1924
After lessons at the feet of another class secretary, reading a ninety-page manual and digging into our class records, it faintly dawns on this new incumbent how much work is entailed in keeping these records and preparing the notes for the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Shades of Shirl Austin, Spud Spaulding and Jeff Adams. What they must have suffered! serving as class secretaries. They deserve the thanks of everyone in the class.
COMING EVENTS: Informal get-together after the Columbia Game, November 25, at the Dartmouth Club, 37 East 39th Street. Drop in for a minute or an hour. Bring your wife and children. Let's talk over old times, and begin getting the families acquainted.
PENN GAME: Among those who braved the eighty-degree temperature to witness an up and coming Dartmouth team take a trimming from a superior Penn team were Smoke Smith and his wife, who journeyed from New York. .... Eddie Obert, who managed to find time to leave his veterinary practice in New Egypt, N. J The Haws family, Les, Lois, and Charlie, a prospect for the 1952 Dartmouth football team. While Les kept busy at his law practice this summer in Ambler, Lois turned farmer in Maine on the Haws island near Brunswick. Their farm Ford was seen passing through Worcester laden down to the axles with home-canned food for the winter. Ed Mansure from Chicago, managed to find some business to take him to Philadelphia just at that time Bob Hall, who manages a Grant store at Burlington, N.J Bill Patten and wife, who were there with the Robinsons '25..... Naval Lieutenant Ev Kibbe, who is stationed in Philadelphia and commutes to his home in Drexel Hill every evening.
Jerry Wheeler went out West following his graduation, to study geology first hand. Later he received his Ph.D. at Columbia, where ,he met Mrs. Wheeler. He taught at Rutgers for a time, and today is chief geologist for the City of New York. Their address is, Milligan Place, the quaintest and shortest street in the Greenwich Village section of New York.
The man of the month is Harry "Buster" Mills, who is chairman of the Vocational Committee for the Metropolitan area (Fred Shaneman's Committee). He has organized a large group covering every profession and industry, who will form a panel of men to interview and advise returning servicemen, and help place them in satisfactory jobs. They have -already placed a number of boys and Harry claims he is getting a big kick out of this work. When Harry left college he took a position with the wholesale firm of Brown & Durell, and worked his way up until he became an expert authority on hosiery. He was grabbed by the Penney Co. twelve years ago, and today is their hosiery buyer and one of their top executives. Harry's interests are his wife and four children. He summers in Rye, where he takes a part in the town's civic affairs, and for recreation plays golf at the Westchester Country Club. In the winter the Mills reside in New York, sojourning to Flor- ida, in pre-war days. He is a member of the Dartmouth club and is on their squash team. His address is J. C. Penney Co., 330 West 34th Street, New York.
Just a word about the new treasurer Dick Henry, who reports a very satisfactory reply to the bills sent out recently. Don't be stingy with information either. Enclose the latest news of your activities when you send him your check. Dick has worked hard in this chosen profession, accounting, and today is a partner in the well-known firm of Niles and Nilesi. He lives in Madison, N. J., with his wife and two boys, three and six years old and still plays golf the way he did in college, in the low seventies. On October 7, he won the club champion- ship at the Baltusrol Golf Club.
Jim Wheaton, now Lieutenant Colonel Wheaton of the Army Air Corps, is doing personnel work in England. His wife and three children are keeping the home fires burning in Montclair. Hank Hartshorn, baby carriage manufacturer in Gardner, Mass., was in town about ten days ago—business and pleasure—reporting that business was the best ever—a critical occupation!
It is not strange that classmates should marry sisters, and we are wondering if there are many examples in 1924 besides that pair, the two classmates Johnny Woodbridge „ and Hal Springborn, who married sisters, live in Westchester, and each have two children. Johnny is a banker with the Irving Trust Co., and Hal is the managing editor of the Robbins Publishing Co.... A. J. Liebling, author, war correspondent, and staff writer for the NewYorker, has just arrived in Paris for the magazine. See his column "Letter from Paris" September 9, and September 23 issues. They are excellent. He will return to this country around the first of December, and we have great hopes of including an account of his experiences in Paris sometime soon. Besides his best-known and most recent book, The Road Back to Paris he has written a number of others including, The Telephone Booth Indian.
The new class officers will bear repetition. Your executive committee in the absence of a reunion, functioned as an elective body and voted in the following: Spud Spaulding, Chairman; White and Henry as named; Mike Watkins, Alumni Fund Agent; Ax Coffin, Reunion Chairman; Fred Shaneman 25th Year Gift Fund Chairman (with Brad Hersey, Harry Mills, Bill Buettner and Pete Wheatley his cohorts); and an Executive Committee of the above officers plus chairmen; and Vim Heegard, Jim Henretta, Kip Higley, Jeff Adams, Luit Luit- weiler, Bob Strong, and Pete Wheatley as Chairman.
Secretary, 70 Fifth Ave., New York 11, N. Y Treasurer, Niles & Niles 165 Broadway, New York, N. Y.
