1933

We won't keep you long this month. From where we sit it's clear that '33 has holed up for the winter and we'll have to wait until a good thaw sets in before the mail starts running again.

Vinnie Young took a few days off from his medical practice in Washington, D. C. a month or so ago and showed up in Hanover for a little skiin' and beerin' with old acquaintances. He brought us the word on a rather amusing sequ_el to one of our wartime announcements about him. Some of you may recall the item in which we reported that Commander Young was practising his specialty, proctology, at Bethesda, and was, so far as we knew, the only Commander in Uncle Sam's Navy who enjoyed the status and role of Rear-Admiral.

Shortly after that appeared some enterprising reporter in Vinnie's home town, got hold of it, and, being the kind of feller who takes his printed word straight, proceeded to make things embarrassing for Vinnie, his family, and your sec'y. He apparently never even stumbled over a dictionary as he rushed out of the office to get this story. No shadow of doubt crossed his mind when he interviewed Vinnie's family and found that they knew nothing about it. He must have gotten quite a kick out of breaking the news to them that their son was now an admiral. He got a picture of Vinnie in uniform, and all kinds of details about his childhood, little things he used to do and say, and all, and the next morning, there was Vinnie on the front page, and all about how our Vinnie got to be an admiral.

Well, it's too bad that Vinnie couldn't live up to this billing, and that embarrassing explanations had to be made, and we're sorry for our part in it. We've learned our lesson. The next time we write something like that we'll run a special footnote: *"To whom it may concern, especially reporters: See Webster before you leap."

We received an announcement recently of the engagement of Stan Whitman to Miss E. Thelma Benton, of Everett, Mass.

Our Boston reporter, George Rideout, gave us a roundup on some of the boys down thataway. George saw Bill Hoffman in Chicago not long ago and said that Bill is doing a swell job as athletic director at the Chicago Latin School. About other '33s in the Boston area, he wrote: "A few days ago I was in touch with Edgar L. Patch of Stoneham, who just about runs a company of the same name in that fair town. They manufacture pharmaceuticals .. ...Irv Prince is a teacher-coaeh al the Rivers School in Brookline. He came on about two years ago after being in California almost since 1933. The last time I saw Irv he told me he had bought a house in Wellesley. .... I see Norm Payne once a month. We both belong to an outfit called Red, Inc. It is a group of thirty-five fellows. Each of us chips in $lO per month to a kitty which is invested by a broker in whom we have the greatest confidence. In another year or two we can call quits and live on the interest. Norm is in charge of visual education for all the schools in Newton. Every time you see him he has a projector and a bunch of reels with him."

OFF TO THE RACES, or rather the World's Cham- pionship figure skating is Lyman Wakefield '33, who represented the United States as a judge. He is shown boarding a plane for Stockholm, where the championships were held last month.

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