1930*
We note with pain and chagrin that the world-shaking announcement of our last installment has been received by the class with stoic calm, and an eager survey of every day's mail has so far failed to uncover a single polite protest. A similar shattering announcement was made in a note to the Executive Committee with reference also to reunion plans, a program for brisk cross country activities on the '3O front during this our reunion year etc., concluding with suggested dates for a Committee meeting, and this elicited from Committee-man Adams of Chicago the following reaction: "I have your memo ofthe 23d, and hasten to express my anger.... .After reaching autumn in a financially battered and beaten condition, andfacing what we hope will be a busy andprofitable season, I can scarcely appreciatethe malice which leads you to put temptation in my way, and the leering way inwhich you present your plan, glossed overwith Roman Numerals, and other evidences of neatness, does not promote youin my estimation."
Meanwhile we hope something is coming of the proposal which accompanied Carl Haffenreffer's "Hurray, Hurray, It's Class Dues Time Again" letter and that '3O men will foregather in large and merry numbers before the Harvard game and again at the Yale game. In the latter connection if word hasn't reached you concerning which of the two Horn plans has been adopted for Yale, we suggest you call the nearest Executive Committeeman and find out whether it is to be a picnic gathering near the Yale Bowl or a luncheon at the Hotel Garde. In the New York area try Bud French or Vic Borella. In Boston That Man Chandler will know. In Providence, Carl Haffenreffer; in Chicago, Adams and Callaway; in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Schneebeli; in Burlington, John French and in Norwich, Hanover or Pompanoosuc, the undersigned.
Meanwhile out in the hinterlands a busy sequence of '3O dinners and pretzel parties are, or should be, in preparation.
Dr. Hub Christman tells us to lay off the "flash" style of gossip columnists and come across with something Literary. On the other hand, the editors firmly suggest being less prodigal with space and figures of speech and giving some News. So here goes, with the decimation of the thin ranks of the embattled bachelors.
"Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Paul Hines announce the marriage of their daughter Polly to Mr. Willard M. Brown Jr., on Friday, the 15th of September, Montclair New Jersey. At Home: 153 West 10th Street, Apartment 7, New York, New York."
"Dr. and Mrs. Charles Lucius Stone have the honor of announcing the marriage of their daughter, Elizabeth Bailey, to Mr. Stephen Avery Raube on Friday, the fourth of August, Brooklyn, New York! At Home: after September 15th—88 Elm Street, Montclair, New Jersey." The above mentioned Ave and bride were encountered at a local gas pump during the honeymoon, on their way to the golf course. The links expedition must have been successful as Ave reports in a letter just received that his wife is a good golfer and cook.
"Mrs. Joseph Daniel Tooker announces the marriage of her daughter, Elizabeth Wild, to Mr. John Brooke Willis on Saturday, the twenty-ninth of July at five o'clock, Hitchcock Memorial Church, Scarsdale, New York." The bride is a graduate of the Masters School at Dobbs Ferry. Her much educated husband is lecturer at the School of Business, Columbia, where he received his M.S. degree in 1933 af£er having received an engineering degree from the Columbia School of Engineering in 1932. Harry Dunning and Bob Larkin were ushers.
"Mr. and Mrs. Harry Nevin Meyer announce the marriage of their daughter Mary Louise to Mr. Herman T. Schneebeli on Thursday, the twenty-first of September, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. At Home: After the fifteenth of October, 120 West Third Street, Williamsport, Penn."
Our scouts have uncovered a couple of engagements; namely, that of Jack Garland to Miss Josephine Wright Chatfield of Washington, Connecticut announced September 14, with the additional information that Jack is with the Bankers Trust Company of New York; and that of Jack Keating to Miss Loyola Claire Weeks, of Springfield, Massachusetts. Jack Keating graduated from the Yale Law School and is practicing in Stamford, Connecticut, where he is lively in political circles and is assistant prosecuting attorney of the Stamford City Court, former president of the county's Young Republicans, and president of the Dartmouth Club of western Connecticut.
Unless our news gathering organization is slipping, Thirtymen are falling off in their activities on behalf of the American population. Two babies for four months is certainly not up to '3O par. All the more praise, therefore, to the enterprise of the following '3O mammas and papas: The George Violantes announce Robert, born July 19, 1939 to this legal and Little Theatre family And by virtue of meeting Mrs. Ames of Hanover in the Dartmouth National Bank, we have a note 011 the back of a torn check that Harriet Ann Lillard arrived in the great Dartmouth family of the Pete Lillards on June 15th.
