1938*
A great many things came to pass, and the greatest of these was the bedimming of a fine '37 record in the Alumni Fund. That was great going. Many congratulations. We're not the baby class any more, and we can probably expect good competition from th? '39s in the future. It looks as if we'll have to start up another rivalry, but feuding's good these days. I was sorry to be scooped on the Class Baby, but since most of you probably didn't read Lang's letters, I'll repeat that the honor goes to the offspring of Mr. & Mrs. Bill Ganter .... name still a mystery.
Haven't seen as many of the boys as I'd hoped to this summer, and have heard from fewer. Spent most of June and July in an insurance school with Bob Reeve, and he's quite the business gentleman now, except for a baggy pant episode that he'll be glad to tell anyone about. Was up at Lake Morey one week-end in time to see Devlin for a minute on his way from Detroit to Dick's House with trenchmouth. Herr Wagner, back from the Continent, is firmly entrenched in Lyme, to the general discomfort of all the natives. Earl Ward and wife have taken a house on School Street, and look more at home than I've seen anyone look. Calder's still fretting away his summers in the East with his heart in the West. Guess I'll have to cut this out. It sounds more like a gossip column. Al Wolff graduated with '39, but he's still with us, after missing our last year because of pneumonia, and should now be with the Hanel Watch Co., in Rockefeller Center. My best correspondent has been Wee Willy Thomas... .reports Johnny Johnson gone for the Gold Coast of Africa, with a sendoff party that rocked Long Island's shores. Here's one of his letters in toto, "Creeper Reno is in the Minnesota so so Woods at camp; I guess the Sheriff is in the Maine woods by this time, and yours truly hasn't come out of the woods yet. Who is that blonde in Forest Hills?" Here's his report on the New York dance. "Highlight of all was J. Clarke Mattimore's cocktail party at 96 Perry St. Got a good gang together consisting of about three, Reeve, Gordon, Holland, and all with dates. So of course the party was relatively stable. At the dance picked up the Hobart Hubbard Rockwell, Robert Q. Foley, Duck Egg Matteson, Dune Dobie, Duke Wales (I didn't write these down, I am trying to remember which held up the best) Johnny Mayer, Fred Baker. Sorry I can't recall the others but I am telling you it was some group." Also reports the potential marriage of Johnny Mercer and Dorothy Young. Harry Page is back in Hartford after an appendectomy, and Charlie Tesreau has been playing ball this summer with St. Albans in the Northern League.
August 14 announces the engagement of Ann Hopkins to John Rust Potter, with the wedding set for some time in the autumn. As for Dick Lewis' wedding, McDuff, Reno, Walls, Soule, Beck, and yours truly gathered at the church, which was packed to the teeth. As we expected, the bride and groom didn't show up at the reception until it was just about over. They're living in Cleveland now. From there we retired to a choice spot under the Elevated in Charleston, where, I expect, Reno still is. I've since heard from him at Camp Mishawaka in Grand Rapids, but it's a ruse. McDuff has been counselling at a camp in Harrison, Me. The time hasn't come yet to report on Stink's wedding. There's a report afloat that Stew Whitman has taken the step too, but I'm still in the dark about it. As for the more common-place activities, McMurtrie's now bunking with Mattimore, and learning to be a radio announcer. That ought to be right up his alley.
George Wallace is with the U. S. Pipe Bending Cos., George Hennessey is doing graduate work in social survey at Boston College, and now for an indication of a little private enterprise. Paul Thorpe has bought Van's.. . .a night club, restaurant, etc. on the road from Amherst to South Hadley, and should be doing all right. One of my female reporters reports George Dana on the cruise staff of the S.S. Corinthia, though whether it's for his Roosevelt gags or his good looks, I don't know. Stu Allbright has been doing some advanced work in Botany and Natural History, and was Naturalist at the Moosilauke Summit Camp this summer. Ed Woods is on his last year at Harvard Dental School, and is rooming with Win Clark, who's now at Harvard Med as a junior. George Kingsbury is back in Keene working for his father, and Tesreau is back at Catholic University Law School in Washington. I saw Bob Stearns at a dinner in Bridgeport late in the spring. For a while he worked in D. M. Read's department store there, and is now with the Bridgeport Rolling Mills Co.
Moose Frey has been pulling some Hollywood stuff. When he took his Green Key date of a year ago back to Hamp, he met one Anne Elizabeth Bowland, and now they're engaged Also the engagement of Jack Hull and Doris Trepton (Skidmore '38) was announced. Jack's with Newberry's in Asbury Park. Sandy MacLeod is living at Huntlands, Middleburg, Va., where he's raising thoroughbred horses, and has about 300 head of stock. Bill Stratton is now Pacific Manager of the Bassick Co. in Los Angeles, after working in about a dozen cities before that assignment, and was married February 9th to a U.S.C. co-ed, Jama Reid of Tulsa. Ferien Davis finished his first year at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford in about three months, and is now with the Ford Motor exhibit on Treasure Island at the Golden Gate Exhibition, after which he's going back to Stanford. John Wiggin is married and living in Essex Fells, New Jersey... .details unknown.
Bob Tabor is living in Concord, and working for the New Hampshire Highway Department, Dave Balmer's now Assistant Manager of J. J. Newberry Co., in Los Angeles, Bill Sullivan is Terminal Manager for Greyhound Lines in Portland, Howard Mickey is Hotel Manager of the Country Club Inn, Bel Air, Md., and according to further reports on Stew Whitman, he's an accountant at the World's Fair. Blair Warner is a junior accountant for Haskins and Sells in Chicago, Paul Urion is back at Virginia Law, and has been working during the summer in a law office in New York, and still seeing that Lois girl. El Taber is a floorman for W. T. Grant Co., in Beaver Falls, Pa., Tom Roberts is back in his old haunts with Eastman Kodak, in their training department in Rochester, Al Raymond is with the New England Trust Co., in Boston, and Bill Main is with Lever Bros, in Cambridge doing sales promotional work, Morris Kantzler is another junior accountant in Mountain Dale, N. Y., and Karl Hill, fresh from Tuck, is doing insurance in Littleton. It's the business to be in. Just ask three-quarters of the class. Carmelo Gugino is Assistant Sales Manager of the Gugino Macaroni Corp. in Buffalo. You ought to see the line he'll hand you now. Jim Garvey is a salesman for International Business Machines, Bob Brown is in the Financial department of Dupont Co., in Wilmington. That's a young business you'll hear a lot of soon. Ray Berquist is an assistant in the Industrial Relations Dept. of the Eagle Pencil Co. Just ask Mike Choukas what that means. Ray Ammarell is an accountant with Patterson & Ridgway in New York. It looks like the occupation that's running a close second to insurance. Bill Schopflin is a clerk with Thompson Hayward Chemical Co., in Memphis, and Bob Blees is writing publicity in Hollywood.
That's the news for this month, such as it is. I haven't been able to bring my massive files to Texas with me, and so it's possible that I may have mislaid some information in moving. Let me know if I have. The Indians are still pretty tough here, but Old Betsy is standing me in good stead, and I don't mean any friend of Reno's. This is for Mrs. Reno's benefit. Any news for next month will be appreciated. Maybe I can PERSUADE Lang to write a news letter.
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