1932*
This final column will keep the pot a-boiling until your new secretary-chair-man takes leave of the 1932 News-Letter to assume the robes and appurtenances of his office.
Dick Cleaves is in Washington, working for OPA, as are Brandy Marsh and Ben Burch. Brandy recently acquired a bubble house for himself and family in Virginia. Perhaps you saw them in the newsreels—a concrete shell built around a blimp-like base, igloo-fashion. Howie Sargeant has left the National Science Fund to take a post with the office of the Alien Property Custodian. Julia Aline Cardozo was born to the Mike Cardozos on April 12.
A Lieutenant and two privates provide this month's quota of mail from the armed forces. Perhaps by now Lieut. Bud Hubbard of the 14th Cavalry, is seeing more action, but earlier this spring he was embroiled in merchandising. He started his Army career by opening the Post Exchange for the 107 th Cavalry (Jay Whitehair's troop) when they went to Camp Forrest, Tenn. He was transferred to the 14th Cavalry at Fort Riley, and handed the Exchange job again on maneuvers in Louisiana. "I have it again now in Arizona," Bud writes, "and to think that I once wrote the La Salle Extension U. that I couldn't see how a course in Business Management would do me much good in learning to shoot!" Bud's wife and young son drove down to Tucson a week after he arrived, and held a Christmas celebration in his tent—comptete with cactus Christmas tree and trimmings.
Pvt. Ken La Vine, who regretted inability to attend Reunion, is with the Service Co., 305 th Inf., 77th Division, at Fort Jackson, S. C. "The Service Company," Ken writes, "is a mixture of truck drivers, mechanics, clerks, post office men, personnel managers, a CPA (Sherwood '35), and myself, the only lawyer." Ken is in charge of rations for the regiment, though he admits to a little rifle cleaning on the side. He is engaged to Miss Mary Virginia Dailey.
"It began to look as though my number were coming up," writes Pvt. Al Gerould, "so I volunteered for the Ski Troops and was inducted on April Fool's Day. I am still a long way from a ski or even a mountain (April 13) but my 13 weeks' basic training is about to begin and sometime around the middle of August they ought to be moving me to some interesting country in the Cascades or the Rockies. Al is in Co. B, 81st Inf. Tng. Btn., Camp Roberts, Calif.
Warren Hallamore is a Lt. (j.g.) in the U.S.N.R., as is also George Pettengill, in whose blood the Navy tradition runs. Fred Matson is in the 4th Regt., California State Guard, in Los Angeles.
Bill Cole, third secretary of the U. S. embassy in Rome, was among the 279 American diplomatic officers, newspaper correspondents and others who arrived recently on the Swedish ship Drottningholm in an exchange for Axis nationals and officials. Bill's wife, Sally, died in January following an operation, we are sorry to report. Bill will be here for a while on furlough before taking off for his next assignment.
Reuel Denney, now living in Middletown Springs, Vt., has interspersed with this Spring's writing some work with the Volunteer Land Corps; helping to place student labor on farms. It would now be appropriate, Reuel thinks, to write John (Sachem) Keller what really happened ten yearsout, but he hasn't got around to it yet.
Bo Wentworth recently addressed the Controllers Institute of America on wartime protection for personnel and records, which is a subject he knows at first hand. He forwards the news that Bill Harlow is State Guarding, in addition to carrying on his usual functions at the family coal and lumber emporium; that the arrival of Joan Brewster Truex brings the Doc's family membership to four, and that Tom Foss is now stationed at Fort Devens, Mass.
Win Smoyer and Paul Cook held a '32 reunion all their own at the Southern California Dartmouth dinner several months ago. Paul is superintendent of elementary schools of Calipatria, down in the Imperial Valley.
And that's the news from me.
As I said at reunion, this job of secretary has its irksome side—especially when the intervals between letters resemble sevenyear droughts. But it's been exhilarating, too, to chart the course of lives in a fiveyear span as significant for them and for the world as these last five years have been.
Thanks for your letters and cards—even the coy ones with blue and pink ribbons. I hope to see. and hear from many of you before the Fifteenth in Hanover. And this parting word: If you want to lay a wager, but you cannotfind, a taker;If you've sivitched from Teacher's Highland Cream to Calvert or Old Quaker;If your Mrs. wants a wardrobe, and youdon't know how to stake 'er;If you've got a puppy dog and need adviceon how to break 'er;If you've joined the firm of Honey feather,Wimplefuss & Slaker,Or you're serving in the Army somewhereout on Hell's Half Acre,If you've something good to say, or ifyou're just a bellyacher:Write to 210 Moore Street, Princeton,home of Secretary Baker! . . . .which brings us to
Secretary CARLOS H. BAKER
who carries on from here.
