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Chicago, erstwhile lethargic capital of 1930 affairs, was first off the mark this fall with a gathering on Friday, September 20, at the Bismark Brewing Company, with its president, Wilbur Smith, the host. It was a jolly affair, according to Chuck Simmons, who reports that Pete Callaway, Phil Dakin, George Geiger, Ed Holmes, Bob McClory, Jack Moore, Tail Rumpf, Fred Schmidt, Fred Uhlemann, Doc Horwitt, Wilbur and himself remained long past a respectable bedtime. The free beer and sandwiches were expected to bring out even Pete Hamm and Dud Faust, while other old stand-bys such as Adams, Embree, Crandell, Glasgow, Parker and Varley could not make it at the last minute. Chuck, by the way, puts in three hours a day working for the Willkie Office Worker's Group, of which he is secretary, and claims they can win Chicago if the Democrats steal only half as many votes as they did last time.
When you read this installment, the New York brethren will have held their first class dinner of the year, again under the sponsorship of A 1 McGrath. Now that A 1 has left the National City Bank to accept a position in the foreign trade department of the Manufacturers Trust Company, his new employers will notice a sharp upturn in the telephone bill every time a class affair is scheduled in New York.
It is with deep regret that we record the death of another Thirtyman, Dr. Frederick R. Johnson, of New York City, who was killed in an automobile accident in September. Fred was one of the first to get married in the class, leaving college after the wedding which took place in Hanover during Carnival in our sophomore year. Further details of Fred's life will be found in the Necrology section.
Information from the Baker Library reveals that the Dissociation of the CentralNervous System, by Dr. Edward A. Weinstein '30 and Dr. Morris B. Bener, has been reprinted from the March issue of the ARCHIVES OF NEUROLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY, and that Dr. S. B. Words and Dr. Donald Shaskan 'go are the authors of Retinitispigmentosa and associated neuropsychiatric changes, reprinted from the May issue of THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. This recalls that Bob Noeltner was looking for someone to write the lyrics to a song which he wrote not long ago. Perhaps George Fredrickson, who wrote the words for our reunion song, would be a prospective collaborator.
Bill Bragner was honored by Boston University at its graduation exercises last June, being presented with the degree of Master of Education. Bill has been principal of the Windsor, Vermont, high school since 1935, prior to which he was head of the history department of Cushing Academy According to George McClellan, he was to join the ranks of the "Phenomenally Damned," which we assume means a Ph.D. degree, on August go. George is head of the English department of Maryland State Teachers College.
Introducing a new idea of field trip and college course combined, the Washington State College department of Botany attracted students from Dartmouth, Harvard and the Panama Canal Zone last summer for a six weeks trip into remote regions of Washington and Idaho. In the opinion of Dr. Win Hatch, of the Botany department, no other institution in the country is able to offer a field trip which covers such unique and colorful topography and so unusual a diversity of habitats. Colin E. Campbell of Dartmouth took the course last summer and Donald H. Brown '4O, who was awarded one of this year's Cramer Fellowships, has gone out to W. S. C. to study under Win Hatch.
Only the Director of the Dartmouth College News Service could get out the following news release, bearing a Hanover date line of September 26: "Frederick Potter Widmayer arrived here today for a permanent stay with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Widmayer. Weighing a little better than six pounds, he is spending some time with his mother at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital before taking up residence at 3 South Balch Street. His mother is fine; his father defies description.". ... Edyth and Phil Bassett sent out an attractive announcement of the arrival of Bonnie Hadley Bassett on September 16, weight 8 lbs., 5 oz.
Immediately after Reunion, Ernie Latham left for a trip to Alaska, which he described on a postcard from Skagway as a gorgeous journey Shaw Cole returned from a three month survey of El Paso's water system, including incidental side-trips over the Rio Grande to Juarez, late in August, and is now performing a similar service in Newport, Rhode Island A 1 Trostel and Eggie Smith were in New York about the middle of September for a leather convention, according to Harry Casler, whose ordinary routine was somewhat upset during their visit.
Who could miss Dud Ferguson's picture in last month's MAGAZINE, with a group of Houston fishermen? Ellis Gilbert is continuing his dramatics as well as his singing down there, having played in the Junior League Follies, in addition to his numerous appearances with the Houston Community and Little Theatre players.
An interesting letter was received from Herb Mandeville this summer, reporting that several of the world's largest ships had been in Capetown on various occasions. Herb said that the sentiment in South Africa at that time was in favor of America entering the war, while he felt that the U. S. A. should sell or give all available material to the British, getting into the war only if desperately needed.
A shift from the production division to that of plant personnel manager of the Scott Paper Company at Chester, Penna., was responsible for Harry Dunning being unable to attend reunion. He intends to make up for that, however, by making trips, to Hanover in the spring to interview senior applicants Jack and Mary Wooster went up to Hanover for the Franklin and Marshall game and, as Jack stepped up to the ticket gate, who should he bump into but the Phil Pecks.
Two Thirtymen were married a week apart during September, Dr. Joseph C. Placak Jr., to Edna Mary Davis, at the Miles Park Presbyterian Church, Cleveland, Saturday, the seventh, and Sam Carlisle to Mary Agnes O'Toole, September fourteenth, at Our Lady of the Rosary Church, Clinton, Massachusetts. Joe and his bride are at home at 12931 Shaker Boulevard, Cleveland, while Sam's new address has not been received.
Dick Funkhouser has left Hanover and the Tuck School to take up his new duties as secretary-treasurer of the American Statistical Association in Washington, D. C., where he resides at 6130 32nd Street, N. W. ... .It was 1930's good fortune that Dick waited until after reunion because he was largely responsible for the success of that week-end by looking after all the many details in Hanover as Si Chandler's assistant.
Your executive committee's annual fall meeting will be held this year at the University Club in New York the night before the Yale game, but the report of its deliberations will not appear until the December issue. While this august body is assembled, the respective wives will gather for dinner with Carol Haffenreffer. The two groups will carry on later that evening and at a picnic near New Haven just before the game.
The Dartmouth Glee Club appeared on the Ripley Hour, over the Columbia Broadcasting System, Friday night, October 11, and there is a very good chance that the Club will have a return engagement on the same program, under the same sponsorship, on Friday, November 29, at 10:00 p.m., Eastern Standard Time. This might provide a fine opportunity for several Thirty gatherings at that time, so make the most of it.
Secretary, Simons & French Cos., Inc. 99 Hudson St., New York, N. Y. Treasurer, 9,500 S. Racine Ave., Chicago, Ill.
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