Class of 1930
Recent accretions of news have been so copious that we have layers concealing items several months old. We lapse back into comparative antiquity to refer to PETE CALLAWAY'S promotion in the Conde Nast organization to handling the display advertising for House and Garden. Pete has never mentioned this himself, but a Conde Nast colleague tipped us off DR. CLIFFORD J. VOGT is at the Lakeside Hospital, Cleveland, presumably interning.
.... BILL LUCAS continues to inhale and exhale in Portsmouth, Ohio (628 Fifth St.), but writes laconically, "no news."
. . . . DICK PARKER likewise continues to live and breathe.
Way back in the spring the HARRY DUNNINGS visited Hanover, and unless memory fails us, Harry was temporarily working out of Portland, Me., selling advertising. Whatever it was, it was a long jump from Harry's previous report from Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco. Excerpts from Harry's good letter, though long out of date, give news of CHARLIE ADAMS, TED MACDONALD, BROOKE WILMS, and BOBBY LARKIN. He ended, up in Hartford, Conn. We have since lost track and hope Harry will check in again soon "Jim Hodson and I andour wives set out from Seattle northward," he wrote in May, "landing late one Sunday afternoon in Anacortes, Wash., wherewe found CHARLIE ADAMS and wife andmother in their beautiful home alongsideof Puget Sound. While Charlie treatedus .... he told us that the frontier ofthe West had come to Puget Sound, andthen turned around and started backagain, at the present time lingering inDarrington, Wash., where woodsmen existwho have never seen autos, movies, andsuch. It is here that Charlie is lord of thedomain, being nattily fitted out in the imposing uniform of an army officer andin full charge of 160 gentlemen of the CCC,gentlemen who apparently go haywireevery Saturday night, occasionally evenindulging in a little carving up of eachother, which Charlie thinks is serving togive him grey hairs, though none were inevidence. Charlie looks well, and eitheraddress given will eventually reach him.... unless he has by now answered thecall of wanderlust and boated for Honolulu his biggest desire at present Saw TED MCDONALD at the dinner for theDean in Seattle, and he is looking veryhealthy, except when one talks about theair mail cancellations. At the time he wason pins and needles about that, being theagent in charge for United Air Lines inTacoma, Wash. From San Francisco wehit a fast and furious pace eastward We didn't allow ourselves to tire of thetrek until we had despatched a bit of business in Milwaukee and gotten to Barrington, Ill., a. town of several inhabitants, andafter looking over the line-up at the townpump as they paraded down to replenishtheir buckets with water, we finally pickedout of the crowd one JOHN BROOKE WILLIS.Brooke is looking very well, working hardfor the Jewel Tea Company of Barrington,and wondering how he will make the football games next Fall. The next respite fromthe tension of being in the midst of a terrific dust storm which adopted us aboutthe middle of Nebraska was Dayton, Ohio,where the LARKIN family en masse gangedup on us and settled us in a suite of roomsfor the night, then Bobby immediatelydislodged us to take us to the Van Clevecocktail room, where we spent the eveningin gossip and such. First time I have seenBobby since the parchments were passedout, and it seemed good. He is working forhis dad, and doing quite well, I understand. Same old Bobby, too."
NOTES ON THE MEDICS
ED BENOIST paid us a visit at the end of May. We have already passed on the news of Ed's career as an executive Also among the May visitors was HANK ODBERT, who, at that time, was looking over potential quarters for the present college year. Hank is now a Doctor of Philosophy, and passes out his Harvard wisdom to students in psychology classes. It's good to have this increase in '30 population in view of reunion plans This train of thought leads us to the arrival of HERM SANDER to study medicine. We saw Herm a day or so after his arrival and don't really expect to see him again until June. Such is the hermit-like quality of these medics. If we do see Herm at all he will probably be on skis. He was no slouch of a skier in his undergraduate days, and after his recent winter's fancy skiing on European mountains he is probably out of sight of us farmyard skiers Once we get into these medics we can go on and on. Here is a letter from JOE PLACAK from the Massachusetts General Hospital, written last May, which brings to mind the fact that Joe was found here a few days ago filling his car with gasoline before returning to Boston. He had just spent a typical "motorman's holiday" said he had expected to do lots of things during his week here but there were interesting operations going on at the hospital, etc., etc. He did sneak off for a sortie into Franconia Notch. He's on the surgical house staff at the Massachusetts General DR. GEORGE LORD and DR. BILL PUTNAM often don't set foot on the ground around Mary Hitchcock for weeks on a stretch, but we mistook George and Eric Wollaeger '31 for whitewings at football practice one afternoon, the two having stepped over from their examination of freshmen in the gymnasium besmeared with some poor fellow's blood.
