1932
Among those present at a November meeting at the Dartmouth Club were our new class agent, -Howdy Pierpont; our reactivated class treasurer, Bo Wentworth; Bob Buckley, then on the eve of mufti; Walt Rushmore, still Federal Reserving; Art Allen, recently civilianized; Bill Davis and Marvin Chandler; George Blaesi, then in the act of reconverting from the OPA; Chuck Maxwell, back from khaki to Breed, Abbot, and Co. Chuck O'Brien, whose recent change of business address to Benton and Bowles was previously announced, will work on the Procter and Gam ble account. As of about January first, Bob Buckley and George E. Zopf, both majors of the Judge Advocate General's Department during the war, opened law offices in Claremont, N. H., and will engage in the general practice of law in both New Hampshire and Vermont. Good luck to that firm.
The long-postponed letter from Lt. Red Drake says that after he had served for two years at the New York Port of Embarkation; and after the war had ended, the Army saw fit to send Red to sea aboard a converted Liberty ship carrying wheat to Le Havre and troops on the return trip. Red's job: moralebuilding, with the aid of phonograph records, movies, and a GI assistant. Red's hopes: (1) to get out; (2) to get the help of a chaplain so he wouldn't have to conduct services. Red's acquisition: an adopted son, who joined the Drake family September 24, just six months less two days following his birth. He has, says his red-headed father, a fair crop of red hair started, and will likely be able to toss the ole man over his shoulder at the age of ten. While Red's ship was loading wheat at Baltimore, he saw Bill Bucher (hurrying along in his usual fashion) and engaged in the gigantic task of selling a battleship. Other Bucher tricks: he is now a maestro of card tricks, which he can palm, change the color of, or pull out of one's ears, as the occasion demands. Jane and Willum, Bill's wife and son, are in fine fettle, says Reporter Drake. In Brooklyn, the Drakes saw quite a lot of John and Jean Wolfe, managed a weekend with Bo and Peggy Daniels in Harrisburg, Pa., during the summer, and were glad to see that Bo was due for discharge from the Navy in October, that there are three fine Daniels children, and that Pa Daniels now weighs circa 180 pounds, which for him is a great accession. Another Drake weekend was pleasantly spent with Jean, Charlie, Patty and Wes Jenkins in Gloversville, N. Y., where Charlie works at law by day and wrangles the Jenkins stable of horses at nearby Saratoga of an evening. Other Drake news: that Cal Geary, following an adventurous wartime career, is once again enrolled in the wool business in Boston; that John "Euk" Fish tank corps lieutenant, was home on leave in the fall, but not out yet; that the Bill Allyns in Skaneateles have two boys and a girl, who have all learned to pronounce their home town's name in the native style, viz. Skinnyatalus. Thanks to Lt. Drake for the newsiest letter in a drake's age.
For his first movie part since his very recent discharge from the Marine Corps, Bob Ryan has signed to co-star with Joan Bennett in RKO's "Desirable Woman," a domestic triangle murder story based on Mitchell Wilson's novel, None So Blind-, and since Charles Bickford is also in the cast, you can expect some good old Ryan-Bickford fisticuffs.
Dr. Irv Cramer, after discharge from the Medical Corps AUS resumed the practice of civilian medicine December 12, with offices at 29 Wensley Drive, Great Neck, L. I. Bob Swartchild is engaged in the jewelers' supplies business in Chicago Syd Madian, long unheard from, lives at 11040 California St., North Hollywood; and Dr. Les Meister at 921 Westwood Blvd., Los Angeles 24; Dr. Handy Auten lives at 1 Occom Ridge, Hanover; Bob Hosmer is back in Syracuse; Bob Morrison is living at 31 Brookdale Rd., Newton, Mass.
Recent service promotions include Majors Ed Judd and Chuck Ryan; Lt. Cmdrs. Bob Black and Bud Templin; and Captains Dean Pinney and Hal Chinlund. Capt. Clarke Sullivan AUS may be reached at 618 Plymouth Ave., Dayton 6, 0., and Lt. Gordon Walker at 28 Patterson Village Drive, Dayton 9. Hope they have got together. The Ed Markses have moved to 3212 McKinley St., N.W., Washington 15, from their war-time address on Quesada St. Alex McKenzie has something to do with electronics at 330 West 42nd St. N. Y. C. 18. And I hear Johnny Sheldon is back at Highland Park, Ill. (1025 Wade Street). And that is the end of my present dossier, friends. It is time to start accumulating another.
Secretary, 178 Prospect Ave., Princeton, N. J. Treasurer, Room 1801, 80 Maiden Lane New York 7, N. Y.
