1938

Headliner of the class for the currentmonth is Hal Berman, whose new book, Justice in Russia, has been published by theHarvard University Press ($4.75). ProfessorBerman, leading authority on Russian lawand professor of same at the Harvard LawSchool, treats very thoroughly all aspects ofjustice in the USSR, from public to privatelaw. According to one reviewer, "ProfessorBerman has made a notable contribution tothe literature dealing with Russia, Communism and the Soviet social order. It is undoubtedly the most factual and searching effort in the direction of understanding thathas been produced in a decade."

Another considerable honor attained in the class went to Walt Averill, mein host of the Nelson House in Poughkeepsie. Walt was recently elected president of the New York State Hotel Association at the 35th annual National Hotel Exposition in New York City. Walt, incidentally is the father of Deborah Moore Averill, seven, and Andrew Carlisle Averill, three.

Changing from guests to gas, Lyle Devlin has been appointed supervisor of the Gulf Oil Co.'s retail home heating market. He is now located in Gulf's general offices in Pittsburgh. Lyle joined Gulf on graduation, as a salesman, in 1940 was made head of fuel oil sales in Detroit, and then spent 42 months in overseas service with the Seabees in the recent unpleasantness.

Al Wolff has a neat subject for a lecture he recently gave the Mother's Club of the United Church of Bridgeport, Conn. "Sometimes It's Normal to Act Queer." There must be some consolation for all of us, and particularly prep school teachers, in said title. Al got his Master's in psychology at Teachers' College, Columbia, after graduation from Dartmouth. He is now director of counselling at the University of Bridgeport and is assistant professor of psychology there.

Bob Stearns, secretary of the Bridgeport Rolling Mills (also Bridgeport, Conn.) is arranging the annual visit to that city of the Dartmouth Glee Club. Speaking at the same program, of interest to 1936, primarily, I assume, will be Budd Schulberg, prominent author and ex-editor of Ye Dartmouth.

Herb Christiansen, about whom I hear mostly through the ever-reliable Ganter, is Assistant District Manager for Gulf (I ought to get at least a free tankful for all the references this month) Oil in Jamaica Plain and lives in Needham, Mass. Morris Kantzler is a CPA in Miami Beach, probably auditing the astronomical figures of the resort hotels in that vicinity. Fud Mather is a District Traffic Superintendent for New England Tel. & Tel. in Lowell, Mass., not far from his native Greater Boston.

As a matter of professional interest and perhaps of general informational value to the class, here is a list of Dartmouth 1938s in the teaching racket: Jim Blake, at Newark Academy, N. J.; Al Boerker at Kents Hill Seminary, Kents Hill, Me.; Warren Chivers, Vermont Academy; John Duguid, Morgan High School, Clinton, Conn.; Dick Heneage, Whitefield, N. H., High School (Principal); Ralph Hossman, Williston Academy, Easthampton, Mass.; Warren King, Garden City, L. I. High School; Dick Niebling, Exeter; Karl Seidenstuecker, Kennett High School in Conway, N. H., also operator at the last information of a Tourist Court; Ed Shumaker, counselor and engineering instructor at Culver in Indiana. Having given so much space in the fall to the New Hampshire Legal Division of 1938, here's some balance on the side of the instructional phase. If any of you have any dope on other professional categories, send it along.

So far as my records are concerned, and they are frequently in error, incidentally, no mass exodus of the class has taken place yet into the Armed Forces. My plea of last month for notification of same still holds true so that we can keep our records as up to date as possible. The problem of the draft is, of course, one which is bothering the colleges very much and is even beginning to hit us here at this level in some cases, the "more mature" boys. With the increased tempo of recall to Active Duty, there will be problems in replacing teachers both at the college and school level, so that the above listing of men in that category for our class may well be subject to rapid and unpleasant change.

Speaking of lawyers and so forth, GerryUllman, whom we used to see fairly frequently in Cambridge while he attended Harvard Law School, is now engaged to Miss Marcia Joy Dubey of Fifth Avenue, New York. Mr. Ullman was a captain in the Army (who wasn't?; in fact my nickname among the inmates of this institution is "Captain John"—five years and no promotion!), later served as assistant counsel to U. S. Senator Irving Ives of New York, and at present is an ambulance-chaser in the Big City.

The mid-winter doldrums being here as faras news of the Class is concerned, that aboutempties file 13 except for the usual new information on addresses:

James A. Briggs, 365 23rd St., Tracy, Calif.; Lt.Comdr. Robert M. Carroll, OP 09A1 Navy Dept., Washington 25, D. C.; Herbert P. W. Christiansen, 15 Tudor Road, Needham, Mass.; Morris H. Kantzler, 1169 97th St., Miami Beach, Fla.; Forest L.Mather Jr., 10 Bartlett St., Chelmsford, Mass.; William W. Olmstead, 518 Brookside Ave., Ithan, Pa.; William J. Barkeley Jr., 2324 Fairway Drive, Roanoke, Va.; David V. Rugen, 629 W. 8th St., Plainfield, N. J.

Secretary, St. George's School, Second Beach Rd., Middletown, R. I.

Treasurer, 4721 N. Capital Ave., Indianapolis 8, Ind.

Class Agent, Anchor Hocking Corp., 12 E. 40th St., New York, N. Y.