1940
We just had a good little '40 party up in the hills of Vermont. It should have been bigger, but with late word to the clan made later by second class mail (lesson No. 10 in how to be an efficient class secretary) it was probably fortune alone that brought any one there. Anyway, Braden, who arranged it, Willson,Lamber, Chipman, Wax, Rearden and Moody were there with assorted wives, Tom's date, some Willson guests, and a large black dog who answers only to Arabic, spoken gutturally. We took in a little beer, spaghetti in large quantity, and other beverages, all before an open fire in a rustic cabin on a Vermont hillside. After dinner, things drifted as Willson and guests left for their long drive home, the Lamberts, Chipmans and Rearden staying a while to see that Bill got his share of the beer, and the rest of us eventually ending up spread around Tom's Norwich living-room discussing everything from what is a dog to the "Great Issues" course.
As you know, we hope, by now, the same is planned for Cornell, November 15. See the last Drum for details and, if you're going to the game, show up for as good a '40 time as you'll be able to remember.
The mail bag brought no letters of length this month, so the rest of this incidental intelligence gathered here and there.
We hear that Ted Gates is on fellowship in economics at the Littauer School, Harvard, knocking off A's and worrying about flunking it. Bill Chapin, so the papers say, won the award for the best news story of 1947 among small New England papers for his story on the Rutland, Vermont, flood of June, 1947. MelWax says he also received another award, but the details escape us at the moment.
Located for the time being are: Jim Carpenter, an English instructor at Penn State; Bill Halsey, back in Cambridge for another year of architecture at Harvard; Dr. Sid McPherson, with the Children's Hospital in Boston; Dan Toan, living out in Shanks Village, Orangeburg, New York, with Jane and new arrival, Deborah, next door neighbors to Dr.Bill Blake, and commuting daily to New York for classes at the Columbia School of Architecture; Bob Myers is a time study engineer with Bridgeport Brass, living in Stratford, Conn.; Lew Lambert, studying at Tufts Medical and living in Wellesley; George Tredick, still in the Navy, and addressed, we hear, as Lieutenant Commander; Al Deßonde, still piloting for Pan-American, is now based at LaGuardia Field, New York; and BillWotherspoon is director of industrial relations at the Lincoln-Mercury assembly plant in St. Louis.
After long months of inactivity, the department of affiliates blossoms forth once more with the following announcements: GeorgeKimball has a new daughter, other details unknown; the wedding o£ John Little and Juliana von Kienbusch of New York was planned for October 25; ditto, that of HowieZagor and Beverly Marks of New York for November 23; the marriage of Bill Ryder and Jane Mowen of Chatham, New Jersey, was announced September 2; Paul Goodwin and Ruth Reynolds of San Augustine, Texas, were married August 23, in San Augustine, where Paul is a geologist with an oil company; Charlie Jones and Dorothy Duemler of Newton, Mass., were married September 7; and Ralph Palmer and Leatrice Miller of Brooklyn are engaged.
Jack "Moneyman" Willson says that, on October 10, exactly 196 grads and 27 nongrads had paid their dues. That is par for the course so far, but why don't we beat it, for once, and save Jack all that letter-writing, even though we know he likes it just to keep busy. Slip it in the mail today.
TWO MEMBERS OF '41 JOIN ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF: Left, Ernest R. Hamilton, who has been named Assistant to the Director of Admissions, and Richard A. Sawyer, who is the new Assistant Registrar.
Secretary, 16 Elm St., Montpelier, Vt. .
Treasurer, 42 Congress St., St. Albans, Vt.
