1933
Up here in Hanover we're turning into the stretch for this academic year. A week or so ago we tidied up the battlefield by cleaning up the second round of hour examinations. Seniors are boning up for comprehensives. Finals will begin in a couple of weeks. Then Commencement, early this year, on June 8, and the following weekend, our TWENTIETH, on June 13, 14, 15.
Bill Dewey, reunion chairman par excellence, reports that early returns to the Reunion Newsletter that went out a couple of weeks ago have been very encouraging and that he's looking forward to the biggest and best reunion ever for '33. Reports from the classes of 1931 and 1932, reuning with us under the new reunion plan, likewise indicate a big turnout. If there has been any doubt in your mind about making it, it's not too late. Just jump in the car and get here by the afternoon of the 13th.
On the news side our feature of the month is the answer to George Rideout's query, reported last month, as to whether he and Elly held the class record now that their offspring numbered six. Perhaps we should say we have one answer; there may be more; but at any rate the picture that appears with these notes shows at least one other '33 family in that select company.
Mary Stevens, wife of Dr. Roland E. StevensJr. of Rochester, N. Y., wrote asking, "Can anyone match this?" and enclosed a snapshot of herself and Roland, and (count 'em) Roland III, 11, Caroline, 10, Elizabeth, 8, Deborah Anne, 6, Peter Morris, 4, Pamela Converse, 1. Mary also wrote that the young 'uns are following in pappy's and mummy's footsteps and are ardent skiers. That Roland has not lost his skill or interest in that sport was proved to us recently when somebody sent along a column he had written for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle in which he reminisced happily about a skiing career that goes back to 1925 and, to judge by the plug the editor gave him for building up the sport in and around Rochester, to which he is as dedicated as ever today, even with a family of six and a booming surgeon's practice. Roland III, Mary writes, is an enthusiastic skier; he will doubtless be on Dartmouth's ski team, and a jumper like his dad. Now, who is the champion? You can save us considerable trouble and painful research if you write in and tell us of someone who has made it seven.
In another field of private enterprise we are happy to report an outstanding achievement. Page Worthington, who disappeared some years ago in the maw of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of West Virginia and has only been seen twice since then once at our Fifteenth and the other time to prepare an issue of the class newsletter was recently promoted to the position of general traffic manager of that company. Writing to us shortly after that happy event Page wrote: "Needless to say, I'm pleased as hell about the whole thing. I hasten to add, ere you get the impression that all is going well, that we have been indulging in a strike out here for about the past three weeks. Certain of my so-called friends point out that no sooner does Worthington get on the job than things go all to hell." Page goes on to express the fervent hope that the strike will have been settled and things quieted down enough for him to get away for our reunion.
From other sectors of the academic world a couple of reports have reached us. One, unconfirmed as yet, has it that Clarence Tallberg is Director of the Placement Bureau at Idaho State College, Pocatello, Idaho. The other is from Rutgers, where it was announced recently that Dr. Walter E. Bezanson, assistant professor of American Civilization, had been awarded a fellowship for the coming academic year by the Fund for the Advancement of Education. Walter, who has been in the forefront of the development of work in American civilization at Rutgers, will spend the year at Harvard continuing his study of new courses planned for the Rutgers curriculum in American civilization. This program is an interdepartmental one. involving the cooperation of such different departments as English, History, Art, Economics, Geography, Philosophy and Government. Walter described the program as "an effort to bring the social sciences and humanities together, and to study the relationships between them."
Saw Jim Woods for the first time in years when he came through Hanover a few weeks ago. Jim is in the banking business in Portland, and had been over in Vermont for a meeting of some kind and was on his way back when we ran into him and his charming wife. Sam and Jean Black were here early this month for Class Officers' Weekend and managed to survive once again the bedlam of Bedlam Manor. Other '33s have been in town, but for one reason or another we have missed them. Howie Farmer and Bill Lang, for example, were both at the Inn for a day or two last month.
Philip Farnham was appointed assistant plant manager of the Holston Defense Corporation in Kingsport, Tenn., a couple of months ago. This plant is operated for the government by the Tennessee division of the Eastman Kodak Company. Mahonri S. Young is Museum Director of Munson-Williams- Proctor Institute in Utica, N. Y. Kim Flaccus was awarded a prize by the Poetry Society of America in a competition held early this spring.
In the department of vital statistics we have only one item this month, the birth of a daughter last January 30, to Mr. and Mrs. Eber Resnick, of Syracuse, N. Y.
May we leave two final thoughts with you as we close our last column as Secretary for 1933. Send your Fund contribution in to the College if you have not already done so. And, see you at our big TWENTIETH on June 13.
Secretary, 20 Valley Rd., Hanover, N. H.
Treasurer, 2812 Grant Bldg., Pittsburgh 19, Pa.
Class Agent, The Stanley Works, New Britain, Conn.
