1934
This is always a bad month for the slothful secretary, but you won't know how really bad unless you have the courage to read a little - very little.
Those notes we hoarded through the summer disappeared awfully fast and the golden flow of information which comes as a fringe benefit to the flow of greenbacks into Hank Werner's coffers hasn't quite begun.
Then the U. S. Mail should be ashamed to charge 4¢ the slim envelope of clippings that arrived from Hanover this month, but aĺ things are not bad because the Yankees have just managed to tie up the ball game.
The ideal secretary would have made hay from a two-week 3700-mile trip we just returned from, but we have only one thing to report. That famous "Garden Spot of America," Art Moebius' Aurora, Ohio, looks somewhat less than any garden spot as the weary traveler tries to beat his way through there to get from one thruway to another.
NAMES IN THE NEWS this month.... Lt. Col. John Lynch has retired from the U.S. Army after twenty years of service. John's last assignment was as Judge Advocate of the U.S. Army Southern European Task Force in Italy. Much of his early service had been in Italy too, for in World War II he had fought in the Naples and Rome-Arno campaigns. Before beginning his Army service as a private in 1942 John had earned his law degree at Harvard and had practiced five years in Cambridge, Mass. He won the Bronze Star for service in Korea as Judge Advocate for the X Corps in 1952-53.
David A. Mitchell, of Natick, Mass., has been elected English teacher in the Westboro (Mass.) High School for the coming year. Dave is evidently embarking on a new career after many years spent in the manufacture of garment and shoe machinery. . . . Effective September 1, Donald E. Legro was appointed Town Counsel of Lexington, Mass. Don has been a resident of Lexington for twenty years and maintains his law office there at 1842 Mass. Ave. Don graduated from Suffolk Law School summa cum laude and has been a practising lawyer since 1948. He is a member of the Massachusetts and the Boston Bar Associations.
From HERE AND THERE, this month. . . . Perk Bass was the victor in the fourcornered battle for Republican nomination to run for the office of U. S. Senator from New Hampshire. This nomination usually is as good as the election, but in this era of the new frontier far be it from us to slip in a jinx at this spot. . . and although our records say so (our records haven't been the same since Jackson and Foley spent ten earlier years developing a system which even they didn't understand) this may or may not be news, but Dick Poisson has returned to teaching at Lenox School in Lenox, Mass.
Because of limited space lately we haven't served any nostalgia on toast, but there's a little promotional work to be done, so - would you believe that it was THIRTY YEARS AGO, that Sammy Fishman and Bob Michelet were being prominently mentioned for All-America honors . . . that the Juniors won the college touch football finals with Wilmot, Snow and Menchel starring. . . . Freshman sports, except football, were dropped in an economy move . . . and Gordon Ferrie Hull was up to his Whatsis in a Vox Pop argument on prohibition with one who was tentatively identified as a humorist, Corey Ford.
And that TWENTY YEARS AGO. . . John W. Knibbs was having a little trouble getting a column together, too. He was on night shift at an aircraft warning post in Montpelier, Vt . . . . the decks of the "USS Topliff" and "USS New Hampshire" were once again populated by 34's with Lt DaveHedges and Lt. Bill Hartman in Navy School 2nd Lt. J. C. Davies Jr. was in Norfolk, Va„ with First Fighter Command . . . the Dwyer-MacDonald nuptials were reported as a success by those present... also Ensign Bob M. Williamson, Sgt. Al Hine,Lt. Dick Poisson and Lt. Jack Corcoran were committing matrimony all over the place . . . and Pvt. Hank Werner, an OCS candidate at Miami Beach, was reported as saying, quote: "I'm wildly enthusiastic about this life. It's really great and I've never been so healthy," end of quote.
All of which is kind of gently beating the drum to remind you that as the years slip by we get together every so often in Hanover and next June happens to be one of those years. On June 17-19 the classes of '32, '33 and '34 are scheduled to gather in what has been described as a new motif for the Dartmouth reunion. Forget the new motif, but let's make that date a must.
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Treasurer, 120 Broadway, New York 5, N. Y.
