1943
Did you take our advice and have a good summer? Well anyway, four months and a couple of sunburns later we are back again with our first offering for a new publication year. Careful readers will note that our address has changed from Parkhust to Crosby Hall. This does not mean that we are back again pounding the books, for the Crosby Hall which we first knew ten years ago (egad, it has been ten years since Hoppy handed us that matriculation certificate!) is no more. During the summer emissaries of the Building & Grounds Dept. tore the entrails out of the grand, old, pillar-faced lady, to put it bluntly, in order to make way for some new administrative offices, one of which has been assigned to us.
Returning to the matter at hand, material for this month's column is fairly plentiful—in fact so plentiful that we shall have to hold some over until November in order to keep it down to a respectable word quota.
Turning first to vital statistics, we have three engagements to report. One of our Rhodes Scholars, Jerry Blanchet, is betrothed to Nancy Hughes Hoag (Smith '48) of Wellesley Farms, Mass., who has been studying the past year at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. Jerry was in Hanover during our vacation in August, and hence we cannot confirm our suspicions that he was honeymooning at that time. The second engagement is that of former Woodwardite Ralph Entwistle to Margaret Philippa Pigors of Framingham Center, Mass. Ralph's fiancee is a Wellesley alumna and an autumn wedding is planned. Third man on our list is Martin T. "Killer" Kane, whose betrothal to Marie Farrell Naphen of Darien, Conn, was announced in July. They were to be wed in September.
Proceeding to our marriage report, Herb Harrigan was in town in July in order to buy a Dartmouth gift for Roy "Butch" Coningsivood who was to wed Mrs. Nevada Linscott Sprague in Ridgewood, N.J., Aug. 6. Dixie Daniels left the bachelor ranks June 18 when he took Margaret Head of Pittsfield, Mass. as his bride in the First Congregational Church in that city. Mrs. Dixie attended Hood College and Katherine Gibbs. Roberto H err era and Jim Heenehan were ushers. Additional info on the bridegroom is that he is still associated with the L. L. Brown Paper Co. in North Adams, Mass. and is president of both the Berkshire County Dartmouth Club and the Adams Lions Club.
Brace yourself for the next one, men! Doc has gone an' done it, too. Yep, the man who has made more Dartmouth audiences laugh than any other ten emcees, Doc Fielding, said "I do" to Miss Suzanne Marilyn Benjamin (Syracuse University) in New York City Aug. 28. Professionally Doc has also transferred operations (ouch, what a lowly pun) from Bellevue Hospital in Gotham to the Margaret Hague Maternity Hospital in Jersey City. His bride is a star of her own television show.
From Florida Wes Dunaway sends us a report of his marriage Feb. 5 last to Jacqueline Brent Shew in the Plymouth Congregational Church at Coral Gables. "I knew there was always a lot of preparatory hustle," Wes writes, "but I didn't realize there was so much to do to get settled afterwards. Anyway, if you run any marriage polls in the near future, you can put me down on the affirmative side. It took me a long time to take the step, but Jacque was well worth waiting for."
Dick Kimber and Patricia Marion Tenison of London, Eng. were married June 18 in the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City. The bride attended the Univeristy of London and they are making their home in Germantown, Pa.
Two Canton, Ohio residents, Dusty Lewis and Herb Schaffner also came down the middle aisles and were also ushers for each other. Herb was married May 13 to Katherine Ann Chapin in the Trinity Lutheran Church, Canton. The Mrs. attended Ohio Wesleyan. Following a Bermuda honeymoon, they took up residence in Boardman, a suburb of Youngstown where Herb is a salesman for the General Electric & Supply Cos. The Christ Episcopal Church in Shaker Heights was the locale of Dusty's marriage Aug. 20 to Miss Florence Marie Riehl, a graduate of Kent State University in Canton where she is an instructor in art. BillBulloch was best man.
Our final wedding report this month is that of Bill Sweeney to Jean Marie Weyant (Katherine Gibbs) in Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Tenafly, N.J., May 7. The affair also proved to be quite a '43-get-together according to the eye witness account received from Fritz Geller. Present were Johnny Hyde and wife, Fuzzy Fosdick and mate, Howie Thomas and me and mine, Fritz reports. "We all managed to crowd into the same pew with Fuzzy on the aisles because we thought his bald head would give Bill a good laugh as he came down after the ceremony."
