1938*
Things are moving so fast these days I can't keep up with them. It won't make things any easier, either, with Lang's nefarious letters floating around for the next two months. I've got a lot of things to talk about. .. .there's our Fifth reunion looming on the horizon, reports of '38 Night, the usual activity of the class, spring fever or summer heat, depending on what part of the country you're in, a few more marriages and no more children, plans for getting together at Commencement,.... but more importantly, the Fund. There's no doubt but that we all sense our loyalty to the college, and there's no doubt but that we all want to show our appreciation in some small manner. We can do it in several ways, but there's no reason why any one of these should suffer at the expense of the others. It's demonstrated that we best serve the College's interests by representing her nobly and respectably in our public and private life.... our conduct reflects her teaching. We can help her by seeing that the best college material leaves for Hanover each fall, and we help her immeasurably in the manner in which we help her meet her obligations.
Some of you have said that the College has money. "Look at this and that scholarship and endowment fund. What does my little bit mean in that great big pot?" But that's not the answer. Most of the funds are tied up, specifically marked for certain activities, and the crying need today is for free money to buy books, to pay professors, to paint the floors in Topliff Hall, to amortize new buildings, and all in all to help the College prosper. Last year we had the best "first class out" record. This year let's have the best second year record. It's a hard pull for Walls, Lang, Archibald, Beck, Borneman, Cardozo, Carroll, Carson Christiansen, Cravens, Davis, Dunlap, Fogarty, Hallett, Harvey, Holt, Kingsbury, MacKinnon, Mallory, Mattimore, Soule and Wales. Let's not make them sweat blood.
'Thirty-eight Night was apparently a success. I had to look hard to find someone to celebrate with me, but in Wilmington, N. C., I found Sturgis White, and it was as good a reunion as you ever saw. He was married June 6, 1936 to Janith Jackson, and is the bright star in the J. W. Jackson Beverage Co., in Wilmington. At Boston 37 were present. .. .Barton, now with Back Bay Electrotype and Engraving Co., Boutilier, Bott, with Twitchell Champlin Co., wholesale grocers, Brett, Stan Brown, Brownell, Bob Carroll, Chandler, Cravens, Cohen, Doane, with George E. Belcher Co. in Stoughton (wooden lasts for shoes), Hanover Emerson, Francis, with New England Tel. and Tel., Canter, Golden, with Underwood Typewriter, Griffin, Herschel, Hitchcock, with U. S. Govt. Eng. Dept. and just back from Panama, Alex Jones, Charley Main, Dan and Morg Marshall, Bill Main, Merigold, Mather, Nassikas, Thomas, Tanis, Tisdale, with Pilgrim Trust Co., Raymond, with Connecticut Mutual, Whelden, a reporter on the Springfield Union, Ed White, Wiggin, Wiswall, and Woodman. They gathered at seven, had a seafood dinner buffet, Dean Chamberlin spoke, had movies of the Yale game, and ended up at J. Wirth's. Plenty good.
Hallett reports the Chicago get-together at Ricardo's.... Armour, Mercer, ShortHorn Barrett in from Cinn., Davis, Arn Smith, Chase, Nims, Borneman (with a date and cocktails as usual), Llewellyn, Olson, Tompkins, Robinson, Mcintosh, Fox, and the Mouse. Says the latter, "Great thanks to John Armour who probably did more work on this than I." Two movies here. .. .the Yale game and the class shots. Mouse is now a safety inspector for Lumberman's Mutual. I guess the New York affair went off with a bang, but so far no reports of it.
For the future... .Annual Boston Picnic at Coke Barton's estate in Stoneham on the 18th of May, weather permitting. Says Emerson, "This year the Committee feels that the gallon of beer provided for each person may not be enough, and that possibly the party might start a little earlier and end a little later than the last. (ed's. note: You're a sucker if you miss it....May 18. Last year's started at 3 P.M., ended at 4 A.M.). Also we plan to make this an equivalent of Old Timers' Day that we missed.... old clothes, costumes, and all that sort of thing besides softball, driving Barton's tractor, and all the other amusements that the alcoholic mind can conceive." Continuing, "A new addition to our program is a 1938 pops Concert in Boston early in May. Notices will be sent out. During the summer it is further proposed to have a beach picnic at some nearby resort." The new Committee for Boston is Emerson, Francis, Brett, Chandler, Wiggin, Brownell, and Craven, shortly to be augmented by Dan Marshall.
Johnny Griffith is planning to marry a Northwestern girl this summer, and by the time this reaches you, Johnny Jameson will have taken the plunge at Alexandria, La. April 10th. Note also the engagement of Jessie Marshall (Jamaica Plain and Radcliffe '39) to Ben Williams. Bobby Reeve reached the quarter finals of the squash tennis Nationals, and was only put out by the veteran Wolf. Archibald is now head of the Education Promotion Dept. of MacMillan Publications Pacific Coast Branch. Wales is with Richfield Oil in Los Angeles, George Nichols was here in Houston with the General Motors Exhibit, but I missed him. Johnny Wayman has changed his name to John Godfrey. Al WolfE is getting his Master's in Teaching of Social Studies at Columbia, and doing practice teaching at White Plains High School. Brandeis is taking an education course at Columbia in addition to his work at N. B. C.
As for plans for Commencement, John Emerson has suggested that it would be a good idea to set some time and place to meet, so that some informal entertainment, such as a picnic, could be arranged. And so it's arranged that we meet between 7 and 7:30 P.M. on the Friday afternoon of Commencement week-end in Robinson Hall. There will be a list of those present in Lang's office, and if you can't get there until Saturday, you can find out where we are there. Lang doesn't know about this, but it's all set.
Gene Waggaman says he's been transferred to the radio division of Pedlar & Ryan's media department. Seems like everyone who's in advertising has been talking about their respective media departments. What is it? Johnny Hall in reporting the activities of the Tri Kaps says, "Here Brandis and Sutherland are rooming with Matty in N. Y. trying to reform him. Here is with N. B. C. Stan Brown is in his second year at Harvard Law, Chet Emerson is with Sherwin-Williams in Boston, and planning to be married in the fall, Carl Hecker doing insurance in Manchester, Bob Jones at B. U. Law, Nassikas at Harvard Business, Em Marstellar in Baltimore with Eastern Air Lines, and Charley Hitchcock in Harrisburg with a firm of consulting engineers. Gunner Tuck is with the East Cambridge Savings Bank. Bob Cataldo is still at Tufts Med. Don Clarke is with United Car Fastener Co. in Boston. Punchy Reynolds is well on his way to an M.A. at Columbia. El Taber is in New York with one of the Grant chains, yan Riper, the last I heard, was with the Texas Co. in Norfolk, and planning to announce an engagement to the image of Judy Garland. Bob Tabor is in Nashua with the Nashua Gummed and Coated Paper Co., Bob Linscott is in Huntsville, Alabama with Wm. L. Barrell Co." Wales we've already mentioned, and that leaves Fred Becker. What's he doing in New York?
That about ends it for this month, except that the Jughead Thomas is drumming up trade from Green Key. Reports Hobie Rockwell left for Elmira and his father's insurance business. Dawkins reports some Philadelphia activity, notably a get-together of himself, Jack Hull, Tom Rowland, Hob Rockwell, Bob Brown, and a miscellany of '37s and '39s at the Penn basketball game. Last '38 I saw was Johnny Barrows in Atlanta. He's still teaching at the Warm Springs Foundation. See you in Hanover this summer.
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