NELS FLANDERS is still working at Dennison's in Framingham, sees MEM KING and RANNY HOBBS from time to time, and recently called on the BILL WALKERS at their home in Maynard. Bill is a biscuit flash with Loose Wiles By this time DR. GEORGE AZUKAS is back at McGill
WIN STONE came through on a bit of vacation, as did KELLY RICHARDS, one fine spring day, just out for a ride with the attractive sister of JOHNNY NEWCOMB. BUD FRENCH didn't come, but his father very pleasantly said hello in passing through and gave the news of Bud's election as a director of Simons and French. Back from his European tour, he managed to get off to Bermuda and during the summer went to Virginia in the interests, allegedly, of apples. That is his story, but since he stayed weeks beyond his expectations we suspect it was not so much apples as applesauce CHRIS CHRISSINGER (2014 Estes Ave., Chicago) begrudgingly gives congratulations to the father of a son, and then launches into a discussion of the "cutest, prettiestlittle daughter that you have ever seen." Not satisfied with that and overlooking all of the splendid male children that have come into '30 homes, he goes on with a reference to a girl born to the KEN KULLS sometime in the spring, and not content with this, goes on to generalize about the superiority attaching to the parents of girl-brats as against boy-brats We fell down pretty badly on BILL WILSON, who wrote in June that he was going to Alaska about the first of August and needed some other Yukon-minded Thirtyman for a cabin mate we promised to scare up a good '30 traveler in a summer bulletin, but just didn't get it done. Banff, Lake Louise, and all that sort of thing, ending up via California and Mexico. Nebraska City was the starting point. We haven't any report on the completed journey as yet.
Someone very kindly pinch-hit for us in getting appropriate notice in last month's Necrology section on the death of BILL CASS in an air accident, June 10. Tragedy has taken another Thirtyman. Our sympathy goes to his family.
"HITLER" GEIGER BORN
It was a break to get a word finally from GEORGE GEIGER, who has been a four-year holdout. George had a matter of business to provoke his letter, last May, but we won't deduct credit. George and his wife Jayne have parented an offspring whose name is George Thomas, alias, for some reason or other, "Hitler." George forwarded the news of the birth of Alexander Brooks Hughes, May 19, to the ALEX HUGHES.
.... MERIT WHITE'S mother wrote during the Fund campaign that Whitey was in California at the Pasadena Institute of Technology. He was expected to return home for the summer, but plans to go back to Pasadena for the present year.
. . . . AL LESLIE finished at P. & S. with ADIE RAAB a year ago, spent six months studying pathology in Paris and in London before beginning his interneship at Mt. Sinai. His encounter with Dartmouth men during his travels reads like an alumni register and included the names of WIN STONE, WAYNE VAN LEER, and FRAN HORN. Al can now be found at the Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York (5th Ave. and 100th St.), but would probably be busy, if found.
"Letter following" was the message accompanying a Western Union money order on the Alumni Fund deadline date, from ROLLIE BOOMA. This old refrain has not been translated into truth as yet
GIL LOWERY is production manager of special clocks at the Warren Telechron Company, Ashland, Mass. He promised us some news this month We taunted a few Thirtymen with a none too subtle suggestion that they were out on their feet and got a nice rise out of several, including BOB JORDAN, whose career during the last four years has been varied, "developing byeasy stages from a sailor to a service station attendant and now to a salesman withthe Gulf Refining Company." Bob was married August 19, 1933, in Appleton Chapel at Harvard, to Miss Helen Barton Joseph of Radcliffe and Arlington Heights, "with BILL STEARNS, BILL KELLER, and MORT COLLINS assisting in the pageant."