We have pried belated news on the arrival of Donald Kenneth Johnes on February sth last from his puzzled daddy, Ken, who, underestimating the efficiency of our bureau of investigation, inquires "Where did you get wind of this?" as if he hoped to keep it secret. He'll know better next time.
We complimented John F. Birmingham jr. '3O on the arrival, already reported, of Eric Bruce last March 19 for having produced a "real Eric" after having illegitimately sailed under that name himself all. of his life. Eric Sr.,. in loco parentis, describes himself as "mostly loco" and suggests that Bud French add some doctors of philosophy to his doctor's roster to eliminate professional jealousy.
Visitors of the month to date are the Bob Jordans, fresh from the Manchester hospitality of Bill Stearns, our hard boiled non-communicant. We gathered that Bob, who lives in Barrington, Rhode Island, looks out for Gulf's extensive real estate holdings in Rhode Island.
In a more miscellaneous view we have numerous items George Simpson, associated with Starrett Brothers & Eken, is working on Parkchester, the 65 million dollar housing project the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company is building in the Bronx Dr. Bill Doran, who operates alternately from 30 East 40th Street, New York and Bronxville, moves his latter office to Midland Gardens, 23 Kraft Avenue. We learn through the thoughtfulness of the library that Dr. Don Shaskan is author of a paper in the American Journalof Orthopsychiatry entitled One HundredSex Offenders. Also belatedly we record the birth of Isabel Shaskan on June 6, 1937 Another visitor of the month was Sandy McCulloch taking a brief respite from his position in charge of production for the Morgan Linen Service, Inc. of Boston Also as our memory starts working, Fred Hooper was here for consultation on the progress of The Logic ofLanguage by the late Professor James MacKaye, of which he is one of the editors. He then set out for Harvard where he is to work on his Ph. D. in Philosophy this year. Hub Christman's letter refers to a recent visit from the Jack Deans of Akron.
There are great reports on Bottome developments but no official report from Bottom himself. Carl Haffenreffer reported attendance in late July at a sort of farewell celebration. As we get it Bob, having completed the renting of practically all available space in a certain modest mid-town real estate development, is being sent to Venezuela to survey the possibilities of real estate developments in Caracas Which reminds us that Julio Herrera's young cousin entered in this year's freshman class. Among the summer visitors were the Ed Conklins, including young Elizabeth and Schuyler, who came over to see the sights while vacationing in Vermont. Our clipping sleuths sent us a copy of the Montclair Times of last June which contained a letter from Ed headed Non-votersScored. Ed, who lives in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, is statistician for the Union Securities Corporation of 54 Wall Street Hugh Gibbons has been appointed reference librarian at Trinity College at Hartford, Connecticut this year. With his Harvard M.A. Hugh is now working toward another '3O Ph. D Cotton Holmes reports 'go activities already underway in Chicago in a good letter describing a '3O party as guests of the Bismarck Brewing Company of which Thirtyman Wilbur Smith is president. There was one man in a white apron and another man with an accordion; and there was food; and there were even some singing and dancing. Messrs Crandell, Emrich, Geiger, Horwitt, McClory, Moore, Parker, Schmidt, Simmons, Uhlemann and Holmes were present The F.8.1.'s investigation into alleged sabotage aboard the cruiser Arizona was, we judge from the New York Times, under the direction of Dick Hood who apparently treats reporters in the same gossipy and voluble way he treats the '3O scribe. Witness the meaty paragraph: "Pending Mr. Hoover's arrival here, Richard B. Hood, local F. B. I. chief, declined to make any statement about the Arizona beyond the following: 'I can neither affirm nor deny any rumors in regard to the Arizona or this office's activities in connection with the vessel.' "
May Each DecreeAs Statute Rank
ANOTHER '3O man of distinction in the service of the Federal Government is Frank McLaughlin who was recently appointed by President Roosevelt to a judgeship on the circuit court bench in Hilo, Hawaii. Frank, who has lately been assistant United States Attorney at Honolulu, is one of the youngest men ever appointed to a judicial position of such importance.
