1929
Reunion chairman Richard Frances Barrett is an exceptional fellow. In fact, he's one of those rare eccentrics who do something about the weather - not just talk about it - like forecasting it months ahead. For instance, he says it's going to be fair and warmer the long Hanover weekend of June 11, 12 and 13 when we will be celebrating our 25th. How he goes about this sort of scientific business is not generally known, though it may be surmised that it has some connection with a swarthy character about the size of Brabb, but dressed like a gypsy, who was seen in consultation with Dick the other day in one of those rifle galleries just off Scollay Square. Anyway, it's nice to know and especially reassuring to have such a favorable outlook confirmed by the Old Farmers' Almanac.
More good Reunion news is the unprecedented rate of early response to the Reunion announcements, done again this year by that nonpareil, Chan Bete. Why, in less than a week we've heard from 92 men who will be accompanied by 86 wives and 113 children, whose ages run from 3 to 23.
These early birds are Hal Leich, Frank Foster, Ed Spetnagel, Phil Mayher, Gene Davis, Bob Lyle, Percy Russell, Wally Willard, Al Fisher, Ben Stacey, Harry Martin, Charlie Dudley, Phil Dinsmore, Duke Barto, Herm Liss, Tom Hayes, Joe Pritchard, Johnny Quebman, Gil Griffin, Squeek Redding, John Laffey, Eddie Walsh, Lyt Johnston, Jack Hubbard, Bob Austin, Larry Lougee, Bob Monahan, Paul Woodbridge, Bob Jones, Hank Stein, Joe D'Esopo, Dolson Smith, Johnny Clements, Ken McNair, Paul Jameson, Ken Moran, Dick Black, Ed Merkel, Ray Hedger, Hartman, Dick Owsley, Tal Babcock, Eddie Chinlund, Don Dudley, Phil Rising, Herb Ball, Dan Marx, Ralph Ardiff, Johnny Hubbard, Phil May, John Moxon, Bob Drake, Heinie Richardson, Art Buffington, Bob Ramage, Dick Burke, Johnny Bryant, Dud Orr, Al Conley, Steve Balkam, Red Flynn, John Irving, Ned Richardson, Nick Vincent, Bernie Burnham, Nat Barrows, Harlan Taylor, Chris Born, Larry Shirley, Morgan Baker, Supe Lockwood, Ev Bulkley, Allah Lovejoy, George Lane, Trunkie Brittan, Carter Strickland, Pinkie Flannery, Ed Heister, Bill Condon, Irv Hanssmann, Karl Pittelkow, Johnny Davis, Jack Gunther, Herb McCreery, Howie Nichols, Inces Pierce, Joe Webb, Ted Shackford, Jim Latham, Frank Small and Henry Sharpe. Of course, by the time you read this, the list will be multiplied many-fold, but this will give you an idea of the way things are shaping up.
Then there are the pre-reunion parties. Herb Ball has this to say about the big shindig in New York:
"At the last class meeting, I appointed a committee to arrange a party at Governors Island Officers' Club. We will be the 'guests' of Col. LarryLougee; it is necessary to appear as 'Colonel's guest' in order to secure the facilities at Governors Island, but each man will be taxed according to the cost. The committee I have appointed for the affair is Larry Lougee, Paul Jameson, Van Jamie son, JackGunther, Kay Hedger and Tuck Small. The affair is set for 6:00 P.M., May 7, on Governors Island - cocktails 6:00 to 7:00, entertainment and dancing 8:30 to 11:30. You perhaps have heard that this is one of the most beautiful spots in the country. It lies in New York Harbor and the view from the Island looking either towards the Statue of Liberty or the New York skyline is out of this world. The facilities of the Officers' Club are of the best and we are assured that the tax will be kept to a bare minimum. Cars may be parked either at the New York side of the Governors Island ferry or taken over to the Island on the government ferry. Of course we expect that each man will bring his wife to the party. We are looking forward to having people come from far and beyond the limits or the New York-Metropolitan area. We also hope that you and Dick Barrett, and any other of the Boston group that can make it, will come down to the party. We have possibly a potential of approximately 90 or 100 couples who can make the party. It offers an excellent excuse for those living out of New York to come to the party Friday night and spend the weekend in New York. I cannot emphasize how successful and enjoyable the two parties held previously at Governors Island in years past have been. Larry stands ace-high at Governors Island, and if he does only 50% as well as he did in prior years, it still will be one of the best parties yet.
