1944
This memo is being written from Kansas City without benefit of files, correspondence or "freedom from fear." "Everything Is Up to Date in" if you're immune to .38 pellets and FBI probes, but I'm holding a low score pool ticket on the Blues and they've been snowed out in St. Paul all week. Hope the feds make it first.
An otherwise dilapidated Sunday dinner here at the Ambassador Hotel was made memorable when Jerry Yudkin came in with the last course. Looking sprightly and none the worse for the trials of pediatrics, Jerry is winding up his residency at the U. of Kansas Medical Center. When he pulled in here last June after leaving the Army, he found himself back in harness with his old Yale Medical School colleague, Frank Behrle. Frank had just been sprung from the Navy, and had also chosen this Medical center for his pediatric residency. Jerry and I spent a wonderful evening last night with Frank, his cute wife Peggy and their little stardusters, Barbara and Susan. Frank told of Paul Craig managing a chain of filling stations out of Bellows Falls and of Charlie Spallino, who incidentally married Paul's sister Barbara, a wholesale liquor king in the same area.
Frank Davis has been named assistant to the president of Davis and Elkins College in Elkins, West Va. Making a rather circuitous junket to his present position, since leaving Hanover in 1942, Frank notched 27 Army posts in the US, New Guinea, the Philippines, Japan and Hawaii .... then dumped the railroad tracks for the life beautiful in Bar Harbor, Me., thought life could be more beautiful in Albany as an insurance underwriter, but found the real beauty in West Virginia .... married her and settled down. Writing of his wife and daughter, Frank confesses, "I get along with the former in fine shape, but the latter is too full of energy." Frank has taken on Public Relations work for the college and is very enthused with it. "The only improvement," he writes, "would be to do the same work in Hanover." Frank ran into Bud Isner, also of Elkins, who is currently managing a bakery that "does a land office business." Prospects are that the bakery will expand into a new territory soon. Bud is married to the former Virginia Earle and is the proud poppa of twins.... a boy and a girl.
Dick Morse came back to the United States recently on a vacation from his work in India. A student of Indian affairs for over three years, Dick spent much of his vacation time on lecture platforms.... and gleaned con- siderable newspaper publicity. His lovely Indian bride accompanied him.
From Bob Colwell's corner we hear that .... Rapidly expanding New York is putting the squeeze on Westchester and White Plains; Bill Trier's rapidly expanding son is putting the squeeze on the White Plains abode .... so a new Trier homestead was located in Phillipse Manor in Tarry town. Bill is a sur- gical resident at Grasslands, and has been taking a course in graduate surgery at the NYU PG Medical School. Bill Gatlin has just got himself a new home in Mt. Kisco and will begin interning at Grasslands in July. ClintGardiner is temporarily living in Mamaroneck while consolidating preparations for publishing a magazine in Germany. "Moose"Musser is having a good time in Manchester designing Pensions Plans and pushing a '50 Ford. The Moose will usher at Bob's June wedding.
Big plans are being made for the invasion of Detroit and Ann Arbor for the Michigan game Oct. 6-7.... planes, busses and trains are being chartered .... blocks of hotel rooms and suites are being reserved and a couple of drums of martini olives have been earmarked for the invaders. Make your reservations through your local club secretaries or Phillip K. Watson, Dartmouth Pow Wow Committee, 1818 Buhl Bldg., Detroit 26, Mich. A deposit of $100.00 with application will be credited on strip tickets. The football ducats are to be procured through the usual channels.
Jim Dick is down in Venezuela with the Mene Grand Oil Company.... up in New York, Don Smith is huckstering for Young and Rubicam Bob Cummins is there with the rather exclusive Milgrim Company .... across the river "Mac" McLoud is doing public relations for U.S. Rubber in Passaic, N. J out west, Larry Flower is instructing at the University of Colorado in Boulder Len Landry is out in Boulder too, but I don't know what he is up to ... . then all the way out west, Dick Bradley is doing graduate work at the University of California, LeRoy Briggs is teaching at the City College of San Francisco .... and Dick Ettinger is selling college text books there; then at the higher seat of learning in Stanford we find students Jim Browning, Jim White, and physicist Lenny Rieser doing graduate work .... while Dr. Charlie Secor wields the knife at the local hospital. Vernon Genn is with the West Coast Engine & Equipment Co. in Berkeley, Dr. Charlie Larrabee is practicing in S. F., Frank West is managing the Personal Accounts Dept. of Johnson & Higgins of California in S. F., and another Golden Gater, Haiden Ritchie, is making his name in advertising with Ross Bros., Inc. Bob Murphy is with Macio Hearing Aids in San Jose .... while in Nevada, Tom Kunau is with the Ist National Bank of Nevada in Reno, and BobKendall is whooping it up in Virginia City.
Bride and Groom of the Month: WaltEricson and the former Martha Ritzhaupt were married in Galion, Ohio on March 20. They will make their home in Euclid, Ohio. On the prospective side, Rolf de Leuw and Virginia Bay of St. Louis made known their plans for an autumn wedding on March 12. Rolf received his degree from Harvard Law School last June.
Before signing off for the summer, I would like to thank you again for your support to the Alumni Fund. Have a good vacation and take some pictures we can use in the column.
Secretary, 26 Olmstead Rd., Scarsdale, N. Y. Treasurer, 100 Hersey St., Hingham, Mass. Class Agent, Patchogue Shores,"East Patchogue, L. I., N. Y.
