1929*
Morry Hartman, Reunion's leather- winged soft ball flinger extraordinary, is no semi-pro after all—He's a citizen of Cleveland, a banker, a welcome reporter:
"There are fourteen members of Dartmouth's most illustrious class living in Cleveland though Wally Bergstrom and I were the only ones who attended reunion. Wally is Vice President of the Weldon Tool Company and is, apparently, a successful young executive. My old roommate, Don McCornack, finally decided to forsake the small group of bachelors and on August 26th of last year was married to Miss Eleanor Mathesius of Stamford, Connecticut. Don is very busy these days, what with being an instructor in the Western Reserve University School of Architecture and in between times being the active working partner in his father's firm. Mr. McCornack Sr. was appointed dean of the School of Architecture at M. I. T. last year and is living in Boston. Don reports that Pinky Flannery is living on the next street to him but hasn't seen him. Pinky, by the way, is author of MyxedemaHeart appearing in the January issue of the Cleveland Clinic Quarterly. Bill Irwin is now managing the Ohio Pipe and Supply Company, dealing in plumbers' supplies, and is said to be coining money. He was married several years ago and has two children. Bill's latest hobby is yachting and he is reported to have recently purchased a new boat. Bill Strangward is practicing law here in Cleveland. One of the members of the firm with which Bill is associated is Bruce Eakin of the Class of 1926. Bill is sticking pretty close to the office these days, waiting the arrival of his expected offspring. It will be number one for Bill and his wife. He reports that Willard Christman has taken a new position with the Glidden Company as an auditor. Bob Jones has a sales position with the Dobeckmun Company, cellophane proces- sors and converters. He and his wife liVe comparatively near us but. our paths don't often cross. Another neighbor is Jack. Martin and his wife who used to live in the same apartment. Both of us have since moved and the Martins now live on the next street. Jack is practicing medicine and is reported to be doing very well They had a daughter in October, 1938 I've been employed by the Central National Bank ever since graduation. During the past five years, I've been doing credit work. An uncle of Bill Keyes is one of our vice presidents and I hear of Bill through him from time to time. I married Frances Gabriel on September 28, 1935, and we have a daughter, age 16 months. Fran and I both enjoyed reunion very much. After leaving Hanover, we spent almost two weeks driving around the East. Monday night, after reunion, Squeek Redding, Bart Stoodley and Tommy Phelps walked into a restaurant in Portland, Maine, still wearing their firemen's shirts!"
On January 16th the New York boys held a Class Dinner at the Dartmouth Club with the following present: Gus Wiedenmayer, Litt. Johnson, Herb Fish, Trunkie Brittan, Ray Hedger, Ed Chinlund, Bill Keyes, Larry Lougee, Harry Enders, Dick Exton, Johnnie Blair, Joe Walsh, Walter Wilson, Nick Vincent, Jack Gunther, Bill Morgan. The guest speaker was Ross McKenney, Woodsman Adviser of the Dartmouth Club, who made the trip down from Hanover for the purpose of talking at the Dinner. On a recent business trip to Hanover Larry Lougee managed to get in some skiing; at the Oak Hill Ski-Tow met up with Ellie Cavanagh and Herb McCreery who are both expert skiers and boast that they get in considerable skiing even during week-days.
From Seattle's Judge Hodson:... ."the Class should know that Sim Cantril is establishing a splendid record for himself as director of the tumor clinic at Seattle's Swedish Hospital Bob Strong was here last week and we had a very successful dinner with thirty-six alumni attending, a good turn out and an impressive testimonial to the interest which men here maintain in the College."
General Manager of the Birmingham, Ala. plant of The Lamson & Sessions Cos., manufacturers of bolts, nuts, cotters, cap screws is George Case who writes: "There aren't many Dartmouth graduates down here, let alone from our class. Whenever I am in Florida, I see Slim Corrigan (ed. note: see below), who has a fine citrus grove and one of the best chicken farms in the South. He raises a good many baby chicks. It is interesting to see his card index that shows the productivity of his hens. If they don't lay, they suddenly become broilers. After being located in Chicago for several years in charge of our Chicago Plant, they switched me over here to run our Birmingham Plant. This was really more of a break than I had anticipated, as not only is the South a very delightful place to live but business conditions down here have been better in the last year and a half than they have been up North. The prospect of their getting better is pretty good in spite of what our President has to say about "economic problem No. 1." Give us equal freight rates and we would make you "Damn Yankees" sit up and take notice (as you see, I am an unreconstructed rebel) The war department's maiden name is Catherine Taylor. We were married in 1931, and have had children all over the country. The first child, Lucien Hall was born January 3, 1932, in Cleveland. The second, Lynn Taylor was born Oct. 23, 1935 in Evanston, and the child of our old age, Joan, was born March 16, 1938."
Slim Corrigan's "Crescent Farm" at Bradenton, Fla. is the largest unit of its kind in the South in the production of white Leghorn chickens and citrus fruits. Aside from that, however, Slim claims the honor of the first twins in the Class: "We have four lovely children, the oldest boy Francis Eugene, being five years old. The next boy Michael Frederic is four, and the twins, a boy, John Knight, and a girl, Mary Alice, were born Aug. 26, 1936."
Merrill Beede, the cashier from Aetna Life Ins. Cos., in Washington, D. C. has been with that organization since 1935, was formerly an adjuster with the Liberty Mutual—Perley Perkin'S company—married Katharine S. Thompson, March 7, 1937, lives in Chevy Chase, Md. Nelson Bell has his own sound equipment business in Wellesley, Mass., The Music Box, Inc., reports much local interest in the Dartmouth Club of Wellesley, with Ed Cogswell on the board. His son William H. is now eleven years old. Chan Bete is an advertising and sales consultant in Greenfield, Mass., runs his own printing press. Molly Bott is plant superintendent for Wyandotte Worsted Cos., at their Waterville, Me. mill; has also been in other mills at Rochester, N. H., Pittsfield, Mass., and Central Village, Connecticut. He has a son, George Morrill Jr. seven years old and a daughter, Nancy Wheeler, going on nine. Marv. Braverman is in the legal department of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in Washington;'has handled the reorganization of the New York, New Haven & Hartford, for the R. F. C., complains that hearings last June prevented him from getting back to Reunion. Brick Brisach is a first Lieutenant, U. S. Army, stationed for the next two years at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, will attain the rank of Captain in June. After graduating from the Military Academy in 1930 he spent three years at Governors Island, N. Y., one year at Ft. Benning, Ga., two years in Manila, one and a half years at Ft. Lewis, Tacoma, Washington, and one year in the Field Artillery School at Ft. Sill, Okla. He married Altheen L. Munson June 15, 1934, has two children, Beverly Leigh, born Nov. 10, 1935 in Manila, and Eugene Munson, born March 15, 1939 at Ft. Sill, Okla. Ed Canby, after two years of ranching in Wyoming, is manager of the Malone Camera Shop, Dayton, Ohio; says photography has always been his hobby and now he's turned an avocation into a vocation. Several of his pictures have been published in national photographic publications.
Dick Brown married Mary McMullen Dec. 2, 1939, in Grand Rapids, Mich. They are living at 757 Covington Drive, Detroit.
Jim Latham married Dorothy Estelle Van Wart, January 19, 1940, in Pearl River, N. Y„ will shortly be. at home at 45 Willard St., Hartford, Connecticut.
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