1931
This is the month when your secretary's secretary does the work and the Old Man can sit back. So many welcome letters have come in that should be of interest to all of you that he can pass them on "in toto" for transcribing and wait for next month.
First a note of thanks to Bill Schuldenfrei from Ernie Moore. "In this afternoon's post I received the lovely Dartmouth glasses which I note were initialed by you in behalf of '31. My sincere thanks to you, Bill, and if there is someone else behind this idea with you, I'd appreciate your letting me know that I may also let him know how I feel. It is certainly heart-warming to be remembered this way. Imagine you are in high gear during this season; good luck to you."
Bill and I thought that the glasses were the least the class could do for Ernie's wonderful contribution to our class solidarity.
Jim Rice writes from Seattle, Wash.
"It has been a long time since I have let you know of my own personal doings. After a short term of service in the Army at Fort Lewis, Wash., I married Donna Phelps, a girl from home, and then made a connection with Boeing Airplane Company in the Cost Accounting Department, where I have been for the last seven years. In the course of events two children have arrived on the scene; Patty, age six and Jimmy, age three-and-a- half. We have recently moved into a new home overlooking Puget Sound, where we are quite happily engaged in settling down and improving the place to our own particular tastes.
"My work now is concentrated on pricing various airplane programs and occasionally takes me back home to Dayton, O. to help negotiate various proposals through Airforce Procurement Offices.
"Sunday, the day after Christmas, a small gathering of Dartmouth people was here and of course we all enjoyed it immensely. The Sunday after New Year's will see a like gathering at George Nickum's home on Bainbridge Island.
"We are about as far away from Hanover as is possible to get and still remain in the United States, but we continue to gather occasionally and wish for more passers through to give us a call. We all enjoy the class news articles that appear each month, and sincerely hope that occasions for passing along news like I have forwarded today will occur very infrequently."
Jim very thoughtfully sent along clippings of Rand Rodgers tragic death reported last month.
Red Rolfe took time from very busy daysto write the following:
"It was swell of you to write after my recent appointment to the managership of the Tigers, and I certainly appreciate all your good wishes. Life has been rather hectic since that date, for I have been carrying on my duties as Director of Minor League Clubs in addition to working with Mr. Evans, our General Manager, in an effort to make deals to strengthen the club. My successor was appointed recently and will arrive on the 10th of January. Therefore I should get a breathing spell soon.
"I wish I could give you a lot of news to help you out with your column in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Recently I visited briefly with Ben Hardman at the Minor League Baseball meeting in Minneapolis. He has had a varied and interesting career in radio work. At one time he was with the American Broadcasting Co. in Hollywood writing the Kellogg news program. Then he moved to the Columbia Broadcasting system where he wrote and delivered his own newscasts and one analysis a week. At present he is teaching radio announcing and writing in Minneapolis. He told me that EdBurrill lives in town, and that he sees Dr. EricWollaeger occasionally. Eric is a staff physician at the Mayo Clinic.
"My wife and I spent Christmas at home in Penacook, N. H. We arranged a dinner party with Ward and Roddy Thompson in Manchester. They told me all about their visit with you in Norfolk. The Thompson's haven't changed a bit, and if our one evening together was typical of life in Manchester it is a good thing the Rolfes are miles away in Detroit. Ward told of visiting the Beans and Brummers in Jaffrey and their trip together last fall to the Columbia game in Hanover.
"I see Bob Sumner frequently here in Detroit. He is the same old energetic Bob we knew in Hanover when he was trading punches in the ring. I can report that he has built up a thriving insurance business.
"Many other Dartmouth men have crossed my path—notably Hap Hinman who gets to Detroit several times a year and I have enjoyed lunching with him. He always has a wealth of information on matters pertaining to Dartmouth and if there is a more enthusiastic alumnus in this country than he I would like to meet him.
"It was good to see the Big Green back near the top of the football heap again. We are scheduled to meet Michigan in 1950 and after watching this club in action the past two years we better bring a squad of men not boys to Ann Arbor. They play great football in the Big Nine."
Bringing us up to date Art Ecker says
"Since Ed Gruen had so much trouble in getting to see Ralph Hunter, he may be interested in the following technique: he was found at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City on December 10 and 11 at the meeting of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease. Both he and wife Ann were well and happy.
"Eric Wollaeger and wife Liese recently (November) stopped by to see Marcia and me in Syracuse on their way back to the Mayo Clinic from a visit in Hanover.
"As most Dartmouth men know, several generations of Ledyards have come to Dartmouth but none, including the original John, has ever stayed longer than the sophomore grade until the present year. I have a summer place at Cazenovia, New York, the present home of the Ledyards, and I am reliably informed that the present representative of that family at the College has already gone past the sophomore grade, and, indeed, is ready to be graduated."
Sher Guernsey sailed by our front door last summer and failed to stop in. He writes: "In a footnote to the class Christmas greeting, EdStudwell says, 'Thorn blames you for all his bad habits'. Truth is Thorn is still trying to find a goat for the purpose of covering up his conduct or should I say misconduct at our last reunion.
"Right now I am enjoying a week's vacation from my work at G. E.Schenectady where I am still in the Production Department of Aeronautics Mfg. Division. At present my group is working on gun turrets for Boeing's B-50 Airforce bomber.
