1935*
Christmas brought us greetings from far and near. Kay, Connie, and Bud Childs' included portrait sketches of the family, and will certainly find its place in the class scrapbook. Incidentally, the Class Record Book was surprised to learn of the existence of Kay and Connie. I am afraid a tabulation of the number of wives and children would be most inaccurate. A card from David, Eleanor and Nancy Smith bears a photograph of Raggedy Ann and a precious little girl, whom I assume to be Nancy, age sixteen months. Also from the Coast was a card from Maurice Rapf with a note to the effect that the Publicists' Guild, "a union no less," had recently secured raises for all of its workers. He assumes that Steve Brooks, with Paramount's Publicity Department, must be "thriving well." We hope so.
From Cleveland came a crouching skier and a Merry Christmas from Jack Gilchrist, who apparently is still married only to the Law. Other cards were from newlywed Ruth and George Colton, and bachelors Bob Hage, Frank Specht, Hall Colton; from the Sewalls, Niles, Hagermans, McLellans and Chases; and from President and Mrs. Hopkins, the familiar Baker Tower in a new and glorious setting. If your name is not here and should be, you must be one of two or three which arrived without any visible means of identification.
Frank Specht's card was followed by a letter with the latest developments in the Reunion plans. Practically all the committees have chairmen and many of them are already under way. The publicity will be in the experienced and capable hands of Lane and McCarty, who you will recall graduated from The Dartmouth to TheHerald Tribune. Tom is now in the radio publicity field with Young and Rubicam and Mac is in the advertising field with Steve Hanagan Associates. Bill Fitzhugh is also acting as a member of the publicity committee, and your Secretary and the Regional Secretaries are ex-officio members. The responsibility of arranging for costumes and the worries of hoping they will fit are being assumed jointly by Swanny Dawson and Put Kingsbury. It is hard to say truthfully that these men have had much experience to qualify them as clothiers. We do, however, recall that they were among the better dressed during our undergraduate years, and perhaps their wives' judgments will be helpful.
Speaking of wives, I do not seem to have any definite statement from Frank or his committee on the subject of their presence at the Fifth Reunion. However, there will be plenty of room for them where we will stay—in New Hampshire Hall, plenty of beer for them in the tent, and Frank is going to get some married man to head a committee who will see that those who come receive a warm welcome and thoroughly enjoy themselves. We hope Rocky will find himself with the time to assume this chairmanship. We saw Rocky and Ruth in Hanover over New Year's weekend and Rocky reports that teaching and writing a thesis at the same time just about fill one's life to the brim.
Roy Shattuck and Larry Sommer are making plans for the tent and beer and ny other details which can be most efficiently handled in Hanover. Sid Diamond is completing arrangements for the show-0f the class movies, and hopes, as we do that the graduation of his sister from Wellesley will not prevent his being on hand to take personal charge. Except for the possibility of a loan to meet advance expenses, we expect to run the Reunion entirely financially independent of the Class Treasury and Frank has enrolled brother Ralph to hold the Reunion purse strings.
BARBECUE VS. BANQUET
One question has come up on which the committee would welcome expressions of opinion. Although it has been customary to have a more or less formal dinner on Saturday night with some entertainment and one or two speakers, 1933 and 1934 substituted in its stead an outdoor barbecue. The barbecue would be slightly cheaper. How about sending your suggestions on this, or any other aspect of Reunion, to Frank Specht, 158 Westchester Avenue, White Plains, New York.
From Chicago comes a clipping of the announcement of the engagement of Barrister Owen Fairweather and Sally Ellen Halberg of Evanston. Congratulations! ! From New York comes news of the December wedding of Edward Gerson to Lynn Barbara Telles. The bride was graduated from New York University and is taking courses in graduate work at Columbia University. Our ever-alert news hounds also bring me tidings of the marriage of '35er Dr. John W. Parfitt Jr. to EdithMary Rowe of Boston. We extend our very special wish for happiness to both these couples.
Here and there: Johnny Blanchard is apprenticing at the William Watson Machine Co. in Trenton. Ed Drechsel, whose last address was Venezuela, has forwarded to Hanover a Brooklyn address, but no word of what he is doing or has done since Tuck School. Charlie Griffith has turned from Chemical research to commercial art, being associated with the Wellwood Studio in New York. Dick Levison sends in a Buffalo residence, but reports he is a merchandising assistant for Kobacker Stores, Inc., Toledo. Halsey Loder is in his second year at Harvard Business School. Bob Lovegrove bears the title of Manager of Local Finance, Inc., in Bridgeport, Connecticut. George McKearin has been shifted from Worcester, to Philadelphia, making his home in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. We assume he is still with the Travelers Insurance Co.
Henry McLister, last heard from as being in the wallpaper business in Glens Falls, turns up now in his home town with the sales end of Kohler-McLister Paint Co. The law firm with which Bill Mathers is associated in New York City has lengthened its name to Millbank, Tweed & Hope. Gordon Moody, who has successfully gone through four and a half years since graduation without giving the Record Books an inkling of what he has been doing, comes forward to admit he is in New York with Scott Wilson, a designer of wallpaper, screens and fabrics. Ed Richardson continues to work for Proctor and Gamble in Ivorydale as an industrial engineer. Pop Pierce has left Harper & Brothers to become Circulation Manager of The Yale Review, located in New Haven.
Quentin Anderson, who left us after our freshman year, turned up last year doing graduate work at Harvard and is now teaching at Columbia. Bob Chollar is another of our research chemists, in Dayton with National Cash Register. George E. Connor is President of Geco, Inc., in Miami. We see where the corporation got its name, but cannot guess what this business does. Bob Denham should now be addressed as Doctor. Having secured his M.D. at Michigan, he is now at University Hospitals in Ann Arbor. Al Ochsner will soon be another full-fledged doctor, being now a senior medical student at Johnston-Willis Hospital in Richmond. Although the zero hour for sending this copy off to Hanover has arrived, I cannot resist giving you brief extracts from an airmail letter which just arrived from San Francisco. Lowie Haas is keeping a New Year's resolution by writing news for this column early in the new year. He reports that he has run into Dud Russell once again, this occasion being New Year's Eve in San Francisco. You will recall that Dud and Lowie roomed together two years in Hanover. Although they separated immediately after graduation they have met since then in the following wide-spread cities: London, New York, Chicago, Hanover, Boston, Minneapolis, Duluth, Omaha, Lincoln, Seattle, and now San Francisco. Lowie further reports that he is a regular attendant at almost every Dartmouth gathering of consequence and that on these occasions he and Bill Mann produce music of varying quality inspired by the leadership of Dave Smith. When Bill isn't playing the piano he is selling sheets and towels for Cannon Mills. Since he was transferred out here from New York a few months ago, local interest in the bath has increased no end. Lowie is now Reservation Dispatcher for United Air Lines. He acts as a link between the operations department, which controls flight, and the traffic department, which sells and puts the passengers on the airplanes. We may have told you recently, but Dave when not recalling his glee club tunes spends his time working for the North American Investment Company.
HOW ABOUT DROPPING ME A LINE ABOUT YOURSELF OR OTHER '35ERSH!!!
Secretary-Chairman, 82 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass.
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