Class of 1931
When the New York delegation got together at the Dartmouth Club last month, it was decided that a stag party would soon be held at the American Music Hall in New York, where the melodrama "The Drunkard" holds forth. All will be notified about the date, and out-of-towners are invited to consult the Dartmouth Club bulletin board for further information. Ran into Papa Andres in Hanover the week-end of the Virginia game. He's thinned out a lot, but just as handsome as ever. He talked about groceries, so I presume he's still in the grocery business in or around Boston. Saw Gin Carver up there, too. But there was little more evidence of 1931 or any of its surrounding classes in sight. Somehow, I had a feeling that they were all just around the corner, somewhere And here's the best blocking back in the class of '54—maybe his Pop isn't proud.
The Len Clarks are now Jerseyites; address is 6 Park Ave., Bloomfield, N. J. The Yale game furnished some news. Okie O'Keefe and his wife were there. They have a little girl about 8 months oldJudith Elaine. Okie is a buyer of cereals and breakfast foods for First National Stores in Boston. Johnnie Waterman, who lives in New Haven, just came back from a comprehensive tour of Mexico with Went Eldredge. Went is taking a graduate course in sociology at Yale. Saw Ben McMillan, Rod Greig, Jack Schackne, Frank Quinn, and quite a slew of others. Schackne said Art Speigel was around. Ed Gruen 'phoned in from Elizabeth, N. J., to say that he'd been to New Haven; that Bob Oelman was running a promotional paper for the foreign business of a Dayton, Ohio, manufacturer; that he'd been elevated in the ranks of the Golf Refining Company out in Dayton.
Jack Schackne has moved, and is now at 220 East 73d St., New York City.
Forrie Norris visited the New York scene a few days ago, and unfolded much of the mystery of Europe. It seems as though the Gop hied himself to many intriguing countries in one of those long-dreamedabout jaunts which has only extra-curricular activities for its purpose—if any. (Ed. note: The tendency toward baldness seems rather definitely pronounced in the case of Dartmouth men, and ye editor wishes to express a sincere feeling of satisfaction in carrying on this noble tradition together with Norris, and a few others too numerous not to be mentioned. However, they cannot be named until reports have been verified. If you have any helpful data along these lines please send it in.)
Ned Stanford wants me to explain my misstatement of his "cow college affiliations, etc." out at Illinois. Not only shall I explain, but I shall in all sincerity apologize as well. You know, Ned, these Thirtyoners are a deft lot with the pen, and whothewhatsoever wrote me those comments neglected to ask for censorship —and so—out of it came. Let the truth now be known, Ned began Dartmouth back in 1927, forced to leave college in his junior year due to financial reverses, thence back to Hanover to secure his A. B. with the class of 1932. After a year in Baker Memorial Library Ned continued his library work out at the University of Illinois. He also got to Hanover for last Commencement, where he says he saw Sey Burge and a few others. He also saw Lauri Myllykangas in Montreal. Says Mylly is married; how about that? Now he is with the American Library Association in Chicago. And that just about brings Ned up-to-date.
And sure enough, the New York Times was right; Mrs. Walter Greenland Africa announced the marriage of her daughter Maude Isabel to Mr. Robert Abial Rolfe on the twelfth of October. Congratulations.
And "since this is the first message from these parts until after Christmas, might I wish you all a very elegant holiday, and may I also hope that Santa brings many of you a nice pen and ink and a pad and a three-cent stamp?
Leonard Johnson Clark Jr.—Age5 Months
Secretary 10 Mitchell Place, New York
