1932*
'Thirty Two no longer has an outpost in Alaska. Pete Sawyer resigned from the United States Forest Service in July to accept a job as agent for wildland and timber owners in his home state of Maine. Pete established what must be a new speed record, packing and moving from Ketchikan to Houlton in 22 days. New address: 21 Green St., Houlton, Me. Still in the U. S. Forest Service, Carl Parsons is stationed at Rochester, Vt., as a civil engineer.
Two members of the class are in Cordell Hull's State Department, one at home and one abroad. Bain Davis, in Washington, toils in the Trade Agreements Section. Bill Cole, once stationed in Vancouver, is now with the American Consulate General in Naples, Italy.
Paul Dunn brings our railroading record up to date with a bit from Philadelphia, where he is living at 1001 69th Ave., Oak Lane. Paul writes: After spending six summer seasons with the MountWashington Railway in every capacityfrom fireman to general manager and between times serving a special apprenticeship with the Boston and Maine R. R., Inow an inspector working directly forthe Superintendent of Motive Power ofthe B. sir M. For the next three months Iwill be living in Philadelphia while inspecting new locomotives being built atthe Baldwin Locomotive Works.
Paul may not know it, but between test runs on the Old '99 he can refresh himself in nearby Haverford in Bill Mackinney's restaurant and cafe, located at 354 W. Lancaster Ave., which bears the appropriate name of The Last Straw.
The most successful of New York '32 gatherings in many a moon was held in late October at the Dartmouth Club. A goodly turnout watched football and other sport films provided by Technicolor's Morgan Hobart. An unexpected and equally pleasant feature of the evening was an impromptu medley of Hanover songs by the Club's glee club, of which Bob McConnochie and A1 Young are enthusiastic members.
Seen at the dinner were a number of new faces. Brown Dickinson, formerly of Cincinnati, came to New York in August and is located at 17 Battery Place, where he buys things for Proctor & Gamble. Marq Richard, who was on for a few days from the Coast, regaled with stories of Dartmouth-in-Hollywood and just Hollywood. He returned a few months ago from a business trip around the world which took 1½ years and brought him to many strange ports. In Singapore he met Les Huntley, who works for the National City Bank. Highlight of Marq's trip (in retrospect, anyway) was a typhoon which struck a Japanese ship he was traveling on. Back in Hollywood, Marq is now running the Hollywood Service Bureau at 601 N. Rossmore St., which ties up with national advertisers for promotion through local dealers of products used in films. Branch office in New York.
Others on hand whose appearance at dinners has been all too infrequent were Fred White, doing an interesting research job for A. T. & T.; Julian Hobson, working in the statistical department of Wall Street's Hornblower & Weeks; Whitey Goodman, Buzz Burrows, and Jack Chesterman.
Marve Chandler proposes (and we second) a local Wah-Hoo-Wah for Don Richardson who finished four years of Fordham Law School at night (married the last two and a father for six months), received his degree, passed the New York Bar exam on the first try and has been admitted to the Bar, all while advancing in his regular job with Liberty Mutual.
Dick Clarke, it seems, was in Manhattan recently on a visit from Los Angeles. Alex Christie, W. T. Grant store manager, is living in Squantum, Mass., with wife and daughter. Morgan Hobart and Bob Wilkin did some fancy water skiing this summer at Westport, Conn. All this from the prolific Chandler.
Under news of the Second Generation, we can report a son (William Carr) to the Bill Bristers in far-off Panama; a son (David Burchard) to the Ned Rollinses of Westchester, and a daughter (Dianne) to the Ad Roes of Newport, N. H. Dr. Roe took off time from his practice to enjoy the Yale game; reported having seen John Swenson and John Fish during the summer.
Rog Needham informs us that Elizabeth Grey (wt., 7 lbs., 12 oz.) arrived in Gardner, Mass. on Oct. 26. This brings the total Needham progeny up to two-Brother Arthur having arrived some 21 months ago. Rog is still in the businessof making time clocks for other folks topunch.
Walt Rushmore, our fellow commuter (when we make the 8:23) has announced his engagement to Florence Patricia Keppler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Nicholas Keppler of Mineola, L. I. The prospective bride is a graduate of the Katharine Gibbs School, Adelphi College and New York University.
