1935*
Our alert contemporary, The HanoverGazette, recently carried an Associated Press report from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, that Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Washburn were traveling by dog team 300 miles from Cambridge Bay to Coppermine, N.W.T., from -which point they planned to fly to Edmonton early in February. Possibly LINKAND TAHOE will be home by the time this is read, and we may be favored with more detailed accounts of their trip, but at the moment we are still slightly aghast at anyonewe know who has been that far north. Thinking about the cold weather up there, we shiver again and remind Mortimer to bring the brass monkeys inside near the hearth.
From the opposite side of this globe we received, late in January, word from EDDIE MITCHELL:
Accra, Gold Coast, BritishWest Africa, Nov. 23, 1940.
"Although the tropics (in wartime) maynot be all that might have been expected,I can't complain. Life here is interestingand. enjoyable, as was the trip down, highlighted as it was by a couple of days inDakar, and later, at the Firestone plantation in Liberia. Government permissionfor my wife to come here has now been obtained, and it looks as though my bachelordays are about to be over. . . .I hope!
"When the wintry blasts from Lake Eriechill your marrow, think of me downing acool one where the indoor temperature isnow 94 .... and the hot season doesn't startfor another month.
"P.S. I now hear I am transferred toSouth America.—Well—life is at least interesting with the Texas Co. Export Dept."
We are indebted to His Majesty's Gold Coast Censor No. 9 for refraining from withholding any of the above.
INVITATION TO REUNION
Jack Morrison, 1936 Reunion Chairman, has conveyed an invitation from that class to the members of '35 to participate in their 5th this June. We are welcome at all times at their tent and are urged to make that our headquarters. Attendance at their barbecue late Saturday aternoon is urged, and that is the only function where a fee ($1.50 per person) will be charged to guests. The class of 1937 has received a similar invitation which makes this the first occasion when classes which were in Hanover together as undergraduates will be present at a reunion. Those members of '35 who plan to accept this kind invitation and to be present in Hanover during June 20-22 are requested to communicate with this scribe before June Ist so that he may in turn advise the '36 group of the number of guests expected. All in all it sounds like good fun for us, and is certainly a most friendly gesture on the part of the '36 group.
NEWS FROM THE WEST COAST DAVE SMITH tells us that BILL GAHAGAN has left McGraw-Hill and is now doing free-lance writing with offices in the Russ Bldg., San Francisco BILL MANN, still with Cannon Mills, and Miss Ruth Anderson were married in the San Francisco City Hall on December 28th Through RUDY PACHT we learn that LEWIS PECK has left Goodyear out in Hollywood and is now working for some oil supply company out there.
AND FROM SAINT LOUIS
DANNY KERWIN will, we trust, pardon us for not using earlier the following comments which he sent on several months ago:
"Here is St. Louis '35 at latest report.
"BILL CHAPMAN was married in Julywife's name Pat. Bill is a rising youngbanker.
"JIM ALFRING moves in the high-socialcircles, so I seldom see him. He sells forAeolian Company here. .. .radios, phonographs, etc. He must be on the icagon. .. .Idon't see him in the town spas any more.
"FRANK CORNWELL is still hard at workwith Brown Shoe Co. He takes time outnow and then to shoot a fair round of golf(he trims me regularly).
"HARRY DECKERT is still one of the town'sgay young bachelors. He is selling candlesfor St. Louis Candle & Wax Co andmust be pulling in the dough because Iowed him three bucks for a month. . . .andnever a squawk!
"BOYD ROGERS is happily married to thedaughter of the Governor of Missouri. . . .and should now be addressed as 'ColonelRogers, the power-behind-the-throne.' "JACK SHELMIRE has dropped out of sightagain. I haven't heard him around formonths. He's married, too.
"You can tell all the boys that Kerwin isstill losing his hair, but after seeing thedecrepit state of the Class of 1930 at Reunion, he is going to do something aboutregaining his youthful appearance. I thinkwe had better have a campaign: 'Everyman a glamour-boy by 1945'. .. .so that wedon't depress the Class of 1940 at our nextreunion."
If any other than Dapper Dan had made such a suggestion we would suggest one of those monkey-gland treatments, but knowing Kerwin we realize same would be akin to locking the barn door after the theft had occurred, and in his case would probably be disastrous.
A WORD FROM FLORIDA
DICK MILLARD writes from Jacksonville, where he manages merchandise for KohnFurchgott Dept. Store, that he is "right onthe corner of the through route to Miami.Have a charge acc't in bar across the street....can buy anyone a beer on the waythrough," indicating acquisition of the farfamed Southern hospitality one hears about.
1941 ALUMNI FUND
With BUD FRASER busy "doing his bit for Uncle you-know-who" at Fort Dix, your Executive Committee has passed the Class Agency baton to 808 HAGE who will act as generalissimo during the coming campaign. As many of you can attest, Bud Fraser has devoted a great deal of time to the Fund in the past five years, having on at least one occasion given his vacation time to this work, for which the class will always be indebted to him. That we haven't responded as a group with results commensurate with his efforts is also general knowledge to the regret of a good many of us. I'm sure nothing would give Bud more pleasure than seeing '35 climb up to her rightful place in the Green Derby. Let's make this the year.
DOWNBEAT
LEW WEITZ, local object of envy by many due to holding one of the "lost draft numbers," No. 8999, reports seeing HUNTINGTON HARRISON dining in Hotel Cleveland recently Detroit friends tell us that the TY CARI.ISLES had a child born, species unreported, a month or so ago DICK HIRSHLAND and BILL RIEGELMAN w~re rumored in Hanover awhile back, though Larry says he missed them But he did see HARRY PRICE and his wife when they were there Early last month we spent four days in jam-session with the Supreme Court in Columbus, during which we twice ran into BUD HINMAN in our hotel Midway through the composition of these notes we spent a Sunday afternoon skiing with DAN and DOT SWANDER, and our two spills (Dan didn't fall at all) made us somewhat chagrined when we read recently of SEL HANNAH winning a first in the Franconia Ski Club's Giant Slalom up in good old N. H.;.... . the fact that Dan and I were skiing in the nearby Chagrin Valley only added to the irony ERNIE HEDLER writes that REG BANKART and BABS "show promiseof becoming typical Phillyites already. . . .understand Reg even eats scrapple forbreakfast n0w."... .From Boston's beans and cod to Philadelphia's scrapple sounds like gastronomical gyrations of a high degree; we hope he survives.
Meanwhile, for no reason at all, we tender to him and to you all that fond salutation of our childhood Beware the Ides ofMarch'.
Secretary, 1843 Cadwell Ave., Cleveland Heights, Ohio