. . . . TED SEIDMAN is interning in pathology at Baltimore City Hospital, having struggled through the New York state boards with DON SHASKAN.
LES GODWIN had a tough struggle with pneumonia during the spring, but pulled himself together and wrote a note saying among other things that PAUL MAGUIRE is with the Colgate Company in Middletown, Conn During a "lull in stabilizingthe foreign exchange situation for Franklin Delano" AL MCGRATH sent a Fund gift to help along the cause "of raising wildIndians up there in Eleazar's day school forboys." He was just about to deliver bon voyages to BUD FRENCH and the BOTTOMES and was, consequently, slightly inarticulate, but promised a detailed report, which is still among our accounts receivable
Illegible on one stingy margin of Al McGrath's letter was a message from BEN FINCH with an as yet unfulfilled promise of a report for himself On the stationery of Stephen E. Raube, Inc., stetson hats, haberdashery, WARNER CRANE accounts for the fact that he's working for Ave's pop, and that in turn AVE himself is over with Abraham and Strauss in Brooklyn.
NEW ADDRESS FOR O'BRION
BILL O'BRION has not been very communicative, but he has done well with a letter from 484 Manor Lane, Pelham Manor, mentioning his connection with Kenyon & Eckhardt, New York advertising agency, whose offices likewise resound with the resonant bass of ALAN BOLTE. He witnessed the "hitching of KEN JOHNES" who, Bill says, is in the Neon electric sign business. Bill also sees TED CHILDS; Ted being with Chubb & Sons, insurance, New York. As for Bill himself, he was engaged to Miss Lucile Foote of Larchmont in March, with no date set for the big show.
WEDDING BELLS
Lest these important items be omitted, we pause for the nuptial notes, in chronological order, beginning with BOB WHITTLESEY's of last May and the one from GEORGE PORTER last June, following which the Porters put in appearance here at Hanover and were encountered in the College Tap Room during Commencement.
"Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brown have thehonour to announce the marriage of theirdaughter, Margaret, to MR. ROBERT TAYLOR WHITTLESEY on Friday, the fourth of May,Norwood, Massachusetts."
"Mr. and Mrs. William J. Koerth requestthe honour of your presence at the marriageof their daughter, Lois Kathleen, to MR. GEORGE WILBUR PORTER on Tuesday, thetwelfth of June, at eight o'clock, All SoulsMemorial Church, Connecticut and Cathedral Avenues, Washington, D. C."
"Dr. and Mrs. Charles Paul Reed havethe honour to announce the marriage oftheir daughter, Martha Priscilla, to MR. ARTHUR MONTCALM BROWNING on Saturday,the first of September, Indiana, Pennsylvania."
Dr. and Mrs. John William Parfitt announce the marriage of their daughter,Eleanor, to MR. BLAIR CARTER WOOD onWednesday, the fifth of September, Manchester, New Hampshire. At Home afterthe first of October, 1220 West FourthStreet, Waterloo, lowa."
"Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Meredith Stanleyannounce the marriage of their sister,Dorothy Croswell Jay, to MR. PAUL VERN THOMPSON on Saturday, the eighth of September, Princeton, New Jersey. At Homeafter the first of October, 1080 EleventhStreet, Boulder, Colorado."
Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Kaiser announcethe marriage of their daughter ElizabethPeck to MR. STANTON WALKER DAVIS onFriday, September 14, Moscow, Pennsylvania. At home 104 Winnifred Road, Brockton, Massachusetts."
"Mr. and Mrs. Louis Paul Benezet request the honor of your presence at themarriage of their daughter, Genevieve, to MR. RICHARD DAVID BUTTERFIELD on Tuesday evening, the twenty-fifth of September, at eight o'clock, Eastern StandardTime, Franklin Street Chapel, Manchester,New Hampshire."
