1932

A couple of months have gone by since an intrepid band of '32ers some fifty strong (counting wives and offspring) descended on Hanover for the first fall powwow the Class has ever held. The majority arrived Friday evening in time to discover the Bonnie Oaks cocktail lounge and have a late dinner. Saturday was sunny and warm and your correspondent, instead of busily taking notes as he should, spent the better part of the day much more pleasantly roaming the countryside with Howdie Pierpont and his two engaging youngsters, Beth and John. Back at the Oaks after the football game the crowd was augmented by late arrivals and visitors from other wigwams, and the powwow went on far into the night. A proposal was made and enthusiastically received to do it again next year, so make a note on that new Christmas calendar of yours.

Ben and Sally Drew included in the Brown weekend a visit with their son Ben Jr., who is in second year of Tuck. The elder Ben, in case you don't remember, is an expert on apples, and this is understandable since his business is growing them. He is also very well informed on a lot of other subjects and is a most interesting conversationalist. He apparently keeps in touch with many of the Class around about New England, and during the weekend Art Allen exacted a promise from him to try to round up some of the gang in the greater Boston area for a get-together next spring. No doubt he would appreciate some help in this endeavor, so why don't some of you fellows drop him a line at Main St., Westford, Mass.

Marv and Carmen Chandler also took advantage of the Brown weekend to visit their son Tom, who is a freshman. Their younger son Dick will be ready to enter college next fall, and Marv says the lad is an A student, first-string football, basketball and baseball player, and student council vice president in a school of more than 2,000. Last summer Marv, Carmen and the two boys made a six-week tour of Europe, stopping briefly at London and Paris and then roaming through Switzerland, Italy and southern France and Spain in a rented car.

While in Paris, Marv ran into Bill Morton who was just leaving for home. This prompted him to clip the following, which first appeared in the Rye, N. Y., Chronicle and was later quoted in the New Yorker magazine: Mr. and Mrs. Willaim H. Morton of North Manursing Island and children, Bill and Betty, will leave by plane today for London, England. From there they will travel to Norway where they will tour the country for several weeks. They will also visit Denmark, Germany, Holland and France. Mrs. Morton and Betty will return aboard the Queen Mary in August and Mr. Morton and Bill will return earlier by train." In case you're wondering, The New Yorker's comment was, "Men are the experimental sex."

The advertising pages in some of our leading periodicals this fall proclaimed in large print that John W. Sheldon subscribes to the N. Y. Times because of its excellent coverage of the fashion industry. Sure enough, beneath the text was a picture of our John looking appropriately sincere and inducing you to believe he probably does read the N. Y. Times. John is president of Chas. A. Stevens, a leading State St., Chicago, women's store. We are again indebted to Marv Chandler for the information that he is also a member of the Exmoor Country Club curling team that won the Illinois state championship last winter and later competed for the national championship at Green Bay, Wise.

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