1934*

This is Dwyer reporting this time from New York and thanking Dick Gruen for his excellent pinch hit of last month. There is so much news on the docket that we won't waste words getting into it, but there is just one general thought it seems necessary to toss out. Your correspondent plucked a ripe plum in the draft and it may not be many months, or even weeks, before we don khaki. In that event the Class will have to enact its own Selective Service Act and put another of its citizens at the secretarial wheel. It may be advisable at that time to make the change a permanent one. This may be pretty much of an advance notice, but at least it seems like a good idea to let you know and to give both the electorate and the likely candidates some time to think it over.

Gruen did us a further favor last month by providing an over-run of copy, so here are a few notations the printers couldn't squeeze into our January page.

Tom Hicks is now with Merchants Steel and Supply Co. which deals in scrap iron and steel, residence still Barrington, Illinois, (who are we to call anyone a "junky"?) DEANE HOWLAND living in the land of love and the hula has found time to become a full-fledged CPA. (Do they do business in Honolulu too?) GEORGE DONEHUE is an auditor for the Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. stationed at Philadelphia. BILL STOWE, after four years as a pedagog, is beating the Connecticut countryside for news for the Hartford Courant. If you have a scoop, Bill will be glad to oblige.

Then there are the doctors. TED FLEM- ING in internal medicine with office at 25 Lin wood Avenue, Buffalo, New York. He can also be reached at Buffalo General Hospital where he is director of the Outpatient Department. ART. WARD is now resident physician at Belmont Hospital in Worcester where you may remember he convalesced from a serious illness last year. FRANK LEPREAU is now at the New Haven Hospital working in surgical service and reports that MCALLISTER is in similar work at New York's Presbyterian Hospital.

Up to December ist EM DAY could also be found at Presbyterian Hospital, but now if his plans have materialized he should be found at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore where he will be pursuing a Fellowship in Cardiology. Incidentally (and that isn't meant to belittle the incident), Em has fathered a second son, born September 16th. That gives him some authority when it comes to giving consultations as he puts it "on families, particularly the male variety, and how to get 'em."

Now that we're back to the offspring department again double credit should also go to BILL DANIELS in Toledo for squiring a second daughter, Pamela, born February 26th. And to PHIL ECKELS for giving Katherine a playmate in brother John Stanley, born September 6th. Phil is now in the ice and storage business in Atchison, Kansas, ready to clamp a happy tong on any '34er who will brave the trip through Missouri. Meanwhile he gets Dartmouth news from his two undergraduate

brothers (and of course from the ALUMNI MAGAZINE as well).

Well, here are some more evidences" that Dartmouth men really care little for the long, cold winter nights. The betrothal business is hitting us full blast during this academic year of grace 1940-41, and we strongly suspect that the Class's record of those engaged and entwined is fast approaching the two-thirds mark.

Frank Wardwell became engaged in early November to Dorothy Helen Rich, of Moodus, Conn. Frank said in his now old letter that wedding plans were indefinite but might call for December, so maybe our news is incomplete already. Wardwell is with the Rate Engineering Department of the New England Power Association and continues his very active interest in the Junior Chamber of Commerce up Massachusetts way. His bride-to-be or to- have-been is a graduate of Nathan Hale School and Boston's Leland Powers.

A New York gossip column of recent date whispers that "aviatrix Norma Virginia Street and William G. Gilmore 3rd, of American Airlines, made it public information last night when he gave her an engagement ring." Other papers expanded on it much in this manner: that it was announced on New Year's Eve, that both partners hold airplane pilot licenses, that Miss Street comes from Garden City and Katherine Gibbs and is secretary to the president of Leech Aircraft at Roosevelt Field. And that "plans are being made for a spring wedding."

Further recent engagements: Jeanne Elizabeth Tremaine, of Middlebourne, W. Va., Bethany College and Carnegie Tech., to Merrill Heald. . . Helen Heidrich, of Peoria, Emma Willard and Babson Institute, to Bob Terhune. . . And Marjorie Farson, of New York, the Nightingale- Bamford School, Masters School and the New York Junior League, to Bob Griffin. Bob is now with the Gramatan National Bank & Trust Co., Bronxville, and the wedding will probably be in April.

Let's interrupt these dry cupidistic accounts for a moment for the sake of some genuine human interest. Fast on the heels of Newton and Einstein comes Singleton, and we do mean Bob. Last March he contributed to the Duke MathematicalJournal an article termed "the characterization of flat projective spaces by their differential invariants," but not content for a while with this, as the laggard most of us would be, he had under his name in the September issue of the Annals of Mathematical Statistics a paper known as "a method for minimizing the sum of absolute values of deviations." Way out there in Albuquerque J. Feth is letting no sage brush grow under his feet, having gotten a story called "Proving Public Service" into the College Publicity Digest. You boys and your education.

But those 1934 romantics won't give us a rest. On Thanksgiving Day Gertrude McGibbon, of Malone, N. Y., Potsdam Normal and the faculty of Fort Covington High, was married to Nelson McClary, with George Kimball standing by as aidede camp. Nels, according to the local journal, "attended Dartmouth university" and has been employed by the New York Central for the past four years Thelma Steers Halverson, of Newport, R. 1., and Pembroke College, joined up with Paul Ebbitt on November 27 Fred Wolf, with a Philadelphia law firm that has several names including his own, spent October 1 being married to Margery Stern of Elkins Park, Pa.... .Shorty Thomas, supported by Best Man Greg Karch, was wedded November 2 to Katharine Fox Meyerhans, will reside in Cheshire and work in Waterbury as accountant and office manager for the Electric Motor Co.

Alfred Latta McCray, born to Sam and Marietta on the aist of June, has four Dartmouth uncles.... the Bernard Cushmans of Dorchester have one baby daughter, named Joan Ellen and about six months old.

Bob Engelman is merchandising and buying cloaks 8c suits ("pronounced as spelt," he adds) for Spiegel's.... Dick Campen is still plugging Northwestern Mutual around Cleveland, reports that Leon Lindheim has fixed himself up with a grand new home. .. .Frank Turbett writes, "Why didn't we have R.O.T.C. at Dartmouth?". .. .Sam Carson has been transferred to Boston as Aetna's field supervisor for New England. .. .Dana Red- ington has two brothers at Dartmouth and gets down there often from St. Johnsbury ... .Al Seitner says from Cohen Brothers in Jacksonville that he's waiting for any '34ers who report to nearby Camp Blanding for their "winter vacation."... .And from Art Leonard: "Business good—making lots of money. Hoped to be the last in '34 to get married, but with the draft and all the beautiful girls up here, might have to change my mind."

El Fulton, checking in from the Hanover High teaching staff, says that the status quo is about the same up there; and makes an observation which others have also made—that for the first time since our graduation the Dartmouth students begin to seem like real youngsters. At this point, almost 7 years out, we're just about sensing that there's a whole new college generation behind us and that the current freshmen were just going into the sixth grade when we matriculated. At reunion two Junes ago we commented on the much greater difference in age appearance and general maturity existing between us and the Class of '29 than between us and the graduating class. We're beginning to hit that older stride now, and the time isn't far off when we will look around and find ourselves well in the middle of the alumni body.

Secretary, 126 Beaufort Place, New Rochelle, N. Y.