Class of 1932
Aided and abetted by 33 sub-agents in all parts of the country, JOHN SHELDON is at this very moment marshaling an Alumni Fund campaign of unprecedented scope, calculated to place the fair name of 1932 high on the list of contributing classes. Gentlemen, your support!
Close to 40 of the class showed up at the new Dartmouth Club in New York for a mid-March dinner. After the meal was over CARROLL BOYNTON gave us "a day with the D.A.," outlining his grim duties as an assistant in Mr. Dewey's office, assigned to the homicide division. WHIP WALSER, in for a brief sojourn between trips, regaled the crowd with one of his customary filibusters. MORRY HUBBARD and HOWDY PIERPONT extolled the virtues of the new club. Among those on hand for the first time in a while were 808 HARRISON of the J. Walter Thompson Agency, FRED WHITE, AL RICE, AL. ZINGGELER, and Technicolor's MORGAN HOBART, who has established a Manhattan residence at 220 East 73d St.
The Washington Post of March 28 carried a picture of JOHN CLARK, one of its editorial writers, and a story announcing that he had been awarded one of the first Nieman Fellowships for a year of study at Harvard. Nine men were selected from 312 newspapers in 44 states for this high journalistic honor. Clark founded the New Canaan, Conn., Gazette in the summer following graduation, and served as its editor for two years before going with the Post in September, 1934. He has specialized recently in editorials on LatinAmerican affairs, and will make that his special field of study at Harvard.
Other tidings in the Fourth Estate department concern the transference of PING FERRY'S affections from the Manchester Union to the Concord Monitor, a paper edited by Jim Langley '18.
TOM CURTIS writes from St. Louis that TED THOMPSON has a new berth. "Ted,a cub reporter with the Star-Times, hasbegun to growl, and he now writes forthe Globe Democrat, our Pippa-passespaper. I think Ted got a break because,although he is now with a sunshinespreader and a temporizer, he is no longerwith the anti-vivisectionists, anti-pantlessstatues group, and anti-this and pro-thatwhichever sells the most newspapers."
Tom is associated with his father's law firm, and has just opened a branch office at 10 North Old Orchard Ave., Webster Groves, Mo. He maintains an active interest in politics, local and national.
FRED GAGE is an attorney in New Rochelle with Albertson & Scoble. He is very up-and-coming in Westchester politics, and in New Rochelle is president of the Young Men's Republican Club. KEN TODD, who has been attending law school at night for the past three years, has been transferfed by W. R. Grace & Cos. from the accounting to the legal department.
Among Washington legal lights JOE FANELLI since Sept. 1934 has been with the SEC, TVA and Department of Justice, and is now with the Railroad Retirement Board. The office is in a quondam hot spot night club, and the blare of radios and phonographs makes it a hell of a place to work. In addition to his law work, JACK PYLES is reported up to his ears in activity as banker, mortgage man, accountant, and general business entrepreneur.
DAVE CASTLEMAN, who practices in Louisville, was in Washington recently pleading a case before the ICC. He reported that 808 RIDDELL, another loyal Kentuckian, is still in Chrysler air conditioning sales.
ART ALLEN passes on word that NATE PEARSON has gone to Texas and is doing some investigating for his employers in the oil fields, with headquarters in Houston.
JOHN WOLFF is back East, living temporarily on Front St. in Hempstead, L. 1., and working for the Northeastern Construction Cos. ED MCNICOL is still employed by Johns-Manville in New York. 808 FISHER has a new job with Industrial Relations Counselors, Inc., located in the RKO Building, Rockefeller Center. ED ROLLINS is in the real estate department of Bankers Trust. DOUG KELLY is in the lumber business, and lives in Millington, N. J.
Lou HEAVENRICH reports the birth of a daughter, Barbara, on Jan. 11 in Detroit. Mrs. Heavenrich is the former Evalyn Sulzberger (Barnard '32). Lou is doing time-study and production-control work for the National Stamping Cos., a metalstamping firm in Detroit. MAX HEAVEN- RICH was married last December to Ruth Brown, a school teacher, and they are living in Flint, Mich., where Max is engaged in some sort of city planning activity.
