1932*
The summer is usually more productive of class news than was the case this year. A relatively thin sheaf of '32 correspondence greeted this scribe on his return from a vacation-honeymoon in Mexico. And no classmates were glimpsed en route. Consequently it was a double delight to sit down to lunch in early September with Howie Sargeant and Joe Boldt, and have from them a digest of the latest.
After some years in Washington with the HOLC, Howie has left the government service and come to New York in a new job as executive director of the Committee on the National Science Fund, with offices at 515 Madison Avenue. This had us puzzled too, but it turns out to be a committee of the National Academy of Sciences operating under the sponsorship of the Carnegie Corporation. Howie's exploratory job will keep him in New York for this year, and the Sargeants are living at 34-41 78th St., Jackson Heights, L. I.
Howie proceeded from Washington to Fayetteville, Ark., in August where he delivered several weeks of lectures to summer classes of the State University on the use of research by financial institutions. This spring he received the degree of B. Litt. in absentia from Oxford, his thesis subject dealing with the history of English studies. He also vouches for the authenticity of most of the following:
Red Tucker visited around New York and Connecticut late in the summer, golfed in the low 80s with Scully Smith in Waterbury; in September he attended the meeting of the State Supervisory Authorities of Banks in Richmond, Va., as the representative of the FDIC.... Chuck Owsley practices law with the Washington Branch of Baker, Hostetler & Patterson, finds life pleasant in the Nation's Capital, and lives with other young bloods in an elegant Arlington, Va., mansion known as "Hockley.". . .Ben Cowden performed valiantly in an early summer softball encounter Paul Fox, another Washington barrister, lives in the Westchester Apts., owned by Queen Wilhelmina but pays rent on the first of the month same as all of us General Foods' Jim North weekended this summer with his family in the Adirondacks, drew Brownie Dickinson (Proctor & Gamble) as a consolation work-week roommate.
In 1935-36 John Keller had the job of companion and reader to Louis McHenry Howe, advisor to President Roosevelt. In the months before Howe's final illness and death, John was at the White House daily and had a rare opportunity to glimpse those earlier New Deal days. Joe Boldt thought some of the material was worth publishing and collaborated with John on an article, tentatively called "Franklin's on His Own Now," which the SaturdayEvening Post has just accepted for early fall publication, probably in October.
Joe finished up at Rutgers early in 1940, receiving his M.A. in political science. He recently completed several months' service as research consultant to the New Jersey State Police in Trenton where part of his job was to devise a new system of uniform crime recording.
In the opinion of this correspondent Mexico is a wonderfully interesting country well worth visiting. We drove down and spent about two weeks there altogether. It is a blend of picturesque ness and poverty and more than once the writer was reminded of Bud Carter's magnificent photographs. Orozco's Hanover murals take on a new significance after a trip of this kind. One hopes that his prophecy will be realized.
Morry Hubbard sends on the gist of a letter received from Bob Fisher in San Francisco, who was married on July 27 to Mary Winston Nelson in Williamsburg, Va. Bob spent most of last year in Virginia, returning from Europe just before the mess started abroad. After several years with Industrial Relations Counselors, Inc., of New York he has accepted a new job with the California Packing Corp., packers of Del Monte products. His address is 956 Sacramento Street, San Francisco.
In a card written July 1 from HossegorLandes in the south of France, Bo Wentworth reported that his wife and babe had gone home on the S.S. Washington, and that more news would follow concerning himself. Awaited with interest, 80. A daughter, Judith Ann, seven pounds plus and with red curly hair was born to the J. Warren Moores in New York on Wednesday, Sept. 4.
Hanover Holiday was attended by Max Wolff, Don Richardson and Bob Kendal of the class of 'ga. Der Mox is in the circulation department of the Fawcett Distributing Corp. of Greenwich, Conn., and spent some enjoyable hours this summer sailing in the 16-foot snipe Deep SeaDoodle. A recent picture of Hugh B. Richardson, son of Don, indicates the potential cross-country prowess of that lusty infant.
Marv Chandler and wife dropped in on Frank and Helen McGuire in New London in August, and found them with three tangible evidences of five years of matrimony, Susan, 3½; Elizabeth, a, and Frank, ½. Frank is quite the political light in New London, serving as delegate to both the State and National Democratic Conventions. R. Coltman, Jr. in Bucks County, Pa., also won a nod of approval from Marv on his summer baby inspection rounds.
John Wright taught summer courses in Utilities and Constitutional Law at Chicago's John Marshall Law School before leaving for a two-week vacation in California. He reports that John Sheldon and his bride of June 22 are happily settled not far from Bill Morton's in Highland Park. Charlie Doerr (who may come East soon) and Jack Eliot were among those seen by the Sheldons on the coast. Carl McGowan will teach again this year at Northwestern Law School. Frank Westheimer will continue in the U. of Chicago's chemistry department.
Steve Harwood is district sales manager with the American Locomotive Cos. in San Francisco. Ben Read's shingle hangs in the Medical Arts Bldg., Atlanta, Ga., while Austy Whitcomb, married July 17 to Sallv E. Mcllveen, will cure colds and worse at 21 Bardwell St., South Hadley Falls, Mass Dr. Benjamin Burrill has moved from Pompton Plains to 303 Montgomery St. Bloomfield, N. J.
Another marital mortality of the sum. mer was Rodg Brown, now working with Sun Oil in Philadelphia, who was wed , June aa in Detroit to Rosemary, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Alvin Neal of that city.
The engagement of National Broadcasting Company's Dick Leach to Katherine Sands Thatcher was announced in mid-June. Miss Thatcher, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John M. P. Thatcher of New York, was graduated from St. Timothy's School, Catonsville, Md. After finishing up at Dartmouth, Dick studied both at Oxford and the Sorbonne.
Carl Baker worked a good part of the summer with a Princeton colleague on a new type of anthology of American Lit. Dick Cunningham is a chemist with The Drackett Cos., in Cincinnati. Bo Daniels is sales manager of Keystone Refrigerators, Inc., Harrisburg, Pa. Jack Yea ton owns his own restaurant in Shrewsbury, Mass. Rod Hatcher has turned commuter, quitting lower Manhattan for New Canaan, Conn., the 5.15, and an attractive house on West Road. John Clark at this writing is in Caracas, Venezeula and may shortly go to Bogota, Columbia on a venture for the Rockefellers similar to that in which Bob Bottome '30 and Carl Spaeth '29, now in Caracas, are currently engaged. Whit Daniels spent his August vacation in California, mostly lolling around Catalina Island. Saw John Davidson in San Francisco, busy in the lithography business, and Jim Riley in Santa Monica, doing free lance writing for the movies.
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