1930*
March didn't come in like a lamb. Thirtymen gathering on March 1 in Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, Hanover, Providence, Portland, Hartford, Washington, etc., etc., saw to that. It didn't even come in like a flock of lambs, ewes, rams, or lions. It came in like a gurgling stampede of bock goats that bloom merrily in March snow and look forward hopefully for Spring, for June, in fact.
We knew March 1 was going to be a big day when Haffenreffer came to town. We gathered in Chubbers' Heaven, the Cabin and Trail room in the Outing Club house: Funkhouser (who arranged it all), Lord, Putnam, Butterfield, Odbert, Widmayer, Dickerson, and Haffenreffer. It was a big 30 day the country over. We phoned Western Union to send up all the telegrams that came in, and a misty sense of solidarity settled over us like a Rhode Island fog as we finished the steaks and awaited the Narragansett and the telegrams. Thirties of the World, United.
(Was it Bottome or Carnell who thought UP the house-party editorial entitled WorkIs the Curse of the Drinking Classes?)
A messenger boy with a telegram. Fiftymen spanning the broad reaches of RhodeIsland gather in Providence? A hundredand fifty in Chicago scream the cry "On toReunion?" Two hundred cheering Thirty-men in New York charter special train forJune 14? A hush settles over the table as we tear the yellow envelope:
"MAINE 1930 GROUP MET IN TELEPHONE BOOTH TONIGHT. FIFTY PER CENT OF CLASS ATTENDED. CAN THIS BE TOPPED.—FRED SCRIBNER."
After that one we have time to hear all about George Lord's brisk business in skiing fractures and Bill Putnam's in kitchen table babies, and the experience the previous midnight of Haffenreffer and a friend named Katzenbach at the Canadian border. (Haffie says: "We're tired and sleepy so we'll let you have the two Chinamen hiding back there in the trunk if you'll let us through.")
Another message. Now they are really starting. The boys at the other end of the table pretend to pay no attention as we read:
"EAST PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND. VERY EXCLUSIVE DINNER STOP BILL WALKER AND I CONSIDER IT EMINENTLY SUCCESSFUL. 808 JORDAN."
Then we cover the Class Biography, the brewing of beer, and those jokes—you know the ones. Then Dick reads the Message from Chandler. All about Reunion. Dates, program, tax, rooms, etc., etc. Then those rafters quiver as we come to the part about the Indian suits: The costume selected consists of a very practical.... Indian suit, in green and white.
The boys had to pause and cheer those practical Indian suits: wear longer, hold the crease, suitable for town or country, business or sports, for the Sachem Oration, Old Timer's Day, or garden parties at Mrs. Vandersluyt-Plushpuss's, and for scaring the children. Try them for greasing the car and chasing the cows out of the yard, and when the green and white tassels have mostly come off, for pajamas for your guest room or wedding night. Then bring them back for the Big Fifteenth.
And this is what is going to entice all our reluctant brides back to the big June party: "The wives will also be given some sort of a green and white bandanna." Also practical. Just the costume for that sun bath on the balcony or New Year's Eve, or tea at Mother Snoopleham's, and the fancy dress ball representing that joke about the iceman. Use it to re-cover that old afghan or cut it up into ducky little cocktail napkins, until needed for the Big Fifteenth. (State size.)
While we witness a seductive film entitled "Spring Comes to Hanover" in color, thinking about the six-foot snowdrifts against the window and our fuel bills, Chicago comes through: "SIXTEEN STALWARTSHONORING DARTMOUTH'S BEST CLASS WITHTHE CRY ON TO REUNION. THE CHICAGO DELEGATION."
Maybe this doesn't sound like fun, but it was. Ask anybody.
When we get home, we learn Cleveland has been calling us all night, but decide to skip it on the theory that by 11:30 Cleveland will either be glad to save the toll or will be at the point where three minutes doesn't mean any more than it does to a taxi driver with the meter running. That is a mistake. Cleveland waits until we're asleep, and then gets us. We chat for fifteen or twenty minutes with several of the boys about those nasty questions the census men are going to ask and reunion. Seventeen boys from all over the state of Ohio. Not bad
Did the phone ring or are we dreaming? Yes, the phone rang all right.... Western Union? Yes. From Cleveland? O. K.: "ALL 100% FOR BACK TO REUNION MOVEMENT THIS JUNE. 1930 DARTMOUTH CLEVELAND." Send it up to the office in the morning.
