1929*
HERE'S NEWS ABOUT THE REDSHIRTS—who, in case you don't know, are all the boys who will be in Hanover for the Tenth: from Friday, June 16, through Sunday, June 18. There were 125 of us at the Fifth, and the hope is to make it a Triumphant Tenth by luring at least 225 Twenty-niners to the green hills of Hanover this spring. And may the class that graduated into the depression—and lived through the recession—open a bigger and better second decade with a bang-up, resounding reunion!
The Committee is laboring on plans and program. They're still tentative, but they look good:
Five years ago South Mass was our dormitory. This year Topliff or one of the other large dormitories will be assigned to 1929. Nearby, as five years ago, will be pitched a large open-sided tent, our headquarters, where we will receive and register. At the Fifth, Buster Brown presided day and night over an endless chain of beer kegs. There was a piano, which got the daylights pounded out of it and was constantly surrounded by a singing, shouting group of '29 harmonicas. That setting will be duplicated, and, we are sure, outdone at the Triumphant Tenth.
Saturday there are scheduled two ball games—one played by the college team in the orthodox intercollegiate manner—and the other a spectacular contest between 1929 and the five-year reunioning class. This second game is always good. Five years ago Captain Dick Johnson led a nineteen-man team to a brilliant victory, in which the ten-year class was over- whelmed by sheer numbers.
The alumni luncheon is the official event Saturday noon, probably followed by a parade. All these events proceed with a gathering intensity and momentum, reaching an explosive climax at the class dinner Saturday night in the new Thayer Hall. Five years ago we took over the Outing Club House on Occom Pond. Red Kennedy loosened up the piano, while Karl Michael, Tom Maynard, Phil Mayher, and Ichie Little sang songs and led the rest of us. Jack Blair and Gus Herbert entertained with antics and stories. Altogether, the evening was such that attendants reported the September hurricane a mild affair in comparison.
Sunday's picnic will move the class over to Bonnie Oaks on Lake Morey for the day. There we will have exclusive use of a large lodge, where the class meeting can be held and the class movies shown. Between the lodge and the lake is a field suitable for soft ball and other sporting events, with a small cottage nearby which can be used as a tap room. The lake, with float, diving tower, and boats should furnish all the necessary equipment and setting for such clowns as Maynard, Leavitt, Ferrini, and Lyle to continue their aquatics where they left off at the Fifth.
This is the curtain-ringer for another five years.
FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW: First be sure to fill out and mail right away the return postcord which you will receive soon. It's important. This will not commit you to anything, but is just to help the committee form plans. Later, we'll publish the names of those intending to come.
Arrive in Hanover as early Friday as you can. As soon as our dormitory has been assigned to us, we'll tell you where to register.
Bring a pair of white trousers, to set off the red-shirt costumes.
As for the ladies, bless the pretties, some of the boys bring them, and as years go on, still more will. At the Fifth, with 125 Twenty-niners, there were 24 lady guests. Of course, they're welcome. We'll have a program for them, too, though we won't guarantee that they will see much of their husbands.
Watch these columns and the mails for further information. As plans develop into a fixed program we will pass it along to you.
The other evening at the Boston alumni dinner Gene Davis explained as best he could on a tablecloth why people need glasses. He is finishing up this year at the Massachusetts School of Optometry, after which he expects to practice somewhere in the environs of New York.
Walt Gutterson, who is teaching history at Weymouth (Mass.) High School, asks for help to locate John Rogers.
Others present at the dinner were GusHerbert, Don Simpson, Hank Stein, BillWhite, Herm Liss, Dick Johnson, and Chris Born.
Nick Vincent, who sat with us at last year's dinner, is now studying neurology at the National Hospital in London. How hard he studies around diversities and the New Year may be gathered from the post card received from him mailed from the heart of the ski country in Switzerland.
