1939*
Greetings and salutations. After a quick trip to Europe yours truly returned to find a better than average response to the form letter sent out, for which many thanks. My Grand Tour was not without its Dartmouth influence what with crossing on the same boat with Bob Hagge.... spending a week in London with Sam Powers, Hank Bagg, Dave Lilly and "George" Field, plus running into Wyman Vaughn in front of Buckingham Palace and Will Morris at one of the hotter Parisian hot spots.
Here and There
Pete Patterson writes that he, Stan Brown (who claims he has been pitching woo all summer), George Lugrin and Gus Zitrides will all be located at Cornell Law. Both Gus and Bob MacLeod have been playing in their share of All-Star games this fall. Latest press releases have Fred Dall, Bill Bachman, Joe Newman, Went Brown, Bud Little, Ray Newton, Dick Ruebling and Jack Parkhurst still dodging bullets inside Europe. .. .let's hope they are safely home by the time this is published. An interesting card from Ed Hammel... ."This summer Ed Daley and I are working for Eastman Kodak Co. in the research lab. To date the only significant accomplishment has been for us both to catch a skin infection from the chemicals known as kodachrome itch.... nothing serious. Am working on the senior movies which will be ready by October first. Art Bright is also here in the business office." Lew Joel and Bill Ormsbee have been swinging it out with the Barbary Coast at the Lake Placid Club this summer while "G-Man" (G for gigolo) Freddie Tower has been doing his best to keep the girls busy at all the club functions. Colby Howe reports that hitchhiking and touring is easy and costless.... equipped with a Dartmouth catalogue he successfully made Rochester, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Canada, and Maine. Eddie Wakelin gave Colby such a warm reception in Maine that he almost made him late for his job with Bethlehem Steel.... incidently, Eddie and "Toby" Wing will be rooming together in Boston this fall .... all visitors welcome.
Bill McCarthy writes... ."Am a division superintendent with L. Baumberger and Co. in Newark and have about 30 girls under me. Can you think of anything better? see Larry Dilkes quite often and he's really in love 'this one is different.'...." Speaking of 10ve.... what '39er by the name of Winford C. (the Wolfe) Nay lor has been visiting what frequent Hanover visitor by the name of Miss Spencer most of the summer? Bruce Gillie has been lecturing at the DuPont exhibit at the World's Fair and reports having bumped into Bob DeGraff, John Newman, Joe Egan and Les McMillin. Just to show the column's impartiality Jack Gray wants all visitors to the Frisco Fair to drop in and see him at the Foods and Beverages building. Henry Flannery is at present with the Pillsbury Flour Mills in Minneapolis and writes that Art Larkin is still trying to cultivate somebody for that $200 salary. Mayer Abrahamson and Steve Bradley have been working at the summer theater in Cohasset, Mass., where Henry Glovsky, Mert Tarlow, Bill Goodman, Pete Cardoza and Martin Howell have been visitors. By the way, don't fail to read Pete's novelette in the September Cosmopolitan it's excellent. Any of -you future Sun Valley visitors will be cordially received by Dick Durrance, Jim Donovan, Bob (Two Gun) Fletcher and Johnny Litchfield who are out there trying to put in on a "paying basis." "Dono" writes that John Egbert, Bob Brown, and John Hess dropped in at one time or another during the summer.
DOWN THE AISLE
After all the wedding announcements received it looks as though '39 is still holding its own with the gals. Immediately after graduation Loren Wood took the vows with Miss Betty Jean Cuthbert of Ogdensburg, New York, and in the fall will be located at the U. of Michigan where he will study law. Herb Hirschland writes that he attended the wedding of Dick Ordway to Miss Sherrod Murrey....
