1938
Un-Benchley-like, Bill McMurtrie, the moneybags of Indianapolis, has authorized the preparation of a Class Directory in anticipation of the Fifteenth Reunion a year from now. Difficult as it is to pry either money or letters from Bill, I suceeded in getting both with only about a three weeks' delay, at least two months less time than the previous record.
The desirability of having such a directory appears obvious to this corner, containing pertinent information as to addresses, family status, special interests, and kindred other matters of general appeal to classmates. It is planned to have a little booklet made up for distribution to all members of 1938, and this should be available in about a year. Any more sanguine estimate of timing would seem wishful thinking, in view of the necessity for questionnaires, follow-ups, tabulations and all the attendant headaches of the project.
The final form of the questionnaire is still under consideration, but I should like to ask everyone's cooperation in filling it out when it goes into the mail. Aside from the basic information requested, there will also be some irrelevant material which we hope will be amusing as grist for the mill of the Pace-Setter or this column; your indulgence of such levity is asked in advance. But don't sit on the front steps eagerly awaiting the questionnaire; several members of the class are going to be asked to suggest revisions, and it may be some time before it is actually in the mail.
As you will have heard from other sources, including the daily press, college students have not been drafted en masse for service in the armed forces; 1938, on the other hand, seems to have had its fair share of recalls to active duty. Major Richard A. Gilbert has been assigned to Orlando Air Force Base, Orlando, Fla., to serve as Accounting and Disbursing Officer for the base. Cmdr. William E. Norcross, USN is now with the U.S. Mobile Construction force, Battalion Eight, in Davisville, R. X., and is living in Wickford, R. I. Cmdr.C. Allen Raymond finds himself stationed -with the Munitions Board, OSD, in Washington and living in Arlington, as practically all of Washington does. Capt. John H. Hanan II is with the Marines in Narragansett, R. I. Why all these characters have to show up in or near Newport, when the undersigned so recently left the confines of that garden spot, is slightly annoying. All the time I was there, there was hardly a classmate nearer than large Richard Francis in Fall River, and X never did get in touch with him either.
To swell the ranks, of the local 1938 contingent, Gil Tanis arrives here soon to be a Regional Associate of the Dartmouth Development Council. Gil, according to my inside Real Estate sources, is planning to. take a small apartment in Hanover, leaving kith and kin in Jersey until he can find suitable accommodations for them in the capitol of the North Country.
Having just returned from the monthly Hanover 1938 meeting, held for the last time this winter at the DOC (it is closing soon for the winter and meetings will now have to be held elsewhere), one addition to our small local contingent is noted for the near future. Bill Lansberg is coming to Hanover to work in Baker Library. No more of his plans do I know than this, and it's somewhat indirect too.
Speaking of the local scene, J. R. ChandlerJr. of the necktie industry called and spent the evening with the secretary, accompanied by wife Ginny and replete with tales of the ununderstanding attitude of many clothiers when it came to the Chandler product. One would think neckties a standard item which stores would re-order like corn flakes, but, no, there are bottlenecks even in that basic industry. Judging from the appearance of Dartmouth undergraduates, who haven't changed much since our day, the necktie is an item frequently omitted from the budget. Another local visitor of recent date, who failed to contact this bureau was Ed Perrin of Hartford. Salesman Perrin, according to my local FBI, is an eminently successful practitioner of the art of snowing customers under. Furthermore, he is now the proud father of a new consumer, yclept Grey, who arrived in this vale of troubles in the balmy month of June.
From Peabody, Mass., home of the shoe and the Rev. Herbert R. Loring, comes news that the good preacher is removing himself to Chicago, where he will be pastor of the Green Street Congregational Church. A graduate of the Chicago Theological Seminary, he received the degree of doctor of theology from B.U. in June. He served as pastor of the Peabody Church for five years. He is married to the former Moray Martin of Cleveland and they are the parents of two children, Kathy and Frederick.
Just to keep up the vias in favor of legal eagles, here is a recent item about our erstwhile secretary, Robert H. Reno of Concord, N. H. Mr. Reno has just been appointed a member of the State Ballot Law Commission. Sooner or later the influence of 1938 for the good, as chronicled various times in this column, should result in the disappearance of the Kefauver Committee or at least allow that august body to concentrate on political corruption in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Philadelphia.
From John Nelson, via a green question- naire the like of which I haven't seen before and therefore attribute to Lyle, comes word that he is once more engaged in making changes in little garments in the middle of the sleepless night. One Judith Wilbour Nelson arrived in Manchester, N. H., on the first of April last; news takes a long time to travel the short distance from Manchester! He reports the presence in the Queen City of MilesPrentice, who is working out of Manchester for the Great American Fire Insurance Cos.
Among other changes in scenery and occupation among the class, Dr. Charles R. Perryman is now at the Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh and living at 40 Cherokee Road. JimSutcliffe is a Real Estate builder and developer in Brighton, Mass., although he lives in West Newton, my old home*
John Barrows is Guidance Director at the Foxboro High School and lives in Sharon, Mass. Chet Emerson is with U.S. Rubber Export Cos. in New York. Wayne Guyther is a Syndicate Store Merchandiser in New York. Hitchcock has returned to Boston after engineering in Greenland for a short time. C. Edward Sherman is a salesman for Kellogg Sales Cos. out of Portland, Me.
By the time this hits the newstands, the preHarvard game party will have been held at the Somerset and arrangements, if any, for the Yale get-together will have become part of the public knowledge. I am hoping to make both of these occasions to gather more dope; in the meantime, the mail bag is not getting worn out through over-use. I would prefer not to have to manufacture news, as it is likely to be uncomplimentary, but if forced to, I have all sort of ideas. It's up to you!
Secretary, Admissions Office Parkhurst Hall, Hanover, N. H.
Treasurer, 4721 Capital Ave., Indianapolis 8, Xnd.
