1932

As far as Alice is concerned, General Marshall can go back to Harvard, hand in his degree, and withdraw everything he said in that speech in June which put Marshall Plan in the dictionary. I must admit that if he had never had to launch the plan, I wouldn't today be missing so poignantly some nice long letters from classmates that could be reproduced "herein without change. What bothers Alice, however, is that I've spent most of the recent evenings, and Saturdays and Sundays, along with substantially all the rest of the State Department, getting ready for the arrival of the Congressional committees that are going to consider the various aspects of the European Recovery Program. Consequently I've had less than no time to write anything like this column, and I feel the lack of news from the field. Of course, I could just fill up the space by quoting from one of the articles on Bob Ryan that appear so regularly, but I'm waiting for something more exclusive about him than what Louella Parsons has just broadcast.

I do have a few bits of news. The first is sad: Jim Riley has died. There will be a note about him in next month's obituary notices. .... Warren Moore is going to be our Class Agent for the forthcoming Alumni Fund drive; let's make cooperating with him one of our New Year's resolutions Jim Moore has been appointed sales manager of the curtain division o£ the North American Lace Co., of Philadelphia Sey (Jacobson)Rogers announces the arrival, on October 9, of Charles Stewart Rogers, his and Dorothy's first. I saw all three on a recent visit to New York, where Sey is in practice as a surgeon. ....The Dartmouth Club (N. Y.) News announces that Ping Ferry journeys weekly to Detroit to help write speeches for Henry Ford, 2nd I ran into Jim North in the cafeteria in the Old State Building in Washington, where he is helping out for a few weeks in the Luckman food conservation campaign. (For those of you who want to keep your Baedekers up-to-date, I'll explain that the "Old State" Building, once known as the "State, War and Navy Building," is now occupied by offices attached to the White House, such as the Budget Bureau, and by most of the economic divisions of the State Department, while the Secretary of State and most of his staffs are located in what was known during the war as the "New War Department Building." Get it?) .... For the interest of the Andover graduates, I attended the recent Andover dinner in Washington, and found that about the only other diner I knew personally (except Larry Shields, guest of honor) was a non-Andover Dartmouth man—WinHobbs '33.

It can't make Chuck Hall very proud to hear that his was the best letter received this month— e nihilo una, if my Latin has survived enough—in view of the absence of competition. Still, I am surely glad to have it. He writes on the letterhead of the Cleveland Hardware and Forging Company of Cleveland, Ohio, and points out that he sees far fewer '32ers now than when he lived in the Washington area. He mentions his two sons, Tom age four, and Jerry age nine, and adds: "I also wanted to go on record that we are moving to larger quarters in two weeks. I have bought a house directly back of our present house and have sold our house to my sister. My brother lives next door to my present house, and my mother lives two doors from our new house. It makes a very nice colony. The Cleveland alumni had a fine dinner and election meeting at Leisey's Brewery a week ago tonight. No other '32 men were present. It was a dandy party." If anyone wants to draw any conclusions from the last two sentences, please put them on paper and send to me so I can fill this column with '32 commentary.

The class secretaries have some mysterious and unexpected sources of information. One of these has revealed to me that the following of our classmates were in Hanover within the past few months: Calvin Geary, Ben Burch (more than once), William H. Morton, M. H.Wolff, Andrew W. Cummins (and wife), J.Rodger Brown (and wife), Lawrence Milgroom, and Newell Goldberg (and wife).

1932'S CHAMPION PARENTS: Mr. and Mrs. George C. (Pete) Sawyer most certainly lead the Class of 1932 as tar as the number of offspring is concerned. Pictured at the Fifteenth Reunion, they are proud parents of eleven children.

Secretary, 3909 North sth Street, Arlington, Va. Treasurer, „ 607 Front Street, Hempstead, N. Y.