Continuing further, Fritz discloses: "Howie is finishing up at Columbia and getting some sort of a degree as master of polishing the political apple. He'll be in Boston during June serving free beer to all less fortunate '43ers as sort of a farewell before he goes to Washington and then to the consulate in Paris to be an assistant janitor or something.
"Fuzzy is with Bridgeport Brass and hopes soon to be selling brass bed knobs. He and Tean are the proud owners of their own home. Hyde is some sort of ail appraiser. Anyway, he's in Stratford, Conn, now but as of the first of June he'll be in Voluntown, Conn. That isn't far from Dudley and we expect to make a jug of beet wine this summer. At present I'm in the Monoplex Eye Division making plastic eyes. If anyone wants to look cross-eyed, I can fix them up.
Rounding out the vital statistics on hand, we find that the stork visited eight '43 households recently. Taking them alphabetically, we have a daughter, Susan Elaine, born to Giland Elaine Augenblick June 7. Their first child, John, celebrated his second birthday a month before. A second daughter, Geraldine (nicknamed Kay), was born June 3 to Gerryand Bill Burr. Albert Coons 3rd arrived May 5 at the University Hospital in Philadelphia. Happy parents are Louise and Al Coons. Also bearing the name for a third generation is Robert Stuart Garvie 111 born May 9 to Elizabeth and Bob Garvie. (Papa Garvie also reports that Bud Johnson and John Robinson are living with him in the same Somerville (N. J.) housing development and that he was expecting a visit sometime during the summer from Harvey and Carol Daniels.) A son Frederick Fobes, was born May 27 to the HankKidders. Hank has been appointed administrator of the Athol (Mass.) Hospital and was to begin his duties Aug. 1.
Scornful of doctor's predictions, Peter Burritt Maeck showed up tardy and very healthy at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital, Hanover, June 28. He is the son of none other than Lizand Bill Maeck. As chronicled in the July issue, Bill has left his Dartmouth administrative post to become the first full-time alumni secretary at Clarkson Tech beginning Sept. 1.
Out in Ann Arbor the Bill Seidmans announced the arrival of a son, Berry Thomas, on May 15. According to our sketchy records, it's their first. Last couple on the stork report list is Caroline and Bob Stokes, whose first offspring, Nancy Johnston, was born May 25 in the Danbury (Conn.) Hospital. ("Must admit," Bob writes, "she was delivered into the world by a Yale man, but since the head surgeon has had two Dartmouth sons, I guess that balances things. As for myself, I am currently doing production managing and the purchasing work for the Plastic Molding Corp. here in Sandy Hook. We are custom molders of all plastics, doing work for such outfits as Electrolux, Stromberg Carlson, American Thermos, etc.")
Ed Bock, the man-about-the-world, returned to the U.S.A. this summer after spending several terms at the University of London, but only long enough to pick up one of those lend-lease scholarships under the Fulbright Act. He is returning to the same English seat of learning this fall. A projected visit here by Ed and Newark News Reporter DickBarkhorn had to be cancelled when Dick's father died suddenly.
We had a nice visit with Mary and Bob Alesbury up for a May vacation from Philadelphia hospital duties. Other summer visitors to the campus were John Keefe, Van Lloyd, MikeFrothingham and Farmer Mead.
We are sorry that we are unable to provide definite information at this writing of class get-togethers this fall for the Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Princeton games. We shall try to see what can be arranged and will be glad to pass on what data we do get to those who are planning to see any of these games. StanPriddy, we believe, is helping to arrange another dinner and dance similar to the one which the Boston Alumni Club so successfully held last year after the Harvard game. And for those who come up for the Holy Cross, Colgate, or Cornell affairs, be sure to look us up. From what our DCAC newsman, Rog Wolbarst, tells us, the Cornell game will be something to see.
One final word about our class participation in the Alumni Fund Campaign. Although 1943 didn't win any prizes, we think Ted Hopper and his aides should be congratulated. We hear that they have built a good base from which the class may really go places.
HAPPY COUPLE: Wes Dunaway '43 and his attractive bride, the former Jacqueline Brent Shew, cut their wedding cake after a Coral Gables (Fla.) ceremony Feb. 5.
Secretary, 101 Crosby Hall, Hanover, N. H. Treasurer, 48 Salisbury Rd., Brookline, Mass.
