1934

These notes, which reach the bright light of day almost smack in the middle of the Carnival season, are making their hesitant way down the long pink sheet of copy paper in bitter competition with the attraction of the drifting snow of a winter storm viewed through a large window from a warm, cozy room. This scene is strangely reminiscent of Carnival, especially the viewing from a warm room part, as ye sec during his Hanover days was blessed with roommates and friends who shunned the great outdoors as the plague, and Carnival guests were consequently uniform in their interest for the art works of Carpenter, the rare books in Baker Library, or studies of the chemical reactions of certain carbohydrates on the human bloodstream.

zo YEARS AGO, though, things were a little on the dark side in Hanover Corey Ford, in accepting selection as judge, inquired, "Shall I bring my own snow?" ... but snow fell just in time for the arrival of 554 brighteyed maidens . ... and a blow fell when it developed that 50 girls had missed the Boston Carnival train, with Chi Phi bearing the brunt of the casualties... in the midst of the confusion, a heavy, dark one-line editorial informed Dartmouth readers that "F. F. Ripley and W. H. Scherman joined the $9.70 Club yesterday".;. in Carnival sports: for the swimming team, Steve Meigher won the dive, Jim Ballard and Willie Leveen were 1-2 in the 440, and Dick Banfield won the 50; in basketball, in a game won 37-24, the headlines said that Edwards was brilliant and Stangle and Kraszewski sparkled with their floor work; and the Winter Sports team, even with Jack Shea absent at the Olympic tryouts, won, with DonMahoney taking two firsts, and Dick Emerson another ... but before long it was all over and the Dartmouth's Monday editorial began, "The icicles fiang forlornly from Eleazar's nose."

It is not so long either before our VITALSTATISTICS indicate that ...Bill Judd enters the sacred circle of those who have fathered five children, with daughter Rebecca, born July 1, 1951 ...Bud Yallalee and Mrs. Jane B. Davis, whose engagement was reported in November notes, were married in Montclair, N. J., on December 21 . ..the marriage of Miss Ann Agry, of Rye, N. Y„ to James J.Darling of Chicago on December 4 has been announced. Mrs. Darling is a graduate of Greenwich Academy and Bennington College. She was a lieutenant in the Navy in World War 11.. . and Joe Swensson, newly established in Manchester, Conn., although still working for Behr-Manning in Cambridge, reports marriage on June 1, 1951, to the former Elsie Drinkwater, of Braintree, Mass.

In noting Danny Degasis' election as secretary of the Nashua Dartmouth Club, it's interesting to find the number of '34's in club officer's jobs. Al Seitner in Jacksonville, FrankHeath in Cleveland, Shorty Thomas in Connecticut, Billy Knibbs in San Diego, Jack Feth in Tucson, Bill Gilmore in Phoenix, and we may have missed a couple. The new incumbent, Mr. Degasis, may be remembered as the only man in Hanover history to run from Allen's back door to the Phi Gam house without touching the ground.

In the WE ONLY KNOW WHAT WEREAD IN THE NEWSPAPERS DEPT. this month, we find that... Boston's successful two-sport double-header of basketball and hockey in the Boston Garden (off with the ice, on with the floor, or vice versa) is credited to Howie McHugh, publicist at the Garden ... in Boston, also, Hafey Arthur has been appointed head coach of hockey at Tufts College. The new Jumbo coach was a member of the 1934 collegiate championship team at Dartmouth. Following graduation, he was successful as a coach for two years at Tilton and six years at Hebron where his teams won several championships and at one stretch were undefeated in 28 games. He coached at Dartmouth from 1943-45.... Herb Heston, assistant to the president of Hood College in Frederick, Md., has been elected district director of the American College Public Relations Association for the southern colleges... . William P.Stowe has been' named vice president and director of publications for the Farnsworth Publishing Company, Inc. and The Notebook, Inc., of New York City. He is presently serving as editor of two nationally-circulated life insurance magazines published by the Life Insurance Agency Management Association of Hartford, Conn. After graduation from Dartmouth, Bill attended Stanford and was a teacher, newspaperman and member of the U. S. Treasury Department war bond promotion staff before joining the Army Air Corps in 1942. He flew 37 missions as an air intelligence observer with the Tenth Air Force in India and Burma in 1944-45 and was discharged as a captain in 1946 ... further info on Fritz Mosher, recently reported at Harvard on a Ford Fellowship: Professor Mosher, who received the M.S. degree in public administration from Syracuse in 1939, joined the faculty at Syracuse in 1949, after three years with the U. S. State Department. Formerly he was assistant director in charge of policy and planning for the division of personnel, with UNRRA. During the war, Fritz was analyst and chief of the procedures branch, Office of Management Control for the Army Air Corps, first as a civilian and then as a major in the Air Corps.. .. John Wanamaker, of New York and Philadelphia, has announced the appointment of Myron Menchel as merchandise manager of the home store in New York. Mike was formerly toy buyer of the Philadelphia store. In his new post, he will supervise the activities of 24 home furnishing and miscellaneous departments. ... Hubert A. Johnson has been appointed sales manager of the trade department of J. B. Lippincott, with whom he has been associated since 1936. On leaving the Navy as a lieutenant in 1946, Mr. Johnson became business manager of the children's book department and has specialized also in promotion of both juvenile and adult backlist titles.

