1937*
Secretary, 10314 So. Hoyne Ave., Chicago, Ill
May is a busy month: Green Key, WetDown, Finals, and Comprehensives come in short order. We'll have to dig in immediately, there's much to tell.
From N. Y. Mort B. and Bill G. report a new innovation for future class dinners: "going to have GUEST SPEAKERS from all fields of business and the professions
.... we'll be able to get outstanding men in the various fields and will be coming into contact with ideas and explanations which are the result of years of experience
.... probably monthly dinners and monthly speakers." Our class abounds with students. Ben Marion is studying in Boston. Lenny Harris at Tufts Dental says: "We're finally getting down to the teeth." Dr. Areson at Yale stated: "Next year, I promise to be a better correspondent.... am going abroad this summer on a bicycle." Bob Miskimon is at P. & S. (Columbia Med.). Pete McLane has left M. I. T. and is now selling. "El Timson completes his M. I. T. course at the end of next summer and then goes to work for his dad's company, makers of shave masters." John Meston, English work at Harvard, writes: "I shall probably return next year. By tutoring, and not by the more honoroble method of a scholarship, I shall pay my way And so instead of reading the Market Reports like a reasonable man, I shall probably be delving into the absurd twists of Hermetic Philosophy.
Carl Ray used to drop in now and then. He would show me his hands, all black and cracked, and rave like a madman. I never quite made out whether he was cursing or praising the life of the Honest Working Man—and now it is too late, for Carl has left Boston for Hartford. But he'll be back Carl has a girl now he deserves a chorus of praise. And not only on account of this girl—hell, anyone can do that—but partly because he stuck to a rather dull job which will lead somewhere in the end, but which isn't as gay and romantic as it might be at the moment. Guts and stuff you know."-Nor are we lacking in teachers. Bob Bohlke is at Low Heywood Sch., New Canaan, and Bill Dwyer holds forth in Randolph, Vt. Our thrifty treasurer and Deerfield Mahster writes: "Had dinner one evening in Boston with Benny, Craw Hinman, and Richter." Clipping from Vt. paper has headline "Remarkable Achievement made at Chelsea by John Doukas." .... The article continues: "Basketball team wins 16 out of 17 games, last year only one victory .... the coach has played some on the town team, scoring 17 points in recent 40-34 victory over Tunbridge." Letter from Duke: "Teach 5 different courses and do all the coaching .... have 24 boys for my teams
... go to Keene often to keep up in politics although am in office till 1940."
Vacations in Florida are still possible. Witness John Hoffstetter and his card telling of beautiful beaches and lovely girls. Bob Greene, coat of tan and all, "saw Dick Treadway at Vero Beach and stayed all night at his fine hotel. He and Martha bound for Mexico. Dick is leaving the hotel business to study." Louis Valier in Tahiti: "Expect to leave here the middle of April for San Francisco, and thence Palm Beach (415 Sea Spray Ave.). Have about 1000 ft. color movies of Tahiti, which I'd be happy to show any wandering classmates. After the summer in Florida, I hope to be able to get back to Tahiti by some means or other." Back to the Big City. Dick Rush is a statistician at 17 Battery Place. Julius Vaiano is an assistant buyer for F. H. Leggett & Co. and in Paterson, N. J. Bob Cameron holds a similar post in another concern. Emil Martocci took stock and sends us the results: "Beginning June '37, in Europe that summer, saw Hal Berman '38 at Pompeii and Les Hoyle in Paris, back in New York at Columbia Sch. of Business for 6 months, started as floor sweeper etc. in father's factory-the Industrial Lithographic Co., Brooklyn—been getting up at 5:45 for the past year now. Bob Squires makes the same train; he works at Bloomingdale as a stock clerk. After being in the shipping dept., the camera gallery, and the press room, I landed in the office with full responsibility of the hosiery dept. Next move is toward the sales office in N. Y. "Many Dartmouth men in this racket: Sidney Voice '27 and Palmer '18 among them." Bob Maynard is with an export house in N. Y. and Heckscher Tweed with Gulf Oil. Bill Rotch sent on an addition to the "Where's AylwardFile": "Bob permanently located in Binghamton, N. Y. Is mgr. of a photographic studio located in a dept. store. It's a branch of one located in Filene's. The company took 12 promising lads, sent them to N. Y. for a 2-week trial, picked the 2 they liked best " Bullen wishes to say to Gibson, "All is forgiven, where the hell are you?" Lefty adds: "Bill (Bennett) and I get lots of exercise (squash). I've laid off potatoes and butter, and eat only one roll a day."
