigy dean. His special study is bankruptcies and receiverships, at which lawyers rate him far above his predecessor, the mayor of Riverview, Tenn."
.... Lane Goss writes "Don Lawson dropped in this morning representing the firm of Dennison & Sons, bank stationers, in the New England territory. I ran into Speedy Fleet at the Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers. He looked hale and hearty and is apparently very happy in his work at the bank."
We hope to see some of you at the fall football games.
* 100% subscribers to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, on class group plan.