"On March 17, eighteen of us were present for the last Class dinner to be held this year at the Dartmouth College Club. The following were present: Paul Jameson, Van Jamieson, Jack Gunther, Herb Ball, Slim Corrigan, Rollie Nivison Doe Smith, Ray Hedger, Harry Lougee, Tuck Small, Nick Vincent, Frank Middleton, Chan Bete, Soup Lockwood, Bill McCaw, Jack Moxon, Russ Goudey and Frank Williams.
REUNION ROOMS: Dormitory reservationcards received in late April must be returnedto the Bursar by May 29, after which datespace may not be available.
"Slim Corrigan made his first appearance at a New York affair in some 22 years. He is now living in New Rochelle and told us of his recent visit to 28 countries of the world. Jack Moxon was up from Reading, Pa., and Soup Lockwood from Washington arranged to meet Chan Bete from Greenfield, Mass., in New York in order to attend the dinner. After the cocktails and food were stowed away, I asked Soup Lockwood to tell us something of his recent trip to southeast Asia. Larry Lougee held forth on Alaska and his recent two-year tour of duty there. He pointed out the importance of Alaska in our defense scheme and indicated roughly the area of Alaska that would be defended. BillMcCaw told us of his activities abroad, which included a good portion of the globe and some five years spent in Germany. Bill is now associated with the United Nations. Everyone of the eighteen present said that they would attend reunion and bring their wives, and about 25 children are expected to be shepherded to Hanover."
On May 14 there will be a party in Boston. This will be held at the Beaver School in Chestnut Hill where we had such a good gettogether before the 20th. It is expected that the "Red Cap Rascals" will warm up with us that evening in preparation for their Hanover appearance. Due notice of this event will be given by Red Ardiff. And while we're in Boston it should be noted that this year's annual dinner brought out the largest group ever - 29 in all: Johnny Davis, Dick Barrett, Ken Wilson, Charlie Jackson, Art D'Elia, Bill White, Johnny Cornehlsen, John Laffey, Howie Nichols, Allah Lovejoy, Herm and Ned Richardson, Bill Mageneau, Cap Capalbo, Don Simpson, Chris Born, Hank Stein, Nick Panoras, Fred Armstrong, Bob Austin, Ralph Ardiff, Herm Liss, Frank Shores, John Dickey, Squeek Redding, Johnny Quebman, Bill White and Mort Jaquith.
The encouraging word from Editor Ramage is that the Class Book is going to be even better than planned, thanks to the photographs which were received from larger numbers than anticipated. Right now the final assembling and printing of material is going along pretty much on schedule, and the end of May should see the book in the hands of the Class. Those of us who have had a part in its publication feel pretty good about it. We think that you will be pleased with it too, and that you'll be as enthusiastic about it as are the men who have worked to publish it. But there's another thing about the book that those responsible for its quality are depending upon everyone in the Class to recognize and support - and that is that it is being sent to every contributor to the Combined Fund in acknowledgement and appreciation of his gift to the College. That simply means that in order to have the widest possible initial distribution of the book we must have 100% participation in the Combined Fund. It also means that in making your gift to the Fund each man should take into consideration the fact that part of his gift is going to help defray the publication costs. That, of course, is just one of the many reasons each of us should give more than we ever dreamed of doing in this great 25th year of capital giving.
