1930*
The first year has passed so quickly and pleasantly that it was a bit of a shock when A 1 Dickerson recently remarked, "Well, you have only one more class notes column to write this year, and what a relief that will be!" So, cheer up, Thirtymen, we will not appear in the July issue and your relief will last until October. Al's remark was intended to mean, he explained, that the "tenth of the month deadline" spectre would not have to be reckoned with for another four months, by which time you dear old classmates will have filled our files with news material to provide for several columns.
Although still a babe in the woods, comparatively speaking, at this monthly stint, we are not too young to have learned to stack a pile of address changes away in a cubbyhole for the time when there would be a paucity of news items. These addresses come in handy at other times, too, as was the case when Buck Steers called up and asked for a few so that he could send out announcements of the birth of William Edward Steers, junior, whose arrival on April 30 provided five-year-old Suzanne with her first baby brother.
A Railway Express Agency non-negotiable express receipt dated March ig gave evidence of a shipment by "Heavenly Products, Inc.," consigned to Mrs. George C. Fisher at the Maternity Hospital, Cleveland, one baby girl with lusty lungs and ruddy complexion, weight eight pounds and valued at one million dollars. A later declaration by the father advised that "the merchandise has since become affectionately known as Susan. C.O.D. charges are on a time-deferred basis, from now until full bloom is attained." Susan's sister, Georgiana, is now three and one half years old.
A recent issue of "Squeaks from theGolden Gate, caused by the Dartmouth Association of Northern California, lists as a new member, Dr. James B. Irwin, of the University of California Hospital, San Francisco.
A 1 Bolte's brother, Charles, of the class of '4l, was the author of a letter to the President of the United States urging prompt action by this country to help Britain win the war. The letter was widely publicized and many of you have seen it. Al's brother was an associate editor of TheDartmouth and also the recent editor of the Undergraduate Chair. [Q.v., this issue, Editor.]
For more than sixty-six years the R. G. Uhlemann Fur Cos. occupied the same location in Chicago. Fred sends in his new business address at 6 North Michigan Ave., but says his home address remains the same unless he is drafted, having just filled out his questionnaire.
Buzz Morley's wife says his $2l a month is a myth, even though he is in the finance department at H.Q. & M.P. Cos., gth Division, Barracks No. 1703, Fort Custer, Battle Creek, Mich.. . . .Ed Warren is in training with Company B, Bth Regiment, at Camp Lee, Virginia. Ed says he tried to get in the ski patrol in view of his proclivities in that line the past few years, but they shoved him into the quartermasters corps, where he is learning to be a clerk in a school that allows them text books and notes in the exam. "This is a picnic as a change, with a good bunch of fellows, good equipment and no worries but they keep us very busy and give little sleep, pay, and I miss my old 'expense account' lunches." Prior to his enlistment, Ed was metropolitan advertising manager of Parents Magazine and advertising manager of Baby CareManual.
Red Alcorn, who spoke at a meeting of the Kiwanis Club in Manchester, Conn, last April, is highly regarded in the nutmeg state. Our informant, unconnected with 1930, says, "He's a very swell guy, and all the success he has enjoyed hasn't gone to his noggin. In fact, there is talk around that it won't be long before he might be governor of our fair state, and wouldn't that be a feather." Well, we know a lot of Thirtymen who will agree with those kind words.
SMITHSONIAN REPRINT
Another item from Baker Library informs us of an article by Bill Fenton, "Museum and Field Studies of Iriquois Masks and Ritualism" which has been reprinted from explorations and Field-Work of theSmithsonian Institution in 1940.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob J. Schmukler announce the marriage of their daughter Marjorie Shirley to Mr. Samuel M. Stayman Thursday, the.first of May, nineteen hundred and forty-one at New York City. The bride attended Vanderbilt University and was graduated from Goucher College in 1937.
Jim and Esther Dalglish didn't tell us, but we found out that Meredith Rennels Dalglish was born at the Bryn Mawr Hospital on April 15th, and that her brother, Thomas Killen, was two years old just two weeks later. Jim is associate medical editor with the J. B. Lippincott Publishing Company in Philadelphia and lives in Ithan, Pa.
News has just been received of the death of Wilfried Klamroth Jr., who attended college during our freshman and sophomore years. Details will be found in the Necrology section.
Your executive committee will meet in Hanover during the reunion week-end of June aoth, at which time the class treasurers, secretaries and class agents will also have their annual meetings. This will provide a fine opportunity for an informal gathering of all Thirtymen who can or will be in Hanover at that time and a cordial invitation is extended to every member of the class to be there and take part in a discussion of class activities for the future. It will be appreciated if those who intend to be in Hanover that week-end will advise the secretary in order that arrangements and plans for the meeting may be made. We hope that this June meeting will develop into an annual affair in the periods between reunions.
As we sign off for the summer there are two things we wish for the class of 1930. The first is that our part in the Ernest Martin Hopkins 25th Anniversary Campaign of the Alumni Fund will be the greatest in our career as alumni, with a record of 100% of contributors. The second is that you will continue and increase your correspondence with your scribe so that this will become a better and more interesting column for you all.
Secretary, Simons & French Cos., Inc. 99 Hudson St., New York, N. Y
Class Agent, 1 Federal St., Boston, Mass.