. .. .Batting around among the M's and distant spots we find a clipping about Herb Mandeville which we owe to Milt Fleischman. Herb, who visited at home during the summer on leave from a position as town engineer in Roodepoort, Transvaal, South Africa, advised the young ladies of Irvington, New Jersey to "Go South, young woman"—all the way to South Africa. "A pretty girl could be married within a few days of her arrival" Herb was reported as saying "and there are at least fifty eligible men for every girl." He added for the satisfaction of the feminine urge to dress up that all affairs are formal aflairs in South Africa; apparently a girl has to put on a long dress even if she goes out for an African coco-cola and a hot dog. It is apparent that Herb's counsel was not totally unselfish. He is quoted as saying "that one thing that impressed and depressed him the most since he went to South Africa three years ago was the relative dearth of attractive girls."
At the Yale game you will see Snub Poehler and wife in the prize seats which Snub won as the most efficient henchman of Bud French on the Alumni Fund. Snub got his men every time. This will be Snub's first Dartmouth football game since leaving Hanover and he is as effective a seatfiller as the next man. Just as little a squirt as ever, he is principal of the Columbian School in East Orange. We should guess that even the most bumptious lads wouldn't get fresh with Snub—or that the most timid ones wouldn't be terrified by his kindly eye and silver temples. George McClellan continues to lead a busy life as educator, social and medical adviser to the young of State Teachers College in Frostburg, Maryland and alternately restaurateur in Columbus, Ohio. "A note from Paul Heftier about his long illness, occasional news of Al, Elizabeth, and Judith Hayes, a timely visit with Peschko and Parkhurst in Baltimore—those are my only first-hand contacts with Dartmouth" George writes, adding that if he is back at Frostburg this year he may be seen at the Navy game Dick Parker has been keeping us busy, writing from Chicago to change his address to Chicago House, Luxor, Egypt and writing again a week later to change his address back to Chicago—the war or something of the sort having intervened, though we expect to get the address change back to Luxor any minute.
To glance quickly over some news recently filtering into the Alumni Records office: Fred Brennen moving back from Mooremack Steamship Lines to the Boston and Maine Railroad, living in Mattapan. .... And here is Kip Chase in a new line, president of the Pied Piper Company, Inc., Richmond, Virginia, the nature of whose business is "tobacco chemicals."... . Shaw Cole, who just got his Master of Science in Civil Engineering, a brand new degree with very fancy marks at New York University, is now an engineer with the sanitary engineering firm of Reeves Newsom, New York Bud French relays word to andy the tapeworm that Win Hatch's new institution in Pullman, Washington is the State College of Washington, not the University. Win is, incidentally, acting head of the Botany Department Phil Dakin, "radio and stage actor," may always be reached by mail at 4110 Mandan Crescent, Madison, Wisconsin which doesn't mean that he could be found there in the flesh at any given moment Elt Hendrick is cost accountant for Yale and Towne, hardware manufacturers, in Stamford, .... Jeff Jeffery, old musician, corset manufacturer, office supply man, "planning department" genius, is back in his good old home state as assistant editor of the Rochester, (N. H.) Observer Bill Lucas moves from Republic Shoe back to the Williams Manufacturing Company in Portsmouth, Ohio Bill Rich, professionally a journalist, is personally a suppressor of news, but we beat him at his own game and find him as contributing editor for Time, after yeoman service to the New York Herald Tribune..... Rolling Rock Robert R. Rix moves to the Boston City Hospital as orthopaedic surgeon. Cliff Vogt leaves University Hospitals in Cleveland for what appears to be private practice at one of those five-digit Cleveland addresses, 10515 Carnegie Avenue Whitey White moves from California Institute of Technology to the Armour Institute in Chicago; further details lacking Bill May, the worsted man, moves from Clover Mills in Franklin, Mass. to the Premier Mills at Bridgeton and Woonsocket, R. 1., as "assistant agent." ... .And here's one from a complete mystery man, Dave Owen, who suddenly shows up as rancher and farmer in Oklahoma City.
We haven't seen, heard from, or heard of, any Thirtyman yet who isn't planning to come to reunion. Have you?
Secretary-Chairman, Administration Bldg., Hanover, N. H.
Treasurer, Bristol, R. I.
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