1933*
Writing this column is no fun. It demands constancy and concentration. It demands fertility (no remarks, please) and industry. It demands courage and daring.
Often we have been compelled to produce copy when our tired body literally cried for surcease ("Hey! Surcease," it cried) and our reeling brain threatened to snap under the strain of composition. Often in our lonely garret we have undergone torture more exquisite than any conceived by medieval inquisitors to produce the calm, shining gems that you receive every month. (By the way—have you paid for the gems you have received thus far?)
Always in these hours of trouble, however, we have been sustained by the belief that those who read this column are appreciative. At least they have always kept their dissatisfaction to themselves.
And now comes the sudden, disillusioning lifting of the veil. And from JackSmart of all people. First of all, he tries to smother us with compliments by calling us the "Hague of Waterbury." Then he writes as follows: . may I say that Cory Ford's article in the last ALUMNI MAGAZINE is one of the best I've ever read. Why don't you write a column like his?"
Well, all we can say in return is that any school that collects tuition from parents on the representation that Smart is a teacher is guilty of taking money under false pretenses and should be prosecuted to the full extent of the statute in such case made and provided.
1933 IN THE NEWS
On Sept. 30th, the Salem (Mass.) News carried an article concerning the advance of the work of the New England Shoe and Leather Association, one of the oldest trade associations in the country. Special stress was laid upon the work of Max Field, its secretary who wrote one thesis on the industry which won him a college degree and a Harvard Business School diploma as well.
On Oct. 10th, the Dartmouth NewsService reported that Kimball Flaccus had an article in the October issue of CommonSense entitled "Edgar Lee Masters, An Interview and Interpretation."
On Oct. 20th, the Youngstown Vindicator in the course of a review of paintings at the Butler Art Institute in that city printed the following paragraph: "DantanSawyer, a young New England artist and graduate of Dartmouth is being introduced in Youngstown this month with a one man show of 30 oil paintings hanging through Nov. 3."
Gay Milius sends on the following bits: "A welcome letter from Arnie Salisbury tells me he's teaching law at Suffolk Law School and practicing in Lawrence, Mass. I bumped into Fran Harrington sometime ago. He is with the Mass. Protective Ass'n as a claim representative here in New York while his family is still in New England .... family being a wife and two children. Herb Moatz is married .... to a girl named Murphy, I believe. Rube Frodin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Chicago University Law Review and is also the father of a six months old son."
"I am anxious to know if there is a member of our class who has an amateur radio station. Such a person might be interested in contacting me on 160 meters or 10 meters. My call is W2NJF, New Rochelle, N. Y."
THE GREAT DICTATOR
The Court of Venus department is rather quiet this month.
The first news of Ed Freedman received in a long time reports that he is living in Passaic, N. J. (you remember Coach Blood's Wonder Teams) and that he is married.
The Boston Transcript of Oct. 19th carried the announcement of the engagement of Miss Marion Burgess of Needham to Mr. Edmund Strout Phinney. The wedding will take place during November.
Jack Taft was married in October to Marcelle Perkins of Ogunquit, Maine. The-wedding took place at the Ogunquit Baptist Church. After they return from their wedding trip the bridal pair will reside in Providence, R. I. where Mr. Taft is employed as a industrial engineer.
What started out to be a jaunt to watch the game in Hanover with Columbia, the gem of the Harlem, turned out to be a trip for the purpose of examing the Fall foliage on Balch Hill and the interesting way in which the sun glints on the south wall of the Gym.
We did see several members of the great and glorious Class Jim Woods at the entrance to a telephone booth looking fit. He informed me that Paul Wetstein is now on the West coast arranging for Bob Crosby while that gentleman makes a movie Sayres, Ford and Peggy at the Inn and for the first time in the history of our meetings, I persuaded them to sit down long enough to sip a beer in what was formerly the Inn Barber and Coffee Shops. .... Davidson and Glendenning at the Hovey Grill (Davidson was seated so that he would have no trouble in stealing an occasional glance at the famous nude squaws of the Sachem of the Wah Hoo Wahs) Bob Veres walking along East Wheelock Street sunk in thought as if plotting some new experiment for next Spring's softball clinic.
ODD ADDENDA
Charlie Allen's office is at 312 Hardt Building, Philadelphia. He works for Liggett & Myers Dick Bradshaw is an in- dustrial designer—interiors and furniture with G. J. Wells at 9 E. 36th St., NYC. He lives at 4 E. 48th St.
Bob Dickson has moved to 185 Thomas St., Bloomfxeld, N. J.
Dr. Howard J. Farmer has finally been lured away from the exciting continental atmosphere of Montreal to the placid serenity of St. Johnsbury where his residence and office are at 20 Main Street.
Ed. Holmes is a lobster buyer at Gott's Island in McKinley, Maine.
Marty Kerwin is a salesman with Papercraft Co., at 413 N. 3rd St., St. Louis. He lives at 5601 Kingsbury Court in the same city.
Hank King now lives at 1237 N. Howard St., Philadelphia. He is a sales manager at 2047 Spruce St.
Phil Whitbeck is an accountant at 274 N. Goodman St. in Rochester. His home is at 82 Brunswick St.
To us it is practically nauseating the way Ed Foley bats out those long Newsletters all of which contain intimate facts about people we haven't heard from in years. Meanwhile, with the other hand, so to speak, he increases the number of contributors to the Alumni Fund and the total amount of contributions.
His job is no fun. It demands constancy and concentration. It demands fertility and industry. It demands courage and daring. And he has them all.
Maybe that's why he's been living at the University Club, the Black Rock Yacht Club and The Gramatan, Bronxville while our address is 43 Holmes Avenue third floor.
Secretary, 111 West Main St., Waterbury, Conn
Treasurer, . 2812 Grant Bldg., Pittsburgh, Penna.
