1930*
Several times in the past our final editions of the "Fund Thirtyteer" were written during a vacation on the shores of Rhode Island. That is just where these notes are being pecked out on the old typewriter, with the first foggy afternoon happily coinciding with the deadline for the October issue. So, with a not too guilty conscience we resume where we left off last May, undergoing no particular hardship by having to forego a round on the golf course.
In front of us is a copy of Alex McFarland's final issue of the 1941 "Thirtyteer," which all of you must have seen, but it is worth repeating if for no other reason than to provide an opportunity to pay tribute to Alex and his assistant agents, as well as to the class as a whole for the finest showing 1930 has ever made in the Alumni Fund. Personally, we were delighted that all previous records were surpassed, for it showed that 1930 is still improving and approaching 100% of contributors. As they say in Brooklyn, "Watch us next year."
You read in the July issue of the MAGAZINE of the success which marked the class reunions that were held the week-end after Commencement. The annual meeting of the Class Secretaries Association as well as the first meetings in Hanover of the Class Treasurers and Class Agents were held at the same time. This plan was also a grand success and joint meetings of the three groups of class officers will probably be held each year during this reunion period. 1930 was represented in full by its respective officers, and also by part of its executive committee which held an informal meeting since a quorum was not present. Then there were various other Thirtymen, secretaries of alumni clubs and associations, who were in Hanover for their annual meeting, as well as several more who, like all alumni, are glad to get back when- ever they can. We counted a total of eighteen classmates in town during some part of the week. George Lord, Charlie Widmayer, Dick Butterfield, Ollie Lilley and A 1 Dickerson, the fortunate lads who live there; Rip Vogt, Milt Shultz and Frank Ryder, secretaries of clubs in their home towns; Ted Wolf, who left the oil business in New Jersey for the American Writing Paper Corp., in Holyoke, Mass., and who lives nearby in South Hadley. Pete Lillard, Dick Barnard and Jim Fitch were there, too, and we caught a glimpse of Bill Walker at the ball game, which was in honor of Jeff Tesreau. Eddie Jeremiah was in uniform, coaching on the first base line, looking very much more like a coach than one of the players. How time catches up with us all.
Once last June while in Rochester, Joe Golan told us that he had seen Heinie Swarthout on the street not long before. That seemed strange, knowing that Heinie was married and living in Detroit, but for- tunately we were able to track him down and have dinner with him just before he left to return to Detroit. The former football end and basketball forward is with the Todd Company, makers of check-writing machines, etc., and Heinie had been taking a ten-week course in salesmanship in Rochester. We learned later through a mutual friend that he was the top man in the course, too. Except for a little less blonde hair, Heinie has changed very little in appearance since he left college, but he did say he no longer plays any professional football.
The Women's Wear Daily of August Bth contained the announcement that Ev Low had resigned as buyer of hosiery at Hahne & Co., Newark, a position he had held since 1934, to become hosiery buyer for both the retail and mail order divisions of Montgomery Ward & Co. Maybe Ev will do a rush business taking care of Thirtymen's orders for Christmas presents for their wives if the silk stocking shortage becomes really acute.
Snub Poehler sent us an editorial from the East Orange paper last June, commending their mayor for his appointment of two college-trained, civic-minded young men to the city's newly formed defense council. One of them was Eb Blake, president of the Fourth Ward Republican Club, of whom Snub says, "our boy Eb is coming right along in East Orange." So is grammar school principal Poehler, who extends an invitation to any Thirtyman who is around on Monday noon to have lunch with him at the Lion's Club, which meets at the Palmer House on Main Street, East Orange.
Bob Blanchard's wife, Page, who apparently does all of his class correspondence for him, and for which we are very grate- ful, sent in their new address at 333 Blue Hills Avenue, Hartford, Conn., where Bob is now with the Hamilton Standard Propellor Division of United Aircraft Corp. We would be happy to have other '3O wives whose husbands seem reluctant to transmit news to the Secretary follow Page's example.
Harry Casler is always good for news about somebody in the class. This time he tells us that Rusty Morrill is located at Camp Upton, Long Island, and that Pat Weaver had resigned from the American Tobacco Company to become associated with Nelson Rockefeller's committee, under Don Francisco, helping to promote good will in Latin America.
If you should be looking for an apartment in New York City, Gene Zagat, president of the Algonquin Realty Corporation could probably fix you up. He recently purchased a six-story apartment house at Seventh Avenue and 54th Street, containing twenty-two apartments arranged in suites of three, four and five rooms. The purchase, according to the announcement, was for a consideration of $3,000 above a mortgage of $200,000 and the property was assessed on the 1940-41 tax books for $310,000, of which $230,000 represented the land value.
A postcard from George Simpson, with a "passed by naval censor" stamp on it, tells of his taking a better job, even though the location is very inaccessible, with the George A. Fuller, Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corp., at Argentia, Newfoundland, where they are building a U. S. Naval Air Base.
One wedding and two birth announcements are all we got during the summer, although there were various rumors of others which were expected going around late last spring. Charlie McDonough was married on Saturday, the 23rd of August, to Anne Bartley in the Lady Chapel of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, New York. Our chief scout in Hanover, (you know who) advised that "Charlie and his attractive, red-haired bride were honeymooning here yesterday, August 26."
A hand-made woodcut by our reunion artist, showing a bright, red sun rising over the horizon, announced that "A NEW DAY HAS DAWNED" to Annabel and Dudley Day, August 9, 1941, 7 lbs. 7 oz„ named Dudley Frederick. The young man presides at the new home of the Days, 31 Dehart Street, Morristown, N. J.
Charles Wells Shartle III, was born October 26, 1940, the son of the Tom Shartles, of Houston, Texas. Tom Jr. is now eleven years old and the Shartle daughters, Lenora and Gretchen, are six and four years respectively.
And Jim Tyler has entered his son, Jim Jr. in the class of 1953.
Treasurer Embree's report for the fiscal year 1940-41 shows a balance in the bank on June 11 of $436.44, against the total of $155.24 on hand after all our tenth reunion bills had been paid. Let's keep our treasury healthy by paying your 1941 dues promptly when the bills for them are received this fall.
Secretary, Simons 8c French Co., Inc. 99 Hudson St., New York, N. Y. Treasurer, 3500 S. Racine Ave., Chicago, Ill.