"The other half of my vacation was last summer when Margaret and X and our two daughters visited Atlantic City, Williamsburg, Va. and Gettysburg. Sherwood II is still too young for touring so we left him home. We ferried across Chesapeake Bay from Cape Charles to Old Point Comfort. After a 250 mile drive we found it very restful sitting on the upper deck of a coastwise steamer and sipping a nice cool bottle of beer. Norfolk was just across the bay but we simply lacked the time to go any further since we spent only one day at Williamsburg as it was.
"We saw that wonderful Cornell game this fall and were at the Princeton game a year ago. Trouble is we never seem to get in on the games which Dartmouth wins.
"We received a Christmas note from Daveand Eileen Kelby. Hovey stopped there last fall and also at the Thorns from where he phoned us.
"I see Willard Johnson occasionally in Albany at the meetings of Eastern New York Alumni."
News has just arrived that Joe Merriam has been taken into partnership in the firm of Cresap, McCormick and Paget, Management Engineers, of New York and Chicago. Joe joined the firm in 1947. Previously he was connected with Macy's of N. Y. City and Kerr's of Oklahoma City in executive merchandising capacities. During the war, he was engaged in management engineering work for the Navy Dept.
From Manila, Philippines, Chan Griggs writes:
"Dartmouth men in the Navy may remember the Philippine Sea Frontier compound on Dewey Boulevard in Manila. That is where I am living, together with about 150 American families who are here on the work of rebuilding the ports, roads, bridges, weather stations, coast surveys, and the services for public health. Emmie and our two daughters, Helen 6, and Donna 3, are enjoying life very much. We look forward, however, to returning to the States when we have completed our mission.
"The work of rehabilitation here is under the general supervision of the State Department, acting through the Embassy here. An interesting feature of my job as "Airways Engineer in Charge" consists of liaison with the Embassy and with department heads of the Philippine Government. My four conferences with the late president, Manuel A. Roxas, were pleasant and vital experiences which I shall long remember. As a result of my official position, Emmie and I have attended numerous social affairs given by officials in the Embassy and the Philippine Government. Parties at Malacanan (the White House) are always something out of the ordinary, and I expect that upon my return to the States I shall find my old duties somewhat lack-luster, by comparison."
Parson Jim McElroy checks in from Toledo, O. Jim has been fighting a battle royal against gambling out there. He writes: "In a recent letter from Bill Schuldenfrei he was begging for news for you. The only things I can think of that might be of interest are that I have been made a member of the National Panel of Arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association, and, also a member of the City of Toledo's Labor Management Committee which has been remarkably successful in solving industrial disputes in this region. As chairman of the Civic Action Committee of the Toledo Council of Churches I have been given the responsibility of cutting down gambling in this region. Needless to say, I find that I am pretty busy day and night but I am thoroughly enjoying it.
"I had a phone call from Dave Hovey sometime ago. He and his family were headed home after a trip East. They had had some car trouble which has delayed them enough so that they could not stop to see us but I gathered he had had a swell trip."
Nets Greenlund writes: "I don't know whether I sent in the form last year or not, so I believe I'll give you the statistics. Married—Carole Hardy in Baltimore in 1935; children—Nelson Jr. 9 years and Sally 6 years; occupation—real estate, insurance and mtges. (Commerce Investment Co); war—2 years in Navy as a supply officer, never see anyone from '3l although we had a Dartmouth Club of 4 here for a while. We have now shrunk to twoPhil Eckels of '34."
The last word we had from Court Anderson was "currently I am knocking myself out trying to finish a book before I go broke." How goes it Court?
Ed Studwell and Ernie Moore spent "a wonderful 24 hours in Hanover" Ed was being indoctrinated in the whys and whynots of a Class Agent. He writes: "Our Class is growing in solidarity, Jim, thanks to the efforts of fellows like yourself and Ernie Moore, and as our age increases, it seems so do our responsibilities to the College. The work of this type is certainly satisfying, and I am most pleased to be a part of it. Let's hear from you with comments and suggestions and I'll look forward to March in New York."
Ed, Ernie, Bill and I are planning on a class pow-wow early in March when I attend the Secondary Education Board Conference.
Now for as many changes in address as space will allow: Art Brettler, 20 St. Paul St., Brookline, Mass. Fred Burkhardt, Route 2, Box 610, Spring Valley, Calif. Went Eldredge, Box 862, Hanover. Joe Mullan, 400 White Horse Pike, Haddon Heights, N. J. Ralph Nims, Pine Point, S. Norwalk, Conn.
Parker Pierce is up in the snow country, Franconia, N. H., Chuck Robinson, 1084 Pagoda Place, Los Angeles 31, Calif., more snow country. Bob Wallace moves to 255 N. Broadway, White Plains, N. Y. Charlie Ryder joins Chuck in Los Angeles at 1754 Bentley Ave., and a third Californian is Medical Social Worker, Tom Gafford, at the Birmingham V. A. Hospital, Van Nuys, Calif.
From Abe Winslow '20, Secretary of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Northern California and Nevada, comes word that BaxBall has been elected president of the San Francisco Safety Council. Abe writes: "Bax is one of our most active alumni—always thoughtful and giving a hand wherever he can, also chairman of Membership Committee of the D.O.C. of Wyo., Calif., and Nevada."
Let's make Stud's first year as Class Agent easy by responding at once when his cohorts contact you on the fund.
Secretary, Norfolk Academy Cedar Level Lane Rd., Norfolk 5, Va.
Treasurer, 730 Sherman Ave., Plainfield, N. J.
Class Agent, Weston, Vt.
