1934*
As we tap out these few ill-chosen words for the secretarial swan song of the academic year, we can see over the rim of this our trusty Underwood, a bulging suitcase and a jam-packed golf bag. Tomorrow we leave for that annual festival known as the convention of the Dartmouth Secretaries' Association. Hanover is a nice place in the springtime.
Once in a while your correspondent gets the statistical bug. This time, pouring over the massive volume that houses the personal records of you and you and you, we became fascinated by the Higher Learning Department. Those of us who felt blessed by the gods to get a Liberal Education with a B minus average will gaze with a certain amount of awe at the scholastic degrees which are piling up on the ledgers of our more erudite companions. Now that we have hit the six-years-out mark, we can probably take as fairly accurate and final the fact that we have in the Class 170 advanced academic degrees. With the exception of those incorrigible scholars who will read and write fine print till they drop, our men are by now entirely out from under the pedagogic influence and using their learning for the real purposes of man's elevation or folly.
There are 54 lawyers among us, and 46 doctors of medicine. Most of these professional men are associated with established firms or hospitals, but even this early there are a few who have hung out their own shingles. There are 23 Masters of Art, and although most of these men are in teaching, a few just plain took their degree and
skipped into business. Twenty of our fellow sheepskin-holders took honors in Business Administration, 12 of them at Tuck and most of the rest of them at Harvard. We have 7 Civil Engineers from Thayer School and 4 Masters of Science. Bill Cumings became a two-timing Bachelor by adding Science to his Arts. Paul Ebbitt is a Bachelor of Education and Bill Reid is a Master of Education, but it would take a better man than we are to describe the distinction. Lewis Grosenbaugh and Art MacGregor have their Masters in Forestry. Marceau, Parker and Joe Robinson are our representatives among the Doctors of Dental Surgery.
As a member of the Great American Middle Class we gulp as we arrive at the final classification. Our whiskey-drinking, poker-playing, evil old class counts 7 Doctors of Philosophy. These learned bluebloods are Herman Chase, Sey Dunn, Bill Emerson, Herb Jackson, Charlie Levesque, Russ Smart and Ben Twiss. They are, we believe, all making a name for themselves in educational orbits.
Betrothal Department: Bob Allabough and Marjorie M. Maynard of North Haledon, N. J. Bob lives in Ridgewood, is associated with Evans, Smith & Evans, Paterson law firm, having graduated from Harvard Law in 1937 Bob Smith, of Bankers Trust Co., and Edith May Thomas of Monroe, N. J Frank Spain and Barbara Scott Taggart of Melrose Highlands, Mass.
Nuptial Department: Tom Cass was married February 10 to Ruth Allyn Wilson of Youngstown, Ohio, and Connecticut College. From Tom: "We've just moved out to Chicago, where I'm struggling along as assistant manager of sales promotion for the Container Corporation of America. .... On a recent trip through Staunton, Va., I called ole Marse Dick Bell's home and learned that he's well on his way to filling his father's famous boots as a surgeon—now interning at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore."
Pink & Blue Department: to Harriet and Bill Rench, of St. Louis, came on April 1, a 6-pound 10-ounce job to be henceforth known as Susan Suydam Rench .... to the Willy Leveens, a 9½-pound boy .... to the Ed Hiltons a daughter March 28, name of Penelope .... to the Flamen Balls another Flamen Ball.
Press Clippings Department: John F. Anderson of the A. B. Smythe Co. had a real estate column in the CLEVELAND NEWS March 30th called Make Me An Offer. .... In a recent issue of Banking appeared the visage of Jack Cheney taken at a New Hampshire bank employees' luncheon held in Concord, March 27. Cheney is a teller in the Amoskeag Savings Bank, Manchester .... the HERALD-TRIBUNE review of Saroyan's Love's Old Sweet Song says that "Alan Hewitt handles the scene of the reading of the TIME Magazine honor role brilliantly."
All Others Department: Bill Callihan, of the First National Bank of Boston, is now carrying on the financial activities of that company in Havana, Cuba.... and Ernie Barcella has moved, under the aegis of the United Press, to the Nation's Capital Mac Collins recently joined the New York office of Lord & Thomas ....
Jerry Danzig now heads the publicity department at WOR.
Here are a few jottings on some of the boys whose light has been hidden from these eyes under some bushel Cy Axelrod, after Jefferson Medical College, joined the staff of the Philadelphia General Hospital Bill Carr is puzzlingly listed as a salesman for the House of Crane, New York real estaters, but has a residence address in Cleveland Herman Chase followed up his 1938 Ph.D. at Chicago by an instructorship in the zoology department of the University of Illinois Francis Dame took his masters in 1935 at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, became an assistant in the history department at Tufts, now teaches history at the University of Minnesota Don Davis is with the Mechanics fc Farmers Bank, Durham, N. C.
Jack Gordon is associated with the Bay Ridge Savings Bank. We might have reported before this having run into him and Vance Kirby at the bottom of Pittsfield's Bousquet Run this past ski season. .... Dave Hawes is an English teacher at Skowhegan (Maine) High School. We hope Dave is also putting to work his dramatic powers Fran Hooper works for Lever Brothers, in Cambridge Frederic Huston spent some time with the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. in Steubenville, Ohio, is currently connected with the Mesta Machinery Cos., Pittsburgh Gordon Kibbe is a clerk in the Springfield (Mass.) Safe Deposit & Trust Co AL Koch is engaged in time study work for the Millers Falls Co. of Greenfield, Mass., manufacturers of small tools.
Ed Luedke is with the John Pritzlaff Hardware CO., Milwaukee Roger Manternach has been vice-president of the Shawmut Manufacturing Corporation and production manager of the Manternach Company (sounds like a line from one of these corny birth announcements), and is now with the Graphic Arts Co., located, as were the other firms, in Hartford ....
Roger married Clarice Hill in June 1936. .... John Metzger is an estimator with the Metzger Construction Corp Harry MacKinnon attended University of Cincinnati Medical School, is now a physician in New Orleans. .... Oliver Newell is a grain dealer in Duluth Ben Piatt, who we believe was the Class's first benedict, having been married in the fall of our freshman year, lives in Norwalk, Conn., and is connected with Sackett & Wilhelm, New York lithographers.
Jack Tobin, who attained his M.D. status at Yale in 1939, is a physician at Cleveland's United Hospital Bob Wiggins, whom we encountered at the Garden City Hotel bar a few weeks ago, sold advertising space for several years on PICTORIAL REVIEW. When that revered old publication gave up the ghost Bob joined forces with Socony Vacuum, and when we saw him he reported the possibility of going to the Orient for them Paul Willgeroth, formerly with Montgomery Ward, is now part of the Maher Color & Chemical Co. of Chicago.
Just one more word before we sign off for the summer. Three 8-millimeter reels of 1934 Reunion movies are now available. They are the property of the Class, and the loan of them is yours for the asking. Taken by Art Grimes and Bill Knibbs, they do a swell job of re-creating Reunion. If any groups within the Class want to show them at dinners or meetings of any sort, just drop us a line and the only charge is postage both ways. The films were shown at the May class dinner in New York and were well received. So long for the hot weather.
Secretary-Chairman, 126 Beaufort Place, New Rochelle, N. Y.
Class Agent, 51 Neptune Ave., New Rochelle, N. Y.
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