Class of 1931
Thanks a lot for all the kind wishes and Christmas cards. Last month's scene in these columns was pretty much Chicago. This month we're shifting back East. Although slightly belated, the dope has finally come to hand in abundance about the boys around Boston. But before leaving New York, PLEASE MAKE A NOTE OF THIS DATE: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16! That's the date of Thirty-one's next party in New York. It's scheduled to be a mixed affair, very much like that popular event at the Lexington last spring. The time and place and tax will be mailed to you by Skiffy McAllister about the time this issue gets into your hands. So look for it and please let Charlie know if you can be counted on.
About Boston: Dutch Holland has just informed me about a soiree which took place in the Bean Town last fall; a Thirtyone affair which was very well attended. We owe Dutch a lot of thanks for his efforts and for his detailed dope about so many of those on hand. Among those in evidence were George Hawkins, Dave Toomey, Jim Godfrey, George Howard, Bill Thornley, Bob Barker, Frankie George, Rod Dodge, Jim Kimball, Rog Burrill, Steve Williams, Peanut Winslow, Hal Bond, Joe Choate, Billy Walker, Bernie Boyle, Ned Kent, Pan Kent, Russ Woodward, Jack McKechnie, Dick Chase, John Benson, Phil Holden, Vic King, Charlie Sullivan, Jim Fannin, Okie O'Connor, Wes Taylor, Mil Taylor, Dick Denby, John Boermeester, Larry Allen, Art Birckett, Red Chamberlin, Rod Clarke, Bill Mc-Intyre, Hank McCarthy, Charlie Dwyer, Sam Groves, Parker Soule, Ed Hanauer, Frank Pope, Bill Steck, Dave Kelley, Ned Symonds, Jim McElroy, Art O'Brien, Mai Hall, Dyke Rand, and Dutch. Understand the party took place at St. Clair's Restaurant, and that everyone enjoyed it immensely. I don't know whether or not it was Fred Slaughter's terse comment that awoke Dutch's conscience about getting this stuff into the column, but late or otherwise, I appreciate all the material I can get.
They tell me that: Bill Walker is married and has a baby and is still getting down to cases at Harvard Law School.
Eric Wollaeger is an interne in a hospital in Brookline, Mass.
Al Sutton is in a broker's office in New York City. (Which one?).
Mel Taylor is married and is working for the Taylor Press in Cambridge, Mass. Bill Thornley is in Harvard Medical School.
Ken Todd is with the Grace Lines in New York City, and living with Ted Miller '32.
Nick Rogers is in Europe—just traveling. Tom Ryan is an assistant in the curtain department at Macy's.
Bill Steck still at Harvard Law School. Ed Stokes is with a dairy company in Lexington, Mass.
Dick Chase is with the Kimball Lumber Company in Waltham, Mass.
Paul Krider is married and is back in Akron, Ohio.
Charlie McQueeny is a traveling salesman for the Corn Products Refining Company.
Charlie Mendel is teaching at Tabor Academy.
George Miller is working for a Ph.D. in physics at Columbia.
Larry Allen is with the Telechron Clock Cos. in Natick, Mass.
Harry Almond is married and is working in his father's organ factory in Hartford.
Dave Borkum is married and traveling in Europe.
Charlie Dwyer is with the D. L. Day Company, brokers in Boston.
Hal Glickman is in the furniture business in Maynard, Mass.
Jim Gorrie was in the toy department at Macy's.
Hawley Jaquith is an assistant buyer of women's shoes in L. Bamburger and Company of Newark, N. J.
Paul Crehan and Charlie Sullivan are attending Medical School at Boston U.
Dick Denby is with the Norfolk Paint and Varnish Cos. at Cambridge, Mass.
Rus Dennis working for Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Rod Dodge is in the stationery department of Jordan Marsh in Boston.
Hal Bond has a baby and is living in Brighton, Mass. He's with Industrial Bankers, Inc.
George Proctor lives in Marblehead and is with Hutchins and Parkinson in Boston.
Dyke Rand is with the Lincoln Stores in Cambridge.
Charlie Roberts still in Medical School at Harvard.
Ralph Nims is married and is with the Canada Dry Corp. at Newark, N. J.
Ted Pierce is with the State Mutual Life Insurance Cos. in Worcester.
Frank Pope is with the Boston Herald and is married and living in Arlington, Mass.
Parker Soule is with the Boston Herald, too.
Ed Hanauer is with his father in the cigar business in Brookline, Mass.
Jim Fannin has a baby but continues to attend Harvard Law School.
Bill Lyons is with the Sun Oil Cos. in their experimental laboratories in Marcus Hook, Pa.
Hugh Neely attending the College of Physicians and Surgeons in N. Y. C.
