1932*

My husband has placed a typewriter and a bunch of letters before me, given me an imploring look, and gone to a meeting. I think he wants me to write up the class notes, so here we go. I see that last month he got down the map as far as Pennsylvania so I shall just keep on going south and then if there's time, veer westward. Baltimore comes first with a letter from Don McPha.il who since this fall is Baltimore City golf champion. Don is manager of the Lead Products Dept. of the American Smelting and Refining Co.. a job which is entirely directed to defense and armament work. Priorities on golf balls being what they are, he found time to drive down to see the Georgia game with Don MacPhail, thereby baffling the local alumni (and me). "We" says he (is this the royal, editorial or schizophrenic pronoun?) "sat next to Hank Kingdon, and Ben Read was chairman of the smoker in Atlanta before the game." Paul Leach is a new arrival in Baltimore and Axel Young is there with the United Fruit Company.

From Washington where there seems to be plenty of news comes a letter from Robert Ackerberg on N.L.R.B. notepaper. Bob has been working for Uncle Sam as a trial lawyer since the middle of October and finds the work enjoyable and plentiful. He and his wife live at Taylor D-12, President Garden Apartments, Alexandria, Va. He reports that Ray and Fran Brookby are proud parents, but of what (boy or girl) he doesn't know. He attends a lively alumni group lunch every Tuesday, at the Annapolis Hotel, noting as also occasionally present Sam Englander, Jack Pyles, and Ben Burch. He has also had fleeting glimpses around town of Dave Stern,Chuck Owsley, John Clark (hello John, ique tal?), Mike Isaacs and somebody from the Department of Labor whose name he can't remember.

The next letter from a Washington dateline comes from Buckley of the Dept. of Labor. (Can this be the gentleman whose name escaped Bob?) He has been on the Solicitor's staff of this department since December 1939 involved in litigation work over the child labor division of the Wage and Hour Law. He and Mark Short, who is also in the Wage and Hour Division, constitute the entire Dartmouth delegation in the Dept. of Labor. Bob writes that he has seen Bob Smith, who is pursuing his hobby of preserving the life of fish and game by working in the Dept. of Agriculture, a job that takes him around the country a great deal.... that Bill Brister, who has since left on a Central American Junket for the Rockefeller agency (practically a Dartmouth monopoly), came a-calling with his wife and son. The latter is a replica of his dad and a good future prospect for McLaughry. The Buckleys ran into John and Peg Swenson en route for a Nantucket vacation last August and had a grand time together. As Sam Allen is about to don a U. S. Navy uniform they feel that the seas will be safe for a return visit next summer. In Boston Bob ran into Phil Burleigh. There he learned, from Phil as a matter of fact, that Terry Logan is doing very well and has built a new home in Milton, Mass. Paul Fox, an erstwhile Washingtonian now back in New York, is, since December 6, the proud father of one Paul Junior. BainDavis has moved from Virginia to Maryland but is still doing business with the State Dept Chuck Owsley is back again in the army as a sergeant JoeSawyer who is living in McLean, Va., is selling business machines to the Government in competition with Bob House and that's all from Buckley.

Next comes news from Mike Cardozo, Buckley's neighbor (they ride into town together). Mike rounds out our now pretty complete knowledge of Buckley's life by informing us that Bob is chief air raid warden of a section of Buckingham community, Arlington County. Mike has seen Red Tucker, now at the F. D. I. C. (Federal Depositors Insurance Corp., in case you didn't know) but "watch him closely" says he. In N. Y. he saw Chuck Maxwell still filling a good berth at Breed, Abbott and Morgan, legal advisors to "corporate and substantial clients." Mike himself is working for the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, also Mike Isaacs' client. Young Cardozo Jr. is twenty-one months old and fun to have, writes his father.

The last letter on the Washington pile comes from Charles Lewis (Pete) Knight, landscape architect of Cleveland, Ohio, who, the eve war was declared was whisked to the capital to help on the vast new War Dept. building going up in Arlington. It will house a lot of workers. What with many huge steam shovels and a whole fleet of 14-ton dirt movers to keep busy, Pete says he mostly resembles the ostrich, as far as seeing any of the lads goes. As soon as this job is finished he hustles off to another defense housing project in Indiana "3500 units and a complete town to this one in contrast to the two 500 unit jobs we finished last year." Pete is full of praise for the housing contractors on government jobs and thinks the way this work is being done gives one faith in the future of the land.

