1931
Having not seen New England's "painted" foliage in an October since 1932, it was a real thrill to join the pilgrimage of "leaf watchers" through the Adirondacks and on among the Green and White Mountains to convene with your Executive Committee in Hanover on October 18 and 19. The Chieftain Motel served as residence and meeting headquarters for the following: Dick and Peg Holbrook, Jim and Bunny Godfrey, Russ and Betty Beckwith (also daughter Sue), Fred and Ruth Slaughter, Jim Frame, and Alice and Jack Reno. Ed Brummer was up from Jaffrey, N.H., for the meetings only. Godfrey's daughter, Kitty, was over from Colby Junior College for the Saturday events, and also joining in for the big steak feed at
"The Keenes" were Pete and Mary Boynton (and their son Peter and daughter Terry), Went and Diana Eldredge, Ralph and AnnHunter (Ralph is our Life Trustee), and Coach and Mrs. Tommy Dent.
The feed at Keene's (Etna, N. H.) was held especially to honor all the sons of '31 now in Hanover. Unfortunately the Asian flu, and some misdirected mail held down the num- ber attending. These came: William L. Steck '59, Charles B. Hill III '60, Charles H. Boynton '61, William R. Cogswell '61, James L. Denham '61, James B. Gilchrist '61, Peter G. Holbrook '61, John F. Reno '61, and John T. Russell '61. There are a total of 36 sons of 1931 in the College.
it is invigorating to "be in Hanover with the undergraduates there. The past reaches out and pokes you with the present in many ways - ankle length raccoon coats; pounding silverware in the freshman dining hall to greet the teen-age female (in this instance our Russ Beckwith's Susie); touch football on the campus; the familiar stores of Co-op, Campion's, and Dartmouth Book Store; Rollins Chapel bells beating out the clang of victory over Holy Cross; the spine tingling music of "Men of Dartmouth," "As the Backs Go Tearing By" and others as the enthusiastic crowd gathered at Hanover Inn corner to welcome the football team returning from Worcester; Coach Blackman's fine impression on the crowd; and so many other memory joggers. Yes, there's much of the old still amongst the new - Dartmouth Spirit, Dartmouth Row, Herb West, and ten of '6iers, too.
Dick Holbrook has volunteered to go to work on the preparation of the 1931 Class Report (usually published at the time of a '25th Reunion), with the expectation that it will be ready for distribution just before our advanced '30th in June i960. Please answer all correspondence promptly and completely when you receive it. This is imperative for a good book. A Wah Hoo Wah for Dick!
The Chicago group held its second '31 luncheon in October, and it was good to hear that new faces appeared, including that of Sam Taylor all the way from Taylorville (way down state), Ill. If you should be, and aren't on the mailing list for these meetings, write to me and you will be.
Jim Godfrey, our Bequest Chairman, brings us up to date with this report: "I think the members of the class will be interested in learning of two bequests recently reported to the College. Ed Sieminski left $1,000.00 to the College by his will and T. James Harvey bequeathed $1,000.00 to the College in memory of his son Howie, who was a member of our class.
"While Bunny and I were in Europe last summer we spent some time with our son Jim who is in Military Service in Southern Germany.... Our daughter Kitty, spending the summer in Europe with a college group, met us in Heidelberg for a family reunion." Any one going near Concord, N. H., should see Jim's color slides of the Swiss Alps. They are masterful. Jim recently picked up at auction an old phonograph for Dick Holbrook. It's a 1906 model. When unpacking his "find," Dick found the shipping carton was lined with a few pages of the November 18, 1928 issue of the Boston Sunday Post. The headline, under an Ithaca, N. Y., date line read: "Indians Crush Cornell 28-0. Green Makes 21 points in Ist Period on dazzling air onslaught in which Shep Wolff Scintilates." Shep sent me word that Len Clark's son Butch was married May 11, and there has also arrived an announcement from Jack and Mary Warwick to the effect that their daughter Katherine was married to Frederick C. Dyson on Sept. 7, at Bronxville, N. Y. Congratulations to the Clarks and the Warwicks.
