1942
There was a slight snide note in the latest green sheet compiled by one J. Cornwall Palamountain making japes of my news coverage in my own back-yard. The occasion, I believe, was my ignorance of the presence of Henri Bohle here in Hanover.
Now, I'm a quiet, unvengeful soul, not given to vicious retaliation when anyone is looking but I feel I must defend the standards carried so gloriously today by Colonel McCormick and others. I shall now bulldoze out a couple of scoops on you, you old editor of the 1942 Newsletter.
One, Harry and Nancy Bond recently became parents of a second girl, Carolyn Dixon. I might point out, obtrusively, that Harry attends Harvard also, that it is a small school, and that there are not those of us who
Two, my Harvard scouts, small green men with antennae for ears, tell me that Eminent Authority (sometimes known as E. B. A. Authority—Eminent But Anonymous) have told them that one Joseph Cornwall Palamountain will join the Harvard faculty this fall. How's that for a scoop? It may be inaccurate in some small particular, but how's that for a scoop?
Oh, I could go on and on with scoops. Such as: Pete Geisler recently dashed off some free verse underwater using a ball point pen; Chuck Klein was arrested under the Narcotics Act for purveying benzedrine inhalers; BobDewey last week made a face while telling a story and couldn't slip back into normal but no one noticed it I could tell all these bizarre happenings, but none of them would be true. So much for scoops.
In my own rapid fashion I have discovered after not quite three years of nearly continual residence in Hanover that Roy EldredgeU.D., is living here also. He happens to be attached to a hospital you may have heard of, Mary Hitchcock Memorial.
I also ferreted out by a series of chain reaction moves that sometime in the last year or so Al Britton moved from that southern resort, Hartland, Vt., to the frigid steppes of Norwich.
In going through my rooms the other day m a forgetful fit of work I uncovered in addition to 1,317 moths by certified count a packet of old clippings sent me by the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, that conscientious periodical. Since the post-mark on the envelope is of January 27 it might be a good idea to deal with them wstanter rather than waiting for the end of this piece when they'd be that much older. Maybe some of them were used before, but they'll always bear repeating, so here goes.
Item, on or about January 7, Miss Margaret H. Thompson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sydney D. Thompson of Bloomfield, N- J., became engaged to Richard E. Rughasse, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Rughasse of Brooklyn. It says Dick is employed as assistant to the marketing director of Caltex (Ceylon) Ltd., and that the wedding was set for February 26.
Item, on January 8, Miss Edith Eccleston Crouse, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wellington S. Crouse of Bethlehem, Conn., was married to Edwin Hawkridge, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Dean Hawkridge of Newton Centre, Mass. The ceremony was performed at St. Michael's Protestant Episcopal Church, Litchfield, Conn., and Harry Bond was best man.
Item, ooh, here's one I wrote for the Claremont Eagle about large Dave Heald being named manager of the Mount Sunapee State Park. Well, you know all about that.
Item, an interesting account from the Utica, N. Y. Observer-Dispatch, circulation, daily, 41,481 (well, I guess you might have looked that up yourself) telling that a speech on the United World Federalists would be made in that city by one Oliver A. Quayle 111, who was then executive director of the New York state branch of that excellent organization and has since been named national field director (I just heard his boss, Cord Meyer Jr., speak here last night and I'm pretty excited myself).
Item, a birth announcement of Lynn Alexandra Susan Beth (I print it that way because the way it's printed on the card it could be one unwieldy name or it might mean twins—I favor the latter because it seems likely that no infant's tiny shoulders could bear up under four given names unless it were of the purple and had a knight of the garter or something around to carry a few proper names every once in awhile). My, that was a long parenthesis! It surely must break my former record set in 1941 while working on The Dartmouth. Must make a note to look that up.
Oh yes, this item. Well, Lynn Alexandra Susan Beth or L. A. and S. B. were born December 21, 1948, to Mr. and Mrs. Albert S.Goldman, presumably in New York City, a metropolis Al is fast taking over, I hear.
Item, on December 18, Miss Catherine Jeannette Barber became the bride of StanleyP. Wyatt Jr., in Christ Church, Cambridge. Miss Barber, or Mrs. Wyatt now, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin M. Barber of West Bangor, Me., while Stan's parents are Mr. and Mrs. Stanley P. Wyatt of Falmouth, Mass., and Sarasota, Fla. He is doing, the article says, astronomy work at Harvard.
Item, one Hanover Inn card from the Dartmouth's In Town Again board which indicates that on or about January 19, 1949, W. J. Nauss Jr., of New Haven, Conn., was a guest of that hostelry. Since the name is printed in large, family size letters, it seems only logical to suppose that Wendy had the biggest suite in the house.
That's the clippings. It's a good thing they stopped back in December of last year or I would soon have found myself writing things like: Jim Mulligan, on Jan. 10, 1944, received the Medal Medal from Admiral Halsey for being such a good fellow.
A note from the ALUMNI MAGAZINE officearen't they indefatigible, though?—says that James C. Kuhn Jr., recently completed his clerkship as a law student with Judge W. Heber Dithrich of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania and was admitted to the Allegheny County Bar (television?) on February 23. He will be admitted to the appellate courts when they sit in Pittsburgh—the Supreme Court this past month and the Superior Court, inst. In case any of you are wondering, that James C. stuff is a nom de plume for Craighead Kuhn, also known as Pinochio.
A note under the date of March 11 from Bob Schoonmaker says that Mary Gene presented him with a daughter, Mary Ann, born February 4, and adds that both mother and daughter are doing fine. Bob mentions he is still in training at Eastman Kodak in Rochester, N. Y. (home address 3414 Thayer Street), moving around the various departments. BobStrasenburgh and Dick Deverian are two other classmates in the Rochester area, according to M. Schoonmaker. With their new addition, the Schoonmaker family, as, 10, so many others, are looking for a small house.
Just to confound Bob, my only other letter is from Rochester also, from Tim Crane. Curiously enough, he is working for Eastman Kodak also. After earning a Ph.D. in organic chemistry at Harvard (that name has cropped up an ominous number of times in these notes), Tim is employed as a research chemist by the camera and film concern. He, his wife Sally and daughter Sue are living at 21 Ellington Road, Bob.
That's it, men. Now, before I go out to hit a few fungoes to the boys (spring is that early in Hanover this year) remind me to tell you about Jack Preiss sometime.
WORLD FEDERALIST: Oliver A. Quayle Ill '42 was recently appointed National Field Director of United World Federalists. He had been Executive Director of UWF's New York branch since 1947.
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