1939*

HERE AND THERE

With the ink hardly dry on his Tuck School diploma, Al Lansburg has landed himself a good job as junior accountant with Webster, Horne and Blanchard of Hartford and New York. Med Schoolers Joe Pyrtek and Bud Little have gone their separate ways to further their education- Joe to Chicago and Bud to Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. From Archie Mallon—"Since graduation I've worked with the A & P Cos., and the Boston & Albany R. R. prior to entering the General Theological Seminary in New York this fall." Fresh from Tuck, Art Bright has landed a graduate fellowship in Economics at the U. of Chicago. Traveler of the month is Bill Colman who is now in India and from there plans a safari to South Africa and South America. Jim Donovan writes that he sees a lot of "Sport" White and gal, Jim Sampson, John Page, Art Larkin—and Johnny Egbert, who has been making every one in Chicago Willkie conscious. Incidently, speaking of gals this department doesn't want to start any scandal or anything like that, but from four different sources there have been reports about Skip Morse spending his vacation touring New England ALONE with a certain young lady. Needless to say the fellows who wrote in about it were quite shocked.

Word pictures: Royce Randlett selling a lot of Portland Cement in New Hampshire and Vermont and sneaking into Hanover whenever possible—Pep Grey soon to join the F.8.1, and start investigating some of you guys. Bobby Jacobson medalist in the New York Metropolitan qualifying for the national amateur with a sizzling 145. Bob Sullivan battling a seige of illness at Trudeau Sanatorium, Saranac Lake, N. Y. and planning to return to Dartmouth Med. after a year or 50.... anybody passing through that section will be a welcome visitor. John Mecklin doing publicity for United Airlines in N. Y.

Uncle Sam has claimed quite a few of the boys and among them are—Phil Sanborn in the Navy, ditto Bob Field, Bob Achorn, and Joe Batchelder, Jim Feeley and Bud Foster have decided that the .Marines are better than the Navy any day and so have joined the Marine Air Corps. Big Lar Dilkes says the Navy is better and is now at Pensacola learning to be a flyer. Incidently Larry's last name is now officially Vulte in case you boys want to write him. Lar has resumed his late father's name. Win Naylor says the Army Air Corps is best and is proving it at Randolph Field. Austin Igleheart and Bud Griswold like both the land and sea and so are with the Marines at Quantico, Va.

DOWN THE AISLE

I'd hate to suggest it but I just wonder whether the coming draft hasn't had something to do with the great number of wedding and engagement announcements which have been blowing into my mail box for the past few months. Of course its only a suggestion—here they are—the draft dodgers.

First on the list is the marriage of Dick Durrance to Miss Margaret Jennings of Berkley, California way back last June 9. By this writing Dick and Margaret are well settled in their new home at Sun Valley. From Johnny Boynton comes the news that he and Mildred Hostetter took the vows in Dayton, Ohio in August— ditto in the case of Bob Cushman and his charming bride the former Mary Shorey who were married in Winchester, Mass., and are now at home at 38 Linnaean St., Cambridge. Almost next door neighbors to Mary and Bob are Mr. and Mrs. Kenny Mac Donald who are living at 2 Avon Street, Cambridge—among those present at the ceremony were Clem Burnap, Dick Jackson, Endy Smith, Bud Little and Bill Harrison.

From Tom Brooks—"Thought you might be interested in the events of the marriage of roomie Hank Merrill to Mary Lois Igleheart on June 22 at Mountain Lakes, N. J. The Big Green was well represented with Doc Jessup and Dick Ruebling as ushers and myself as best manamong the onlookers were Jack Kuhlke and Bill Carter. Soon after the wedding Hank and Mary Lois sailed for Lima, Peru where Hank has a fine job as meterologist for Pan-American." Irv Naitove writes that he has been busy getting married to Miss Florence Harris, Smith '40, cruising to Havana, Panama and Guatemala on a honeymoon, and holding down a job with radio station WMCA in New York. From our secret agents we also learned of the June wedding of Ray Merrick to Miss Marion Wells—Ray and Marion are now living in Holyoke where Ray will sell you all the lumber you want to buy. Another green-hued wedding was that of Buzz Waters and his frequent Hanover guest, Jane Canfield, with Bill Kent acting as best man and Wally Davis and Buzz Spring witnessing the ceremony. Last merging of the summer months (as far as we know) is that of Charlie Gluek and his favorite Miss of long standing, Kitty Kelly. Now that the summer vacation and honeymoon are over Charlie will resume his studies at Minnesota Law.

Being a real Fifth Columnist I did some extensive probing, with the help of secret agents, and came out with the following startling discoveries concerning the real draft dodgers—here they are. Culprit number one is Homer Skeels who announces the arrival of a baby girl (Sharon is her name) not so very long ago, for which congratulations to Homer and Ann for giving us the first class daughter. They say there is safety in numbers and if that's true Ben Eckerson will never be conscripted, for along about February there will be an addition of twins in the Eckerson family. From Bill Deal—"Fran and I expect a NEW DEAL around the end of January." Completing the list of real dodgers is Frank Davis who expects to be a proud pappy in the very near future.

WRITERS OF THE MONTH This year I'm going to try and include more of the letters I receive in this section of the column, but may I remind some of you gentlemen with writers cramp that in order to include letters in the column I must first receive them—or am I being too blunt?

First from Rog Harrison who is now in Bangor, Maine doing his bit toward publishing the Commercial. "Bob Fletcher was East in June and is now back in Los Angeles being the big oil tycoon. Have you heard Merriam's new name—we call him 'Fender-bender' for obvious reasons. First he creased Cummings running board and then a week or so later he repeated the performance on another car on Long Island. Junie, Field, Hoskinson and Davidson moved out to their Long Island estate for the summer. The next door neighbors are a couple of seventeen year old girls and Field's main worry is that one of the girls may take an unfair advantage of Junie—he's so cute, you know."

From Len Vines: "Pem Pleasants and I have started the ball rolling for the year and all '39ers in and around Boston are joining our get-together on Sept. 17, at the Engineers Club. I'm still with the Equitable Life in Boston and having a grand time rooming with Jim Parks who is also in the insurance game Dick Brooks has at last found his niche—he's drawing cartoons for the Boston-Trar, script and really doing a bang up job Hank Hastings is also in town doing some sort of research work."

THE CLEARING HOUSE By the time you receive this your Sec. retary will be testing the Navy's boast of a girl in every port. I plan to join up for four months starting in October and while I'm at sea Pete Cardozo will take over the column. It would be appreciated no end if some of you kinder souls would -write Peter newsy letters beginning Octobei first—his address is Sanborn House, Han over.

November 20 is definitely the date for '39 Night and preparations are under wat, Len Vines and Pam Pleasants are the of cial organizers for Boston and vicinity and will welcome any help from you fellows in that section. Organizers in other cities will be announced next month. Don't forget the date—November 20.

THE HAPPY GATHERING AT CLEM BURNAP'S '39 PICNIC IN NEW CANAAN, CONN., LAST JUNE. L. TO R.—YOU NAME 'EM!

Secretary, Box 3384, St. Paul, Minn. Treasurer, 312 Cherry St., Douglaston, L. 1., N. Y.