1931*
February is a short month so we will make it a short column. That's the only legitimate excuse I can think of for a short column, aside from the fact that I have very little material.
Before I forget it we reported in the last issue that there would be a New York Class Dinner in February, but we have just been reminded that the New York Dartmouth Dinner is to be held the night of the 19th. Under the circumstances, therefore, we have changed our plans and we will have our dinner March and. The 2nd, by the way, is the night of the ColumbiaDartmouth basketball game and we are planning to take in the game afterwards.
We have just received a letter from Ed Brummer in East Jaffrey, New Hampshire. Ed, you will recall, is the host at Woodbound-on-the-Lake and has just opened for his first winter season. From the little circular he sent out it sounds as though any of you fellows who are interested in winter sports and have a chance to get away to the country for the week-end would have a swell time if you took Ed up on his invitation to gather at his spot. In looking over the schedule you'll find lots to do at a reasonable price, and I am sure Ed would be glad to see you. Ed reports that Don Ewing has just been elected president of the Cheshire County Dartmouth Alumni Association. He and Don get together frequently for some good old-fashioned square dancing. Jack Bean, the originator of the strike-on-the-other-side match box had a booming year in his thriving business.
From up-country way we have a notation from Parker Soule who, as you know, is business manager of this here now publication. He reports that Ralph Hunter, formerly an interne at the Hitchcock Hospital, is in the Navy although his whereabouts at the present time is not known.
From Bill Matteson, of The Travelers in Cincinnati, we get a most welcome letter in which he calls my attention to the fact that Freddie Burkhardt and Violet Andrews were married last August and are now living in Bronxville. Freddie is just around the corner from me but I hadn't known of this. Bill had just come back from a trip to Harrodsburg, Kentucky, about 125 miles from Cincinnati, where he got together with Hart Walter and Chuck and Emmy Hill all of whom were returning from a trip in the Carolinas. Hart is in the Comptrollers Department of Weibolt Stores in Chicago, and Chuck, the last we heard back in 1936, is with the Northwestern Yeast Company as a research chemist.
Freddie and Violet's marriage is the only one we have to report this month, although there have been three youngsters added to our clan. One reported by Bill Knight a daughter, Martha, born last August, which brings Bill's total to three. Bill is in the Electrical Wholesale business in Charleston, West Virginia and, like a lot of the fellows in the Class, is trying to get priorities on some of his merchandise.
Jim Fannin of Fannin and Fannin, attorneys in Fulton, New York, likewise tells of the addition of a daughter, Jeannette, bringing his total to three.
Will and Rosalie Lapidus send word of a daughter, Susan, born late in November.
By the time this is reported Bill Swift in Chicago with the procurement department of the International Harvester, may find himself in the quartermaster's corps of the Army. Although Bill is married, the Army seems to be dickering for his services.
George Conklin, formerly in the construction ]division of the War Department in Washington, is now living in Chelsea, Vermont, and apparently is in business for himself.
In the new homes department, Len Clark and his family have just acquired one in Verona on Elmwood Road. This leaves the half-back twins of Clark and Wolff within a block of one another and they get together very frequently. Len is sales manager of the Birdseye Frosted Foods of Jersey and has quite a job keeping all his customers happy with the Army making increased demands on his product.
It is rarely that we go six or eight months without hearing from Chuck Robinson and we received a fine letter from him the other day. Chuck is now in Denver where we have quite a '3l delegation which includes Johnny Nelson, Bill Grant, Bill Walrath and Merrill Rosengren. Only recently Johnny Nelson and Chuck took in the Dartmouth-Colorado hockey game.
Some of you may be wondering what is going to happen to prospective classes at Hanover and I must admit that I have, too. However, two weeks ago Dick Holbrook, Frank McCord and I interviewed a batch of about ten applicants. In general their plans still seemed to run about the same as those of most boys. They all feel that if they can get two or three years of college under their belt before they are called in the draft, it will be worthwhile, and the College shortening of the curriculum to three years and the elimination of summer vacations seems right up their alley. As a matter of fact, we seemed to feel this was a better bunch than we had interviewed in some time. While the program itself may be curtailed in Hanover, Dartmouth is still going to get its customary fine group of freshmen. If any of you have not been keeping up with the various plans that Hanover has for revising the curriculum to meet the changing conditions, you will find it mighty interesting to do so. I think we have always felt that Dartmouth has been accustomed to lead in the educational programs, and President Hopkins and the faculty are doing a grand job of adjusting the old scheme of things right now.
See you next month—and for heaven's sake if you have a minute, take pen in hand and drop us a note. Otherwise, you will have to read an equally abbreviated column in March. What do you say?
Secretary, Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Cos. 31 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains, N. Y
