1935
Another month, another column, and, thank God, a stack of mail at my right elbow. There's nothing like mail to gladden a secretary's heart, so keep on gladdening me, friends. Had a visit from Mink Hawley the other day. He was down to the big city for an educational conference being as how he is educating and coaching at his old prep school, Williston Academy in Easthampton, Mass. The Hawleys have just secured themselves a house near the school in which to raise little Minks. Mink, by the way, was with the Red Cross as a field director for eighteen months, subsequently joining up as a Warrant Officer in the Air Corps and spending a year or so in the Pacific with an Air-Sea Rescue outfit.
Ralph Specht (narrower of beam, no mole on lip, otherwise same as Frank) is our official Philadelphia correspondent whether he knows it or not. And so far the only classmate he has been able to round up is Bud McClarin. They attended a pre-Penn game smoker together. Keep hunting though, Ralph, there must be more of the same in those woods. Another medical report has been filed on brother Naramore, the Bridgeport ankle-breaker. He has shed his cast and is learning to walk again a slow, painful process" he laments. He was seen in Hanover on Harvard weekend making practical use of his senior cane. (A box of salt tears and a kiddie kar to you, Robert). Relayed via Don Cameron: "Bud Hinman wrote me from Columbus where he was enjoying terminal leave and conducting a family reunion, particularly with Susan, the younger member of the family. In New York on a pleasure trip he bumped into Dick and Betty Hube who now have a seven months old daughter named June and live in Elmwood, Conn., quite near the Bob Lowells. During the Syracuse game I saw Jean and Herb Shuttleworth over from Amsterdam and Ralph Colby and wife up from Boston."
Dick Montgomery has been transferred to the Kansas City Office of Compton Advertising and likes it very much. Dick, with some beautiful new porcelain in the front of his mouth, has completely recovered from his bad smash-up except financially.
Again from the Cincinnati Enquirer (Oct. 7); "Mr. Charles Drackett and his bride will pass their honeymoon in Bermuda, going by plane from New York to Nassau, where they will be for the remainder of the month." If the Enquirer can keep up the good coverage we'll have monthly reports on Charlie and wife.
Art Fisher, too, has decided to quit the lonely life. He's now engaged to Naomi Kislak of Hoboken (Wellesley '45) and they are being married on December 11 at the Waldorf Astoria. The lucky gent has an apartment in Larchmont waiting for him and for a honeymoon has laid out a trip to Mexico City, Sun Valley, and Los Angeles. Wow! That's all, brother.
Boyd Rodgers of St. Louis, our representative on the Alumni Council, comes through with what looks more like a maternity report than a news letter: "All that '35ers out here have been doing is having girls, which at best is only an indirect aid to the cause. Val Hemphill presented Phil with a daughter, Deborah Trent, on May 20. That makes two girls now for Phil, who bought a home here last spring after the usual house-hunting trouble caused by his transfer from Conn, last winter. Then in July, Dan Kerwin's wife, Peggy, came up with their second daughter, Paige McCulloch, born July 13. Shortly after that Mr. Tomatoe finally wrangled a discharge from the Army Air Forces, bought a house, and settled down to the pleasures of civilian life again. Last month, at the election of officers for the St. Louis Dartmouth Alumni Association, Dick Meyers was elected corresponding secretary. From a personal point of view, the most constructive work accomplished by any '35er recently in these parts was Bill Chapman's noble effort in producing two tickets for yours truly for the seventh game of the World's Series. Bill always claimed his bank could do anything. I believe it now." (I'm rushing off a telegram to Bill for two paste-boards for the Army-Notre Dame game. Put up or shut up, 1 say!) .
Hanover report from Uncle George: "For the Columbia game, Ted and Peg Steele were in town. Ted up by train from New York for the game and a short period on Sunday morning, Peg only for the game. Peg incidentally is chairman of the Colby Junior College Alumnae Fund Committee and has been spending a great deal of her time in New London making plans. Bob Sellmer and his fiancee came up on October 25 and spent a very pleasant weekend renewing acquaintances in Hanover. It was Bob's first visit here since graduation. They both came out to the house for supper on Sunday and after a couple of hours of talk I drove them to White River to catch the sleeper back to New York. Line Washburn is in town at the present time working in his official capacity as Director of the Arctic Institute of North America. He is doing an excellent job and is traveling all the time both in connection with raising funds and also for arranging certain scientific enterprises in which they are interested. Morrie Heller is now on the staff of the Mary Hitchcock Hospital serving as an anaesthetist (nearly broke the typewriter on that one). Morrie and his wife lived in a very small place in Lebanon all through the summer, but have now found themselves an apartment on South Main Street. Morrie is so busy that we seldom see him, but he raises the local membership of '35 to a nice round 3."
