1936*

That news about Morris is out: as a matter of fact the Cincinnati Enquirer scooped this sheet by some fifty days when on January 25 its society columns carried the following information: "Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Perrah Coke announce the engagement of their daughter, Clarice, to Mr. Robert S. Morris Jr., a son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Morris of La Jolla, Calif." I always suspected, even in those early days in Hanover, that a touch of romance would enter into the curly-haired Moss's matrimonial affairs. For beneath the business-like exterior of that boldfaced denizen of managerialism beat a heart that would put even Halliburton's to sorry shame. They met on the boat when the Moss returned from last summer's tour of Europe (with Keeler): her name was "Weecie": Christmas found her in California: and they are to be married sometime this summer.

Aside from this there are several mysteries to be cleared up before this column gets very far under way. First of all is the Treadway maze: now, three hundred postcards can't be completely wrong, but I have received approximately that number of brief notes from members of the class who had been told that TREADWAY IS GOING INTO THE MINISTRY. To date the only official word I have received from him since the Royal Park program came through is as follows: "I am planning to go to Mexico when the winter season closes and get the cobwebs out of my mind, then probably summer school somewhere." If Tread is planning to enter the clergy, I, for one, think it is a great thing. It is a known fact that the Bible has long remained the best seller in the book field. But I would certainly like to know more about this.

At any event an interesting letter from Joe Cunningham was forwarded to me several weeks ago. Says Joe, "I'm a combination secretary, press agent, and what-do-you-need for the New York Roadside Improvement and Safety Committee, which is a long way of saying I'm working to try to get legislation passed that will regulate the use of outdoor advertising in New York state." Good luck, Joe. As an entirely personal request, however, and at the same time representing a powerful voting minority, could you possibly include a clause for the "Prevention of Calling Roadside Dog-wagons 'Smitty's Place . Eat.'"! ! !

Now, while my crew of private secretaries busy themselves with compiling the vast quantities of information disclosed by the post-cards which have come to 32 High St., I figure I can dawdle away time by a few moments of idle musing. To be frankly honest with you, my financial stooge, Gibney, that perverse wit, drew up the questionnaire we sent out. All of which was a great idea: we wanted to know things about you; where you live; what you are doing week-in, week-out, week-ends: who are your children and where are they; and would you like reunions in Vienna or White River Junction? Little did we realize, however, that we would be flooded by such a sea of hot dope!!:

Eddie Chamberlain, for instance, is married and has "one dog" name "Half-shot," who spends his days barking about Chuck Barnish, who "weighs 240 pounds and never writes anyone."....Monagan, on the other hand, reports "unmarried and no children named Monagan"; this from the Harvard Med dorms. Prolific pingpong player and golfer Dug Porter produced child number two early this month. Only sixteen to go, retorts Keeler, who shoots around the low nineties now and then, but still spends most of his time with his nose glued to those law books.

Then there is Freddy Mechlin, working for the Simplex Piston Ring service, spending his evenings in "gay, giddy Washington" and his week-ends in "Washington, but duller," and who "never sees anyone but Pettengill".... and thereby hangs a tale: to wit; Dartmouth-Yale weekend two years ago, and Wm. Van H. P. in New Haven with us, and on Sunday morning sitting in our window attired in the manner of Tarzan and delivering priceless sermonettes to passing New Havenites on their way to church, at the same time offering small sips of Scotch and soda and damn well insisting that they accept them. We lived on the third floor!!

We also discovered that Locky Barr has no children named Cuthbert; Hot-lip Gil Portmore, no children named Egbert and Theresa, although he is still able to sound higher than Jitterbug Jim Conkling; that Ted Dearborn (to stay with the musicians) has no children named Hepzibah; that Seymour Sims is "married and has fun," tsk tsk!! and ho-hum department!!!; that Joe Carson has "prospects"; that Bill Spring has no children named Butch yet, although he is working "in the capacity of counterman for Travelers Insurance!; that Bill Gates has no children named Oscar, and that wherever he is "it is snowing and indicative of exciting existence."

