1934*
SEVEN YEARS AGO TODAY, as this stint is being struck off. . . .Dartmouth beat New Hampshire in basketball, 42-22, helped considerably by the brilliant ball-handling of Captain Kraszewski. . . .Bill Hartman '34 was selected as escort for the winner of the Carnival Girl Contest. .. .The cast of lolanthe was working late with the Colby delegation.... Harvey Cohn announced another Novelty Night in the gym .... Savage rioting raged in the Champs Elysees in a labor protest against Fascism, and Premier Daladier resigned. .. .W. L. Powers was in Dick's House and the Yale hockey club closed in on McHugh 4-3 despite lightning work by Morton and Crowther. . . .It was requested that Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis be returned to Baker Library. . . .There was a meeting of Boot & Saddle at 5 P.M All Carnival workers were requested to report to 23 Robinson tonight, while the Co-op advertised Distinction in Evening Dress.
Off our Nostalgic Carpet and into 1941 again we find first of all that a retraction must be made. We are not, as previously supposed, going immediately into the Army and will continue, all willing, as Class Scrivener until Uncle Sam again changes his mind.
The first news of the month is sad and tragic news. We have word that Ben Twiss, one of the Class's finest and most brilliant, was killed February 6th in an automobile accident. More information, if it is forthcoming, as well as a write-up on Ben, will be found in the Necrology section.
The activities of few classmates are as interesting in detail as those of Alan Hewitt, so without mental reservation we present his recent A to Z gamut in the Class Thespian's own well-chosen words. .. .
"When Love's Old Sweet Song came to its untimely end I hit the cowbarn circuit once again, playing alternately at Princeton and Westport—first with Ina Claire in Biography, then with an horrendous production of The Bat. Next to Stockbridge to join Ruth Gordon in Bernard Shaw's The Millionairess, after which followed performances of Here Today with Miss Gordon at White Plains, Princeton and Guilford. After a few weeks' interval HereToday was done in Boston, then in Chicago, whence I have just returned, having seen the play and all its physical remains decently interred, all hope of a New York production having been abandoned. The problem now is to find myself a respectable job in a play which would open on Broadway and run many months.
"While waiting for the problem to. be solved, I shall be doing what radio work I can lay my hands on. From May to December I was doing my bit to bring romance to those who might buy Calumet Baking Powder and Swansdown Flour. That item was called My Son and I. Me were neither Son nor I, but Kent Davis, 'wealthy million backer of the American Pictures Studio.' The program is now off the air, but was fun and good experience while it lasted.
"Of the men of '34 seen on my travels I recall: Ben Rippe, now a practicing lawyer, came backstage at Stockbridge with Bob Newman's family; Dr. Irv Silverman turned up in Boston; attending a Dartmouth Christmas cocktail party in Chicago, I ran into Ed Hilton and Mrs., had dinner with Hess and played on one of the WGN programs which Brother John Hess '39 writes; Tom Cass and charming wife were at one of Drew Dudley's lavish cocktail parties (Att: Monagan)."
The 1934 marriage dossier has been rising to a terrific crescendo in these last few months of grace. Best wishes and felicitations of an enthusiastic nature are offered to both partners of each of the following unions: Harriet Louise Stone to Okie (Lionel) O'Keeffe, in Attleboro, January 25 . . . .Jocko Stangle, details unknown, except that some of the New Yorkers saw him when he passed through on his wedding trip.... Mary Philippa Hodges to Lee Eggleston on the 17th of January, in Plandome, N. Y Geraldine Brand, of Woodmere, N. Y., to Herm Spitzer on February 11. The bride graduated from Goucher in 1936, attended Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, is now on the editorial staff of the Standard Publishing Co., N. Y.
Not to mention Edith Kerns, of Los Angeles, to Fritz Mosher November 25 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The former Miss K. is a graduate of T.S.C.W. (Longview, Texas, papers or Mosher please explain) and attended Texas University. According to the journals, they will make their home in Washington, D. C.. . .And Barbara Brown, of Terre Haute, Ind., on January 3 to Dr. Jack Tobin. Notices describe the bride as a graduate of State Laboratory School, Indiana University, and Western Reserve's School of Nursing. They will live in Cleveland, where both are associated with the university hospitals.
"Goose Goss is with our outfit, or will be soon. He moved in from Chattanooga a few months ago, got tired of sitting at a desk, and soon will be out all over the country organizing vacancy listing bureaus in various military and industrial hot spots. Bob Goodman works a couple floors above my quarters, still doing legal work for RFC."
Johnny Roberts, "in constant expectation of being transferred into one of the new defense industries," is still with DuPont's Engineering Department in Charleston, W. Va., "which is turning out to be a mighty fine place.". .. .Herb Hawkes, postmarked Altadena, is working for the government now, as a geologist—looking for strategic war materials (chromium, manganese etc.) in the West, mostly California ... .John Zabriskie, with Dun & Bradstreet, has his health watched over "by that eminent medico, Dr. Stew Alexander. .. . Siegfried Stern, marking time at New Rochelle Hospital while awaiting orders from the Army Medical Corps, reports a Caribbean cruise to Jamaica, Colombia and the Canal Zone. .. . Alden says that "the Clarks (wife, child, assorted cats, dogs & chickens) find Connecticut farm life the stuff. All's well in the college text business and we have fun pretending that the capitalistic system will survive."
In October Louis Marrero moved into his recently constructed new home, No. 19 Farnham Place, New Orleans. .. .Stan Neill is back to normal after a year and a half of illness. He puts in his full day's work selling wool in Boston, but has given up traveling New Hampshire and Vermont. .. .Lex Paradis has a new job in the glass container business, continues night work at Columbia for a degree in Library Science.... Says Chas. Armes, "I look forward to the monthly reminder of Hanover (viz. ALUMNI MAGAZINE) and of the one place left where there is peace and quiet and time to reflect thereon. I was back there in June for '3s's reunion and Hanover Holiday. I really wanted that week for a little reading and listening to lectures, and much sitting under a large shade tree with the largest possible bottle of beer. I did no reading, no sitting, little listening, enough beering, played much tennis, had a hell of a fine time, and am preaching the gospel of the beauties of Hanover Holiday."
Bill Hartman is farmed out to a bank in Mexico for six months and doesn't see how he's ever going to be able to live in New York again. .. .Recent immigrant to the Dartmouth Club of New York, from Detroit, is Jim Ballard, now with the Crouse Hinds Co., electrical equipment. This notable event was the cause of another even more startling: Ballard got Leveen out of the house and to a class dinner.... Gordon Kibbe was promoted the first of the year to assistant trust officer of the Springfield Safe Deposit & Trust Co. Gordon has attended A.I.B. courses and has served in both the commercial and trust departments, more recently acting as chief clerk in the latter.
Glazer is with Eversharp in St. Louis. . . . The January 1 issue of the LibraryJournal contains an article by Bob Newman called Leisure Interests. .. .Dr. Henry Kraszewski has opened his office in NewBritain for the general practice of medicine and surgery. "After completing his internship at St. Francis' Hospital, Hartford," say the notices, "Dr. K. was staff physician at the Belchertown State School in Massachusetts for a year and then served as resident in medicine at the Norwegian-American hospital in Chicago."
This Teller of Tales is going on the road again, and the next edition of these tidings will be respectfully submitted from Los Angeles. Did you hear that, O'Connor?
Secretary, 126 Beaufort Place, New Rochelle, N. Y.
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