1940
Colgate was evidently the low draw of the year for 1940. We hear that Don Rainie,Deane Freemen and Dave Leake made up the brigade. Our spotters at Harvard, its successor cocktail parties and the Copley dance forgot there was a deadline. CharleyPower and Bud Hewitt were there for Yale, however, and remembered to write about it. It goes like this, "The Yale game was a joy to behold. We have been prone to criticize McLaughry a great deal in previous years, largely because the boys seemed poorly drilled in fundamentals. Apparently all he needed was the material and he certainly has it this year.
"It should please you to know that Portal Two was the scene of an unofficial reunion and the group was still milling about some time after the pleasant debacle had ended.
"There were Hugh Dryfoos (with a lovely girl worthy of giving the boy his first credit), Marty Rubin, George Johnson, Bert Blake,John Newman, Elmer Browne, Cal Sterling,Welles Seller, Bob Brooks, Earl Kochersperger,Les Nichols, Hank Marlor, Fred Bachelder,Sid Harrington, Dick Warner, John English,John Burnap, Ray Unangst, Dwight Meader,Jim Darnley, Dick Mitchell, Ed Miller and Howie Zagor. Our apologies if we missed any one, but they should be fairly well covered.
"Many of the folk expressed great interest in the usual winter Saturday get-togethers at the New York Club which we hope to have about once a month.
"Dartmouth Night at the Club was a big success in total but not insofar as our sterling class was concerned. Notices were sent out to all alumni in the area with return postcards about dinner arrangements, but the only locals were Jack Little, Jamie Thomas, Power and Hewitt. We were bolstered by out-oftowners Dick Everett from Nashua, DaveGibson from Toledo and Bob Clark, just back from Germany."
Bill Harriman, removing the mantle of silence of the last three years, writes, "I'm finishing the fourth year in the same Lake Maracaibo rut for Creole Petroleum. Operations are booming, and production is up to 400,000 barrels a day, making this district by far the biggest single oil producing unit in the world. I've been acting district geologist for about a year out of the last two and will probably return from vacation holding that job regularly. Have to put in about 60 hours per week on the average, but it is highly interesting and lucrative work.
"The family Ann, Billy (5) and Larry (21/2) thrive here. The lads are as rough and tough as they come and should do a lot more tor the Big Green teams than the old man ever did. One of the principal things missing from the otherwise very pleasant life is contact with Dartmouth men, especially old buddies of '40. Don't see one from one year to the next, but hope to get back in the fold this fall on vacation."
Somewhat tardily (they were left in the shuffle for the November column), here's some news about summer in Boston as seen by Gordon Wentworth, and one episode in the summer as they spend it in New Jersey. Gordon writes, "My news is scarce since I spent April, May and, June in Argentina and Brazil and weekends and vacation since on the Cape where Rosalie and Sally were sun worshippers. I see Bill Squier frequently, but missed Bill Daniels when he came to Boston in August to show off his young daughter of a few months. Sid McPherson, still at Children's Hospital, spent July weekends at our cottage where his wife and three year old were visiting. Rollie Hillas still rides the 7:55 from Needham to Boston with me and admits that between his insurance and my banking we ought to be able to grab the financial reins of the area. Occasionally I see Copper Nye who also lives in Needham. I understand Lloyd Blanchard has given up his work in the Reading public schools for equivalent work in Stamford, Conn."
They do it this way in New Jersey, BillBumsted says: "Bill Wrightson has acquired a fishing yacht and he and Van Cleve and Scott and I went fishing. Bill got the only tuna, and we all caught albion, bonita and Schlitz. See you on the Lord this winter."
For non-chubbers, the Lord is a better ski trail on Mt. Mansfield, a short hike from Montpelier. This seems a good place to mention that the Moodys are in Stowe on weekends all winter, in Montpelier most of the rest of the time. How about letting us know when you're coming—for the best skiing in the east?
It appears that the forgotten man is, nationally, having a hell of a time getting himself a little privacy. Let's follow the trend. Will hermits Art Pollan, Danny Sullivan,Russ Gorman, Joe Harpham, Bob Jordan and Howie Marshall, unless they're all Republicans, please bare their souls? It's been an era since we last heard.
It seems as if we've been twice around the circuit, but no. The following are leaving or have left the bachelor bunch for the first time: Dave Leake, engaged to Purnell Atkinson of Baltimore, September 19; Pres Jo-yes, engaged to Adele Palmer of Louisville; JamieThomas, wed with Dee Anne Bonsib of Scarsdale, September 17; Lloyd Blanchard, engaged to Margaret Traquair of Melrose; Bob Common, engaged to Alice Green of Lake View (Buffalo) N. Y.; Jack Blethen, engaged to Barbara Prentice of Seattle, September 25. That reduces the unaffiliated to approximately two and one-half.
Along the way, they tell us that: RedHerman is the proud parent of William Hickey, born October 1 in Beantown; ArtOstrander is an independent management consultant in Minneapolis; Bob Gensel is setting up a new wayside furniture store in Mineola, Long Island; Les Nichols had a nice writeup a couple of weeks ago in the Herald Trib in connection with his activities as capable publicist for the National Horse Show, a sort of between seasons stint before going into high gear for Garden basketball this winter; Joe Burnett is back at the University of Rochester taking graduate work toward his Ph.D. in nuclear physics; BillWalk is still a major in the Air Force (meteorology) stationed now in Washington; FrankAgar is an artist for W. T. Grant in New York; Jack Fitzgerald has been busy this fall directing the campaign of his father for Senator from Massachusetts; Lt. Bob Brown is overseas (Germany) in Army transportation; George Sommers is teaching and coaching at Marshfield, Wis., High School; BobKinsman is an instructor in English at UCLA, not USC as previously erroneously reported; Jack Ingersoll is with a casualty insurance company in Cincinnati, presumably in law; Fred Pillsbury is practicing law in his own office in Springfield, Mass.; G. K. Johnson has forsaken the great city and is working as an engineer for Pratt & Whitney in Hartford, living in South Glastonbury (first house after the four corners); Bob Clark is back in New York, to stay, still with Standard Oil (N.J.) in foreign marketing; Iver Olsen is an economics instructor at DePaul, Chicago (our informant neglected to mention whether or not Iver still has that beard); Charlie Pinderhughes, now an MD, works for the VA at Cushing Hospital, Framingham, Mass.; and Cleveland, so far as we know, fell into Lake Erie the day after the Series.
Secretary, % 16 Elm St., Montpelier, Vt. Treasurer, W. B. Fonda Co., St. Albans, Vt.
