1944
With that Big Green Tide pounding thru the Ivy League we are getting more and more of those '44 desk jockeys away from the office on Saturdays. We had a fine turnout for the Yale walloping.... but the '43s and '45s outdid us as usual, showing up like Democratic ward heelers on Election Day. However we are expecting the top group at the Princeton game (it says here on the little straw poll).
Spotted Chucker Glines in New Haven. Chuck making a very successful hobby of collecting money in the real estate and insurance fields, still views world conditions with Gabriel Heater gloom and this was just after our 41-14 victory and three days before that election debacle. Bill Orr, heading up a Caddy-Oldsmobile agency in Springfield, is seen cruising about in a fin tail. Rog Arnold, in Buffalo, rearing a large but cozy fireside group Joe Malino, seen recently at the Dartmouth Club, reports selling clothing in the mid-west Harry Davis, spotted at several emporiums about town, still sticking with the by-word "Everybody loves a fat man" and downs another glass of hops Carl Eldridge, Harvard Law graduate, recently passed the New York State bar exams JackGrimm, still with Macy's department store and squiring a bevy of lovely models .... saw Bob Marra and his charming wife at sundry parties following the Harvard game; Bob, stocks and bonds broker, reports good business Jack Riley, planning an overseas hockey jaunt unfortunately broke his wrist last week, and will have to stick to the clothing business for a while.
Read about Bob Gurley's dad in Fortune this month, but haven't heard a thing about Rapid Robert since that Greenwich Village scuffle several years back .... saw Walt Acher steaming up E. 38th St. the other day looking as tho' someone had just handed him Fort Knox Bob Hyde, now at the Yale Forestry School, reports that he and the missus played very professional chubber with the U. S. Forest Service in Montana last summer; on the way back to Yale they ran into DickKerwin who is working on an advanced degree in bacteriology at New Hampshire Dined with Rick Lewis and his pretty wife Helena at the Bowman Room several weeks ag0.... we got socked with a $35.00 check for a couple of plates of broken down chicken a la king and have been trying Nedick's burgers since .... have had several inquiries for Ted"Jungle Bat" Brush .... after a stretch in the air force, a scramble of jobs, and a tussle with the housing situation, Jack Jenness has settled down and is all set to latch into a Newsletter.
We're all in for a lambasting from our class agent, Don Pfeifle, for our dismal showing in the last Alumni Fund drive. The Chicago White Sox couldn't dig much deeper in the cellar than the class of '44 did. However, in spite of all, Don has been good enough to pass along news of meeting Phil Brown and helping him and the Penn DKEs inaugurate their new bar. Also that Bud Cannon, rising young exec in Metropolitan Life, plans to move with the wife and little daughter to a new abode in Levittown come December.. .. and join other '44s, Claude Schucter, Dick Ostberg, and Merril Summers .... also news of Howie Pennington, former Aegis business manager, fighting Worth St. in the heart of the garment district for Wellington Sears.
Don Burnham, making the 2 AM shift with his three-month-old son, took time out to write: "Lou Savage was recently here in Washington to make a report on his polar cruises, both Antarctic and Arctic this past year. He is now slated for duty at Chelsea Naval Hospital. Charlie Regan is on an APA in the Pacific and when last heard from was at port in Tsing Tao, China. On his way to the Orient, he ran into Joe Buckley at the San Diego Naval Hospital. AI Slorrs, serving on the ship Dartmouth reservists cruised this year, is at Pearl Harbor and Jack Tope, recently married to a Navy nurse, is a flight surgeon in China Marsh Tenny is trying Shanghai.... while Brad and Carol Campbell are making the rounds of Japan. John Mock recently was transferred from here to the Naval hospital in Houston, Tex."
Jack Buck, the Sultan of Schnapps, after sports reporting for the Baltimore Sun and trying a year or so with a glass blowing company, has gone into free lance magazine writing. It is hoped that his works will prove inspiring to Tower Room activity on those rainy days. U. S. Law Courts will soon be stumped by such '44 luminaries as JohnnyVandergrift (Georgetown), John Tyler (U. of Va.) and Monte "Buzz" Basbas (Boston U.).
For just a few quickie placements: JimRudnick, office managing for Diamond Crystal Colonial Salt in Akron, O.; AI Meyers, dealing in paper and other sundry mill supplies in Salem, Mass.; Johnny Englehorn, dealer of fancy metals in the Empire State Bldg. (not Empire Gold Buying); Johnny Hanson, a Philly architect; Dr. Jim Averill, operating at the Naval Hospital in Middletown, R. I.; Dr.Horace Blood, nose and throating in Concord, N. H.; Henry Best, auditing and accounting in East Natick, Mass.; Russel Baldridge, jet propelling around the stock exchange; DickBarry, vice consul to Siam at the American Embassy in Bangkok .... can't imagine a nicer place to be for the next four political years.
Bob Harris and the wife worked in a weekend of Hanover fall weather and foliage recently .... came all the way from Aurora, O. Jack Sterling got up for a visit too. Phil Penberthy, Greenwich Home Appliance Co., for reasons beknown only to himself, Reg Pierce, and Jos. Schlitz took umbrage at trucking traffic on the Post Rd stepped out on the macadam, raised the palm, and stashed up several blocks of goose-neck trailer vans. And this happened during the beer strike.
More good tidings in the love and matrimonial division. "Lem" Arnold and Elinor St. Johns were married at the Choate School Chapel.... Bill Hale ushering; Bob "Sunny"Sundblad and Eleanor Diament Harris tied the nuptials in New Haven, with Ab Davis and Freddy Page in attendance; "Win" Martin was married to Ann Porter Baker, daughter of Maj. General George Baker, in Philadephia. Our best wishes to all!
Engagements last month feature BurtonBickford and Ester Sherburne, Steve Flynn and Catherine Flaherty.
To recoin an old phrase for the benefit of this column.... "no news is no news." I know it is difficult to write anything about yourself, but drop me a note about some of your illustrious colleagues. I trust and hope that you and your families will all enjoy a wonderful Christmas season.
Secretary, 26 Olmsted Rd., Scarsdale, N. Y. Treasurer, 100 Hersey St., Hingham, Mass.