Line Page reports he and Esther took son Norman to Hanover to matriculate and will be near there tor two weeks in late October with the Harvard game as a finish-off. Line had an extensive western trip through the uranium districts for the U.S. Geological Survey during September, and now back in the Washington area, reports the return to the District of Dave Larabee who has been in Maine making a geologic map of the Danforth area. Thanks, Line, and we regret Norman was not able to make the "sons of '31 feed."
Don Stoddard has taken another big step with Guaranty Trust in New York. He was recently elevated to vice president. A '31 rrrumph for you Don! Don Jr. '60 was ill at the time of the Oct. 19 feed at The Keene's and we missed having him.
September and to mid-October found these other 'giers as visitors to Hanover: John Chamberlain. Johnny Boermeester, Hank Richmond, Johnny Benson, Mai Hall, Red Gristede, and Dave Borkum. On "movers" this fall we get word of Howard Mason now in Ellington, Conn., and Bill Walrath to Golden, Colo. His new firm of Walrath Heating and Air Conditioning Co. is at 1520 Dudley St., Denver 15, Colo.
This reporting month for alumni contributorshas meant some "left-out" news. Hopeyou find your name in our list of contributors and that it may be there next year too.Have an extremely Merry Christmas!
1931 Fund Contributors
395 Gifts (Participation Index 82)Total Gifts: $20,432.70 (98% of Objective)WILLIAM F. STECK, Class Agent
Acheson, George R., Jr. Akerlund, Andrez P. Alcorn, Robert H. Almond, Henry Alton, William H., Jr. Anderson, Courtney A. Anderson, Kenneth L. Anderson, Robert R. Andres, Harold Andrews, Leon F. Ash, Barney Asher, Robert E. Austin, Basil F. Babbitt, Charles A. Ball, Baxter F. Barker, Robert H. Barnum, Russell P. Baron, William K. Bean, Delcie D., Jr. Beckwith, H. Russell, Jr. Beisel, Albert R., Jr. Bender, David J. Benger, William L. Benson, John K. Bettman, Irvin M., Jr. Biesel, Robert G. Billings, Lester K. Birkett, Arthur H., Jr. Blatz, Frank H. Bliss, George O. Blomberge, Harry D.1 Boardman, Arthur G., Jr. Boermeester, John M. Bond, Harold H. Borkum, David N. Bowen, Lloyd F. Boyce, Charles L.1 Boyle, Bernard L., Jr. Boynton, Perry S., Jr. Briggs, Charles A., 2nd Brock, Bertram J. Bromberg, Gabriel Brooke, Charles W., Jr. Brummer, Edward C. Burge, Edward S. Burkhardt, Frederic S. Burrill, Edward B. Burroughs, Henry B.2 Buxbaum, Herman S. Byrne, William A. Campbell, Edmund M. 1 Camph, John A. 1 Carpenter, Parker 1 Carrington, B. W., Jr. Carver, Gordon M. Casseres, William D. G. Caverly, Robert W. Chamberlin, John B. Chamberlin, John H. Charlton, Ralph W. Chase, Richard B. Child, Samuel B. Choate, Joseph E. Clark, Leonard J. Clarke, John M. Clarke, Rodney G., Jr.3 Clarkson, Frank B. Clisby, Philip J. Clow, Stephen E. Cogswell, John W. Cole, John N. Co ley, George A. Conklin, George W. Conklin, William S. Cooley, Emerson F. Cram, Spencer E. Crane, Donald R. Crocker, Samuel W. Crosse, Howard D. Cruikshank, Donald B. Cukor, Richard M. Cunningham, John F., Jr. Curtiss, Edgar F. Danforth, Theodore L. 1 Davis, John E. Day, Durfee L. 1 Dean, Abner Denby, Richard A. Denham, Daniel