1933*
At the annual Strength Through Joy meeting of the Dartmouth Secretaries Association last May 1933 found itself among those classes whose records as subscribers to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE were revealed to the members of the Association, to an accompaniment of boos, catcalls and cries of "Speak for England" (this last is thought to have come from Mr. Bayley, Secretary of 1885).
With Field Marshal Wilhelm Andres in the chair, Dr. Sidney Hayward, the Minister of Propaganda and Enlightenment sitting watchfully near the rostrum and the Hopkins Youth boys Sieg Heiling it for all they were worth, this operator could almost see the doors of Dachau swinging open for him.
So we promised that we would see to it that each member of the class purchased the little green arm-band of the party and, most important of all, took care to provide himself with the official organ of the Party, The Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.
This will explain why Gauleiter LeeEckels has been at you to come across "or else."
IN VINCULA MATRIMONII
After the Troth Plighting season had terminated, the Vow Exchanging Department took over with conspicuous success, bagging, if we may use a sporting term, a doctor, a lawyer, a water polo player and a charter member of the Third-Term-For-Roosevelt movement.
The Doctor is John Hood Branson who was married on July twenty-ninth to Virginia Le Brown of Riverhead, New York. The couple will be at home at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H. where the good Doctor will be the School Physician.
The lawyer is Richard Jackson who was married to Helen Pfeiffer of Brooklyn, N. Y. on September sixteenth in the chapel of the Packer Collegiate Institute. Reports from the front indicate that Mr. Jackson's lingual ability stood him in good stead when he was working to master the Green Point dialect. The happy couple have subleased a lean-to on the banks of the Gowanus for the salmon fishing season.
The water polo player is William Morrison McCombs who on August eleventh rose from the watery depths long enough to enter into the usual covenants with Elizabeth Turnbull of West Duxbury, Massachusetts. Before the strains of the fate-laden Mendelssohn March had died away McCombs was running eagerly about among the wedding guests trying to choose up sides for a good scrimmage.
The Roosevelt supporter is FranklinFuller Ripley whose recent brochure, TheFolklore of Thurman Arnold, was written to support the thesis that the return of our President to the White House is necessary to cure the ailing woolen blanket manufacturing business. He was married on the nineteenth of August to Elizabeth Tilden Kingsbury of Keene, New Hampshire.
We are fortunate to have first hand information from an old Monadnock boy of the novel manner in which the engagement of the last named couple was announced. On the appointed day, Ripley, now the owner and operator of a Taylor Cub, swooped down over the houses of his friends in the visinage of Keene dropping posters which bore the picture of the delirious duo, a headline "Cupid Strikes Again," and a revelation (written in popular song captions) of their matrimonial intentions.
WHO'S WHERE
Paul Wetstein was given a big plug on the Raleigh-Cool radio program several weeks ago. Paul who arranged the famous Tommy Dorsey "Marie" had prepared another addition to the cycle started by that song. It was "Deep Night" and it was swell.
We saw Dick Rocker at the Information Booth in the Grand Central the other day, but couldn't hold him long enough to extract any information.
We talked to Mackey on the phone and he sounded unusually quiet and subdued but we can conclude that he is nearly crazy now with the current stock market reversion to 1929.
Manny Sprague is now assistant prosecutor of the Court of Common Pleas in Fairfield County in the State of Connecticut.
Bob S. Turner on June 4th was chosen pastor of the Grosse Pointe, Michigan Unitarian Church. Bob studied at the Meadville Theological School from 1935 to 1938 and was minister of the Unitarian Church in Shelbyville, Ill. for two years.
We learn from Brother Secretary Merrill that his son, Vin, of our class is working in the office of Shurcliff the architect who restored Williamsburg, Va.
Last May we saw Swander, Sayre and Veres in Hanover.
Swander, a delegate to the Strength Through Joy Congress mentioned at the head of this gazette, was carried away with the proper amount of enthusiasm and it is plain that Cleveland is going to get hell from now on.
Sayre was all over the Inn at once as usual. We have spoken again and again about the wonderful job that he and Peggy have done and all we have left to say is that each time we go to Hanover there is some new improvement, some step forward in decoration or some added convenience for their guests. They had better watch their son, though. We found him digging assiduously at the fresh, young grass of the new Ski Hut lawn.
Veres as tentatively reported, is with the intramural department and coaches Freshman Track and Boxing. He has no other connection with the Cauliflower division of the Botany Department as heretofore erroneously reported.
We have a recent bulletin to the effect that Buster Snow has married Athena Brackett whose favor he courted for many a long year on the Hanover plateau.
Runt Reynolds is news editor of the Nashville, Tenn. Banner. He left Richmond to work for that paper as telegraph editor and was recently promoted.
We have neglected until now to tell you of a rather flip post card received from Bro. Finfrock. The card, a simple one center, dated March 15, bore on its back a colored sticker showing a grove of trees in the snow, titled simply "White Birch" and the following message: "My Thoughts return to Dartmouth on this National Wildlife Week and bring back my fond recollections of my dear Alma Mater."
Finfrock's trouble is that he thinks that he is a brain truster just because he taught at Ohio Northern University Law School in Ada, Ohio.
It's clear that he isn't.
Secretary-Chairman, in West Main St., Waterbury, Conn.
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