1932
That new car I mentioned in the June column arrived just in time for our August vacaion and made it a complete success. For anyone with three or more children it's the car of good sense-an all-steel station wagon which looks and feels like an automobile but carries like a bus. Squabbling children can be separated by a whole row of seats without slowing down. We drove up the eastern seaboard from Washington to Brunswick, Me., cut across the White and Green Mountains and stayed a couple of weeks in the Adirondacks before returning via Montreal, Hanover, and New York. We ate lunch at the Inn CofEee Shop, partly because the Outing Club was closed (on Mondays) and everyone in the regular dining room at the Inn was wearing a necktie, which doesn't go with my slack suits. It's one of my ambitions to be able to afford to take my family to the Inn for a night.
I picked up mighty little news about our class on the trip, and o£ course found no letters on my return. I telephoned Frank Peyser as we drove near Rochester, N. H., and briefly discussed practicing law in that community. Frank and his wife now have two children. I learned that Bill Walton was with the Rockingham Hotel in Portsmouth, but could not get him on the phone. We had a nice swim in the ocean in front of our tourist cabin just south of Portsmouth, but the temperature of the water compared most unfavorably with what we found around Nantucket, which seems to be blessed with the Gulf Stream.
On the way through New London we called on Frank McGuire, who looks considerably like, and obviously is, a leader of the New London bar. He participates in community activities, although he hasn't been active in politics recently. His law partner is his brother Morgan '37. Frank and Helen, who seems, if possible, nicer than ever, and their four children reflect an ideal picture of family life fitting into the community.
During the Secretaries' Association meetings in Hanover during May I picked up a tew bits of news. John Wolff was there with Jean and their two older children. Bill Lieson came as Secretary of the Worcester club; he is still a banker with two children. Mac McLean came up from Swampscott, where he has been elected Town Clerk and Tax Collector. His ardor as collector may be judged by the fact that he inadvertently paid his class dues twice. Don Henderson was there representing the Nashua, N. H., club, of which he is secretary. He is still a bachelor and plies the trade of a certified public accountant. I saw Ellie Noyes as he was about to leave with the track team for a meet at Penn. His family of four children is still growing. Another Hanover classmate, Dick Olmsted, has a son 10 and a daughter 8. He told me that there is no television problem in Hanover families there is no reception at all there. I wonder if it wouldn't be better for those living in television areas if the law prohibited home sets. We have successfully resisted getting one, but the pressure is strong.
Another classmate in Hanover for the meetings was Frank Eggleston, who is his own boss as a consultant on the trucking business. He has been with the National Trucking Association and the ODT. I believe he said he has just two children. I shared a table at the Inn with Junie Hawke's father-in-law and learned that Junie is with the Pennsylvania Railroad in St. Louis. He has three children, the oldest a girl of 13, the middle one a son.
Lots of news comes from the press. BobMattox, who handles sales promotion and advertising for Liberty Mutual Insurance Cos., has been named chairman of the public information service of the Boston Red Cross Chapter Tom Curtis has been seeking the Republican nomination for member of Congress from the Twelfth District of Missouri. As I reported recently, he is practicing law out there French Dickey is specializing in dermatology and syphilology in Danville, Pa. He was a flight surgeon during World War 11.
.... Dave Kirby has been placed in charge of market research and development at the Northern Trust Cos., of which he is second vice president Walter Rushmore has been elected president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Long Island Marv Chandler has been elected secretary of the New York Society of Security Analysts John Clark, in a new car, took a vacation trip to the Maine shore, leaving at least some of his children with grandparents. John Keller and son called on him late in August during a "tour of the notches." .... Howie Sargeant was chairman of the U. S. delegation to the fifth session of the General Conference of UNESCO held in Florence, Italy in May. Chuck Odegaard was one of the advisers of the delegation, as was Luther Evans, Librarian of Congress and onetime instructor at Dartmouth, where a number of you, including me, took his course in Citizenship. I don't know why I mention it, but another of the advisers was Myrna Loy.
.... Last May Bob Buckley, City Solicitor of Claremont, N. H., ruled that under New Hampshire law it is illegal to attach advertising matter to parking meters.
That luscious girl in the red dress who reclines on billboards all over the country is advertising a movie starring Bob Ryan. Since the point of the ad is to make people wonder what it means, I won't spoil it by giving the name. Anyway, I haven't been able to see it, so I can't comment. Unfortunately I haven't seen The Woman on Pier 13 either, in which Bob takes the part of a man who once joined the Communists and has reformed. This has so much current significance that I'm anxious to get to it, particularly since the N. Y. Times reviewer praised Bob's performance highly.
Charlie Mayo sent me a swell letter last May, enclosing as spectacular a picture of a classmate as I've seen. He's standing next to a 750-pound tuna which was caught from his boat, Chantey, with him acting as guide. Charlie spends his time sailing and fishing, off Cape Cod in the summer and in the tropics in the winter. He has been a pioneer in the tuna sport fishing game on the Cape. A number of Dartmouth people have gone out with him, including Jack Downs and Lou Crone of our class. Lou Crone lives in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
I read in the press that Pete Ostafin and his wife have taken off for a year's study at Oxford. Pete has been teaching sociology and serving as resident director of the West Quadrangle of the men's residence halls at the University of Michigan.
The New York City group of '32ers came up with a noteworthy proposal at their spring dinner, which was, as usual, well attended. The idea is to have a picnic lunch in the big, official parking area outside the west side of the Yale Bowl on the day of the game, which is November 4 this year. The meeting place will be toward the end of the parking area nearest the Bowl, where the first arrivals will park and have some kind of signs. Ray Bartlett is acting as coordinator. Everyone in the class who can possibly get there is urged to join the group, bringing the whole family. An effort will be made to pin applications so that as many as possible can sit together. It is suggested that applications and checks be sent to Ray Bartlett for forwarding in a group. His address is Care of Burlington Mills Corp., 225 West 37th Street, New York 18. The closing date for applications is October 12, so hurry and do something about it RIGHT NOW.
I'd like to say a word about the results of the Alumni Fund drive. As usual our class showed up poorly in the competition with other classes. We did improve a lot, however, in a number of ways. There were 29 more contributors than last year, we gave 2000 more dollars, and we attained 90% of our objective as compared with 84% last year. That represents a lot of work by the agents who helped Warren Moore in his really tough job.
It's a new year, fellows. The letters you didn't write last year don't count any more. All will be forgiven if you'll just send me a terse description of yourselves and your families and vocations, and include a brief statement of what you think about something.
THIS 751-POUND TUNA was caught off Province- town with Charlie Mayo '32 (left) and his "Chan- tey" lending assistance to Dr. Dieter Dux (right). It took one hour and five minutes to land it.
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