1935*
Well, this column marks the end of our fourth year out of college, and I sincerely hope they have brought you a reasonable amount of material prosperity, and a still greater amount of friendships and intellectual satisfaction. I also hope that you've discovered how valuable your Dartmouth associations are, to the end that you will be working for, and counting on attending the reunion one year hence.
Our lead-off man this month is Earl Arthurs from away down in Dixie—Atlanta. He is still selling chemicals, but more important at the moment is the fact that he and Jane are the parents of a brand-new baby girl (nine days old as this is written). Earl said that Dick Hube, in Atlanta on business, was having dinner with him on the morrow.
Also in the "deep South" is Bob Hage, who is making a business trip for Vick's. When he wrote, Bob seemed to be relaxing from business on the beach at Pensacolaand who could blame him! He planned on heading for Kentucky next—probably in time for the Derby.
Spent a week-end not long since with Ted Steele down in Bryn Mawr. Ted has done a grand job of teaching this past year, and has earned a better contract for next year. His prize class is in creative writing, and under his tutelage many of the girls have had work published. Ted still likes to travel, and has made the most of his weekends, including trips to Carnival and Green Key.
Several letters received from Hagerman recently, but he has apparently been too busy teaching to gather much news, and he disregards himself as news—he and the family are in good health anyway.
Long letter from Herb Stearns recently, describing many of his problems and interests with Kendall Mills—considerably interesting, but too long to quote here—he's on the right track at any rate. In his spare time Herb has been working with a group of Sea Scouts, helping them organize and particularly helping them rebuild a house of over 150 years to be used as a meeting place. "It's fun," says Herb, "to build something like that, and I get a big kick to see the kids improve and do something besides hang around the corners." Note for your calendar—Herb and Ig will be married June 24.
Another letter from Dick Sleep, answering some questions and promising to be in Hanover for Reunion—how about you?
The boys are still getting married—Phil Hemphill, currently sales manager for the Hoffman Manufacturing Cos. in Dayton, will be back in the decadent East on May 16 to marry Miss Valerie Lambert of New York City. The wedding will be held in Milford, Conn. Phil received a call from Lou Niles just recently as Lou passed through Dayton on his way home from a business trip to Texas—a board of directors' meeting, so rumor says. Lou and his wife now have two children, the second, Katherine, having been born on February 13.
Phil further reports seeing Ed Skillin, Tom Wilson, and Hugh Rafferty once in a while. Ed is working on insurance in Chicago, Tom is a lawyer in Detroit, and Hugh is with A C Spark Plugs in Lansing.
Speaking of Lansing, Bill Crouse furnishes a success story this month, having bought out his partner in Yankee Food Stores, Inc., and is now continuing as sole proprietor. The business is one I patronize frequently, as no doubt do you, namely, selling hamburgers from roadside stands. Bill favors a "good hamburger for a nickel" and is engaged in improving the meat content of his product without raising the price. I wish he would branch out to Jersey. Bill also has the food concession in the City Park—in other words, he's doing well.
I am corrected on the Boston dinner, so let's have it straight. There were thirty present, and I omitted the names of Fred Collier, Bert Jacobs, Bob McLellan, Doug Ley, and Howie Rowe. I didn't mean to slight anyone.
Bob McLellan is in the accounting department of the New England Mutual' Life Insurance Company, and plans to be married to Miss Lois Jones—probably in September. Dick Kenney was formerly with New England Mutual, but I believe he has recently hung out his own insurance shingle in uptown Boston.
Charlie Sewall has just bobbed up again, saying that he has been out through the Middle West all winter selling roofing for Bird & Son. The only '35er he mentioned was Ed Skillin, whom he lured away from his insurance papers out in Chicago.
Link Washburn is in the mad dash of Ph.D. exams up in New Haven, but he took time out to mention that he and his wife will be leaving for six months of exploration in Victoria, Canada, about the end of June. He'll be back at Christmas time to do another semester at Yale, and then back to the sub-Arctic for a year or so.
Ran into Harry Griffith the other day. He's selling pianos in Newark and the suburbs, and announced with considerable glee that he was being married in June to Miss Eleanor Snider. He had had a visit from Harry Deckert not long since, Harry having been East with his father to a candlemakers' convention. The two Harrys did New York together and bumped into Duke Lansberry somewhere in their travels.
Harry Deckert says he is making pretty good progress in the law with Ely & Derrick in St. Louis, but found his first year of practice more satisfying mentally then materially.
The dance at the club in New York came off in fine style April 29 with about twenty-five couples present. To just run through the names briefly, there were Swanee Dawson, Art Fisher, Put Kingsbury, A 1 Sherwood, Johnny Harvey, Dick Montgomery, Greg Karch, Ralph Specht, Tim Berkey, Dick Eberhart, Fred Kayser, Henry Titus, Marsh Frost, Jack Holloway, and Hall Colton (up from Baltimore for the opening of the World's Fair), plus a few friends. The Montgomerys took your reporter to task for overlooking the birth of Joan Elizabeth on January 30, but I defended myself successfully by pointing out that I had never heard about it.
Rumor (still unconfirmed) has it that Bill Clark has been appointed head football coach at Exeter for next year.
Long and interesting letter from Jack Gilchrist, who has been wearing himself to the well-known frazzle lately with the successful prosecution of a Dartmouth dance in Cleveland (Gilly was chairman and they made more money for the scholarship fund than has ever been made before—and this not from Gilly), bar exams, new nephew, and problems of a job in the fall. From July to October he hopes to go abroad, maybe around the world—of that more anon.
One paragraph from his letter is too good to omit: "Lew Weitz and I had an amusing time in class when our new professor of Constitutional Law started in on the Dartmouth College case, Lew being prepared with three pages of backgroundlore, and neither of us getting much of a break in our attempts to get an oar in till I got the prof sidetracked on what happened to the 500 gallons, at which point the curiosity of the class had to be appeased and we had our inning."
Dave Johnson passed his bar exams in Ohio last January, and is practicing with the firm of M. B. & H. H. Johnson in Cleveland. Dave and his wife, Jean, are expecting their second child, which should arrive "any minute now" as Dave says.
Dan Swander is now secretary of the Columbian Vise & Manufacturing Cos., which represents continued business success and according to reports he is not neglecting the social side of his life either.
Gilly mentioned a neglected reunion with Bill Blakeslee and Bud Childs at the Cornell, game last fall. The evening was featured by reminiscing over beers at the Alpha Delt house and, later, the Ithaca night spots. Bud, incidentally, is reported from several sources as doing an excellent job at Buffalo Med.
Saw Mink Hawley and Bill Russell a short time ago. The former is still teaching at Peddie, while Bill is now a partner in Quinn & Doremus, a law firm in Red Bank, N. J.
I would like to close this column with two announcements of considerable importance to the class as a whole, namely, my resignation as scribe, and the appointment by the Executive Committee of Gardner Cushman to fill the vacancy until Reunion. I am loath to leave the job for many reasons, but the pressure of night school next fall and winter will be such that I feel unable to do the job properly and consequently a change must be made. Cush's address is: 20 Chauncey St., Cambridge, Mass., and I urge you to cooperate with him to the fullest extent next year. He has a tough job ahead of him to take over the reins and at the same time organize and promote a successful reunion, but a little cooperation from all of us will do wonders.
Let me sincerely thank you for your help this past year. I've enjoyed the job, and hope to continue to be useful to the class in one way or another. See you all in Hanover next June!
Secretary, 100 Park Ave., E. Orange, N. J.
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