1930*

You can imagine the surprise and mixed feeling of joy and bewilderment when, shortly after returning from the Harvard game we started to peck out a few lines of this column, and found one of those well- known yellow sheets of paper already in the machine with a vaguely familiar form of typing scrawled across it. The first reac- tion was that our five-year old son had been engaging himself in an afternoon's fun, but he can't spell and there were ac- tual words which greeted us as follows: dear bud in order to allay the questions in your mind i will start right off and tell you that it has been pretty boring since may 1940 up in skips office and im sick and tired of looking out at that bulletin elm and listening to his weekly weather re- port for a long time i have been think- ing about a change in scenery and when skip wrote that piece about akbar in his bulletin that was the last straw bud that was the last straw another thing i am getting a little too old for the northern climate even if it is a dry cold as they say in hanover when i heard that you were going to the harvard game i hid in skips big brief case and unbeknownst to you i slipped out and crawled into yours while you were eating that spaghetti and skip was drinking all those highballs at the thirty luncheon before the game in Cambridge this little portable typewriter of yours is a joy after that rickety old blunder- buss of skip s but i am sort of out of practise just now after all these months of inactivity so this will be a short one say but the boys at lunch sure rubbed it in when they were kidding you about the wrong way corrigan you pulled when you were driving up to the game how in the world could you drive twenty miles back towards new york when you came out of that howard johnson place after this i guess you will listen to your wife when she questions your sense of navigation thats one for the books boy one for the books you know i had not seen many thirty- men since that enormous gargantuan record smashing epoch making incred- ible tenth reunion so it sure tickled me to see some of them again the strangest thing though was that there were apparently more fellows

from outside boston and so few bean- towners for example the bill breckinridges came all the way from tulsa and hank and ruth embree from Chicago and it was nice to see bob johnson and his bride of October tenth esther made- line martin who were also in hanover on their honeymoon the only guys i saw from boston were that man chandler and charlie raymond and alex mcfarland the ace alumni fund tub thumper also the frank ryders and hal boomas and jack fitzpatrick art griffin and ed butterworth whose weight has slowed him down almost to a walk now almost a walk i saw ted wolf there too and wondered if he came to get a shower bath because you must have read about the drought they had around holyoke you new yorkers sure turned out in force including art hayes and his recent bride also bill and priscilla doran and chick pooler and his wife and the woosters and shaw coles and the allyns well so much for all that bud so much for that and no more tosh for awhile in the meantime heres best wishes to all the boys and girls in the good old class of thirty for a real good merry Christmas yours andy

It's too bad andy didn't get down to the Princeton game because he would have seen a lot of his former townsfolk, among them our own Charlie Widmayer. And if he had been at the Alumni Council meeting in New York the day before the game he would have had the surprise of his life seeing A 1 Dickerson sporting a sort of semi crew haircut. We saw A 1 later that evening and learned that Harry Wilson is a doctor in the Royal Canadian Air Force with a rank of flight commander which corresponds to a captain in this country. Harry was on a two-week furlough and brought his wife with him down to Hanover. Just now he is stationed at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, but will soon take off for New Foundland and eventually the hop across the Atlantic. A 1 said that Harry looked fine in his snappy blue uniform of the R.C.A.F.

Bud Fisher was at the Princeton game and reported that Rusty Morrill was mustered out of the army and is back at his old job again. The Bill Browns came up from Washington and the Fred Watsons from Wilmington were at the game and we also saw Spen Foster and several other local boys whom we expect will gather at the first class dinner of the year November 17

Ham South sent in a postal from Antigua saying, "Down here for a bit of business. Certainly would love to see one of the games. My best to all the gang."

Wister Somers Clark sounds good enough to us as a matinee idol's name, but apparently the movie moguls, who should know, after all, do not. Roger Clark is the name you will see in the footlights henceforth. Wis is under contract now to Columbia Pictures and has the second lead with Fonda and Stanwyck in You BelongTo Me. He is working now in The Lady IsWilling with Marlene Dietrich and Fred Mac Murray.

Chub Mclnnes has climbed another step up the ladder and is now in Youngstown, Ohio, where he bears the title of assistant general manager of the Erie Railroad. Some day we might tell Chub where we get all the information about his steady rise up through the ranks of the Erie system.

There isn't space this month to tell the whole story of how Vic Borella entertained the Duke and Duchess of Windsor for the best part of an evening in Rockefeller Center, but it is interesting and Vic is too modest to say much about it.

From the Bureau of Population Advancement in Washington we received a press release announcing the arrival of Thomas Richard Funkhouser, October 30. On the same day Richard Pearson Jessup put in his appearance at the Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn. The girls kept the score even for the month as Catherine Grace Austin was born October 3rd at the Queens Hospital, Portland and the following day the Robert Bruces announced the birth of Margaret Ann.

Once more we wish you all a Merry Christmas.

Secretary, Simons & French Co., Inc. 99 Hudson St., New York, N. Y. Treasurer, 3500 S. Racine Ave., Chicago, Ill.