DICK STATHAM was married on March 24 to Mary Jane Rankin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred P. Rankin of Lakewood, Ohio, at the Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Cleveland. The bride is a graduate of the Hathaway-Brown School and of Flora Stone Mather College.
The marriage of Carol Joy Kaffenburgh to WILLIAM GERSTEEY II took place on Tuesday, April 5, at the Hotel Pierre in New York.
Two '32 grooms are scheduled to step up to the altar on April 23. In Baltimore DON MCPHAIL will be married to Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Wollman's daughter Anne. Among the ushers will be two Dartmouth men—Al Smith '30 and Charlie Shafer '33.
On the same date in Montreal, BEN BURCH weds Jean Willoughby Dunn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon W. Dunn, the wedding taking place at the church of St. James the Apostle. The bride is a graduate of Macdonald College.
New York papers of April 4 announced the engagement of Claire M. Foy, niece of Mrs. Peter J. Kane of Brooklyn, to HAROLD B. (SPEC) MACY. Miss Foy is a graduate of St. Joseph's Academy, Brentwood, L. 1., and is treasurer of the Alumnae Assosiation of that institution. Spec is with the Brooklyn Trust Cos.
Dr. JOSEPH YOUMANS ROBERTS has opened an office for the general practice of medicine and surgery at 701 Franklin St., Watkins Glen, N. Y. AUSTIN WHITCOMB is interning at St. John's Hospital in Brooklyn, while JOHN GRIFFIN is similarly engaged at St. Catherine Hospital in the same borough. After spending the last two years doing graduate work at Cornell, WARNER HAMMOND has tied up with the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, department of anatomy, and is instructing the freshman medical class. HANK GREENLEAF, sighted by OWSLEY on a recent skiing expedition to Pinkham Notch, is in the Army Medical Corps, stationed in Boston.
On a recent Boston visit the writer had an enjoyable dinner with the erstwhile chronicler of these notes. Chuck seems readily adjusted to his schedule of second year law work at Harvard, and found time for several ski week-ends this past winter. He is thinking about an Ireland trip for this summer.
I also had a grand evening visit at the Canton (Mass.) home of the CARLETON menage. Joe is garden-conscious, and with his two small sons to help they will probably have the 14 acres under cultivation in no time.
In the insurance world, JIM FLETCHER is with Liberty Mutual, living at 322 Beacon St., Boston, with his wife of little over a year. 808 WOODMAN'S firm in Salem, Mass., has recently undergone an expansion process. AL BONCUTTER has been transferred by Pearl Assurance Cos. from New York to territory comprising Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. KEN KENNETT, a native Idahoan, is an insurance salesman living at 5053 Admiral Way, Seattle.
CHUCK HALL broke ground March I for a home at 2709 Berkshire Road, Cleveland Heights, which the Halls hope to occupy by July 1. Through a shake-up in the investment department of the Cleveland Trust Cos., Chuck writes that he has "fallen heir to municipals, joint stockand foreign bonds. I am also working onthe installation of a new I. B. M. punchand accounting system." One night a week at school to take trust business, and one for service as treasurer of the local Y's Men's Club round out his program.
CARL BAKER had an article entitled "Edward VIII and a Changing England" in the January issue of the DelphianQuarterly. Another, scheduled to appear shortly, will deal with democracy and fascism. The Bakers plan to spend most of the summer at Princeton, where Carl next fall will begin a full-time assignment as instructor of English. Other fratres in doctoribus are KNOWLTON WOOD, winding up a year in McGill's biology department, and CHUCK ADKINS, teaching in Syracuse University. LEONARD PAQUETTE is on the staff at Nashua High School, and lives at 22 Broad St. in that city.
ART SCHLICHTER returned from a two- week vacation in California with tales about the flood and harrowing details of the plane rides to and from Los Angeles. Bringing the ski season to a close, MARVE CHANDLER reports seeing ED SMITH on the top of Mount Mansfield at the National Downhill Ski Races. JIM FLINT, according to available records, spent the winter at Wausau, Wis., where his efforts to teach skiing at one of Otto Schniebs' ski schools were hampered by lack of snow. JIM RILEY entertained the Dartmouth Night crowd at the San Francisco Yacht Club by rendering a little Shakespeare in Barrymore style. Jim's new address is 1206 Hobart Bldg., S. F.
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