1937*
Privates Bankart and Devlin, Nos. 158 and 192, reporting for duty to Capt. Mckinlay. Unanimous opinion of aforesaid pvts.writing a column is no cinch.
The headline, "Pancacke Gets Flattened in Freshman Rush," should bring a rush of nostalgia to many a '37er as he thinks back to that melee shortly after we arrived at college the first fall. Bob Pancake has gone and done it again, but it only took one little girl this time. Edwina Handsfield from Wheaton and the man who gave his all for '37 one fall afternoon have settled down in Butte, Montana where hubby is rated highly as a mining engineer.
Seen at the Statler Bar in Boston celebrating H-D week-end: Thirlby, Hinman, Dex Smith, Russ Tompkins, Geniawicz, Tucker, Richter, Hunter, and others, all with amused, tolerant expressions, looking over the undergraduate antics. That is, all except Geniawicz, who can still draw a good gate to watch his celebrating.
The brass double-duty pacifier, an award for outstanding feats of parenthood goes this month to Don Sieburg for twins, count them! Judith and Jaqueline have readjusted Don's nightly schedule, but he claims they're twice as much fun.
Seen at Hanover one weekend—Bill Montei, whooping around in a brand new Buick, with a beautiful executive-gray tinge to his hair around the temples
Quote one correspondent "The prize package of the day was Marshall Eugene Roper, he drinks you know! The holy Roper was with Herb Pickering, who you remember dropped out of school after freshman year, now selling Life Savers out of Springfield. Rope is still selling paper boxes out of the same town. Last we saw of him, he was out on the edge of the Corner telling anyone who cared to listen just how detrimental they were to society and why they should have committed suicide years ago.
McKinlay caught hell from some gent. However, Don, believing every knock is really a boost requests that we quote and asks for more of the same. "I though the start of your article in the Oct. issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE was Sophomorish and not in keeping with a class three years out. I suggest you open with an introductory paragraph about some topic of general class interest." So, brothers, a little of this every once in a while to keep our hardworking Secretary working hard.
Bill Geraghty and twenty-nine other N. Y. '37ers rallied round at the Dartmouth Club for a feed and fun on Oct. ist. We notice the list is sprinkled with new lawyers, Frank Butler, Paul Olsen, Rowley Bialla, Latta McCray, and Tom Cohen, to name a few. Geraghty mentions their sudden departure en masse as an ambulance sirened by about ten.
Don Frank from Toledo graphically giving a struggling young lawyer picture -"9 hours of classes a day, seven days a week for three weeks cramming for the Bar .... 6 anxious weeks to hear the results .... success .... 3 weeks tramping for work.... temporary research for a big firm.... then a couple of good offers of permanent jobs."
Wayne Ballantyne taking things in stride as usual. First it's a wife, the former Mavis Thirwall in Lima, Peru, in September; and on returning from his honeymoon, a promotion to manager of the Grace office in Quito, Ecuador.
Some of you bachelors ought to see the picture of Mrs. William Sayre that Pvts. Bankart and Devlin are now ogling. Nice going Bill! The former Margery Comay from Redlands, Calif., and the pride of Tuck School will live in New Haven until Bill finishes Yale Law.
El Timson, after three years of Mass. Tech, has relapsed into the arms of Armano Drown, Colby College product from White River Junction.
Norm Robbie has finally given up the battle and said OK to the former Virginia Neilson of Plainfield, N. J. The bride and blushing groom plan to make their nest in Plainfield.
Another milestone for Mel Estey who received an appointment to New Hampton. A Master's Degree from Boston University paved the way.
Tom Reck of Smith-Barney seen wailing with other bond men in Bawl Street as the election became fact Rowley Bialla lunching with Paul Olsen, Mudge, Stern, and Tucker at the Dartmouth Club. .... Bill Greenwood seen spending a week at Rangely Lakes in Maine Tony Turkevitch at the U. of Chicago as a research assistant in Spectroscopy, something to do with Physics Reck, Chester and Geraghty looking for an apartment together Gordon Bennett, the resident physician, having late suppers by candlelight with the aging superintendtrix of the Brookline Old Ladies Home Carl Ray asking Ruth whether she thinks "blue curtains or pink look better, dear" in their new Westchester home.
