1931
On January 22 there was a pretty good turnout for a class dinner here at the Dartmouth Club. A lot of fellows we hadn't seen for a long time attended, including Don Crane, released from service and back at his old job at the A. and P. as buyer of liquor; Hugh Neeley, also released from service and back again practicing medicine; Bobby Baumrucker and Monk McCord, both now with McCann Erickson; Dick Cukor, back again at Macy's. All three of the former also were recently released from the Navy. Hank Richmond, Sid Rubin, Mel Hollenbeck, A 1 Sutton, Will Light, Les Klein, Dutch Holland, Charlie Schneider, Bill Little, Bob Spotts, Ed Maas and Ned Rosen were some of the regulars who were also there. Bob Dilley, transferred here from Chicago last summer, stopped down in time for a couple of short ones, and Dick Holbrook and Doug Woodring, whose faces we hadn't seen for a long time, were also there. It was great to see so many of the gang, and for the benefit of all the '3iers in the metropolitan area, there's another dinner scheduled for March 19 at the Dartmouth Club. We are hoping that everybody in these parts will show up to make a real party out of it. Incidentally, if we have omitted anybody in the above list it's because we got the best part of this list second-hand, for which we apologize.
By way of Henry Richmond we heard that Temple Nieter had recently visited him from Chicago where he is a research engineer for the Motorola radio. Temple is married and has a couple of fine daughters.
Charlie Warne has been transferred to Pittsburgh for the Hubbard Steel Cos. And rumor has it that Chuck O'Neil, who has been married, is on his way to the Coast. This last item about Chuck is a rather sketchy one, and we are woefully lacking of the details, but we will welcome any substantiating information from either Chuck himself, or any of you fellows who happen to bump into film on his way.
By way of the New York Herald Tribune we read of the recent wedding of Marty O'Connor, now a captain and assistant chief of the Air Staff, to Mary Schultz in Washington. Mary is a Smith gal and this is one more bit of evidence that the road is a short one from Hanover to Hamp. Congratulations to you both.
From the Concord Monitor, an article reported the actual change of Howie Mason as Superintendent of Schools in Abbington, Mass., which we reported as about to happen last month.
A fine picture and article about Bill Hayden's appointment as general manager of Davison-Paxon Company's Augusta store. Bill, as you will recall, spent three years with the Eighth Air Force in England where he went through a series of rapid promotions until 1944, when he became the director of supply of the Eighth Air Force Service Command with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Congratulations, Bill; that sounds like a swell set-up.
And speaking of another swell set-up, probably you all read about Red Rolfe's signing as coach for the New York Yankees. It will be good to see the old redhead in a Yankee uniform again and we certainly all wish him well on his new assignment.
A short note from Beany Thorn:
The war being about at an end, and having suddenly realized that our two offspring would be grown up and away from us in a few years, we Thorns decided it was high time to start all over again. Last Monday, the 21st, there arrived one, Susan Hale Thorn, a tiny tot of 8 pounds, 4 ounces. It was also thought expedient to make use of an extra bedroom we have in our new home. After all, you can't let space go to waste in this land of strict economy.
I attended the Albany Dartmouth Alumni dinner a month or so ago and remember such mugs as Sher Guernsey, Johnny Johnson, Bill Murphy. Johnny gave a swell talk about his war experiences. He was in the thick of it. We were finally thrown out of the hotel in true '3l style early the next morning when they objected to our harmony.
El and I missed our usual skiing vacation this winter but hope to resume them next year. We have skied with the best of them but it doesn t do us any good. We still stem like hell, quoting Otto, and spill on every other turn.
Thanks Beany, it's good to hear from you again.
Most of you probably saw Abner Dearn's cartoons in Life as a few of the samples in bis recent book "It's a Long Way to Heaven." By way of the Lewiston, Maine, Journal we thought the enclosure by Alice Frost Lord would be interesting under the heading of "Boston Beware!"
We predict that Boston will ban Abner Dean's "It's a Long Way to Heaven," which is one more reason why lots of people will read it, laugh at it, puzzle over it, and take it in a million different ways. Is Dean serious? Is he crazy? Is he a twin to Orsen Wells? Is he just fooling you? Maybe he really IS saying something.
While the jacket presents a photographic likeness of Mr. Dean that shows him to be young, intellectual, and handsome, we suspect that inside, he looks like the central, double-page illustration. . .
In the midst of encircling mountain peaks, a soliatary human is dreaming as he loafs on the billowing earth, with two sails full-spread to the wind from the mast beside him, one tied to a bowsprit and the other to a stone, while the man by a slender thread is fastened to an anchor thrown out behind. Point to the significance or the dreamer is had from a circle of brawling, bludgeoning,
primitive mankind, everyone intent on killing his neighbor. It is labelled "Escape." There is a hint, in the introduction by Philip Wylie, that Dean has caught some of us en route to heaven by the longest way around. He also is termed a portrait painter of the subconscious, in a realm that lies "beyond sacredness, in the realm of things not admissible, even to one's self. * * * His theme is never manners or deeds—a topic which has given great reputation to a dozen living satirical artists; it is always the moral attitude behind the manners—the motive behind the deeds."
From such an analysis, it is obvious that TheLong Way to Heaven is likely to divide the superficial from the profound; and that the newest American game may be trying it out on the family, the office, friends and foes, and watching what happens. It is conceivable that some folks may "get even" with some other folks this way.
Should Boston ban the book, which seems to guarantee popular sale, if past records are any indication, then it looks as though Abrier has also done a job for himself, for which once more our congratulations.
We have a slew of address changes, and in signing off will list them below.
Lt. George N. Stevens who has been in the service branch of the Special Services Division of the Fleet Liaison Section of the Navy since March 1944, has been appointed Associate Professor of Law at Western Reserve University School of Law. George is married and lives at Mount Rainier, Md.
Albert Beisel Jr. is now at 4821 46th St., N.W., Washington, D. C.; Ralph Charlton in Montclair, N. J., at 16 Forest St.; Went Eldredge is back teaching at Dartmouth; Samuel Groves, 15 Sylvan Road, Wellesley Hills, Mass.; Nicholas Oleksiw, Beechwood Avenue, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.; Montague Smith, at Montague Place, Montclair, N. J.; Lt. J. R. Chapman at 1514 Davis St., Evanston, 111.; G. A. Coley on South Chancellor St., Newtown, Pa.; Arthur Davis at 15 Notre Dame St., Glens Falls, N. Y.; Lt. Comdr. E. S. Burge at U. S. Naval Hospital, Parris Island, S. C.; Dr. E. Allan McLean at ag Deering St., Portland, Me.; and W. P. Rusterholtz is with the Dept. of English at the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland.
Also Dr. Joseph M. Clough, New London, N. H.: Frank B. Cornell, Lakeside Place, Chicago, 111.; G. Douglas Morris, 2720 Darby Rd., Havertown, Pa.; Charles S. Nims, Coldstream Stud, Lexington, Ky.; Richard E. Sankey, Beach Drive, Seattle, Wash.; Victor J. Hetwitz at 42 West 12th St., New York City; and Arnold B. Rich, 193 Gibbs St., Newton Center, Mass.
Secretary, 224 Beverly Rd., Scarsdale, N. Y. Treasurer, Rm. 2119 400 W. Madison St., Chicago 6, 111.
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