Jules Bromberg was married on October 6, 1946 in Newark, N. J. I have the word that they are living with the bride's parents temporarily but who the bride is remains a mystery that only Jules himself can clear up.
Harry Price, out of the service, is now taking a G. I. course in history at Columbia. He is married and has a daughter 3 years old.
Carl Spengeman, a former Captain in the Infantry, is married and living in Montclair, N. J. He is Personnel Manager for Whitehouse and Hardy, Shoes and Men's Furnishings, Montclair.
Greg Karch, still a bachelor, is purchasing agent for the Maywood Chemical Works in Maywood, N. J.
Walt Lincoln is with Intercontinent Corp.,
30 Rockefeller Plaza, NYC, as Ass't Sales Manager and Director. He is in exporting and overseas construction work. Helped build air bases in China during the war. Now working on fertilizer plants in India. There is a possibility that Walt will go overseas in the near future and help with on-the-spot operations.
Ernie Draper is in copy and contact work on building materials and housing with Wildreck and Miller, Advertising, Rockefeller Center. He lives in Brooklyn and has a son one year old.
Jack Halloway, another bachelor, works for National Distillers as Ass't Sales Manager for brandies and wines in New York City.
Bob Roundey, still in the wire rope business, travels regularly through all of the New England states except Connecticut. He has just bought a house in Winchester, Mass. and is involved in making it over.
Louis Bookheim put in his first appearance at a New York Class dinner here recently and informed us that he is a special attorney in the claims division of the Department of Justice. He has the very interesting assignment of prosecuting civil claims originating under the Czar of Russia and which were turned over to the United States under the Litvinoff Agreement of 1933 when we recognized the new Russian government. Most of the claims are for money invested by the Russians in this country which has been frozen by the banks since we broke off relations with Russia following the revolution. In two years time Lou has collected five million (repeat, five million) dollars for Uncle Sam's treasury. He was in the Army for three years and covered the field; infantry, Quartermaster Corps, M. P.s, Medical Corps as a laboratory technician, JAG's Office, and finally Army Air Force. He is married and has a son, Louis 111, born July 19, which kept him from attending reunion.
Al Kline, who hatted our reunion crowd, and who I am told now lives in Chicago, will soon marry Eleanor Grant of N. Y. C. She served with the Red Cross in India during the war.
Ed Mitchell of Bronxville and Curt Lamorey of Casa Blanca were roommates at college. After graduation they both went to work for Texaco, ending up in the foreign department where their paths often crossed in out-of-the-way parts of the world. And they will soon be neighbors again in Casa Blanca! Ed is the New York representative for the African Division and has lived in Africa twice before, covering the region from Dakar down through the Gold and Ivory Coasts. Curt has been a salesman and advance man for Texaco in Africa and has had occasion to work his way through the Congo as far inland as Lake Victoria digging up business. He is now Manager of Morocco and is due to return to the states for Christmas. In the first week in January both Curt and Ed will head for Casa Blanca to set up housekeeping. This time Ed, expecting to remain at least two years, will take his wife and two daughters with him.
Since the last column the New York aggregation has held two dinners, October 10 and November 6. The list of those attending is quite impressive:
Jack Egan, Harry Price, Carl Spengeman, Al Richie, Charlie Tosi, Bob Boehm, Ed Gerson, Chuck Brown, Frank Specht, Bill Mathers, Greg Karch, Walt Lincoln, Bill McNeal, Jim Boldt, Al Sherwood, Dick Eberhart, Em McMullen, Ernie Draper, George McVicar, Bob Richter, Bob Hage, Jack Halloway, Fred Mebel, Al Brush, Dick Levison, Cliff Mills, Reg Bankart, Ted Steele, Bud Fraser, Art Fisher, Dick Stern, Joe Parachini, Lou Bookheim, Bob Roundey, Bill Fitzhugh, Ed Mitchell, Phelps Luria. Following the October dinner we saw the reunion movies taken by Bob Richter, in color and good, as well as several films from the college library on current Dartmouth activities. We'd like to see some more new faces at these get-togethers. Come on out.
Seen at the Yale bowl during the scalping of the Indian: Bob Smith, Paul Rogers, Cramp Carrick, Dick O'Daniel, Doug Mallard, Bill Fitzhugh, Jack Zimmerman, Herb Shuttle worth, Dick I Tube, Bill Russell, Bob Maida, Bob Hage, Art Fisher, Bill Feingold, Bob Ferry, Bob Roundey, Sven Karlen, and probably many others who were not seen quite so distinctly for various reasons.
So long until next month.
Secretary, Compton Advertising, Inc. 630 5th Ave., New York 20, N. Y.
Treasurer, 2901 North 29th St., Tacoma, Wash.
