1935
The leaves have stopped their crazy zigzagging down through the trees. The first snow has scattered a few feathery patches over the campus. But the skies are still blue. The pines still wear their dark green where they stand clustered along the esker overlooking the Connecticut. We are approaching winter. It calls to mind the many long evenings spent before the fire in the fraternity house. Or standing on the corner waiting for Liberty to round up enough passengers for a trip to White River or the Junk. Liberty and his small brown pomeranian that he wore like a fur muff. No matter "what your problem he knew all the places to go. The jangle of his sidewalk telephone kept the C & G House awake most of the night. And its echos aroused the occupants of College Hall across the way whose freshman viewpoint on life was first tempered by the taxi-driver philosophy.
A long letter from Dave Smith in San Fran cisco starts us off this month:
I hereby wish to advise you that the first Class Luncheon was held on September 16 at the University Club with 100% attendance plus a guest. Those present included Halsey Loder, Jack Gilchrist and myself. As far as I can determine, Halsey is the only other '35er in this area so I don't think it will be too difficult to get once a month. Gillie showed up on Friday the thirteenth, unannounced, and you can imagine our surprise when we heard his voice over the telephone. He spent the weekend at the house and we had a great time covering the events that have taken place in the last eleven years. He is now on terminal leave, drove out to Phoenix with his brother, then on to Los Angeles and up here through the courtesy of NATS. He returned East last week and I believe plans to spend a week or so on the Maryland coast returning to Cleveland and settling down to practise law.
Halsey Loder decided to settle out here after spending some time in these parts while in the service. At the moment he is studying for the state bar exams, although he admits he doesn't know what he wants to do. He may not practise law but he thinks it would be a good idea to be admitted to the bar anyway. Bill Gahagan, who has been here for many years now, is, according to a newspaper report, being transferred by the State Department to Havana. As you may recall during the war he was with the 0.W.1, and later was transferred to the State Dept., where he handled publicity on visiting dignitaries.
Since starting this letter I have found that there is another '35er in town, Herb Van Doom. The last time I saw Herb was in August, 1944, when he was in charge of the Marines who inspected my baggage at the clocks when I was leaving for the Hawaiian Islands. Soon after that he went to sea as a transport officer and returned to these parts.around the first of the year. He got out of the Navy in July and is now in business with another Dutchman. They call the firm Tevan Sales and are located at Room 520, 1095 Market Street, San francisco. They are manufacturers' representatives selling children's things, soft goods, hard goods, and anything else they can find to sell that somebody else wants to buy.
A word from Bunny Deutsch:
I am now living at the Pontchartrain Apartment Hotel, New Orleans. I am trying to divest myself of much of the misconceptions, misinformation and erroneous dope which I acquired in the Navy, and apply the correct stuff to the practise of Admiralty Law. Not only are my family and I wrestling with the housing problem but the situation presented by my father's return from the Army has complicated desk space in our law offices. Floor stretchers and wall wideners would come in very handy here.
A few weeks ago the Northern New Jersey Alumni Dinner was held at the Montclair Golf Club with President Dickey as guest speaker. Frank Specht graciously took it upon himself to report all official facts for the benefit of the column. Benefit or not, here they are: Carl Funke moved from Caldwell to Upper Montclair a few months ago. He has his own business in New York and New Jersey making laces, embroidery and quilting. (A handy man with a needle, we'll bet.) He has three boys aged 61/2, 51/2 and 31/2 and one girl 6 months old. To take care of his descendants he has bought a 100 acre farm just outside of Hackettstown, N. J., which he is planning to use for general farming, raising, among other things, kids. Frank Allen attended, too. He has one boy, Richard, two years old, and works for a family concern selling and designing sugar machinery. If the sugar I'm not getting in my morning coffee these days is any indication of business, Frank can take himself a good long vacation. And Bob Neill, another Montclair resident. He's modest and wouldn't talk about it, but good authority said he had been winning all the tennis championships in New. Jersey this season. He's still single, you know, and when you're single you can do those things. Hal Ritter was there. He lives in East Orange and is a buyer of electrical appliances for Bamberger's Department Store in Newark. Hal took his 21/2-year-old son to Hanover this summer to give him his first look and break him in early. Don Cameron and George Colton came down from Hanover to attend the meeting and carry on other college business in these, parts. Those two are always bobbing up someplace. Apparently they don't live in Hanover; they just pass through it between trips.
Anyone visiting Chicago should contact Ted Harbaugh at the Libby Glass Co., 1582 Merchandise Mart. He can tip you off as to the when and where of the weekly luncheons, where you can run into such regulars as Huck, Wright, Kreer and Kingery. Hugh Wolff, who I assumed had returned to Chicago and settled down like any normal individual, turns out to have beaten his way back to Germany where he is helping with the occupation. Hugh is occupying a civil service administrative position in Berlin.
What's new at the Stork Club: Fred Howard Croninger. 11l reached Schenectady, N. Y., on August 4, 1946 On September 12, John Figgis Jewett Jr., arrived in the Boston Lying-in Hospital where his daddy had just begun/doctoring on September 1. John also ran into Dr. Johnny Morrison when they were both applying for their licenses to practise in Massachusetts. The latter is an attending obstetrician a.t the Massachusetts Memorial Hospital, Boston.
And it's a double-header with the Al Brushes of Beechhurst, L. I. Twin boys were born on August 22 and named Donald and Robert. With David not quite two, Al says the Brush nursery is really working overtime these nights. (A "Fuller Brush" Nursery could be his motto! OK, I'm ducking.)
A card from Ed Dyer announces the opening of an office for the practise of pediatrics at 330 Dartmouth St., Boston. And remember, pediatrics isn't when your feet bother you; it's when your children do.
A news clipping: Frank Hermes, of the sales staff of Newsweek, has been named director of media of Federal Advertising Agency, New York City.
Another: Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Konoff of Riverside Drive, and Deal, N. J., have an nounced the engagement of their daughter, Evelyn, to Dr. Jules H. Bromberg of Newark. The wedding will take place in the autumn. Jules is now a fellow in Radiation Therapy at Bellevue Hospital. He previously served in the Army Medical Corps for four years, three of them in Africa and Europe, and was discharged with the rank of major.
And another: Duke Lansberry, after spending his entire terminal leave plus much extra in Florida sunshine, is now working for the Ford Motor Company in Detroit. He is still a bachelor. (Obviously, or he would not have spent his entire terminal leave plus, etc., etc.)
Well, gentlemen, that covers the news front for another month. If you are interested in your local activities check your nearest Executive Council member. In Boston, Dick Muzzy or Ralph Colby. In New York, Bob Hage. In Chicago, Ted Harbaugh. In Washington, D. C., Jim Berkey. In St. Louis, Boyd Rogers. In San Francisco, Dave Smith. And in Hanover, Don and George.
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