1936*
Bill (Wilfred) McLaughlin, the dour Scot, is by now high in the Andes—not prospecting for gold but auditing the accounts of some lucky folk who long since struck bonanza. Rail to Miami, Pan American airways to Ecuador, river boat and mountain trail to the Andes, outfit by Abercrombie—and all on the house of Lybrand Ross Bros, and Montgomery. This should give heart to our most prolific letter writer—Bob Morris, who now sits around the "staff room" of the same outfit's Los Angeles office shooting dice with sundry other meat balls awaiting the call to dash out and pick up a pack of razor blades for the boss. Moss is now a lawyer and is doing this accounting work in order to be able to properly instruct his clients in tax evasion. And this is your last appearance in this column for some months, Morris—you'll need a Junior to show again.
Len Florsheim sends word from the Windy City that handsome Fran Lagorio is M.Ding at Loyola Med. and Bill Sicher at Rush Medical. Jack Matzinger serves in some no doubt very significant capacity with Carson, Pirie, and Scott—department store, while Ren Ostrom is Assistant Sales Manager for "When it Rains it Pours" (See answer on page x). Stout Ren anticipates another addition or edition. Chuck Venrick is selling for the American Locomotive Co.—what a sale one locomotive must be—and is married to Louise Morin. Len, himself, is literally working from the bottom up with the Keeshin Motor Express if we can judge by his finger-printed letter which must have been written in the grease pit.
Out in Cincinnati where the Reds took their worst beating of the season prior to tangling with the flying Finns Bill Shaw and Bob Keeler hold forth in their Club Alaska, and P. and G. Industrial Relations man Shaw reports on his fellow Rhinelanders. Milt Johnston is traveling for the Gardner Richardson Paper Co. and visits the butter and egg men on the byways trying to sell them waxed containers. Ex-G Man Walt Beinhart is tired of sleuthing and is taking it easy in the furniture business. Vance Miller has just come to CinCinn with G. E. and Steve Dietz advertises soap—for Proctor and Gamble. E. "Prather" Palmer is another advertiserKeelor and Stites—is married to Betty Heizer of Fort Mitchell, Ky. Lawyer Keeler is with Taft, Stettinius and Hollister and has gone definitely social. He always was a good looking apple.
Schmidt in Charge of Sales Promotionand, Public Relations says a Holyoke, Mass. paper and it refers to Andrew P. Schmidt who is in real life Andy Schmidt, and he's one of those "if you're in trouble, if you need money, if your wife needs a new washing machine" boys. His card says Personal Finance Co. and it has a wide stripe across the top green enough for a Handrahan necktie Gracing the front office of the National Blank Book Co. in the same city is Brew Towne, and the Assistant Manager of the Roger Smith Hotel is Gene Tamburi. Jim Stephens is an analyst of expenditures in Mass. Mutual's Real Estate Dept. in Springfield. (How would you balance the budget Jim?). This Holyoke-Springfield gang put on a fine show with the Coast and the Glee Club and think that that's the best way to bring the boys out and at the same time to pick up a few extra shekels for your Dartmouth Club. (Ed. Note. If you want to have any stray shekels don't buy a car from Scherman.)
Steve Worthen helped preserve the dignity of the Class by stepping in with a guest card just as one of our officers was about to be politely requested to leave the Lake Placid Club on New Year's Eve. No names mentioned, but the guy in question thanks you, Steve. While not rescuing harassed classmates Steve teaches at Vermont Academy—chemistry, physics, mathematics, etc.
Bill Frick—What are you doing, and how did your kid brother Ray ever miss Dartmouth and get to Penn where he is next year's football captain? Morry Paine is moving around the West Coast faster than one of Slugger Art Atkinson's Aegis bill dodgers. Latest reports place him in Oakland in the department store business Jim Pearson is a sales promoter for Republic Steel ("Rebecca" to you boys in the street) in Cleveland Dave Putnam does research chemistry for the Markem Machine Co. in Keene, N. H. and long-legged Cramp Carrick bestrides that little town working harder than he ever did before (did someone in the back row yell fake?) for the Peerless Casualty and New Hampshire Acceptance Co...... George Allen is a chemist with American Cyanimide in Bound Brook, N. J.
Jack Sawyer lives in Utica and works for General Foods Sales Corp. in Syracuse. Roy Adams married Lillian Cannon—the girl from back home in Dolgeville—and lives in New York where he is another one of those darn auditors.
SAWBONES DIV.
If you are contemplating an appendectomy, hold off a while and maybe you can have it done by a classmate. Our Menin White include Hank Mayo, student at the University of Virginia: Bob Ingersoll, interne at Monroe County Infirmary, Rochester; Al Montague at the French Hospital in N. Y. C.; Walt Chase and Scott Pedley at Mary Hitchcock; Charlie Lehman in Williamsport, Pa.; Bud Soule at the Mountainside Hospital in Montclair; John O'Hare—Alameda County Hospital, Oakland, Cal.; Johnny Ovitz at the Evanston Hospital in Illinois; Doug Robertson in Abington, Pa.; and students Bruce Smith at Tufts, Ed McGrath in Philly and Tino Lando in New York. If you're a doctor-to-be and not listed here send in the story on yourself. This plug business ought to be done on a fair basis.
One of our single men, who has just landed a job with the House Heating Department of the Brooklyn Union Gas Company, was quite surprised to get Christmas greetings from Vin Wentworth addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Ballantyne Ex '96er Ferris Mack is in charge of manufacturing for Doubleday Doran's Junior Literary Guild, though one of the Associate Editors thought that his cherubic countenance would entitle him to membership rather than an executive position Another 'ex man—Henry "Moose" Newell is with the National Association of Manufacturers. He was no right footer in Hanover Erion has some sort of a new job up in New Hampshire which sounds a lot more pleasant and a lot more gravy-bearing than playing foreman in a Buffalo steel plant to a lot of brawny lads who ought to have been helping stave off Hitler's blitzkrieg in the homeland.
Al Rader is a music publisher's representative in Hawaii Red Riley is with George Riley and Son—furniture jobbers—in his home town of Clinton, N. Y. (prospective bridegrooms take notice)
Jack Arnold is with the General Electric Contracts Corp. in New York, and Art Atkinson divides his time between trying to wipe out the Aegis deficit and being an agent for Conn. General Life Bob Walker is another Tufts med man, and Chuck Richards is interning in the Albany, N. Y. hospital El Wanstall is an adjuster for some finance corporation in Hartford Smiling Bill Watson is a student salesman for the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., and Ted Whitmore is in the Personnel Dept. of Esso N. J. at their Bayonne refinery. Rosy-cheeked pere-defamille Bud Wolfe is Assistant Sales Manager for the Rome Manufacturing Co. in the central New York city of that name. Dave Wood is a manufacturers agent of some sort in Grand Rapids, and Bim Woods is at the Manlius School, where whatever else he is doing he is undoubtedly lifting the ski boys out of the schussboom-oh class.
The next '36 column will probably be written from Hanover or some other northern point (please drop those remarks about soft fob and stuff—just wise up to wisdom of winter vacation) so wheel in some material early. The next thing on the docket in the way of class activities is the Alumni Fund campaign. It would take a Philadelphia lawyer to figure out what's wrong with us in that undertaking, and that's just what Chairman Shertz is, so let's give that jockey some help this year.
.. .. After 1940 comes 1941 and five years after graduation comes reunion No. 1. Chairman Jack Morrison is building a Committee. How about some suggestions.
Secretary-Chairman, 143 Sunset Ave., Ridgewood, N. J.
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