1935

By the time this column appears in print, the football season (Ivy League version, at least) will have receded into the shadows of another year. On this Hallowe'en Eve, however, as the Trick or Treaters beat their tattoo upon the door and the Hob Goblins roam the land, football is very much the focus of the fall social season.

Those of us in the Hinterlands have had little real news on the team. A brief one-paragraph wire service report. Or perhaps only a bare score. But, up and down the Eastern seaboard Big Green fever has run high. The Dartmouth-Harvard game was televised as the Game-of-the-Week in the East. Radio coverage of both the Harvard and Yale games even got as far west as Chicago, on a special Ivy League network sponsored by Time Magazine.

The Eastern contingent turned out in force to watch one of the finest Dartmouth teams in years. Although the Princeton Game in Hanover, amid perfect autumn weather, drew a large delegation, I can offer only fragmentary reports.

Rey Mouiton writes, "Saw Muzzy in the stands, and George Colton walking home. We all sat in the end zone, with everyone kidding about the new 50-yard line. Son, Rey Jr., has just been transferred to Boston from Buffalo, with Union Mutual's Group Life Department."

From Jim Higgins: "Spent the Princeton weekend with Eadie Hinman, Randy Stowell, and their respective wives. Game result most satisfying." Jim is located in Garden City, L.I., engaged in Industrial Medicine and Occupational Health.

John Wallace, class chairman for the Boston area, and wife, Helen, held a tailgate party on the banks of the Charles the day of the Harvard game. John writes: "The trouble with such an enterprise is that parking space is so limited. Many classmates were not able to reach the rendevous point. In any event, the following classmates and wives were seen either at the picnic or the game.

"The Leys, Radaschs, Jewetts and son Jeff, Muzzys, Harry and Glo Reynolds and two sons, Fitzhughs and son, Coltons, Barbara Colby and son Steven, Summers, Kursens, Stainsbys, Bill Adamses, Cornwells, Fields, the Ralph Spechts with two sons, Frank Smiths on from San Francisco, Jack Donahue, Sid Simonds, Herb Stearns and son Sel, Ruth Rockwell and sons Sandy and Win, and the Fellows.

"George and Ruch Colton stayed with us for the weekend. On Saturday night, a number of us assembled at Dan Cotton's new camp at Cohasset, which is built on the rocks overlooking Boston Harbor. The game was just about as exciting as any game we had ever seen; too bad we lost."

While most of us are spectators these days, Harry Deckert apparently still is charging up and down the gridiron with the vigor he displayed as a slashing fullback 30-odd years ago. From Harry Griffith comes this report:

"Harry Deckert says he still is refereeing on weekends. Saw Jack Rockwell the other day in a new Continental convertible. Missed reunion and the Princeton game, though had planned on both. Have son married, another at University of Hartford and a third in high school. Guess none will get to Hanover."

The Princeton game marked a Hanover reunion for Bill Gahagan and wife, following a summer of extensive travel. Bill writes: "We drove 10,000 miles from San Francisco to New York; then on to the continent, going as far East as Vienna. We visited our daughter and son-in-law in the Stuttgart area, and picked up our son and his Austrian 'family' in the Carinthian Mountains. He is distinguished in that he was born in Hanover. We have another daughter Lissa, who graduated from Cal-Berkeley last June, and is now with the San Francisco Art Museum. She joined us in Stuttgart, leaving only son Michael, a senior at Stanford, out of family reunion in August in Germany.

"Upon our return to New York, went up to Hanover for four days, and enjoyed seeing George Colton, Eddie Chamberlain '36, Ed Lathem '51, et al. I continue with my Robert Frost project, having spent part of my European sojourn in the Frost country near Gloucester. Gave talks and had film showings in that area and in Germany as well. Also did my program aboard ship going over and coming back."

Boston University President Harold Case has announced the appointment of Paul Siskind as Dean of the School of Law. The new dean is a graduate of New York University School of Law where he was managing editor of the Law Review and valedictorian of his class. He went to B.U. in 1947 and was named Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Law in 1951. He is a member of the New York and Massachusetts Bars and co-draftsman of the Massachusetts Code of Ethics and Conflict of Interest Statute and a member of the Attorney General's Commission on Conflict of Interest in Government.

With elections only days away, politics has a number of classmates fully committed. Oscar Cahoon is running for County Commissioner out on Cape Cod. Dick Upton, who is Speaker of the House in the New Hampshire legislature, is fiscal agent for former Governor Lane Dwinell's ('28) U.S. Senatorial campaign in New Hampshire.

Hal Roitman is the Belmont area coordinator of Edward J. McCormack's campaign for Governor, in the hotly contested Massachusetts gubernatorial race. From Yuma, Ariz., comes word that Jo Ochsner (Al's wife) is running for the City Council, the first woman to do so. Al is a doctor in Yuma, secretary-treasurer of the Arizona State Society of Anesthesiologists and is past Commander of the Arizona Rangers, Yuma Company.

Hal Stanton reports that he is now in his 21st year with Bay State Film Productions, an industrial movie house. Like all Bay Staters, he is quick to tout the pastoral advantages of its many vacation retreats. "My message is to those who like to fish for striped bass and blues. Cuttyhunk, a few miles west of Gay Head, Martha's Vineyard, is a fisherman's paradise. There are no gas stations, supermarkets, no package stores; so bring your own liquor."

A few closing tid-bits....Ralph Specht promoted, to sales manager, parts and service, United Shoe Machinery Corp. Jim Le-Sure (that is Dr. James S. LeSure, teacher certification consultant for the Connecticut State Department of Education) widely quoted in a recent speech that "Poorly-prepared teachers drive well-prepared teachers out. It, therefore, does not serve education well to reduce certification requirements in time of shortage." And once again ; a classmate echoes '35's traditional clarion call, "Never lower thy standard or thy standards!"

See you next month.

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