Prof. Dan Marx, whose professional status was reported in last month's notice, is also a family man or, as he puts it:
"Jeanne and I are the busy parents of four children: Connie 13, Danny 11, Nancy 6% and Dickie 21/2. We have enjoyed occasional visits from '29ers and only wish more classmates would drop in on us. Last year as we returned from Commencement exercises we found Dan Luten sitting on our porch and enjoyed a most delightful visit with him. A year later Ed Fyler and his fine family, who were visiting the old Fyler homestead in Vermont, paid us a most enjoyable visit. Both Ed and Dan seem remarkably well preserved for men of our years and made me realize there is no reason for feeling as old as I do. Perhaps it is the pleasure of having sons of classmates as students, as a continual reminder that I am a member of the older generation, which makes me so conscious of the fact."
Bob Monahan's current bulletin from Hanover reports the bad news of Frank Foster's two weeks' forced sojourn at Dick's House as a result of an unfortunate ski accident which ruptured the Achille's tendon of his left leg. Back here in Boston for further treatment, Frank makes the cheerful observation that he never spent such a happy, relaxed time in Hanover in all his life, with countless old friends dropping in on him to renew old times. Frank says that he will be back for reunion without fail. Continuing with Monahan: -
"Duke Barto visited Hanover in mid-March on his annual recruiting program for new personnel at Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company. Arthur Bergeron I saw in Berlin early this week following his return from a trip to Nassau. On April 29, Professor Mandelbaum addresses Great Issues on 'A Secular View of the Moral Life.' As Professors Carr and Marx have already spoken before Great Issues this year, all three classmates on the faculty will have been asked to do this honor, which is somewhat of an indirect tribute to the class, and indicates that it is capably represented on the faculty."
Bob Carr, by the way, has been elected to the National Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union, by mail ballot of the Union's general members in February.
Our Tucson, Ariz., correspondent reports that "Harry Fennerty lives way out in the foothills of the Catalina mountains. He likes Arizona a great deal - has been here since September and had lived here a year before, just trying it out, I guess, before deciding to pull up stakes and really settle here. He has three children: a girl 16 and two younger boys who are all going to private schools here-abouts."
Bob Collins married Miss Elizabeth Ann Macintosh in Rumson, N. J., on January si, Bob attended Harvard Law School and also graduated from the University of California Law School. A former attorney for the Iceland government, he has practiced with Judge Harold Medina and with the law firm of Curtis, Mallett & Prevost in New York. He is now employed by the Mount English Sales Company, Red Bank, N. J.
John Hubbard has been elected a director of Avon Sole Company, one of the leaders in its industry. Since 1946 John has been handling the Middlewestern accounts for the Company. During the war he served in the Navy as an Air Combat Intelligence officer.
Laflin Jones has been made a director of insurance services and planning at the home office of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company. Formerly, he was an assistant director of agencies, in which capacity he established quite a reputation by his carefully and effectively written life insurance dramas presented at company conventions and various life underwriter associations.
Percy Russell broke into the news here in New England this past winter as counsel in the Hartford television channel struggle between Travelers Broadcasting Service and Hartford Telecasting Co. over the Channel 3 broadcasting allocation in Hartford. One of Percy's previous major cases was that of the Mutual Broadcasting System on network rules. Following graduation from Harvard Law School, Percy was secretary to Justice Cardozo of the U. S. Supreme Court.
Al Miller has moved his law office to 52 School Street, Boston. Red Flynn, partner in McDonald & Company of Cleveland, New York Stock Exchange House, toured New England recently - all to his profit, we hope. A recent picture in the New York HeraldTribune emphasized that coonskin fashions of the 1920s are still in vogue at Vassar. Among the seven lovely undergraduates wearing raccoon coats was Miss Ann Clark, freshman from Gloucester, Mass., sporting the handsome garment which Dick used to wear around Hanover, Northampton, Poughkeepsie and Wellesley.
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