1934
In case any of you fellows have been lost in the deepest jungles of equitorial Africa, the Congressional Library, or the Stork Club for the past couple of months, we'd like to mensince tion in these notes somewhere before we for-get it that the Alumni Fund campaign is drawing to a close. We mention it only incidental to the business of the day and to show that we bear no ill will towards that fellow who sits in his ivory tower down in Radio City and still manages to keep his finger on the pulse of every pregnant wife and wandering son of '34 for that green News-Letter. In mentioning it at this time we wish to point only to the glorious words which might have been uttered by that immortal umpire, Bill Klem, "sic transit gloria mundi" which by literal translation could mean, "get your base hits today, because there may be no game Monday."
From the press of April 16 (deadlines being what they are) we find that"The engagement is announced of Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Cooke, daughter of the late John Gorham Palfrey and of Mrs. Palfrey, of Brookline, Mass. to Mr. Jerome Alan Danzig, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jerome J. Danzig, of New York City. The wedding will take place in the near future.
"Mrs. Cooke, the former Sarah Palfrey, was National Women's singles tennis champion in 1941 and 1945 and has been nine times winner of the National Women's doubles. Recently she has been appearing on television.
"Mr. Danzig is a graduate of Dartmouth, where he was a member of Green Key, Alpha Delta Phi and Sphinx (Ed. note this is all just to identify him for you fellows who thought he would remain smart, and single, forever). He is with the Columbia Broadcasting System as associate director of television programs."
Likewise from the press, "Mr. and Mrs.Roald A. Morton, of 183 Griffen Avenue, Scarsdale, N. Y„ are the parents of a son, their third child, born April 24 at French Hospital, New York. Mrs. Morton is the former Miss Dorothy Jean Sweet, of Lacombe, Alberta, Canada."
The address changes this month give us a new department, which we might call the Out-of-the-Blue Dept. ... Swede Yensen, many years ago listed as in Tulsa, now appears in Silver Springs, Md. ... Mac McCullam lists his address at the N. Y. Journal-American, where according to the records, he has been leaving school in 1931. .. admitting to the occupation of "Farmer," Mordecai Mersel is now located in Frenchtown, N. Y... . and from Chicago where he is an attorney with the Chicago Title and Trust Co., Ed Cullen reports a change of home address to Kenilworth, Ill. Ed, who graduated from University of Chicago, has appeared in this spot only as a contributor in the yearly fund campaign, which is a pretty good way to appear.
Which reminds me, now that you mention the Alumni Fund, that last year in that Green Derby competition with those rag-tag, nocount classes that we used to beat regularly at anything from apple judging to the Pilver sweepstakes, the class of you-know-what was in a very undignified position in the parade, a position which could be defined more clearly if this were not a family journal, so to speak. You wouldn't want that to happen even to a Harvard.
Men of Distinction this month ... Al Marks, on April 27, was elected vice-president and secretary of Howard Stores, Corp.... GailRaphael, in a top huckster trade magazine, receives very fine notices for his ad work in the American Airlines series which you may have seen, particularly "There's no such thing as a distant relative" . . . and Charles C. Goodfeltow Jr., a Phi Gam who left school to graduate later from NYU, has been elected president of the United Fund, Inc., of Cranford, N. J. The new president has served as treasurer of the fund for the past four years, and is also vice-president of the Cranford Boys' Camp Association. He is in the investment department of the City Bank Farmers Trust in New York.
Which reminds me to tell you that you'd be amazed at the way the Alumni Fund is supported by fellows in our class who left Dartmouth to graduate from other colleges. If it depended upon them, we'd never get our brains beaten out by that class of '35 that we brought up from pea-green infants.
You might be interested in the picturesque addresses which some of the boys have recently acquired ... for instance, Curt Howard, who is in Cleveland as director of production for Meerman's, Inc. (advertising) lives in Chagrin Falls, 0.... C. Raymond Hulsart, who was once described by one of my more talented predecessors as "Dartmouth's most expensive athlete," now lives at 1086 Hardscrabble Rd., Cbappaqua, N. Y. and is an attorney for Amalgamated Textiles, Inc., 51 Madison Ave., NYC... a fellow who has the courage to do what we'd all like to do is JohnLaidlaw, who, according to his latest address, lives at the Hinsdale Golf Club, Hinsdale, Ill... . Henry Reck lists as an address Pavilion VIII, East Lawn, University of Virginia, Charlottesville ... less picturesque but more in line with the times, Jack Lynch has moved away from the mouldy tomes of the JAG's office in Washington to the outpost of Staff Judge Advocate's Office at Camp Edwards, Mass. . . . and Line Daniels, who was recently reported in East Schodack, N. Y., is now brought up to date with the info that he spent a year at Columbia, has remarried and is now assistant director of the Youth Commission in Albany.
Which reminds me to point out that fluff ye sec made the month we printed Alumni Fund contributors. They tack on that list in Hanover three weeks after the sweating secretaries misspell their last word, and with crystal ball in hand, I mentioned something about 400-odd names to follow the last paragraph. Lo and notwithstanding, when the dawn broke, the class of 1934 had only 351 members who stood up to be counted. We couldn't believe, at first, that it wasn't the prank of a playful printer, but it was sure enough right. That's only 351 out of some 600 living graduates. Are you living? Remember Bill Klem!
20 YEARS AGO—the Daily Dartmouth closed its year, and listed in its final edition a business board which included from '34,J. Dolben, A. Donaldson Jr., M. Dwyer and S. M. Palmer. No news board members from 1934 were listed.... G. L. Engel '34 was awarded the Tirrell prize for greatest progress in physical improvement with due regard to classroom work (due regard was easy because George knocked off 3.5) ... a mail survey conducted by the Poste Chaste column of the Dartmouth indicated that 31% of all letters from Hanover went to Smith College, 19% to Wellesley, and, thanks to 1934. Colby Junior was in third place ... and, looking to Commencement, Alden Tavern in Lyme, announced that delicious chicken and steak dinners would be dispensed at the price of $1.00 per each.
Which reminds me that as far as the Alumni Fund goes, too, a buck is no longer a buck.
And if you have your doubts by this time as to the possession of the normal quota of buttons by this guy who is supposed to be writing a news column and not an Alumni Fund Bulletin, all we can say is, in a paraphrase of that Frenchman of happy memory, for some reason right now everything reminds us of the Alumni Fund.
Hoping you are the same and, God willin', we'll see you in the fall.
Secretary, 12 Berwick St., Worcester 2, Mass.
Treasurer, 107 Riverview St., Waltham, Mass.
Class Agent, 370 Central Ave., Orange, N. J.