Bill Byrne labels himself a broker out in Minneapolis.
Jack Leuthner and Pete Boynton attending Cornell Medical School in N. Y. C.
Len Clark in charge of the Brooklyn territory for Frozen Foods, Inc. Len and his wife Dottie have just come to Brooklyn. Expect to see them soon.
Shep Wolff still with the Brooklyn Union Gas Company and going great, and the little Shepper and his mother all fine.
Dick Baldwin has bought an interest in
a North-Side-of-Chicago printing shop.
Bob Baumrucker with the Chicago DailyNews, covering most all the departments.
Bob said that Bob Hale wandered into Chicago to line up the situation on Milwaukee hotels.
Charlie Parmelee has been confined to his bed for quite some time. The address is 49 Elm St., Auburn, Me. Drop him a line. You know he'd appreciate it.
Among those present at the big Dartmouth party in New York at the Plaza January 5: Frank Hodson, Dick Cukor, Charlie McAllister, Harry Townsend, Charlie Schneider and his wife, Red Gristede, Doug Woodring and wife, Frank Quinn, Jack Weatherley, Bill Benger, Ab Epstein, Charlie Mumma, Dick Holbrook, Bill Little, and Charlie Vetter.
Homer McVean is rumored engaged. Whom to and when it's to happen has yet to come in. How about it, Homer?
Smoky Joe Adams has quit the Hearst organization and gone to Florida for a rest. He expects to return soon and join his father's publicity service.
Ken Anderson, who has been quite ill, has finally decided to devote most of his time to his first love—music. He wrote the complete score for a local musical show in New Rochelle, N. Y., and I'm told it was a smash hit.
Joe the Village, alias Barrington, has been seen hiding behind bottles of genuine Spanish Oporto in arid about Westchester county.
Dick Holbrook, who is no end of help to your scribe, informs me that Ab Epstein is not only busy, but busy at really important work. From New Yorker covers to comics to frescos is quite a triple play in anybody's language. Dick said he saw Jim Frame and his most attractive financee. Walt Hausman is on the brink, too, says Dick. Bob Spotts is about to complete his three-year effort to secure a degree as a full fledged C. P. A. at Columbia this February. Thanks, Dick, for the dope.
And thanks, too, mates, for the swell cooperation on this particular column. Now, maybe the boys will see that it's not such a tough job to scribble a line or two, and help keep the column full. Anyway, you can at least let us know your feelings about the cancellation of the third reunion as covered in the last issue, huh?
Cambridge, Mass.January 8, 1934.
"Now is indeed the time for all goodclassmates to come to the aid of their Secretary. What with the 'round-up' Dutch Holland made at the Tremont St. St. Clair'slast fall (and where have you been since,Dutch?) and the beer and skittles 'supper'(please note well the quotes) the BostonAlumni Association surprised us with lastmonth, there ought to be material for manya tale from among Greater-Boston Thirtyoners.
"I have no skill in handling the various'radioisms' of Ben Bernie at al.; and so, Ishall confine myself to 'simple speeches.'
"George Frankel writes that the brokenleg he suffered at an Ohio picnic last fall iswell cured, and that the insurance business('Anchor to Frankel') is improving.
"Peanut Winslow still sells you paintonly it's a different brand now, from acrossthe street, I think.
"From Worcester comes the news that inspite of a Democratic landslide, BunceClarkson was reelected to the CommonCouncil of that city.
"Here at Cambridge, the law school delegation is still intact. Frank Blatz has theCambridge—New York automobile recordsomething like four hours plus.
"Bill Waterman has a hair-raising taleabout moving out of a Cambridge houseunder a blazing roof at the early hour offive A.M.
"Ned Kent on the Harvard Law Review does more than his 'bit' to lift the averagegrade of those of us from Hanover.
"I might glibly add that in spite of theencounter we will face in June with a comprehensive examination—the first one triedhere (Thirty-one seems to be doomed tothem)—we will 'have to' graduate this June;and the thought of 'putting aside thebooks' for some actual practice of the lawis mighty refreshing even in this 'year ofgrace.'
"Last August I became engaged to MissElizabeth Jones, Radcliffe '33, of Baltimore; and, best of all, on the twenty-thirdof December last we were married in thatcity. D. Wade Safford '3O assisted as bestman, and John O. Rogers '3l as an usher.
"Just now we are busy setting up our 'lares at penates' at 41 Bowdoin St., Cambridge and after the third of February wewill be pleased to entertain any and allwho find a moment to stop by and see us.
"May I suggest a resolution in 'this hourof need,' namely, a letter a year to ourSecretary. Such assistance on our partought to keep him well supplied.
"VIC KING."
Secretary, 10 Mitchell Place, New York