In a smoke-filled, evil smelling room in the Statler H-D week-end, we heard about Warren Crumbine and Brud Johnson from Bill McKnight and Bill Hoyt. Crummy is having children at record speed and is holding a big money job in the Cleveland Trust. He thinks banks are more fun and wants to know who this Col. Ayres guy is anyway. Brud Johnson, our Senior Fellow, known around the U. of Chicago as T. Walter "the Brain" Johnson, married the minister's daughter, and is a pillar of the local community.
A puzzled '37er writes to inquire whether Hank Doremus, reported in November as earning a handsome week's wage in Towaco, N. J. as a pomologist reads poms or what? Lucky the dolt didn't sign that query!
Bibs Bankart's Kay Hillman can't figure out whether it's love or conscription that makes the man act that way. The engagement has been announced, and marriage is in the near offing. Now if only the wool market holds up.
Others among those of our class who are thinking seriously about this draft business and have announced their engagements lately are Bob Crawford engaged to Madeline Louise Hanfoid in Glens Falls, Sheldon Wagner to Janet Lowther in Riverdale, N. Y., and Moe Cartwright to Sarah Appel in Scarsdale, N. Y. Among those who have recently been awarded D's (Dodgers) we find Dick Cooper married to Elizabeth Wentworth in Manchester, N. H.; big, poker face, basso profundo Bill Dixon of the '37 College Quartet choosing to carry on as a duet with Elizabeth O'Gorman of Montclair, N. J. They will live in Kansas City where Bill will continue his work with Aero Insurance Underwriters. Earl Peters, now a big molar in the tooth business (special low rate to '37s needing new sets of porcelain choppers) married to Betty Buttrick and living in Newton, Mass. Ed Doremus wedded to one of those Skid- more jobs, name, Janet Mac Master. Ed is with Prentiss Hall Publishers in N. Y.
Dana Prescott (of the brand new firm of Prescott & Kelly, Estate Planners) writes he has gone out of business. The National Guard plucked him right out of Musty for a year's .training with a horse cavalry outfit, and he expects to be stationed at Fort Devens for a while, which the army tells him by way of encouragement is located right next door to Wellesley College (Wellesley Town Tabloid please copy). Some people's Armies get all the breaks.
Ed Price tells us he's basking in that perpetual weather supplied to Los Angeles as a part of sunny California. He's with Lumberman's Mutual. Fred Castle with the same outfit in Decatur, Ill.
Halsey Bullen, Bill Bennett, and Mike Petti finishing up Med School in Philadelphia, Bill on the Dean's list, and all three making the Green show up well in extra-curricular activities. Internships for them next year but they don't know where as yet.
It seems that some of those far-minded Fy Bates in charge of things to do with 1937 have got themselves thinking about our sth reunion already, and here we haven't even got the European War settled yet. They want us the worst way to bear this in mind and occasionally submit a thought such as where is a fine new spot for a group picnic, or, whose wife can arrange entertainment for other class wives so as to keep them out of our mischief, and anything else that might slide into your heads. Reunions in 1942 will be held one week after graduation so we'll have plenty of room. This insertion is a feeler pure and simple, so you Reds who don't like the way things are generally managed can have an opportunity to ponder this thing and next time you write in add a paragraph on anything you'd like to do or have at such a gathering.
We have been receiving through the mail lately mimeographed information known to the general public as HaroldPutnam's News Letter. Hal is a versatile reporter, writer and speech-maker on politica; activities in general and has now decided to give some time to actual editing. Anyone interested can procure copies of the News Letter by writing Hal at 1248 Great Plain Ave., Needham, Mass.
Privates Devlin and Bankart are hereby released from this draft and will now enter private life to sleep for one week.
Secretary, 10314 S. Hoyne Ave., Chicago, I11.
Treasurer, Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Mass
