1934
Even with the door locked and the shades drawn, it is hard to get back into character as ye sec of Dartmouth '34 after slinking about Worcester variously disguised as Willie Muffit, Harvard '12, Hugh DeLine, Bowdoin '29, or Grin N. Bearit, Vat '69. And when cornered and unmasked, the merely statistical observation that Dartmouth seemed to have more Irish in her backfield than Holy Cross can start these local maniacs hopping up and down like Charlie Meeks on the scent of his favorite criminal, the arch-slayer Danny Degasis. Another season of character building is going to be tough on all of us old folks even Cunningham writes about how good the band looked at Lynn, which must mean he was close to a stroke.
But just to prove that nothing is new, do you remember that just 20 YEARS AGO this time ... a brand new sports column appeared in The Dartmouth with a byline to BobWebb in which this same Cunningham was taken to task because he didn't like the way our boys performed at Harvard ... but then there was an ad reading "1930 Cadillac Sport Touring Car $300" ... and Lloyd K. Neidlinger became Dean.... Jean Harlow had her appendix removed, although not on the front page... and Babe Shea suddenly became goalie for the soccer team in an emergency and did better than well.... Dave Mitchell was chairman of the Sunday Evening Fellowship group .. . and elected to Phi Beta Kappa were, Allen, Crowther, Day, Dunn, G. Engel, Everts, Fowle, Grosenbaugh, Levesque,Maxam, Michelet, Rippe, Roberts, Ruebhausen, Schuyler, S. Silverman, Singleton, Smoyer,Stauffer, and F. Wolf... the first Jacko featured a satirical sketch by R. G. Newman on beauty in the abstract, on tea drinkers and on campus aesthetes.... W. H. Callihan and S. D. Lewis, both of whom had spent junior year in France at the University of Paris were elected president and v-p, respectively, of the French Club Chi Phi won the fraternity tennis title with H. W. Rigby starring ... and the Dartmouth movie starring W. L. Powers and E. Day, written by Silverman and Schulberg suspended production, as The Dartmouth pleaded with the guilty party to bring back the little white cap without which shooting could not go on.
HANOVER VISITORS during September were Dr. and Mrs. John D. Tobin of Minneapolis, Minn., and Mr. and Mrs. MichaelJoseph Jr. of Port Chester, N. Y.
A note left over from the June gathering at Old Greenwich tells us that Jack Odell is at the polio foundation in Warm Springs, Georgia recovering from a critical case of polio which struck him in September 1952. From that time till June he was in an iron lung in a New Jersey hospital. A note from any old Tabor or Topliff friends might be welcome.
ADDRESS CHANGES this month contain the interesting information that... Geologist Jack Feth has given up studying ground water in Tucson, Ariz., and has gone on the same mission to Ogden, Utah... another geologist Herb Hawkes has left the promising town of Golden, Colo., and is now in Port Clyde, Me Hank Rigby is now located with Champion Paper & Fibre Co. in Canton, N. C and Bill Brown has moved from Cleveland to Gibralter, Mich., as purchasing agent for All Metals Products Co. of Wyandotte.
NAMES IN THE NEWS ... Henry R. Rose has been appointed civilian personnel officer for the new Quartermaster Research and Development Center in Natick, Mass.... VanceN. Kirby, former tax adviser to the Secretary of the Treasury, has become a partner in the Chicago law firm of Daily, Dines, Ross and O'Keefe. As tax legislative counsel of the Treasury Dept., Vance since 1948 has been charged with presenting and steering the Administration's multi-million dollar tax program through Congress. Before joining the Treasury Dept. in 1942, he practised law in Massachusetts and Connecticut.... Rev.Leland O. Hunt, of St. James Episcopal Church, Danbury, Conn., was ordained deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church at Christ Church Cathedral, Hartford, on June 16. And last in this grouping, although far from least is the story of Dave Hill, who has returned to Culver City, Calif., to the new office of Director of Quality Control for the Hughes Aircraft Co. In this new post he became the senior executive for quality control for the entire company and the direct contact with the Air Force on matters of quality control. Dave studied engineering at Princeton and Rutgers after leaving Dartmouth and has worked in his specialty at Curtiss Wright in Clifton, N. J., and with the Federal Telephone and Telegraph Co. in New Jersey. During World War II he was in charge of quality control for instantaneous direction finders and instrument landing, ground control approach, airborne, and mobile communication equipment. Joining the Hughes organization in 1950 as chief of quality engineering in what was then the Guided Missile Production department, he later became quality control manager in Tucson.
CLASS DINNER FOR 1934 is scheduled for Thursday, November 19, according to notice received from the Dartmouth Club of New York. All the brethren are welcome!
This last paragraph to you may seem awfully close to the first and then again you may have long since gone back to watching Dragnet, but if you're still here, you'll recall that our esteemed guardian of the geld has recently caused to be sent to each pewholder a request for the annual donation towards keeping this class in business and the MAG coming your way monthly. You'll pay the bill, of course, but did you notice how much space there is on the back to bring us up to date on what's happening out your way like VITALSTATISTICS, for instance? That beautiful space, when properly inscribed, is the life blood of the magazine year, because you get about as much unsolicited info in this corner as a tax collector on Pier 86. In the name of that prominent biblical character, didn't you guys even learn to write at that Indian Academy?
HEADING UP: Roland W. Burbank '33, a teacher at Proctor Academy, Andover, N. H., since 1934, has been appointed Assistant Headmaster. He was chairman of the Academy's fund drive which raised $100,000 in 1948.
Secretary, 12 Berwick St., Worcester 2, Mass. Treasurer, 13 Parkman Rd., Reading, Mass.
