1934
It is with deep regret that we report the sad passing of two of our number, almost on the same day in August. On the twenty-third, Gordie Watts succumbed to Hodgkin's Disease after a long and courageous struggle, at Memorial Hospital in New York. On the twenty-fifth, Chuck Lippe died suddenly in his sleep from heart failure at the Veterans Hospital in Fort Logan, Colorado, where he was on the staff as an orthopedic surgeon. Obituary notices will be found in this issue's In Memoriam.
And so, we of 1934 lose two respected class mates.
The banquet season started auspiciously for New York Thirty-Fours with a class dinner at the Dartmouth Club on October 7. Some twenty trenchermen appeared to sip and sup in the following alphabetical order: WaltBlood, Dave Callaway, Mac Collins, GeorgeCopp, Walt Crandell, Em Day, Irv Diamond,Orv Dryfoos, Ray Ely, Bill Gilmore, DickGruen, Len Harrison, Al Jacobson, Joe Lehmann, Harry McCann, Don Sandy, Bill Scherman, Bob (W) Smith, and Dick Wells. Turned out to be a typically pleasant '34 party featuring the usual mixture of big helloes, small-talk and happy recollections. One interesting innovation, though, was a surprise secret poll designed by Orv Dryfoos and Bill Scherman to reflect the considered opinion of "a representative group of youngish executives" as to a choice in the next presidential election. We don't like to talk too loud, for fear the gamblers will get hold of it, but from our seat it looks like a 14 kt. shoo-in for the ponderous pachyderm .... that is, if a certain genial general is up there in the howdah come post-time. Because on the question of Ike versus Harry it was all Ike: sixteen to zip. Stassen's showing was next best, while Taft fared poorest. Dewey? pewey. (Can't understand that—a darn good li'l ole dairy farmer like him!). Lotta fun. Good entertainment and a little straw in a big wind.
Other guys, who sent their regrets but hope to attend the next Dinner are: Bob Brown, Sid Carter, Bill Craig, Peanuts Davies, Bob Doyle, Bill Embry, Bob Ford, Chuck Goodfellow, Harold Green, Bud Hall, Bud Hart, Al Hewitt, Dick Houck, Mike Joseph, Bob Kolbe, Nels Krogslund, Bob Mann, Mac McAllister, Sonny Mills, Jack Odell, Lex Paradis, Bob (L) Palmer, Les Reeve, Oscar Ruebhausen, Warren Schmid, Joe Slechta, Herb Steyn, Charlie Strauss, Van Thorne and Perry Woodbury. A card from Ted Germann's dad explained that Ted is still in Paris as assistant Military Attache in the American Embassy and, therefore, not quite in a position to join us for these monthly affairs.
Here's some good news from Ed Valier of Palm Beach. It involves the happy appearance on July 14, 1947, of a daughter, Jeanne, who weighed in at 8 lbs., 3 oz.
More good news, this time in the field of business, brings us up to date on a couple of fast-moving executives. The ClevelandPlain Dealer proclaims the recent (August 26) elevation of Swede Lindstrom to vicepresident of the National City Bank there. Swede is at present engaged in loan and business development work in the commercial banking division. And from friend Ed Red man, '06, manager of the highly successful Dartmouth Club of N. Y., we learn that DickBanfield has just been elected to the Board of Niles, Bement, Pond, mammoth Hartford concern. Dick has been treasurer of the outfit for the past two years.
Meanwhile Emmie Day is engaged in a plenty big job these days. The good doctor has been entrusted with the organizing of something new in the field of New York medicine: a city cancer clinic in a private hospital setting (New York Hospital, where Em's specialty is preventive medicine). The project raised several obstacles but at this writing things appear to be about set and the opening, with hizzoner the Mayor, hisself, scheduled to throw out the first suture, should take place any day now.
A bunch of address changes just received give us the latest on several of the boys. Danny Degasis is with the Metals Disintegrating Co., in Verona, New Jersey. El Fulton is now Headmaster at Orford High School and living in good old Lyme, N. H. Steve Woodbury, another educator, is assistant principal of Fitchburg High, with his home in Lunenberg, both burgs being of course in Mass. Ed Kelley, with the Bureau of the Budget in Washington, commutes from Arlington, Va. Ed Marshall is in the laundry business up Newton, Mass., way, and Mert Cushman is tinkling that piano out in Chula Vista, California. Bob (L) Palmer's latest title at Cluett, Peabody & Co., Inc., in Manhattan, is Director of Merchandising.
Harlan Banks is now in the Dept. of Botany at the University of Minnesota, lives in St. Paul. Stu Campbell is an investment counsel in Boston, making the daily trip from nearby Needham. George Collins is a consulting engineer for Drake, Startzman, Sheahan, Barclay, Inc., N.Y.C., and he commutes from Chatham, N. J. Dick Poisson is an executive in the Electronics Co., Philadelphia. For him, getting to the Princeton game this fall will be a cinch—lives in Tigertown.
Our Hanover Inn operative reports that Dr. and Mrs. Ed Thomas were there around Labor Day on a trip from Hingham, Mass. And Joe Lehmann advises that he ran into Clyde Seney, who is in New York for a while on a business mission.
Well, that about does it, gents. We're fighting hard to become completely up-dated on everyone. If you have any news, either of yourself or a classmate, why not shoot it in pronto? Meanwhile we'll be back next month full of news (we hope), and turkey (we hope). See you then.
Secretary and Treasurer
110 Fulton St., New York 7, N. Y.
