1930*

Well boys it is time to get out your Aegises. We tried it the other evening and found it fun. Bob Kohn, Gene Magenau, Gene Zagat and colleagues did a swell job and if you pick it up you won't be able to put it down in less than a hour. It will start you wondering about different lads and that will whet your appetite for the class biography, which will whet your appetite for reunion, for which the present indications show we will have to borrow one of Barnum and Bailey's more roomy canopies if we can be accommodated in anything short of Madison Square Garden. There are lots of good things in the back, including a lovely bit of prose by A. I. Dickerson in which Tommy Longnecker is credited with invention of the "Man Who Wasn't There." Si Chandler raises the question whether this authorship can be substantiated A bright senior named Baumer who is a Pschy major under Hank Odbert has been running around at a great tempo for the last month on the 1930 class biography. You boys have got him goggle-eyed. Hank Odbert himself has been shuttling back and forth to Boston on some mysterious business about punching cards for some supernatural machine which will take all of the dope from our questionnaires and tell us more about ourselves than we ever dreamed. The questionnaire returns are grand, totaling almost 450, and it begins to shape up as a swell book.

Now picture Si Chandler in his bridal apartment sitting in the middle o£ a floor filled with "lists, slips of paper, carbon copies, etc., etc." At the moment the reunion returns are as follows:

Definitely coming 99 Probably coming 117 Perhaps m-

If you add the "definitely" and "probably," and save the "perhaps" as a cushion to absorb the "probably's" who don't come, it looks like a sure reunion of over 200 men, which will be history-making. Our gth-year 165 has never been equaled.

THE DATES ARE JUNE 14-16! (A couple of fellows didn't know.) And we are going overboard and extending open arms to wives.

When you get the room reservation slips from the Bursar's office, shoot them back with the necessary deposit immediately. We are obviously going to overflow Topliff. The 60-year class and the maiden aunts of graduating seniors won't be any more enthusiastic than you will be if you get tucked away, with them on the third floor of South Mass.

Si will soon be telling you all about reunion. Concerning costumes, he says "we will definitely be INJUNS." Si hasn't been in an Indian suit since he was ten years old and is hankering.

By the time this gets to you the big 1930 cross country party of March 1 probably will be history. But if this gets to you early and you haven't received word about the gathering in your community, try to get in touch with some better posted 'Thirtyman and get the dope. To be added to Hank Embree's lineup published last month are the names of Bob Jordan in Rhode Island and Paul Maguire in Houston, Texas. Alcorn, Keating and Vogt are helping Rauch in Connecticut. Collie Young reports his Californians rallying and, a few steps off, Fred Scribner has got things all set in Portland, Maine. Lee Chilcote says Cleveland is buzzing. The Bostonians have already had a luncheon and the New York Metropolitan area had a big party to bless the Venezuela-bound Bottome, January 25. This affair was so contagious that Weaver, Morrill and easier decided to go along for the ride—al though we believe Weaver has decided to come skiing instead. You can't pass the Inn these days without seeing Pat. Old Father Weaver gathered a large family about him, including Morrill and the Dickersons, and took us all to the movies the other Sunday night. He's flying around so much, however, that he had to back out of the Executive Committee's assignment to take charge of the post-prandial aspects of the reunion banquet—the rat.

Leap, girls, leap: with our Tenth reunion coinciding with Leap Year we feel it is only fair to publish a list of those gun-shy and wily survivors on our roster of bachelors. On our active list of 506 'Thirtymen there remain only 125 who may still think that two can live as cheaply as one. (All in all, there are 656 on our class roster, but the ALUMNI MAGAZINE mailing list consists of the 506 who have shown active interest in the class. Among the comparatively inactive 151 there are 92 bachelors, apparently a high proportion, but undoubtedly because a lot of them are married and we just haven't found out about it.)

The bachelors: Ahern, Allen, G. F., Allen, S. H., Arthos, Bailey, Barnard, Benoist, Bernhardt, Bishop, J. L., Blais, Blake, E. N., Blun, Booth, Brazil, Carlisle, Clow, Cogan, Cole, A. M., Collins, Condon, Curtiss, Dakin, Denney, Doherty, Duback, Eisler, Ekstrom, Elliott, Epstein, Erskine, Ferguson, Fink, Fisher, C. L., Fitch.

Also Fitzpatrick, J. R., Fleischman, Fletcher, W. M., Foster?, Fredrickson, Frost, Fujiyama, Galbraith, Gallagher, W. S., Garland, Garrison, Gibbons, Gilbert, E. W., Goldschmidt, Gould, Gross, Gulden, Harroun, Hayes, A. L., Hayes, M. B„ Heron, Hildreth, Hodges, Howard, D. A., Howe, Humphries, Irwin, Keating, Keller, Kirkman, Kohn, H. 1., Kountz, Larkin, Lawson, Leslie, Litchter, Lohnes, Mc- Briarty.

Also McClellan, McDonough, C. J., Mc- Grath, A. F., MacKenzie, McNamara, Mandeville, Morrill, O'Brien, Odbert, Osgood, Palmer, B. F., Palmer, E. M., Park-hurst, Peirce, Perkins, H. A., Perry, Placak, Poorman, Rauch, Reaves, Rich, W. C., Richards, Rix, Rugg, Safford, Sander, Scadron, Schumaker, Sherburne, Simpson, Sinz, Smith, J. T., Stayman, Stone, G. R., Street, Tasker, Tiedtke, Toland, Troidle, Tunnicliff.

Also Uhlemann, Walker. Warren, E. C., Weaver, Weinstein, H., Weston, Whitelam, Wilcomb, Williams, Wood, H. N., Zey, and Zyskowski.

