1940
As the tenth publication year of this column begins, the thoughts of 1940 are directed to those dates above, to be reserved without qualification for the biggest reunion old Hanover will have ever seen. Don Rainie is reunion chairman, which means it will be superbly organized. The committee is being lined up now to get the ball rolling. Bud Hewitt has agreed to head up the nominating committee, which will assist in getting a class Executive Committee to run things for the six years between our tenth and fifteenth. If you have any possible nominees, looking to a good geographical representation, Bud would appreciate hearing from you. Incidentally, our seldom read class constitution provides that the secretary-chairman and treasurer be elected by the Executive Committee from its membership, and that other class officers, notably Class Agent, are also elected by the Committee, not necessarily from its membership. I expect that last will draw some carping remarks from the present Committee, including references to present methods of appointment and the resemblance they bear to those of Joe, Musso and Adolph. The democratic way, of course, is to suggest, and, in the absence of objection, appoint.
The reunion program for the year will take off with a series of football parties, the complete details of which will have reached you in a mid-month Drum before this. The arrangements at the column deadline were: Penn, October 1, Philadelphia—Bill Rearden has arranged a post-game cocktail party for the Racquet Club.
Holy Cross, October 8, Hanover—There will be a picnic lunch (bring your own, other necessities available) before the game and a cocktail party after, arranged by Jud Lyon. The horde will gather at Jud's apartment, 1 South Park St., opposite the Gym, for directions to the picnic spot, converging upon Jud again after the game for cocktails.
Harvard, October 22, Boston—Gordon Wentworth and Larry Herman have arranged a get-together before the game at the Eliot Lounge, corner of Massachusetts and Commonwealth Avenues, drinks available 10:30 to 12, hot luncheon at 12, and boat ride to and from the game, leaving the dock at 1. The chip is unbelievably low at $1.45 per, the arrangements are wonderful, and it'll be the top '40 party this fall.
Yale, October 29, New Haven—Brownie and Bob Dibble were working at press time to complete arrangements, involving a picnic tent for all Dartmouth through the New Haven Club, or, failing that, a 1940 lawn party at Brownie's "estate" in Hamden, 12 minutes from the Bowl.
Columbia, November 5, New York—BudHewitt is completing arrangements for a postgame open house for 1940 at a conveniently located apartment in town.
Cornell, November 12, Hanover—Same arrangements as for Holy Cross, a pre-game picnic (outdoors if weather permits) and postgame cocktails at Jud's apartment. A separate request for reservations will go out just before the game.
Princeton, November 19, Princeton—No class shindig planned since this seems to be the family party sort of weekend. If any one disagrees and would like to come forward with suggestions, there's plenty of time to get something organized.
Get those cards off to the organizers, if you haven't, to help the planning. It should be a gala fall.
Elsewhere in this issue there is a summary of Fund results for 1949. 1940's superior position is due, as you all know, to the enthusiastic work of one Scott Arthur Rogers Jr. This is just to put it in print in a class publication and to acknowledge Scotty's return to active class work in a blaze of glory. How else?
It's about time to get down to some news of classmates. I'm told that's what this column is about.
Art (Muscles) Ostrander, being an old roommate, rightfully complains that I have ignored, here, the birth of his son last November. This is to announce it, with flourishes, and, though I can't recall the dimensions mentioned, they were such as to put Karl Michael to rubbing his palms together. The old man says he will cooperate and, from his first million, put up a new pool at Hanover.
Not to be outdone in the race for sons to support us in our old age, Moody has another, born July 5, and Brownie has joined the ranks with Brooks Halsey Browne, born in New Haven on August 12. Other prospective and new class associates are: Patricia Zimmer of Kansas City, engaged to R. Smock Thompson, and Margaret Traquair of Melrose, Mass., married late June to Lloyd Blanchard. The rest of the class seems to have reached a pause this summer, there are no other affiliations to report.
One way or another we hear that: Jud Lyon now goes as Professor answering to that eager "Sir" of happy memory, as you know if you read this MAG at all thoroughly; Dr. DannyHarris has been appointed instructor in Astronomy at Case Tech, Cleveland; Mel Wax is a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, studying the economic and social problems of northern New England; Harry Midgley was treasurer of the Jimmy (cancer) Fund in Worcester this summer; Walt Bernstein had an article in Collier's last spring on Rock Graziano; Dr.Don Brown is in general practice in Rockland, Me., having completed his internship at Hartford Hospital; Dr. Chuck Wilde is assistan professor of Histology, Embryology and Pathology at the School of Dentistry, University of Pennsylvania; and the following were able to get to Hanover this summer and to stay at the Inn: Dxvight Flanders, Dr. Ev Czerny,Powell Holbein, Johnny Peacock, Bill Pellington, Perry Weston, Hugh Dryfoos, Ty Cobb, and Bill Shelton, with assorted wives.
In informing Hanover of their changes in address, enough dope came along for me to deduce the following: Dr. Art French is a fellow in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; Joe Feemster is representing DuPont in Boston; Dr. LewChipman has moved to Wilmington, Del.; Hunter Phelan is a big wheel with Colonial Stores Incorporated, Columbia, S. C.; HarryMcMahon has been promoted to district traffic superintendent for telephone in Minneapolis; Dick Glendinning has foresaken Baltimore for the balmy breezes of Winter Haven, Fla.; and Jim Faulkner, for reasons somewhat obvious, has transferred operations from Shanghai to Manila for the North American Companies.
Secretary, 16 Elm St., Montpelier, Vt. Treasurer, W. B. Fonda Co., St. Albans, Vt. '40's STUPENDOUS COLOSSAL TENTH June 16 to 18, 1950
