1934

The autumn days are done. Now winter sets in and, by all the signs of nature and the feeling in the old bones, it will be a long and harsh one. So, we squirrel away memories of things like the football season, conversational recollections and news tid-bits from classmates to nourish the spirit and tide us over until the coming of another spring thaw.

As of this writing, the football season was three games away from being wrapped in mothballs. But for ye old scribe - whose season starts and ends with the Yale game - it expired when the melancholy word was flashed from New Haven that our lads were done in by the Blues for the second year running. We can't recall a Dartmouth football season that had so many extremes of fortune - the shock of the Princeton massacre, the bounce-back against Brown, the elation of the big one at Harvard, the numbness of the Yale debacle.... Yea, indeed a long hard winter.... But things to remember....

Because of a certain labor situation in Detroit, we couldn't get back to Hanover for the Class Dinner, but our star Hanover correspondent - Treasurer Ed Brown - reports that 62 members of 1934 and guests turned out for the dinner.... Besides Ed and Barbara, there were Ellie and Walt Crandell, Helen and Clarence Davies, the Bob Davises (and son), Millicent and Bill Emerson (and two daughters), Mary and John Foley, Effie and El Fulton, the Len Harrisons (and sons), the Jack Hinsmans, Dick Houck, the Al Jacobsons, the Bill Judd family, Dottie and Rollie Morton, the Okie O'Keeffe family, the Dick Poissons, the Fred Robbes (and son), Jerrie and Bill Scherman, the Jim Skileses (and son), the Bob Williamson family, Alice and Nick Xanthaky, and - from 1933 - Jean and John Meek.

Besides missing the Class Dinner and the "thing" in the Yale Bowl, we're sorry we had to pass up the Dartmouth-Yale game post mortem at Rhoda and Bill Cahn's house.... Bill, incidentally, has been much in the news this year. We read a fine Wash- ington Star review of his book, "Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy." He also carried off two awards - a citation from the National Conference of Christians and Jews "for outstanding leadership in promoting the cause of good will and understanding among all peoples of our nation ..."and a Silver Key from the Advertising Writers Association for the creative excellence of advertising copy....

INTELLIGENCE REP ORT - Our spies report seeing Polly and Ike Besse and daughter Sheila in Hanover not long ago. ... Ike is President of Cape Cod Dartmouth Club.... His son Ken is a junior at Colgate. ... Same spy reported seeing the Al Cottons and sons Al and Jack in Hanover (Al is a senior at Dartmouth, Jack a sophomore at Boston U.).... Another operative passes the word that Swede Lindstrom was one of eight Ohio Episcopal Diocese representatives at the Protestant Episcopal Church's 61st General Convention in St. Louis.... Manhattan Agent X reports that Chairman J. Clarence Davies of the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association championship committee helped U.N. Secretary General U Thant present trophies at the U.S. Amateur championships and that General J. Clarence Davies of the U.S. Air Forces Reserves will make an Alaskan inspection tour.... Chicago informant reports that Bob Engleman served as honorary chairman of Chicago's Anti-Defamation League Appeal....

HONORS - Don Crowther recently was promoted to group division vice president of Aetna Life Insurance Co. Don, who joined Aetna after graduation, was an assistant vice president prior to his promotion. He's a past president of Aetna's Men's Club and former instructor at Hartford College of Insurance. ... Dr. Harold Green has been elected medical director of Doctor's Hospital in Newark, N. J. After Dartmouth, Harold studied at Philadelphia College of Osteopathy and Kansas University Physicians and Surgeons. ... Interned at Knickerbocker Hospital, New York, and got his post-graduate training at City Hospital and St. Michael's Hospital in Newark....

GLOBE TROTTERS - Stan Smoyer reporting: "This summer I had an interesting business trip around the world in three weeks. As a side trip, I spent five days in Leningrad and Moscow and am now an 'expert' on Russia! Seriously, I thought my Russian visit was fascinating, and I was much impressed with the progress they are making. Although tourists have guides who show them around during the daytime, I was free to walk around the cities as I pleased and did so quite extensively. They are proud of their progress, and there also seems to be a good deal of 'team spirit' in trying to show us that their system is as good as ours. They recognize, however, that their freedom is impaired, but they don't seem to think this is too important so long as the country is providing jobs and giving them a decent living." (Stan's communique arrived just before the Kremlin shakeup that kicked out Khrushchev, with whom we had some conversational exchanges and whose dacha we visited during then Vice President Nixon's Russian tour in 1959. One of the best inside stories of the first Nixon-Khrushchev meeting never saw the light of print - and is not likely to - because Nikita's language was redolent of the barnyard.)

Saw another traveler - Bob Brown - at United Press International Editors and Publishers conference in Washington.... Bob, who (if memory serves) also visited the Soviet Union, was getting ready for a visit to Mexico and southern California....

Just before going to press, we received from another peripatetic classmate - HankWerner - a letter reporting on the three-weeks' vacation Hank and Liz spent in Spain and Portugal.... Watch next month's column for the Werner travelogue....

HOLLYWOOD NOTE — The Class of 1934 star of stage and screen, Al Hewitt, has been movie-making. . . . Al has done one with Jack Lemmon and another for Disney. ...

HOLIDAY GREETINGS - From our house to yours, we wish for men of the Class of 1934 and their loved ones a Christmas season of peace and joy, and a 1965 that will be blessed with all of the very best things in life....

Secretary, 681 Overhill Rd. Birmingham, Mich.

Treasurer, Thayer School, Hanover, N. H.