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During a recent visit to Hanover we got from Professor Herb Sensenig and Mimi a full account of their exciting trip abroad. They arrived in New York on September 14 on the Statendam after a hectic crossing, during which they went six hours off their course to rescue the 37 members of the crew of S.S. Winkleigh, a British freighter which had been sunk five hours before. The Sensenigs left New York June 22 and went to London and then to Newcastle, where they took the Vega to Bergen, Norway, both agreeing that the boat trip from Stavanger past Haugesund up to Bergen was the finest thing they've ever seen. The rail trip over the Norwegian mountains to Oslo was also spectacular. From Oslo they went to Stockholm and by boat to Helsinki, which was interesting but not up to Norway or Sweden. Then they turned south, crossed into Estonia, visiting some Baltic barons, friends of Mimi. It was interesting, they said, living just 20 miles from the Russian border, from which point Russia looked mighty threatening. At that time the German-Russian treaty had not been disclosed, and so these "Baits," as they are called, still looked to Hitler as their savior. Next they went through Latvia into Poland, crossing from Wilno to the Slovak frontier with a couple days' stop in Warsaw.
They spent two weeks in Slovakia, which was Mimi's home before she was married. Herb's comment on conditions there is interesting and authoritative: "This country is a sorry mess since the Germans took over. The Gestapo was in there, the German army had complete control, and everybody seemed quite unhappy. It is a tangled district anyway, with three national groups represented in about equal proportions. Naziism exaggerated the differences, ruined the country economically, and turned these people at each other's throats. Now a voter must belong to either the Slovak, Hungarian or German party. Most of the people are so mixed up they can't decide what they are, and generally join up where they see the most advantage or as the propaganda pressure is applied. Families are broken up by this. I know of one that had three sons, and each son was in a different party and all were forever fighting with one another. The Nazis have had no experience in handling minorities, except the Jews, which they certainly have handled atrociously, and present-day Slovakia is certainly a bitter foretaste of what Central Europe may expect if the Nazis gain control. We were glad to get to Hungary, which seemed peaceful and content by comparison." On August 22 they were in Belgrade when they heard radio reports that Americans had been warned to leave Germany, France, etc. They had a 48- hour train trip via Yugoslavia, northern Italy, Switzerland, to Paris, from which children had already been evacuated, and on to Boulogne. Since the harbor was about to be mined, they were told to go to Rotterdam, so they hired a car to Antwerp and caught one of the last trains into Holland. Both Belgium and Holland were mobilizing by then. The six days spent in Rotterdam were extremely uncomfortable because they didn't know whether the Statendam would ever show up and because it looked as if Holland might be involved. Finally they reached New York on September 14, worn out by their hectic experiences.
We asked Herb to look up Otto Sokol in Vienna, whose mail had been returned for the past several years. Otto was born in Vienna, but became a naturalized citizen while at Dartmouth. Herb couldn't found him, but when he got back to Hanover found that he had applied to the German department for an instructorship. We wrote to Otto at his home in Cape May, N. J., and learned that he has been in this country since 1922 except for a brief visit to Vienna in 1930. He says, Myeldest brother is a naval officer on theStaff in the ministry in Vienna; my otherbrother, an American citizen like myself,is assistant professor at Leland Stanfordin California. Otto got his M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1933 and has taught German, French and Spanish at Chestnut Hill Academy and other prep schools.
Apparently the mating call is losing some of its vigor, at least it seems so when we have only one marriage to report. Thanks to the efficient Dartmouth Alumni Records Office, we have a clipping from the Manchester Leader indicating that on October 2d Forest Kimball went through the wedding ordeal at Manchester with Georgia Worrell Sargent, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Worrell of that city. The bride attended the Leslie Kindergarten Training school at Cambridge, and the Margaret Pillsbury School of Nursing in Concord. Since their wedding trip Forest and Georgia have been living at 36 Salmon St., Manchester.
'Gene Andres is back in the travel business again, with the Hall Travel Agency in Boston; be sure to get your cruise tickets through him (adv.) We note with pride that Dick Walker is president of the "Of the Plains" Dartmouth Alumni Association, which was founded in 1898 in Omaha, Nebraska Roy Martin has shifted his activities in the securities field to Monmouth Beach, New Jersey, where he can be found at 63 Riverdale Ave On January Ist Charlie Gearhart will be promoted by the New York Life Insurance Co. to the managership of their Murray Hill Branch at 1 Park Ave., New York City; Charlie has been manager of the Putnam Branch and is merging this unit with new office We learn through the thoughtfulness of the library that Sam Dennis is the author of RecentDevelopments in Construction Activity in the August issue of SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS; Sam gets this month's green derby for the longest title—he is Chief of the Construction and Real Property Section, Division of Economic Research, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, in Washington, D. C From the same source we learn that Ruf Munsell, Research Assistant in Agronomy at the University of Connecticut, has written a sprightly little paper entitled Soil Acidity for volume 3 of SOIL SCIENCE OF AMERICA. He is on a leave of absence this fall and is doing graduate work at Ohio State for a Ph.D. He says Ohio people have a very low opinion of eastern football, but that was before the Cornell-Ohio State game.