Dick is now connected with the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Co. in Boston. A note from Henry Harwood reveals the fact that he was married to Miss Margaret May, Smith '37, and is now located in the hosiery business in Morgantown, North Carolina. Perhaps the greenest of the Big Green weddings is that of Danny Dyer, who took his biggest hurdle with Miss Yvonne Leggett of Scarsdale, New York, whose father, incidently, is Dartmouth '98. Jim (Call for Philip Morris) Parks and Wayland Avery being the best looking ushers. Mr. and Mrs. Justin Lober announce the marriage of their daughter, Mary Ann, to Mr. John T. Evans Jr.... the place, White Plains, New York.... one of the ushers, John Finocan after a short honeymoon, bridegroom Johnny will be studying at Drew Theological Seminary. Last but not least is the home town wedding of Ben Eckerson to Miss Bette Walo in Hackensack, New Jersey .... Ben hopes to be located at Columbia Law School in the fall.
According to Whit Cushing, the first of the Sigma Nu eligibles to go is Al Davidson, who has—"the happy stare of a groom to be—it's a Northampton-Hanover romance .... she is brunette Anne Austin of St. Albans." George Adams finally got Miss Judy Wood of Worcester to say yes and he's now sure a bet to be president of the American Steel and Wire Company in the near future. By the time this hits the presses, Jack Olmstead will be "at home" in Fort Pierce, Florida, with the former Miss Loretta Saulnich of Newton Centre, Mass. Besides doing promotional advertising and display work in Providence for Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Company, Bill Deal is preparing for his wedding to Miss Helen Morrison, Oberlin College '39.
WRITER OF THE MONTH
Nobel prize-winner of the month is Dick Jackson, whose eight pager is a wow for news. Dick followed up his Aegis generalship by landing a job with E. J. Sullebareer Co., the photo-engraving supply outfit, which has kept him on the road most of the summer. Dick writes. .. ."I returned to the East following Chicago and Pittsburgh and spent a week and a half in New England on my initial selling tour. Oddly enough I saw no Dartmouths except Jim Mathes in Maine. At present he's overhauling an old lobster boat he bought for a song.... to pass on a tip, don't visit him or he'll have you painting the damn thing Last week I had to peddle my wares in Philly, and there spent a happy night with Wally Davis I his past week-end I spent with Bert MacMannis in Larchmont. He has a nice job with the Scripps-Howard advertising department. He gripes about having only male secretaries, but what the devil, I hear he has a big glass topped desk and private phone. He had visited in Cuba, and saw Armando Chardiet, also Frank Valier in Palm Beach. I saw a letter from "Dusty" Rhode, which revealed the fact that he was selling advertising space for the St. Louis Star-Times and also learned that Bill Webster was down at Pensacola flying with the navy I got a letter from Endy Smith the other day, and he tells me that he has been working in his father's law office prior to Harvard Law School in the fall where he plans to room with Kenny Mac Donald Herb Mattlage has been working at the World's Fair as a "booster." His job consists of wearing an American Express outfit and helping chair pushers boost their chairs over the curb Well, I think that's about the extent of my knowledge of '39ers (except that I saw Skip Morse, Bill Lyon, and Ray Anderson at a local dance the other night). I head south on another trip tomorrow. In brief, I'm nothing but a damn traveling salesman who has heard some slick jokes about those of his kind, but who hasn't found an ounce of truth in it yet.
THE CLEARING HOUSE
Many of our brethren are still pounding the pavements and as a result, there have been a number of requests concerning possible job openings. If any of you young executives hear of anything will you please contact me immediately and I'll steer some of the boys toward you.... it will be greatly appreciated, I know. One specific request is along the artistic lines of advertising or publishing. Charlie Nichols has turned farmer in Brewster, New York, and would appreciate any information concerning a good market for his milk in that section. If anyone is working around Jersey City or Newark and wants a good '39er for a roomie, let me know.
Well, that about winds up this month. We'll try and get some class dinners etc. started just as soon as the boys settle down a bit more... .be on the watch for word from one of the "organizers" in your section. Don't forget to drop me a card when you have some news, and also any suggestions concerning the improvement of the column will be greatly appreciated.
Secretary-Chairman, Newfield Road, Stamford, Conn.
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