Derby, Gordon H. Dickerman, Vance Dickey, Robert M. Dodge, Rodney W. Donner, Roger B. Douglas, Walter D., 2nd Downey, William H., Jr. Dwyer, Charles W. Eagan, Thomas F., Jr. Eldredge, H. Wentworth Elmer, Edward 0., Jr. Engstrom, Charles G. Esersky, Joseph Evans, Peter B. Fall, Kingsley R. Fannin, James C. Farley, Walter L., Jr. Feltner, John B. Findlay, Ronald W. Fisher, Richard Fleming, Kenneth E. Flynn, Edward A. Frame, James T., Jr. Frankel, George E. Fraser, Robert W., Jr. Fraser, William S., Jr. Frederick, Robert G. Freeman, Gaylord A., Jr. Frisby, John D. GafFord, Thomas F., Jr. Galley, Henry W., Jr. Garson, Byron J. Gathright, Joseph R. Gehring, Carl W., Jr. Geiger, William A.4 Gilchrist, Hart D. Gilpatric, George H. Glickman, Harold Godfrey, James B. Goodwillie, John J. Gorsline, William H. Gould, Allison A. Gould, William C. Grant, William W., Jr. Greenlund, Nelson C. Griggs, Chandler B. Gristede, Charles A. Groves, Samuel A. Gruen, Edward D. Guernsey, H. Sherwood Hale, Robert L. Hall, Lindsey M. Hall, Malcolm W. Hall, Stephen G. Hallenbeck, Millard O. Hamerstrom, F. N., Jr. Hamilton, Richard A. Hanauer, Edmund M. Hanson, Harry E.5, 6 Harms, Feodor A. Harris, Clifford E. Harvey, Howard E.1 Hase, John H. Hausman, Walter J., Jr. Hawkins, George A. Hayden, William-R. S. Hays, Frank W. Hayward, Oliver S. Henry, Richard M. Herget, John C. Herwitz, Victor J. Hetfield, George F. Hickin, Robert J. Hill, Charles B., Jr. Hobbs, Orodon S. Hodson, Frank E. Holbrook, Richard G. Holden, Philip L. Holland, Robert C. Holman, Howard F., Jr. Hovey, David Howard, George C. Hubbard, Charles C. Huckins, Joseph G.1 Hunter, Ralph W. Huntley, Robert A. Hutton, Eban B. Jablonski, Stanley M. Jaquith, Hawley Johnson, Henry L., Jr. Johnson, Theodore S. Jonas, Ralph F. Jones, Nathaniel E.1 Karasik, Monroe Kelley, David W. Kent, Edgar H. Kent, Francis W. Kimball, James A. Klein, Lester J. Klein, Morton A., Jr. Knight, Richard A. Krider, Paul O. Lane, Harold H. Langenbach, Edward R. Larrabee, David M. Leach, A. Searle Leffingwell, D. A., Jr. Leuthner, John G. Levison, Melvin S. Light, Wilbur R. Lili, George, 2nd Little, William E. Loudon, Thomas D. Loveland, David S. Lull, Arthur S. Lyall, James McAllister, Charles S. McCarthy, Henry J. McCord, Frank P. McCullough, Brantley C. McDonald, W. Clifford McDonough, John T. McElroy, James F. Mclntyre, William H. MacKechnie, John G. McKenney, Leo F. McKnight, Frank B. McLean, E. Allan McQueeny, Charles A. MacVean, Homer G. Maas, Edward J. Marcy, John W. Marsh, William H., Jr. Martin, Albert G. Martin, John B., Jr. Marx, Charles S. Mason, Howard F. Matteson, Willard E. Maynard, Ralph T. Mecutchen, Edward T. Mendell, Charles S., Jr. Merriam, Joseph P. Merriman, Frank G. Miller, Blaine H., Jr. Miller, E. Spencer Miller, George H. Miller, William C. Milos, John F. Minehan, William B. Moore, Ernest H. Moore, G. Bedell Montgomery, Wilder P. Morris, G. Douglas Murphy, William L. Murray, Edward E. Neely, Hugh F. Nelson, John M. Nichols, C. Maynard Nichols, Franklin T. Nickum, George C. Nims, Charles S. Nims, Ralph O. Nutt, William F. O'Connor, Edwin J. O'Connor, Martin B. Oelman, Robert