1936

My old roommate, Morrie Paine, who runs the Howland-Hughes Department Store and raises a six-year-old son, Henry, in Waterbury, Conn., writes news of many classmates. He says Joe Davis sent him a clipping about Dick Hefler who was appointed to the Board of Directors of the American Potash Corporation in California. He reports Dr. Joe Haddad is busy in Waterbury; Morrie Stein is active in the Red Cross and many other civic endeavors there; and that Ed McGrath has gone into business for himself as follows:

Edward T. McGrath, public relations director of the U.S. Rubber Company in Naugatuck, Conn., resigned to open a new firm, Edward T. McGrath Associates, public relations and industrial relations consultants. His office will be in Waterbury, Conn. Ed had been with the U.S. Rubber Company for sixteen years. He is active in Y.M.C.A. programs, Red Cross, Boy Scouts, and other civic, sports and industrial organizations. He organized a Little League in Naugatuck. Ed also is raising four children, the oldest of whom, Mary Catherine, was married on December 26 to Robert Hill of Naugatuck. The date of Mary Catherine's wedding was on the 24th anniversary of Ed's wedding to the former Catherine Sayers in Hanover, N.H., December 26, 1935.

One of the biggest breaks in the Class of '36 was Pete Fitzherbert's leg which was rent asunder in a freak accident a few weeks ago. Our class chairman broke his leg in two places when he slipped, but apparently this accident has caused only a pause in his energetic schedule. Pete writes in part "on March first, I expect to fly to St. Paul where I hope to see John Parish and then on to San Francisco where I hope to see more '36ers." Pete, Barbara and son Tom will end their vacation at Brew Towne's White Stallion Ranch in Arizona.

I have a welcome letter from Paul Zens. Paul is the executive secretary of the New Mexico Independent College Foundation, which is a fund-raising organization for the non-tax supported colleges in New Mexico. There are two colleges in this group, namely the College of St. Joseph in Albuquerque, and St. Michael's College in Santa Fe. Paul writes:

I came out here partly as a refugee from the hill winds and granite of Vermont, and partly as a refugee from the steaming jungle of urban Washington. With my usual luck, I managed to arrive just in time for the coldest, cloudiest, wettest winter in New Mexico since Kit-Carson came over the Raton Pass.

We - my wife, Susan, and I - live in the city of Aubuquerque on the West Mesa surrounded by lone and level sands to the extent of 6,000 square feet. We have observed that the wider open the spaces, the closer the houses. This affords protection against the Indians, who continuously assault the Anglos (local patois for Paleface) with brummagen jewelry, and pick-up trucks driven at approximately Mach 1. Nothing, however, can detract from the magnificent desert and mountain scenery, nor from the exhilaration of living at one mile up; nothing that is, once you learn how long it actually takes to cook a three-minute egg at that altitude.

From time to time I'll keep you posted on news of the frontier, the land of frijoles, tortillas and enchiladas which sound better than they taste.

The Dartmouth Club of Westchester County recently invited the Dartmouth Glee Club to Scarsdale, N.Y., for the benefit of their Scholarship Fund. The benefit brought out a tremendous crowd including the following '36ers: Art and Lee Wasserman; Normand Betty Sherry and their son Bert; Johnand Helen Wiesman and their daughters, Mary and Constance; and John and NancySawyer with their daughters, Peggy, Sarah, and Nancy. Al Jenkin's son Michael '61, is a member of the "Injunaires," the special harmony group within the Glee Club.

Red Blaik is writing an autobiography that includes anecdotes of our days at Dartmouth. The death of the Yale jinx, the twelfth man incident at Princeton and the fifth-down game against Cornell in 1940 are described in detail. Part of this book appeared in Look Magazine last November. Eddie Chamberlain, Joe Handrahan, Jack Kenny, Mut Ray '37 and Dave Camerer '37 were specifically mentioned in colorful episodes.

Here are many odd items of class interest that have come in from different sources. Thanks to you all! Louis Benezet, President of Colorado College, was the key speaker at the meeting of the Association of American Colleges in Boston.... Bob Burr is insurance manager of the Great Lakes Carbon Corporation in New York City. Bob says Jack Matzinger has his own retail store for ladies and menswear in La Jolla, Calif.... Bill Hoffmann has a son John in Princeton. . . . Dan Schwartz has a son Jonathan in Reed College in Oregon.... Frank Hights' daughter Lucy was married recently to a University of North Carolina graduate named Donald Wainwright Carmichael.... Larry Marx has been appointed a trustee of the United Hospital in Mamaroneck, N. Y.... Art Atkinson is a sales representative of the Lake Superior Paper Company in Chicago.... AlFlouton who was a senior vice president at the Compton Advertising Agency in New York has been made executive vice president. ... Herm Nunnemacher has been made executive vice president of the Galland Henning Manufacturing Company in Milwaukee, Wis.

A class dinner, wives invited, wili be held at the Dartmouth Club of New York on March II.

Don McKinlay '37 and his son Tommy together out on the slopes at Winter Park, Colo.

Secretary, 16 Hickory Lane Darien, Conn.

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