After 934 years Dave Marks writes a letter. He shifted from Harvard Law to medicine which meant getting some pre-medical requisites in chemistry and physics before starting his course at the Long Island College of Medicine in 1932; got his M.D. in 1936 and promptly married Adele Baron. Then some Pathology, interneship, and surgical residency in City Hospital, New York; started to practice surgery last October The Halfenreffers are getting a Providence house for next fall to make it easy for Carlie to go to school Brad Crosier suggests a brass band, in which he toots, for reunion: but Chandler is afraid of the local police Bud French and Chuck Faye held their '30 luncheon with Ellie Gilbert and Tom Shartle (the host) in Houston and Bud saw Jim Irwin in New Orleans en route back.

Jean Jaspersen answered Fred's questionnaire, explaining that Fred was seriously ill. It is superfluous to say that we all hope by the time this is printed that Fred is fully recovered and that both can make reunion as they had planned Heinie Garrett writes Haffy that he's "still selling chemicals for Carbide" and spends "'most of my spare time skiing, hunting and fishing.". .. .Harry Wilson writes from Nova Scotia "Greta insists that the Wilson family will be reunioning in spite of hell, Hitler, foreign exchange and anything else that comes to mind." War conditions insert a large IF in these plans. He writes, "It's no use mentioning any Army plans or affiliations, as they would be very neatly deleted by our worthy censors; suffice it to say, my remaining in private practice hangs on as thin a thread as 24 hours' notice." Tardily he adds that "July 5 brought along 6½ pounds of son," named Harry Jr., as companion for three year old Judith. Harry's medical career, of which we learned a year ago, was enough to fill a class book in itself. The following paragraph from his letter gives a further idea of what it is like:

Flu in Nova Scotia

"As you probably know my territory covers about forty miles of N. S. eastern shore, runs fifteen miles inland, includes two gold mines, a hard wood products factory and several lumber mills. Last winter was just plain undiluted hell; I had a man-sized flu epidemic on my hands. Forty and fifty calls a day, with two hundred miles of driving almost a daily routine, kept me busier than I ever want to be again. Had to have two drivers, one for day and one for night shift; the boys not only drove, they had to shovel snow, chop windfalls on the by-roads, and jack the car out of ditches and up banks."

Eb Blake has recently been made assistant credit manager of the Continental Bank and Trust Company, New York We have some hitherto unreported marriages which have come to light Dick Royce was married June 8, 1939 to Miss Evelyn Korach I. C. Thurman, rancher, was married June 9 last to Orlean Sparling, an Oklahoma University product Frank Wallace was married August 29 last to Eleanor M. Fry And Hotel Manager Dick Zeigler married Miss Patricia Goodrich on September 20 last.

The moth balls have long been in the wedding costumes of the following: automobile dealer Bill Bassett (Miss Dorothy Hunt, Pembroke College A. 8., March 28, 1936); hotel proprietor Henry Kidder (Ruth E. Sebra, Plymouth Normal School, 1931: witness Henry W. Jr., 1933 and Sylvia June, 1936); insurance man Bob Lee, and how! (Geraldine Whittier, June 21, 1931: witness Joanne, 1932; Robert W., 1933; Patricia, 1935, and Richard G., 1939); engineer Joe Guilfoy (Anita Lavoie, April 3, 1937); Social Security board field assistant Paul Freeman (Lucy Ann Rubino, A. B. N. Y. U., January 16, 1937); advertiser Tom Dunnington (Mary Zane, Bradford College, February 4, 1937); actor Wis Clark (Harryt Wiley, Indiana College, June 30, 1936); service station proprietor Joe Neale (Violet M. Chase of Keene Normal School, 1932: witness Thomas Paul, December 20, 1933 and Jean Marie, May 14, 1938); insurance man Art Parker (Marion H. Brown, October 14, witness Barbara Anne, Februarv 24, 1937); teacher Bill Truex (Alberta Boardman, Connecticut College A.B April 25, 1936: witness William H. Jr March 21, 1937); shoeman Telling (Le' onia McGill, August 14, 1937); Congressman's secretary Hugh Mitchell (Kathryn Smith, George Washington University A.8., September 18, 1937); barrister Bob Ryan (Anne C. Ryan, Emerson College June 25, 1937).

Also we must add some new names to our roll call of lads and lassies. The lgsjg additions to the roster are as follows: Michael McClory, September 27; Edward Walsh McGrath (Norm and Mary) July 3; C. Lloyd B. Michel, August 9; Helen Troy (alas for the topless towers of Ilium) December 2: Harry Stewart 111, November 23; Penelope Winchell (we ought to be godfather) Stark, May 27; Hart Birnie, April 2; Marilyn Bishop (Hank and Virginia) date unknown; Robert A. Dunlap Jr., November 1; Marilyn Clare, September 4; Ann Sundean Bragner, November 4; Nancy Ann Kohn (Bob and Miriam) August 21; Frank Butler Granger, October 15.

And then there are the following which have been ferreted out from under cabbage leaves and most of which should be well out of diapers by this time: Robert M. Pratt, January 28, 1936; Thomas Christy Newcomb, September 3, 1937; Deborah Turnbull South, who has started concealing her age already; three little Saunderses: Lorraine, May 26, 1934, Nancy, April 23, 1936, Donald, July 6, 1938; Emily Marie Peacock, September 11, 1932: Jack G. Herrera, December 23, 1937; David Glenn Bartram, March 22, 1938.

The above mentioned Stewart, obstetrician and gynecologist, not only brings to light the infant Harry but acknowledges for the first time his June 13, 1936, bride, the former Miss Frances Walton of Philadelphia, and daughter Sandra, born November 15, 1937. Mrs. Stewart's college was Westchester State Teachers.

We regret to record in the Necrology department the death of Floyd Wiese.

Secretary-Chairman, Administration Bldg., Hanover, N. H.

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