S. O'Keeffe, Adrian F. Oleksiw, Nicholas B. Oltman, Robert B. Omasta, Samuel O'Neill, Charles K. Page, Lincoln R. Palmer, William E. Park, Robert E. Parmalee, Charles E. Pastore, Edward W. Patterson, J. Thomas Patterson, Reed M. Peirce, Phillip C. Peterson, Roland F. Phillips, George L. Phinney, William L. Picken, Edward C. Pierce, W. Parker Pitkin, Edgar S. Pope, Francis M. Porter, Richard S. Powell, Robert H. Pratt, Malcolm L. Proctor, George N., 3rd Purdy, James A. Radin, Harold E. Reed, Henry Clinton Reno, John H. Rhetts, Edward Rice, James W., Jr. Rich, Arnold B. Richardson, Roger K. Richmond, J. Henry Rick, James, 3rd Rikkola, Allan A. Roberts, Charles D. Robinson, Charles L. Robinson, Raymond L. Rockhill, Victor E. Rogers, John O. Rogers, Nickerson Rolfe, Norman C. Rolfe, Robert A. Rosen, Ned N. Rosenblum, Elmer M. Rothschild, Edwin A. Rubin, Sidney S. Rwshton, Joseph G. Ruskay, Joseph A. Russell, F. Forsha Rusterholtz, Wallace P. Ryder, Charles D., Jr. Ryan, Michael T. Sampson, Kenneth E. Sankey, Richard E. Schackne, John R. Schneider, Charles A. Schneider, Horace W. Schuldenfrei, William H. Schuyler, William M. Seder, Harold E. Seepe, Arthur W. Seiden, Milton Seney, Wilson T. Sherman, Saul H. Sieminski, Edmund6 Siferd, Willis S., Jr. Simonson, Charles A. Slaughter, Fred A. Sloane, Robert R.5' 7 Smith, Arthur Thad, Jr. Smith, Elgene A. Smith, Montague T. Smith, Stephen W. Smith, William H., 2nd Snow, Tower C. Soule, Parker F., Jr. Spiegel, Arthur H. Spotts, Robert L. Steck, William F. Stevens, George N. Stoddard, Donald A. Strassberger, Jesse L. Studwell, Edwin F. Sudduth, James B. Sullivan, Charles L. Sutton, Allard A. Swift, William B., Jr. Symonds, Edmund A. Taylor, H, Lewis Taylor, Samuel M. Taylor, Wesley O. Tetzlaff, Frederick W. Thomas, Caleb H. Thomas, Harry H., Jr. Thompson, Ward E. Thorn, Craig, Jr. Thornley, William F. Thorsen, J. Wallace Thursfield, Richard E. Tingle, Duncan B. Toomey, David E.. Torras, Alvaro G. Tucker, Lawrence H. Uglow, George S. Vernon, Hollis E. Wagner, Robert S. Walker, Clifford R. Walker, William E. Wallace, Robert A. Walsh, William J. Walter, Hart E. Wardle, Ralph M. Warne, Charles C., Jr. Warwick, Jack R. Waterman, William B. Watson, Henry P. Weatherley, John S. Wein, George H. Weisert, John C. Welch, Frank K. Wendell, William T. West, Edwin A. Weston, Payson G. Whitcher, Wendell J. Whitehill, Buell B., Jr. Whittinghill, Maurice Wiles, Kellen Williams, John R., Jr. Williams, Roger P. Williams, Stanley E. Williams, Stephen B. Williams, Thomas F., Jr. Willson, Eugene B. Wilson, Douglas E. Wilson, Henry W., Jr. Wilson, Lloyd 8., Jr. Wilson, William L. Winkler, David P. Winslow, C. Eliot Wolcott, John J., Jr. Wolfe, Gilbert L. Wolff, Allan 1., Jr. Wolff, Willard C. Wollaeger, Eric E. Woodring, E. Douglas Woodruff, William E.s Woodward, H. R., Jr. Zimmerman, Robert E. Zinn, Martin, Jr.
MEMORIAL GIFTS FB.OM:
1 Robert C. Holland '31.
2 Brother, Robert P.Burroughs '21.
3 Richard G. Holbrook'31.
4 Robert L. Hale '31.
5 Charles A. Gristede '31.
6 Samuel M. Taylor '31.
7 Henry P. Watson '31.
8 Afrj. IFoodruff.
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Bequest Chairman,