It will be hard to match and impossible to exceed the epistolary (and other) virtues of your previous class secretaries. But, though new and very green at the task, I can at any rate spare you symbolic remarks about embarkation on a rough voyage through the storms of time, and turn immediately to the really important business of chronicling your comings, goings, additions, and multiplications (but I hope not divisions and subtractions) within the next few years.
It's a pleasure to begin tenure of office with news of the arrival on June 1, 1942, of little Jack Merrill, born to John and Marian Merrill at the Baker Memorial Hospital, Boston, who weighed in at close to nine pounds, and stood nigh two foot tall. Big John is a salesman for Jordan Marsh.
A similar announcement may be forthcoming later in the summer from Jim Whiton, who meantime is in the process of adding two more newspapers to his Denville (N. J.) Herald, and only recently resigned after 2½ months in the public relations office of the Picatinny Arsenal. Those months wife Elise carried on as Herald editor. Did a good job, too, says Jim.
A card from Fred Leyser indicates that he is assistant principal of the Admiral Billard Academy, New London, Conn., that he and wife Ruth take joy in daughter Carol Ann, aged two. A squib, now a little aged, from the Haverhill Gazette, records that Aarne Frigard is head coach of foot- ball and track, and a member of the faculty at Gloucester (Mass.) High School.
The ever-faithful, ever-newsfull Marv Chandler sends notice of another educator, John Collins, who instructs at Sacramento Junior College, and lives at 2001 24th Street, Lafayette, Cal. Also from Marv is the news that Fred Orner has been promoted from clerk in the Research Dept. of the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. to merchandise supervisor in the Freight Transportation Superintendent's office. Not to be outdone, Marv has just changed jobs, too. He now works, and mighty hard at that, for the Cayuga Construction Corp., which is building an overseas base for the Army. Marv is running their New York office. Says the company name derives from fact that two of its officers used to reside far above Cayuga's waters some years back.
Speaking of activities in the armed forces, there is a card from Lt. (j.g.) Chuck Odegaard, who is on leave from U. of Illinois, and has been on active naval duty since April 16, which was four days after he and Elizabeth celebrated their first wedding anniversary. Word comes that Cap Ireys is on very active duty aboard an airplane carrier somewhere in the Pacific. He may have participated in the recent fracas around Midway. Locke Perkins is a yeoman U. S. N. in training at Great Lakes, Illinois. And Lt. Edward B. Hall can now be found at the Bureau of Personnel (Navy) in Washington.
Other fighting men: Dave Castleman, who was recalled to the colors June first; Ed D'Ancona, inducted late in May; Tom Goggan, who at last reports was at Fort Sam Houston, Texas; Private John Potter, at Camp Lee, Virginia; Ralph Littwin, Lt., MC, USA, Southbury, Conn. Aniello De- Stefano, in the army, and reachable through 9 Trowbridge Street, Belmont, Mass.; Lt. Harold Hubbard, whose home address is 14410 Shaker Blvd., Shaker Hts., Ohio; Lt. Chuck Owsley, with the Army Air Corps, Ground service, has been shuttling back and forth between Miami and other points, but is probably now back in Washington, D. C. The same anthill contains Lt. Nate Pearson. But more service news in the next issue.
The last issue of the Thirty-two Newsletter carried information on the remarkable philoprogenitive achievement of Bill Walton, whose wife's sense of timing was so good that she presented Bill with twin girls around about Reunion time. Recent figures published by the Census Bureau Statisticians indicate that although 2 and a quarter million Americans have the thrill of becoming fathers each year, only about 25,000 can beam through the glass windows of the hospital at twins. The triplet score drops to 274 annually, and quadruplets happen only twice. Our Bill is in a pretty distinctive group.
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GETS MOVIE LEAD Robert B. Ryan '32, heavyweight boxerand football player in his undergraduatedays, has been selected by Pare Lorentz toplay the lead in "Name, Age and Occupa-tion," a film about a typical American manof toil. Former seaman, sandhog, miner,and cowboy, Ryan began his acting careerlast summer in several Eastern stock pro-ductions, following which he appeared o?iBroadway with Tallulah Bankhead in"Clash By Night." "Name, Age and Oc-cupation" is the first commercial enter-tainment picture undertaken by Pare Lo-rentz, former head of the United StatesFilm Service, who produced "The River,""The Plow That Broke the Plains" and"The Fight for Life." It covers the periodfrom 1917 to 1942 and casts Ryan in therole of a top sergeant in World War I.
Secretary, 210 Moore St., Princeton, N. J
