1934*
There isn't a word of truth in the above address and hasn't been for several months, for your scribe since late June has been leading a nomadic existence. This current and initial effort of the fall term is being banged out in Southern California, euphemism for Los Angeles, which is mighty fine spot for any man's money. Under the aegis of Life we are touring the several western commonwealths trying to make the food business understand and, incidentally, seeing everything, animal, vegetable and mineral, en route. Mode of travel is Chevrolet, expense account and Texaco road map, and once in a few great whiles contact is made with friends of the Hanover plain.
There was in the secretarial mind some time ago the really noble idea that these October class notes would be a whirlwind of travel observations. "Passed through Yehudi, Montana, late of a July evening, we would record, "and had cocktails with Randy Blow '34. Everything goes fine with the ole colonel, and he reports that hid family now includes ten white children and a spaniel, that his old South Mass. roommates Sid Federba and Marvin Hebeja have joined the Balinese air corps." This sort of thing would go on for pages.
gut such fanciful dreams burned off when they hit daylight. From Omaha to San Francisco, a trek that took 5 weeks and 4,000 speedometer miles, we saw no one we had ever seen before except a former hat check girl from the Stork Club. In Omaha, of course, were Baird and Ramsey, as well as Henry Pierpont '33, and we enjoyed a brief but pleasureable reunion with them, meeting in addition the distaff and juvenile members of the Baird household. But all there is to report is that the Omaha attorneys seem to be doing dandy and that Baird wishes he had made Reunion like Ramsey did. It was fun seeing them.
We could expand to book length on fishing in Sierra lakes with Dave Smith '35 and in Laguna Beach bars with Maury O'Connor. Wilmot and others please note that O'Connor is still in fine all-around fettle. We should also note in passing that the carpeting on Wendy Williams' NBC office in Hollywood is so luxurious that his secretary does all her work with her shoes off. This, we submit, is a symbol of success, and we pass it on for the benefit of those whose imaginations are being stymied by underfoot linoleum.
But to repeat, we have up to present writing encountered few gems of universal interest. So we've decided to make out we are back in New Rochelle sifting through wads of class correspondence, tossing aside laundry bills and army draft calls, and getting down to what has actually happened to some guys in the class since rigor mortis set in for the summer. And then maybe next month, after we have seen Gay and Mosher and Ace Brown and Rinaldo and Banks and Bradley and others, we can revert to reporting the pleasures of the road.
And so, laughing out of the other side of our face, we come upon.... some old dope, heretofore unreported. As is customary, we invite reprisals for issuing false propaganda; if some of the following ain't so any more, will those offended against let us know the latest about their status and general behavior Bill Reid attended Boston Teachers' College, is now teaching in West Roxbury, Mass Bob Reynolds instructs in mathematics at Rye (N. Y.) High School. .... Joe Ryan is a consignment clerk at General Electric, Bridgeport Clyde Seney, our crack gymnast, is assistant employment manager °f the Singer Manufacturing Cos., BridgePort Up to maybe a couple of years ag° Jim Sullivan was cashier of the Central Mass. Electric Cos., in Ware, Mass., IS now an assistant examiner in Washington for the U. S. Civil Service Commission.
Charlie Donahue is with the Lawrence Mass.) Water Department Bob Doyle Is assistant to the general counsel at Natioiial Board of Fire Underwriters.
David Ely handles purchasing for Boorum & Pease, Brooklyn manufacturer of looseleaf devices Franklin Everts is listed as a statistician for the Bureau of Customs, in Washington .... most recent record we have of Milt Frabricant places him with the Troy Laundry, in New London, Conn.
.... Francis Ford is a chemist with the National Blank Book Cos Mort Foster is a Minneapolis grocer Bill Goergen, after an M.D. in 1938 at New York Medical College and a session as interne at New York's Metropolitan Hospital, is now a practicing physician, we think in New York.
Of a much more recent nature are the many conjugal activities that have taken place since last printing. Welcome to the 1934 ladies' auxiliary are Barbara Bickford Brooks, who married Stan Smoyer in Akron on June the 29 Betty Gardner Carson, of Colby and Connecticut College, who became Mrs. John McCoy June 8 in New York's Church of St. John the Divine. .... Grace Riley, who since the 18th of May in Warrenton, Virginia, has been the other half of the Buzzy Edson family.
Bill Gay took Nancy Jean McKenna to his wedded wife on June 28 in Hollywood. .... As of August 3 in Quincy, Mass., Lillian Eleanor Pearce decided to buffet the waves with Eliot Thomas.... and on the 16th of August, Dorothy Elaine Sharp, of Rockford, Illinois, took on the herculean task of making Harry Espenscheid settle down. The wedding was in Moose, Wyoming. Dot Sharp graduated this year from the University of Illinois after a very active undergraduate career of scholastic attainment, journalism and general leadership.
We wondered at the time why Henry Ward Rigby left New York for Providence, but a recent clipping furnishes enlightenment. On July g Hank, now a member of the law firm of Tillinghast, Collins & Tanner, was married to Joan Clarke, of that community. Miss Clarke was a graduate of Marot Junior College and also attended the National Academy of Design. And under the heading of the Last Mile comes Henry Werner, whose engagement to Elizabeth Grumbach, of New York, was announced in August, the wedding to take place this fall. The lady in the case is a graduate of Goucher, and Hank is now associated with the law firm of Riegelman, Strasser and Schwarz.
Joe Furst says nothing is new except he "broke a leg practicing Christiannas on a puny little hill in January." Located at the Psychopathic Hospital in lowa City when he wrote, he expected to be at Boston City Hospital beginning about now Far as we remember this is the first announcement we've had an opportunity to make of the opening of a private medical practice: Kirk Spitler, in the Carnegie Medical Building, Cleveland.
Bill Knibbs moves this month to Montpelier, Vt., where he will take up the position of Directory of Salary Allotment for the National Life of Vermont. Amid confetti for the appointment goes wailing for the loss of Public Energy No. 1 in '34's metropolitan activities. .... Effective September 1 at the University of New Mexico is the appointment of Jack Feth as director of student employment. In addition to his new work, which will include NYA, Jack will continue serving as instructor in journalism and director of public relations.
The May issue of the Department of Commerce report on Construction and Real Property consists entirely of a survey by Stu Barber on residential vacancy from 1928 to 1939 In announcing F. P. Wardwell as president of the Massachusetts Junior Chamber of Commerce, the Boston Transcript says that Frank "took one year of graduate work at Tech., where he studied civil engineering and business administration. For the past 3 years he has been in the treasurer's department of a Boston public utility. Avocationally, he is athletic director of the DOC in Boston and belongs to what he calls the once-amonth squash club."
During July Dr. Herman B. Chase was appointed to the staff of the Illinois state research organization. An instructor of zoology at the University, Herman will act as biometrician on the survey staff, and will, our informants go on to say, compile, analyze and check a mass of data on ducks and fishes. One of his problems is to devise a method of calculating from scale measurements the weights of individual fishes at various times of their lives.
See you at next year's Yale game.
Secretary, 136 Beaufort Place, New Rochelle, N. Y Treasureri 30 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y.
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