1936*
Lou Benezet has broken a deep silence of four years' standing and provided grist for a large part of this column. As a good psychology student should he presents a brief case history—First two years out of Dartmouth teaching English at The Hill School in Pottstown, Pa.—too much time spent in discipline so out to Reed College, a small liberal arts college in Portland, Ore., where he received an M.A. in Psychology and went on to teach the same. This is where the redhead comes in, and it's the old handsome professor—beautiful student story, and luckily Lou had a Ford to do his courting in, and the rest of the kids giggled in class, and the redhead is now Mrs. Benezet (I'd mention her former name if I could read Lou's writing). Anyway, they're both in New York working for various degrees. Lou's at Columbia headed for a Ph.D. He reports that Jack Patrick was last seen heading up into Hood River (Oregon) country to bolster some fading lumber concern, and that übiquitous ropemonkey Herm Dock showed up at Reed College one day peddling his way through college via the magazine route. Who hasn't seen Herm behind an order book?
Dan "The Trapper" Doan has given up chicken farming in Orford and settled down to serious writing somewhere near Laconia, N. H Dick Rudy was last reported trying the bar (legal) prospects in San Francisco, but rumor now places him back in New England Classmate Benezet makes some rather pertinent remarks, considering the imminence of our 5th. He writes: "Keeping our class together, I have a vague hunch, is a pretty tough job. In college, to be frank about it (don't let '37 or '35 see this) we weren't distinguished for anything much except being the senior class when Dartmouth beat Yale. (Ed. Note Think of the honor in store for some future Harvard senior class.) We didn't have many big lads or even campus characters to rally round and those years of college were rather uneventful, except for the sophomore year tragedies we'd like to forget. It was a good class, and a good democratic bunch of fellows "
George Mc Cleary, the Indian rubber man, has bounced right into the 7th regiment with which he will leave for Savannah in January for a year's training in the searchlight division. It's going to be a shock to him when he finds himself spending his evenings on the beach with a flashlight. • ...Charlie Nichols does research—assisting in biology at Harvard Herb Beskind advises his employers to make the hole in their product bigger in order to make the hole in their bank balances smaller. He accounts for the Doughnut Corp. of America in New York.
Shertz and Longhurst is the combination of the month, Bob and Anne having chosen the new Thanksgiving for the big day in Hanover.
Bob Bright researches for Kodak up in Rochester. .. . Herb Higgins sells for Victor Chemical Works Dick Jewell's with Swift and Co. in Chicago Bob Kable is Assistant to the President of Kable Bros., magazine printers of Mount Morris, III. Bill McNulty is still in New York selling for Graybar Electric Bill May buys for Shoecraft—same city.
Art "Deep Blue" Funk writes from St. Petersburg where he claims that the water is as warm as it was in September (wait'll the poor birds start freezing to death in the streets, Art). After several years of hard work (no football) at the University of Chicago he earned or received or both a Ph.D. in history this August. St. Petersburg Junior College was seeking a man of Art's attainments and signed him up to teach history and "polly sigh." He's a bachelor and plans to so remain, but does not mention whether or not his school is coed.
Bryce McLellan is Brockton, Mass.'s best insurance man Bob Walker's interning in Waterbury Rog Watson's in his fourth year of med school heading for psychiatric work Andrew "Bud" Titcomb had plenty of tough luck, being attacked by a strep infection not long after we left college. This required a couple of years of recuperation in Florida, but Bud is now back on his feet or his skis and is rumored engaged Hartie Beardsley makes machine tools up in Springfield, Vt. and we gather from the papers that there's some market for machine tools these days. Besides a wife—Peggy—and a son—Chrishe has a big house, turkeys, dogs and cats, hayfields and a "rugged individualistic" outlook on life.
The "little major" Al Williams is credit manager for Fair Play Caramels in Binghampton Frank Kappler's with New York's "pitcher paper"the Daily News in the advertising department Kirk Liggett sells for Turner Gill and Crouter, investment house in Philly Norm Henshaw is with the Tacoma Plumbing Supply Co. in Tacoma, Wash Russ Crawford's Assistant Treasurer of R. N. Crawford & Co., insurance in Chicago Bill Gibson left the employ of the Union Barge Co. to do a little barging around on his own, with an around the world trip as his objective. Right now he is in Sao Paulo, Brazil having been turned south by the war, and is happily combining travel with lucrative employment by tutoring the son of an engineer who hopes to enter M. I. T.
Dick Crosby came home from the American University of Beirut this summer on the last American boat out of the Mediterranean. It is no fun to have planes flying over your boat endeavoring to ascertain its nationality, especially when you have a good idea that they don't care much about what the nationality is anyway. The element of grim humor entered into the trip on two occasions when the passengers heard radio reports announcing that their ship had been sunk. Don't know what Dick plans to do this year.
Eddie Chamberlain comes in for a good deal of newspaper publicity these days"passing star of former years impersonates Princeton passers for Big Green drill, etc." We should have a fine reunion with both Eddie and Stonewall Jackson on hand in Hanover to handle preparations Henry Dearborn got an M.A. from Yale in 1938 and when last heard from was a student of international relations at that small Connecticut school—subject seems pertinent Frank Hight sells real estate in Washington John "Swamp" Marsh is with Sprague Meter Co. in Bridgeport, and he and wife, Tommie, and child have a beautiful home in Fairfield Long John Greenwood lives in Hartford and is an engineer R. Worthington Tucker graduated from Harvard Law and works for some legal group downtown New York —he stagedoors at one of the local department stores.
In Boston Bill Wyman serves as special agent for Aetna Casualty and Surety Co. .. .. Lawyer Tom Towers is now assistant supervisor of the claims department of the same outfit in their N. Y. office Here's the story on big Chet Young. He's teaching in Quincy, Mass. H. S. which is his own school I think. How's Archie Hart, Chet? Ted Whitmore does industrial rela tions work for Esso, N. J Howie Wardell has his finger in some pie company up in Providence.
And here's one more quote from Lou Benezet's eight page offering. "I for one will do a lot more than I've done for the past four years—which is practically nilto pass on the dope as it comes my way. A red-hot reunion program this year ought to give us all we need to whip us into a real class, which we are essentially, already. ...." Jack Morrison is in charge of "redhots."
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