1933*
For the past week we have been getting the annual flood of Dartmouth Carnival pictures in the local and New England press. You know. .. .Willis Faffhausen of Catullus, New Hampshire modelling a zany in ice in front of the Chi Phi house at Andover, N. H 0r... .Daphne Buchalter of Manhattan Transfer, New Jersey, one of the thousands of fair guests who have invaded this mountain hamlet for the annual college Walpurgisnacht.
And we don't even care. Feet on the desl,we loll back in the desk chair in our lightly overheated office and recall to mind the real Carnival scene the noise, crowds, the shouting, the only fair jazz bands, the girls who talk Southern, the inbiiity to get a quiet and complete meal, the dearth of habitable beds and we are thankful that we can laze here in somnolent Waterbury where we don't even have political corruption any more and where, due to our insulation from civilization, there is little chance of dying of apoplexy or arteriosclerosis.
As a matter of fact, we do care just a little. We should like just once before we die to see the slalom and downhill races which, if we remember correctly, come at nine o'clock on Saturday morning. Also, we'd like to know whether the Alpha Delts have ever actually completed a piece of snow sculpture.
Although Ken Hurd in a recent letter styles himself a "ghost who came back" his account of the results of his reproductive activities testifies that he is and has been tending to his duties in the flesh at 2 Crawford Lane, New Hartford, New York.
"Having left Hanover during the middle of Junior year," he writes, "I miss a good many of the pertinent quips occasionally dropped about classmates, in your column in the ever welcome ALUMNI MAGAZINE. (Oh shucks... .I—Ed. note.) However, I remember enough of the boys to get a great kick out of hearing what, how and when they are doing.
"I saw Lee Eckels for a few hours last summer when he came to Utica to attend Ward Donner's wedding and managed to squeeze a bit of Alumni dope out of him while we sipped a Scotch or three.
"This section is quite void of Dartmouth news or doings of various alumni but methinks I can claim the distinction of'being at least a good runner-up for honors in raising a brood—three children (Bart, Jean and Eric). These three—along with the grandest wife in the world keep me pretty busy. Manage to scrape a few nickels together each month by handling the advertising and buying for the men's department in our wholesale shoe business.
"If any of the gang are in this section at any time we'd like to have them drop in. Have an extra bed or two and will promise to keep the offspring quiet until at least 8 A.M."
Ominous, uncanny and hold-on-to-yourhats-boys were the only descriptive words we could summon up when a few days after the arrival of the above letter we received another "Just Arrived" card from Fred and Eleanor Await announcing the Advent of Marjorie Helen Await on January 18, 1940. In a sense this constitutes a challenge to the potent Hurd because Marjorie is Await No. 3 if our records are to be believed.
In the midst of these reports of unparalleled fertility, Mr. W. Richmond Bradshaw has quietly but firmly announced his engagement to Miss Barbara Wakeman Bullard of Fairfield, Conn.
We'll leave what Ken Hurd calls "pertinent quips" to Hagan and some of the other earthier brethren in the class and we'll let well enough alone by merely announcing that Control From the Rear by Roland Burbank '33, Head, Woodcraft Dept. Aloha Camp, Vermont, has been reprinted in the October issue of the Camping Magazine.
In the New England Naturalist for December there appeared an article called Mount Washington In The Great Ice Age. Its author was Dick Goldthwait.
The New York Herald-Tribune on New Year's Day bore an announcement of the engagement of Donald O. Lincoln to Miss Margaret Mary Delaney of East Orange, New Jersey Way Thompson is vicepresident and office manager of Arthur Mcintosh & Cos., 160 LaSalle St., Chicago, an organization which deals in Suburban and country real estate. He lives in Palatine, I11 Walt Douglas is an assistant engineer with Parsons, Klapp, Brinckerhoff and Douglas at 142 Maiden Lane, New York City. He lives in Apt. 2A, Bldg. 4, Meadowbrook Village, Plainfield, N. J.
... .Bob Fairbank is the manager of the Firestone Service Store at 18th and Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. He lives at 3559 Townley Road, Shaker Heights..... GailGeddes is an Executive Assistant with the National Association of Manufacturers at 14 W. 49th St., New York City. He resides at 399 Lincoln Ave., Orange, N. J BillGibbons has moved to 101 W. Norwood St., San Antonio, Texas Win Rowe may now be reached at 124 E. 24th St., New York City Clarry Tallberg's new address is 1879 Oak St., San Francisco.
Stirl Wheeler was in Waterbury recently and called our office but we were engaged in the trial of some vital issues relating to a fall on a faultless flight of steps and failed to get the latest news of Wollaston, Mass.
Page Worthington called us from Washington recently (he works for the telephone company there). He reports that Hagan is trying to organize Saturday Evening Get-Togethers to arouse among the boys and girls of Washington a love for good, classical music.
Secretary-Chairman, 111 West Main St., Waterbury, Conn.
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