1938
Comes the fall and the first issue of the MAG, and the secretary, like many other secretaries, is faced with the horrible realization that all the good resolutions of the spring about getting down to work in the summer on various class matters have been for naught.
The summer could not, however, pass without bringing even more clearly to mind the magnificent job done by Wright Mallory on the Fund. As many of you know, he not only brought in a much higher sum of money than the previous years had done, but he also increased the number of contributors substantially. The addition of new contributors is, from the standpoint of class organization, the most valuable part of the job which Mai and his assistants did. Although edged out at the last minute from first position, 1938 has every right to be exceedingly proud of its effort in this year's historic, record-breaking campaign.
Among various annual projects which come to the fore at this time, there is the customary gathering of the class before the Harvard game. News of the actual arrangements will be forthcoming in ample season through other channels than this, but you can put it down in the book as being on tap for lunch just prior to the invasion of the Brighton Crescent. Later on in this screed you will find inklings of some thoughts on the Yale game as well.
The local citizenry have confided one with the other by postcard and seem to have agreed that 1938 should have a monthly luncheon here in Hanover. In view of various factors, including the possibility of weekend visitors, we have tentatively set the first Friday of each month for a get-together at the Outing Club House. Visiting firemen are naturally cordially invited; just check with the undersigned on arrival in town.
The above-noted change in venue from the foggy confines of Rhode Island to the clearer air of Hanover will indicate a slight alteration in occupation for the Secretary. Without going into gory details, it can be said that I have become an employee of the College for the year with the eventual aim in mind of returning to being a Good Influence after the current season.
The Emerson menage will soon (by the time you read this) be ensconced in a small apartment in this capital of the North Country, where it will be available to any members of the group who should happen to wander northwards by design or accident. During the daylight working hours, the Secretary is to be found in a small cubbyhole dignified by the term "office" deep in the rear area of the Admissions Office. Guide service is available.
During the wet and inclement months usually called summer in New England, little of any note happened to the class; there was a constant stream of visitors to Hanover Center, invited and uninvited, but not very productive of Hot Dope. Reilly, Brownell, Boyle,Lyle, Ganter, all partook of the simple country fare, both solid and liquid, but other '38's either failed to check in or studiously ignored the invitation proffered in the last offering of the spring.
Col. James T. Seaver Jr. of Bronxville, N. Y., has been selected to command the recently activated 2101st Air Weather Group of the Air Weather Service (MATS) at Offutt Air Force Base, Omaha, Neb. Col. Seaver has been serving as Staff Weather Officer with the Strategic Air Command at Offutt Base. Jim is living in Bellevue, Neb.
Continuing on the military vein, Ed Shumaker writes a nice long letter reporting that he has left Culver, where he was Adjutant of Culver Military Academy and has moved to Merchantville, N. J., where he and wife Tweet and two sons (John Gilliams Shumaker born on 16 April of this year) are now well established. They see a lot of the Herb Bayers and Frank Davenports. Ed reports a desire for word from any other 1938's in the vicinity.
From the wilds of Chester, N. H., comes word that gentleman-farmer Wiggin has sold out his multifarious livestock and is even now on his way Haiti-wards where he is to work for the government on agricultural aid to that section of the world. After a good many years of peaceful bucolic pastimes in the dairy business, Dartmouth's peripatetic representative sets out for distant parts once more.
Bud Walls dropped into the office the other day and confided that several of the Connecticut delegation are dreaming up some sort of get-together for the Yale weekend; if plans mature, you will receive word in due course. At present the thinking is of a picnic gathering at the Gloomy Bowl before the game. Bud has been appointed manager of brokerage development by the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co., a job which is going to necessitate a considerable amount of travel. I have already recommended to him that he contact 1938's expense-account king, Dan Marshall, in Houston. Henry Beck in Dallas is also due for a Walls visitation.
Moving from assistant manager of the Philadelphia Office of IBM, Parran Dawkins has now been promoted to manager of the Hartford Office of the same organization, thus increasing the Hartford contingent by one more.
