1930*
That sine qua non of class secretaries, meaning, of course, the regular scribe of this column, is the,victim of administrative vertigo this month, so he has lugged his 1930 mailbag up to the News Service watchtower and has invited me to supply a few transitional phrases between items. It seems to me that this, right on top of Jeremiah, is courting rebellion; but Al, with Fuehrer-like cunning, has probably counted on the end-of-the-year apathy to help him get away with it.
Al, it also seems, is a ripe subject for a news item. The honorable class secretary and squire of Norwich is bearing up staunchly these days under a whole bevy of administrative tasks. In addition to the main job of being Executive Assistant to the President, he is super-busy at the moment as executive secretary of the Alumni Fund (remember?). He also finds time to be chairman of Dartmouth College Publications. chairman of the Board of Proprietors of The Dartmouth, member of the Council on Student Organizations, and member of the Committee on Student Residence. When not busy with these assignments, class matters or civic problems of Norwich, A 1 assumes a domestic role with wife Lucia and sons Inskip, g, and Gregory, 2. And now that spring is here, the vegetable garden will receive the Dickerson touch. To all the foregoing Secretary Barbara Davis adds that 1930's keeper of the records is "the best-natured boss in the world." Greater glory hath no man than this.
Well, let's play grab-bag with the mail (there's not what would commonly be called a large amount). A bit of spiffy stationery comes out first announcing the marriage of JOHN STEVENS WHIPPLE to Mary Natalie Lynch at Salem, Mass., on April ig. Johnny has been practicing law in Boston since he obtained his degree at Harvard Law School in 1933, and latest reports to hand identify him as an associate with Peabody, Arnold, Batchelder and Luther at 10 State Street. His wife is a graduate of St. James' School in Salem.
A postcard from the Hanover Inn advises Secretary Dickerson that Dot and BILL BLANCHARD were practically across the street on April 20. "Having a wonderful time. Wish you were here. X marks our room." The X seems to point to a stretch of blank wall, leaving the exact room a mystery, but the floor was definitely the third.
Blanchard is also partner with CARL HAFFENREFFER in a pronunciamento from Sun Valley, the whole thing obviously the work of an underling in the propaganda ministry. "At their mountain retreat in Sun Valley," says the document, "Blanchard and Haffenreffer held a conference second only to Munich in importance. It is rumored that a definite 'Stop Chandler's Christmas Card' movement is under way, thus giving strength to their New JerseyRhode Island axis. A pair of Nordic skis rampant on a 'Rich Creamy and Mellow' background is the insignia identifying sympathisers." Perhaps it should be explained that for years Chandler has gone in for bizarre Christmas cards, using rare type faces and such unusual stock as Scott tissue. Seasoned observers detect a groundswell of sympathy for the new axis in neighboring New Hampshire.
DICK BARNARD, sending in an early contribution to the Alumni Fund, reports that his state of single bliss is untouched and that he is still associated with the personnel department of the Employers' Group in Boston. Dick's home address is 2 Elmwood Avenue, Stetson Hall, Winchester, Mass.
Almost small enough to get lost in our secretary's mailbag is a white, beribboned announcement of the arrival of daughter Deborah at the home of Mr. and Mrs. ROBERT ALONZO JORDAN on April 8, 1939. This makes offspring No. a for Bob, Robert Jr. having joined the Jordan family on January 30, 1937. Bob is living in Barrington, R. 1., and is selling for the Gulf Refining Company in Boston.
MILT FLEISCHMAN and Ultramar Ltd. are one and the same thing his note of March 30 discloses. Ultramar Ltd., 1107 Lexington Avenue, New York City, is the makings of an export concern (insecticides, floor wax, etc.), and Milt is willing to give up his job with the Cummins Diesel Engine Company when the new business demands it. Milt received his law degree from Columbia in 1933 and has sampled business school too. A mightily educated man is he, knocking off letters in French and Spanish as part of the day's work.
Another addition to the family is reported by HEINIE STEIN, whose second daughter, Caroline, was born on February 3, 1939. His other daughter, Mary Helen, was 6 years old on May 25. Heinie and wife Marjorie reside in Highland Park, 111., and sewing machines are still the family business in Chicago.
EDDIE JEREMIAH is the source of the information that his old roommate BART MCDONOUGH is now the father of son Robert, born on March 28, 1939. Bart's daughter Mary, who will be 2 in November, created family history when she broke a long string of McDonough males which included Bart and his eight brothers. Evidently, the male jinx or good fortune (as you will) is back at work. Bart's and Jerry's roommate, Dr. Paul Crehan '31, was the assisting physician at the birth of young Robert.
BUD FRENCH is the latest addition to the roster of those definitely coming back to Hanover for the Big Tenth. You undoubtedly got a copy of Bud's latest edition of The Fund Thirtyteer containing choice tidbits of news and an appeal for early gifts to the Alumni Fund. The chances are that 1930 will come through in its usual fine fashion, so there's no point in keeping the issue in doubt. Maybe the adjective "early" will no longer apply when you read this issue of the MAGAZINE, but sit down right away and get that contribution in the mail. You can still follow the second half of Bud's appeal, which is to increase the ante in this critical year.
