1933*
Whatever may be the private opinion of certain headstrong members of the Stephen Daye Press (printers of THE DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE) organization, the fact still remains that Edivard J. Foley and not Page Worthington is the current 1933 Class Agent for the Alumni Fund.
Lee Eckel's subsequent collections referred to in our last effusion amounted to fifteen dollars. The total deficit for the subscription campaign amounts to eighteen dollars and eleven cents.
Lee appended to his report the information that Les Huntley, formerly with the
National City Bank in Singapore, is now at the Trudeau Sanitorium at Saranac Lake, New York.
SMITH TELLS ALL
Henry Craig Smith of 445 Mt. Kemble Ave., Morristown, N. J. with becoming reticence has drawn aside the curtain which, up to this point, has kept his private affairs from the eyes of the great, unholy, mob of 1933. He writes:
"Marion and I are now three: Peter Armstrong Craig Smith took his first squint at this world shortly after noon yesterday, December 2.
"It has required more than six years to draw any news from me. A girl who likes the big snows and the frozen North as much as I has been my wife for more than five joyous years. During the last three I have tried to keep a few cans in the larder by work in the electrical industry, starting with the pick and shovel and currently scratching my head and wearing out the seat of my pants (With one motion?— Ed.) in the attempt to make our work in underground and high line construction more safe for my former co-workers. To be more explicit, I am editing safety regulations. Together with this work I handle various problems of research that somehow fall into my mail basket—anything from the translation of French technical articles to the establishment of schedules for normalizing steel chains. As you may imagine, my work is vastly interesting. The routine that I follow is more or less of my own making. Often I think that my work bears closest resemblance to that of a quick order chef in a roadside diner. My present ambition is to keep six stenographers busy continuously.
"Between puffs from my pipe, I may say that I shall be forced to hit that tempo to finish this year's work on time. The trouble is that I lost a couple of months as a result of a peculiar indisposition. I had what the medicos call Undulant Fever, which is contracted as a result of drinking, of all beverages, milk! Unpasteurized milk, of course. But if one means to be perfectly safe, imagine the course one must take!"
We are indebted to Harold G. Rugg for the vital statistics which follow.
Violette and Kimball Flaccus are the parents of a son born on February 9, 1940. He has been named Jonathan.
John Meek and John Masten are the parents of a series of articles entitled Railroad Leases and Reorganizations, the first number of which appeared in the February number of the YALE LAW JOURNAL, an esteemed if somewhat less newsy contemporary. Those of you who have gobbled up the first installment with such avidity will be relieved to learn that you will be able to follow this Gothic romance to its fascinating conclusion in subsequent issues of the periodical alluded to above which ireverent members of the profession have dubbed The Sterling Siren.
HERE WE GO AGAIN
As Charles (Catfish) D'Orleans '06 once said, "the temps has laisse its manteau of vent, of froidure and of pluie" and a seasonal and vague unrest has stirred in the breasts of at least two of our classmates with the following interesting results.
The engagement has been announced of Paul Cunningham Cleaves to Barbara French Libbey of North Weymouth, Mass. A summer wedding is planned.
The Crooner (Dr. William C. MacCartyJr.) has left off his vocal pyrotechnics at the Mayo Clinic long enough to enter into the customary pre-marital commitments with Harriet Marie Carpenter of Providence, R. I. We are inclined to discount the rumor that the final wedding ceremony will take place in the operating amphitheatre of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Stirl Wheeler writes: "I was in the Foreign Sales Dept. of the Universal Winching Co. and the war painted a dark picture. As a result I left last Friday and have gone with the Rumford Baking Co. I am going to be located in New York City, as a salesman on and after April 1.
"During the last three years we have lived in Providence, Charlotte, Atlanta, Phila., and Utica.
"I understand that Bill Gaynor is with the Boston Better Business Bureau. He ain't losing weight fast. Bun Mudge has charge of vocational and educational guidance at the Young Men's Christian Union in Boston. He is doing a swell job.
"I saw Rocker and Fotvler in New York several weeks ago. Dick has taken leave of absence from N. Y. Tel. and Tel. to coach skiing at Lake Placid and Denny is about to leave Asso. of National Advertisers for some other line."
The ever-faithful Vin Merrill sends on this report of the annual meeting of the Bostonians of the class. He writes:
"In case nobody else has told you it should be noted that the majority of the class around Boston have gone to hell. Such is the sad conclusion to be drawn from the results of a post card sent out by the committee appointed to gather in the clan from time to time. The card signed by Messrs. Kimball, Rideout and Doherty announced the evening of March 30 at the University Club as the time and place for this year's assembly. The alternative penalty for failure to appear was an excursion to the devil. Those who did not fall under the Mephistophelian spell were; Principal Kimball, Public Relations Counsel Rideout, Gaynor, Lord, who was led in by an angel, he not having received a card, Scheibe, Jaquith, Payne and Merrill. Even Doherty succumbed to his own curse, although he can hardly be blamed since he was obliged to officiate at an exhibition of the devil's own machines. The only apparent resistance was offered by Moody who sent out a call for help from the Parker House. Among the blessed beer, bowling and bare faced salacity combined to provide a most heavenly evening.
"For the benefit of the record, I am now 'practicing' the landscape architecture I spent 31/2 years at Harvard learning. lam connected with Arthur Shurcliff officially and do a little private work on my own." May the lax Bostonian brethren roast eternally in the deepest pit of Avernus for their failure to answer the clarion call.
And if Rollins doesn't foster his public relations better than the above report indicates, we predict, as a hardened, old campaigner, that his period of chair-warming as Brookline selectman will be materially lessened.
Seer etary-Chairman, 111 West Main St., Waterbury, Conn. Class Agent, University Club, Bridgeport, Conn.
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