In spite of the national prominence given by certain sections of the press to the West Point situation, Worcester, Mass., has seized the spotlight for graft and corruption. According to a recent clipping from the local journal, sent to me by my usually reliable anonymous source of information, Atty. Francis X. Reilly Jr. has sprung to the defense of a local gambler, who courageously surrendered to the gendarmerie in the office of that paragon of virtue. It is not within the comprehension of this observer to understand all the involutions of Worcester County politics, but he is convinced that virtue will triumph as represented by Atty. Reilly Jr.
Adding further lustre to the legal lights of 1938, Assistant District Attorney Al Pettoruto of Lawrence, Mass., was recently appointed to the Lawrence Airport Commission for a three-year term. Mr. Pettoruto is a past president and member of the Holy Rosary Holy Name Society, a member of the Lawrence Lions club, past president and member of the Italian College Club, treasurer of the Dartmouth Club of Lawrence, financial secretary of Sons of Italy Lodge 902, and member of the Lawrence Bar Association, Pontiac club, and other fraternal organizations.
On the gloomy side of the picture, Ganter managed while in Hanover to run into a tree in front of the Hazelton menage, demolishing the Ganter-mobile and three of his ribs, which were cemented back together again by Dr. Mosenthal of the local hospital. Ed White has been reposing in the Baker Memorial Hospital recovering from the removal of several ulcers; I have received no word from him since the event and am forced only to hope that everything has been going well. Karl Hill continues to suffer from ill health, unfortunately, but is still able to pursue his duties at Tuck School. Dick Heneage has had to fight the summer through with his daughter down with rheumatic fever; latest word was that all was well, but it's made the summer a rough one for Dick, who is continuing as principal of the Whitefield High School.
Among other visitors to this office, DickSherwin appears frequently as general manager of the Vermont Printing Company, official purveyors of stationery to the Admissions Office. Merrill Condit dropped in for a reunion with the office help; he goes to Darrow School this fall (New Lebanon, N. Y.).
The Annual Boston Beer Picnic managed, in spite of rain, to provide a pleasant afternoon for Egelhoffs, MacNutts, Lakes, Francis's and Dave Freeman and Charlie Hitchcock. The soiree took place at EgelhofE's in Marshfield. During the course of the summer, various and sundry luncheoners in Boston included: State Representative Jerry Bly of Saugus (Rep.), Don Badger (now with the bearded uncle, Navy Division, with two stripes), Rog Buffinton, Charley Main, GilSmall, Dick Stoughton, and Mouse Hallett's father, who has been officially welcomed into the Boston '38 family and is a most welcome addition to the group.
The Society reporter conveys news of the marriage of Warren G. Flynn to Mrs. Helen K. Colby, a graduate of Wheaton College who is a writer for radio and television. Further tracing of the course of true romance reveals a wedding trip to Bermuda and then a return to Pelham Manor. Sid Hogerton also took the plunge during the summer, being married in August to Miss Elizabeth C. Albro of Memphis, Tenn. First Lieutenant Hogerton (USA) and Mrs. Hogerton later registered at the Hanover Inn. Gerry Ullman completes the list of Benedicts, being hitched to Miss Marcia J. Dubey of New York. Mrs. Ullman is a graduate of Skidmore, the New York State school, if some of you have forgotten the trip to Saratoga.
To complete the social season, the following were honored guests during the summer months at the local hostelry: Thomas C.Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. James E. Cooney of Des Moines, la.; James R. Chandler Jr., at the time of New Boston, N. H.; Mr. and Mrs.Jerome Tosi and family of Ho-Ho-Kus, N. J.; Bob Stearns of Bridgeport, Conn.; Mr. andMrs. R. W. Starke of Brookhaven, N. Y.; GilTanis of Livingstone, N. J.; and E. S. Waggamen Jr., of Rye, N. Y.
Secretary, Admissions Office Parkhurst Hall, Hanover, N. H. Treasurer, 4721 N. Capital Ave., Indianapolis 8, Ind
