1934*
Although anonymous letter-writers have never been on our list of favorite people, we will essay a feeble grin and drop this prejudice gladly if 1934's Dorothy Parker, who all but fed us to the wolves in the recent mail, will drop his flights of fancy (rather entertaining flights, we'll have to admit) and tell us in some good solid anglosaxon what he's really got against us. The '34 notes are far from our own favorite reading matter, and if there's anything either radically or slightly wrong with them, we're certainly in the market for ideas on how to patch them up. Keep it in the anonymous, Cataline, if you will, but tell us what you're after. Judged in the light of 50 class columns—or the last 20, the last 10, the last 5, or what have you—your criticism about playing favorites in the news just doesn't seem to hold water, and we respectfully suggest you check yourself and us on the argument. You see—we took you seriously enough to stage an examination of conscience and of material, and can't help but conclude you're way off base. However, if our conclusion is wrong in any respect, one way to help us correct the "situation" is to write us some news. Letters are our most reliable source of material, and much as we wish for it, the thin air will grant us no substitute.
Treasurer Gruen reports that the Class is coming through on dues collections with customary alacrity and enthusiasm, which just gives us one more thing to trumpet about. Regardless, we still have some distance to travel before hitting that 100% mark for the MAGAZINE on which our eyes are glassily fixed. While on the subject of Iff, may we relay briefly the fact that Mac Collins' 5-year financial report, which will be presented in full in an early issue, shows the Treasury in excellent shape. Reunion, first all-class effort since graduation, paid for itself, even with one of the lowest taxes and full programs on record.
First things first: the marriage of Alice Pamela Williams (Smith College) and Sam Carson, on October 14, in T01ed0....0f Dorothy Jean Sweet and Roald Morton, on September 16, in New Rochelle. .. .of Margaret Chase and Bill Judd, on September 16, in New Britain... .of Helen Lorraine Goddard and Gardner Bassett, on September 6, in Bridgewater, Mass. The bride is a graduate of Wheelock School and Brown University, and was a teacher in the Wellsley schools. The press says the couple will live in Cleveland, where Gard is assistant surgeon at St. Luke's Hospital. .... And, during the summer, there came to the Allan Jacobsons a son who was forthwith named Allan 3rd.
The Lee Eggleston-Link Daniels team came back from Perry Gallup's Colorado gold mine this summer with the neatest string of cutthroat stories this old dimenovel reader has heard since he sold his last copy of the Buffalo Bill series. It seems that Gallup inherited a spofof land which is honeycombed for miles down and across with tunnels searching for the filthy metal. Besides selling them part of the mine, Perry got the vacationers into overalls, stuck a miner's lamp on their respective heads, rode them about as far down into the earth as the Empire State sticks up, and told them to start digging away. When they left Cripple Creek, Daniels and Eggleston wore an avaricious look and a two weeks' beard, which they lost no time in sporting at the Stork Club the night of their homecoming, above a full dress suit. Shortly after, they bought an old 2-ton truck on the order of a Good Humor car, painted LINK 'N LEE in big black letters on its sides, and are now in the food business, selling bottled beverages and home-made sandwiches to the football crowds on Long Island's north shore. See future issues for further instalments.
There is a whole slew of news that blew in on Gruen Dues-postals and with Gruen Dues-checks. Taking them as they come, which is the lazy way, we read that Bill Ramsey was engaged last month to Beth Bryson, of Winnetka and Wellesley, to which Bill appends " ('4o—Gawd!)."....
Charlie Armes sends vacation greetings from Yosemite, having already polished off Grand Canyon Buz Hartman, recently promoted to merchandise manager of Leath 8c Cos., Furniture, traveled 35,000 miles last year but the only Dartmouth men he saw were insurance salesmen. He asks, "Is New Hamp still standing?" Art Moebius, on the road, stopped off at Pittsburg and saw Ace Miller, who was staggering under the weight of the copper business Em Day, holding forth in Manhattan's Presbyterian Medical Center, reports his young son, "Home-On-Reunion" Day, in fine fettle, and reveals that his most recent diversion was a trip to Hanover last week-end to officiate with McAllister and Ted (Homer) Gregory at the wedding of Miriam Barwood and Frank Lepreau.
Wendy Williams was married in New York in June 24, but whisked back again to the Coast, where he says he is "still trying to keep NBC's nose clean."... .Jim Prescott lives in Jersey, but we're not sure whether or not he's still with Public Service Corporation Stan Smoyer, following his summer Mexico trip with Spitler, is back again at the legal business with Smoyer, Kennedy, Smoyer & Vogel, but insists he is neither of the Smoyers Kirk Spitler, following his summer Mexico trip with Smoyer, is doctoring in Cleveland Warren Schmidt, we suspect, still puts in his 40 hours a week at Linde Air Products Then there is Bill Stowe, who is "lining up Dartmouth material again this year at Milwaukee University School," and who has built up a technique of spotting Dartmouth grads in night clubs, even if he doesn't know them.
"How to Tell a Dartmouth Man"
Which calls to mind the girl on the cruise which Hulsart and I took this summer who said she knew right away that we both had gone to Dartmouth because we hadn't spoken to her on first sight! Shades of White River and the Claremont dances! Far from throwing a compliment, however, she added, "You're all a bunch of snobs up there."
Johnny Spiegel reports "Offspring No. 2, boy, name of Adam Spiegel, arrived on Sept. 2d, day after Germany marched, day before Britain declared war, in Hospital (Michael Reese, Chicago) in which proud father is still an interne."... .Until contradiction we will assume that Okie O'Keeffe, who still resides in Jamaica Plain, is yet with the First National Stores .... that A 1 Baldwin will soon make his annual pilgrimage to Manhattan during football season. .. .and that Ollie Sargent still holds forth with the Liability Assurance Corporation Russ Smart was married on August 9, in Chatham, Ontario, to Mollie Stevens, University of Toronto '36. They are both on the Mental (Something) Staff at Merrill-Palmer School, Detroit.
Ned Mudge is assistant branch manager at the National Shawmut Bank of Boston. ....Nick Xanthaky, teaching at West High in Manchester, N. H., and celebrating four years of married bliss as we write these very words, missed Reunion because he was in the process of buying a home. Nick wants to know what "Butcher Boy" Bob Peters is doing, so we'll let it out that Bobbie is with the May Hosiery Mills, in the Empire State Bldg Merrill Dubay is a publisher's representative in Atlanta ... .and Herm Spitzer is "still trying to sell Old Dutch Coffee—the finest pound of coffee ever packed in a can—to a none too appreciative public."
Hank Peirce, after a 3 months' honeymoon which covered 12,000 miles and "every state west of the Mississippi except North Dakota," was forced to go back to work. (Mass. Mutual calendar included with check, but no football schedule on it like Ernie Early's and Bill Knibbs'.) Hank says his only hope now is not to meet any '34 bachelors on Flanders Field, adds one more testimony to those already submitted to climb aboard the marriage train—"lt's great anywhere, even in Indiana." We can't keep from wondering what's the matter with it in North Dakota.
That's not all the news, by a long shot, that's come in as a result of Dick Gruen's dues mailing, but it's all the space they'll give us this month. Dick says there are packs of postals coming in in every mail, so we'll be with you again next month with a really over-stuffed column to enrage the brevity-seeking management of the ALUMNIMAGAZINE.
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Treasurer, 30 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y.
