Class of 1931

Just received word that Roger Burrill was taken to Boston City Hospital with lobar pneumonia, and that he is quite seriously ill. If you find the time to drop him a note at Harrison Ave., Peabody No. 1, c/o Boston City Hospital, he'd appreciate it, of course.

Thanks, Vic King, for your resolution, but, dammit, I'm still waiting, even for the one-letter-a-yearers.

Each month, the biggest item I can think of is Red Rolfe, and the past few months this biggest bit of news has completely escaped me. Now then, it's been in so many other forms of print, that I hardly think it necessary to note here the decided prowess of our class marshal. Bob is, even if you already know it, definitely a member of the New York Yankees. So much so, that with all the talk about trades between clubs, Red's name is always cast as next season's Yankee shortstop succeeding Frank Crosetti, and therefore practically ineligible for trades. If it isn't startling news to you, I better remind you that not many college ball players have made the grade as fast as Red has. Couple of the New York bunch have suggested that we get together a 1931 section at the opening game. What with a few more willing, we'll certainly do it.

Next Friday, February 16, the Thirtyone party takes place at the Hotel Lexington in New York. It's to be a mixed affair. Just how mixed it will turn out to be, I cannot relate until the next issue.

Frank Quinn is up in Hanover for the Carnival. I presume many others are too, but we won't have news about who they are until one of the boys tells.

Larry Allen wrote and said he, together with many other Boston '31ers, had a grand time at that party described in the last column. He says Dutch Holland did a swell job. At the alumni banquet for Dean Laycock in Boston, Larry said he saw Pan Kent, Peanut Winslow, and Jim Kimball. Pan is with the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Cos. In the evenings he's playing hockey for the Brae Burn Country Club team, which recently beat the Harvard varsity. Larry Allen is no longer with the Telechron Cos., he's with the Container Corporation of America, Natick, Mass., plant.

Nick Oleksi is with B. Altman and Cos. in New York.

Chuck O'Neill has contributed to the Carnival issue of the Jack-o'-Lantern; so has Abner Epstein (Abner Dean).

Well I'll be damned! At the grand dinner which the New York Dartmouth Club tendered Dean Laycock, I made a very careful list of all '31ers present, and now I can't find the list. So here goes for a memory test: Doug Woodring, Russ Barnum, Tom Williams, Ned Rosen, Bill Grant, Rod Hatcher, Skip Hall, Jack Weatherley, Charlie McAllister, Bob Fredericks, Red Gristede, Art Boardman, Pete Boynton, Dan Denham, Will Hays, Joe Merriam, Charlie Mumma, Nick Nichols, Hank Richclimb mond, Vic Rockhill, Ed Studwell, Jack Weinseimer, Johnny Milos, Jack Leuthner, Dutch Holland, Duke Holbrook, Bob Wallace, Mai Hallenbach, Steve Hall. There were others, but I'm sorry not to have all their names. Anyway, it was a perfect dinner, and Dean Laycock was in his rarest form; the kind of a treat that makes it harder than ever to think about his retirement.

Red Gristede is in charge of the new Gristede Bros, wine and liquor store in New York. The address for those of you who would buy the best for the least is 1007 Madison Ave., New York City.

Len Clark and his wife Dottie are now in Brooklyn, N. Y., for keeps. Len has the Brooklyn territory for Frozen Foods, Inc., a division of General Foods.

Dick Fisher telephoned while passing through New York a few weeks ago. He's still down in Carolina, or is it Tennessee, Dick?

Ken Anderson has pretty much recovered after being laid up for several months. He is now devoting most of his time to music.

Can you imagine the amazed expression of some eight million New Yorkers as they gaze at the pictorial section of that pictorial newspaper, the New York Daily News, and find among its exclusive photos a shot of one William Little seeing one Miss Mitzi Mayfair off for Europe, can you? Well, not only was the picture there, but I'm told that Bill had his hands full when he escorted Miss Mayfair to the Dartmouth party at the Plaza last month; you know these Dartmouth men. In case you're still in the dark, Mitzi Mayfair is one of New York's better known theatrical folks.

As I was madly dashing out of the elevator in my office building a few days ago, I bumped into Gib Wolfe, but we only had time for a word or two. Maybe Gib will drop us a note and tell us what brought him to New York. (Funny thing, this last notice makes me think more than ever about those days in Hanover, because of vivid memories of being elected to this job and thinking of writing just such "bumped-intos" as this.)

Kirk Baron is with Lord and Taylor.

Milt Seiden was married in December. That's all the dope I have about it.

Don't forget to get a good look at the new Dartmouth girls reprinted herewith. Barbara Lee Thorn asks Helen McElroy, "Are you going to Carnival?" Yes, their daddies are Craig Thorn, and Jim McElroy respectively.

"Are You Going to the CarnivalSome Day"

Secretary, 10 Mitchell Place, New York