That seems to cover Washington pretty thoroughly for the time being and we move on to Charleston, S. C., where Dr. SeymourJacobson is a member of the surgical staff of Stark General Hospital. This is a thousand-bed Army institution which cares for chronic and diagnostic problem patients from the surrounding army camps such as Forts Jackson and Bragg, Savannah air base, Camp Forrest, etc., etc. In February, if all went according to plan, Sey will have gone to Philadelphia and emerged from the Graduate School of Surgery of the U. of Penn. as a Master of Science in surgery. He writes that he is in regular correspondence with Herb Friedman, M.D. who is now down in the Canal Zone with a medical outfit. While we are on the subject of doctors, by the way, a card is at hand from Ralph Elias who announces the interruption of his practice due to entry in the army. He is Ist Lt. M.C. 7th Ev. Hosp. (P.G. Unit).

News from the deep south comes in a letter from Jack Eames, whose temporary headquarters are 3120 N. Blvd., Baton Rouge, La., where he is on business. Jack got married on Nov. 8 to Miss Margaret Barber of Newton Center, Mass., and by way of honeymoon drove leisurely down to Louisiana taking in the scenic highspots.

There is a very interesting letter here from Jim Wakelin, who is senior physicist in the Physical Research dept. of the Goodrich Rubber Cos. at Akron, Ohio. The work he has been doing to date has been on the structure of rubber, synthetic materials, etc., from a molecular standpoint. The "pure" research that he is engaged in will mean a great deal, industrially, when they get into the synthetic rubber field entirely. A step to the credit of the Goodrich research dept. was the manufacture last year of the first totally synthetic rubber tires, and their ability to produce them now, softens somewhat the blow from the East Indies. In his spare hours Jim writes that "a group of us interested in sailing and navigation are giving a brush-up course in piloting, seamanship and celestial navigation for men who are up for officer's commissions in the Naval Reserve. It is all very good for us." And for them too, I should think. In Akron he sees Jim Miller at odd moments, mostly at the Y. where he "usually has the squash court when I want it."

From Detroit, Lou Heavenrich writes "I am a small cog in the wheels of Detroit's defense (or offense) industry—time and motion study supervisor for a metal stamping plant which is now engaged almost entirely on direct government contracts....

we have been working six and seven days a week and I am glad to say we are delivering the goods." There is a clipping here from the Flint, Mich., journal to the effect that another Heavenrich, this one Max P. "has resigned as director of the City and County Economy Assn. at Superior, Wisconsin, to become Director of Governmental Research for the Citizens Good Gov't Assn. at St. Joseph, Mo., a city of 75,000 population." From Chicago, CarlMcGowan writes that he is going to Washington on a leave of absence from Northwestern University School of Law to be with the Navy Dept., Bureau of Ships.

Abandoning all semblance of a leisurely cross country trek, I shall now give you news from Stockton, California, sent in by Al Gerould. A 1 says "I am still one of those increasingly rare birds,—male, single and civilian, but there's no telling how long I'll stay that way. I seem to be in perfect health. Meantime I'm doing things like teaching a course in winter mountaineering for the Sierra Club, which is trying to provide the Army with a few mountaineers."

Before winding up, here are a few miscellaneous items I have managed to corral. In the engagement field—Ken LaVine's betrothal to Miss Mary Virginia Dailey of Rochester, N. Y. was announced at the end of December. Miss Dailey is a graduate of Manhattanville College. Ken is with Curtis, Mallet, Prevost, Colt & Mosle, attorneys. In the baby field, I don't believe that the advent of the Denney heir was ever written up. Reuel's young hopeful who is spending his first year with his parents in Middletown Springs, Vt., was born in July and is called Randy, short for Randall John Keller dropped in to see us the other day. He was in New York being immunized against anything you can think of before going off to work at one of Uncle Sam's defense outposts as assistant property accountant in a construction outfit. .... Carl Baker was a participant at the recent meeting of the Modern Language Association in Indianapolis Bob Ryan, after a New York run in "Clash by Night," is off to Hollywood and a very interesting assignment, which I don't think I'm supposed to mention just yet. Anyway you'll be seeing his name in lights soon DickHazen is also doing a Central American stint. His job is to cement inter-American relations through sanitary engineering.

Well, here is Ed back from his meeting and with a word for you. By the way, this job is a breeze. Any takers for next year?

The returns aren't all in yet on Dick Hazen's Reunion questionnaire, but the results to date are about what could be predicted at this stage of the game. A goodly number are planning to be on hand; many are not sure, and a substantial group express regrets that they won't be able to be present on the week-end of May 15-16-17. Your reunion committee is operating as flexibly as possible, and avoiding any advance commitments, in making plans for the occasion. To aid in gauging likely attendance, will you drop a card to Dick at 25 W. 43rd, N. Y., if you haven't already done so, letting him have your best guess on whether you can make it.

Thanks, Maggie, for batting this out (perilously close to the deadline), and thanks, letter-writers, for all the news. More next month.

Secretary, 50 East 10th Street, New York, N. Y,