1935*
Memories of Hanover and reunion are still strong in our mind as we lead off on the chronicalization of the second five years, and the temptation is strong to continue the comments so hastily recorded for the July issue, but we are resisting same in the interest of space. Suffice it to say that reunion was everything that each and all of us had hoped it would be. From here on, during this issue, we shall limit our retrospection to such newsworthy events as have transpired since then. As it happens, most of the summer's news falls quite tidily into several definite categories.
Romantic: Bill Lamson and Johanna Powell were married on June 8, which means Bill can now bring a domestic viewpoint to his work as a civil engineer with the New York City Board of Water Supply. .... Don Rogers, on from Minneapolis, and I represented the class at Dan Swander's marriage to Dorothy Reynolds here in Cleveland on June 21; we very graciously toasted her into the Dartmouth Fellowship and extracted a promise to attend the next reunion. Regretfully I report that neither Don nor I caught the bouquet: Don tried hard, but the wife of an ex-Harvard wrestler made the kill.
On June 29, down in Little Compton, Rhode Island, our class authority on naval tactics "Admiral" Homer Dewey was recommissioned to sail henceforth under the skipperage of the former Janice Cole Bob Naramore has finally written in to report his marriage to Corinne Mason back in October, 1937 and the birth of a daughter in October of '38; his parental status doubtlessly lends dignity to his position as sales manager of Bridgeport Fabrics, Inc.
Having touched upon the subject of class offspring, let record be made of some more. Claude A. Huck 11, arrived back in April
.... as did Ann Webster, the first for Ken and Gwen The month of May saw the arrival of the Chaneys' second daughter, the Herb Shuttleworths' first, a first for the Joe Sholkins and the Carl Heyes, both on the 13, and on the 25 of May one for the John Irish household The Vic Luneborgs' son John and the Carlyle Cranes' young Douglas are the only male arrivals of recent vintage. That the Pinks may still outnumber the Blues is suggested by news of the birth of Beatrice Sewall, whose arrival just before Reunion kept Charlie Sewall at home, and of Nancy Wyatt Cushman, first born of my able predecessor Gard Cushman.
Advance notice was received, but confirmation is lacking, of the weddings scheduled for September 7 of Dr. Bob Bonner and Eleanor Keller, and Johnny Glavis and Doris May Ashworth Announcement has been made of the engagement of Gerald Wertz and Ann Guill, and the culmination of same is on the books for sometime this autumn.
About a month ago we learned of the betrothal of Miss Eleanor Harlow Spencer to Mr. Jack T. AuWerter Jr., local skier of renown; Miss Spencer is a senior at Radcliffe, which may mean Jack will revive his undergraduate custom of commuting to Cambridge.
Pedantic: Al George, asst. professor ofmodern languages at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pa., acquired his Ph.D. from Columbia this June..... Bob Bowman has left the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture and removed himself to Canterbury, University College, out in Christchurch, New Zealand; though we are in ignorance as to his exact title there we assume he is probably attached to their geology department Don King carries a Ph.D. from Princeton, and Tom Kroner has recently received one from M. I. T. .... Halsey Loder, after 2 years at Harvard Business School has added an M. B.A. to the LL. B. already in hand from that institution Will Heckel has followed his M.A., which Columbia bestowed in 1936, with an LL. B. from the University of Newark and is now with the law dept. of the City of Montclair, N. J
To vie with the sizable number of lawyers in the class, are many new medicos: Jim Pierce's receipt of an M. D. from Indiana University and his marriage to Caroline Coffin occurred practically simultaneously early in June Frankie Elliott got his M.D. degree from Northwestern this year and, with his wife and small daughter, is living in Evanston as an interne in the local hospital Any draftees who happen to be sent to Langley Field in Virginia will find Bud Lippman stationed at station hospital there Cliff Mills is now a resident in obstetrics at the French Hospital in New York City, an item of pertinent interest to some of you expectant fathers.
.... Ralph Seeley concentrates on eye, ear, nose and throat in his capacity as an interne at the Cornell Medical Center, N. Y. Hospital..... Dave Judd is occupying a fellowship in surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester (Minn.).
Gigantic: We have long awaited public recognition of the sterling qualities and great potentialities of some of our classmates; as a group we have plodded along, done our jobs in good style, and doubtlessly constitute a group of better-than-average individuals in our several fields. But so far, to our memory, the public eye has never centered upon any one member of the class, and I've always been envious of such a class as 1931 with its two consistently newsworthy members in the persons of Red Rolfe and Abner Dean.
Now I find our patience has been rewarded, our hope for such acclamation has come true: Fortune has mentioned one of us! At page 99 in their September, 1940 issue, as part of an article on the famed Howard Johnson ice cream stores, we find the following: .. . one agent, whose success is typical. Charles R. Gow Jr., the sonof the President of Warren Bros., openedhis first store at Seekonk, Massachusetts, in1936. The store cost him $25,000. Last yearhis gross was $1OO,OOO, his net $15,000. Hissecond store, in Boston, which cost $90,000,made a gross of $255,000 last year, and anet of $25,000. Incidentally, this youngman has another restaurant in Boston under his own name." Our assumption that there is nothing confidential in the above is based on its prior publication in our contemporary with the handsome format.
Charlie is certainly to be congratulated upon this fine success, and thanked for the homage to the College expressed in the naming of one of his restaurants the Dartmouth Inn. Those of us who worked with Charlie at Ma Smalley's cannot be blamed for our failure to envision such a future for him; that he has attained his success in the field of the culinary arts can, we feel sure be nothing more than a mere coincidence —albeit it reflects favorably upon La BelleDame Sans Merci (Smalley to you and you) 'Twas ever thus: great oaks from little acorns.
Trans-Atlantic: Eddy Mitchell and his wife sailed in June for the Gold Coast British West Africa, there to represent the Texas Cos. (Overseas, Ltd.). For the benefit of friends and philatelists his address is Box 526, Accra, British West Africa Bud Fraser has very kindly forwarded a lengthy epistle from Cy Millstein, who has had a similarly intriguing address in Kobe. Japan, as an employee of the London firm of Strong & Cos., General Exporters. His comments upon "life in a totalitarian country" merit the lengthy quotation which space limitations forbid. However record should be made of his reply in the negative to that proverbial question always asked of the traveler to Japan! Cy was scheduled for a return to New York in September.
Remnantic: Bill and Sue Hawgood ac companied by Jack and Fran Steffens recently returned from several weeks vacationing in northern Ontario..... Geo. Chamberlain, after a considerable spell with the time sales dept. of the National Shawmut Bank of Boston, has been upped to the assistant branch managership of their subsidary, Devonshire Financial Sen ice Corporation, which meant a move to Salem Card Bradshaw is doing per sonnel work with the Lockheed Aircraft Corp Dave and Jean Johnson spent a week or so down on the Cape but somehow missed out on seeing Bud Cahoon thereabouts A lengthy letter from our senior colleague, Marty Dwyer, 1934's Sec'y who has been spending a lot of time with Dave Smith out in Berkeley, Calif., gives us a bit of a twinge with the revealment that "Dave's office, offering investment management, looks out over San Francisco Bay and has a perfect view of AlcatrazTsk, tsk, say we, meaning nothing personal when we add Caveat Emptor, Caveat Emptor! (Which if nothing else, ought to pro voke a letter from Smith.)
The receptivity of our mail receptacle remains high, and we hope you and you: and you will avail yourselves of same.
Secretary, 1843 Cadwell Ave. Cleveland Heights, Ohio Treasurer, 3915 Morningside Road Minneapolis, Minn.
