1930*
Now that the World's Series is over and Hughie Johnson has returned safely to Buffalo, things are quiet around New York once more. It is only a sort of breathing spell, however, as in a few short weeks, before you read this, in fact, the boys will be all worked up again for the annual trip to the Yale Bowl. It is also the season for class dinners and gatherings at Dartmouth Clubs and alumni associations to listen to broadcasts of the out-of-town games.
This is a good spot to tell of the party that will be held after the Princeton game, November 8, at the Essex County Country Club in West Orange, N. J. If you are going to the game, plan to stop there for dinner and some celebrating and see a lot of your friends. We already know of a large Thirty nucleus from near and distant points who will be there.
Getting back to baseball for a moment, how many of you saw the A.P. photo of Joe Placak examining Bob Feller's teeth when the Cleveland ace was called by his draft board to appear for his selective service physical examination? According to the caption, Joe and another examining physician claimed that Feller was a perfect physical specimen. We had not heard that Joe was performing this service for Uncle Sam. There were five doctors listed among the twenty-one Thirtymen in the service which appeared in the July issue of the
ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
The first letter we have seen from one of our classmates in the service was from Pvt. Buzz Morley, written from the Finance Office, Fifth Division, A.P.O. No. 5, Camp Robinson, Arkansas, just outside of Pine Bluff. They were down there for maneuvers, with the rest of the and Army under the command of General "Yoo-Hoo" Lear. Since so few aging Thirtymen have left their comfortable swivel chairs to serve their country, a few extracts from Buzz's letter will be interesting and enlightening.
... ."It's only about 98 in the shade and my hands are so wet it feels like I'm writing on a blotter. If maneuvers are any sample, Sherman was a master of understatement. Chiggers, wood ticks, rain, boiling sun and dust, plus poison ivy, poison oak and ragweed certainly have cured me of any Boy Scout tendencies I might have had Please excuse the writing but a knee is a lousy escritoire." Presumably, all Thirtymen in the army are getting their copies of the MAGAZINE. The Alumni Records Office is trying to keep up with their numerous changes of address in order that they will receive all college literature. We are sure the boys away from home would welcome letters from the rest of us and if any addresses are needed just refer to the July issue, or drop a note to the Secretary who will gladly forward them immediately. It might also be said that the rest of us would like more news from you fellows in camps, so just write us and send along some news about yourselves and your activities.
The reason you got a little note on the back of the bills for class dues instead of a nice letter is that just before they were to be mailed Treasurer Embree acquired a case of the mumps. It was a mild dose, according to Hank, but sufficient to keep him home in bed for a couple of weeks. To celebrate Ruth's return to good health and Hank's recovery from his childhood affliction, the Embrees are driving east for the Harvard game and a few days in Hanover the following week. It is about eight years since our last peerade to a Harvard game, so the Frenches are looking forward to seeing the gang around Boston that week-end too. The Shaw Coles and Jack Woosters are going up also, making it a seventy-five per cent representation for the class from Montclair.
Charlie Widmayer, whose college news service is a boon to secretaries by sending newspaper clippings for use in the class notes columns, provides the record of the arrival, on August 15, of Win and Betty Stone's daughter, Katherine Moody, in Washington, D. C. Why are you fathers so reticent about furnishing news of your blessed events? Mickey Emrich, what is the name of your second daughter and when was she born? And Freddie Schmidt, did you have a boy or a girl almost a year ago? Who else is holding out on us? Not Merrill Bush, who sent in the announcement of Merrill Reid Bush's advent August 12 last, and added that he had a lot of swell fun last summer as director of the education work camp at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vt. Nor Frank Tragle, who supplied to statistics for eight pound, fourteen ounce J. Franklin Tragle 111.
The wedding of Harold Lohnes and Katherine Fernald, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Merritt L. Fernald, of Cambridge, Mass., took place August 30. The bride is a graduate of the Buckingham and Leslie Schools, and the newlyweds are now living in Cambridge.
Mr. and Mrs. Newton Keith Hartford have announced the marriage of their daughter Barbara to Harrison F. Condon Jr., on Saturday, the sixth of September at Bournedale, Mass. Harry's bride was graduated from Kent Place School, studied in the Alliance Francaise in Paris, and was graduated from Katherine Gibbs School. Harry is with Scudder, Stevens & Clark, Boston.
The Baker Library submits the titles of some more writings of Bill Fenton, two anthropological papers, numbers 14 and 15, issued by the Smithsonian Institute: Iroquois Suicide: A study in the stability ofa culture pattern and Tonawanda Longhouse ceremonies: ninety years after LewisHenry Morgan.
Merit White is the author of Friction inBuildings: its magnitude and its importance in limiting earthquake stresses. And Dr. Bill Doran is a co-author of Gallbladder surgery, a ten years' statistical reviewincluding 410 operated cases which was reprinted from the July issue of the American Journal of Surgery.
At the closing ceremonies of the centenary of Fordham University September 17, an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was awarded to Nelson Rockefeller. Because Nelson's plane in which he was flying from Alaska was grounded for two days by bad weather at Alberta, Canada, it was awarded in absentia and his brother, Laurance received it for him. So far as we know, this is the first honorary degree to be awarded to a member of our class. The citation mentioned Nelson's work for better Latin-American relations and said that as a result of his efforts "there has been an increase in confidence toward us and a stronger alliance with us for peace or war."
Bill Fieldcamp is now living in Beverly Hills, Calif., and is manager of the Household Finance Corp. at 1338 4th St., Santa Monica. Karl Rodi also lives in Beverly Hills, while Colly Young appears to have moved from that "suburb" into Los Angeles.
Herm Sander has left the Mountainside Hospital and is now practising in his old home town of Manchester, N. H.
The Bill Jessups are now living in their new home with the fancy address 28 Meadow Woods Road, Lake Success, L. 1., N. Y. And Charlie Raymond's new address is 49 Leighton Road, Wellesley.
We may have some more changes of address for you next month, on which note we take leave until then.
Secretary, Simons & French Co., Inc. 99 Hudson St., New York, N. Y. Treasurer, 3500 S. Racine Ave., Chcago, 111.
