1931

Much water has gone over the dam since your Secretary last visited Hanover for the Class and Club Officers' Meeting in May. It is hard to say whether being a school administrator or a naval officer is his vocation or his avocation. Anyway, looking at the turn of events in Korea and other parts of the world, it seemed best to don the uniform again. Orders were to MSTS on the West Coast and afloat. So here we go again. Having made one cruise to Hawaii, and anticipating further trips, it seems doubtful that I will be able to do justice to the job of keeping up on the meanderings of this worthy class, so we are going to ask someone else to take over, I hope, temporarily. Whoever does take over will have every help I can give to him and I know that the members of the class will get behind him too. With the Twentieth not too far in the offing, now it is a much more important job.

It was regrettable that Mary, the children. and I had to make a fast driving trip across country so that we could not look up a single member of '31 on the way. It is also unfortunate that since leaving Norfolk we have had about six different addresses, including that of the ill-fated Benevolence, so that our mail is still scattered around in various and sundry places. Consequently if any of you have writfen and the hot dope doesn't appear in this column, chalk it up to traveling.

L The class dope that I did bring along in my brief case is pretty old now but here goes anyway. It was good to read that Don Crane was named personnel director for Atlantic and Pacific's southern division which operates 700 stores in eleven Atlantic seaboard states. I think we mentioned in the last column in May that Bill Phinney had resigned as District Attorney for the State of New Hampshire. Unless he has been called back to active duty, too, Bill is undoubtedly carrying on a thriving law practice in Manchester now.

The following about Bill Seney is quoted: "New York, N. Y., May 25-Wilson T. Seney, Dartmouth '31 has joined the New York staff of McKinney Company, management consultants.

"A specialist in cost and budgetary systems, Mr. Seney was formerly associated with Hall Brothers, Inc., in Kansas City, Mo. Previous to that, he was with Marshall Field & Company, as Controller o£ their Evanston store."

Undoubtedly many of the class visited Hanover during the vacation season but we do have word that Al No-yes from Oneida, N. Y., and Mr. and Mrs. Walt Gehring from Cleveland stayed at the Inn during the late spring.

Tower Snow resigned as General Agent of the Connecticut Mutual in Boston as of September 15 in order to return to personal production. He now fills the post of Associate General Agent in the Boston office but is devoting most of his time to selling insurance on his own. Tower reports that he obtained his C.L.U. in September and that while vacationing at Cape Cod this summer he heard of Dick Chases's being nearby but never did actually lay eyes on him.

Born' on August 15 to Diana and WentEldredge, James Wentworth Eldredge bids fair to keep his parents close to their home in Norwich for some time to come. However, Diana and Went did some interesting traveling during Went's recent sabbatical from the College. He worked with the British Ministry of Town and Country Planning, and also had two months in Paris, a month of skiing in Switzerland and Austria, and some grouseshooting in Scotland.

That winds up all the available news. Needless to say, all '31ers are welcome at the new home of the Laughtons in Oakland, Calif.

Secretary, 4077 East 18th St., Oakland, Calif.

Treasurer, 730 Sherman Ave., Plainfield, N. J.

Class Agent, Weston, Vt.