1934
On March 18, just as the St. Patrick's Day celebration was breaking up, ye sec threw a razor and his other pair of pajamas into the old straw suitcase and took off for the big city to visit with the New York chapter of the distinguished class of 1934. We had hoped to exchange a few serious thoughts on what pass for the problems of such a well regulated class, but somebody left the door to the bar open.
The boys are to be congratulated on their monthly gatherings at the Dartmouth Club if the March meeting is a good sample. If you had called the roll, you would have found LesReeve, Len Harrison, Bud Yallalee, MikeJoseph, Dick Gruen, who had a new foundation—in Pleasantville, N. Y., Bill Scherman, who was trying to convert one of those bull fiddles into a Constellation to take him to Bermuda, Mike Menchel, sweating out his move to New York City with his family still in Philly, or environs, Wall Blood, George Copp,Nels Krogslund, from Greenwich, Joe Lehmann, and Dr. Em Day.
A sad note was injected into the gathering, however, by the death the previous day of Harry Ingram, in Norwalk, Conn. We have asked Alan Hewitt to write the obituary and more information regarding this unfortunate event will be found in that section of the MAGAZINE.
From the address changes, always a source of interesting information we find that....
Dick Benedict, recently of Akron, 0., is now located in San Gabriel, Calif., and as soon as that pony express gets rolling across the plains again we will have further information on how come, we hope. .. . Jack Maher, perhaps the first Dartmouth catcher to find out how hard Bob Miller could throw, is now located in Auburn, Mass. Jack has been in the real estate business since leaving school... in moving Em Brown from Washington to Arlington, Va., a very short distance, we find that he has been with the Atomic Energy Commission since 1947, an outfit which may take us a very long distance, or vice versa ... and to add to our picturesque addresses, Bill Stowe has located at 1 Thorn Apple Way, St. Francis Wood, in Norwalk, Conn.
Hanover visitors, as reported by the Inn, for March, included only Swede Lindstrom from this class.
Our MEN OF DISTINCTION for the month ... Cresap, McCorwick & Paget, management engineers of New York and Chicago have announced that Carl B. Hess has been admitted to the firm as a special partner. For the last two years, Carl has been director o£ development for the firm. Prior to his association with the management engineering organization, he was for some years active in various manufacturing and publishing companies. ... Dedicatory ceremonies of the Faulkner House addition to the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover are recorded with a picture of a group of distinguished guests which includes William L. Wilson, administrator of the hospital.. .. And John J. Dineen (in lighter moments known as Tiger), director of the Hampton Beach Casino, was elected president of the New England Association of Amusement Parks and Beaches at the 26th annual convention in Boston. His first official act was to appoint a committee to plan for a New England-wide observance of a special day to be set aside for orphan children when they will be entertained as guests of management at every amusement park.
Off the grapevine we have plucked a picture of old man Ford with children Doug, 10, Russ, 8, and the twins Jean and Marcia, 16 months. With just the slightest bit of luck it should appear in close proximity hereto, or is that redundant? We only mention it because after two futile years of trying to beg, borrow or steal pictures for this production one finally falls in our lap and the excitement is almost overwhelming.
It is perhaps only fair, in view of certain remarks passed in the last couple of months which might be within spittin' distance of being classified as snide, to pass on to the brethen an excerpt from the "25 Years Ago" colffln of a recent Worcester paper—"Pres. Ernest Martin Hopkins of Dartmouth College, in a letter to Lemuel G. Hodgkins of Worcester who was president of the Dartmouth Athleti'c Council, proposed that only sophomores and juniors be allowed to play on varsity football teams."
There is a rumor around also that the annual '34 picnic sponsored by the Smith's in the peaceful little town of Monroe, N. Y., will be held on June 7. All within 1000 miles are urged to attend to munch their lunch as the <rreen grass grows all around and to be plied with cold, foaming beer. As a special attraction this year the Softball diamond will be laid out with the slope downhill from home to first.
And that noise you hear in the distance about now is The Copper beating the drum in the Alumni Fund campaign. At the risk of being interpreted too literally, we will draw this little monthly stint to a close with the old war-cry "Throw a nickel on the drum and vou'll be saved."
Secretary, 12 Berwick St., Worcester 2, Mass. Treasurer, _ 13 Parkman Rd., Reading, Mass. Class Agent, 370 Central Ave., Orange, N. J.
