Class of 1936
It seems to me that the tenth of the month rolls around pretty fast but this time there is lots of news and your correspondent plunges into his task with a fair amount of verve and confidence.
The first piece of literature in the folder of hot dope is three newspaper pictures of our famous Ted Olson. The caption reads "Whiling Away the Winter with theRed Sox." One picture shows Ted getting a few pointers from Charlie Grocott, a hunting pal, another picture shows him with his mother and dad at their Squantum home and the third picture shows Ted hunting ducks on Squantum Bay.
Another one of our '36 athletes, Junie Allen, is holding down a position on the Boston Olympic hockey club with Frank Spain and Paul Guibord. A letter from Don Sutherland tells us that he is now a Hotel Man! He has taken the position of room clerk at the Hotel Bellevue at Boston. Don writes "I am living practicallynext door to Bob Walker, S. A. E., who isstudying at Tufts Medical School. Theother day I looked up from luork to findB or ofsky delivering a package fromFilenes Store, guess he's learning from thebottom as is Ernie Wiggins who is working in Grants across the street fromFilenes.
"Bob Tyler is learning the artificialleather business with the Athol Manufacturing Company in Athol, Mass. I also raninto Bob Irwin one rainy morning about6:20 A.M. out in front of the Y.M.C.A.Don't know if he is still there but he isworking for some rubber company inCambridge I believe. Early in the summer when 1 was working for the bank as amessenger boy I rode up an elevator withMac Hill, I can't for the life of me remember where it was."
Don Cameron who left Dartmouth after one year with us is working as a salesman for the Gulf Oil Cos. of Sunbury, Pennsylvania. Steve Stotzer writes that he has been employed by the Stotzer Granite Cos. but that after the first of the year will be working for the William O. Goodrich Cos. (linseed oil). In his letter Steve passed on the following news items. "Earlier thisfall we almost lost a fine member of auralumni, Bob Frank. He spent considerabletime in the hospital fighting pneumoniaand streptococcus. Fortunately he won outand is now on the job with the BlackHawk Manufacturing Cos.
"Charlie Harrison, ex '36, is in partnership with his father in the Harrison OilCos. and, another member of our class wholeft college before graduation is Jack Daviswho is working for a large wholesale hardware company. If you care to go ivay backto our freshman year you will recall HenryNunnemacker who is travelling extensively abroad."
Fred Shurts is now working for Bodell Investment Cos. of Hartford, Connecticut. Johnny Creigh writes, "After a good longhunting trip this fall I drifted out here inKansas to put in some time with the Kansas Pipe Line and Gas Cos. It has beenfairly interesting but would especially fitEl Camp who could build up his body tohis hearts content at this job." Shaw Carter and Camp are working for the New Jersey Telephone Cos. and according to reports they are enjoying their work very much. George Beyer, my personal choice for class toreador, is spending the winter in the Miami office of the Pan American Airways. Lane Donovan is the vice president of the Gately store in Detroit.
At last we have a word of news from Uncle Budd Schulberg, I quote from his interesting letter, "During the summermonths I wrote nothing because there wasnothing to write. I sat in the sun and thotand thot. I tried to integrate Dartmouthand the Daily and Norwich and my nostalgia nd my brand new not-yet-unwrappedknowledge with Hollywood and writingand ideals and making a living. That is agood deal to integrate. It really takes anintegrator of the old school. Not havingone handy, I had to run the thing throughmy little home-made integrator, a littlegadget anybody can make with a few mental strings, a little elbow-grease and somegood sticking plaster. Then stir, and keepon stirring, because stirring is really thesecret of the whole thing, and if it ever getsstagnant the whole invention goes out thewindow. The result was this: I went towork for Selznick Studio. I tried to get inhere because I thought the producer hadsome vision, a real ambition to do goodthings as well as commercial. For the firstfew months I wrote synopses one after another just like this. Then I was called upto the front office to join Ring Lardner,Jr., a Princeton prodigal and prodigy, understudying Dorthy Parker and Ala?iCampbell on a script. After that SelznickSlgned us as writers for five long years, sohere we are, high ' above Culver City,tucked away above a sound stage like cliffdwellers, doing our best to write this year'sbest motion picture.
I don't know if I can help you out onwhat the other guys out here are doing orn°t. Maurice Rapf '35 is busy at work ona peace picture MGM is turning out,cailed 'They Gave Him a Gun.' I haven'tseen Bob Morris since he came up withsome friends to see the studios. My brotherStuart, who is at school in London, writesme that Danny Schwartz was up for lunchrecently, and that he is still growingsmarter at the. London School of Economics. Another guy I communicate withis Samuel French Morse, who sends me occasional examples of poems that seem tobe getting better and better. He has justfinished an 80-page poem, he writes, ishard at work at his writing, and gettingin the mood for a teaching job."
