1934*

9 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N. Y.

All the words that go to describe a matchless reunion were used up by Bill Scherman in his late-June Fund newsletter. Now three months after the fact, Reunion occupies a big folder in our mental file marked Good Times. It was a great party, we repeat after Bill, and we feel certian that the 1934 contingent went home on Sunday the 18th five years younger in spirit and at least ten years older in body. There were some tired eyes peering over steering wheels on that West Lebanon road—we know, because we were trying to see through two of them.

We'd like to issue an appeal to the picture-snappers whose name is Legion: all photographic contributions will be very gratefully received. A compendium of sorts is planned, and we'd appreciate all the Reunion material we can get. Will you dig into your files, desk, bureau or piano bench and send whatever prints you come up with (or negatives—you can't hurt our feelings) to the oversigned address?

Reunion marked the retirement from the Class Treasurership of Mac Collins, whose conscientious work since graduation has done a lot to keep a good safe margin of black ink on the books; and the assumption of his duties by Dick Gruen, who was persuaded to leave his Fund work for these other fiscal activities. Dave Callaway's relinquishment of the Fund chairmanship, which he took over from Tom Hicks three years ago calls to mind the tireless efforts and fine achievements of both these hardies, as well as the fact that this vital assignment is to be borne in coming campaigns by the shoulders of Bill Knibbs.

Our share of the Fund fared well this year. Numerically, 305, or 63% of our 484 living members, gave $1,513.03, or 79% of our objective of $1,920. That's good darned good.

A few bits of choice information have come our way during the dog days since Reunion. An autobiographical note by way of introduction to this topic: your correspondent, armed with a camera, Ray Hulsart and a taste for the tropics, took a big slice of July and set off into southern waters "on one of those cruises." We both returned single, tanned, happy, and a good six weeks ahead of the nearest torpedo, but took almost the whole month of August to shake off the good-time-Charlie atmosphere and get back wholeheartedly to living by the factory whistle and the lunch pail.

Dartmouth Club activities have been quiescent during the summer, so little cap be reported from the New York sector. However, the other evening made good copy, when, instead of writing these notes and getting them in on time, we attended a cocktail meeting of Dartmouth people at Roald Morton's. In attendence were Ray Hulsart, who has now become the New York Central's department head on tax cases, meaning that in his charge are the legal problems involved in the Central's ownership of all the land and buildings between 42nd and 57 th streets, from Madison to Lexington Morton, whose activities now center on 1) the Blue List and 2) his early approaching marriage to Dorothy Sweet Bill Gilmore, whose American Airlines office is now in the Time & Life Bldg. and with whom I have solemnly joined hands many many times in promises to break bread Dave Hedges, accompanied by the young Bermudienne he was escorting when we met him this summer in a Hamilton bar. Hedges and Meigher spent their wellearned vacations on the sands and in the hard-by rum-mills of Bermuda's Paget. Jerry Danzig, now settled back in his WOR easy chair after an extra-curricular fling at play-producing. His "Tomorrow Is a Woman" played to enthusiastic reception in Spring Lake's straw-hat theater during August Lila and Bill Knibbs, the latter of whom is now an established member of the insurance fraternity and reports an unusually busy and successful summer, due in large part, we have no doubts, to the fact that Reunion is behind and Billv has since been able to spend at least half his time on bread-and-butter affairs.

For reasons of little space we pass regrettably lightly over the several highly enjoyable week-ends spent with the four Schermans in their Long Island cottage the tribulations of Ralph Brabbee, whose soccer-playing days returned to liim with vengeance when they recently loosened a kidney from its moorings Callaway, who had his appendix removed but otherwise is enjoying Westchester domesticity with wife Virginia in their new Fleetwood apartment where you have to go in the back way because the front entrance hasn't been cut through rock yet Silverman, who won a roommate in his Maine vacation spot whose conversational high was "Where are the towels?" .... Gruen, with whom we signed, folded and sealed letters yesterday morning on the most amazing assembly line you ever saw. (P.S. When you come to the last paragraph, read it twice, and slowly.) Dick motored out to the Coast with mother and brother during August and had the ALUMNI MAGAZINE offices at sixes and sevens because August is Get Ready-for-Dues Month among treasurers. (See last paragraph.) .... Raphael, who went to Bermuda and met a girl too Fred Robbe, who was on the Life account for a while at Young & Rubicam and with whom we spent many a moment over the phone. But as I began to say, passing lightly over these recollections, I see before me a small portfolio of correspondence.

