1934
They said that sometime you might have to do a little work in writing up these notes, and I guess this is what they meant. Month after month you get thick envelopes from the college with clippings telling of the current accomplishments of the members of this amazing class, you get cards on those who have registered at the Inn, Gilbert sends along the notes which accompany dues payments, and you marvel at the way fellows go out of their way to drop you a line on anything that happens. Then one month you sit there fat, smug and happy, struggling to pull in your stomach to create a lap into which all this stuff is going to fall, and what happenspractically nothing happens, that's what, so bear down and see what you can do on your own!
As a starter, there's a batch of address changes and some of them look mighty interesting. For instance, cryptically and alphabetically, you are informed that Link Daniels can now be found in East Schodack, N. Y., if you can find East Schodack, N. Y JimDarling, last listed with The American Home Magazine in N. Y. C., is now in Chicago for the same enterprise Dave Hill has made the long jump from Clifton, N. J., to Culver City, Calif., where he is chief quality engineer for Hughes Aircraft and lives at 17319 Magnolia Blvd., Encino, which must be a helluva long ways out Magnolia Blvd. .... and in the quiet, restful-sounding little town of Wynnewood, Pa., there has come to rest one Mike Menchel, which is probably the end of that place as a quiet, restful little town, he'll light a firecracker under it one of these days.
There've been some changes made in other places, too From a statement of condition of The Merchants' National Bank of Indianapolis, we find that the vice-president and cashier is one R. E. Sweeney Jr., and while we find no statement of condition on
"Bup," from the records it would appear his stature is improving In Boston, DonAllen has moved from the top-notch legal firm with which he has been associated for some years to join the legal staff of the New England Electric System, a very fine utility outfit which* ye sec can highly recommend since it has furnished his groceries ever since the day he hesitatingly stepped from the monastic gloom of Tuck School into the bright sunlight of the outside world EdCorson, with the Federated Metals Division of American Smelting and Refining, has transferred from Whiting, Ind. to San Francisco and is living in San Mateo JoeSwensson, since graduation with Behr-Manning Corp., is now located with this firm in Cambridge, Mass., in, the notes say, the capacity of New England divisional manager—is that right, Joe? .... and at least a couple of fellows that we know of have gone back to work for their uncle—Mr. George H. Goss, more familiarly known as "Goose," is once again affiliated with the United States Marine Corps, and if you (perish forbid) happen to be passing Headquarters, 2nd Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, N. C., just ask for Captain Goss and you'll find him. Likewise, Bob Allabough has had his inactive status in the army reserve speedily changed and he's back in the service, where we have not yet found 0ut.... so soon! so soonl why you'd never have believed it—
20 YEARS AGO when Carnival was just around the corner.... when Billy Knibbs was the bellhop in Five Hundred Gallons
....a notice in The Dartmouth read "1934 is reminded that an inter-fraternity ruling prohibits attendance at fraternity parties during Carnival" (yes, yes).... and their lead editorial said "Gentlemen, the President of the College pleads for temperance," pointing out that purveyors of bad liquor had been detected in the dorms.... when two freshman, Beers and Robbe, had just been elected editor and business manager, respectively, of the 1936 Green Book .... and A. Hewitt won a major role in the readying campus presentation of Berkeley Square
....when The Dartmouth wrote at length of the unprecedented records set by the 1934 freshman football, hockey, basketball and swimming teams with 18 victories and no defeats and a special to the same paper gave the basketball score Dartmouth '34, 58-MIT, 21, with a flash note hot off the wires from Boston, "Levenson at guard for Dartmouth covered Capt. O'Brien of MIT so closely that O'Brien went out on personal fouls" (a trick, the secret of which probably forever will remain between "Booma" and his bosom pal "Smokey" Kelliher, who refereed).
While in the athletic mood, let's drop around and see what's doing amongst that mass of rippling muscle, the N.Y.C. branch of the sons of er- '34. As advertised in this space (rates on application) and optically demonstrated close by, the brethren had a little gathering recently under the very able aegis of George Copp. As an example of the help you get in this job, we get pictures from Jake Jacob son and from another guy who shall be nameless in case he missed a couple, a cocktail napkin enscribed with a fairly decipherable list of the faithful. They had cocktails, and movies of: (1) reunion, (2) the famous Smith lawn parties and (3) Jackson with his mouth open at the recent Yale game (between one thing and another how could they miss). Attending, with wives, were Bob Smith, Chuck Sutton, Ray Hulsart, WaltBlood, Art Moebius, Van Thome, Gail Raphael, Al Marks, Clarence Davies, Dick Gruen,Nels Krogslund, Harry Wallace, Bill Scherman, and, of course, the Copps. For better or for worse, etc., or in other words, without wives were Bill Craig, Fred Robbe, Les Reeve,Dick Houck, Bud Yallalee, Bob Engelman,Art Grimes, Dick Wells, Marty Dwyer, JeffJackson.
This thing gets easier as it goes along, especially when you bump into a set-up like the time Life featured the midget football craze among the kids of Atchison, Kan. Remember that? Well, it seems the kids included some members of the Eckels family, but let's let Phil tell the story, after all they're his kids!
"The Atchison Eckels now bask in the spotlight of Life magazine. In the article on Atchison midget football, several kids got into the pictures and Bill Scherman wrote asking how many of them were Eckels. I could answer 'only two,' the other two were frozen out.
"johnny E. is the guy frying eggs and peering around Father Baker as he demonstrates the straight-arm, and Betty stuffing her face as Johnny cooks. Got the ice refrigerator into the act all right (Ed.: plug for Atchison Ice Cos., Eckels VP and Gen'l Mgr.), but I couldn't figure out how to work in our frozen Hasty-Tasty apple pie, a little job that Mary and I are marketing with indifferent success. We do have hope of its catching on.
"Just got back from St. Louis where I was checking the pie market and caught Bill Rench and Marty Kerwin along with several fellows from classes not near ours. Had a short cup of coffee with Ek Jones who's battling the battle of container supply as manufacturers' agent for barrel, box, and bag manufacturers.
P.S. John's present plans, after this year's scores, are to go (ugh) Princeton."
So here we are without half trying stepping all over Bankart's toes. Man, how he squawks, they must be tender! If you want to join in the fun, drop me a note and we'll punish him again next month.
WAITING FOR SANTA: Caught in the act of trying to engineer a peak at the old boy on Christmas Eve are Phcebe and Frank Van Kirk '35, with daughter Susan. Frank is practicing medicine in Los Angeles in partnership with his classmate and old roommate, Bill Mumler.
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