1932*
Secretary-Chairman, 215 Lakeville Rd., Great Neck, L. I. N. Y.
Well, the story about Walser, if you can believe amanuensis Dick Cleaves, is that he's practically settled down. We say "practically" because there are one or two slight reservations. According to Dick, Whip is now sales supervisor of the State of Michigan for Babson Bros. (Gus Babson '33), and is "clamping Surge milking machines on every unsuspecting cow he can fascinate with his French ways."
"This present somewhat humdrum life for him is only a prelude to another GREAT ADVENTURE, when he goes to South America for said Babson Bros, as their export man I imagine that he will start his trek south sometime this Spring, with Puerto Rico, Cuba and Colombia on the itinerary. He is to settle in Argentine."
It is a long standing policy of this pillar never to print rumors, but Dick hints in no uncertain terms that when he says "settle" he may be speaking literally. There is alleged to be a certain graduate of a midwestern college and of one of Whip's cruises who is "wondering what the gals wear in the Argentine."
The Don MacPhails and correspondent Cleaves went out to Ed Eichler's place recently to pack down the two inches of snow on his front lawn. Dick is skiing again this year for the first time since leaving Hanover, and finds "that the younger bloods speak of turns and styles that I never heard of. It still has the old thrill, however."
On a New England trip recently JerryAltman saw Tiny Giles, who is working out of Boston for the first firm to put out sulfanilimide. Tiny is unmarried. For a while he drove a paper truck, then spent a term studying in Peter Bent Brigham Hospital for his present job. Jerry also met Bobby Swartchild in the East on a trip from Chicago for the firm of Swartchild & Cos., jewelers' supplies, of which he heads the credit department. Cousin Jimmy, in the same business, recently acquired a baby girl, also a Florida sunburn.
There is a regular epidemic of baby gals: Al Keyworth has a new one; so has JohnThompson, who started out with '32. And ditto the Jim Shevlins. A prize naming contest, with the award "a beautiful old Lane Bryant Model" featured the new Shevlin arrival. Results will be announced in an early edition of the Red Bank (N. J.) papers.
On the other side of the ledger is a new male Clark, born Jan. 3 in New Hampshire to John McLane C. and his Mrs. Clark fils had barely tapped out his own birth notice when Clark pere boarded the "Rex," in late January, to join his boss, John Winant, and International Labor office deliberations in Geneva.
Although it is water under the dam, so to speak, we never printed a very full account of John's work at Harvard last year as one of nine Nieman journalistic fellows. HARPER'S for February has a story on the year's Quest for Wisdom, and while no names are mentioned, we know that John's project was "to study Latin-American history, with a view to specialization in news from below the Rio Grande."
To Improve Journalism: "The regular curriculum offered only one history course each semester in his field, which he supplemented with classes in Spanish and Indian anthropology. The bulk of his time was spent deep in the stacks of the Widener Library, digging into the rich materials there. As the year ended he was planning a tour of South America before returning to newspaper work with his greatly increased understanding of a part of the world which, though vitally important to the United States, has been far too inadequately interpreted in this country in the past. Meanwhile he had assisted in launching a new quarterly journal of inter American affairs whose purpose is to improve relations between the two hemispheres of the (New World."
Ed Lewis was married Dec. 23 to Ethel M. Groat, daughter of Mayor and Mrs. Robert Groat of Washington, N. J. The bride is a graduate of New Jersey College for Women, class of 1935, and for the past three years has been editor of the Clinton (N. J.) Democrat. Ed has moved from New York to Massachusetts, where he is a salesman for Youngs & Cos. in Boston, residing at 25 Main St., Framingham Center.
Announcement has been made by Mr. and Mrs. David J. Mcllveen of Springfield Gardens, L. 1., of the engagement of their daughter Sally to Dr. Austin E. Whitcomb. Miss Mcllveen was graduated from St. John's Hospital School of Nursing in 1938 and is now connected with that hospital. Austy received his M.D. from Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1937 and is at present on the house staff of St. John's Hospital in Brooklyn.
Torn Dublin is a physician with the New York State Department of Health. StanYudicky, until recently doctoring in Manchester's Elliot Hospital, is now at Newton Hospital, Newton Lower Falls, Mass. Francis Brown, who came to Hanover via Syria, is now practicing medicine in Villa Grove, 111. Russ Harper is a lawyer and insurance adjuster in Longmeadow, Mass. Dick Allen has interrupted his career of teaching for a studying sojourn at Harvard. NormLevin is a junior executive with the C. C. Bailey Cos. in Boston. Al Young, who has been with United Fruit in New York for the past year, is about to leave on a three weeks' tour of plantations and such, "down under" in Guatemala and Honduras.
Alexander Laing's piece, in the February ALUMNI MAGAZINE, is only one of a number of splendid reviews accorded Reuel Denney's volume of verse. Selden Rodman, anthologist and critic, writes in the Jan. 27 issue of THE NATION calls it the "most brilliant first book of poems" in some time and recognizes in Mr. Denney "an 'intel' lectual' poet without being reminded that he teaches English in Buffalo and heads a City Planning Association. The miracle is that while he never discards his learning he is never encumbered by it."
Bob Keane writes from Cleveland that things are well enough for him in his travels around Ohio for the Joe Lowe Corp He finds that an itinerant life dulls the perspective, "and it isn't until an old Green Book from the bottom of a trunk" turns up that nostalgia for Hanover sets in Bob was looking forward in February to his first real vacation in years—a trip to Florida where he was planning to meet the Art Schlichters, also on vacation. He reports having seen Bud Hubbard and wife at the Shaker Terrace in Cleveland recently.
"De" DeStefano, who has been with Liberty Mutual in their Boston office, is now in that agency's auto underwriting department in New York, according to word relayed by Don Richardson. Max Wolff is with the Fawcett Distributing Corp., Greenwich, Conn. Carl Parsons is with the Soil Conservation Service in Vienna, Md., after a term with the U. S. Forest Service in Vermont.
A card from Ade Nitschelm, reminding skiers that he is still doing business at the old stand (Glenwood on the Saco) and promises a letter in the near future.
And from John Amos Wright a letter announcing that '32's subscriptions to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE exceed those of any other year since graduation. But checks for 12.50 class dues are still welcome from those who have not yet responded. In the realm of news, J. Amos says John Sheldon has left Chicago for a Sun Valley vacation. Wright himself has gone skiing this winter with Cap Ireys, now of Chicago, and reports that it is a treat to go with someone who really knows how!
FLASH! For those in and around New York, there will be a '32 dinner at the Dartmouth Club, Friday, March 8. Mark the date down. There will be some old friends on hand.
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