1934
Once again, for better or worse, this column is back in the travelogue business. It could possibly be of interest, and certainly will, be space filling, so we'll go ahead with it although it's plain from here you're tempted to turn to the obituaries. Do you realize that means you're getting old!
Anyhow, in the course of some wandering about the country-side with the good wife as co-pilot, we just happened to find ourselves in Hanover one Friday afternoon, which by a coincidence was the very day upon WhicH Carnival began. At that point it looked like a good Carnival - there was enough snow for decorative purposes, the town was beginning to blink itself awake, and what few girls ye sec dared look at while the gw's head was turned were very pretty indeed, albeit very young.
On Tuck Drive the dorms had completed some excellent snow sculptures, the boys of Tri-Kap, Beta, Sigma Chi, etc. were glaring across the road as they reflectively patted the last patches of snow on the derriere of the inevitable girl in the plot, and there didn't seem to be a Harvard or a Yale any closer than Windsor, Vt., site of the Vermont State Prison.
The Deke house was decorated with a very official looking, although of course perhaps fictitious, sign reading "Social probation - no liquor, no women," which could take you back to the days when all the wild men from the nice fraternities used to center on the Deke house to raise hell and cause embarrassment to the conservative young gentlemen normally affiliated with that peace-loving organization.
The Phi Gams had a skating rink in the back yard, outdoor evening was being set up back in its original setting on the golf course, and Baker Library was dedicated exclusively to sightseeing trips - except for one greyhaired old fellow in the reference room who seemed to be making notes out of a 1932-33 volume of Dartmouths.
And if you looked over his shoulder you would see that about this time 20 YEARSAGO.. .. "Dynamite Dave" Hedges was planning to don grease paint for a stellar role in the Green Key play Brown of Harvard, PhilGlazer, football captain-elect, was cast in a large part of a somewhat sinister nature, and Alan Hewitt was to play "Wilfred Kenyon— a lad who is not his own master." ... but then Green Key was first cancelled and then postponed, not because of the feared effect of the above venture on the history of the Stage, but because the Bank Holiday fell upon the nation... . Hanover merchants rallied strongly to reassure their trade that anyone could be a "charge" customer, although Pilver was unrecorded.... Dartmouth found itself with adjacent swimming pools and the hockey team had to transfer a game to the Princeton rink .. . the Intercollegiate Winter Sport Union, meeting at Lucerne-in-Quebec, elected as president, Jack Shea, and as secretary-treasurer, Frank Lepreau ... all-fraternity hockey teams included C. E. Rolfe, W. P. Clough,J. E. Gilbert, M. K. Adams, J. F. Cowan, and R. G. Wells .... Stangle and Kraszewski starred as the basketball team wound up its season beating Columbia 45-32 and Penn 29- 19... . James H. McHugh was elected hockey captain ... a committee of Banfield, Hulsart,Michelet, Miller, Powers, Wells and Werner selected a dark green Harris Tweed blazer selling at $6.50 as the official garment for '34. ...A. H. Willis was one of five winners in "best dressed man" contest sponsored by merchants... on $1 Day in Hanover the Inn Barber Shop offered 2-haircwts and 1-shave. .. .C. M. Dubay was one of five Dartmouth men treated for frostbite and exposure after wandering on Mt. Washington ... the quarter-final round of College handball included Hedges, Corson, Inglis and Douglas ... and a Dartmouth editorial speculated whether the the new president would return to their posts our "innocents abroad," career diplomats who had prevailed since the beginning of the era of Republican domination of American politics.
Other recorded lucky HANOVER VISITORS are Mr. and Mrs. Carl B. Hess who were January visitors and Dick Wells, who took in one of the late football games.
VITAL STATISTICS... brought up to date with the birth on October 5, 1952, to Bud and Sara Hart of a son, William Beck- with Hart Jr. ... and on December 19, 1952, to Jerry and Sarah Danzig of a son, Jerome Palfrey Danzig.
From the address changes, too, comes some interesting information, for instance. ... DickHardt is now located in the Navy stronghold of Norfolk, Va.... Bob Wood, last recorded in Needham, Mass., is now selling for The Gorham Co., and is living in Greenville, S. C. ... Joe Lehmann has moved into the orbit of the brighter lights of Chicago ... and IkeNewman has deserted his native Massachusetts for the warmth of Ormond Beach, Fla.
HITHER AND YON DEPT. for the month ... a lone clipping reports Mr. and Mrs.Sidney Bernstein and daughter Andrea as newcomers to Wellesley, Mass. Sid, who spent two years in Hanover, graduated from Boston University. He is now a partner in Bernstein's Department Store, Inc., located in Natick, Mass.... a note from Tom Hicks, with a clipping which is very welcome, reports also a visit with Swede Lindstrom who, from his achievements as recorded in 20 Years Ago, is now working back down the scale to the point where he is very likely to knock off the cross bar at around 4'.... Ernie Barcella reports an extremely busy year leading up to the changing of the guard at The White House and expresses the hope that activities under the GOP will allow him time to contribute to his favorite magazine, Collier's, thereby further reducing the mortgage on the old homestead ... and Doris Diamond, of the loyal Ladies' Auxiliary, comes to my aid with a clipping which proves that Irv was interested in more than bathing beauties on his European trip. It also adds that Mr. Diamond, who is president of the United Luggage Co., Inc., and of Diamond Leathercraft, Inc., both of NYC, is also president and a member of the board of directors of the Luggage and Leather Goods Manufacturers Assoc. of New York, Inc., and was recently selected as the outstanding luggage merchant of the year.
All of which brings us to the point at which, each year at this time, we seem to inexorably arrive. The files are as clean as the proverbial hound's tooth - which simile, praise be, we have never had to personally verify.
It is possibly just as well that we do pull up short, for now you can go back to sweating out the income tax. And as you do, remark again how handsomely our bountiful government contributes to Dartmouth College and its Alumni Fund. When you get around to it this year, you can help them to do even better. But whether or no, Happy St. Paddy's Day!
Secretary, 12 Berwick St., Worcester 2, Mass. Treasurer, 13 Parkman Rd., Reading, Mass.
