1934*
It feels as if the good days of Fall 1934 were here again and I'll tell you why. There have been times when news was scarce for these offerings, when your Secretary sat down to pretty lean pickings and made allegedly brave attempts to expand the literary scrapings into at least an edible meal if not a banquet. But this month, honest to bejee, Van Thome's New York Times would have to hire a dozen of the Digest's best condensers to stuff the available '34 news into its Sunday edition. And so at the feast we toast you as we damned you during the famine.
BIG STEP Department heads off this month with Dick Herman, who was married November 12 in San Francisco to Jeanne Smith-Willu. This information was received in a note from Dick and also shortly after in an excited phone call from Bill Gilmore to the effect F'heavens sakeget downstairs in a hurry and see who thehell's flying 'to the Coast to get married. Wrote Herman, We intend to honeymoonin Honolulu and then take up residencehere in New York. Phoned Gilmore, even later, Guess who's doivn here today, flyingto San Francisco for the week-end to getHerman married—Danzig and Werner!
More stoically we also got word that Laurie Herman and Florence Thomas ("Sis") Dingle, sister of John Dingle '38, were married October 28 at Highland Park....that Jack Gilbert was married, details missing, October 20 in Boston, with Ford, Rigby, Houck and Barber standing by to aid... .that Mac Carter, from whom we'd like to hear (if our recent attacker will grant the personal aside) is married and working in Texas. Only weeks after he had gone back did we hear that Carter was east for some time, nursing an ankle badly broken in a freak accident in which the car was standing, still and Mac became painfully involved with the front bumper .... that Bill Eldridge was recently married in Chicago to Helen Virginia Randolph of that city and formerly of Minneapolis. Their wedding trip took them to French Lick, Indiana
And here is one that rates front page: Joe Swensson and Barbara Joyce Bladen, of Troy, N. Y., were married at the Phi Sig House in Hanover at noon of November 18. For their wedding trip we will assume that they went down the street to see the Cornell game. Joe claims, and to our best knowledge we support him, that this is '34's first case of wedding in a fraternity house. Swensson is advertising manager of the Behr-Manning Corporation, and his bride, who takes a right fine Lloyd Photo, does secretarial work for the same. Frank Heath was married November 4 in Ithaca, to Connie Allen, with Dick Wells rendering the customary moral support at his side
Last class dinner in New York brought to light one Bud Hart, back only a few months from an 8-month stay in Tahiti and down to New York from Rochester for a few days. More about Tahiti when Bud takes this public request for an essay on the subject Old Jax told of a surprise phone call from Cotsworth, who was on his way from a Boston convention back to St. Louis and his new title as Superintendent of Agencies at the home office of the American Automobile Insurance Co. He reported that Al Cory is now a lieutenant in the Army Air Corps, stationed at Panama Down there in South America there are Gussenhoven twins Until we hear more we can only report that we saw the face and name of Bill Mock in a recent Herald-Tribune photo from France, of a group of American volunteer ambulance drivers working at the front Babe Shea, with Halls Systems, has apparently won his spurs with IBM, for he's pioneering their application to a new set-up in one of New York's big banks Bob Corwin, SEC lawyer in charge of the investigation of Ohio regularities, has just bought a new Buick to help cover the state between Cleveland and Dayton, and according to Gruen, has put on "plenty" of weight. Personally, we'd match Wardwell against him, sight unseen.
Gerald Clark, born November 5, is the infant son of Alden and Helen Clark of Pomfret, Conn. Hod represents Henry Holt Co., publishers, over a wide territory covering New England and New York colleges and universities Engaged: Gordon Haverkampf and Frances Ellen Durr, of Kenilworth, Sarah Lawrence, and Northwestern University Jamie King has moved his family of four, including Jamie Jr. '57 and John Van R. '59, to Chicago, where he is opening a branch of the Technical Coatings Co. of New York. Bob Gallegher is with the Mulcare Engineering Co., in New York Fred Rath is an historian for the government at Savannah, Georgia Joe Bender is taking up singing as a hobby
Our roving correspondent, Al Hewitt, on tour with The Taming of the Shrew, pops us on the letterhead of a Wichita hotel that says it is "Kansas' Finest." Thistranscontinental trek, says he, has broughtforth a few familiar and welcome faces.Bob Goodman and charming wife musthave liked the show in Washington, as theyinvited me to dinner. He is practicing lawwith the R. F. C. and has hopes of makinga career in Washington While roaming idly through the U. of Wisconsin sspacious new theater I crashed into BillFrench. He was not seeing the Shakespeare Follies of 1939 (which one of thepapers dubbed us) but was in town to attend a Boy Scout convention Milwaukee uncovered Bill Stowe, who couldn tspeak of our streamlined Shakespeare (likewise quoted from a mid-western rag) without chortling. He teaches Latin, coachestrack, and hopes to leave the teaching profession to its own devices, come spring,and embrace a journalistic career Thethird week out and not a single Dartmouthman, but one of .the critics referred to usas an Elizabethan Hellzapoppin. Sey Dunncaught up with the show at St. Louis, having journeyed over 200 miles from lowaCity, although not for us alone. As visiting firemen we saw Bill Rench at a Dartmouth luncheon club gathering. The original tour of 4 weeks has mushroomed into18. Schedule from here in: Salt Lake Cityand Seattle, then on down the Coast asfar as San Diego, then through Phoenix,Tulsa, Texas, New Orleans and the South.And back to the Penn-Astor Drug Storethe first week in February. There is evenchatter about a Federal Government-sponsored South American tour!