Al Hewitt sends in his "loyal alumnus' report on the summer." After a motor tiip to the Blue Ridges, Al moved up to Stockbridge, Mass. "for a week of rehearsal and a week of performance with Ruth Gordon in Here Today, a very funny play. We played at Westport the week following, and on Tuesday the whole house was sold out to the Dartmouth Club of Bridgeport and a wonderful audience they were. Bill Haist was in charge of the arrangements. "Then back at the Center Theater in The American Way, and I'm still in it at the moment of writing. However, I shall be leaving it in a few weeks to return to the Lunts, who are reviving The Tamingof the Shrew and I will be back in my old part of Lucentio. So far we are booked only for October, playing Washington, Madison, Milwaukee, St. Louis and Baltimore. After that I don't know. You never know in the theater business, or have I said that before?"

As a supplement to the Hewitt report in person, a summary of Al's activities for the past five years is to be found in the

"Who's Who" section of The American

Way's program, which I picked up last week while viewing Hewitt's enjoyable performance in the role of Alex Hewitt. "Alan Hewitt," it reads, "has been acting for five years, during which time he has played 60 weeks of summer stock, appeared in five Theater Guild productions, supported, among others, Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Humphrey Bogart, Ruth Gordon, Ina Claire, Eva LeGallienne, Dudley Digges, Frances Farmer, Aline MacMahon, Jane Cowl and Dennis King. The plays he has been seen in are TheTaming of the Shrew, Idiot's Delight, TheGolden Journey, The Masque of Kings,Amphitryon 38, and The Sea Gull.

A letter from Bob Smith (of Buenos Aires) hit the boat a shade too late to be included in the foreign correspondents' section of Stan Silverman's admirable Reunews, and it is exerpted herewith: Says Bob Smith, of Will L. Smith, Importers: "Sorry to advise that the situation looks pretty black out here due to diverse reasons too numerous to describe. The local trade authorities are at loggerheads (This was in June—Ed.) with the U. S., and until Congress recognizes that these South American countries would like to sell as well as buy, there will be only gloom for those engaged in the importation of American products.

"So far as yours truly is concerned, we are now three, I having taken the deep plunge on the 28th of April, 1937, and the son and heir was born in April, 1938. We named him Robert Michael, in view of a long forgotten Irish ancestry If you run into any fellows who remember 'the guy in the lumberjack shirt,' please give them my regards."

The vital statistics department has been busy enough since last writing: one John Hinsman Jr. was born in late May

Perry Gilbert became father of a girl on June 23 ... . the Class Baby now has a young brother named Michael Clokey Moore, born August 7.... and Florence and Charles Levesque announced the arrival of Peter Shaw Levesque just a couple of days before Reunion.

Moving back to the origin of such things, the bridal path has been trod by: Louise Vonnegut and Hank Pierce on June 10 in Indianapolis.... Bernice Edythe Burd and Don Moir on June 3 in Mount Vernon, N. Y..... Augusta Wilma Straus and Bob Goodman on December 3 in Richmond..... Lois Woodward King and Bill Embry on June 3 in Louisville.

.....Eleanore Louise Nitschke and Bill Adams on July 15 in Rye, N. Y Mary Ella Waidner and Tom Beers on September 16 in Wilmette, Ill Elizabeth Gutman and Joe Lehmann on September 10 in New Canaan, Conn Madeleine Brieste, of Avenue Aristide-Briant, Pont- Sainte-Maxence (Oise), and Ted Germann, in Brooklyn.

A step in the same direction has been made by Art Nissen, whose engagement has been announced to Marjorie Holcomb, of Newton Highlands. Miss Holcomb studied in Brussels and has also attended Erskine, Chamberlain, and Marlborough Schools in Boston.

Tidings in conclusion: postcard from Stan Smoyer and Kirk Spitler vacationing in some extremely unpronounceable spot in Mexico and succeeding so far in keeping each other out of jail and hospital.... from Bud Yallallee, returned with boat to New Jersey just too late for Reunion Stew Anderson in a Washington cram school studying for the September foreign service exams, with "goodness only knows what" as his guess for after that Len Harrison now with the Marlin Firearms people in New York Walter Reichert operating out of the Detroit office of Liberty Mutual, and the father of a one-year-old boy named Robert Nat Shin- berg's very cooperative and helpful sister reporting that her quiet but effective brother has a young son called Stephen, now in his tenth month.

To New Yorkers and World's Fair Visitors: there will be a class dinner at the Dartmouth Club on October 4, the first Wednesday of the month.

And here's that last paragraph we promised. Prompt remission of class dues to Treasurer Gruen would be the most helpful possible thing you could do for your hmbl. & obdnt. servants, the Class officers. You have read the details in the mailed communique. Space doesn't permit me to do anything else at the end of this column but urge you to send in that check and the newspostal as soon as you possibly can.

THE NEW 1934 BRASS HATS Whom the Five-Year Class, wrongly or rightly, has chosen to guide its destinies until1044. Reading from left to right, the short ones are Gruen, Knibbs and Hedges; the tallones are Dwyer, Hess, Allen, Callaway and Danzig; the absent one is Hicks.

Secretary-Chairman, Time, Inc.,