1933

The ideal class secretary should have the following qualifications: He should be mildly garrulous, reasonably conscientious, and somewhat simple. If you look them over we think you'll find a few with all three of these qualities, and perhaps most of them with at least two. And if one must have only two it has always seemed to us, the Editor at al. to the contrary notwithstanding, that the first and the last are indispensable and go naturally together. After all, only an innocent soul can be mildly garrulous.

Now we suspect that these traits strike youas innocuous enough, but that's where you'rewrong. We'll cite a case in point. A couple ofmonths ago, in all innocence, we ran a littleitem we'd stumbled over about one of ourclassmates who had "switched to Calvert" andhad his picture published in the sports pagesof a metropolitan newssheet, with the usualguff about "firsts" in our class and a metaphor or two we'd lifted out of the NewYorker. Ribbing Calvert and an anonymousclassmate seemed to us at the time about asinnocent a pastime as a secretary could dreamup, something about as far removed as possible from such dangerous excursions as Brother Cardozo's awhile back when he counted Republican and Democratic heads in his class and, his secretarial genes being different from ours, invited a host of hornets that he's still picking out of his hair with his comments.

But what happens to us with our Calvert item? The MAG had no sooner hit the stands when we got a letter from the Calvert Distillers Corporation. Guess you'd better read it for yourselves:

"What prompts this letter is your mention of the first member of our Class to "Switch to Calvert." Actually, Gay Milius is not the first (I imagine that's whose picture you refer to). I guess I'm really the first. What you probably didn't know is that at the present time I am Sales Promotion Manager for the Calverts Distillers Corporation One morning in January I chanced to meet Gay on the train from White Plains to New York. Taking my title seriously, I went to work on Brother Milius and "Switched him to Calvert," with the result that Gay's picture appeared in the Switch Ad. Of course, as a loyal member of '33 I will be glad to do the same for any other member of the Class who wishes to "Switch to Calvert." Just let me know and he can be sure of undying fame and plenty of publicity By the way, I think you will be interested to know that we have several other Dartmouth men working for us " Kindest regards, Chester L.Thomson.

The next mail brought a letter from the victim himself. Gay corroborated Chester's account of the incident, writing: "Boarding the usual commuter I happened into Chet, whom I knew to be a big wheel in the sales promotion of Calvert. After the usual greetings in an offhand way I mentioned that I too could use a picture of myself, jokingly stating that I could even switch to Calvert (me with three drinks a year) if he need ammunition. .... And that is the way, my son, of how your poppa ended up on a sports page."

Well, that rules out the Republicans, Democrats, and Calverts from our future columns. Hope someone will dream up something safe for a poor secretary to write about, and leave us know what it might be.

A jot or two of news this month. A good letter from Al Strock a few weeks back. Al is practicing dentistry in Boston, office on Beacon Street, and attached to the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. He wrote in part: "I was sorry not to be able to participate in Reunion last June. My absence was due to an unfortunate accident to my son Douglas, age 4, who sustained a fractured skull while we were making plans. Fortunately he was successfully operated on and is fine now. However, things were quite hectic, especially in view of the fact that we had a new baby girl (for the record, Bonnie Louise Strock) who was keeping us busy, and in our anxiety Reunion had to go by the board. I am enclosing a check which I wish you would apply to the Twenty-Fifth Memorial Fund, in view of my inability to be with you." Al also promised to send along as a gift to the Library a two-volume life of Daniel Webster.

We told you last month of the marriage of Pete Hart to Jane Constance Smiley, of Washington, D. C. on April 23. We have since received further information. Mrs. Hart is a graduate of Cornell, 1942, and served with the OSS in the Middle East during the war. Recently she has been employed as Assistant to the Editor of the Middle East Journal in Washington We were wrong in saying that Pete would settle in Washington for a spell. After their wedding trip Pete expected to return to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, to serve for at least another year as Consul General. Dr. Roland E. Stevens, Pete's roommate in College, was best man at the wedding.

Speaking of we have a real shocker for you. When the news came to usbut let's tell you about it. We had an Alumni Officers Meeting here in Hanover this past weekend. On Saturday night quite a gang foregathered in the Inn Ski hut for a little cheer and a sing. It turned into quite a party and we had pretty well lost track of the time when some character came up to us and asked us if we'd heard of John Monagan's engagement. The wife will bear us out when we say that that was it for us. We'd had nothing stronger than beer, but when we heard that we knew the time had come for us to go home, and we went. We should have stayed, because a news item from the Waterbury paper arrived a couple of days later confirming the "absurd" rumor. No date has been set for the wedding but the girl is Miss Rosemary Brady, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred V. Brady of Bayonne, N. J. A graduate of the New Jersey College for Women, she has also studied at the Parsons School of Design and at Columbia. She was in social work in New York City, and more recently was V-Teen Director for the Waterbury YWCA.

Will wonders never cease! And speaking of mayors, we have another now in the person of Bob Coulson, recently elected mayor of Waukegan, Ill. The youngest mayor ever to take office in that community, Bob, a Republican, defeated a Democrat who had been in office since 1941. Congratulations, Robert! And o,n that happy note, we'll close. What a Class!

Secretary 20 Valley Rd., Hanover, N. H.

Treasurer, 2812 Grant Bldg., Pittsburgh 19, Pa.

Class Agent The Stanley Works, New Britain, Conn.