1936

We must start off on a very sad, tragic note this month by reporting to you the sudden death of Dave Wood. On Saturday night, February 4, Dave went skating with friends outside of Grand Rapids. While on the ice, he lost his footing and fell heavily. He did not appear to be severely hurt, but when he later was being taken to the hospital, he lost consciousness. Two days later, on February 6, he passed away. If there are any adequate words of comfort and sympathy forDave's wife and children, we cannot findthem. But surely, all of us feel deeply theloss. There is an appropriate notice in theNecrology section of this issue.

Recalling the jingled appeal for news afew columns back, and looking at the letters now on hand, we question the rewardsof poetic justice. But we are grateful forwhat response has turned up. For example,take the case of Len Florsheim who writes:

"This business of trying to find news to write is bounded on one side perhaps by modesty and a wish not to blow one's own horn, and on the other by a lack of any real news to tell. I don't really have any news, nor do I have to be modest, because I have nothing to crow about." Now that sentiment, we imagine, is a fairly common one. But it's good to eke out a picture of what a guy is doing with his time. Len happens to spend his office hours as president of Kabo, Inc., Chicago, makers of foundation garments and such. What else? Len continues, "My daily life consists mainly of catching the train in the morning and back in the evening, and trying to make the kids grow up healthy and happy, keeping the plumbing in fairly decent shape, and working my hunting dogs up to where they can at least place in a field trial. All the above objectives are accomplished to various degrees less than 100 percent I expect to be at reunion. The only tinge of regret I have on it is the sudden realization from time to time that I got out of school 14 years ago, and the time is slipping by faster than I like to believe." Hear! Hear!

This next is like a voice in the wilderness —not that Pittsburgh can be so described. But it's been a long while since we got a peep from Fred Babcock who confesses,

"Am rutted down good and deep with ray nose to the grindstone and very few things of interest to Dartmouth seem to happen One of our last class bachelors, Johnny Groh, was married about a year ago and has just recently been presented with a daughter I took in the Yale and Penn games this year, but didn't encounter too many '36ers. Dick Spong went up on the train from New York to New Haven with me."

Fred apparently reads the Dayton, Ohio papers, because he sent us a very significant clipping, with a very imposing picture of Huff Huffman who has been elected Dayton's "Young Man of 1949." Huff, president of the Huffman Manufacturing Co., was at a convention in Boca Raton, Fla. when the announcement was made at an annual dinner in Dayton; so the honor was bestowed, and accepted, via a telephone hook-up. Our wah-hoo-wah for you, Huff!

Up-to-dater on Russ Capelle: Married, with two children—Russell Jr. and Joan . . . . Teaching social sciences at Bradford Junior College, Bradford, Mass Went to Europe last summer with Mrs. C Hopes to be at Reunion.

Roily Hastings still lives off the soil, but has trekked further west. Reports Roily,

"We sold our ranch last year and have moved to Palo Alto (Indians—Stanford) where I am now engaged in the wholesale nursery business in partnership with my brother-in-law. As this is a new business for us, it is a little slow, with plenty of hard work. However, things look good. We are also engaged in landscaping which is booming here. The Peninsula south of San Francisco is trying to house a population 50% greater than five to ten years ago, so you can imagine what a boom there is in building."

Any of you movie-goers remember having seen "Picture of Dorian Gray" or "Capetown Cargo"? Do you remember Earl McEvoy? They're related questions, all right; since Earl directed both films, and has carved out quite a niche for himself out in Hollywood. Next time, pay more attention to those credits, and you might be able to follow his doings.

Lewis Franckle has recently been elected as assistant vice president of the Cleveland Society for Savings. He has been with the Society for some time, and has also been active in the American Institute of Banking.

Fran Houlihan, vice president and treasurer of Mollers, Inc., furniture manufacturers in Cambridge, Mass., has been elected president of the Boston Furniture Club.

Yours truly has joined Cowles Magazines in New York City (publishers of Look, Quick,Flair) and is handling advertising promotion for the last-named .... newest and most unique of the three. And that's all the plug we feel we have a right to include.

"The Committee" by this time has registered its interest in you and has taken away the veil of mystery surrounding its unique direct mail campaign. The Committee is all hopped up about what it hopes you're all hopped up about....

ON THE WAY UP: Bob Cone '37, of Los Angeles, is shown with his two daughters, (I to r) Carol and Marcia; and his wife Lillian.

Secretary, 4 Sunset Drive, Scarsdale, N. Y. Treasurer, 144-44 Sanford Ave., Flushing, L. I., N. Y. Class Agent, 74 Castlebar Rd., Rochester 10, N. Y.

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