1934

While the research department is out searching for jokes and witty sayings with which to get this operation off the flat of the big, broad bottom of its back, we might try the file which contains all remaining current references to how fame, fortune, and the one-year-old Democratic administration has struck out at this incomparable class.

It has been a poor month for research and field trips. We again sat rather sad, forlorn, and practically alone while a non-re- lated namesake and his Holy Cross team gave a basketball lesson to our scholars.

Then we had a few labor difficulties, although not those pertaining to our vital statistics department, and had to miss the annual Boston alumni dinner. One of these days we'll join Bob Rodman to tear apart a lunch of Parker Bouse tripe and see how the boys made out. Having such a gathering at the Harvard Club might have led to some more than usual activity.

It took a little time to find that file but let's take a look at a few NOTES AND QUOTES, for instance... Joe Swensson sent along a clipping on Don Crowther, but also added that Harry Stearns had flown in from St. Paul to stay with him for the Yale game last fall and "Had a tough time keeping up with Harry who still sets a pretty fast pace" . . . then from Stan Abercrombie, "Son, David, graduated from Rhode Island School of Design and was awarded a Fulbright fellowship for a year's study in Norway. Daughter, Betsey, is turning into a very fine musician - violin. My Dad gave her his Perry violin (made in Dublin, 1794) and she treasures it. I'm still assistant secretary of National Education Association's Commission on Safety Education and helped author the chapter on School Safety in McGraw-Hill's new Book Accident Preven- tion' "... and finally Bob Balgley tells of his son, Paul, sweating out admittance to Dartmouth and his own trips to Nassau and a freighter jaunt to Panama returning via Costa Rica and Grand Cayman Island. And he's again probably at this printing in the midst of a business trip to Germany, England, Scandinavia, Italy, and Portugal.

NAMES IN THE NEWS this month tell us . .. that Clarence Davies on leaving the service of the city is forming a new realty company to serve on a national scale as real estate and investor counselors, with offices at 565 Fifth Ave., N.Y.C. Clarence is the fifth generation of a nationally known realty organization ... that Card Brown, whose election as president of Berkshire County's (Mass.) largest bank we carried last month, is a man who reversed the usual process and came from the big city to make good. In a story which may ring a bell or two, Gard is described as beginning his career in the sweater and golf socks department of Macy's where some of his classmates were in the executive training course. One season of selling socks during the Christmas crush convinced Gard and Macy's that his future lay in some other field. He then joined CIT and as he says "learned how to travel all day in New York on a nickel and also discovered I didn't like New York" .. . that Professor Arthur L. Wood of the Univ. of Conn., authority on Criminology and related sociological subjects, spoke to a Chamber of Commerce group on "Can Communism Be Prevented in an Underdeveloped Country?" ... and finally stretching just a little bit to reach a nice guy and a faithful '34 worker, Len Harrison, we get a clipping which says that the company of which he is sales manager, Topps Chewing Gum, has cornered the market in baseball picture cards, which some may know come in the bubble gum package. The F. T. C. is pointing a few fingers, but, hell, with Len pushing those salesmen, Topps would have had the market without pictures.

Dick Wells sent an interesting pic showing family life in the north midwest winter of Wayzata, Minn., and an interesting comment on choice of college: "Our Bill went out to Stanford. His choice over Dartmouth seemed logical and still does, but emotionally it is still compared unfavorably. It seems to lack personality and warmth - something I always wondered about - co-education, as a wonderful and positive advantage for prompt growing up, may be a drawback to the individual finding himself before having women interfere with his life except as incidental pleasures."

All of which brings us right to the bottom of that file, that old Ted Lewis stovepipe hat that Jeff Jackson bought for its sentimental value rather than filing capacity - and he was right - and we're pulling up short.

Which gives us a little time for the income tax. Did you ever notice how handsomely our bountiful government contributes to Dartmouth and its Alumni Fund - of course under the right stimulation.

Secretary, 12 Berwick St. Worcester 2, Mass.

Class Agent, 1650 McDowell St., Sharon, Pa.