1933
The irrefrangible deadline is upon us again, and finds us with mere driblets of '33 information. This past month vies with the leanest in our tenure of office. Must be the Ides of March or late winter doldrums or something. At any rate we shall not detain you long this month, even if we yield to our tested custom of shovelling mountains of fluff into the typewriter.
Three weeks ago we shed our academic harness for a couple of days, slipped out of our ivory tower, and journeyed south to the country of Jonathan Edwards, insurance, Pratt & Whitney, and Sam Black (a name to conjure with, now that spring may be rolling around again), and found shelter and refreshment, solid and liquid, with Bill and Eleanor Bates in West Hartford. There in the course of a delightful evening we picked up a few items of interest to you. Ed Knapp, who shares with a host of others the distinction of having successfully concealed his whereabouts and doings from the class secretary for several years, put in an appearance. We found that Ed had recently moved to Hartford from New York, having been transferred to the home office of the Aetna Insurance Company, and that he had passed a miracle and found a house for his family, who will follow him there shortly.
Bill and Maggie Judd '34 blew in that night with Sam and Jean Black, both couples having successfully put their numerous progeny under gates and bars in New Britain for the evening, and the J udds, in the course of a discussion of the shortcomings of class secretaries, revealed that their fourth (or was it fourteenth?), Margaret Ann, born June 23, 1947, had never been officially welcomed into the Dartmouth family. Naturally, our sympathies lie with the esteemed secretary of the Class of 1934 in this matter. He very likely got tired of counting Judds, or, as they say up this way in taown meetin', a mite confused. We secretaries have our troubles. I can see him scratching his head over the announcement, wondering "Now, didn't I run this just a couple of months ago?" Anyway, Margaret Ann won't mind much if she gets her Dartmouth baptismal certificate in the '33 notes instead of '34, and our colleague in the next column can return the favor sometime.
Bill Bates is a modest sort of fellow, and I had to get it from the other boys and a clipping service that he had recently moved up a notch or two in the insurance hierarchy. Aetna (Fire) Insurance Company and associated companies recently elected him assistant treasurer of the whole outfit. Have no idea how many tens or hundreds of millions Bill is caring for now, but he has my, and doubtless your, heartfelt sympathy. Wish Bill had gone into some other line of business. Our investment problems are -not very serious, but we could use a lot of free advice these days on how to pay bills.
The law firm of Martin, Snyder and Rockwell, lawyers, out in Chicago must be booming. Johnnie's outfit recently announced the addition of another member, and a change in the name of the firm. It's now Martin, Hastings, Snyder and Rockwell, and an additional associate, one Joseph A. Donovan, has been signed on.
'33's large delegation in the medical profession has undergone a flurry of relocations recently. The Alumni Records Office has notified us of the following new addresses for our docs: Phil Byers is with the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio. Bob Cunningham is in San Diego; Bob Swinehart in Baltimore; John Davidson, in Springfield, Ohio; Tom Renl is with the Bartron Clinic & Hospital in Watertown, South Dakota.
Ray Peck is with the Northwest Paper Co., of Cloquet, Minn., in sales administration. Dave Stewart is with the U. S. Maritime Commission in New York City. Carl Hopkins, after many years' experience as a sociologist and statistician first in social work on the west coast, later with Kaiser building ships, and most recently with UNRAA in China, is now back in Cambridge winding up his Ph. D. at Harvard.
Secretary, 20 Valley Rd., Hanover, N. H. Treasurer, 2812 Grant Bldg., Pittsburgh 19, Pa. Class Agent, w The Stanley Works, New Britain, Conn.
