1933
Back in Hanover after a summer's researching, the town outwardly shows no sign of being about to spring to life with the opening of the new college year. The dorms are closed and still. The campus is green and the summer's grass has almost succeeded in obliterating the basepaths on the diamond. The only occupants of the Library are the staff and a few o£ the visiting scholars who spent the summer months studying and writing there. But appearances are deceiving. On the east side of town, on Chase Field, Tuss and his assistants are putting the football squad through its paces morning and afternoon; in another department, Charlie Widmayer is stoking the MAGAZINE fires with notices to class secretaries to please observe the Sept. 5 deadline—which brings us, this being Sept. 6, into an all too familiar doghouse. Rummaging around same we find, in the summer's accumulation:
Several items from Tulsa, Okla., forwarded to us by Jack Ferguson '15, bringing us up to date on a couple of '33s. The first is a picture of Chuck March and other members of the Tulsa Tennis Club who played host to the Annual State Tennis Tournament. Jack advises that Chuck, in addition to his tennis activities, was recently elected president of the Dartmouth Club of Eastern Oklahoma. The other items are about Henry Dericks, who moved to Tulsa in June as vice-president and general manager of the Fifth and Boston Corporation. A construction engineer, Henry has been on the move constantly and welcomed the chance that his new job will give him and his family to establish a permanent home. A lieutenant commander in the Navy during the war, Henry is also active in Naval Reserve activities in Tulsa.
Back in June when the Fund was in the stretch Sam Black relayed an excerpt from a letter from Carl Rugen, N.Y.C.: "As to news of me, there is not too much. I see Jud Pierson for lunch or a ball game occasionally, but he is about the only '33er. I happen to see more of the younger classes as I married the sister of Em McMullen '35 and I have brothers in the classes of '38, '42 and '51. Last summer my wife and I went to Basin Harbor, Vt. for vacation. One of the bellhops there was a Dartmouth undergraduate. He said, 'I know a Rugen at Dartmouth. Are you his father?' Sic transit gloria mundi, as the Romans so amusingly put it. I feel pretty transit at times."
Aiso gleaned from Sam's files the hitherto unreported two latest offspring of Jim Campbell, of Manchester, Vt., Dorothy Maynor, born August 31, 1946, and Pauline Jeffrey, born November 27, 1947.
Born June 15 to Gordon and Mona Hull, of Hanover, a daughter, Berney Elizabeth, bringing their total to five. We know of a number of '33 families of four children, but this is the first of five, to our knowledge. Correct us if we're wrong. Gordon, by the way, will be on leave of absence from his post as Professor of Physics here during the coming year. He is sailing with his family on the- America on September 21 bound for England and the Continent. He will have the interesting assignment of conducting a survey and preparing a report for the Navy on current scientific research, principally physics, in England and on the Continent.
Francis W. Cleaves received his promotion to an Associate Professorship of Far Eastern Languages at Harvard last June. A specialist in Sino-Mongolian studies, Francis has had an interesting career. He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard. From 1939 to 1941 he was a fellowship holder at the Harvard-Yenching Institute. He studied for two years at the Sorbonne in Paris and in 1938 was made Director of the Sino-Indian Institute in Peiping, a position he held until returning to Harvard as Teaching Fellow in 1941. Commissioned in the Navy in 1943 he served as Civil Affairs Officer in Tientsin, where he served until August 1946.
He is an editor of the Harvard Journal ofAsiatic Studies, and Chairman of the SubCommittee for the Chinese-English Dictionary Project of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. He is a member of the American Oriental Society and of the Societe Asiatique in Paris.
Evan R. Collins took over his duties as president of New York State College for Teachers in Albany, N.Y. on July 1. You will recall our announcement in the last issue of the MAGAZINE of his appointment to this post, following a highly successful career in teachers education. Prior to his appointment, Evan was Dean of the College of Education at Ohio University.
We have known for some time that an auspicious political career was in the making down in Connecticut. Our spies down yonder have been reporting for a couple of years that Manny Sprague was making a name for himself in the State Legislature. A few months ago the word broke into print. We quote from the Greenwich, Conn. Times: "Chairman of the important Finance Committee, Rep. Mansfield D. Sprague, Republican, of New Canaan, is being looked upon as one of the several promising young legislators who entered public life following outstanding war service. A lieutenant in the United States Navy, Rep. Sprague had a distinguished record as one of the famed Navy Night Fighters. Although he makes his home in New Canaan, Rep. Sprague is a native of Bridgeport, and is a partner in the law firm of Boardman, Stoddard and McCarthy in the latter city. In the General Assembly, he is serving his second term and is on the Committees on Finance and Insurance."
We had a note from Manny in August and while one would hardly get the idea from his letter that he had done anything more than put in some time in the Legislature he did have this to say about it: "I found my work to be a good deal of interest and I hope the (Finance) Committee's efforts were in the cause of good government for the State of Connecticut." Of '33s Manny has this to say: "I have run into Sam Black occasionally and at two hearings which my committee conducted in Hartford we had the pleasure of having DickBanfield present. He is still in Hartford with Niles-Bement-Pond. I see Burl Naramore a good deal as he is a client of mine here in Bridgeport, and have seen something of StirlWheeler who has moved to New Canaan recently. I think he has returned permanently from Mexico but is still associated with Young and Rubicam of New York."
Other developments in Connecticut over the summer were the marriage of George Werrenrath to Elsie G. Randall in Watertown on June 22, and the announcement of the formation of a new law partnership in Waterbury. Maurice T. Healey and John S. Monagan announced the establishment of the firm of Healey and Monagan.
Professor Gordon Ferrie Hull Sr. advised us recently that Robert B. Colburn is Ass't Editor of Business Week.
Among the '33s who have stopped over at the Inn during the summer were John B.Hunley Jr., Mr. and Mrs. John K. Smart,Henry Craig Smith, Dr. and Mrs. Winston J.Rowe, Harold F. Mackey, and Mr. and Mrs.Melville Katz. The Wes Beatties spent a week here in August with the Keenes of Etna.
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