Class of 1931
The crash of falling silverware and the plop of coffee cups on a restaurant floor during your quiet, noon hour usually bring jumpy nerves, something like a traffic jam when you're driving home at 5:30, don't you know .... but today it had its compensation, for the noise directed your Secy's attention to the far corner of Stouffers (the local hot spot at lunch time), and there just out of the firing range was JACK O'CONNOR. Picked my way carefully to his table, learned that he was in town for the week, helping the Theatre Guild put across Benn Levy's adaptation of "Madame Bovary." Hollywood's (and Benn Levy's) Constance Cummings plays the title role. It was the first time I had laid eyes on Jack since we got out, and it was a real treat
in addition his association with the famous Mme. of Flaubert's novel revives memories of English 11-12, not to mention husky whispers from some of those all-wise sophomores about how they could smuggle us freshmen a copy of the book for warm winter reading.
Sympathies of the class certainly go out to JIM RICK, who lost Mary May 5 just a few days after the birth of their son, David Fackler. And they had only moved into the new home they built at 1417 Rose Virginia Road, Reading, Pa., the month before. Only wish we could do more than just express our feelings.
DOG DAYS IN HANOVER
You don't like that as a caption for Soule's letter about '3iers who spent part of their summer around the campus? Well, our legionnaires did have the run of the place, "had one on the house" when the spirit moved them, and generally enjoyed irresponsibility much like our canine friends. But perhaps I am reading too much between the lines. So, here's the letter from the master of the hounds himself, PARKER SOULE:
"JACK WEISERT, after telephoning from New York and all points between Cape Cod and Hanover (this was in mid-August), finally connected with us and came to Hanover to spend a few hours before continuing back to Chicago. He had been in N. Y. on business, is tremendously enthusiastic about his piano and phonograph business, and says all signs point to 1937 being their best year since 1932's low (several times better than '32), and seems quite encouraged with the outlook. He told of selling one of his most expensive, supersuper photographs to Joe Louis a short time ago, and said that he, Louis, and the electrician had quite a pow-wow on their hands and knees in Louis' living room, as the machine was being installed. Joe, seeing the electrician crawling along the floor making wire connections, assumed a like posture and said, 'Kin Ah helpya?' Weisert says Bob Ryan ('32 claims him now, we hear) is in charge of school supplies for the city of Chicago. Jack said he had a talk with 'RED' ROLFE in New York, and that that worthy Yankee is still the same old 'Red.' The Weiserts have one child, by the way, a lad of two and a half.
"Had supper with BILL HAYDEN and his very charming wife, when they were here at the end of August. Bill, still with Macy's, said he had been transferred to their Atlanta, Ga., office and that he and Mrs. H. were making one last trip to the no'th, suh, to have a look at Hanover and the White Mountains, before getting so far out of reach. (We hope this 'last trip' statement is properly exaggerated, Bill!)
"MR. and MRS. CHUCK MENDELL spent a night in Hanover before going back to Winter Park, Fla., where Chuck teaches at Rollins College. Sorry we did not see you, Chuck, after your message.
"DR. ED SUTTON arrived here last June to spend 18 months as an interne at Mary Hitchcock Hospital. Yes, as a wide-eyed and breathless WEISERT told Chicagoans, 'Sutton's a real doctor!' We hear Ed is contemplating marriage!
"BEN HUTTON lists his occupation as headmaster at McGaw Institute in Reed's Ferry, N. H. We're told this is a preparatory school .... co-ed.
"DR. CHARLIE ROBERTS makes his headquarters at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
"HAL ANDRES, on vacation from his job with Lever Brothers (soap products) in Cambridge, Mass., spent a week in Hanover just before college opened. He was seen on the football field more than once .... as a spectator.
"A letter from MITCH SYREK indicates he is in charge of the college department of the N. Y. Herald Tribune. A step-up, Mitch!
"DR. H. WENTWORTH ELDREDGE, of the Dartmouth faculty, is beginning his third year as a member of the department of sociology.
"MR. and MRS. JIM LAUGHTON were in Hanover early in September on their way back to Newton, Mass. Jim has been head counselor at a camp in Washington, Me., during the past summer. "HAL BOND, who turns up in Hanover once in the proverbial blue moon, is living in far-away Lebanon (it's only five miles now, Hal), where he is in charge of an office in the Carter Woolen Mills.
"A letter from ADRIAN O'KEEFFE a short time ago indicates that he is being kept very busy in Somerville, Mass., in the home office of the First National Stores, Inc., trying to keep tabs on his stores, which are scattered all over New England. He said he hopes to be in Hanover for an earlyseason football game this fall.
"ROG BURRILL spent a short time in Hanover during the early part of the summer before going on to Hillsboro, N. H., to open an eating establishment.
"MR. and MRS. FRANK BLATZ have been to Hanover twice this summer that we know of, but each time we saw them we were in no position to say 'Hi.'
"SHUCK ROBINSON writes that he is 'in Chicago at the moment .... but legally from Wausau, Wis.' He is working for the Employers Mutuals, an insurance organization, we assume. He states that there's lots of skiing in Wausau in the winter, and that 'economically am overworked, fruitlessly, but believe in my patron saint, Micawber.' Considering, apparently, that we wouldn't be satisfied with one address, Chuck also includes 1033 North Dearborn
Parkway, Chicago, 111. How come, Chuck?
"Well, this seems to have gone on and on, far, far into the night. The SOULES are still in Hanover, and expect to be for an indefinite length of time. They say they will be glad to see some '3 lers in town this fall. And, don't think you are in the wrong place when you arrive. With its new business block with modernistic store fronts Main Street changeth."
ROBERT A. ROLFE '3l, THE YANKEE'S STAR THIRD BASEMAN
Secretary, 2904 Gulf Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa.
