1925
The antique members of the Class of 1925 are apparently still not too antique to go on having future undergraduates.
The newest baby reported is Miss June Alice Emerson, born October 10, at Fort Meade, Maryland, to Lieut. Col. and Mrs.Max Emerson.
On July 5, Miss Judith Allen Holden arrived to delight, complicate and regulate Mr.and Mrs. Dick Holden.
Another proud, though not so recent, father is Bunny Levison, who is beaming in the accompanying picture over Mr. Jon Bruce Levison of the class of 1968. Jon already shows signs of being a Phi Bete like his old man. Bunny, Marian and Jon spent the summer at Nahant on the North Shore, overlooking Marblehead and such familiar characters as the Whites and the Sleighs. After considerable effort, we browbeat Bunny for the following summary:
"Immediately out of college, I trekked down to Florida to maice a quick pile of money in the land boom in '25. Suffice it to say I returned to Boston a year later a sadder, much poorer and mayhap a bit wiser young man. I then tackled, in a span of years, several types of business until I settled in the retail furniture business in which I was engaged for about 15 years.
"However, after furnishing homes all these years I took over the Boston Publicity Service, Inc. until the start of World War 11, when I liquidated this establishment to become a war worker. Uncle Sam had turned., me down, for I was told, 'The Army has no special diets.' You see, I suffer with gout. Anyway, my war work turned out to be with The Rex Company in Cambridge, Mass., engaged in the insulation of wire with vinyl plastics. I was on the night shift, which was really hard, more so on my new- wife probably than on yours truly, for I had married Marian Cassler, Smith '3O on Thanksgiving Day 1942 and I can truly say I've been thankful ever since.
"At the war's end I stayed on with The Rex Co., became their New England Sales Representative and like it very much. My proudest accomplishment, if you will, is our son Jon, 18 months young and, as anyone can plainly see from his picture, a registered candidate for the Class of '68. I'm sure that if we continue to surround him with Dartmouthiana, he'll never know there is any other college. Really, is there?"
Ken Hill, who contributes more to this column than your columnist does, writes: "Had a letter from Rumson School, New Jersey's Eddie Blake. He conveniently arranged his fall tour of Southern N. E. schools to end with the Harvard game.
"Had a letter from Carl Wilder Smith from Cutler, Maine. Their older daughter entered the University of Maine this fall with a younger daughter scheduled to do the same six years hence. He's working hard on his extensive blueberry lands and is rapidly mechanizing with tractors and such. If anyone has never visited that picturesque part of the Maine seacoast, I heartily recommend it.
"Cliff Hill is now comfortably settled in his Greenwich Village home and his son Peter made the Frosh tennis team at Hanover last spring. Peter's not as big as his football papa but a good athlete—including skiing—and is also a good student.
"About 14 of us including wives sat together at the Harvard game—Blakes, Sleighs, Whites, etc.
"Lyle McKown was in Boston a while back attending a National Insurance Convention. Rumor has it that Lyle does all right in the Twin Cities. Second V.P. Dick Holden, of the Columbian National Life Ins. Co., also attended the same affair. They didn't see each other so had better make a mental note for the next one. Whitey tried to whip up a luncheon for Lyle with the boys but time prevented it as Lyle flew to Chicago unexpectedly to meet friend wife."
Among the '25ers who have been recent guests at the Hanover Inn: Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Rhoad.es, George Cassels-Smith, HaroldRider, Mr. and Mrs. "Speedy" Fleet, HowardWellman, Mr. and Mrs. James Curry, LloydBrace, Mr. and Mrs. Ford H. Whelden and family and Mr. and Mrs. Carl T. Washburn.
Brice Disque, now doing free lance radio writing, recently received considerable praise from Variety for a script he wrote for Babe Ruth on "Cavalcade of America." Ford Barrett of Spokane, Fred Smith of Syracuse and George Winger of Kansas City are serving as regional chairmen for the Hopkins Center Project which has already received $1,200,000 of the $4,000,000 required. Milo Clapp was married on September 13, to Mrs. Ivor Young in Columbus, Ohio.
We recently had a business afternoon ruined by a character named Joseph J.Murphy who soon had our secretary (cute, too) sitting on his knee. Mr. Murphy is Manager of Sales for the MacLean-Fogg Lock Nut Co. of Chicago, makers of lock nuts, floor clips, railway specialties, and the M-F water-tight bolt. Some day we'll tell you why you should never use anything but a water-tight bolt. Mr. Murphy, by the way, gave up smoking a year ago, has gained 30 pounds and claims to have that "new look." We wish he'd ruin more of our afternoons.
Now, what's new with you?
CLASS OF 1968 and he's apparently won his numerals already. Reading from bottom to top, it's Jon Bruce Levison and Dad "Bunny" Levison '25.
Secretary, Room 1100 420 Lexington Ave., New York 1, N. Y. Treasurer, 49 Federal St., Boston, Mass.
