1938*

Graybar Building, New York, N. Y.

Times are tough when you can't even get to see a single Dartmouth game, though there's been some classy football in this town. By the time this appears, most of the games will have passed, and some of this will be old stuff, not that it's ever anything else. I saw quite a little of Marty King here. I guess he's probably the only one who ever got a letter from Hollingworth. Marty's been transferred to the Central States Pipeline Cos., in Salem, Illinois, but it's still part of the Texas Cos. setup. He was doing personnel work here, but still couldn't get me a date. He couldn't understand why Merrill Nathaniel Davis couldn't have put "Stinky" on his wedding announcement. The second baby of the class has appeared, and it's a girl. Stewart and Julie Whitman present their new model, Elizabeth Emily, born August 9th. Maybe pacing the floor will quiet Stew down now. Not to change the subject, but the engagement of Whitey Mays and "Tommy" Millett (more commonly known as Whitey's brother) of Green Farms, was announced. I don't know by whom, but probably by Whitey. Can you imagine that kid being married? You can't escape the draft that way, feller. It seems he was at Plattsburg this summer with Squadron A, supposedly on guard duty during a sham battle, when all of a sudden the enemy attacked and showered the camp with sandbags. Whitey was asleep, and his horse "Opium," frightened by the battle, did more damage to the camp than the invaders. He and Donovan and Borneman attended the Davis wedding. Also reported is the inevitable engagement of Clark Iletcher and Margaret "God" Benson. Golly, how that boy is losing his hair. I can see his epitaph now—"Born bald, Died Bald."

Stan Brown is back at Harvard Law, after a summer counselling at Camp Menemoy, or something, in Brewster, Mass. Ben Walkley is in New York with Smith-Barney, if that name means anything to you. It doesn't to me. Tell Mook's at Yale Law now, and from all reports, was lucky to get back across. Merrell Condit is on the faculty at The Peddie School, teaching mathematics, and is one of the mainstays of the concert orchestra. Press Downer has moved to Los Angeles, and expects to go with Lockheed Aircraft. He was still talking about the Boston picnic, and was wondering what had happened to Squee Ellis, who was last seen flying over the Stoneham Hills in a Ford tractor with a case of beer under one arm, and a girl under the other. The devil with Ellis. Where's the girl? Young Walls reports himself hard at work in Chicago, with more than occasional Dartmouth gatherings at some dive called the Chalet. He didn't call it a dive. He also says that Bob Faegre is back there from Europe with the Insulite Cos., getting a real welcome with complimentary ducats to all the traffic courts, and apparently planning for a "nice long vacation."

Dick Passmore and Yvonne Sichel were married June 24th iri Stamford, Conn. Come on boys, do we stick together, or don't we. There's got to be a stop somewhere. The day I resign is when Ossen pulls a trick like that. Fred Hollingworth is with the Lufkin Rule Cos. in Saginaw, and whoops, another marriage Ken McMahon and Helen Shea of Maplewood, N. J. They're living together in Philadelphia. I don't know about Philadelphia, but it's nice they're living together. Bud Newman is with Public Service in Newark, and Howie Van Riper has been transferred to the Sales Dept. of the Texas Cos. in Norfolk, Va. Hosmer's still in the insurance business in Syracuse, and is now dis-honorary President of the Comstock Avenue Gun Club, as the result of recent activity. Dutch Holland couldn't stand the little boys' gaff, I guess, because he's in Yale now doing graduate work. I got a card from Fred Piderit and Harvey Barker at the Frisco Fair, but I don't know what they're doing now. Young Calder, back at Harvard Business, reports Keresey as having made the Law Review at Columbia still a failure with the women, though. Clark Barrett's in Cincinnati now with McCormick Sale Cos., Dick Chase is still holding down his Chemistry job in Hanover, Warren Chivers is teaching at Vermont Academy, Ev Dearman is an accountant with General Foods in New York, Johnny Duguid is teaching in Durham, Conn., Bob Eckel's at Harvard Med.,- and Chester Emerson is with Sherwin- Williams in Boston.

