1927
The same old doldrums into which we used to sink in the latter part of February during those dim days almost beyond recall when we were in Hanover must be with us again, because the past few weeks haven't brought forth much news from any of you. Perhaps when spring begins to seep into your blood, at least a few of you will come out of hibernation long enough to let me know something about what you are doing.
It seems that we have a couple of budding baseball magnates in the Class, and to a greater or lesser degree, their activities seem to center around Toledo. In order to lay the background for this story I'll have to go back to last summer, when the Toledo Mud Hens were deep in their accustomed place in the cellar of the American Association. As a result, the citizens were staying away from their games in goodly numbers, and the owner was financially unhappy. We suddenly awoke one morning to the news that our baseball team had been stolen away and was henceforth to perform in Charleston, W. Va. The villian behind this move was one Harry Wallace, who was the spark plug of the Charleston interests. As you can imagine, this created a great furore here in Toledo, and a great deal of unhappiness among the local baseball enthusiasts. For a while, Harry had his name in the Toledo papers almost more often than Ike. In fact, I guess that there are a couple of suits still pending in which he is one of the defendants, and his name still crops up on the sport pages once in a while, though his news value no longer rates the front page. As a result of all this, Toledo is in the market for a baseball team in a big way, so whenever there is any rumor of any switch in franchises, it s News with a capital N. A couple of days ago there was such a rumor, and it involved the transfer of the St. Louis Browns to Milwaukee, and a consequent move of the Milwaukee team here to Toledo. And who was the man behind the effort to get the Browns to Milwaukee? None other than our own Cliff Randall!
Bill Elliott, who last fall left St. George's School, where he had been since graduation, to accept a position with the Browne and Nichols School in Cambridge, Mass., has just been appointed assistant headmaster.
From the National Underwriter of January l> ]953, comes news that Dan Libby has been named as marine secretary and manager of the Pacific marine department of the Fireman's Fund group of insurance companies.
I know that you will all be sorry to learn that Marty Heifer's son Murray was stricken with polio in October. His right leg is paralyzed, but there is hope that with therapy he will recover the use o£ it. Murray was the regular guard on the Central High football team in his home town of Binghampton, N. Y., and held sectional championship honors in swimming. Many of you will remember him from reunion, which he attended with Marty and Louise.
An oasis in the news desert is a fine letter from Bob Page, which I will quote both for the interesting news which it contains, and also as an example of the sort of thing that I wish all the rest of you would do. Here's Bob's letter:
"Last fall I moved my headquarters from Cambridge over Lars Anderson Bridge to Boston. I associated myself with the Smith Insurance Service, a pioneer in the joint management plan for medium and small-sized firms, as its new senior advisor. The tie-in with my own independent, professional counseling service has made a very satisfactory as well as busy arrangement. I have a basketful of new accounts to digest in the East, South and mid-West. Next week I leave with my wife Madeline for a two week trip through the —we hope—balmy Carol
"We have two children now. Our girl Bonnie is 10 and our boy Robbie, a registered Dartmouth hopeful for about '61, is 8. Last month started our eleventh year as residents of Needham, Mass.
"Madeline and I visited Doda and Andy Rankin the other day in their charming old home in Dedham. They both seem to be surviving the rigors of our New England winter in good shape. They have a daughter Laurie in Vassar, where her mother is chairman of her class fund. At home, the second daughter Faith is a seventh grader. Andy is tangled in a pool problem. If you know how to get gallons of water from a garden fish pool without bailing, send sketches, drawings and patent rights to Andy before next fall. I am sure your panacea will be welcome."
Les Battin joins the "first grandfather derby" with a granddaughter born to his daughter Barbara in 1947. This beats SteveOsborn, the only prior claimant to the honor, by five years, though Les allows as to how he probably should disqualify himself, inasmuch as he was married in 1925, a couple of years before most of the rest of us broke loose from Hanover. It looks as though we may have to divide the grandfather derby into two heats one for those who were married after June 21, 1927, and another for those who got a head start. Let's have some entries from contestants in both classes.
The Hanover Inn seems to have been graced by the presence of only two '27ers during February - Don O'Hara and Ed Fowler.If there were any others they tailed to identifythemselves.
Here are a few new addresses reported lastmonth:Charles T. Brewster, 210 West sth St., Yankton, S. D.; Roswell S. Nichols Jr., 210 Orchard St., P.O. Box 453, Westfield, N. J.; Stephen A. Oshorn, Rte. 3, River Falls, Wis.; Bedford Williams. Legal Asst. Officer, 3rd Marine Div., Camp Pendleton, Calif., residence 701 Eaton St., Oceanside, Calif.; G. Warren Cummings, Cost Acct. and Analyst, U.S. Rubber Co., Milan, Tenn., residence 272 Baird St., Milan, Tenn.; Clarence W. Ruland Jr., Special Disbursing Agent, U.S.N., P.O. Box 475, Novato, Calif.
April brings, among other good things, theopportunity to share again in the great workbeing done by Dartmouth through our contributions to the Alumni Fund. I know thatCookie has been busy for the last severalmonths getting his organization together andlaying plans for the work to be done fromnow till the end of June. Running an AlumniFund campaign properly in a class the sizeof ours requires almost superhuman effort,and without the cooperation of all of you,even superhuman effort won't do the trick.Make his job, and the jobs of all his assistants,easier by getting your own contribution inearly. Let's all get together and snag onto theGreen Derby for Cookie and 1927 this year.
Secretary, Pine Hill Farm, West River Rd., Perrysburg, Ohio
Class Agent, 128 St. Paul St., Rochester 4, N. Y.
