1934

As long as you've wandered back into the less cultural and aesthetic part of this fine MAGAZINE, we might start out with a travel hint, for better or for worse, that they still get a helluva lot of snow in Hanover. We coasted into town in the midst of a blizzard to pick up our offspring for Xmas, and returned them on the very heels of another better than respectable snowstorm. The campus was beautiful and those who dared look said the scenery roundabout was likewise, but, if you don't know, those two tracks in the snow that you keep your car in, hoping they don't end in some farmer's back yard, looked just as they did many years ago - even through bifocals.

Many Years? 30 YEARS AGO! Our first Carnival was just around the corner ... and Bill Knibbs was the bellhop in "Five Hundred Gallons" ... a notice in The Dartmouth read "1934 is reminded that an Inter-fraternity ruling prohibits attendance at fraternity parties during Carnival" ... and the lead editorial read "Gentlemen, the President of the College pleads for temperance," pointing out that purveyors of bad liquor had been detected in the dorms ... two freshmen, Beers and Robbe, had just been elected editor and business manager of the 1936 Green Book ... and A. Hewitt won a major role in the readying campus presentation of "Berkeley Square." ... The Dartmouth wrote at length of the unprecedented records set by the 1934 freshmen football, hockey, basketball and swimming teams with eighteen victories and no defeats ... and a special to the same paper gave the basketball score Dartmouth '34, 58 - MIT, 21, with a flash note hot off the wires from Boston, "Levenson at guard for Dartmouth covered Capt. O'Brien of MIT so closely that O'Brien went out on personal fouls" (a trick, the secret of which probably forever will remain between "Booma" and his bosom pal "Smokey" Kelliher, who refereed).

Enough of nostalgia on toast! Our Nuyawk correspondent and keeper of the moneybags, bless you on both counts Hank, reports a luncheon with Dave Calloway and the information that Dave's older daughter, Nancy, is at Chatham College in Pittsburgh and living in a dormitory which was the old Andrew Mellon home. Dave feels it's much more comfortable than Middle Mass, but perhaps he hasn't seen the rebuilt, rather, recreated interior of same. The boys say it's wonderful, albeit a loud sneeze in a first floor room is likely to knock the cap off the janitor sweeping the second floor corridor.

Out of the mail from the big city recently we also picked a beautiful brochure commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of "The Blue List," an outstanding service publication to the municipal bond business. From '34's point of view the brochure seems more to commemorate the achievements of one Roily Morton, who was engaged as the first salesman and promotional man for the then embryo organization and who is now partner in Geffen, Morton and Griffiths, owners of the Blue List Publishing Company and several other affiliated publishing and printing activities. Roily is president of the affiliated Rolmor Press and Exec. V-P of Arrow Press and Ogden Printing.

Having now had enough experience in this job to be somewhat smart, if not always coherent, we keep a kicker or two against the time when the eggnogs, an early January deadline and an empty cupboard can be a slightly less than tender trap, so let's look at some of these notes which you more literate members of the class add to the financial contribution each year.

For instance, there used to be a smooth-writin' fella here in this corner before they came up with the recent run of left-handed shortstops - name of Jeff Jackson, who now writes, "No news here; just the familiar story of nosing the old grindstone, shouldering the wheel, totin' dat barge in a frantic hope of procuring enough drinkin' money to get a little drunk and land in jail - a peaceful haven where one can stop, breathe deeply (but keep away from that ol' gas chamber, Man!), and rest just long enough to figure out what in tarnation all that scrambling is for out there."

And our Australian correspondent Doris, wife of Art Grimes, "Art is in Japan at the moment. We miss all you folks back in New York - but really love Australia and the countries in the Pacific area. Art will be in New York sometime next year, but our seventeen-year-old daughter and I are leaving on the 'Mariposa' for a visit in the States - looking into colleges and visiting the other children and grandchildren."

Then Joe Lehmann writes, "Don't know whether I've told you about my new job (you haven't, Joe). Since June I've been Consultant to the Community Mental Health Clinics for the State of Illinois. This means I get around the state fairly regularly and am working to help get more clinics going. At present we have 28."

The latest report on the Bill Ely family from the Fairfield (Conn.) Country Day School where Bill is Headmaster, "Elizabeth is a senior at Abbot Academy in Andover, Mass., and William Brewster IV is in eighth grade here. The Ely family traveled in Europe during July and August - visiting England, Holland, Belgium, West Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy and France."

Bill Cahn, we hear, has written another book. This one "The Story of Pitney-Bowes," published in December by Harper and Brothers, is the history of an unusual company, known not only for its development of the postage meter but for its pioneering work in employee relations. Other books by Bill include "The Laugh Makers: a Pictorial History of American Comedians"; "Van Cliburn: The Amazing Story of a New American Hero," and a pictorial biography of Albert Einstein. Bill was director of communications at Ruder and Fink, New York public relations firm, but is now a freelance writer. He lives in New Haven, Conn.

NAMES IN" THE NEWS this month,... "Dr. and Mrs. Russell Smart, noted psychologists presently on the faculty of the University of Rhode Island and the parents of three teenage daughters, were the guest speakers at a Framingham (Mass.) State College assembly on the topic 'lmpressions of India.' Having been sent with his family to India as a Fulbright scholar, Dr. Smart taught at various Indian universities and conducted personal research." ... "Mr. and Mrs. Clarence L. Apple of Wichita Falls, Tex., announce the marriage of their daughter. Miss Dorrian Apple to Frank L. Sweetser of Norwell, Mass., at St. Augustine's Episcopal Church, Metairie, La." ... and "Congressman Perkins Bass recently elected to his fourth term in the House of Representatives, will be the guest speaker at the monthly luncheon of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Merrimack County (N. H.)." ... which you might say is keeping it in the family.

Then just to prove that it's better to be lucky than to have a license to steal, one of the more erudite of the band of brothers in DKE, Bill Emerson, writes a long and interesting letter concerning his return from the fleshpots of California to God's country and a job as chemical consultant with the Arthur D. Little Company of Cambridge. On account of out of the corner of our eye we can see the fellow putting the whistle up to his lips, we shall pause on the beautiful sentiment that Bill is going to be right on hand willing and able to help us out next month.

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