1933*
Aside from luring a few idle dollars from their hiding places, the present Alumni Fund Committee has brought back into circulation the old Hermit of New Milford (Conn.), Howie Porter. The aforementioned Porter, after a taste of the hubbub and confusion of Wall Street, retired to the mountain fastness of the upper Housatonic Valley where he broods during the week, at the New Milford Savings Bank, on the inactivity of the Connecticut building industry. His week-ends are spent in sampling the vin du pays with the men of the countryside or in dancing the slow, stately sarabande with the tall, handsome mountain girls.
Other noteworthy Connecticut news concerns the arrival at the home of the Assistant Prosecutor of the New Canaan Town Court of Daniel Mansfield Sprague. The proud father was asked for a statement just as he was about to make his opening statement in the historic case of State vs. Ten Bottles of Virginia DareSpring Tonic.
After characterizing the gentleman in question as "future Dartmouth material," the doughty racket buster said "this recent addition with mother, father and sister make up a somewhat financially barren but otherwise fertile and happy family."
FDR TAKE NOTICE
A brief but eloquent note from the 1933 Budget Balancer, Lee Eckels as follows: "Present deficit— and for the sake of my reputation I'll underwrite that, so we can start off in the black in September."
Recent intelligence indicates that there are other members of the class who have been able to do without the nasty red ink bottle in calculating their financial status.
Dr. David Eugene Warden married Alice Alberta Heard of Danville, Va., on March 16. He had recently completed his internship at the Roosevelt Hospital in New York.
De Forest Barkley Voorhees, one time Big Green timber-topper, hurdled the matrimonial barrier on April 20th when he was united in the sacred bond to Jean Scudder of West Orange, N. J., at the Grace Episcopal Church in Orange.
On April 14, 1940, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Mayall Lane of Wellesley Hills, Mass., announced the engagement of their daughter, Eloise Rhodes Lane, to Mr. GeorgeMellen Rideout, of Everett. Miss Lane attended Laselle Junior College and Miss Farmer's School.
Paine Knickerbocker has recently become Public Relations Counsel for California's Mills College and incidentally did quite a job in Private Relations by becoming engaged to Nancy Burt, a Mills graduate.
For this last item we are indebted to "Abe" Winslow, '20, secretary of the Dartmouth Association of Northern California and the Association publication, SQUEAKSFROM THE GOLDEN GATE.
Also in the columns of this esteemed contemporary we discovered in a report of the Association's annual ski party, that George Hamilton had broken "a couple of fingers trying a new type of end-over-end turn."
Someone has told us that Henry Pierpont is a father. We have had no official notice and await confirmation from that worthy watchdog of the estates of Omaha's widows and orphans.
Douglas William Alden is the author of Marcel Proust and His French Critics which will be reviewed in this or a later issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
Herm Dudley has become assistant advertising manager of Wrigley's and, according to reliable reports, is living in Oriental luxury in Chicago.
The report of the Genesee Valley Dartmouth Club in the last ALUMNI MAGAZINE reveals the strong hold that 1933 has secured over alumni operations in the neighborhood of Rochester. Darrow Dutcher is secretary of the organization and PhilWhitbeck is treasurer, Ern Turner, working effectively behind the scenes as usual, was a member of the committee which nominated these powerful alumni.
Harding Macdona was on the Dartmouth Club Squash team which won the Chicago Class A title recently. Hal Hixson plays on the Class B team.
Boston Baker Boy
Every now and then it becomes the duty of any up and coming President of a municipal Board of Aldermen to greet organizations which come to his fair city for conventions. As such an official, it was left to your correspondent recently to welcome to dear old Waterbury, The Association of New England Bakers. On pushing our way through a group of husky dough heavers in the lobby of a local hostelry, we were astounded and delighted to find CliffJohnson, easily the huskiest, discoursing, in his usual forthright manner, on the problems besetting the cake froster in a modern industrial society.
Reliable couriers from darkest New Hampshire bring tidings of a new Ripley. The former Bad Boy of Troy has been thoroughly domesticated, has been impelled to sell his Taylor Cub and is now concentrating on what woolen business has been left after the malevolent machinations of "that maniac" in the White House.
A late dispatch brings the news of the engagement of John Meek—who, by the way, is characterized as "assistant dean of the Yale Law School"—to Jean Anderegg of Montclair, N. J. Miss Anderegg is a graduate of Bryn Mawr and holds a Master's degree from Radcliffe. The wedding will take place in the summer.
With this issue we bring to a close our first year under the 100% Subscription Plan. As the intermittent communications from Lee Eckels' show, our decision to participate was a wise one. Every graduate in the class now receives this magazine.
It is inevitable that there should be some unfavorable reactions to the way in which this column is conducted or the manner in which its material is presented. Please do not hesitate to file your dissenting opinions with the Clerk of this Court at the above address.
You will be fighting an up-hill battle, but you may be able to make this monthly effusion less a crazy bit of creative writing and more a medium for the exchange of class news.
Secretary-Chairman, 111 West Main St., Waterbury, Conn.
Class Agent, University Club, Bridgeport, Conn.