Also in the way of formal announcements is one that would knock your eye out, proclaiming with elaborate illustration a fall showing of a de luxe model by Schlesinger CHAIT, Inc. Page 2 lists the staff, headed by MAURICE M. CHAIT, promotion manager; Lynne Schlesinger Chait, production manager; Dr. F. H. Cathrall, technical expert, etc. The "chassis weight" is six pounds and the "wheelbase" twenty inches. Various de luxe improvements are described, from "free squealing" to "changeable seat covers." The manufacturers guarantee that no other models will be issued this year. The Model 2: Neil Stuart Chait. Release: September 17, 1934. Place: Woman's Hospital. The model is now on exhibit at 1000 Clay Ave., Scranton, the home office of Schlesinger Chait, Inc., who do their part under the blue stork.
GENE ZAGAT writes to announce his engagement to Cornelia Pake Ernst, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard M. L. Ernst of Sea Cliff and New York. Cornelia is a graduate of Vassar, 1932, and a veteran of Dartmouth house parties. Gene, one of the spark plugs of the business department of the New York Times, sees MAURIE PINOVER and Harriet (presumably his wife) and SHELLY STARK quite frequently. Gene wins the reward posted for news concerning Shelly Stark, a bag of peanuts and whipped cream, with the information that Shelly has just landed a job with Van Beuren doing some newspaper syndicate work, "as I understand it." Gene goes on to say that MAURIE PINOVER is publisher of an oriental rug magazine and "doing darnwell with it," while goodwife Harriet is the world's best cook." He specifically requests that the latter item be published with an eye to his further gastronomical delight chez Pinover. BOB KEENE, says Gene, has landed some large commercial photography jobs for Weber and Helbroner and Macy's, among others.
WHO LIVES IN DOVER, O.?
Those are about all of the important announcements that we have this month. Russ and NOLDA SIGLER send a quaintly illustrated card announcing their move to 91 Lenox Road, Brooklyn, where their new telephone number appears to be Bu. 4-5123.
.... Lost in the shuffle in our overflowing Thirty folder is a card which probably got detached from some wedding invitation, saying: "At Home, after the first ofAugust, 27748 Center Ridge Road, WestDover, Ohio." We've instructed our West Dover, Ohio, Bureau, an old six-day bicycle racer, to get on his bike and wheel away out there on Center Ridge Road and find out who it is We think we have announced previously that Thirtyteer Jean Moore is carrying on all of Austin's '30 interests and responsibilities and, like the model Thirtyteer that she is, she writes to announce her move to 780 St. Marks Ave., Brooklyn. Someone who subscribes to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, contributes to the Alumni Fund, and reports changes of address could serve as an example to some of you guys who do few, if any, of these things. Thirtyman DICK BLUN was the only outsider to crash the wedding of DAVE RUBIN to Rose Lipitz at the Temple Orach Chaim, New York, September 21, following which the Rubins set sail for Bermuda, and are now presumably established at 1197 Anderson Ave., the Bronx.
Now to fall back again into the dim past, we thank the LATHAMS for coming back in a big way with good letters from both. These four-year holdouts were among those accused of being out on their feet as far as Dartmouth and '30 are concerned, and they confounded the charge in no indecisive way, both writing on stationery of the Hospital Saint-Luc, 1058, Rue St. Denis, Montreal. ERNIE, describing his feeling as that of the proverbial groundhog on emergence, looks with blinking eyes at the world about him and its "ultimateconsequences, actions, and reactions." He reports that the four years are those of constant activity and struggle, however, instead of hibernation underground. In spite of the fact that some thousands of dollars have been invested during these years of his medical career, he sent an ante along with a fine paragraph about his indebtedness to and affection for the College. He and DAVE have both obtained their degrees of Doctor of Medicine and Master of Surgery from McGill and completed a junior interneship at the St. Luc's Hospital, and now they are back at home in Lowell for a year of interneship in the Lowell General Hospital. Ernie promises more frequent communications for the future, and Dave added a note of his own, subscribing to his brother's sentiments and doing his own bit.
It was mighty nice to hear from the Lathams so fully after all this time.
Secretary, Administration Bldg., Hanover, N. H.
