1935

Here we are again and getting very close to Christmas. And speaking of Christmas, we're also getting closer to our Fifteenth Reunion —it's only six months away and we're hard at work on it right now. Dick Muzzy and Ralph Colby of the Boston contingent are co-chairmen of the big affair. They have already had a session in Hanover with DonCameron on the program and have lined up a good-sized committer, to help with details. We will report monthly progress in the column. And Bill Gahagan, who is in charge of publicity, will be in contact with all members of the class from time to time with the specifics. The dates are June 16-17-18 and the year is 1950.

There were two errors in last month's notes for which blame the MAGAZINE, not me. Bo Kreer did not celebrate with two other gents to turn out his opus on Advertising. He collaborated. Knowing Bo there was undoubtedly a little celebrating in the process, but that isn't what I said. And the good gentleman in Casa Blanca spells his name Lamorey, not Lamerey. I can excuse this mistake on the basis of a well-worn typewriter ribbon which makes "o's" and "e's" practically interchangeable. One of these days I'll surprise hell out of 'em and slip in a new one.

The Pink and Blue Ribbon Department:Dr. and Mrs. Hal Orenstein of Forest Hills, N. Y., had a boy, Robert Sanford, on Sept. 26. The Jerry Spingarns of Washington, D. C., also added a boy to the family on October 5. Name—Jonathan Edward. And Art and Naomi Fisher greeted their first child, a girl named Lucy Jane, on October 2. But it was a close race. Sunday afternoon Art was listening to that heart-wrenching finale between the Yankees and the Red Sox trying to ignore Naomi's frantic pleas that she thought "this was it." Finally the game ended and there was a mad one-hour drive into New York to the Keroy Sanatoriumwith little Lucy arriving 27 minutes after they did.

Sax Zieman is engaged to be married some time this month to Carolyne Wolfs of Twin Brooks, Conn. Carolyne attended Vassar and Katharine Gibbs and was a lieutenant in the Spars during the war. Sax, as you undoubtedly know, is with the Union Carbide and Carbon Corp. in Hartford.

Al Keenan, who has spent the last yearand-a-half in South America for the Moore McCormack Lines, has been returned to the States. Still with the same outfit, he now works in New York and lives in Summit, N. J.

Al Sherwood, while thumbing through a copy of American Machinist at a client's office, learned that the Process Development Section of General Motors is now operating under a new chief—Semon E. Knudsenformerly Ass't General Master Mechanic at Pontiac. Al passed Doug Mook on Fifth Ave. last October but he disappeared in the five o'clock crowd before Al could stop him.

Maury Rapf delivered number two in the Dartmouth College Lecture Series in Hanover. His subject—and who is surprised"- The Men Who Make the Movies."

Football Enthusiasts: Seen at the Penn game: Ralph and Frank Specht, Bud McClarin, Bud Hulett, George Colton and BobNaramore. Seen at the Holy Cross game in Hanover: The Tom Lanes, the Sellmers, the Dick Muzzys and Rey Moulton. Also PawlHilli, Newt Stainsby and Charlie Nayor who followed up the game with a bachelor party in Bob Hage's apartment. The Ralph Colbys snuck up for the Colgate game. Also Naramore and son Bob and the RockwellsRocky and Ruth, Ted Steele, Bob Maida and, for the second week in a row, Nayor and Stainsby. Among those who took in the Harvard game in Cambridge: The Colbys, the Muzzys and Paul Hilli again. Also SamParsons, Bill Adams and the Reg Bankarts. Moving down to New Haven and the Yale game: George Colton, Paul Cummings (all the way down from Peterboro, N. H.), BillRiegelman, Dero Saunders, and the LaneSellmer-McCarty room-mate combination. (Sellmer, by the way, still has a face halffull of spinach.) The Bankarts also pulled a repeat. Undoubtedly there were many, many others at the above games who were just as enthusiastic but who failed to be sighted by my limited contacts.

Recent visitors to Hanover: Bud Cahoon and his wife spent a day playing the Hanover golf course in October while on a week's vacation through the mountain country. Line Washburn and Tahoe stopped over long enough to eat while on a trip back to Montreal from New York. And DickStern managed to catch a few days in the old stamping ground at a time when the autumn foliage was at its peak. Dick also reports on some recent trips around the country. Saw Lou Weitz for breakfast in Cleveland who apparently is still Cleveland's most eligible bachelor. Down in Louisville he phoned Lou Cole who has left the groeery business and now operates what is probably Kentucky's largest photo-finishing plant.

George Colton reports that Sel Hannah's wife was in Mary Hitchcock Hospital with polio and spent the first week in an oxygen tent. On last reports she was improving, but Sel, of course, was staying on in Hanover to be near her. Paul Hilli spent his vacation as a combination father and mother to the Hannah children to help out.

That Boston delegation has been at it again. This time a clambake at the HarryKnoils' down in Bridgewater, Mass. On Saturday, September 24, the crowd gathered at Harry's at 1:00 and for a little over $3.00 a head enjoyed clams, quohaugs, lobster, corn, beer, hard stuff and all the fixings, even seaweed and a cord of wood. The party broke up late in the evening and there was still plenty of food left. I don't know about the liquor. The roster (including wives): Rauschal, Reynolds, Colby, Muzzy, Ley,Stainsby, Cotton, Curtis, Conathon, Moulton,Parsons and Knott.

Have recently heard that Walt Gless has been made Assistant Cashier of the National City Bank of New York. Walt is doing a swell job and going places in one of New York's major banking institutions.

Eddie Offutt, an Assistant Professor at Rochester University Medical School, swung into New York for a Public Health Convention week of October si. Ed is still teaching bacteriology and dabbling in atomic energy on the side as an advisor to the Federal Government on the health angle.

Art Bamford—who says he's getting mentioned too frequently in this column but it's his own fault because he sees so many people —attended the Bakers Convention in Atlantic City week of October 15 and ran into BobCollins in a luxurious hotel suite entertaining customers of Omar Bakeries for whom he handles sales. Bob, with his shoes off (convention feet) wearing wool sox, was in from Omaha. His thatch is reported to be white as a tablecloth.

Joe Parachini ran into Jack Blanchard in the big city recently. Jack has bought a farm near Bucks County in Pennsylvania and is devoting himself entirely to the farm life. Expects to get into the cattle business in the near future.

Here's further details on Bill Gahaganour latest Hanover resident. "Won my D in tennis playing No. 3 singles through the season and alternating No. 1 and No. a on doubles. This made me the oldest person in Dartmouth history to receive a letter. Went down to Harvard Graduate School this past summer and as a result of my work there., am now a candidate for one of the Education Fellowships. Currently I'm doing graduate work in Education toward a Master's degree as well as instructing in Great Issues. Living in Sachem Village in two units, having knocked through a wall to make room for the fourth child, a son, Mark Thomas, born October 1 in Mary Hitchcock."

Around the bar and dinner table at the last New York get-together in November: Lauterbach, Boehm, Spengeman, Everhart,Gerson, Diamond, Richie, Sherwood, Parachini, Bankart, Bamford, Mebel.

Just as a matter of curiosity in closing, there are 65 members of the class whose names appeared in this column. If yours wasn't one of them we'd sure like to put it in a forthcoming issue. Just drop me a postcard and bring me up to date. And here's wishing you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Secretary, Compton Advertising, Inc. 630 5th Ave., New York 20, N. Y.

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