1935

With this issue comes the fifth and last statistical report on John Q. Thirty-five. We've been giving him a rather thorough going-over physically, sexually and maritally. Now we hit him vocationally and educationally. We start with the question, "How does the class make a living?" Personally I wonder these days how anyone does, but it seems most of us work in one form or another. And we straddle the well-known gamut.

Out of 404 replies the figures show that the largest percentage of us labor in manufacturing and production, which still only accounts for 15%. To help those boys out, 12% of the class has gone into sales work. And to keep them healthy and on the job, 10% of us have entered medicine. To keep us from making mistakes and to get us out of them, 9% of the group delves into law in its various forms. Apparently enjoying the educational process and wishing to pass that joy along, 7% have taken up teaching. This includes one dean and three school principals. It takes 5% of the class to put out .the advertising to help the salesmen sell what the 15% of us help to make. And then along comes 4% to insure all this stuff plus the lives of the guys the doctors manage to keep on their feet. Another 4% are retailing, some just working and some with their own stores and outlets (also working). To bank the bundle of bucks that all of the above involves takes 3% of us. And a similar number engineers us along technically, chemically, electrically, etceterally.

In addition to all this we have a restaurateur, a brewer, a packer, two ranchers, two candy manufacturers, four farmers, and a minister. There's an artist, a Naval architect,

a landscaper, a forester, a geologist, an interior decorator, three writers, a photolithographer, an historian, a welfare worker, a printer, four researchers, and a politician. We boast two wholesalers, three brokers, an FBI agent, three realtors, a comptroller, seven accountants, four contractors, seven civil service workers, five import-exporters, and three personnel workers. Three of us earn a living in aviation, four in publishing, seven in public relations, four in shipping, one in public utilities, two in hotels, three in motion pictures, one in the mail order business. We have a radio station manager and a radio announcer, one man with his own general store, one still in the Navy, four still in.the Army, and three of us are back in school! Included in this business directory are ten presidents, twenty-one vice-presidents, three secretaries, seven treasurers, thirty partners and two directors—all of which still leaves a helluva lot of just plain Joes.

There are the jobs. How long have we been battling away at them? Well, one hundred of those replying have been with the same outfit for eleven years or more (25%). 29% have been permanent fixtures from six to ten years, 23% from two to five years, and 23% from a few weeks to two years. Outside of the first group of old-timers the largest number fall in the one year class (62 men) followed closely by the two year olds (55 men). Looks as though nearly 30% of us came out of the war with a fresh start. If it's of any interest, half of us have worked six years or less, and half seven years or more without a change.

Now what about the other jobs we've left behind, if any? 30% of those replying are still putting their feet up on the original mahogany desk. 29% have had two jobs. 22% have had three. 12% are now in their fourth move. 6% have run the string to five. Three of us have had six jobs and one man with restless feet has had seven.

For contrast, let's turn back to our days in Hanover. With at least twelve years to give, it serious thought the great majority of us feel that we didn't get all we could out of college—83% to be exact. (A good many of us would probably have replied the same way when we were handed our diplomas in the Bema.) However, if we had it to do over again only 73% would do it differently. Bear in mind that's a reflection tempered by a dozen years of living in the outside world. Nearly three-quarters of us know of definite courses we wish we had taken, mostly courses associated with business. But a surprising number would go to medical school on the second try. Since nearly all of us are in work where an education is essential it's natural that 96% of the class should feel Dartmouth has been an asset. And our college friendships seem to stick pretty well—83% have continued them to some degree.

When war came along more than half of us (56%) ended up wearing a uniform. Of that number 57% were in the Army, 37% in the eight men were in the Coast Guard and six in the Marines. As a result of this

service twenty-seven men of those replying are taking advantage of the G.I. Bill to acquire further schooling. And out of 232 eligible, 69 have seen fit to join a veterans organization. The AVC has 29 of them, the American Legion has 37, the VFW has 6, RONS has 5, and the JWV and MOW one each. It seems that most of us are not interested.

And that, my friends, for what it's worth, winds up the statistics on the Class of 1935. There's nothing astounding about us. We're pretty much average. But perhaps the picture of what we really are has been made a little clearer. Special thanks are extended to my good wife, Babs, who spent many a long winter night helping in the tabulation. It was fun working on it. Hope you've enjoyed the results.

Time for a couple of news items before we close this up for the night. A clipping from Chicago says that Grant Herman of Highland Park is being married to Marjorie Murray of the same place. The clipping is dated February 21, so I presume that Grant is married and the honeymoon is over by now. And from Bennington, Vermont, comes word that State's Attorney Jim Holden has been appointed (take a deep breath) a member of the Committee on Relations with Law Students of the Junior Bar Conference of the American Bar Association. (Let's adjourn to the nearest bar association and drink this one over.) Jim went on from Dartmouth to Albany Law School and was admitted to the Vermont Bar in 1938. During the war he served with the 43rd Infantry Division for five years. When he returned as a civilian he became town attorney for Bennington from 1946 to 1947, and in the latter year was elected State's Attorney for Bennington county. Jim and his wife, Helen, have two children, Susan and Peter.

Visitors to the Hanover Inn during February: Jay Wolff and wife from Larchmont, N. Y., Ed Elsenhans with the Mrs. up from Philadelphia, and Dick Hirschland who stopped in from Harrison, N. Y.

I see Bob Kugler has crawled out of his cocoon with a handful of musty notes and issued a couple of Tear Bags for the archives (what happens to the questionnaires he sends himself). Therefore there is no need for me to mention the fact that the Alumni Fund drive is underway and we're looking forward to bettering our record-smashing participation figure of last year. Let Kugler talk about it. But let's all do something about it. See you next month.

Secretary, Compton Advertising, Inc. 630 sth Ave., New York 20, N. Y. Treasurer, _ 1001 North Eye St., Tacoma, Wash. Class Agent, 89 Grovers Ave., Bridgeport, Conn.