There's an interesting quotation in Gibbon's "Decline of the Roman Empire." It reads: ". . . . the desire of obtaining the advantages and of escaping the burdens of political society is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord." The work of our Alumni Fund Committee calls it to mind. Dartmouth did her share-perhaps more—now it is our turn—Are we to battle the 25 stalwarts who are giving so freely of their time or are we to answer their first reminder?
Steadily our marriage list grows larger. Al Mayer writes: "My engagement to Terry (all 9 houseparties) was announced last Nov. and the wedding is to be May 20. On Al Bryant's personal advice, I shall write no mush about it but .... Terry and I were maid of honor and best man, respectively, for Fred Ingersoll and Muriel Clemens of Detroit, last November. They are living here in Springfield, Mass., where Fred works for Standard Oil of N. Y." Bob Snyder is married and has one child. Don Kimball is engaged to Mary Elizabeth Davis of Bennington and Buffalo. Yet they say, "Albie Chester (Chernesky) extremely worried about those ready to take the big step on less than $5,000 per annum." How about it, Albie? Of course the lawyers are still in school. Roily Bialla writes, "Cliff Porter and I elected to the editorial board of the Yale Law Journal.... will be selling real estate this summer." Fink Broadbent and Joe Kiernan are at Georgetown Law, latter on the Law Review. Cohen at Cornell: "Planning to work in an office this summer and also go back to Columbia for more accounting. That stuff is really fun if you like it, as I do Managed to get pretty good grades this last semester, much to my surprise, and as a result am now competing for the Quarterly." Tom in Chicago for a few days in April for sister's engagement. Wind blowing strong here of late. Park Johnston had a recent boost. Now selling insurance for 2 companies. Carl Stern in the Southwest for a short vacation. Gus Farwell here learning the Warner Bros, corset business from stem to stern. Spends week-ends in Hinsdale with Fred Castle, who is all sewed up and to be married soon. George Summv in the local office of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne, being trained for one of the new advertising fields. Sees Charlie Zelle at Northwestern Medical now and then. March 29 column headline, "Halliburton Party Feared in Peril." Article read: "Last radio contact was made Friday, when the junk was 2,400 miles from Hongkong, bound for Midway Island. Later that day a severe typhoon swept the area .... have asked the navy to launch a search." Gordon Torrey '37 and Bru Potter '38 were taken sick before the SeaDragon sailed and so are not aboard. They are recovering now in China. More news from the West. Bill O'Neal stationed at Stanford University Hospital. Pete Ffolliott with Red River Nat'l Bank, Grand Forks, N. D. Jim Humphrey has left Calif, for Harvard Bus. School.
There are 2 changes in names. Ray Ratajczak is now Raymond R. Richards. He's general manager of R. B. Amald Co., Pyroil Products, Buffalo. Harold Gould (formerly Goldberg) is resident manager of a motion picture exhibition, the Lake Vista Open-Air Theatre, New Orleans. English majors and O'Sheel take note-Mai Merritt writes: "Still with Interboro News, trying to whip into shape a couple of pages devoted to the poetry of young writers under 25. The Westminster Mag., a quarterly of modern verse, published at Oglethorpe Univer., Ga., has inaugurated this new dept. 'The Quarter Century Club,' and have asked me to conduct it. If you know anyone who writes poetry and would be interested in this, for the love of Dartmouth, tell them to send it on to me here."
Back to the Middle West we find Jim Wallace in St. Paul and Tom Wilson with Bloomington Mill Recorder, Great Lakes Steel Corp., Birmingham, Mich. Frank Kwett is in Canton, Ohio, and Don Rowley in Ashtabula. Don sends a brief account:
"The year I should have been a junior, I enrolled in Spencerian Bus. Coll. and took accounting. After one year became a reporter. 21/2 years back I cast off my celibacy (name is Charlotte). Have held numerous jobs on editorial staffs, at present am starting as production manager for 4 newspapers. Will do editorial work in addition." .... That's all until June, gentlemen.
"I will exchange a city for a sunset, The tramp of legions for a wild wind's cry;
And all the braggart thrusts of steel triumphant,
For one far summit, blue against the sky." Under the spell of Marie Blake's beautiful poem the Secretary leaves Chicago for Hanover and the Secretaries' Meeting.