"CONNECTICUT'S REUNION DINNER TO- TALLED ONLY SEVEN BUT VERY GOOD FUN PLAN FOR A SECOND IN NEW HAVEN APRIL ISTH. CHARLIE RAUCH."
"AL DICKERSON HANOVER NH GREETINGS TO HANOVER FROM NINE MEN IN WASHINGTON." Old men? Who signed it, Charles EvansHughes? (It was Win Stone, and it is later than you think.)
The reports which came in on the parties out in the great open spaces beyond the precincts of New York, Boston and Chicago where class dinners have been held periodically contain a note of surprised joy over how much fun these gatherings are and several of them found it so much fun that they immediately planned one or two more before reunion. The Connecticut dinner scheduled for April 15 in New Haven has already been mentioned. The Nine Men from Washington have set April 3 as the date for packing the court with Attorney-General Widmayer presenting the case for Hanover.
Fred Scribner writes: "We had in attendance all of the 1930 men living in the City of Portland, viz: Charles Austin, Richard Loring, Richard Bowlen and yours truly.
Cotton Holmes reports a merry 17-man gathering at the Electric Club in Chicago where high voltage and low resistance got the boys really hopping on reunion.
One of the best letters came from Win Stone upon whose Shakespearean coup the ALUMNI MAGAZINE'S Wah-Hoo-Wah scooped us last month: "It was rather late last night when the Nine Men of the class of 1930 who met at the University Club for dinner, broke up their pleasant evening's reunion Really, AL, last night's dinner was one of the pleasantest affairs I have attended in years. There we werenine of us who had never been particularly close in college (save Van Leer and myself) —thrown together after ten years by the purely fortuitous circumstance of geographical location, and how we got on! Each seemed glad to see the others and after a dinner of individual conversations we pulled back our chairs, lit our cigarettes, and listened till eleven o'clock to brief narratives of what each had been doing for the last ten years. I was surprised at the range of experience we represented, and pleased with the interesting accounts of the high spots. If reunion in Hanover could promise more of such quiet and entertaining conversations and less snakedancing in green-and-white Indian suits in the '30 Wigwam, I might be persuaded not only to come myself but actually to campaign for the affair."
We wish there were room to quote all of Win's letter but perhaps Bud French can. We are glad Win mentioned the snake dancing which gives a chance to reassure anybody thus concerned that reunion is not a tribal war dance but a cheery smoking of the pipe in the old tepee—which makes Win another reunion campaigner.
The Bostonians gathered earlier, on February 27, and according to Alex McFarland' excellent report: "Notwithstanding another flurry of snow that looked as if it might envelop us in larger snowdrifts, 41 members of the Class of 1930 (including wives) gathered together at the Boston Yacht Club From all reports it was one of the most successful meetings the class has had for some time in Boston and there was no doubt but that the reunion spirit was present."
Even in Detroit the tribe gathered under Chrissinger's aegis with Jack Earle, Shorty Long, Hank Bishop and Bob Kerr, all of whom except Jack will make the June trek.
Charlie Rauch's letter says among other things "Everyone who attended the dinner seemed to enjoy it and were enthusiastic about the idea of meeting together again before the reunion, very likely in New Haven As you will observe from the enclosed roll, all who attended the dinner expect to be at reunion."
Lee Chilcote: "It has been a source of real enjoyment for me to renew acquaintances with people, some of whom I have not seen for over ten years I think we had a rather successful get-together in that only two did not attend from the Cleveland area, one being sick in bed and the other one in Florida .... four of the boys to the extent that they drove up from Akron and Elyria for the occasion." Lee's roll call included the name of one Charles Williams whom Lee couldn't account for except possibly as a waiter.