Bud is provider of the news that JACK WOOSTER joined the paternal ranks with the arrival of John Torrence Wooster Jr. on May 8, 1939. This is the first addition to the Wooster clan since Jack's marriage in the summer of 1936. John Sr. is selling for the Clark Thread Company in New York, and has a new address at 137 Mc Cash Road, Upper Montclair, N. J.
Two postcards in the mailbag bring us up to date on the location of Ev Low and JOHN NEWCOMB. EV, now the papa of Dana, 6, and Calvin, practically 3, reports that he has moved from Maplewood to Summit, N. J., where the Low hospitality is being dispensed at 125 Beechwood Road. John has shifted from Filene's in Boston to the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company in New York and is residing at 37-33 83rd Street, Jackson Heights, N. Y. John has a sore, Thomas Christy Newcomb 3d, born September 3, 1937, but details of his marriage several years back are still missing from the class record book.
From the American Consulate in Maracaibo, Venezuela, comes a communication from 808 JOHNSON containing a Fund gift among other things. Bob, who went to Venezuela last year as sanitary engineer for the government, reports that he has 18 more months there before returning to the States. His only complaint about the tropics seems to be the lack of Dartmouth men—an omission which NELS ROCKE- FELLER temporarily supplied on his recent swing to Standard Oil outposts.
A press clipping from The WashingtonPost describes the founding of an experimental "boy's town" by the Reverend WADE SAFFORD in Kensington, Md., where he is pastor of Christ Episcopal Church. Wade is directing a colony of eight boy proteges from 12 to 16, and is putting into effect a plan which he has been mulling over in his mind ever since graduation. The boys assume responsibility for all chores at the rectory, raise chickens, study, and devote part of every daily program to chapel services. Wade hopes to obtain a farm in or near Kensington so that he can carry out his program on a much broader basis. Formerly curate of the Church of the Epiphany in Washington, he has been in Kensington since 1937 and last summer filled the pulpit of St. Thomas Church, Hanover, during the month of July.
BILL KLAMROTH, who left College at the end of freshman year, reports his occupation as airport manager for Pan American Grace Airways in Quito, Ecuador. Married in September, 1937, Bill now resides in the Villa Salome in Quito. His business address is nowhere near as exotic and is just plain Box 281.
New address for PARKER SAWYER is 18 Auburn Street, Franklin, N. H. Parker, who was owner of a meat and grocery store as far back as 1935, left college before graduation and got married in 1929, since when no reports have trickled as far north as Hanover.
JOHN BISHOP, who began his dental practice in Nashua, N. H., has changed the scene of operations (ha, ha) to Plainville, Conn., where he can now be located at his office at 14 East Main Street or his residence at 26 East Street.
GEORGE VIOLANTE, former hireling of Western Electric, is practicing law in Woodside, N. Y., these days and is residing in Long Island City with wife Anne, whom he married two years ago come July-
From that general vicinity also comes word that ED SCHUSTER and his bride of two months are to be found at 84-38 laoth Street, Richmond Hill, N. Y. Ed is assistant secretary of H. C. Bohack Company (fancy groceries, meats, etc.) of Jamaica, and was married to Mildred Eden in Brooklyn on March 35.
ROLAND BELKNAP, president of the Vermont Newspaper Corporation, reports a new address at Minard's Pond Road, Bellows Falls, Vt. During business hours he is still to be found at the office of the Bellows Falls Times, which he edits. The corporation which he heads publishes several weekly papers in Vermont.
BILL HOWE, member of the New York Bar, is conducting his practice at 215 East 149th Street in the Big City, and is residing at 21 Wiltshire Place in Bronxville. Unless something has happened very recently, Bill still lives in a state of single blessedness.
Various and sundry changes in address locate Thirtymen as follows: ARTHUR PETTENGILL, 9 Winchester Street, Fairfield, Me LEONARD SCHMITZ, 2110 Birchwood Avenue, Chicago BILL TRUEX, 10 Vine Street, East Hartford, Conn
GEORGE GODFREY, 233—33 rd Street, Woodcliff, N. J JOE DEAL, Long Bell Lum ber Company, Tulsa, Okla TRAVERS CARMAN, 36 Hawthorn Street, Cambridge, Mass PAUL FREEMAN, 52 King Street, New York City GEORGE COVELL, 21 Cassilis Avenue, Bronxville, N. Y JIM TYLER, 112-22 68th Street, Forest Hills, N. Y ART SCHWARTZ, 33 Niles Hill Road, New London, Conn FRANK MITCHELL, 6 Autumn Street, Worcester, Mass ART PARKER, 18 Cranford Avenue, Cranford, N. J.
To get out of the mailbag and into the open, your substitute columnist took in a dinner meeting of the North Shore Dartmouth Club at Lynn, Mass., on May 9, and had the good fortune to see five Thirtymen there. ED BUTTERWORTH is secretary of the new club and causes consternation at the head table by ad-libbing during the reading of the minutes. It's the legal background. ROLLIE BOOMA, whose name graces one of the biggest signs in Lynn, DICK KIRKMAN, GLENN BARTRAM, and HARRY PERKINS had the good luck to be part of the audience which didn't have to say anything.
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SCHUSS-PUSS Haffenreffer, the Christiana King, as seenat Sun Valley by a couple of comparativedubs, Bill Blanchard '30 and MarveChandler '32.
Secretary, Parkhurst Hall, Hanover, N. H.
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