Christiansen, a little balder and a little grayer, is still Manager of the Gulf Super Service Station in Brookline, and reports that A 1 McSwain has been put in charge of a new Gulf station in Harvard Square. Herb reports a little round-up at the Hofbrau, with all classes represented. For our little gossip column, there were Dan Marshall, now Ass't Manager of a Thompson Spa, Wendell Lake, still with the Scholastic magazine, McSwain, Badger, and Egelhoff, working for a construction outfit that is putting up an insurance building in Boston. Also tells me Chuck Wiggin is in Texas, and reports another sad happening. .. .John Tower engaged to Shirley Leake of Nashua, Tennessee. Cobleigh always said that Tow-Tow had a way with the ladies, though. Bob Owen is working for a shoe concern in Lynchburg, and it's reported that Dick Farrington is head of the Payroll department of Wilbur B. Driver Cos., in Newark. Ernie Foss is at McGill Med, Ed Goodkind with Feature Foods in Chicago, Lew Harriman with the First National of N. Y., Charley Hathaway with B. F. Goodrich Cos., in Hartford, and Frank Martin at McGill Med too. That stellar young purveyor of rotten jokes, Hamilton Mitchell with the R. H. Donnelley Corp., is apparently in Nevada, lowa. If that doesn't cramp his style, nothing will. Bill Norcross is with the American Bridge Cos., in Elmira, Dick Otto is a student at R.C.A. Institute, and at last comes more word of our own Homer Hobart Rockwell, pulling down a job. with Johns-Manville in N. Y. Fred Sibley is with Ediphone Sales in Hartford. It seems now that I've left there, there's going to be an influx. Don Simmons has quit the Montezuma School for Boys, and is teaching at Norton School in Claremont, California. I guess the Peruvians were too much for him. Phil Sutherland's with the Home Insurance Co.'s Investment Dept. in N. Y., Lloyd Williams is at Pembroke Country Day School in Kansas City, Fran Worcester is a laboratory attendant with the Northwest Paper Cos., in Cloquet, Maine, and I don't mean he's washing any bowls, and Ridgely Bacher is vice-president in charge of licensing patents for modern and easy opening cartons for Utility Packages, Inc. If someone can figure a way for me to get this news across without having to say "so and so is with such and such, and so and so is with some other such and such, and so on into the night," please tell me about it. I get sick reading it myself. So here I go again. A 1 Behr is at the Eastern Slope Ski School at Jackson, Runyan Colie is studying naval architecture at M.1.T., Dave Currier is with the Corner Garage, Inc. in St. Johnsbury, Lloyd Krum is with Kolynos... you know the stufiE that puts hair on your teeth, George Litchfield is a textile engineer of worsted fabric manufacturing with George Mahbelt & Sons in Plymouth, Mass., and Henry Safford is ass't advertising manager of Jenkins Bros, in N. Y. Then there's Lester Rockwell. I've been wondering what happened to him. I've also wondered what happened to the women he had up to houseparties. I looked in on his room one Friday night during one of the parties, and there was a little memo pad on his wall saying, "Saturday ... .9:00 o'clock, Chinese Literature, 10:15 return that book, and think, think, think all day." Now he's turned up as a time study man in the Standards Dept. of the Titanium Division of the National Lead Cos. in S. Amboy, N. J. I didn't know time needed studying, but that's his way of doing things. Newt Smith is in the Traffic Dept. of the New Orleans Furniture Mfg. Cos., and A 1 Wilson is a sales engineer in Lawrence, Mass. It seems Bunky Dunlap can't keep away from the animals, because besides trying to run the Dunlap Hog Division, he's managing the local polo team in Lancaster. Jim Chandler is with John Hancock in Pittsburgh, George Kingsbury is back in Keene now managing his store, and though this was given to me confidentially, Clothes Horse Sandy Mills is now the social butterfly of Cleveland. You know, the shank of the evening comes when everyone else is in bed. Borneman, apparently, is holding up his end of the same in Chicago. That about ends the palaver for this month. I'll be back next month with another flash of the hash. This is really Vox Clamantis in Deserto.

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