1928*
This is the season for football games and class gatherings and more of the latter are being planned this fall than ever before. As reported in these columns last month, Don Norris, Jack Phelan and others have arranged a '2B shindig to take place immediately following the Harvard-Dartmouth game on October 28; John Flanagan and others in Philadelphia have arranged a '2B Pow Wow to be held after the Navy game October 14 at Ace and Grace Anthony's Country Gentleman Tea Room on Route No. 1, 9 miles north of Bel Air, Maryland. Inasmuch as these notes have to be written the tenth of the month preceding publication, a detailed account of these reunions will appear later.
The New York contingent turned out 23-strong on September 19 for the first of the monthly class dinners at the Dartmouth Club. Although it was Primary Day and all bars were closed up tight, we found a couple of bottles in our closet and took them along to relieve the many parched throats and also save our face for having arranged the dinner on that date. Present were Gin Adams, Cal Billings, Wally Carr, Bill Cogswell, Ev Field, Harv Fisher, Gordan Graham, Ham Hagar, Art Hassell, Bill Heep, Ted Howard, Harry Jewett, Paul Kruming, Hank Leach, Bruce Lewis, Hank Livingston, Jerry Pitts, Bill Rohlffs, Iz Rubin, Bill Treanor, Hank Walker and your Secretary. The discussion centered naturally about the war and was the liveliest we've had at any dinner. A number of questions were put to a vote just to get the opinion of those present, and perhaps to see how it compares with opinions in later months. For instance, 11 favored a "cash and carry" policy for this country, none were in favor of the United States entering the war. The second Class dinner was held October 17, and the next two are scheduled for November 14 and December 12. The November 14 affair will be a joint dinner with '29, at which Will Torbert '29 will show his famous color movies of the United States.
With an optimism which is refreshing these days when the pessimists usually take both turns at bat, Bob Maclellan decided to and did, get married. By the time the news reached the secretarial ear, however, the name of the lucky girl and th&. date had been forgotten. So when Bob and his bride get back to Chattanooga, Tenn., this month from a trip to Hawaii, he'll have to send us the missing details Jud Whitehead, who flies up and down the West Coast selling monel metal boilers to all the utility companies and plumbers, flew to New York last month on business. We tried to take him to the Fair, but he was too busy and, like all good Californians, wasn't even sure it was worth seeing. Jud has lost 50 pounds and is in much better shape. "Mikie" (otherwise Judson J. 3d) is now almost two years old, and the spittin' image of his dad.
We had a pleasant luncheon with Jerry and Rella Warner recently. Jerry is American Consul at Taihoku, Taiwan, (more commonly known as Formosa); he and Rella and their two children have been in the United States since July visiting Jerry's family in Florence, Mass., and Rella's family in Glendale, California, as well as taking in both World's Fairs, Hanover and other points of interest. They like living in Formosa, although they find it difficult to get along without fresh milk as there are no cows on the whole island. The Warners sail from San Francisco on November 13 for Formosa.
Two years in the South Seas sounds like something you dream about, but Jim Hardy returned to New York a few months ago after just such a glamorous interlude. We have enjoyed listening to him tell about life in Samoa, the Fiji Islands and other islands in the South Pacific. To tell you just one amusing incident, Jim went to a movie one night last winter in Tahiti and saw in the newsreel the DartmouthPrinceton football game which he had sat through a blinding snowstorm to watch three years previous! With his wanderlust pretty well satisfied, Jim is glad to be back in his home town, and is busily engaged managing the Metropolitan Opera House Studios. He is quite of the opinion that the South Seas are not all they're cracked up to be, especially Tahiti.
Another great traveler, who wonders if he will ever get the wanderlust out of his system, is Bill Harris of Swampscott. But by no means is he letting it worry him. He says, like the philosopher that he is, "It would be a pretty trite and dull world, if we were all similar cogs fitting into the same whirling wheels of every day life. So if my life is to be one of travel (cruising, knapsacking it, bumming it, or what-have- you) who am I to stop it?" All last summer Bill made a series of short cruises from New York on the S.S. Columbus to the West Indies and South America lecturing to countless wide-eyed stenographers and the ever-present note-taking school teachers. No doubt the latter's pupils will already be listening to the compiled notes of Mr. Harris' lectures on the glories of the Caribbean. While sitting at dinner on the first night out of New York, Bill saw a man going by who looked familiar except for a long sleek mustache. It turned out to be Ernie Wright, of Philadelphia. Another Hanoverian, Jack Fitzpatrick '3O, turned up and the three sang "Eleazar Wheelock" and the entire College repetoire on numerous occasions. "Just as I hoped it would be," said Ernie to his cruise companions, as they leered possessively at the milling feminine cargo. "Sometimes this bachelor's life is not so bad." Unfortunately, few of the racy details of our classmates' conduct in this floating harem have leaked out. We only know the junket lasted two weeks in balmy and romantic southern waters. We simply hear that Martinique, Trinidad, Venezuela, Dutch Curacao and Jamaica were visited and thoroughly enjoyed.