Our records furthermore show beyond any shadow of doubt that the most popular name for no child is "Joe," which holds a substantial lead over "Oscar" and "Thank Heavens." The latter cognomen, although of questionable ranking, finished strong by getting Steve Stotzer's weighty support in the last few minutes of the polling. But for quantity, "Joe" ran way ahead of the field.

Jim Conkling, for instance, claims seven "Joes." I dare say this is well within his rights, because he works for E. I. du Pont de Nemours (Schulberg, please note). Colleagues in the "no children named Joe" class are Bax Fullerton "selling, and singing in a choir" in Cleveland; also Bill Gibson, who engineers for the Union Barge Line out of Pittsburgh.

Those busy secretaries: gathering together all sorts of information: charting graphs; preparing data for publication next month leave me with only a few more moments for musing. This consists of thoughts regarding scenes which Walter Wanger may well have wished for. little pictorial gems to enhance the movie now being filmed in Hanover and Hollywood: to wit. . . .

(1) Button, Donovan, and Maclntire whisking away three footballs in the '35- '36 football rush, representing the first outstanding defeat of the sophomore class by the freshman class in many years of Dartmouth history.

(2) Erion, with eyes at half-mast, marshaling a bleary-orbed class for a baccalaureate service on a Sunday morning several Junes back.

(3) The same gentleman tiptoeing down the alley adjoining the "Corner," a beer barrel poised over his head, and Officer Hallisey tiptoeing along behind the bookstore, the three unexpectedly arriving at the same place at the same time and the barrel being the only one left behind.

(4) Gathering one hundred and twenty men with ninety cars to light up the Claremont landing field in order to bring in special surgeons at night, to work on two classmates injured in an automobile accident.

Comes several last minute flashes from Flash Gibney and Artist Klingaman: Says the Ace (small version): "Harris (Sub) was found Saturday in the Village looking more like a spellbinder than a bookbinder (though making more of a profit from the latter). Bill Hoffman has been learning the intrigues of roller skates both with and without his bride to be, though where he burns during the day I do not know." While Kling (and I use his words to plug the Alumni Fund) writes: "By carefully collecting and turning in gold fillings, bits of tinfoil, and unbroken cocacola bottles I've managed to scrape together some dough for the Alumni Fund." There's your stuff, Shertz!! Now do I have to send you that five-spot?

Redington rose up from his legal doldrums long enough to answer my threat to "use my imagination if I didn't get some dope from him in two days." He came through, mostly in self-defense: "But what is there to say. For the three years since leaving college I have done nothing, absolutely nothing, except sit up here and grind at the law, and work in a bank during the summer. I get in a squash game now and then, and have been busy as director of the Thomas Swan Barristers' Union, entertaining the visiting judges and selecting the docket for trials. El Camp is a big shot in the A. T. 8c T. in Newark."

And as I close this docket I warn each and every one of you that unless I get some plenty keen stories before the tenth of next month I shall brew up a pot of imaginative dope that will make Macbeth's witches look like wood-nymphs stirring mud-pie cocktails!

Fund Contributors for 1938

Contributors: 317 (63% of graduates). Total gifts: $1,149.94 (71% of objective). ROBERT H. SHERTZ, Class Agent.

