1934
Once again we get off to the usual stuttering start in this feeble effort to keep out of the laps of that erudite group, incubator of college officials, the Class of 1933, and the energetic gang of eager beavers who have been yapping at our heels ever since that day back in 1931 when a general breakdown of the admissions procedure resulted in a departure from the accepted practise of admitting to Dartmouth only scholars and gentlemen.
It seems only yesterday we promised ourselves that this month we would meet the deadline with these notes; in fact it was only yesterday, and it was undoubtedly the stimulus of bumping into a blonde or perhaps we could more accurately but less pleasurably describe it as meeting a young lady who admitted that she read this stuff without having to, that did the trick. Along with the Foley family, for whom it is required reading, and Widmayer's staff, who comb it for libel, this constitutes quite a public and ye sec feels he should reciprocate, if he could spell it.
However, there has been a slight delay while our research assistants combed through the laundry and the sweat bands of a couple of old hats for notes jotted down over the past month. And if you're puzzling over why we don't get down to business even now, you must remember that when the College stopped concentrating on Indians and let in the Irish, she was taking a chance on winding up with a certain percentage of fellows who would never know enough to stop after saying "How!" And when one of those fellows gets ahold of a column like this all chance is out the window, especially when he doesn't know whether the damn stuff will last long enough to serve as sufficient of an insulator between the "beautiful and the damned," whichever is which.
But enough of the compliments, let's get to the facts, M'am. From Bagdad-on-the-Desert, otherwise known as Gilmoreville, Ariz., another postcard which indicates that large PhilGlazer has also called upon the squire of Scottsdale. If you were thinking of dropping into the N.Y.C. Dartmouth Club to meet a few '34s, try Scottsdale, Ariz. - seems more of them pass through there
The ADDRESS CHANGES this month, too, are good for a few facts For instance, JohnMcCoy is located at Miami Beach as secretary and attorney for the Storer Broadcasting Co. ...Art MacGregor has torn himself away from Cape Cod but only as far as Hanson, Mass Bob Morris is now manager of related products for The Glidden Co. in Cleveland Joe Ryan is credit manager for General Electric Appliance Co. in N.Y.C. in case any of you fellows want to pick up a toaster on time.. ..Ted Thompson, previously reported as personnel manager for Bridgeport Brass has established his family at 629 Verna Hill Rd„ Fairfield, Conn and Pat O'Reilly a chemist at the Stanley Works in Bridgeport is now living at 956 Stratford Ave. in the same city.
Strange how so many of those Dekes became chemists For instance, in NAMES IN THE NEWS this month we have an item: Bill Emerson, as of April 1, was appointed assistant director of the development department of Monsanto Chemical Company's Research and Engineering Division, in which job he will be responsible for liaison with universities and colleges and will be closely associated with Monsanto's fellowship program. ...Also in the news, Alan Hewitt gets good notices in Ondine.... Bob Miller has been appointed faculty manager of athletics at Clifford Scott High School, East Orange, N. J., where he has been a teacher-coach since 1946. ... Jim Darling has been named marketing manager for grocery products in the Franklin Baker Division of General F00d5.... Dr. BobKorns, director of the Bureau of Epidemiology and Communicable Disease Control of the N. Y. State Health Department, has been appointed deputy director of the poliomyelitis vaccine evaluation program by the Regents of the University of Michigan. He will take a leave of absence from the New York position, which he has held since 1939. At the University of Michigan he will assist in coordinating and integrating the nationwide study being made for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which will evaluate the poliomyelitis vaccine.... Hugh Johnson, now directing trade sales for J. B. Lippincott Company, has been elected to the board of directors of that company.
HANOVER VISITORS during the month of Carnival time.... Don Crowther and family; Mr. and Mrs. Bill Haist Jr.; and ChickChickering from Ridgewood, N. J., who brought along one of his sons, evidently the one who was beginning to think that Princeton looked like a pretty nice place to go to college.
20 YEARS AGO, in Hanover, the boys were feeling their oats, especially the seniors ... but D. J. Hallisey was noting complaints on speeding. To potential miscreants, he pointed out byway of the press, that the lawful rate of speed within the precinct was 20 MPH. ... Arthur Grimes, business manager of The Dartmouth, was interviewing prospective heelers for the following year. ... Dartmouth gymnasts departed for the A.A.U. Championships with Capt. Dan Schuyler, Howie Miller,George and Frank Engel, Art Willis, and Bill Ely.
... Tom Tiler and His Wyfe was reviewed by Harry Ingram as follows, "George Cogswell and Bill Knibhs anticipated a blessed event, but the acting plum of the evening fell to Fritz Rinaldo with the help of a few cosmetics and a Paris creation". ... Comments on current campus events included reports on Prof. Rexford G. Tugwell, who said nothing to a large group of students in many, many words. Author Thomas Boyd, at Sanborn House tea, declared, "I don't want to fight for Standard Oil in China" - and the brass ring of the week was awarded, anonymously, to one of the leading campus "communists" who tried to get $7 out of an unsuspecting freshman for a one-way trip to New York. ... After a lapse of some years, Spring House Parties returned to the Hanover scene and Green Key featured Glen Gray and his Casa Loma orchestra with Connie Boswell ... a young girl guest was thrown from the rumble seat of a car when the steering gear failed and she was lost in Connecticut River. Bill Adams was first on the scene to aid other injured ... Dartmouth beat Yale 4-1 as Miller struck out nine and allowed only five hits. Capt. Jake Edwards, Spain, Morton,Snow and Bennett all contributed to the win.... President Hopkins, Dana Redington, president of Interfraternity Council, and Mac Collins, chairman of Palaeopitus, judged spring house parties to be successful. ... A $14 senior class tax was announced and the original tax collectors, all of whom have seemed to have since reformed, were H. Allen, Armes, Arthur, Bender, Benedict, G.Collins, Erickson, Fishman, Fulton, P. Gilbert,Lepreau, McConnochie, Marshall, J. O'Brien,Wardwell, and Wilmot . . . and much speculation arose over the forthcoming Old Timers' Day and the prospects of another Whip Walser rising to the heights of sheer oratory.
So it went in the long, long ago. Not only seems yesterday we were going to get this in on time - seems only yesterday we were playing at being "Old Timers," and here we are the real McCoy. Consoling, though, to look back on those pseudo "Old Timers" who were due to step out into the cold, cold world, where office boys all came equipped with M.A.'s. And here we sit now, all 600 of us worried only whether when we join that Century Club of the Alumni Fund this year (1) we can do it without mama finding out, or (2) if mama finds out will she speak to us after the first week - which will be restful anyway, or (3) if mama finds out and still speaks to us will she rush right out and. buy a dozen new hats. How!
ROBERT S. ENGELMAN '34 has begun his new responsibilities as president of Spiegel, Inc., Chicago mail order house.
Secretary, 12 Berwick St., Worcester 2, Mass.
Class Agent, 370 Central Ave., Orange, N. J.