And A 1 McGrath lists the authentic signatures of 57 '30 men gathered at the Dartmouth Club with Eddie Jeremiah as guest of honor—a good turn-out inasmuch as a score of skiing enthusiasts were out of town. "There is no doubt that we have an outstanding class for spirit, and it certainly looks like the best tenth Hanover has ever seen. Almost without exception, everyone last night indicated and eagerly looks forward to reunion and better yet many, including myself, plan to stay for a week. . ... We have arranged for another dinner on Friday, May 17, and, as usual, I am optimistic for seventy-five."
One betrothal this month from the Newark News of February 15 wherein is announced by Mr. and Mrs. August Thomas Leuhman of East Orange the engagement of their daughter Helen Rose to Charles Edward Humiston Jr. The bride elect is a graduate of the Berkeley School, East Orange.
Bill Lawson, whose engagement was reported a year ago, writes: "Just to keep the record clear I was married to Nancy Lee Tisdale of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, last March 11 (1939)." Bill, who was ill during the last reunion and made a vow with Art Shurts that they would meet at the 10th, will probably.be disappointed having had to make one trip eastward this winter in a sad connection—the death of his father.
Packing our drummer's kit with the new spring line of combination darning needles and ten pins and the Ace Tonic for Falling Hair and Tooth Brush Bristles, we set out on the road in February, breaking bread in New York with Stan Osgood, Jack Dobson, Dud Day, Paul Clarke and Nelson Rockefeller; sitting the next night in Cleveland with more '3O men than we have seen in one place since the sth reunion; finding Hank Bishop looking the same as is years ago in Detroit; bursting in on a roomful of windy and windblown Chicagoans; and selling reunion to Ernie Reed, Gil Cheney and Pete Ford in Buffalo.
Allons enfans, the time is not far off.
Fund Contributors for I939 Contributors: 385 (87% of graduates). Total gifts: $3,207.75 (128% of objective). G. WARREN FRENCH, Class Agent.
1930
Ackley, Alexander M. Adams, Charles H.
Adams, Samuel A. Ahern, Clinton J., Jr.
Alcorn, Hugh M., Jr. Alexander, Jack K. Alexander, Jay C. Allen, George F. A. Allen, Sam H. Allyn, Horace W. Annis, Jere W. Austin, Charles S. Bailey, Lester W. Barker, Robert L. Barnard, Richard Bassett, Phillip H. Behal, Arthur B. Belknap, Roland W. Benoist, Edmond G. Benson, Clarence B. Bernhardt, Raymond S. Birmingham, John F., Jr. Birnie, Walter H. Bishop, Henry R. Bishop, John L. Blais, Wilfred A. Blake, Eben N. Blake, Nelson M. Blakey, Wallace Blanchard, Robert O. Blanchard, William F. Blodgett, Harry L. Blun, Richard W. Bolte, Alan Booma, Harold E. Booma, Roland C. Booth, Robert I. Borella, Victor G. Bottome, Robert R. Bowes, Frederick Bowlen, Richard W. Bragner, William E. Brown, Arthur C. Brown, Willard M. Browning, Arthur M. Bruce, Robert M. Brunner, Fred M. Buhler, E. Carll Burns, Ewing I. Butler, Gordon S. Butterfield, Richard D. Butterworth, Edward R. Callaway, Llewellyn L., Jr. Carnell, E. Bradley Carroll, Edward R. Casler, Harry S. Chandler, Josiah B. Chase, Clarence R. Chase, H. Erwin Cheney, John G. Chilcote, Lee A. Childs, Theodore F. Chittim, Robert H. Chrissinger, Horace B. Christman, Herbert E. Clark, James Clarke, Paul F. Clow, Kelso G. Cogan, Michael A. Cole, E. Shaw Collins, Morton B. Condon, Harrison F., Jr. Conklin, Edward M., Jr. Covell, George D. Crandell, Burton E. Crane, W. Warner Crawford, John 0., Jr. Crosier, George D. Curtiss, J ames E. Dalglish, James G. K. Davis, Stanton W. Day, Dudley M. Demers, Benton H. Denney, Clark j Dickerson, Albert I. Dobson, J ack W. Doherty, Francis V. Donovan, Thomas D. Doran, William T., Jr. Downey, Edmund B. Dresser, Walter E. Duback, Paul H. Dunlap, J ames C.
