1931

With Bob Blackman's Big Green featured in the November 8 Saturday Evening Post and in reminiscence of a picturesque season including a tough loss to Holy Cross, permit me a short reference to the year earlier season of 1957 when we took the Crusaders of Worcester by an equally close margin, resulting in this' choice tidbit in the following day's Hartford, Conn., Courant: "Dartmouth's never-sav-die Indians scored two fourth period touchdowns today for a 14-7 victory over Holy Cross to maintain an unbeaten football season. Joe Palermo, Dartmouth's great center, booted both conversions for the sinners " Whether that word "sinners" was an editorial accident or not, it was somehow prophetic of this year.

This month's report by your secretary to you semi-literate classmates will be more qualitative than quantitative, which explains the endearing term "semi-literate" - meaning, of course, that all of you can read but a distressing though much appreciated few of you can write in the direction of this elected reporter. A tip of the cap and a tilt of the kilt to Johnny Johnson for his good letter reporting that during the summer he saw Ralph and Phyllis Charlton and Sher and Margaret Guernsey at the Charlton's summer camp on Green Pond in New Jersey, where they held a second annual reunion of our big 25th. Don Ewing and his wife were also there, and Jack Gilmore, his wife and family made it the year before. In Albany, Bill Murphy and Bill Fenton join Johnny in holding up the '31 attendance at the weekly luncheons. Johnny also reports that Beany Thorn is "quietly hibernating" down the river in Hudson. (This should bring a response from our veteran class scribe.) Johnny has also seen Art Ecker and Dave Kelley. Johnny forwarded an obituary notice about Tom Eagan who died in Fall River on October 17. Tom died after a long illness which had brought him home to Fall River after being stationed for 12 years with the Standard Oil Company in Aruba, Netherlands, West Indies. Remembering Tom personally, as many of you will, for his tremendous competitive spirit in varsity baseball and soccer, where he starred in spite of his slight build, we can be sure that he was the last to give in to even a fatal illness.

Jack Davis has been appointed chief industrial engineer of the Brown Company, northern New England manufacturers of paper and pulp products. Hank Richmond has been elected president, of the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute. Hank has for a number of years been in the manufacture of machinery for producing and printing paper bags and is a member of the Institute of Packaging of Great Britain. A post card which Hank sent earlier this fall from the Brussels Exposition testified to the breadth of his business travels.

George Miller reports that he is moving to Peoria, Ill., where he will become the Actuary of the Illinois Mutual Life and Casualty Company. Bill Steck bucked me an interesting excerpt from the Cleveland Plain Dealer revealing that the recently completed and handsome acoustical shell in Severance Hall, home of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, was designed by architect Ed Flynn.

Jim and Esther Purdy and son Andy '60 were present at our October Bema Buffet in Hanover and I have since learned, not from Jim, that he is assistant vice president of the Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company of Buffalo and, in addition, is chairman of the New York State Bankers Association comprising all of the banks in the eight western counties. Jim's newly reported address is 93 Norwood Ave., Buffalo 22, N.Y.

For the information of those of you who have any intention of, or inclination to write to your classmates (after you have written to me, of course) here are recently reported address changes:

Rog Donner, 125 Edgecliff Rd., Rosslyn Farms, Carnegie, Penna.; Bob Frederick, 1000 Forest Ave., Rye, N. Y.; Frank McKnight, 3081 N. F. 15th Terrace, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Ralph Maynard R. D. 1, Schnecksville, Penna.; Jim Rice, 2831 S. W. 167th PI., Seattle, Wash.; Wes Taylor, 23 Western Ave., Augusta, Me.; Ed Burnham, Wallis Road, Rye, N. H.

And now, to bring you to the reality of the approaching year-end Holiday Season, may I wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a Gratifying New Year!

Secretary, 734 Keystone, River Forest, Ill

Treasurer, The Elms, 2701 S. Dort Highway Flint, Mich.

Bequest Chairman,