1941
As it has been a few months since we have had a chance to get together in this column, there is quite a bit of ground to cover. However I'll just take space enough to say hello and welcome back to all of you after what I trust has been a pleasant summer for everyone.
I'll have to backtrack a few months to give you that promised short report on the Treasurer and Secretary Class Meetings in Hanover in May. "Stu" May wasn't able to get back as he had a conflicting business trip, so Stillman took the midnight train up sans treasurer. Hanover looked fine again—just the same, but very wet, rain wet I mean, as it only stopped drooling long enough to play a baseball game against Yale Saturday afternoon.
Lou Young happened to be on the same train going up, as he was attending a football council meeting the sa:-ne weekend. After duly checking in, Lou and I sat down for a good long visit over breakfast in the Inn, and then decided to wander down to the fieldhouse to look up one "Snuffy" Smith and borrow a couple of raincoats.
Lots has happened to "Snuff" though, since May. He was married on July 28 to Frances Folsom Ward in St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City. Those of you planning to be in Hanover for any of the football games this fall will find Frances and "Snuff" at 36 West Wheelock, Hanover.
Dick McCornack proved a pretty elusive character the whole time, and while we contacted one another by notes, we weren't able to get together. Dick, too, has recently been married—June 14 to be exact—in Hanover, to Barbara Ann Basye, daughter of Prof, and Mrs. Basye.
Lew Johnstone was also in Hanover that weekend, and was really sweating out the Alumni Fund drive. I fully appreciated, then, the time and energy Lew puts into it, and we all owe him a big vote of thanks for keeping the class on its toes and coming through for the second straight year on top. Lew asked me, however, to express his appreciation to all those who contributed, and his gratitude for the grand cooperation exhibited by all.
Summer around the New York area was not exactly dull. Bob Koenig spent a couple of months polishing up his tennis game, and then led the lamb Stillman to slaughter by consistently polishing him off. "Perc" Holloway returned brown as an Indian from a vacation at Cape May, N. J., and continued the theme with Sunday breakfast parties on the beach near his home, the success of which can be verified by Koenig. The Bruce Friedlich's bought a new home—a really lovely one—in Verona, N. J. George Canfield has recently set up in business for himself in New York as a manufacturers a?ent and all reports indicate a very successful launching. I heard from Barbara and Dick Fisher—and last reports had them busily house hunting. The DanProvosts have moved into a new apartment. The George Seels have just returned from a two-week hiatus on Cape Cod.
While in Chicago recently I lunched with George Wrisley, who is busy as a bird dog keeping things humming at the Allan B. Wrisley Company. George had recently returned from a business trip to Cuba, and was busily planning another one through the southeastern states. He also reported BobHixon in good shape, and Fred Eaton going great guns at Sears in Chicago. Fred, I believe, has recently bought a new house around Hinsdale, Illinois. George also intimated that Bob Nissen may soon be moving from Minneapolis back to Chicago. Is that the straight dope, "Niss"?
In August I bumped into Walt Kelley '40 strolling along a Montclair street, and was, of course, surprised to find the erstwhile Clevelander in this neck of the woods. He nonchalantly announced to me that he was being married that afternoon to a Montclair girl, and that Pete Keir was to be his best man. Patricia and I found Pete and Audrey sitting outside one of the local ice cream emporia, and arranged for a short party after the wedding. The party was enjoyed in due course, and then we packed Pete and Audrey off to Pete Glenn's house for the weekend. Old P.C.T.G. is a nearby New Jersey neighbor now. Pete Keir mentioned that LarryThompson is remaining on at Harvard to work on a graduate research project. "Bro"Bishop, I understand, was to have been an usher in the same wedding, but was unable to get away from Cleveland at that time. Pete, by the way, will be a member of the Amherst faculty this fall.
I was the happy recipient recently of a copy of "Dartmouth Men of Northern California and Nevada," together with "Squeaks from the Golden Gate," and I'm sure I have Bob White, and Bill Danforth, Vice President and Asst. Secretary respectively of that august alumni group, to thank. They're a wellknit gang out there and I was surprised at the number of '41's in the San Francisco area—l 7 of 'em at last count as follows: Doug Atwood, "Nick" Carter, Bill Clark, Bill Danforth, Bill Durkee, Dick Engelbert, "Ollie" Gross, Jack Guenther, Bob Hamilton, Tom Lawley, John Mathys, Willard Miller, Ted Redington, Don Ross, John Tate, Bob White, and Frank Woodward.
And now to try to finish up with all the rest of the news, though some will have to be carried over until next month.
The Hadley Wards are relatively new parents since the appearance on April 27 of Susan Hathaway Ward. Dr. "Sandy" Courter is now associated with the Fischbach Memorial Group in Cincinnati, Ohio. Jane and DonHanks are the proud parents of twin sons, Peter Darrow, and Paul Wilson, born on Tune 5. Late in the spring in Peoria, Illinois, Miss Lucille Somraer was married to Frank E.Clark of Elizabethton, Tenn. They will live in New Orleans where Frank will be a member of the Tulane faculty.
That's it for this month. See you again in November. Hope you will all drop me a note —it only takes a few minutes—and we need the dope so keep this column perking.
Secretary. 160 Gordonhurst Ave., Bldg. A-31 Upper Montclair, N. J. Treasurer, Summit Drive, Bay Hills, Huntington, L. 1., N. Y.