Dunlap, Robert A. Dunning, Harrison F. Dunnington, Thomas C. Durgin, Winslow S. Eisler, Leon A. Ela, Roger E. Eldredge, Howard R. Embree, Henry S. Emrich, Milton S. Epstein, Joseph D. Faust, Dudley W. Fawcett, Randolph R. Faye, Charles K. Ferguson, Dudley C. Finch, Benjamin, Jr. Fink, Alan L. Fisher, Charles L., Jr. Fisher, George C. Fitzpatrick, BerchmansT. Fitzpatrick, John R. Flanders, H. Nelson, Jr. Fleischman, Milton W. Fletcher, William M. Fobes, Robert K. Ford, Paul G. Foster, F. Spencer Fowler, Frank L. Franson, George E. Fredrickson, George W. French, G. Warren French, John Frost, Edwin R. Funkhouser, Richard L. Galbraith, William N. Gallagher, William S. Garratt, Herbert M. Garrett, George D., Jr. Geisinger, William R. Gibbons, Hughes 0., 2nd Gilbert, Ellis W. Glasgow, Robert J. Godwin, Lester R. Golan, Joseph C. Goodman, Jerome Gould, Avery H. Grant, Edwin H. Haffenreffer, Carl W. Hamm, Edward F., Jr. . Hancort, Joseph S. Harris, W. Oscar Hartmann, Ralph B. Hatch, Winslow R. Hayes, Albert M. Hayes, Arthur L. Hayes, Merrill B. Heftier, Pierre V. Herrera, Julio G. Herrick, Jack H. Hight, Donald Hillson, Henry T. Hobbs, Ranald P. Hodges, John P. Hoffman, Paul B. Holden, Frederick B.1 Hollstrom, Gunnar E. Holme, John C. Holmes, Edward C. Hood, Richard B. Hooper, Frederic W., Jr. Horn, Francis H. Horwitt, Max K. Howard, Jerome W. Hoxie, C. Gordon Hughes, Alexander H. Humiston, Charles E., Jr. Humphrey, Otis M. Irwin, James B. Jackson, H. Kirk Jaspersen, Fred F. Jeremiah, Edward J. Jessup, William R. Johnson, Hugh A. Johnson, Robert P. Jordan, Robert A. Just, Milton H. Kaplan, Harold M. Keating, John P. Keene, Robert E. Keller, William H.
Kerr,Robert M.,Jr Kilbourne.Radcliffe E. Kimball,Robert M Kindermann,Frank J. King,Melvin C. Kirkman, Richard L. Kirkpatrick Joseph H. Kisevalter, George G. Kohn, Robert S. Kronengold, Alfred Kull, Kenneth K. Larkin, Robert H. Latham, David A. Latham, Ernest H. Lawrence, Henry M. Lawson, William, Jr. Leahy, Francis J. Leslie, Alan N. Lewin, B. Read Lewis, David N. Lichter, Jesse S. Lillard, Walter H., Jr. Lilley, Oliver L. Loeser, Daniel W. Lohnes, Harold G. Long, George W. Lord, George A. Low, G. Evarts, Jr. Lower, Philip A. Lowery, Gilman H. Lucas, William O. McBiney James D. McClellan, George H. McClory, Robert McCulloch, Walter A. McDonough, Charles J. McFarland, Alex J. McGrath, Alfred F. McGrath, Norman E. Mclnnes, Milton G. Macintosh, James K. McKenna, Daniel S. McLaughlin, J. Frank Magenau, Eugene F. Maitland, John B. Marks, David N. Marr, Robert M. Marsters, Alton K. Martyn, Stephen P. Mavis, Carroll E. I May, Wilton F. 1 Meyer, Kir t A., Jr. Michel, Clifford W. Milne, William, Jr. Mitchell, James W. Moore, H. Kelsea, Jr. Moore, Jackson B. Morley, Burrows Morrill, Russell G. Mosher, G. Drew Neff, Frank H., Jr. Newcomb,John R Newell, Henry C. Newman, Harold D. Niditch, Edgar B. Noeltner, Robert H. O'Brien, Arthur P., Jr. O'Brion, William L. Odbert, Henry S. Olsen, Arthur M. Olsen, Raymond N. Osgood, Stanton M. I Page, Frederick W. Palmer, Byron F. Parish, Benjamin D. Parker, Arthur D. Parker, Richard A. Parkhurst, George V. Peacock, Charles D., 3rd Pearre, Jerome peck, Philip R. Peirce, Thomas M., 3rd Perkins, Harry A., Jr. Charles H. Placak, Joseph C.Jr. Poehler, Paul F.,Jr. pooler, Charles A. Poorman, Glenn W. Porter, George W.
