1937*
What motive, or motives ulterior, induced the class Secretary to call for a column from this representative of the unpropagated, the unwed, and the unspokenfor, I shall never know. Perhaps he thinks the ranks cannot withstand the ravages of yet another spring. Or is it the onslaught of Leap Year, Don, that makes you wonder what goes on in the Commodore Bar after the last commuters' train has left us "on the town," prey to the tender mercies of the stray Powers' model, Carmen Miranda, or somebody's baby sister with the south in her mouth?
We do very nicely, thank you. And how goes it with the benedicts?
Well, Wally Greenspan, assistant buyer now at Macy's, after five years (March 24th) still speaks highly of the state of holy matrimony and urges the boys to take out citizenship papers at once. Likewise, Bill Cone whose daughter is all of one year old and Bob Terwilliger whose son, Robert Chapman Terwilliger Jr., can't be more than three months as yet. It's a populous community: Dick Sawyer, teaching at Farmington, Conn.; George Elmore, looking for a porrot between classes at Catholic U. Law School in Washington, D. C.; the debonair Ry Collins, Vice President of the Rolit Cos. (Duplicating Machines) in California; Bud Knorr of Jefferson Med. School, Philadelphia; and, of course, Big Dave of the Camerers, all non-bachelors in good standing.
And among those most recently eligible for membership are some of the brightest and best of the sons of Dartmouth. The engagement of Bill Rotch, editor of the MILFORD CABINET, to Martha McLane, sister of Pete McLane, has been announced; Dick Cooper's to Elizabeth Hall Wentworth of Somersworth, N. H. (Dick is at Harvard Law, class of '40); Harry Brown's to Dorothy Ullman, Skidmore '39; Warren Hund's to Antoinette Munk of Pelham Manor, N. Y.; and Tom Johnson's to Catherine Estelle Dunning, daughter of President Dunning of Alma College, Michigan. News comes too of Henry Lenning's engagement to Helen A. Read of Brooklyn and Smith '37. A World of Tomorrow romance, this one: boy meets girl at the New York World's Fair; both were supposed to be lecturing the cash custom- ers on the intricacies of the Masterpieces of Art Exhibit.
But the year is young yet and news of an occasional voyou, a Lothario here and there, still comes over the grapevine. Carl Gram, back from Texas, California, and Boston, is in New York again. Ed Sterns, of the Travelers Insurance Cos., expects to be in Newark, N. J. on business for the next six months. Briggs Austin will be in Philadelphia for a while for Eastman Kodak.
Sey Oxner writes: "The Mary Hitchcock Hospital will be filled with '37 interns in the fashion of John Milne, Corb Moister, and Bill McLaughlin. Collie MacCarty will stay at Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Will Bennett, Halsey Bullen, and Mike Petti all have another year at Penn. Med.
.Ed Smith is also slaving away at Temple Medical according to the latest bulletins from that sector, and in New York one might stumble across Dex Branch and George Stock down at Bellevue (If I get asfar along as Bellevue, Sey, I'll be doingmore than just stumbling)-, "Chick" Hoop at Cornell, and Dick Watson up at Columbia. Al Coggeshall is soon to finish in Chicago and intern at Grasslands Hospital in Westchester, N. Y."
This prognosis is presented as a public service. For further details, see Oxner.
Wings
In almost any paper these days you can read about Bob Ewing and his Taylorcraft. It's a small plane, gentlemen, but Bob loves it. He shoveled the snow away from the hangar doors the day after Christmas and flew to the Lighplane Calvacade and Air Races at Miami; thence to the National Aeronautics Convention at New Orleans; and finally to San Francisco. "It's simple too," Boy says. "Anybody can do it. It doesn't take any God-given attributes. All you need is the plane, which costs $1600, and the knowledge to fly. The fuel problem is simple because the plane uses regular auto gasoline and it's no trick at all to land in some open field near a service station and load up." Fuel for the trip from Miami to San Francisco set him back a mere $27.50 which is a damn sight better than my 1930 Chewy could do it.
When last heard from Bob had "lit" for a while and was working on the coast for NEWS LETTER and WASP wherein readers will find the Ewing air adventures under a byline no less.
The Denver papers scooped us too on that playboy of the western world, Jack Gray. They say he's a bachelor and eligible —we didn't know that. And they have a picture, portrait size, of his smiling face, as if that proved it. All this in honor of Leap Year, of course, but Jack reports nothing extra-special yet.
See the January issue of PACIFIC MOTOR BOAT for Louis Valier's article South SeaCruising in a Cockleshell. It sounds wunnerful and if I'd wanted to be real nasty I could have sandwiched a mention of it in between the marriages and the engagements. I congratulate myself that I didn't.
And Hawaii—Art Sloggett is reported working nights out there. But it isn't what you think! No, he works for the Hawaiian Electrical Cos. and he puts the lights on.
Still on the coast, Brad Petersen says he's so busy he never sees anybody. That's law school for you. Harry Bamford is also at the University of California taking up work in Poli.Sci.
Those pictures you saw in the January 15 th issue of LIFE which were supposed to show St. Louis but were really only pictures of a lot of smoke can be traced back to Walter Ross of the ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH and its Sunday photo-supplement. Pictures. Walter has his private pilot's license now and longs for the more adventurous life, some combination of writing and flying. I'm waiting, Walter, for another Wind, Sand and Stars.
From Winnetka comes overdue news of Bill Burford. He is connected now with Winnetka Graduate Teachers' College and very enthused about the so-called 'Winnetka plan," a theory of really progressive education. "None of these independent brats running around in utter disregard of educational conventions," Bill hastens to explain. "We're not afraid any hampering of the little dears would distort their personalities. Frankly we think we've got something traditional education doesn't have."
BULLETINS READ AS SOON AS RECEIVED: Bud Butterworth recuperating nicely at Hartford after that Christmas operation Charley Collis busy making skating shoes at Taunton Pete Mc- Lane skiing at Phil Robertson's ski lodge, The Hillwinds, where the register reads like a class reunion John Meston working on his M. A. in English at Harvard and turning up every once in a while in New York Rowley Bially lining up a job with White and Case, one of the large law factories in New York Hal Putnam carrying on as Your Town Crier with all the news that's fit to print in Needham, Mass Vern McHugh, Tuck '38, married and working for Du Pont
Geraghty seeing the Columbia basketball game and saying "the lousy floor did it again.".... Hal Parachini teaching at Chestnut Hill Academy and coaching for recreation.
And that about shoots the sherbet for this trip, boys. And not half enough news either.
It's a large world, gentlemen, and how are we to know what's going on unless you write. Father Time, if he can successfully juggle an hour glass and that scythe without getting them tangled up in his beard, ought to be able to do anything but we'd like to know now. How's about it?
MALCOLM MERRITT, Guest Conductor.
Secretary-Chairman, 10314 S. Hoyne Ave., Chicago, Ill.
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