1940
Last month's complaint, we found before you got the MAGAZINE registering it, was, so far as mail is concerned, somewhat out of order. That's not to say we're overburdened, but only that this column, plus just the least small bit of overage to start next month off, have arrived.
First, our anonymous (spelled with an H) New York correspondent, to whom all honor, etc., says of the late New York games: Columbia was sparsely attended, because of the world's worst weather, but the Club affair following the game drew Art Mountrey, John Moore, Bud Hewitt, Charley Power, Fred Bachelder, Les Nichols and Sid Harrington. Some of these, with assorted wives and girl friends, teamed up for dinner afterward. Princeton and its contrasting weather got a little better play, with Ray Dau, Charley Power, Marty Rubin, Chet Garrison, Bud Hewitt, George Johnson, Diz de Sieyes, Jordan Van Cleve, and Bill Bumsted noted in the crowd. The grapevine says that Big Don was throwing a small party after the game, but no one was, evidently, in good enough condition to report it to us before this month's deadline.
Cornell, and '40's party after the game, found a list of the class approximately three millimeters long in attendance. We heard that a couple of others were about, but they didn't come to the party, or within the somewhat shortened range of our vision. We still think it a good idea, and will stubbornly arrange other such come another fall, even if the ranks have to be filled from other less desirable, but more enthusiastic classes.
After many fruitless attempts extending over the past two years, we have established contact with our German classmate, HansJoachim Heinz. In a letter from Hamburg, he brings the class up to date with:
"Perhaps you will recall that I took advantage of the 'junior year in Munich' to do some skiing in Bavaria. Well, I fell in love with a Smith girl, plans were reshuffled, the war broke out and I couldn't get back, as I had intended.
"I saw service with the engineers in France in 1940. Every day, however, was additional disillusionment for me. Someone struck upon the idea that I could be of greater use as an interpreter than as an engineer, so I was transferred to Munich to the Interpreter's Company of Capt. Gerngross. (This name became known to most of the American soldiers who liberated Munich because it was this interpreter's company, all along an opposition group, which instigated a 'putsch' against the Nazis shortly before American troops entered the city.)
"Well, I remained in this outfit off and on to the end. Since Gerngross and I were personal friends, I was in a position to continue my studies in Munich though being a soldier. The only fighting I saw was against the Italians on Sardinia in 1943. Here I was wounded and developed typhoid fever, dysentery and malaria. That meant back to Munich, hospital, interpreter's company and studies. At the end of the war I was almost finished with my doctorate thesis. I took exams in zoology (major), botany and human physiology as soon as Munich University reopened for academic work.
"During my long illness I met my wife, then a nurse. We were married in January, 1945, in an air-raid shelter during alarm. We now have a little boy Ralph, two years old and quite an athlete. I've been bobbing around all over Germany for various reasons. While I'm in Hamburg now, my family still resides in Marktheidenfeld.
"It has been my ambition to do research work in medical zoology for a long time. I am now working for a limited time as assistant in the department of entomology at the Hamburg Institute of Tropical Medicine. I have begun to specialize as an entomologist for I feel that a lot of work can still be done among the group of Diptera (flies), stressing the medically important families.
"As to the future: in my field of work only the tropics or sub-tropics can give me the opportunity I crave. Unfortunately, the gates of the world are still shut to us Germans. It is hope for the future
that keeps many young men here at jobs. "I sure would have liked to order a ticket for one of the football games, but, as it is, I won't even be able to hear the scores. As far as I've heard the team isn't as good as when Red Blaik was coaching it.
"Please convey my regard to anyone in the class asking for me."
Still in the letters department, this time from Red Herman. Red lists the members of the class who have stopped in at one time or another at his Eliot Lounge, Beantown oasis. The length of this list is impressive. It is suggested (not by Red) that he is in the ideal business for a good class secretary. It is evident that '40's will find the opportunity to visit Eliot Lounges anywhere, and equally so that only the brave and, possibly, foolhardy, ever venture north of Boston. Red says he was married, last September 8, to Mary Hickey of Weymouth, and they are living at 214 Riverway, Boston, where Prohibitionists, Republicans and followers of Mahomet in the class may see him in non-iniquitous surroundings.
The surest means, it would seem, to obtain news of or from you shy violets is an overseas job. Anyway, such is the case with Jim Faulkner and Joe O'Hare, who have written in from Shanghai. Jim is out there with Insurance Companies of North America, and Joe is playing Terry (d'ya still read it) for China National Aviation Corporation, flying DC-4's between points in China and Calcutta, Manila and San Francisco. Joe went one up on the Wilson, Miller, Cross, Faulkner Club last September 26, when a third daughter was born to Joe and Anne in Shanghai. Jim, wife Joan, and daughters Sally and Kate have been there since January. Henry Stokes and Bimbo (sister of Joan Faulkner) were still in Shanghai with American Friends' Service Committee then, but have since returned stateside where Henry has gone into business in Hingham, Mass., manufacturing miniature taps and dies.
A few quickies: Ernie Lendler has left that well-remembered position as outstanding Connecticut beer tycoon to take up sales work with Whizzer Motor Sales Cos. (those bicycles with power), Pontiac, Mich.; Cec Moore is transferring from Pan American's overseas operations (Paris, Brussels, London) to New York, where he will take up duties as assistant passenger sales manager for the Atlantic Division after a couple of months vacation; Rev.Larry Durgin was installed as pastor of the First Congregational Church, Norwich, New York, last October 9; Fred Fuld, CPA, has left Price Waterhouse to open his own offices for the practice of accountancy in Los Angeles and San Pedro; 800 Hayden has transferred from that Baltimore engineering firm to Harland Bartholomew and Associates, St. Louis, City Planners and Engineers, with whom his first assignment is on a master plan for Washington, D. C.-800 will be working in Washington, where he was searching, at the moment of writing, for a new place to live and shelter Betts, three-year-old Bill and a nine-day old daughter; Leila Richmond of Mt. Lebanon, Pa., was married November 8, in Garden City, L. 1., to Dick Bowman.
Also in the mail: The Seattle Sunday Times, September 21, 1947—EARLY SNOW COMES TO CITY:
"Cloudy and threatening skies gave way today to the season's first snow. The fall was especially heavy in the Maynard Hospital where 21 inches were reported at 10:30 P. M. Forecasters Sam and Hildegarde predict a shift to Mercer Island soon.
They named him Stephen. Eddie Jeremiah take notice.
Secretary, 16 Elm St., Montpelier, Vt. Treasurer, 42 Congress St., St. Albans, Vt