1936

Anonymous (North Grafton, Mass.) Aaron, Charles A., Jr. Aborn, Gage N. Allen, Norman S. Allen, Richard K. Andrew, T. Edwin, Jr. Appleton, Arthur I. Arnold, John B. Austin, Eugene W. Babcock, Fred C. Balfour, William M. Balkam, Gilbert, Jr. Ballantyne, Donald L. Barker, Daniel C. Barr, Lockwood C. Barr, Sidney L. Bayles, Rogers Beckel, C. Graham Beinhart, Walter W. Benezet, Louis T. Beskind, D. Herbert Bettison, Lindley S. Beyer, George, Jr. Bikle, Robert W. Billings, Henry, 2nd Birchall, Robert Blackmore, George S. Bockstahler, Courtney B. Boyd, Mitchell Brenner, Robert H. Brooks, Charles C., Jr. Brooks, Edwin B. Brown, George A. Brown, Nelson P., Jr. Brown, R. Gordon Builter, Raymond D. Burrows, Sumner Butler, Aldis P. Button, Robert E. Campbell, David O. Capelle, George C., Jr. Capelle, Russell B. Carson, Joseph P., Jr. Catron, Courtney J. Chaffee, Robert G. Chamberlain, E. T., Jr. Chase, Hugh C. G. Chase, W. Bradford Chase, Walter E. Chisholm, Alex D., Jr. Clark, James K. Clark, John B.

Clark, Myron G. Clark, Philip G. Cleaveland, Paul S. Cockroft, Ralph H. Comstock, Curtis C. Conklin, George T., Jr. Conkling, James B. Creigh, John D Crosby, Richard Cunningham, Joseph S. Curtis, William S. Dailey, Frederic B. Davis, Joseph W., 3rd Davis, Warren Dearborn, Henry Delbridge, Charles F., Jr Dickson, Robert T. DiFabio, Hugo F. Dittmar, G. Walter, Jr. Dodge, Richard S. Doolittle, Albert W., Jr. Dorrance, S. Dick, Jr. Dorsey, R. Raymond Doyle, Elwood W. Eaton, Robert H. Eisberg, Harry 8., Jr. Erdmann, Martin, 2nd Erion, Donald W. Ervin, Robert C., Jr. Essex, William L. Fager, John H., 3rd Ferguson, William A., Jr. Fernald, Robert O. Fitzpatrick, Vincent G. Florsheim, Leonard S., Jr. Fortune, James M., 3rd Foster, William H., Jr. Frank, Robert L. Frick, William F., Jr. Fullerton, Baxter T. Gait, Jesse M. Gar lick, William B. Gibney, Albert L. Gibson, William G. Gidney, Dean R. Gidney, James B. Glynn, Leo F. Goldthwait, Lawrence Gonnerman, H. F., Jr. Goodman, Oscar Gordon, George A. Gray, William R. Greenbaum, Monroe

Greene, Cyril W. Groh, John R. Guibord, Paul L. Hackett, Frederick K, Hair, Benjamin M. Hannaford, Jack R. Hardham, John F. Harrington, W. Alan, Jr. Harris, Sumner Harrison, Charles C. Hart, William P., Jr. Hatch, Arnold S. Hefler, Richard J. Hessler, Paul C., Jr. Higbee, Edward W., 3rd Higgins, Frank W. Higgins, Herbert N. Hill, John M. Hirst, Heston S. Hoffmann, William L. Hofman, Norbert, Jr. Holland, Daniel J. Holmquist, C. John Holt, Richard B. Houlihan, Francis R. Howard, J. Noxon Howland, Robert C. Huffman, Horace M., Jr. Hughes, Blake Hurd, Russell H. Hutchinson, Cecil A. Jackson, Davis Johnston, Milton S., Jr. Kable, Robert R. Kappler, Frank K. Keeler, Robert T. Kittell, Robert A. Kneip, Frederick E. Knight, Richard B. Lake, Robert N. Lando, Santino Langlois, Alfred C. Latham, Robert M. Lehman, Charles A. Libbey, Channell T. Liggett, Charles K. Lowd, Harry M., Jr. Luey, Allen T. Lynch, Paul B. McCleary, George W. Macurda, William W. McGonagle, Lee S. McGrath, Edward F. Mclnnis, Philip D. McKallagat, John J. McKernan, John R. MacNeary, John D. McNulty, William, Jr. MacPherson, Robert G. Makepeace, George S. Marks, Matthew J. Marsh, John L. Martens, William G. Martin, Ralph V. B. Martindale, Ross Marvin, Robert S. Marx, Lawrence, Jr. Mascarello, Henry J. May* William Mellor, H. Clay Merrill, Edwin D. Mertz, Walter D. Metcalf, Roger G. Meyer, Alfred C., Jr. Miller, Douglas J. Millimet, Joseph A. Minsch, William J., Jr. Mintz, Mortimer S. Momenee, Albert W. Monagan, Thomas M. Montague, J. Allison Morris, Robert S., Jr. Morrison, John E., Jr. Morse, Roger A. Morse, Samuel F. Morton, Richard H. Mosenthal, Walter J., Jr. Muello, Anthony G. Murray, William A.

