1932
Apologies to an uncommunicative class for missing the January column, but the stock of news had hit the bottom, and there was hardly enough to make a paragraph, let alone one of those thick,"juicy columns, done rare with onions on the side, which are the only kind of dish this column wishes to set before its distinguished clientele. Since that miss, through the kindness of Bo Wentworth, who is currently engaged in his annual class dues gathering program, the supply has steadily increased, and this desk is now possessed of what might be called, comparatively speaking, infinite riches.
Among these is a letter from Whip Walser, then in Caracas, Venezuela, who said he was all steamed up with the old wah-hoo-wah as a result of lunch and a few short ones with such able Dartmouthians as Bill Coles '29, Bob Bottome '31 and our own Rafael Barragano "neat and dapper with a little mustache" in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he is a member of the law firm of Montserat and Co., and where he raises his three children: Rafael (11), Eduardo (9), and Maria (9 months). Rafael was kept busy dock-watching for the USCG during the late hostilities and is anxious to hear from his old friend Bob Buckley. In Trinidad, 1932's ebullient ambassador to the Carribbean saw Andy Stollmeyer with a handful of red snappers and one big. fish, and four children (Marylyn, Michell, Caroll and Rex) aged 9, 8, 7 and 6 and both children and father, said Whip, still display the same pep which has made the name of Stollmeyer famous among soccer and cricket fans throughout the BWI. Thanks to Whip for this inside view of the cricketers on the hearth.
News of Shirley Greene percolates through after some years, and indicates that since November 1 he has been Agricultural Relations Secretary, of the Congregational Christian Council for Social Action, and will be responsible for the development of research, educational and other programs in areas of social concern as they touch on rural life. Shirley comes to this new responsibility from nine years as Director of Merom Institute, Merom, Ind., a rural social project where problems of village unemployment, community health, soil conservation, bio-dynamic farming, library facilities and such other matters vital to the welfare of rural communities were studied. He will do a great deal of traveling in his new position, and expects to set up Rural Churchmen's Seminars in Washington and in various state capitals and colleges, as well as education projects demonstrating the significance of such wonderful development programs as are represented by TVA. Congratulations on this important post. Associate Professor Frank Westheimer says I inadvertently demoted him to assistant professor in a recent column, for which apologies. Frank has held an associate professorship since his return to the University of Chicago from the NDRC Explosives Research Lab in January, 1946, and belated congratulations are herewith tendered to a smart apple.
_ The Richard Manvilles announce with delight their acquisition of a welcome Christmas present December 12, 1946, in the form of Albert Murray Manville 11, who weighed nearly 8 lbs. at birth. Around Ann Arbor, says Dick, he sees Pete Ostafin as an active member of the sociology department. Latest reports from Hollywood tell that Ryan's "Women on the Beach" movie is still in production but will be out shortly. The Jim Moores parented a son in October. Hal Sack is very anxious to get hold of a copy of the 1932 Aegis. Anybody got an extry? Bo Went- worth is going on a European check-up tour this spring. The Bob McConnochies hit the front pages of some N.Y.C. newspapers in November by refusing to kick out a homeless friend of theirs who was occupying one room in their house, in violation, nosy neighbors said, of local zoning ordinances, in Pelham Hts. Bob and wife got the matter cleared up and have been thinking of sending copies of Mill's Essay on Liberty to the above-mentioned N. N.'s.
John Clark has been in Hanover for some time now as one of the consultants on the new course in national problems which is to be instituted under Dartmouth's new curriculum. They couldn't have snared themselves a better man. Among the participants in a 3-week seminar for newspapermen held at Columbia University in November was John Bell, asst. city editor of the St. Louis Post Dispatch. Ping Ferry is now a partner in the firm of Earl Newsome. Ken Hill is building a house in Concord, N. H., where he is a banker. Rog Benezet is with an architecture firm in Hawaii. Appie and Alice Apthorp were Hanover visitors in November. Ellie Noyes, Big Green Track Coach, has bought himself and family a house in Hanover down past the High School with a view of Mt. Ascutney. There the Noyes learned with pleasure, as will other classmates, that the Clarks now have a second daughter, name of Ellen, to balance their two boys, and born last fall. John and Rhoda are well pleased with their quartet. Whit Daniels of the Chase National Bank won first prize last December in the annual public speaking contest of the American Institute of Banking, N. Y. chapter. Don Thompson writes briefly to say that he, along with some hundreds of others, expects to make the Fifteenth Reunion, as does Alf McLaughlin, as does Bill Peck. Others who will be wearing the '32 uniform: Weinseimer, Bartlett, Whitehair, Swenson, John Wright, John and Gus Zimmerman, John Sheldon, Deac Campbell. Sargeant, Shel Reed, Al Keyworth, Doc Roe, Ron Olmsted, Jim McCoy, Steve Harwood, Ed Marks, Bo Went- worth. And great slues of others whose names will be announced if you keep tuned in.
Happy Valentine's day.
Secretary, 178 Prospect Ave., Princeton, N. J
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