Wat Spangler has this to say about the '29 delegation in Western Pennsylvania:
"Herb Simpson and Sawyer Kier are president and treasurer respectivelys of the local Dartmouth Club. Herb is selling oil in the Pittsburgh district for the Atlantic Refining Co. He tells me that Slim Gorrigan operates a chicken farm in Sarasota, Fla., and that Harry Fennerty is associated with the Alliance Machinery Cos., Al- liance, Ohio. Sawyer is working in the treasury department of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. I hear irregularly from Dick Brown, roofer, of Detroit, and Bob Collins, lawyer, of Los Angeles, both of whom write about intentions of going to reunion. Dr.W. E. Flannery has been associated with the Cleveland Clinic for the past two years. Moon. Vossler, the hardware merchant from Wheeling, paid his annual visit to Pittsburgh last spring, but we haven't heard from him since. John Conion is back in town after a sojourn in New England of several months.
"The few of us who attend the local luncheons regularly have discussed the possibilities of attending Reunion, and if our anticipations are granted we will be there. I certainly think the last Reunion was a success in every way, and feel that if this one is handled much along the same line no one will be disappointed."
The ranks continue to fill up: Joseph Spencer Morgan, ad, joining Mr. and Mrs. Bill Morgan in New York City on January 5; John Sawyer Moxon arriving on January 2 to out-heckle (we hope) his illustrious father; and Rebecca Olive adding new music, on January 19, to the Proctor Martin household at the DeVeaux School, Niagara Falls, N. Y., where Proctor (A. A. G. O.) teaches, coaches, and is organist and choirmaster. This business of having a son sort of puts Morgan on the spot, in so far as his proposed 1929 Class Scholarship for sons of class members go. We have his word for it, however, that last fall when he announced the idea he was innocent of any ulterior selfish motives. Proc, being a teacher at a school under the Regents system, with only limited time off for the trip to Reunion, is looking for others along the route who may be in the same fix.
Percy Russell practices with the firm of Kirkland, Fleming, Green, Martin, and Ellis in Washington, where, he says, classmates are as scarce as Republicans. He does see Duke Barto and Bob Lyle at the weekly alumni luncheons, and occasionally Ted Arliss, who is with the Home Owners Loan Corp. Reports that GeorgeNaylor has been in Washington recently on some tax matters for his firm in Boston, and that just recently he moved LarryLougee's admission to the bar of the Supreme Court.
George MacDonnell does the purchasing for the Marlboro (Mass.) plant of Koehler Manufacturing Company, which, among other things, makes the hockey skates used by the college. After a year at Harvard Business School he worked in New York for a short time before settling down at his present job.
This being a high class column, the name of AI Dickerson or any of his brain-trust should not under ordinary conditions be mentioned, but, giving the devil his due, we thank him for sending along the latest news of Kyosuke Fukuda who is the editor-in-chief of a newspaper in Tokyo. Kyo's family consists of his wife, one daughter, and two sons.
Frank Shores, presently of King's High- way, Dover, Del., is taking over the management of Hillside Lodge, Twin Mountain, N. H., next summer, and will be on hand to welcome any classmates who may pass through that way after Reunion.
An article in the New York Times of January 12 entitled Political Job IsSpurned Till Need for It Is Proved relates that Walter L. Hetfield 3d (Sonny to you), chairman of the Union County Republican Committee, notified the Board of Free- holders that he would not accept a $2,500 position as special legal consultant in the sheriff's office, created by the freeholders on January 2, until the necessity for the position was established. Like the man who bit the dog—this is NEWS.
Dolson Smith is with the New York Telephone Co., living in Brooklyn.
Ted Palmer is an agent for Northwestern Mutual Life, in Lowell, Mass.
Bob Simonds is with Houghton & Simonds, Brattleboro, Vt.
Walter Scott is working for the federal government as a budget man for project organization under Soil Conservation.
Bob Waddell is an agent for Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York in his own old home town of Jeannette, Pa.
Ed Heister is a salesman for Hearst International Advertising Service in New York, and lives in Glen Ridge, N. J.
Ted Shackford has been with the National Shawmut Bank of Boston since graduation; is now assistant manager of one of the uptown offices; has an eight months' old son, and lives in Arlington.
Trunkie Brittain says some of you haven't sent him $1.50 for the MAGAZINE yet. Will you please send him a check NOW.
Secretary, 75 Federal St., Boston
