1934
This being the sad season when, ever since Caesar, everybody naturally expects to get it in the neck and when this year that infernal revenue department down in Washington is reaching for other more readily accessible portions of the anatomy to outrage, it is perhaps good to be located in this unpredictable part of the U.S. where all the citizens pick themselves up off the floor and merrily prepare for March 17. On that glorious day, called Evacuation Day, in a fancy parade, the DAR celebrates the way our dogfaces of 1776 chased the redcoats out into Boston Harbor, the British Empire Club celebrates the masterful advance to the rear of the British forces, and my wild Irish cousins from South who will go along with any gag, march mightily along knowing that whatever anybody else thinks they are celebrating only St. Paddy s day and the assorted candidacies of James Michael (not '34-yet). But everybody has a swell time and is pleased as punch, or punches, and what I mean is, before I get involved in one of those non-sequiturs or wind up like that famous outfielder of Buster Snow's legend who found himself in deep left field with an accordion instead of a glove, you've got to be philosophical because things are tough all over.
Except that you do see turning up in the records some fellows whose names don't appear here very often... like Randell Cook who was freshman cross-country captain and who now, it seems, has moved from Evanston, Ill. to Orinda, Calif., a little more cross country stuff... or Bob Davis, one of that famous delegation which wended its way north from Exeter to take over the country boys. Bob was one of the quiet ones in that group, he never broke any windows in the Deke house and he's still located in the quiet little community of Plymouth, Mass.... or Jack Banks, who is now a supervisor in the Shadeland Plant of Western Electric at Indianapolis and who lives in New Augusta, Ind.... and speaking of cross country and Cooky, etc., reminds me that Harvey Cohn, who coached that sport in our day, is now trainer for the Boston Celtics, a pro basketball team which knocks the brains out of all the other clubs, and if you listen to their games over the radio you may be fortunate enough to hear the dulcet tones of one J. Howard McHugh explaining the finer points of the game to the radio audience, points which he picked up in the several years he was forced to listen to Jake Edwards talk in his sleep. While we're waiting for the parade to start in Boston, it might be a good place to tell anyone who is interested that Eddie Shevlin is around Boston also and is an attendance officer for the school department.
MEN OF DISTINCTION this month has to stand or fall on one clipping which even then is a little late in arriving. Nevertheless a newsworthy item tells us that John D.Murphy, vice president and general manager of the Wiremold Corporation (Hartford, Conn.) was elected president of the Board of Trustees of the Hartford County Rehabilitation Workshop. Mr. Murphy, it says, is a graduate of Kingswood School and a member of its Board of Governors, and a past president of the Hartford Dartmouth Alumni Association.
VITAL STATISTICS, also brief... the marriage of Miss Mary Ferguson, daughter of the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. D. K. Ferguson, Marshall, Mo., to Gordon McLean Dewart took place November 22 in the University City, Mo. Mr. Dewart and his bride are now living in Chicago.
From assorted sources, some of which are those lovely class dues invoices which mean that another of the brethren has joined the fold for the year, you find that Stew Anderson has been transferred from Rio de Janeiro to the American Embassy at Bogota. Colombia ... that Dave Luck is in the BusAd department at Michigan State College, where it must be tough trying to ask all those football players the right questions so they can play against Michigan ... that Grant Healey is now a lieutenant colonel and that he is living in East Riverdale, Md.... that Mac McClary in far-off Constable, N. Y., has seen Dartmouth play the St. Lawrence hockey team at Canton and just missed the Clarkson game because of a blizzard ... and that Ben Piatt is now with Ingersoll Product Division of Borg-Warner as assistant to director of design and engineering engaged in development and production of amphibious tanks for the USN. Ben reports, "Live on 40 acres of farm land five miles from Kalamazoo, Mich. which acreage will now have to lie fallow a few more years"...
speaking of years, do you know that 20 YEARS AGO this class was just electing officers for the first time, in fact we were the only class of the four to poll enough votes to declare our officers, who were Michelet,Miller, Herman and Embry. The senior class ballots were mysteriously stolen and the only one who had any leads was "Slim" Conners (God rest him), who had many ... five men from '34 had just been named to The Dartmouth from the second competition, Allabough, Barcella, Carson, Fullerton and Moore ... the Mary Hitchcock Athletic Carnival featured bouts between R. B. Ryan '31 and H. L. Barber '32, A. E. Kahn '34 and A. E. Kraybill '34... a Dartmouth head read "Freshmen emerge victorious in four sports" "Edwards high scorer, McHugh stars in net, Kahn stars, Ballard high scorer"... and in a box in the Dartmouth you could find one day the following "Wanted College man to sell yachts in his spare time."
During the next couple of months, we're going to do a little research. Anybody you'd like to hear about, anything you want to know about '34? For the small sum of the three cents it will cost you to write, we will guarantee you a reply of some sort.
But for this month we won't crowd our neighbors, the '35ers.They're pretty good fellows, albeit a little young, and if it wasn't for them at reunion we probably never would have finished all our beer or maybe some of us would still be there tryin'.
A '34 MONOPOLY: Head fablers at the Cleveland alumni luncheon Dec. 30 are (I to r) Lou Weitz '34, club secretary; Frank Heath 34, past secretary; Curtis Lee Smith, father of Curtis L. Smith Jr. '49; and Dick Loughry '34, club president.
Secretary, 12 Berwick St., Worcester 2, Mass.
Treasurer, 107 Riverview St., Waltham, Mass.
Class Agent, 370 Central Ave., Orange, N. J.
