1934
This is written in the lull between Christmas and the New Year and I feel like the old Spanish philosopher who said, "Show me a man with a little money in his pocket and I'll show you a man who wasn't a very good father or husband."
Dr. Kirk Spitler sends me a clipping from the Cleveland Press which pictures Bob C. Palmer, a member of the Euclid Kiwanis. Kirk writes that Bob is doing a great job as the branch manager of the Central Bank and as a civic leader in the fast-growing suburb of Euclid. Kirk has sent me the picture of Eleanor and himself taken when the Spitlcrs visited Norma and Bill Gilrnore in Scottsdale last spring. The Gilmores love Arizona and vice versa. Kirk expects to see Bill at our twenty-fifth with side arms, lariat and ten gallon hat, providing airline communications don't break down as they did in 1955.
Jack Iddings sends in his latest address, 2230 West 57th Ave., Gary, Ind.; it has been much too long a time since we have heard from him. Glad to welcome you back into the fold.
Dr. Aram Sarajian's son Bob is applying for admission to Dartmouth this fall. One hears it is getting harder and harder to matriculate. If Bob is half the athlete that Sarj was, he shouldn't have any difficulty.
Phil Eckels appears to be settled in Missouri for another year. His recent moves, with children in high school, have caused him a good deal of worry. He has four Katherine, John, Elizabeth and William and each time he makes a change it poses a difficult educational problem.
David Ogilvy, President of Ogilvy, Benson & Mather, is proud to announce the election of Charlie Strauss as a vice-president of the company. Charlie, an account supervisor, handles the Hathaway Shirt account among others and naturally sees a good deal of Harry Wallace, a big wheel now in the Hathaway's sales operations.
Word from another ad-man, Bill Gay. He has joined McCann-Erickson in Los Angeles as a production director and is the production and script supervisor on Chrysler's "Climax" and other programs emanating from Hollywood.
I was pleased to receive a line from Ike Powers. His law practice keeps him burning the midnight oil and all are well up his way.
Dick Houck is still bemoaning the fact that he had to cancel out at the last minute on that Hanover junket in the fall.
Hanover has been sending frantic calls to Bill Craig because his mail is being returned "address unknown." I called Bill's office in New York and they say he is out on the road selling. In his travels Bill has seen DougLeighton in New Hampshire, Bill Eldridge in California and Charlie Kehoe in Florida. No small wonder the Alumni office can't keep up with Bill. The office doesn't have a correct address for Robert H. Doyle either. His last known location was 2371 East Evans Avenue, Denver 10, Colo. They also advise me that Perry M. Gallup's mail to 307 Main St., Saco, Maine, has been returned with the notation "moved, left no address." I suggest writing to R.F.D. 1, South Windsor, Conn, as appears in our directory.
Grove Blood was state-side after three years in Caracas, Venezuela. He had hoped to get to Hanover but a visit to the hospital interfered. He was back in Venezuela for Christmas wondering why no '34's ever came South on cruises. Coincidentally, Liz and I are sailing on the Mauretania on February 28 but the ship doesn't stop at Caracas.
Notes to Coach Blackman: Check on John Foley and Mary's football playing son Thomas if you need any material in future campaigns; also get a line on Laury Herman's son, a tackle, six-feet one and weighing 210 lbs. Laury and Florence have a brand new daughter who keeps them floor walking at night. With all our prolific classmates, it comes as no surprise that the cigar business is doing so well.
Notes in the field of education: Dean Seymour B. Dunn, A.8.. A.M., Ph.D. of Gettysburg College attended the inauguration of Willard S. Paul as the ninth president of that fine institution. Henry Reck is teaching history at the University of Virginia and has a new home address, P.O. Box 3111, Univer sity Station, Charlottesville, Va. A post card addressed to Rollie Morton from pedagogue Dana Redington of the Cate School in Carpenteria, Calif., reads, "Surprised and pleased to see you in Boston. Sorry to have missed you in the morning. I was attending a twoday guidance conference at M.I.T. It was excellent. I had visited mv old haunts in Vermont and saw a football game in Hanover."
More notes concerning the teaching profession: Herb Heston brings us up to date after a long silence. "I have been appointed as public information consultant to the President's Committee on Education Beyond the High School. I am on loan from Hood College and was recently elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the American College Public Relations Association representing the Mason-Dixon District." A clipping of a year ago reveals that Robert Reynolds, dean of the Westchester Community College, is a regular speaker at meetings of the Woman's Club in New Rochelle, N. Y. Dr. Reynolds received his Master's and Doctorate degree in education from Columbia and has taught in Bronxville, Rye and at the Colorado State College and the University of Maine. He has been with the college in White Plains since 1946.
Two items from the Great Issues course given at college: Orv Dryfoos headed an able panel of New York Timesmen discussing "The Press in a Democracy." The panel also included E. Clifton Daniel and William S. White. A few nights later Dr. Omer Carmichael, superintendent of schools in Louisville, Kentucky spoke on Louisville's successful desegregation program, giving great credit to the President of the Board of Education, one William C. Embry.
John Spiegel, still living in Cambridge and teaching in the Department of Social Relations at Harvard, writes:
I came here three years ago to stay one year as a visiting lecturer. Now I've begun a long range research project with Dr. Florence Kluckjohn, supported by the U. S. Public Health Service investigating the influence of conflicts in cultural values on patterns of family life and thus on the mental illness of clinically disturbed children. I have a ten man team working on the project. It looks like I will be here for quite some time and I love it here.
Another one of our peripatetic brethren, Stew Anderson has come back to roost in Washington with the Department of State after fifteen years abroad. He is contemplating a rosy future of three or four years before his next foreign assignment. His most recent one was in Manila.
Don't recall having extended congratulations to Bill deRiemer on his marriage to Jane Thompson on May 26, 195 C We make proper apologies and welcome you, Jane, to our happy family. Speaking of recently weds we talked to Nels Krogslund and learned that he can make delivery on 1957 Cadillacs to any of the more prosperous and well-hecled gentlemen at the head of the class.
To conclude this part of the notes let me get into the records that this reporter saw at the Princeton game Al Baldwin, Bill G. Richardson, Speed Thomas, Bob Ford, Les Reeve, Johnny Bathrick, Bob Offenbach, Wil Maynard, Moe Frankel, Ted Thompson, Johnny Lasher, Bob Allabough, Ken Keeley and Stan Smoyer. Stan invited us to his house for cocktails but as we had our brood with us we had to return home directly after the game.
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