1938*

"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."

This month brings forth the engagement of Paul Thorpe and Olive Eppler, of Amherst, Mass., Jock Grether married and living in New York, and Clark Fletcher deciding on Dec. 21 for his marriage to Margaret Benson; besides which Jack Donovan reports Bob Carroll's plans for something similar. All of which reminds me that I recently went to Dallas, hoping to see Henry Beck's sister, only to find she'd been married six hours before. Luckily the occasion brought Henry home and we got together for a while. He's in charge of a construction job for Central Contracting Co. in Macon, Georgia. Still hasn't learned to drive, but sporting a heavier crop of hair.

As for momentous things that escape my attention, Kenneth Jr. was born to Mr. & Mrs. Kenny Howard March 3d. Ken's in the florist business in Milford, Mass. For those that are interested in disstance, Johnny Johnson's address is Texas Oil Co., Accra, Gold Coast, Africa. Young Robert Lang is now full-fledged Graduate Manager of Non-Athletics in Hanover. I don't know whether it's gone to his head, but at least he doesn't write any more.

Then we go to the other extreme of Wee Willy Thomas, who writes every day. He's playing basketball for the Crescents again. After freshman year Frank Richardson went to work for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, transferring in the fall of '37 to Issagnah, Washington to try a smaller bank, and this July returned to work with an uncle in Brockton, manu-facturing sporting goods. Jim Chandler's in Pittsburgh now with the John Hancock, and Glee-Team Mallory's changed jobs to go with Borden & Co. Bob Reeve's been a good correspondent this month. The kid's ranked sixth in Class A by the Eastern Squash Racquets Association, and along with Mays is now a licensed broker in New York. He reports Holland at Yale Dramatic School; Don Badger with Royal Crown Cola Co., up until now in Portsmouth, and planning to be married next summer to Jerry Jennings, recently chosen Queen of Boston College's Centennial Ball. Is there anyone in the congregation who can voice any objections.

Six bits a plate brought a good crowd to the fall's first class dinner in New York October 18th. Stallions present were Stew Whitman, Bill Wischmann, Bob Ross, Bob Southworth, Sherriff Gordon, Willy Thomas, Bob McConeghy, Dick Higbee, Jim Seaver, Bob Carson, Ben Walkley, Bill Olmstead, Recluse Mattimore, Lou Frick, Hoby Rockwell, Ray Ammarell, Jim Briggs, Elliot Herrick, Bob Frese, Lew Parker, Bill Lyle, Miles Prentice, Dick Nelson, Fred Baker, Hal Storch, Art Koeppel, Dune Dobie, Len Gutner, Al Wolff, Bill Blaney, Roly-Poly Jones, Bob Mac Gregor, Fred Piderit, Hans Barber, Ed Korn, Joe Schaeffer, Toots McDuff, Whitey Mays, Equitable Slattery, Paul Feakins, Bob Starke, Larry Hull, Bob Foley, Don Boyle, Tedd Thorne, Sid Cardozo, Bill Guyther, Jack Scotford, Bob Harvey, and John Tower. Larry Hull, now with Grace Line, tried to go it one better by sponsoring another blow-out at 2½ sheets of lettuce a throw, and the last I heard Hoby Rockwell was the only one who coughed up.

Joe Schaeffer's still plugging classified space for the Herald Tribune, and the same goes for Dune Dobie. Bud Walls is down with lobar pneumonia in the Passavant Hospital, Chicago. It's strange to see him with anything but jaundice, but here's hoping for a speedy recovery. Jack Donovan's still training at General Motor's Diesel plant in Detroit, but can't be too busy, having last been seen at the Harvard game. Bev Smith's in Detroit too. It ought to be tough on the town with two Psi Us together. Jerry Tosi is learning Italian in the expectation of working into the export department of some New York firm. Bill McMurtrie is with Columbia Broadcasting in Hollywood in the inter-company relations department (mail room) and next in the Public Relations Department (guide)—all in the way of training. Look for him in in Our Gang.

This is the only way I can get to tell Mrs. Reno about son Robert's activities, so excuse any references in that direction. He's complaining now about his social life, tsk, tsk. Bob Carroll's in Providence as a student engineer for New England Power (Narragansett Electric) and going to Brown at night. Charlie Wiggin was in Texas but I didn't run across him. Last seen a sheriff had him handcuffed to the bumper of a car. Gene Waggaman's found his little Tita again. So far I haven't been able to find anyone who's letting anything interfere with his social life, except the boys at Cornell Med. They're a bunch of hermits.

Plans are set now for a class dance in New York at the Dartmouth Club on December 9th. Committee in charge—Ben Walkley, Sid Cardozo, Whitey Mays, Lou Flick, and Jughead Thomas. Reno, ex officio, is arranging dates for everyone. Don't miss it. You'll be sorry. Mays will put on his drunken sailor act, currently being gossiped of in Variety.

WORLD OF YESTERDAY

Now that the Fair is over, I find Troutner was with Kodak, Hoby Rockwell with Johns-Manville, and Gorman with American Tobacco, and Bill Lyle's back in Boston with IBM. Bunky Dunlap reports seeing IBM's York, Pa., representative, Tom McGrath, at all the Quaker functions. How's this for a collection of roommates— Mattimore, Sutherland, Harvey and Tower? Who wakes who in the morning? Just got a late flash, which should belong in the first paragraph. It's the marriage of Margery Ellen McMakin of Hinsdale, Illinois and Lester Rockwell, October 28th. Does anyone know whether Tom Herbert married that Pitcher girl yet? Not Molly. Dick Bennett is with Forte, Dupee, Sawyer Co. of Boston, or at least was the last I heard, and the same goes for Bill Clarke with Filing Equipment Bureau. Also, how about that pending marriage of Jim Miller and Betty Meath, and who did Bill Wiggins marry? This is getting to be a questionnaire more than anything else, but it may be an improvement. I don't know what sort of a movement '38 will make toward fall houseparties, but I'll let you know about it. Let's hope we don't have a repetition of McDuff's spring visit, or the famous visit of Walls to the Alpha Delt house. Don't think I don't miss that stuff down here.

As for any further news, we'll have to wait until the next. I'm in a hotel room in Oklahoma City with letters strewn all over the place, and my deadline on hand. This will inaugurate the department of missing persons. What's happened to Hook Schneider?

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