1940
This is being written while the Ides of March approach, as they always do to struggling accountants, too damned fast. As a direct result, these notes will probably be considered an improvement, since they'll be news, and only news, just as it comes to hand from the file.
Of possibly greatest importance as news is the engagement of Joan Mortimer of New Hope, Pa. to Hugh Dryfoos. There have been more insulting comments about this event from friends of the Hugh than on any similar occasion we can remember. It is apparent, with this surrender, that eventually even the most stubborn members of the bachelor clan will succumb. Further in the same vein, Virginia Wiggins of New York has become engaged to Tom Ballantyne, a spring wedding being planned.
Jack and Joan Rourke became the parents of Johnda Frances Rourke on Lincoln's Birthday. Jack O'Shea, Laconia tycoon, has been elected president of the local Chamber of Commerce, we learn from the papers, and we've also received a picture of Herb Landsman passing out some medals to members of Submarine Reserve Division 1-10 of Boston, of which he is commanding officer.
Those little sheets of paper you have been sending in the last month or so would lead any one to believe that 1940 in 1949 is: (1) painting houses (Manny Mansfield goes a bit further—he's building his own); (2) raising kids (the average per marriage seems to be well in excess of two); (3) working at very unremunerative jobs (this may well be only because Dartmouth men are so modest); and (4) beating the statistics on marriage by finding the one and only and sticking to her. As they come from the file, we find the following:
Johnny Knutsen now has two children, Johri L. at a couple of months and Lois, three and one-half. He's been married since 1944 and helps keep Cleveland and particularly Shaker Heights from going to the dogs.
Ken McCotter is production superintendent for Lehn & Fink Products, lives in Bloomfield, N. J. with Sally and their three, Emilie and Finette, twins, and John, two.
George Cutter is a quality control engineer for Gillette and, besides, is president and treasurer of a retail hardware outfit. He and Anita have been married since 1938, not quite the record, and have two girls, Joan and Gail. They live in Saxonville, Mass. on a place big enough, evidently, to hold the whole class. George says "I would be glad to entertain some of the boys from in and around Boston—plenty of room for Softball and the usual nourishment."
Dr. Jack St. Mary is resident physician at Alice Hyde Hospital, Malone, N. Y., and retains his membership in the 1940 Bachelors MCS.
Powell Holbein works out of Albany for Esso Standard, and has been, due to one Bruce, aged one, "up to my neck in diapers and baby oil. Otherwise very normal'
Howie Stockwell, with Jane and their Susan, John and Thomas, represents the class in Belmont, pride of suburban Boston, and works in Cambridge for Eddy-Rucker-Nichols, sales and advertising counsellors. He promises that the Boston committee will be having a spring party soon.
Ed Baumer is production supervisor for Naugatuck Chemical Cos., Xaugatuck, Conn., a division of U. S. Rubber, for whom he has worked since college. He and Jean have an 8-months-old son, their first child.
Bob Castle is in Chicago manufacturing flags, banners, etc. He was married a year ago March to Dorothy Taylor Rose, whose first husband was killed in the war flying B-17's. They have two children, five and three.
Dr. Gordon Stokes opened his own office for practice of internal medicine in Ridgewood, N. J. last summer, after finishing specialized training at the Mayo Clinic. He and Betty with daughter Susan, one and one-half, live in Ramsey, where, he says, Jay Stout is successfully operating a photography studio.
Alec Clark is assistant to director of personnel and industrial relations at Rockefeller Center and director of recreation. The Clarks live in Ridgewood, N. J. and keep active in the DOC of New York (he's secretary) , of which Dick Bowman, Dave Leake, Bob Marshall, Ed Schechter and Jay Weinberg are also members, "the latter two disgustingly inactive."
Jim Moore has had his own legal practice in Indiana, Pa. for over two years, after graduating from Penn law, three and onehalf years of Uncle's army, and a short period with another law office. He and Eileen have three children, the latest, previously unreported, being Dennis, 10 months. Jim says, "I get to New York once in a while but never see any '40s in the Dartmouth Club bar. Conclusion (a) they don't drink any more or (b) there is some other place to do it."
Jack Emich, of whom we hear too little, is senior resident in obstetrics and gynecology at Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia and also working for his master's in medical science.
Charles C. Batchelder remains just that, in spite of some success with his year old firm of McK.ee & Batchelder, literary representatives, New York. Batch says, "Our business started off with a bang with our first sale five days after hanging the shingle. Since then our phenomenal luck, being babies in the business, has continued. We think we have a fine bunch of young, promising authors and those who are really well established. In a nutshell we handle: magazine fiction and articles and books, fiction and non-fiction with the various ramifications." Glendinning, Bernstein, Braden, at al please note.
Hutch has forsaken football for Seventeen Magazine, on which he is space representative. "All fellers with teen-age daughter problems can write for free advice." For news, Hutch savs, "With a wife, two children and a television set, what could any man be up to?"
According to our word count, that brings us to the end. More of the same next month.
DON SHIPPAM '4O and the charming women in his life make a happy Michigan family.
Secretary, 16 Elm St., Montpelier, Vt.
Treasurer, W. B. Fonda Cos., St. Albans, Vt.
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