1932*
The mailbag is full this month, for once. We'll start 'round the map as time and space will allow, beginning Way Down East.
MAINE—"If it cooled off here a little more the railroad rails would have shrunk," writes Pete Sawyer from Houlton. "Twenty below on the 7th, and thirty-two on the Bth, and I'd picked those days for some line work—rerunning an old line to keep the pulp cutters on the proper ground." Pete says that high grade yellow birch veneer logs are being cut in quantity for England to use in airplane manufacture. The veneer is sliced 84 sheets to the inch. In the defense program he is working with local committees and giving time to scout work. "Keeping the home farm going for myself and my brothers eats up my other spare moments, with potatoes, beef and hay to mature and market."
NEW HAMPSHIRE Ptoi. Louis Benezet of Dartmouth's Department of Education relays word that Rog, in Hawaii, is "well and happy"—not happy, however, about what the Japanese did to his associates. His two bosses have been Harrie Muchemore '04 and Gus Ayres 'O6, and he has been sent by them all over the Pacificeven, at one point, to Samoa. Rog worked in Honolulu in 1938-39, then returned to the Coast for a year, making the trip with a veteran Latvian sea captain in a 30-foot ketch which the Captain had built. The trip took six weeks—two weeks longer than expected—when they ran into storms first and then a long period of calms so that they drifted almost up to Alaska before they hit a breeze in the right direction. In July, 1940, Rog went back to the islands on defense work, and has been there since.
VERMONT—Cap Cappio sends a Christmas card with a picture of his young son, reports Montpelier more of a "deserto" than Hanover. Cap had word recently from Chan Griggs in Anchorage, Alaska, where he builds airfields and such for the Civil Aeronautics Authority. Clarence Willey teaches at Norwich and is also a technical advisor to the Vermont Merit System Council.
MASSACHUSETTS—BiII Sumner has been Evening Traffic Manager in the Boston Toll Office of the New England Tel. & Tel. since June. Bill lives in Reading, Mass., with his wife and son and sees fewer classmates than brother-in-law John Swenson in Concord, N. H. where the big John Swenson Granite Company sign plainly confronts the motorist on the Daniel Webster Highway. Bill writes that Jim Brown, now practicing in Concord, spent most of the fall trying to break a beautiful hound to the gun, but without avail. His hobby is either hunting birds or attending field trials where he has become very adept at photographing dogs in action. JunieHawkes and family live in Watertown, Mass. "If anybody is in need of golf balls next summer, page Hawkes," Bill writes. "His homestead borders on the Oakly Country Club and last summer nearly every night he could go out in his back yard and salvage a dozen golf balls from beneath the rows of radishes, onions, tomatoes, etc he is a gardener of the best variety."
... .Jack George is still teaching ancient history in Haverhill High School, having received his Master of Education degree from B. U. in 1941. He is president of the teacher's credit union, active in health education, air raid precaution and other defense work. Jack forwards a few items: Dick Dixon in North Chelmsford manages his father's wool scouring mill. JohnnyJohnson is in charge of the shipping room at the same plant. Buster Sails is teaching in Norton. Arnie Frigard scouts for the Gloucester H. S. football team.
CONNECTICUT—Dick Beck in Westport still holds down the job he stepped into three days after graduation as chemist with the Embalmers' Supply Cos. "The care of the dead being rather essential," Dick writes, "I like to think of myself as doing my bit on the home front in protecting the health of those around us." Locke Perkins is a successful lawyer in Austin, Minn., and since Dec. 29, a married man. The bride—a young lady from Duluth.
.... From New Haven comes the glad word that Don Allen is engaged to Catharine Cochrane of Quincy, Mass. Miss Cochrane is a graduate of State Teachers' College, Framingham, Mass. Don is at present in Graduate School at Yale.
NEW YORK—Middletown. Jack Per-rino has just produced Days at Dartmouth, a memorial to Americo Secondo De Masi, who died in the 1934 Theta Chi tragedy. The book consists of letters written by De Masi while he was a student at college. On July 26 the Perrinos also produced John Americo, who is reported doing splendidly. Jack divides his time between a package store (wines and liquors) and a small neighborhood grocery store. The biggest headaches, he writes, are liquor price wars and the huge A. & P. Supermarket.
... .Rochester. Jack Hall still carries on for Kodak "Mother of Men," and has a wife and two daughters. Ted Barry, he informs us, is with International Business Machines Corp.
NEW JERSEY—Fred White officiated as best man at the wedding of Bob McKenna and Alice Mooney of New York, which took place last summer. Doc Elias was also on hand to strew rice and old shoes. "I wasn't invited on the honeymoon," Fred writes, "but popped in on them a couple of months ago in Miami. Bob is teaching law at Miami U., and, in a negative sort of way, takes partial credit for their excellent football team. He claims he has never flunked a good athlete." BillDavis' new address is 376 Park Ave., East Orange. He and Fred represent the class at occasional round robin poker sessions held locally. Fred continues with the telephone company.
....Walter H. (Butch) Modarelli Jr., new item as of Aug. 4, 1941, is described by his father as "1714 pounds of bone and muscle, plus perpetual motion." Butch Sr., has completed his first year in Union City, and reports that the general practice of medicine goes along fine. Bill Britten works for the Hoffman Beverage Cos. and has two daughters, the more recent born this past summer. Butch has also seen Medics Roberts, Roe and Dickey. The lastnamed, it turns out, is quite an airplane enthusiast, though it's Butch's guess that he'll be grounded for the duration. The Roberts household in Watkins Glen, has a baby girl, Judith. Butch threatens to cross the Hudson one day to see Wilkin,Pettengill, Collins and others.
PENNSYLVANIA—Dr. Milton Lieberthal of Germantown announces the birth of David Henry in late October "mother doing well, daddy's shoulders slightly stooped." Milt is now specializing in gastroenterology.
... .Nate Pearson is still with the market research division of U. S. Steel, though his job takes him out of town a good part of the time these days. Nate lives with three other lads in Sewickley, a suburb of Pittsburgh, where Mort Burden also resides. When in New York recently he saw Art Allen, Jim Tomlinson and Fred Gage.
(How about news from some of the other states?)
REUNION
In line with the telescoping of the College calendar, Commencement has been moved up to May 10, 1942, and all Class Reunions including 1933's have been shifted accordingly to the week-end of May 15, 16, 17. Dick Hazen, Reunion Chairman, has made the following comment concerning plans for the occasion:
"It is hard to think seriously of Reunion in the face of war conditions, but we are determined to put on as good a show as possible. Most people have to relax a little, and what better place to do it than Hanover? Actual detailed plans will be held up until March or April because it is impossible to make commitments now for something several months hence. You will be kept posted on developments through the ALUMNI MAGAZINE and special bulletins as plans are developed. Keep the week-end free. Something may happen to prevent your going, but until it does happen, plan to be in Hanover."
THIS WAS THE CABIN AND TRAIL GROUP OF THE OUTING CLUB WHEN THE CLASS OF 1932 WERE SENIORS
Secretary, 50 East 10th Street, New York, N. Y
