1932
It is my sad duty to record the fact that Johnny Nutter died on April 29th in New York City. The cause was coronary thrombosis, and Johnny was only thirty-two years old. Frank Eggleston has prepared the obituary notice which appears elsewhere in this issue. Johnny is going to be missed, both by Radio City Music Hall, where, as assistant stage manager he bossed the precision-chorus ladies around, and by all those many friends he had made in and out of the Dartmouth circle. Thirty-twoters who took geology as a gut course in their sophomore year will remember Johnny's disgust with the chore of field work. I can still see Johnny laboriously crawling up the steep bank of clay-varves beside Mink Brook in the midst of one of those field trips when Doc Goldthwait ran the britches off skinnier men than Johnny. And I can still see the grin breaking over John's face when Appy Apthorp told him that as he crawled up the mudbank he was a good example of one-man erosion. My none-too-retentive memory suggests several other pictures: Johnny playing "Piccolo Pete" as a solo with the College Band; Johnny at the Old Timer's picnic making the hills echo to his fine tenor.
News from the fighting fronts of the world includes the following promotions: Sonny Foley, who is Somewhere in Africa cleaning up on the Axis, has recently become a captain. Elevated to first lieutenancies, very deservedly, were Steve Butterfield and Tom Wollaeger. Capt. N. H. Wentworth was still awaiting a call to foreign service as of early May. In sending in a generous check for her husband's Alumni Fund contribution, Eleanor Marcus says her husband will reimburse her for same, but can't do so yet because he has no account with the North Pole National Bank. Lt. Marcus' letter on a snowshoe hunt for rabbits was contained in the last number of this MAGAZINE. My local undergraduate informant, who has the distinction of being a fellow-townsman of Red Drake, presents a clipping from the Auburn (N. Y.) Bugle: "Harold Drake has finished his basic training and is now a candidate assigned to 23rd Battery, 0.C.D.. A.A.S., Camp Davis, North Carolina." Bill Harlow is with the U. S. Army, and can be reached through 28 Albion Street, Hyde Park, Mass.
Engaged in cooking Hitler's goose, And savoring drops of oily gravy Are several of our Thirty-Two's Who proudly joined the U. S. Navy.
Among the boys in blue and white with a background of Dartmouth green are Lt. Bob Gould, who can be reached via Neck Road, Old Lyme, Connecticut; and Lt. Ben Burrill, who can be reached in care of 85 Maolis Ave., Bloomfield, N. J. News also arrives that on March 29th (no April Fool, he) Ensign Ben Hill insisted that he meant what he said when he asked the hand of Helen Dunshee some time back. Ben nipped down to Rochester, New York, and at Christ Church, in nearby Albion, in a four-o'clock ceremony, he glanced nervously up to see a vision in Chantilly lace moving down the aisle. For those who have never married, it should be explained that this was Helen, and she shore did look lovely. Helen is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, and at her groom's behest is currently devising complex versions of "Over the Bounding Main," and "Anchors Aweigh." To Helen and Ben, all good wishes.
Beagle Carleton, never a man to stay away too long from the Atlantic scallop, that most succulent of morsels, has lately moved from Winchester to Scituate, Mass., where he will continue to turn out his newsletters, those most succulent verbal morsels, served up on a green leaf for the edification of classmates.
Chuck Brooks is office manager of Kingsboro Silk Mills in Daisy, Tenn. Harris Burrows serves as branch manager for Lamont-Corliss and Company in Chicago, maintaining domestic headquarters at 540 Sheridan Road, Evanston. Ted Ellis emerges into morning light from 443 Beach 122 nd Street, Rockaway Park, New York. Bill Peck's new address is 167 St. James Place, Buffalo. Jack Prentice now lives at 805 Vine St., Kent, Ohio. Dr. Stan Yudicky can be reached through Mrs. E. J. Wright, 5539 Quincy, Chicago. Fred Mayes is manager for Continental Casualty Company, but lives in Jersey, 39 Norman Rd., Upper Montclair. Ev Stuhrman has what sounds like an interesting job with Aviation Transport Operations, Rubber Development Corporation, Washington, D. C. And Dr. Jack Griffin has a fine spot for his bride at 1 Plaza Street,^Brooklyn. Or is that the office, Jack? Gene Fitch is at 1028 Sheridan Road, Evanston.
Keep the home-fires burning, the bombs dropping, and the Alumni Fund rolling in. Time to discard your ice-skates and to debeetle your swiss chard.
Secretary, 178 Prospect Ave., Princeton, N. J. Class Agent, Stratton Road, New Rochelle, N. Y.