Dick Manville's new address is Huron Mountain, Mich., but whether Dick is atop the mountain or at its base we have no notion from the information supplied. Jack Carlton is assistant to the v. p. of the Bead Chain Manufacturing Cos. in Bridgeport, Conn. Newell Kurson is general manager of the Graphic Theatre Circuit, with offices at 164 Stuart St., Boston. Jim Brown is a student at Tufts Dental School. Gordon Hindes is a drilling assistant (but another kind) for the Barnsdall Oil Cos. of Victoria, Texas. Charles Fisher is with General Electric in New York, and Clarence Farr with duPont in Wilmington.
FLASH-OF-THE-MONTH: In Hollywood, Bob Ryan, who went out last year to study in Max Reinhardt's school of acting, was recently awarded a Paramount contract.
Jim Riley is one of the directors of the Pasadena Community Players, one of the best-known little theatre groups in the country.
A 1 Gerould, whose correspondence on West Coast matters is gratifyingly regular, sends news of the engagement of Jack Titcomb to one Janet Foote of Grass Valley, Calif. Much of the time since graduation Jack has been mining in the western U. S. and Canada. He went over to London last year for Christmas with his family. As A 1 reports it, He stayed for a monthof skiing in Switzerland and spent thespring surveying some old Roman goldmines in Portugal, and although he cameback with the report that there was nogold in the mines and no port wine inPortugal, he seems to have had a goodtime.
Jack ran into Pete Knight and his wife at Scheidegg, Switzerland. Pete was abroad last winter on a traveling fellowship from Harvard studying landscape architecture in Europe. On their way back to Cleveland, the Knights stopped overnight in New Brunswick, N. J. with Joe Boldt, who found them full of wonderful stories and sharp observations onEurope. Having adjusted themselves to the lack of snow in Cleveland, the Knights (at 1924 E. 85th St.) are planning a winter of enthusiastic figure skating.
To get back to A 1 Gerould—that campus crony of Pete's is now librarian at the College of the Pacific, Stockton, Calif. In the East this summer A 1 visited Hanover for a few days, and stopped off in Chicago on the way back to have dinner with Elly Jump, who works in the Zoller Dental Clinic at the University of Chicago. Jumpy has a sail boat and a greatcontempt for freshwater sailors who saythat Lake Michigan is treacherous just because they can't read the weather.
Tom Curtis, in New York for the Alumni Council meeting, says that Ted Thompson has turned in several nice scoops for the St. Louis Globe Democrat. Handy Auten has left the Menninger Clinic and can be reached c/o Dr. Sidney Walker, 6 N. Michigan Ave:, Chicago. Si Jacobson M.D. announces the opening of his office at 140 Eighth Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.
A real distinction has been won by Reuel Denney, whose Connecticut Riverand Other Poems was chosen by Stephen Vincent Benet as the winning volume of 1939 in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. This series, which Mr. Benet edits, includes each year a first volume of verse by an American citizen under 30. Readers of this column were treated last year to a sample of Reuel's ringing verse—some lines from McSorley's Bar, his poem about one of New York's famous old taverns. For a further exploration we refer you to the winning volume, which will be published shortly.
Meanwhile, however, we should like to quote you a few paragraphs from a letter of Reuel's, written from Buffalo and dated Sept. 30: The Buffalo population is tak-ing the European situation as it takes al-most everything—with a bottle of beer andsome provinciality. Our Polish corridor,which cuts through the east side and sepa-rates the Germans on the north side poma sort of East Prussia in the downtown sec-tion, has re-echoed. Last week a Germanand a Pole got into a fight in a bar and cuteach other up pretty badly before therewas an appeasement. On the other hand,one of our department stores found thewar rather handy as an advertising gag;they brought out a new dress color called Legion Crimson and advertised it in theirstore windows on Main Street with bayonets, barbed wire and broken walls. To theside there were rubrics to the effect thatthis new dress or that was As Exciting as the Maginot Line. This was pretty goodpublicity I thought, but I had an idea tosell to the competing department storeacross the street which I thought had itbeat all hollow. The idea was to go downinto the east side section and buy free rotgut for Poles and Germans and supplythem with free Little Wonder tear gasbombs (I understand the steel companieshave some out-of-date patterns they didn'tuse up in the last strike). At the same timephone the Red Cross and get some societygirls to start rolling bandages. Then whenthe thing got really started, move thewhole works up to Main Street in policewagons and stick it in the store windows.If that wouldn't sell brassieres, I'm a pacifist. Of course, we want to stay out of warup here. As Mr. Dooley said, or would havesaid: "War and terror are the heejous creashuns of capitalist impeeralism and they must be crushed underfoot; on the wan hand I would strike them dead; on the other hand, not so fast."
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