Myers, Robert J. Newell, Duncan H., Jr. Nichols, Charles, Jr. Nielsen, Niels C. Nilsson, Edwin J. Niss, William U. Nunnemacher, H. A. Oehmig, Von D. O'Hare, John F. Ostrom, Charles R. Ovitz, John W., Jr. Pactovis, Alfred Page, Addison C., Jr. Palmer, Elliott P. Parish, John C. Paterson, Robert L. Patterson, Briant W. Pearson, James A., Jr. Pedley, Scott F. Poor, Daniel W., Jr. Pope, H. Patterson, Jr. Porter, Clifford L. Portmore, Gilbert S. Prentice, Robert M. Price, Boyce P. Proctor, John C. Pumphrey, Robert G. Putnam, David F. Reardon, John C. Redington, Edward S. Reineman, Thome Reitman, Raymond E. Richards, Charles E., Jr. Robbins, Donald G., Jr. Robbins, Gerald C. Robertson, Douglas H- Robinson, Kenneth C. Roe, Clifford W. Rogers, Howland P. Rowell, Malcolm W. Ruggles, Ralph B. Sabary, Victor E., Jrl Sanderson, David E. Sawyer, John A. Scherman, David E. Schulberg, Budd W. Schulz, John W. N.Jr. Schwartz, Daniel H. Sherry, Norman B. Shertz, Robert H. Shurts, Frederick F. Sicher, William D. Silverman, Raphael H. Simon, Norman Sims, Seymour E. Smith, Bruce W. Smith, Joseph F. Smith, Robert J. Smith, Stephen W., Jr. Sorensen, Clark C. Sornberger, Charles F. Soule, Francis G., Jr. Spencer, Richard H. Spring, William S. Stephens, Ernest J., Jr. Stern, Charles M., Jr. Stewart, Descomb T. Stiles, John S. Stimson, William H. Stokes, Robert V. A. Stotzer, Stevens S. Stowell, Richard W. Stroud, Seward R. Sullivan, Barry C. Sullivan, John S. Sutherland, Donald Sykes, Gilbert G. Teagle, Frank H., Jr. Teulon, Merrill J. Thomas, Seth, Jr. Thompson, Charles B. Thompson, Laforrest H. Tillinghast, George L. Tindle, James K. Toan, Arthur 8., Jr. Towers, Thomas H. Tracy, James D. Treadway, Richard F. Tucker, Frederick E.

Turner, Harold G. Tylec, Louis F. Tyler, Robert M. Underhill, A. Heaton Vail, Richard F. Vass, Sifrein M. Venrick, Charles F. Wakefield, Richard H. Walker, Robert T. Warne, Frederick P. Warren, Robert A. Wasserman, Arthur J. Watson, William G. Weinberg, Frederick A. Welt, Louis A. Wentworth, Vincent E. Wetstein, Frank T.

White, Zebulon W. Whitlock, F. Edgar Whitney, Joseph W. Wickham, Conrad A., Jr. Wiesman, John W. Wiley, J. Nevin Williams, Roger C. Wilson, Kendrick R., Jr. Wolff, Karl H. Woodbridge, Thomas R. Wood, David Woods, Henry S. Wool, Joseph M. Worcester, Dean A. Wyman, William T. Yelverton, William F. Ziegler, Amos A., Jr.

Secretary, 32 High St., New Haven, Conn.

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