TIMEWORTHY NOTES
Recently on a train to Hanover I met George Kane and Louis Benezet. George corrected my note about him in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE in which I mentioned that he was connected with the WPA. As this news was passed on to me by one of George's most intimate friends, it was entirely incorrect. However, George has a good job with Arrow Hart & Hegeman Cos. Electrical Accessories in Hartford. George told me that Chet Young is teaching in Boston. Although in a previous issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE I merely mentioned that Jack Klauer was in San Juan, Kane gave me the inside dope which is that Klauer is a sewing machine salesman down there (I hope that his demonstrations to the native girls are successful). Brint Schorer is working for his father and Dick Spencer is attending an insurance school in Hartford. Dick Ruby is at Harvard Law School. Gill Portmore writes that he attended a very interesting APA convention at Hanover last fall along with Len Mead and Clif England. After Labor Day, Gill started working in the personnel department of the Dennison Manufacturing Cos. He also writes "I have seenFitzherbert who seems to have a good jobworking for a credit company, and recently I talked with Mike Boyd who hasfinally quit the sea; he is at present chasinga lost job around the city of Boston."
Starting with this issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE I thought it might be interesting to divide some of the news under the following headings. The first heading will be "Letter of the Month" and will include a part or all of the most interesting and unique letter received before the tenth of each month. This month Dang Sherman nosed out Budd Schulberg with the Time magazine style of his letter of January 4. Dang by the way is now located with this outfit. Another heading will be "Courage Mon Ami" which heading will include wedding and engagement announcements also, when occasion warrants it, we will have a "Poets Corner" and an "In Memorium." Naturally, this last heading I hope will never be used, in any case we will give this system a try and if any of the '36ers have any bright ideas or criticisms, just sound off and we will change it, as the column should belong to the class and not to the secretary.
"LETTER OF THE MONTH"
No literary genius was wily, hoaryheaded procreator Martin Kallikak (see Psychy 1, 2), pseudonymic mate of comely barwench Sadie Jukes (see soc'y 1, at seq.). Yet neither in their most demoniacal seizures ever felt the need of assistance such as does able, hotelworthy Treadway, custodian of his out-of-the-depression-with- Roosevelt-and into-the-TVA-with-Davis- Jackson class of 1936's notes.
Fancy, if you will, my surprise, when calling up the J. M. Mathes Advt. Agency, hotbed of Dartmouth men, for a favor one day last month, at getting good old adman Charlie Stern on the wire, finding that he was also on the 47 th floor, only in a building right across the street, where with the greatest of ease I watch him read the morning papers and crack shady jokes with the girls in the office. His building is the Chanin building, which would have reminded Frank Kappler, if he knew it, to call him Charlie Chanin, as in "Charlie Chanin the Golden West," "Charlie Chanin, Mrs. Muncacsi's School for Young Girls," etc.
GOOD OLD DAYS
With Hearstling McCleary, ex-roomie and ex-gymie Herm Dock the indomitable Gidney boys, Stern, Knight, Pumphrey, at al., had dinner at Manhattan's Dartmouth Club, had pleasure of winning back nickel in ping-pong when canny McCleary tricked me out of at the Phi Psi House two summers ago while you were downstairs swiping the trophies. See Eleazar Kappler at lunch frequently—he's now a snowless ski-enthusiast. Dorrance, I hear, came to on a flying 24-hour visit. See a good deal of Johnny Phillips, ex-g6er, also Hearster like McC. What happened to old Joe? I never knew his last name—we just used to call him "Joe," when we saw him outside of Robinson late at night. He used to be under moist stones, too, in the Spring. Please advise.
well have a good summer. Dang.
COURAGE MON AMI
The first class mate to be congratulated under this heading is Budd Schulberg who has recently become engaged to Virginia Ray of Hollywood. I quote from the A.P. dispatch, "The moonlight was wonderful and those glorious sleighbellstwinkled so beautifully—and Budd was soappealing," Virginia exclaimed. "Well, Ijust couldn't resist, and we're going to getmarried soon." (Remember Budd when you feel like throwing something at me that I am only printing what I read in the papers.) The next item is Steve Barton's engagement to Miss Francis Crandel Wheelock of East Orange, New Jersey. (My carnival date, sophomore year!) Lastly we have Charlie Brooks engagement to Miss Faith Morrison.
"POETS CORNER"
Under this heading I am re-printing a sonnet sent to me at Christmas time by Jack Smith. Joe and Podge mentioned in it are the C. & G. janitor and watch dog, familiar landmarks on the Dartmouth Campus.
New Hampshire snow-drifts seem to settlenow;Hills live in dreams, rise up in restlesssleep;Long shadows dwell in mind: I wonderhowThe passing Time will treat those thingsI keepClose to the heart: Joe's "liber she ambad!"
And "Podge," that cross of husky and ofching,Whose daily life does he make gay . . . .er sad?This Yale is strange; one can't gelandesprungFrom Gothic towers, No, nor ski throughstreetsAlong the trails laid down by trolley-cars!Where are the beers? Where are the swimming meets?Where are the April nights? the shootingstars?It's wise to look ahead .... and yet,behind,It's nice to have these snow-drifts in one'smind!
The Popular Dining Room of the Outing Club House, Gift of Class of 1900
Secretary, Williams town, Mass.