Putnam, William F. Raab, Adolph P. Rath, Frank H. Raube, S. Avery Rauch, Charles E., 2nd Raymond, Charles V. Reaves, Paul H. Reinhart, William J., Jr. .Rich, John F. Rich, Williston C., Jr. Richard, John F. Richards, Louis L. Richmond, Lawrence S. Roberts, Griffith W. Rockefeller, Nelson A. Rodi, Karl B. Rosenberry, Walter S., Jr. Rubin, David Rugg, Addison F. Rumpf, A. Newell Ryan, Robert H. Ryder, Francis C. Sandberg, Oscar G. Sander, Hermann N. Sanders, John H. Sarles, George A. Saunders, Theodore S. Savage, Ernest L., Jr. Scadron, Eugene N. Scheller, George A. Schmidt, Frederick H. Schneebeli, Herman T. Schnurman, Henry T. Schuster, Edward R. Scribner, Fred C., Jr. Seidl, Stuart F. Seidman, Theodore R. Seldon, Earl W. Shanley, Paul F. Shaskan, Donald A. Shattuck, Gordon B. Sherburne, Harold H. Sherwood, Burton T. Shultz, Milton G. Shurts, Arthur Van D. Sigler, C. Russell Simmons, Charles E. Smith, Alden W. Smith, Everett G. Smith, H. Morton, Jr. Smith, John T. Smith, Wilbur C. Smith, William C., Jr. South, Hamilton D. Sprankle, Edmund J. Squire, Richard C. Steers, George A. Steers, William E. Stein, Henry L. Stone, George R. Stone, G. Winchester Street, Charles G., Jr. Sturman, Leon H. Swanson, Stanley R. Swartchild, William G. Tadross, Victor A. Tangeman, Fred A. Temple, Richard S. Thompson, Paul V. Thurmond, Ira C., Jr. Tiedtke, John M. Tilt, Richard G. Tobey, Fred C., Jr. Toland, John M. Tragle, J. Franklin Troy, Philip J. Tunnicliff, George D., Jr. Tyler, James H. Uhlemann, Frederick K. VanDerbeck, W. Scott Van Leer, A. Wayne Varley, Edgar J. Violante, George C. Vogt, Arno R. Walker, Robert A. Warner, H. Stewart Warren, Edward C. Wasmer, Walter J. E. Waterman, Philip G.
Waters, Edwin S. Watson, Frederick K. Weaver, Sylvester L., Jr. Weil, Linton D. Weinstein, Edwin A. Weinstein, Howard Weston, Horace C. Whipple, John S. White, Merit P. Widmayer, Charles E. Wiggin, J. Walker Wilcomb, Richard C. Williams, Clifford G., Jr. Willis, J. Brooks
Wilson, Harry E. Wilson, William L. Winter, J. Robert Wolf, Theodore R. Wood, Blair C. Wood, Henry N. Wooster, John T. Young, Collier H. Zagat, Eugene H. Zeigler, Richard B. Zyskowski, Stanley 1 Memorial gift from hisclassmate, Mr. Addison F.Rugg-
'30 TWIN DEPARTMENT: BLANCHARDS Headed for class of 1955 and the brotherfamous Dartmouth Ski team.
Secretary Administration Bldg., Hanover, N. H.
