1934
It seems only last weekend we had that meeting up in Hanover with all the rest of the class and club officers. All the notes were written for the year and it was very relaxing sitting there in the 1902 Room—that's the one where the chairs are comfortable but not sleepable—listening to what the people had to offer, even though Bill McCarter had to offer that the College was in the embarrassing position of now having more athletic trophies than athletes.
'Shorty Thomas was there, and Jack Gilbert, and George Copp, and out of the whole crowd only the Alumni Fund fellows were still biting their fingernails. Somehow, though, the whole summer's gone and look whose fingernails are ready for harvest again.
To start the year off, we could do nothing better than to point with considerable pride to the job which was turned in by the abovementioned Copp, his able assistants (including Marge), and the Class of 1934, in the likewise above-mentioned campaign. Reaching a total o£ 403 contributions for the first time in our existence as a class, with a 43% increase in dollars, we can now stand with some dignity among men of Dartmouth. As all good managers, George gives credit to the heavy hitting of his aides Dick Emerson, BillStowe, Bob Engelman, Dick Gruen, Al Jacobson, Tommy Thomas, Rollie Morton, AlMarks, Art Leonard, Chuck Rolfe, Harry Wallace, Gene Orsenigo, Dick Wells, Tom Hicks and George Cogswell and to the team-play of Bill Adams, Ernie Barcella, Chet Birch,Bam Brennon, Laurie Herman, Herb Heston,Dick Loughry, Karl Maas, Les Reeve, BobRodman, Ollie Sargent, Bup Sweeney, ArtWard and Bill Wilson. Very nice going, fellows!
The publishing schedule being what it is, we still have some June business left over. We got a chance to look in on the famous Monroe, N. Y., Smith picnic for '34's and it was a very pleasant look to say the least. Beer served by beautiful waitresses on such a perfect day in such good company seems, to be even better than those admen try to make it look on TV. For the sedentary, however, it is only fair to point out that those athletic newyorkers lay out a ball field so that you have to run uphill to first base. Jeff Tesreau once coyfully suggested that a large character known to us all was slowed down by similar conditions between home and first, but he was just kidding. From some old and musty notes, it would seem that among those present were Ray and Dorothy Ely, Dick andMary Gruen, the Colonel and Janice Houck from far-off Chattanooga, Choo-Choo, Billand Jane Stein, Mike Joseph and the best ball player in the park, Jack and Jane Gilbert>Bill and Beth Scherman, Marty and JoyDwyer, Harry and Kay Wallace, Art and RuthMoebius, Jake and Boots Jacobson, Herm andGerry Spitzer, Bob and Edie Smith, Georgeand Marge Copp, Fred Rob be and Old Golds, the Foleys, Will Maynard and a girl friend whom he introduced only to the old men present, Les Reeve, Jamie King, and maybe a few others but we don't think so. Regrets were received with various trivial excuses from Bud Yalallee who had a strep throat, Ted Germann who was in France, Jeff Jackson who was attending a cousin's wedding, and highly untrivial from Dick Wells, who was enmeshed in a Cub Scouts' affair. No regrets were expressed in a letter from BillGilmore, who every day sounds more and more like a Texan, though he is in Arizona, several minutes removed from Texas as sound flies, and plenty of sound flies from Texas, and my choice of weapons is cream puffs at 29 inches. Considerable regret was also expressed that Bob Allabough was unable to make it as he also has a ball-playing wife, they say. Maybe the time has come to turn the athletics over to the wife and kids and concentrate on something else.
VITAL STATISTICS brought up to date, include... Miss Joan Mary De Verner, of Daytona Beach, Fla., was married on May 19, 1951, to Mr. William Byford Taylor Mock, son of Dr. Harry Edgar Mock, noted brain surgeon, and Mrs. Mock, 87 Riverside Drive, Ormond Beach, Fla. Mrs. Mock was born in Asbury Park, N. J. She was graduated from Florida State University, where she was a modern language major, and also attended Bryn Mawr and the National University of Mexico. She served three years as a WAVE in Communications, Washington. Bill has been in Ormond Beach since 1946 writing fiction, and, according to the clipping, serving as special officer on the Ormond Beach Police Force Miss Lucille Horowitz, of Brooklyn, was married on July 15, 1951, to Mr. Irving David Johnson of Waterbury, Conn. Mrs. Johnson is an alumna of Cornell University. Irv, a practicing attorney in Waterbury, and his bride will live at the Hotel Elton in Waterbury Stan Silverman's daughter Susanna has already been mentioned in the NEWSLETTER, but, Sue, just between, you and me we have a little conflict on the date and the spelling of that lovely name. If you're as smart as your old man, you can by now drop me a note and give me the straight dope ... and Joe Bender, now located in Cranston, R. I., brings us up to date on son Frank Drake, born January 24, 1949, but heretofore unrecorded.
HANOVER RE-VISITED department during the month of August includes Mr. andMrs. Charles B. Strauss, of Stamford, Conn., and Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Hazen of Marblehead, Mass. Cards going back over, the summer record Bill Rench, from St. Loo, theHoucks, Gilly Gilmore, Bill Richardson,George Collins, Bill Daniels, in fact it seems half the class gets back up there at one time or another during the year.
A clipping picked up by Rollie Morton in Grand Rapids, Mich., indicates that JimWendell, in addition to running an insurance business and giving some serious thought to the problems of 1934's 25-year memorial gift, has time to take his wife and son fishing. Picture shows young Jimmy holding 8-pound, 32-inch northern pike, one of ten caught by the Jims, but the clipping goes a little further to point out that Bernice made a piker out of both with a 40-incher which weighed 18 pounds. Why don't you stay home and do the housework, Ma?
Our MEN OF DISTINCTION have accumulated over the summer months . .. from Chicago we hear that Dr. George C. Ham has been elected to full membership in the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. In this position he will teach, lecture, do research in psychosomatic medicine, and carry on his practice of psychoanalysis. George got his M.D. from Penn, taught there and at the University of Virginia, spent three years in chemical warfare and specialized in psychoanalysis after the service.... Also from Chicago, it was announced in July by Spiegel, Inc. that the Illinois traveler, Bob Engelman, is henceforth general merchandise manager of this firm. With Spiegel's since 1934, Bob has, in the words of his boss "grown up with the company and has a wide acquaintanceship with the manufacturers who supply Spiegel's." To which we could add that he also has a wide acquaintanceship with the football stadiums through which the Dartmouth teams pursue their weary way these days. In fact we will add it.... Just a couple of seats removed from Bob at Tuck School was a young fellow from Baraboo, Wis., and we now find that as of the middle of July, Bill French was elected assistant cashier of the Marine National Exchange Bank in that metropolis. Bill went with the Baraboo National after graduation, served as lieutenantcommander during the war, and became an investment analyst for Northwestern Mutual after the service.
There are many more, but they'll have to wait for next month, unfortunately. Along with a reputation for never making the deadline, these notes also have a reputation for never having a final paean of praise perforated by those awesome numerals.
Secretary, 12 Berwick St., Worcester 2, Mass. Treasurer, 13 Parkman Rd., Reading, Mass. Memorial Fund Chairman, 954 Gladstone Ave., S.E., Grand Rapids 6, Mich.
