1931

What is '31? Is it one of the best classes that ever graduated from Dartmouth or is it to be counted among the mediocres? One way we can prove that it is the best is to get behind Ernie Moore and give him every bit of our support. Ernie has set as his goal fifty more regular contributors to the Alumni Fund over last year and he is out for a two thousand total increase. What is '31?

Ed Gruen has come to your secretary's rescue this month with the type of letter every one of you should sit down and write at least four times a year. Ed writes:

All of a sudden this afternoon as I read your February column, I felt something come over me. Tentatively I have it diagnosed as the urge to write you. So, before my natural waywardness reasserts itself, and while the week of recess from classes that started today still looks like a month, here are a few lines dashed off under the "influence."-

Fortunately this inspiration strikes when, to my myopic point of view, I have some news to relate. (It's all about myself—confound it!—no post-Reunion bull sessions with other '3lers to speak of). The headline item is that February Ist I quit the Potomac, left the government and hence no longer am to be referred to as "that government bureaucrat!'' Lucky for the cause of Reunion humor in general, and the Goodwillie-Warwick variety in particular, that this signal event took place after Reunion rather than before it. Sub news items: My departure was voluntary and CPA even placed me on their roll of consultants in event of emergency (don't ask me why or what; anyway it's purely "honorary" now with the outfit folding FAST). And I left for—of all things!—academic life in pursuit of a Ph.D. in economics.

The strain and effort of the reconversion to the quieter waters of a university have been much less than anticipated. After six years in war agency work, a good part of which were spent in the anterooms of the policy makers, I had expected a good bit of trouble adjusting to lectures, seminars and just plain reading. There are many reasons for this but I'll just name one: the way the Dean and the Director of Graduate Studies seem to relish the opportunity to resume their experiments on me. You see, Jim, when they gave me the fellowship for Master's work here in 1940-41, they told me quite frankly that it was largely out of curiosity to see what happens when straight theory is grafted on top of practical business experience (7 years in the highly competitive oil game at that). Now their game seems to be to prune and chop away at the more irregular growths (in my thought processes) that developed while under the brilliant central government "sun"—leaving in the process as few lesions as possible.

But that's getting the biographical detail down too fine, even for one as versed in educational theory and practice as you. Besides, I'll have you wondering if I've lost—in addition to a sense of balance—all recollection of what goes in a class column. As one who once assayed to hold down the chair you now fill comfortably, at least I shouldn't be found guilty on that score. In other words, my felony as an Ex-Secy should be the simple one of not tossing something usable into your inkpot every month!

My wife Berta (who got her Doctor's at Jena before coming to the U. S.) and our not-so-littlenow Margery (age 3 V 2) are both getting into the university swim, too. For which I am grateful as they had to pay enough for this change of life, with three moves since January.

Thanks Ed, and here's hoping a few more members of the class will feel that something come over them, that indefinable "influence." Ernie writes that Ted Johnson is handling the fund in Maine for him and that Ernie and Angie are planning to visit the Brummers in East Jaffrey on their way to the spring meeting in Hanover.

You gals of '3l have a responsibility you cannot dodge if your husbands are too busy to let us know what they are doing. Orchids to Ruth Sherman this month for bringing us up to date on Buck's activities:

Because I enjoy reading the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE and to help you keep your records straight, am sending you this data. BuckSherman (Saul Harvey Sherman, M.D.) has the rank of Major in the A.U.S. Our address is 37 Pellom Place, Stamford, Conn., and the office address is 328 Atlantic St., Stamford, Conn. Buck specializes in Internal Medicine, which is better from a wife's point of view than being a G.P. because it's the people who are having babies who do most of the telephoning in the wee hours. Our children are Stephen Arthur (age 4) who is most anxious to go to Dartmouth and Claire Lorna (age 3) who is most anxious to do the same, although there may be fewer women on the campus by then.

We spent a delightful day in Hanover last fall and hope to return this year.

Celeste Chamberlin, our newest '3l bride has started off on the right foot by giving us all the latest dope concerning Johnnie's activities. We reported their wedding-to-be and are very pleased to greet Celeste into the '31 gang as of April. John and Celeste are living at 183 Oakley Drive, Syracuse, N. Y., now.

Bill Little was elected Secretary of the National Gift and Art Association according to the N. Y. Times of March 3, 1947. Congratulations to Bill.

The Troy N. Y. Times Record of February 28 carried an excellent picture of Ed Picken under the headline "Picken to Retire as Troy High Cage Coach." Ed has had practically an unbeatable club there with over 30 consecutive wins to their credit. He is going to continue as physical director at Troy High School and will coach baseball and football.

The class continues to scatter itself all over. Recent changes reported are of those two new California's, John Barrington and Fred Burkhardt. John is living at 151 Hart Avenue, Santa Monica, and Fred is now in La Mesa, P. O. address, Rt. 1, Box 1914.

Frank Cornell, Hart Gilchrist, and Ed.Rothschild have swollen our ranks in Chicago. Frank is at 834 Lakeside Place, Chicago 40; Hart is with the Liability Claim Dept. of the Continental Casualty Company, 310 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago 4, and Ed. is at 1345 East 50th Street, Chicago 37.

Last month we reported Nick Oleksiw's appointment as Treasurer of the William Hengerer Co., Nick's home office is in Buffalo, N. Y.

Bob Oelman is living at 704 Harmon Avenue, Dayton 9, Ohio. Hart Walter is another Mid-westerner living in Evanston, 111. His address is 840 Forest Avenue. Dr. Joe Rushton is practicing now at the Beaumont General Hospital, El Paso, Texas.

Bill White and Bob Eraser are two who stayed a little closer to the hills of New Hampshire. Bill is at 807 Ocean Avenue, New London, Conn., and Bob's address is 116 East 58th, New York City 22.

Let's all get behind Ernie and give the right answer to "What is '31?"

THEY KNOW THEIR FIGURE EIGHTS: Three people prominent in the figure skating world, left to right, Miss Barbara Scott, women's Canadian and world champion figure skater, Don Cruikshank '31, Canadian skating official, and Mrs. Clyde Scott, Miss Scott's mother, snapped at the railroad station in Montreal.

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