1940
We wonder what has become of JohnnyNewman, Bud Krone, Bob Rodday, BeezieSmallwood, Don Hause, Bill Cleaves, Scott Dillingham, Bill Harriman, Bill Maxson, JohnnyEnglish, Chief Wonson, We used to hear from you guys once in a while. The summer lapse in columning for '40 gave us a small chance to review our correspondence of the past year. Where were you?
The summer was quiet, to hear you tell it, most everywhere. One exception seems to have been the resignations from the 1940 Bachelors Marching and Chowder Society. If this continues, wife control at reunion two years hence will not be a fraction the problem they tried to make it last time around. We learned that: Jack Rourke and Joan Lane, Smith '42, were married in Hollywood last December 8, but deferred announcement until August; Bob Hartmann and Beatrice Wake- field of Scarsdale were married in Grace Church, New York, July 24, with Jack Little among the ushers; Walt Kelley and Patricia von Schmid of Montclair were married there August 7; the engagement of Dee Anne Bonsib of Scarsdale to Jamie Thomas was announced in June, with a September wedding planned.
To complete the affiliates division, Marcia Weston was born to Perry and Olive July 20 in Springfield, Mass. and Wentworth Lawrence Durgin joined the family of Larry and Eunice August 26 in Norwich, N. Y.
We have also learned of the death of BobMyers on June 10. Further details will be published next month.
Cleveland has some activity now, besides the Indians. Scotty Rogers has rejoined the 1940 Politbureau through election to the job of Class Agent, following the resignation of Don Fox. Scotty will also take over the editing of The Indian Drum from Don Rainie. The two Dons, a team, and a successful one, for this past year, find the pressure of advertising and law such that time comes hard for extra work. Our thanks, for the class, to them for many hours of work, unpaid, but, we hope they feel, fully appreciated.
Further on class business, we have a Treasurer's report. It shows, for the year ended last June 30, a surplus of $709.32, apparently due entirely to the watching of the class purse by Jack. Our total expenses for the year, outside MAGAZINE subscriptions, amounted to $139.43. We had 357 dues-paying members out of 598 in the class, of which 467 are graduates.
The organization of football parties, this year, is to be on an informal, regional basis, due entirely to the lack of interest in general class shindigs shown last year, and the consequent disinterest of the working planners whose efforts resulted in small turnouts a year ago. We stubbornly insist that such are and have been, the best class reunions possible. The fact that our beavering along these lines has brought poor results only increases our beaverishness. At least, there'll be more tries.
The letter writers are: Jack Rourke, who says, "We have quite a tie-up with Dartmouth in our own business. Frank Danzig '37 directs auditions for us. Fred Fuld handles our books, takes care of disbursements, and is our general business manager. Frank Reeves is still out here. Also, Dick Krolik, who's really '40, I think, has been doing some writing for us. I had a letter from Doc Aulmann, still in Des Moines with Eagle Iron Works. And just the other day, I saw Jerry Schnitzer on the street with almost completely gray hair, which doesn't hurt his appearance any." Bud Hewitt says, "I understand Ray Dau has left his advertising job here and gone to Chicago. ChalCarothers has been ill for three months with a recurrence of lung trouble he contracted in the Army. He's up again and back at his job with Sylvania Electric. Jack McDonald has left his job in Rochester to look for more fertile employment in the personnel field and was in New York several weeks ago. John Moore is being transferred by Metropolitan Life to Cleveland to work on group insurance. Business is booming. We're now having our headaches on production to keep up with orders for sleeve garters to be worn in conjunction with New Look blouses."
Other news of the month is: Gardy Friedlander, who has been in charge of the Phoenix Hosiery Cos. plant in Superior, Wis. has been transferred back to the main office in Milwaukee, and Bill Halsey is in Sweden studying under a fellowship from the American Scandinavian Foundation and the Harvard School of Design, from which he received a degree earlier this year. Bill's field is social and economic aspects of Scandinavian life as reflected in the design professions, with emphasis upon architecture.
Hanover visitors this summer were: Dr. andMrs. Bud Czerny, Cec and Nell Moore, Herband Mildred Foster, Dr. Ted and JosephineBovill, and New York's most lone wolf, HughieDryfoos.
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