1934*

With deep sadness we report the death of Smith O'Brien on September 15. A more detailed account is to be found on another page of this issue.

The Springfield paper reports that Howard Hallock, a second lieutenant in the quartermaster reserve, has been ordered to active duty at Camp Edwards. Hallock, after leaving Dartmouth in 1932, graduated the following year from the business administration course of Nichols Junior College Ben Piatt has accepted a commission with the Navy, and is stationed as a ship construction inspector in Bay City, Michigan Bill Cummings came back from Chile in June, and at that time remarked that it "looks like the Naval Reserve at this point unless digging iron ore is ruled more important." Was it, Bill?

Walt Blood is now associated with Brown Brothers, Harriman Bill DeRiemer, DuPont attorney, is in Salt Lake City in connection with the establishment of a new DuPont plant Carroll Jordan told us at the recent New York class dinner that he is still free lancing on a lot of things, including advertising research, play reading and several varieties of writing Joe Bender can be reached now through the Gulf Oil Corporation, in Boston, where he is registered as a bookkeeper in the Service Station Department

John Ellis, whom we mentally place in California, now has a Pittsburgh address.

Butcher Brabbee has left New York to handle Kimberly Clark's sales problems in a territory bounded roughly by Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Rochester and Toronto, with Buffalo as central headquarters. This assignment is expected to last the better part of a year, may serve as springboard for further and more distant moves.

Your scribe can report from his own personal front that after five years of desk work on sales promotion for Time, Life and Fortune (chronologically, not simultaneously), he is back again on the socalled firing line, selling space, for Fortune.

Here's a new member: Joan Eldridge, born October 1 to parents Helen and Bill Eldridge, of Chicago And here's another: Diana Judd, born the 9th of October to Margaret and Bill Judd, of New Britain.

Generally we get our news about Bill Emerson right from Emerson headquarters, but this time it comes with the address list from Hanover's efficient records office. Bill is functioning as a chemist with the Monsanto Chemical Co., Dayton

Bob Offenbach, who used to be in Tulsa, has moved east but stayed south, is now Merchandise Manager of Regenstein's Peachtree Store, Atlanta Bob Reynolds has put distance between himself and Rye High School by joining the faculty of the Colorado State College of Education, in Greeley Tim Inglis is with the Intelligence Section of the 3rd Amored Division, Camp Polk, Louisiana.

Frank Spain moves from consumer to industrial products, changing his course from the wholesale grocery business to the Cortland Grinding Wheels Corp., Chester, Mass Dave Eddy's address is Washington, D. C. what's that signify, Eddy?

Bedside Manner Department: Dr. George Engel is now with the Peter Brent Brigham Hospital, in Boston. .. .as distinguished from Dr. Frank Engel who, we believe, is at New York's Mount Sinai.

.... Dr. Robert Korns practices in the State Office Building, Albany Dr. Horace Jones has his offices in the Citizens Bank Building, Anderson, Indiana Perhaps some Bostonian would explain to us what the Boston Floating Hospital is, because that's where Irv Silverman is now a resident physician George Ham, on the other hand, stays ashore and instructs in medicine at the Hospital of the U. of P., Philadelphia.

Arrived just in time to help make these notes of a respectable length is the new address book of the Dartmouth Secretaries Association. 1934 has an excellent representation. Here's how the boys line up: New Britain, Conn Bill Judd, Sec'y Waterbury, Conn. (Naugatuck Valley) George Thomas, Sec'y Wilmington, Del Hank Bryan, Sec'y Miami & Palm Beach (Southeastern Florida) Don Bunting, Sec'y Indianapolis Hank Peirce, Sec'y Louisville Bill Embry, Pres. New Orleans. .Louis Marrero, Sec'y & Treas. Grand Rapids (Western Michigan) Jim Wendell, Sec'y St. Louis Hugh Logan, Pres. Bill Rench, Sec'y Toledo Sam Carson, Pres. Frank Parmalee, Sec'y Cincinnati Dick Barrett, Sec'y Columbus (Central Ohio). Roily Wilson, Sec'y

Some of you precincts haven't been heard from in a long time. How about breaking down and writing a letter? There isn't room enough in a whole year of these columns for all the news you gentlemen have on the tip of your tongue right this minute. But if you keep it there instead of passing it along, your correspondent is going to go dry every issue, as he does right now.

Secretary, 126 Beaufort Place, New Rochelle, N. Y. Treasurer, 256 Broadway, New York, N. Y.