1934

Back in the first reign of Tiberius Caesar, Scipio the Scribe, alias ye sec, used to make a point of attending all the football games line of duty, you know. But it got a little rough - like when you were escorting visitors through Baker Library before the game and one of the close friends on the faculty, on being introduced to the friends, exuded the usual Indian charm and then remarked to us "If you had discovered this place had a library twenty years ago, you might have done better."

And on a house-party weekend, it was disturbing what young girls were showing up at the fraternity houses.

And of course five years later even younger girls were showing up for those house parties, and our son, having gone astray and joined Chi Phi, we, having no patent leather shoes, would be recognized only by the Chi Phi collie, Lady, who is a real lady - besides which she has lived with us for two summers and is able to distinguish between patent leather shoes and a can of Red Heart dog food.

Then again like on the day of the Yale game other things keep interfering. Your daughter wants to get married on that day even though her father wants to go to the Yale game and her husband-to-be, a Giants fan, wants to be at the Yankee Stadium on Sunday. So we compromise and she's married on the Saturday of the Yale game and she pays for the Monday paper which gives him the story of the 53-0 Giants victory.

But we have friends, and they cover these things even better than if we were there. Like Rita, wife of one of the roomies, Walt Keady, who reports that Walt was at the Brown game in Hanover with daughter Michele and the son who is the bearer of an historic Dartmouth name, Tom Keady. Walt bumped into other roomies, Jake Edwards and Jocko Stangle, and Bill Scherman, as well as many several other parties who knew not enough to stay out of the rain of that bad day — but not being trained to write names on soggy paper, Walt kind of forgets.

Then we got a short reprieve from wedding preparations to sit in on the Holy Cross game - albeit up in the grab-it-and-growl sections of the Cross stands where you have to have heart to admit you're for Dartmouth - and after the game, we also met Jake, who was then looking for Jocko, and caught Ray Hulsart in the distance disappearing up an alley evidently looking for his car.

But one of our best operatives covered the Harvard game. Hank Werner reported by phone that at Cambridge he had been with Roily Morton who had spent some time in the vicinity visiting a son who is at Babson in Wellesley; with Al Levenson, who has a daughter at Wheaton in the same class with a daughter of Ace Baldwin, and who has heard from Sid Wisch in Hawaii, traveling for The National Key Co. — which is kind of odd because reading Michener's novel about the place leads you to believe that keys were kind of out of place there.

Hank also saw Nick Zanthaky, Clarence Davies, whose second Dartmouth son is cheer-leading, Okie O'Keefe, who is sweating out a son trying for the class of something or other going in next September, and Ray Hulsart, who is probably seeing more games now than he saw as a Dartmouth first-string tackle, when as one of our more erudite scribes put it, he was Dartmouth's most expensive athlete of the time and spent more time in Dick's House than he did on Memorial Field.

In his spare time, as you know, Hank is keeper of the money bags of this great class and, of course, money bags there are none, unless you take advantage of that bill you have to send in the paltry amount requested to keep us in business - and then turning over the bill you will find on the back a vast expanse of clean white space in which to express yourselves - for publication or not as you wish.

Like as a starter.. . Charley Strauss: "The big news with us is that we have two sons in the class of '65, Andrew and Charles Jr. Our eldest, Thomas is at Danbury (Conn.) State to become a teacher, Glenn is eleven and Vail is nine. I'm still with McGregor as advertising manager." ... Alan Hewitt: "Have just returned from a paltry two weeks in New York, during which I worked on a TV film and went madly from theater to theater. Best of the current shows in my opinion are 'How To Succeed in Business' and 'The Caretaker'." ... Nick Zanthaky: "Wife Alice has been on an extended trip to Europe and the Middle East which has tied me to my desk almost seven days a week." ... Dr. John Spiegel: "Oldest daughter, Heli, was married September 10 to Michael Meltsner of N.Y.C. Heli graduated from Swarthmore and Michael from Yale Law School in 1960. They met last spring in Israel where both had volunteered to join an archeological expedition in the area of the Dead Sea Caves."

Chet Birch, one of Scarborough, New York's leading citizens, has been named president of the New York advertising firm, Dancer-FitzgeraldSample, Inc. He succeeds another alumnus, Cliff Fitzgerald '25, who was a founder of the agency twenty years ago. Chet had been executive vice president of the firm since 1958. He joined the agency in 1952 as vice president, prior to which he was vice president and advertising director for Andrews Jergens Company of Cincinnati. Chet and Jean have two children: Susan, who was graduated last June from the Emma Willard School, and Bruce, a member of the Class of '63 in Hanover.

Then NAMES IN THE NEWS this month. .. . Herb Heston, director of development and public relations at Smith College, predicts that Smith will achieve the initial goal of $10,000,000 which it is seeking to strengthen its educational resources. Herb, who has been doing remarkable work in this field for some years, can contribute some interesting quotes "the only aspect in which the women's colleges have an advantage over the men's is that parents are more apt to contribute to a daughter's institution," - and "although Smith's endowment of $30,000,000 is a sizable one, it is not as big as it should be per student owing to the fact that Smith is the largest of the independent women's colleges," which, depending upon the emphasis, '34 can agree with because we met - and married - quite a few independent women from Smith. ... Gov. Rockefeller's $5 billion plan to build apartments for a million persons in middle-income families by using the air space over highways, piers and publicly owned facilities was developed by a special committee including lawyer Oscar M. Reubhausen.

Which is almost the end of the line because we have a couple of obituaries to write on Nat Shimberg and Wil Maynard - tough because Wil was one of our favorite guys in school and in later years.

Then again, in December they used to tell us to cut this short because the list of alumni fund contributors would eat up space, but now the list is chit-chat in the news letter. Whatever it is, however, to you guys who stood up to be counted when Jack O'Brien beat the gong, thank you and may the wind be always at your back.

Secretary, 12 Berwick St. Worcester 2, Mass.

Treasurer, 120 Broadway, New York 5, N. Y.

Bequest Chairman,