1934*
We're winding up this seventh season of 1934 jabber in a glorious burst of procrastination, being at this writing exactly two days behind the Hanover deadline and intoning hymns to the Balch Hill sun that said offering will not end up in Sid Hayward's dead-letter office. Apologies are offered for the small helping, but spring has got us by the seat of the pants, God love it.
The Alumni Fund, our platoon, is making other years look sick, or have you heard all that from Silverman? As far as we can see, when you get down to bare mahogany, the Alumni Fund is something you either give to or you don't, and if you don't your kids can't play with our kids.
Other than the fact that Brabbee, Gruen, Hulsart and Dwyer are taking a house for the summer at Point Lookout, Long Island, and that Scherman has a new Chewy convertible and thinks it ought to count as a fourth child, the news is pretty interesting this month.
Buz Hartman says he's all right now, that he "did have a tough case of typhoid way back in October but recovered in fine shape. So fine that the government is calling me to work some time in June. Am scheduled for motor transport work or to be hooked up to a quartermaster detachment—at some air base, I hope. Was commissioned January as a second lieutenant." .... Bob Corwin is with the 107 th Cavalry, Camp Forest, Tullahoma, Tenn. .... Joe Schuldenfrei trains at Camp Lee, Virginia, learning to be a quartermaster. "Some fun," says Joe. "Hanover all over again, with classes almost all day long. After 13 weeks we are to be moved to some other section of the country." .... Wilbur Powers is a looie in the 211 th Coast Artillery (Anti-Aircraft) at Camp Hulen, Texas.
Dr. Sig Stern, of the U. S. A. Medical Corps, Borinquen Field, Porto Rico, recently flew over to Miami and had a birds-eye view of Cuba, Haiti and San Domingo en route.... John (what do they call him now instead of Juny) Kneisel, till recently at Boston's Peter Brent Brigham Hospital, is now an M.D. at Children's H Bill Goergen is a medico at the Orthopedic Hospital, Lincoln, Nebraska Dr. Irv (Who's that behind you?) Silverman belongs to the staff of New York's Willard Parker Hospital. .... Paul Magnuson interns at Roosevelt Hospital, N. Y. C.
Two Engagements: Nancy Porter, of Northwestern U. and Evanston, 111., to Dick Hayes, for a fall wedding And Priscilla Chamberlin, of Winchester, Mass. and Smith '37, to Stan Neill, for a June wedding.
A Wedding: Juliet Forbes and Carl Hess were married May 1 in New York, tarried only long enough for some brief hellos, then to Chicago.
And A Baby: Deborah Jane Frankel, born April 18, to Lois and Moe Frankel.
Jack Feth authored a piece called Camera! appearing in the April issue of the College Publicity Digest, selling the advantages of movies as a publicity medium for universities The Herald-Nathan Press is now the Herald Square Press, and its new president is Wilfred Maynard. .... John Fernald is "still juggling test tubes for Lever Brothers, in Cambridge." .... John Hoyt lives in Houston, Texas. .... Bob Bennett lists as a salesman for Hall Bros., Kansas City, lives in Ann Arbor George Donehue has moved his Liberty Mutual auditing to Rockefeller Center, N. Y. C. . . . Bob Goodman resides and works as a realtor in Norfolk Mac Collins commutes from White Plains now instead of Elmhurst Bill Gay lately changed his Hollywood connections from CBS to William Esty & Cos.
Merrill Heald has been in the law department of U. S. Steel, Pittsburgh, for the past two years Bill Barrett is now an "educational radio program producer" in Youngstown, Ohio Perry Woodbury lists as "assistant to the assistant treasurer of R.C.A." .... Fritz Mosher goes to Washington's Munitions Bldg. every morning at 9, being an administrative analyst in the U. S. Air Corps Karl Maas carries the title of District Manager, in the Buffalo sector, for the Heil Cos Merrill Dubay, till recently with Street & Smith (Remember Frank Merriwell? Well, now they publish Mademoiselle), is now with the Georgia News Cos., but still in Atlanta
More Short Stuff Dan Taggart's business is the J. W. & A. P. Howard Cos., Corry, Pa Ben Piatt is assistant sales manager of the Lithographic Cos., in New York Long Bob Smith's working address is the Monroe Laundry, Monroe, N. Y Eliot Thomas practices law in Philadelphia Mel Earl's interests center about the Multigraph Cos. in that same city Frank Spain is in the wholesale grocery business in Boston.
Facetiously we speculate on what a Time Study Engineer does at the Maiden Form Brassiere Cos., but whatever it is Bernard Loveman does it, and in Bayonne. .... Not having been in Asbury Park, N. J., since it consisted of a ferris wheel and two frankfurter stands, we are not a little surprised that it supports a lawyerwhose name is Amos Kraybill Fred Rath is a government historian, located at Vicksburg National Military Park, and still hasn't written us that acrimonious letter that would need The Gripes of Rath for a head. (Joke ) Don Mahoney is in Boston with Liberty Mutual Somehow we can't get Thor Fraser straight as between Chicago and Boise, Idaho Mickey Bloom handles sea food in Gloucester, which has always been our vote for New England's prettiest town.
Ten thousand good summers wrapped into one is the wish of this scribe to all those present.
Secretary, 126 Beaufort Place, New Rochelle, N. Y.
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