Dick Gruen continues to report success on the Class dues operation, and continues to send bundles of cards from the checksigners. Here's more news with the Duespostals.... from Don Bunting, who, still with the P.P.A. as an assistant meteorologist, just returned from a brief business trip to Colombia and Venezuela with the feeling that South America offers plenty of opportunity. .. .from Howie Gussenhoven's mother, who says Gus's address for at least one more year is General Motors, Argentina Sey Dunn is heading west this year, will be at the University of lowa until Christmas, at the University of Chicago till June, on a General Education Board fellowship in training for a special research job at Cornell the following two years. He reports that Jack Feth now goes under the title of Director of Publicity at the University of New Mexico, at Albuquerque Joe Lehmann, recently married as previously reported, now puts his shoes under the bed at 850 Amsterdam Ave., New York Bob Rodman reveals that he graduated from Harvard Law in 1937, passed the Massachusetts and Federal bars, is now practising at 70 State St., Boston Sam Carson sounds pretty happy about his bonds of matrimony.
Leon Lindheim makes our hearts glad to already looking forward to Tenth Reunion. His wife, who had never seen Hanover before the Fifth, insists Leon underrated the place Bill Stein, engaged in philanthropic work in Manhattan, says no new vital statistics to report in his sector
Frank Parmalee chortles about Carson being a marked man, also reports same Carson just elected vice-president of the Dartmouth Club of Toledo and Parmalee elected treasurer, while Bill Daniells moves out of a year's occupancy of the presidential chair. Toledo looks like a good spot to hold our next Reunion Henry Rose says "No news," but some of these "no news" reports remind us of the old vaudeville dialect called "No News, or What Killed the Dog."....B0b Griffin says he sold the boat and so there won't be any beer party this fall. Sorry, Bob, but hope you got a good price for it Ted Germann had a fine time in France this summer, during his honeymoon, and got out well ahead of the rush George Donehue has a new job, Credit Manager of Sears Roebuck, in Lowell, Mass Current and new status of Tom Cass puts him in Philly, handling sales promotion activities for the Eastern Division of Container Corporation of America. Tom is about to be married, next spring or before, to Ruth Allyn Wilson, of Youngstown, Ohio Ed Bishop started his medical practice in Philadelphia last June Harry Cohen says his old nickname of Quinny has changed to Fagan since entering the real estate business According to Bill Rench, St. Louis is taking good care of Dartmouth's future football prospects by sending 14 good football players into the Class of '44. Shades of John Tunis! Rench says Sunny (he doesn't like that name any more) Mills was recently looking for a residency in St. Louis
Johnny Roberts, after spending three years in the Engineering Department of the DuPont Dye Works, was transferred the latter part of July to carry on engineering development at the DuPont Ammonia Department plant at Belle, W. Va. ....Marc Young, recently seen in New York for the first time in years, explains that he is now managing the N. Y. warehouse of the Golden Gate Manufacturing Co. of California, and is married Bob Miller puts it in writing that he is allthrough with professional baseball, and is settled down at.a steady job as Assistant Business Manager of the Essex County Hospital, living in Cedar Grove, N. J....
Bill French, assistant cashier of the Baraboo National Bank, and recently elected vice-president of the Wisconsin chapter of the American Institute of Banking, says he and wife Bobbie keep the spare room unlocked and the welcome mat out 24 hours a day for roving and weary '34s
Art Ward has had a tough time of it since we saw him at Reunion. Allen Downing Ward was born July 22, and his parents were very happy about the whole situation until a week later when Art, the only one of the trio not recently involved, suddenly discovered a patch of tuberculosis in one lung (his own). That meant stopping work in the middle of his internship at Worcester City Hospital and going to bed for two months. A week after he hit bed he developed an abscess from an infected hypodermic, and then scarlet fever. A couple more things piled on top of that, and Art doesn't expect to be out of bed till the first of the year. In fact he hasn't seen his son and heir since the first of August. Tie that. And still he sends his check!
This still far from skims the top of the Dues-Postals, and we have some letters for which we have much gratitude and no space. With apologies for delaying them, we'll hit 'em next month. A Happy Christmas!
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Treasurer, 30 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y.
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