RANDOM HARVEST DEPT... .Rev. Leland O. Hunt of Manchester, Conn., reports that he received the degree of (what looks like—parsons writing like doctors who write like my six year old kid who writes better than me—ed.) G.T.M. at Hartford Theological Seminary in May of 1951, and is now working on his doctorate.... Dr. Junie Kneisel has left the research lab to get started in private surgical practice.... Bill Haist seems to be the only one of the brethren lucky enough to get to Hanover in the recent past, at least to judge from the Inn cards... and although reports leaking out of the big city indicated that the brothers gathered at the Dartmouth Club in unsolemn conclave on December 7, the gathering so far as we are concerned can be preserved for posterity only in the records of the police blotters of adjacent precincts.

The snowstorm seems to be ahead of the orderly composition of this column by more than a nose. But we have got through all the ready notes with the exception of one sheet which seems to be a section sliced out of the December issue in order to make room for the long list of fund contributors, a very worthwhile slicing job, indeed. We weren't going to use it, but it seems a shame to waste that research and we may be able to sneak it by Widmayer before we bump into Bankhart.

Twenty years ago in December, Winter Carnival had just been cut to two days on a vote of the students. The Ball was eliminated and it was planned that "all energies be directed to outdoor events." Vox Populi was a busy column for some time, with I. Diamond 34 contributing some forceful points to the controversy.... Sophomores who won a football "D" were A. C. Baldwin, P. J. Glazer, D. T. Hedges,C. R. Hulsart and R. A. Morton Cabin and Trail elected to membership G. Healey and J. E. Marceau... the dormitory touch football all-stars included Goss, Magrath and J. E. Gilbert... among Pat Kaney's top gym team prospects were the Engel twins, Calmon,Goodfellow, Schuyler, Willis, Luedke, H. F.Miller, Maas, and M. S. O'Connor And in the Yale Bowl, Dartmouth, Yale, Holy Cross and Brown had played in a round robin, with proceeds going to the unemployed. Brown won from Dartmouth on the decision of the officials using the point system advocated by E. K. Hall for eliminaton of tie games. Vox Populi boiled over again on this, with one plaintive soul protesting that a team should lose a game on the decision of "four little fat men in white.

Have any of you fellows been doing any officiating lately?

Now 20 YEARS AGO in Hanover the boys were more gentlemanly... on a vote of the students, Winter Carnival was cut to two days. The Ball was eliminated and it was planned that "all energies be directed to outdoor events." No riot resulted, but Vox Populi was a busy column for some time, I.Diamond '34 contributing some forceful points to the controversy. ... Sophomores who won a football "D" were A. C. Baldwin, P. J.Glazer, D. T. Hedges, C. R. Hulsart and R. A.Morton... . Cabin and Trail elected to membership G. Healey and J. E. Marceau... . The dormitory touch football all-stars included Goss, Magrath and J. E. Gilbert... among Pat Kaney's top gym team prospects were the Engel twins, Calmon, Goodfellow, Schuyler,Willis, Luedke, H. F. Miller, Maas and M. S.O'Connor.... And in the Yale Bowl, Dartmouth, Yale, Holy Cross and Brown played in a round robin, with proceeds going to the unemployed. Brown won from Dartmouth on the decision of the officials using the point system advocated by E. K. Hall for elimination of tie games. Vox Populi boiled about that also, with one plaintive soul protesting that a team should lose a game on the decision of "four little fat men in white."

Have any of you fellows been doing any officiating lately?

Secretary, 12 Berwick St., Worcester 2, Mass. Treasurer, 13 Parkman Rd., Reading, Mass. Memorial Fund Chairman, 954 Gladstone Ave., S.E., Grand Rapids 6, Mich.