We learn from Bill that he had a chat with Jim Hardy, with Herm Schnepel, who was just leaving for Bermuda, and with Roy Myers, who is teaching French and Spanish at the University of Texas and spending all his vacations in Mexico City. Art and Janet Lane of Boston and Bud Osborn and his bride were on the same ship coming back from Bermuda just before the war started. And hurrying back from Europe either just before or just after war was declared were Frank Tindle and bride, Hadley and Mavis Cantril of Princeton and your Secretary. If Dartmouth has a more footloose class than '2B we'd like to hear about it!
Arnold Vanßenschoten, formerly with the U. S. Consular Service at Antwerp, is devoting his time to writing; he is back in his home town, Providence, and is living at 195 Thayer St The news is a shade ancient, but nevertheless vital—Court Keller has further responsibilities in the person of a daughter, Anne, who arrived March 2, 1939 Gene Andres' wife had a baby (their second) in July; how about sending us the name and date, Gene?. .. . Tommy Ellis has moved to 216 Thornden St., South Orange, N. J Paul and Sonia Ahlers have left New York City to live on Norwood Ave., Summit, N. J Roy Carpenter has also deserted the noisy city to live at 65 Christopher St., Montclair, N. J.; he is with the C. F. Mueller Cos., makers of Mueller's Spaghetti (adv.). .... Lawyer Max Eile has also moved from Manhattan to 6445 Booth St., Forest Hills. . . . .Franklin Folsom has moved to New York from the University of Colorado, and is Executive Secretary of the League of American Writers; he and his wife are living at 129 East 10th St.
Malcolm Beal, late of the Wellesley Hills (Mass.) high school, has transferred his activities to the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida Bob Richardson, son of Professor "Cheerless" Richardson, is teaching at the Country Day School, 1100 Clay Ave., Scranton, Pa John Stewart is with the Standard Oil Cos. in Zanesville, Ohio Len Bohasseck is manager of the apartment hotel at 910 Lawrence Ave., Chicago Johnnie Noeltner is owner of the Noeltner Shade Shop, 406 Connecticut St., Buffalo Scarsdale is increasing in importance as a '2B center with the recent arrival of Hank and Jean Leach from Chicago, and Ed Wheatley from White Plains. Within a stone's throw are the Millikens, Heyns, Makepeaces, and the Keiths Word Gilboy is now with the F. A. Owen Publishing Cos., Danville, N. Y Fran Tower, the West Newton (Mass.) high school teacher, was yachting instructor at the American Yacht Club, Rye, N. Y., last summer; he was so good he had been invited back next year Les Mason says, "I am going to Cornell this year, for with the Nazis closing up materials in their libraries that I need for my dissertation topic upon which I spent a year, I can't finish it; by coming here I can get sufficient material for one on the French Revolution."
John Skinner and Arnold VanBenschoten have turned to writing stories for a living, joining in that endeavor such other '2B worthies as Bill Breyfogle, Fred Cole, Fred Davis, Bill Harris, Lou Pelletier and Ted Schwartz. John, whose father is Professor Skinner, has been in Washington since the first of the year writing for several magazines. His eleven-year-old son, Charles, is staying in Hanover for a time, absorbing that crisp, fall Dartmouth football atmosphere. "Maybe later on," says John, "it'll get him the same sort of break I once got. When we, as freshmen, were being roundly paddled for failure to reel off Dartmouth songs and cheers letter perfect, I was spared, for I did them better than some of the sophs knew them. They didn't know I had lived in Hanover most of my young life, and I didn't disillusion them. Those paddles looked awfully husky." Incidentally, it looks like Charles will be the first '2B son to go to Dartmouth, which is entirely fitting and proper since he is the oldest child of a member of the Class.
John Hay has just been heard from for the first time in years: he is with the New Mexico Power Cos. in Santa Fe, and lives on Upper Canyon Road Ed Flanders, of Manchester, N. H., has been with Compos, publishers of Comp ton's Encyclopedia, since graduation Chris Hackett is now with the Chilton Publishing Cos. in New York Bob Andrews is an art consultant for the Federal Works Agency in Washington Jack Waller was manager of the Stockton at Seat Girt, N. J., last summer Jim McCoy is working for Baylor fc Bailey, Inc., in Burlington, N. C. Bill Watson is a surgeon, with an office at 272 Main St., New Britain, Conn john Lawrence is a supervisor for the New England Tel. 8c Tel. at 40 Fountain St, Providence Red Edgar had lunch in Lancaster, N. H., a few weeks ago with Merrill Shurtleff and bought a necktie in his attractive shop Harry Jewett spent September and October at the New York World's Fair making reports on the exhibits for the Museum of Science and Industry, of New York Harry gave us a clipping from the Vineyard Gazette which discloses that Monty Wells was runner-up in the Martha's Vineyard Country Club championship this year.
Immediately after the Yale game November 4th, a number of '2B's raconteurs and side-line quarterbacks gather at Lawson Van Riper's house on Columbia Boulevard Extension, Waterbury. Bill Heep fears that with Rappie Bavier, Don Norris and other convivial souls there the house will be a shambles, but undoubtedly Van and Kathryn have taken out cyclone insurance Bill should be a reliable man inasmuch as Lord & Taylor let him buy all their hosiery, and he says that it's no fish story, but actual fact that Bud Weser, the New Canaan, Conn., fisherman, landed a tremendous fish during the summer—it measured all of inches.
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