1934

While it may be true at the beginning of this happy magazine year, to bend a phrase, that we no longer have a lap large enough to hold our Little Dandy No. 9 portable as we try to fill the deadly lull between the upper case "I's," it is also true that there is no room on the desk either, because it is covered with a lovely supply of notes and clippings all having to do with the finest class ever to depart that famous Indian academy just north of the C & G house. Such a condition lends a strange and wonderful atmosphere in which to beat out the first column of the year.

Very fortunate, too, because we almost brought the stuff along on vacation in order to get a jump on that Labor Day deadline. At the last minute, lassitude (not to be confused with the fellow who played tackle for NYU when we were young Magee) overcame Foley and all we took along was the entire supply of the fancy brass stationery of the Class of 1934. All of which is just to explain that if you see any of that stationery floating around in the Atlantic Ocean or even Long Island Sound, it is not because it is being used as standard equipment in appropriate locations on ocean-going liners or even Al Mark's cabin cruiser, but is merely flotsam in the wake of Hurricane Carol.

"Carol" finished the summer which we've got to cover here in one fell swoop, so let's get going and take a look at our

MEN OF DISTINCTION . . . for instance, you may not know that our invaluable and indefatigable classmate Bill Scherman, who has been general promotion manager for Life for the past three years, has moved to the promotion department of Time, Inc.'s new sport magazine which you saw hit the stands with such a flourish during the Summer . . . or that Al Tawse, who has been in the business of making shoes for the past twenty-odd years, has lately become superintendent of the expanding Webster, Mass., plant of the Bentley Shoe Corporation. Al comes back to his home state after six years spent as general manager of Town and Country Shoes, Inc. in Sedalia, Mo. . . . and Dr. Em Day has been named by the board of trustees of Sloan-Kettering Institute, research unit of Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases, as chief of a new division of preventive medicine at the hospital . . . or that Hugh Johnson has been elected to the board of directors of J. B. Lippincott Co., the organization with which he has been associated since 1936 when he started as a salesman in New England for the educational department . . . and Dr. Bob Korns as a member of the national polio vaccine evaluation team recently made the first official report on the mass experiment in which more than 400,000 of the nation's school children were given inoculations of the Salk polio vaccine.

You might be interested in knowing, too, that a few of the boys have packed their bags for reasons other than vacation.

In ADDRESS CHANGES . . . we find that our peripatetic Lt. Col. Grant Healey is now in Leavenworth, Kansas, after a short stay in Washington . . . Frazer Thornley has left Little Rhody for Clearwater, Fla. . . . HenryAllen is now located in Thiensville, Wis., and the student who first locates Thiensville will be allowed to dust the erasers after school. What goes up there Hank? . . . and DickHayes, as reported by Bill Emerson along with the official announcement, moves to Westfield, N. J., from St. Louis just as Bill moves in. Seems no need of that cause St. Loo is a big place and could hold both of them, at their present age.

Along about Alumni Officers' Weekend last May, this column was declared closed to that barefoot boy from Wall Street who runs our Alumni Fund campaign. Picture turned to the wall and all that. The previous year, in solemn pact, sealed in blood (or perhaps that cheap red rye only looks like blood) it was vowed that the following year, 1954, good old Marge, and Jane, and Mary were going to go back to Hanover with us for the corresponding weekend. Comes '54 and not only no Marge or Jane, but not even Copp is there - he's in Bermuda or some other silly adjunct of the British Empah!

You have to admit, though, that he runs an awfully good campaign - new high in givers, 99% of objective, just a few more guys could mend his breaking heart. Our congratulations have to go to George and his very able team of assistants, to say nothing of the 405 of you fellows who did your best to make this class look good.

While we're up around Hanover, let's take a look at the others who made it during the Summer.

HANOVER VISITORS, at least those reported by the Inn, were few . . . but, WendyWilliams and family made it in July from far off North Hollywood, Calif. . . . as did Mr. andMrs. Henry Hazen who traveled up there in August from Marblehead.

Digging a little deeper into the pile on the desk we might find a few more NAMES INTHE NEWS . . . Al Marks, vice president of Howard Clothes, Inc., is active in 75th anniversary campaign of the United Hospital Fund in Brooklyn. . . . Dr. Ed Thomas, Americal Division veteran and formerly with the U. S. Public Health Service Hospital on Staten Island, is going into private practice in Norwood, Mass. . . . Red Aiken, the old fireballer and present director of industrial relations at Commercial Motor Freight, Inc. in Columbus, Ohio, is chairman of the Ohio Trucking Association's newly formed Council of Safety Supervisors. . . . One of two members of the Army Information and Education Service in World War II who refused to answer questions about possible Communist connections before the Senate internal security subcommittee was. Luke Woodrow Wilson of Wellfleet, Mass. . . . Ike Powers, as prosecuting attorney for the state, has come up with a very satisfying decision over the former alleged gambling lord of Central Massachusetts. . . . And in the field of politics don't forget to cast a few well placed votes for Perk Bass who has conducted a very well publicized campaign in his effort to capture the Republican nomination for Congress in the 2nd N. H. District.

Summer went fast, didn't it! But our space went faster, so we'll have to save a little to toss in a final word before the ink flows.

As you know, it is always with extreme reluctance that we of the firm of Cheer, Jeer and O'Brien ever mention the approach of that stage which has been described by somebody as the venerable and the varicose. It is a fact, though, that come next June, we will be back in Hanover with all banners flying as one of the twenty-year classes. For the benefit of those who wisely took English Bible instead of Dr. Silverman's advanced math, we have been informed that specifically it will be our 21st and somebody better coin a phase in a hurry!

It's not too early to think about it, but to stimulate that thinking and to give ye sec a shot in the arm instead of the place where he usually gets it, fill out that questionnaire you've received, if you haven't already, add a little something for this bumbling Boswell and whip it along. Thank you, and Good Night!

Secretary, 12 Berwick St., Worcester 2, Mass.

Treasurer, 13 Parkman Rd., Reading, Mass.

Memorial Fund Chairman, 954 Gladstone Ave., S.E. Grand Rapids 6, Mich.