1934

Ever since last month when you fellows took so well to the task of turning out this column in a manner - we say with some chagrin - more than somewhat better than that exhibited by the usual mechanic in this spot, ye sec has been counting his blessings and looking forward to another month of ease. In fact, it looks almost as if that same afore-mentioned exalted official of this outstanding class can relax all the way to retirement on the basis of quotable material from question naires, dues returns, etc.

Don't you relax, though, because somebody's got to do the work! Whomsoever - or however it should go - has failed to return a questionnaire should shortly get belted with another and let's have all our class records complete by the time the next candidate picks up the straw satchel.

Now you remember how it went last month, you just warm up that upper case "I" key and then bear down on the keyboard.... Dr. Ted Flemming writes from Buffalo:

"Everything going along smoothly - largely in the private practice of internal medicine. Doing some teaching at Univ. of Buffalo Medical School. Marion says she is going to the next reunion, but not with her leg in a cast. How about a little organized golf for the reunion? Perhaps substitute golf for the usual Softball game."

A fine tip to Chairman Dwyer on account of it is written in the record of our last reunion by a famous historian who shall go un named, "After almost a full day to look over the ball players of yore and to evaluate the large deposits of lead where once only sliding pads rode so jauntily, it was decided to call off any Softball on account of the best prospect in the class seemed to be Merry Lou Metzger (aged 10, approx.)."

Looking at the records, we are all five years older, but Merry Louise is only a very neat 14 years, and probably a better ballplayer. In addition to which she has brothers John Jr., 11, and George, 9. The old man, John Metzger, v-p of Metzger Construction Corp., of Buffalo, says,

"Your last two questions could be all-encompassing. Involved in a few of the usual charity assignments, etc., as a non-union schedule will permit; the usual recognized clubs; and, unfortunately, an interest in the arts and sciences which tends to degenerate (or graduate, depending on the viewpoint) to the sustaining member classification."

Roomy Harry Masterton, credit manager of J. J. O'Donnell, Inc., of Cambridge, brings us up to date on family of Marianne, 10, Harry Jr., 9, and Thomas, 6, but wife Florence has to add the info that the junior Harry has been picked as one of 25 from the city of Maiden to enter a special class for bright children started the first time in 1954. All of which shows that the work Stangle, Edwards and Foley put into making the senior Harry a student did riot go in vain.

News from Jake Edwards is not good. Jake lost his 12-year-old daughter in November after an illness of six months. He puts in a plug for the "Jimmy Fund" and for the fine work they are doing.

Dick Poisson, married to Elizabeth Brigham, as she was called when attending Smith, boasts of two girls, Susan, 11, and Margot, 7. Dick says, "Changed jobs a year ago - made a happy connection with American Colortype Co., New York, in that I have additional work as assistant to the president and general manager. Stan Smoyer still the other loyal Green located in Princeton."

Bill Cahn sends along a copy of his book Mill Town, just published. Picture history of the textile industry and textile labor in Massachusetts, in which the textile industry and Massachusetts come in a not very close second.

Not very much to quote, but you might be interested to know Lewis Grosenbaugh is with the U.S. Forestry Service in New Orleans as chief of the division of forest management research, got his MF from Yale in 1936, spent five years in the USNR, and married the former Wilma Gill in 1948.

Usually, in writing this you could break up the continuity about here, with something like NAMES IN THE NEWS, but sad to say, from the news this month it looks as if the mag has cut back to the clipping service of the Perkins Institute for the Blind. A very fine institution, but very few of our classmates get written up in Braille.

Don't get discouraged, though, because you do have a card which tells you that recent HANOVER VISITORS were ... Dr. and Mrs.John P. Spiegel.

Then Nick Xanthaky drops a note to Gilbert, "See you are still collecting class funds - since I trust you implicitly, here's mine. Alice and I are back in New England and recently bought a house in Wellesley. I'm back at Natick High School, in their new high school."

Bob Balgley says, "Not much new up this way —current issue of Crockery and GlassJournal gives one of my departments (glassware) at G. Fox & Co., Hartford, quite a writeup. That's one way of getting into print."

From up Lawrence way we have a return which tells us that the J. C. Reardon and Co., insurance and real estate, is owned and operated by Jim Reardon. Jim has also been active in politics, being at one time or another a member of the school committee, commissioner of public safety, and chairman of registrars of voters.

And from way out Minnesota way, Rochester and Mayo Clinic to be exact, Dr. GeorgeSayre makes a contribution to the general fund of information, "Combine teaching and practice with a side of farming — an outgrowth of building a house on a hill as near to Hanover scenery as possible in the prairies." While we're out that way, another doc, Dr.John Tobin is a physician and pediatrician in Mpls., Minn, (his slg.). The doc is married to the former Barbara Brown and has three boys and a girl.

Morris Levine, the long, thin man with the hook shot, checks in from Linden, N. J., where he is president of the real estate and insurance firm of Louis Levine, Inc. Morrie and his wife Hazel have three girls, two of whom, Dana and Gail, are twins who confound the records by being born on different days, five minutes each side of midnight.

In case any of you fellows are still under the weather, George Donehue is ass't treasurer of Father John's Medicine in Lowell, Mass., but let him tell it, "After thirteen years of travel, here and abroad, have returned to my home base to accept my present position. Attended the Navy game in Hanover - my first since graduation, and exchanged greetings with Hulsart and Kimball."

From Tucson, Ariz., Charles Orvis says,

"For the past eleven years have been working for the Arizona Rehabilitation Div., interviewing some 3,000 disabled persons and working intensively with some of them. Daily accomplishments seem small, but the accumulative results are gratifying in this field where we are still pioneering. I have very little contact with Dartmouth alumni which I regret in one way, but am thankful for in another, since most of the residents of Tucson come here for the health of some member of the family."

You boys are doing very well in putting this together and we could still fill a lot more of Widmayer's book. Like Bill Craig, who spends his time in twice yearly visits to Coral Gables where he sees Chuck Kehoe, wife and four kids; two-month trips to Europe and Great Britain, where he points out that he again made the pilgrimage to Trinity College in Dublin to view the handsome and richly fabulous "Book of the Kells"; and then to top it all off, got sunk in a cruiser off Montauk in the September hurricane. Bill gets around.

As we have also got around to the point where you'll have to wind this thing up. But don't worry!

Actually it you can't think of anything to leave the boys chuckling so hard they spill their Tom and Jerry all down the front of the Lord and Taylor "weskit," all you have to do is just keep going and you'll be finished automatically. Like getting cut off at the lower vowel with the big shears, or hit over the top of the head with four big blank letters like this

PROMOTION MANAGER: William H.Scherman '34 has been appointed to the newlycreated position of promotion manager of"Sports Illustrated," national sport weeklypublished by Time, Inc. He was formerly assistant to the general promotion director of"Life."

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.