1933
A red circle around Sept. 10 on our calendar reminds us it's high time we shook a summer's accumulation of dust off our '33 portfolio and got down to the serious business of meeting the magazine deadline. Editor Widmayer, by the way, has informed us of a new deadline that will go into effect with next month's issue. In future all material for the notes must reach us by the third of the month to make the next issue. It is hoped that this change will get the mag to you much nearer to the first of the month than has been the case in recent years.
In spite of the two months that have passed since our last issue our mailbag is very light this month. We haven't lit in any one place for very long this summer, as we've tried to get a little research of our own done, work in a brief vacation, and do a survey for the New Hampshire State Board for inebriates—no cracks, please, people in glass houses, and all that sort of thing—so we've been delinquent, as we are every summer, in not keeping up our correspondence. And apparently there's been as little inclination at the other end of the line, because items have been few and far between.
Far and away the biggest and brightest piece of '33 news this summer came with the announcement in mid-July of John Meck's appointment to succeed Halsey Edgerton as Treasurer of the College. John will come to Hanover in February as special assistant to Mr. Edgerton, become familiar with his new duties during the next few months, and assume his post as Treasurer on July 1. It goes without saying that John will be tackling a job that in difficulty and responsibility is equalled only by those of the President and, in these days of unprecedented numbers of applicants, the Director of Admissions.
John, however, comes to the College with a record of experience and achievement that give him unique qualifications for his new as signment. you will find it recorded in detail elsewhere in this issue. We wish him outstanding success and extend a hearty welcome to Hanover.
July also brought us word of another fledgling politico in our ranks. Dick Mosher is run ning for Congress on the Democratic ticket in Syracuse, N. Y. Dick is a graduate of Yale Law, was on the legal staff of the TVA from 1936 to '939. practised law in Syracuse until the war, when he entered the Navy and served as Air Combat Intelligence Officer aboard the Enterprise. Since the war, he has been practising law, and has also been active in veterans' organizations and in public affairs, notably housing.
I he Final Report on the Alumni Fund came out in midsummer and found us with the unenviable distinction of having finished last in our section of The Green Derby, which includes the classes, 1927 to 1935, in terms of percent of objective. We did rather better in terms of participation, but even in this department we fell somewhat behind last year. We may take a crumb of satisfaction, however, from the fact that we raised somewhat more dough for the College than we had ever done before, $6228.74. That ain't hay, but we see no reason why we can't equal or better what other classes do, come another year.
Among our fellow academicians we learn the gods have smiled down upon and rewarded for their good works two brethren. At Colgate Dr. George J. Mundt was promoted from assistant professor to associate professor of German. At Brown Dr. Lorrin A. Riggs was promoted to the rank of associate professor of Psychology.
In the course of our peregrinations this summer we've enjoyed several reunions with the faithful. While we were visiting Jack and DotManchester at Harwichport on the Cape in July, Bob and Babe Fox dropped in for an evening, and what with Esso and Gulf and the Kinsey report we had a fine, and betimes instructive, evening. In August Jedge and AltaDoscher dropped in on us for a brief visit. We were having a siege of virus X at the time, not really set for the kind of welcome we would have liked to give them, but it was fun to see them, to meet Robert Jr., 18 mos., for the first time, and to be brought up to date on the other small and not so small Doscher fry, Pamela Joy, born last May 11, Krile, 13, and Butch (Brewster), 10. Pamela's arrival put the Doscher household right up there with our front runners in the large family section. The Doschers were on their way to visit the CliffJohnsons at their summer camp in southern New Hampshire. We subsequently had word from Cliff that they had a highly successful weekend. Cliff, as Vice-President in Charge of Sales for the H. A. Johnson Cos., has shifted his base of operations from Boston to New York. The family will move shortly from Wellesley Hills to South Orange.
On one of our research trips in the southeastern section of the State we fetched up one evening within easy dinner-striking distance of the D'Arcy's in Dover. Never one to easily pass up temptation to impose on friends, especially on short notice, we struck via telephone and came to dinner, and a very pleasant evening with Muggsy and Don. We missed by just a few days a dip in their new swimming pool which was not quite finished, but we thoroughly enjoyed our stay in one of the most beautiful and charming homes it has ever been our privilege to visit.
One of the key members of our '33 espion age ring in Washington, Drew Dudley, of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, sent us a clipping in July announcing the engagement of Dick Lyon to Marjorie Lois Hausman, of Columbus, Ohio. Drew also reported a visit at the Bank with Ken Spang, now with the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council in New York.
George Werrenrath's engagement to Elsie G. Randall of Watertown, Conn, was announced in July. George has been teaching modern languages at the Hill School in Pottstown, Pa.
Last, but far from least in the nuptials department, came the announcement in August of the marriage of Bill Gaynor to Leola Gene Henry, of Camden, N. J., on August 14. Lo, hath the mighty fallen!
Born, in Hingham, Mass., to Anne and NedLord, a daughter, Mary Barnett, on July 12. And that, friends, is that, and now that we're in business again, leave us have the dope, from all and sundry, everywhere.
Secretary 20 Valley Rd., Hanover, N. H. Treasurer, 2812 Grant Bldg., Pittsburgh 19, Pa,