Recent events of importance include the arrival on October 15th of Marcia Granger at the home of Deo and Leslie Granger up in Glenbrook, Conn., and Barney and Grace Nova's second boy, James Lewis, born October 23d in Brooklyn The Class has only one member in the army or navy, and he is Captain Normando A. Costello, who graduated from West Point in 1929 and is now in the infantry and a Tactical Officer at West Point; Tony and Frances have two children, George (5) and Clare (3) Jerry Goodwin, principal of schools in Arlington, Vermont, is an active radio amateur, owning and operating station WiGVJ Bill Hobson's wife, Elizabeth, has just recovered from a very serious case of pneumonia.
A very successful '2B Pow Wow was held immediately after the Harvard game October 28 at the Hotel Commander. The reunion movies were shown on a projector loaned by Monk Davenport, and later a buffet supper was served. The arrangements were handled by Don Norris and Jack Phelan, who deserve a vote of thanks, we hope they will arrange a similar party every year after the Harvard game. Present at the party were: Harry and Betty Bennert from Manchester, N. H.; Doc and Mrs. Crowlfey; Craig and Eleanor Haines; Gene Magenis; Myles Lane, of New York, and Bobbie Olsen, Wellesley '4l; Bud and Ruth Mann; Larry Martin and Naomi Walton; Don and Barbara Norris; Doug and Dot Pease; Jack and Pearl Phelan, Ed Sawyer, of Bangor, Maine; Larry Lougee, of New York, (President of Class of '29) and Anne Sutherland, Wellesley '4l; your Secretary and Betty Frenfch. The next day Lane, Lougee and your Secretary visited Jack, Pearl and little Martha Phelan at their new home on Meadowbrook Road, Needham. After inspecting the Bmm and 16mm reunion movies, we enjoyed the fresh doughnuts and coffee served by Pearl.
Seen in Hanover before or after the Lafayette game: Hank and Helen Graupner, who were married in August; Feet Thurston and Dorcas Woodbury from Boston; the Sonny Middlebrooks from Hartford; the Bill Mortons from Syracuse; the Ken Grafs and the Skip Draytons from Manchester, N. H.; and Ed Sawyer from Bangor, Maine The longest list of directorates are appended to the names of Ed Heyn and Charlie Dickinson. Ed is director, secretary and treasurer of the B.V.D. Corp. in New York and a director of eight allied milling and finishing companies; Charlie is vice president of the Dickinson Fuel Cos. in Charleston, W. Va., and a director in the Central Trust Cos. and six coal companies.
Grace Anthony, the capable and gracious manager of The Country Gentleman Tea Room (9 miles north of Bel Air, Md., on Route No. 1) says in a letter just received, Ace and I had been looking forward to seeing you on your way to theDartmouth-Navy game, and we were awfully disappointed that you couldn't getaway. Early on the morning of the gameAce had me dig down in the moth ballsand bring out his Dartmouth '2B banner,which we hung under our big sign infront of the Tea Room, and it hadn'tbeen out long when Johnnie and VeraFlanagan, and By and Louise Dodgestopped. Ace was simply delighted to seethem as was I. After the game they returned for dinner and the Tea Room waspacked with Dartmouth men and theirwives. I was so busy that I didn't havetime to get them to sign our guest book,but I do know that Mr. and Mrs. BillDodge '29, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hazzard '29and Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Blumenthal '55were there. Two weeks later Wes Woodstopped with a party of friends on hisway from Troy, N. Y., to Atlanta Ace is still in bed, it has been 18 monthsnow, but he is improving and weighs 202 lbs.
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AT THE MOUNT WASHINGTON HALF-WAY HOUSE FEBRUARY 22, 1925 An Outing Club trip of some years ago when a group of D.O.C. enthusiasts in theclasses of '25, '26, '27, and '28 climbed Mount Washington. Making allowances for informal grouping, those in the picture are left to right, front row, sitting: Ed Coddington '27, O. G. Noble, Fred Fellingham '27, M. H. Hart '25, Ed. Duffy '26 (who died lastsummer), Chuck Webster '26, Os Skinner '28, Bill Kimball '28, Larry Kenney '28, Second row: Paul Harper '26, J. K. Sullivan '25, Frank Tindle '28, Bill Ballard '28, M. H.Merrill '26, Prentice Bradley '28. Rear: Dick Lougee '27, George Sanborn '28, E. L.Stebbins '25, Parker Jacobson '28, Ben Hefler '28, Heinie Buchtel '28, and J. L. Norris '25.
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