1931

This job of class secretary can be taken a lot of ways I guess but since I've had it, two ways appear to me to be the most prominent. The first is to consider it a pain in the neck because it is a tough job to get news directly from any of you - if it weren't for the folks in the Alumni Records department I'd give up because there would just be no news. The second way to take it is to try to make it fun by taking the individual named in each article as it is received and then start digging into the 1931 year book and the 25th year book to get some background material. The second way, of course, is the best way and so far it has been fun. My only complaint again is that enough of you fellows aren't doing enough things that attract attention to get your names in the papers (whether they be news or trade or magazines doesn't matter) with the result that only a few articles a month dribble through from the Alumni News record service which in turn means that I don't have many backgrounds to look up which also in turn means I don't have as much fun as I should have with the job. So get busy, go out and do something and get yourself written up so we'll know what's going on. What's the matter with you fellows in the other parts of the country? Again this month all (?) the articles are about Eastern fellows! If you don't have the ambitions at this stage of the game (I guess we're all over fifty now and it's getting pretty late in the game) to do as requested and go out and do something to get yourself written up then why not do something a lot easier and perhaps a lot more simple, more friendly, more revealing, more understandable and much more satisfactory to both you and me and our classmates and just sit down soon and write me a nice little letter about yourself, your family and your own "little" doings. There's nothing truer in the world, as I see it now, than the saying that "it's the little things in life that count." Tell them to me won't you so I can pass them along in this column to your many good old classmates who'd love to hear from and about you and yours. Don't wait until they have to read them in the In Memoriam section. Writing those articles is certainly not a nice part of this job and I found it difficult to present the facts about Dave Hovey and "Pap" Papworth this month. So won't you please drop me a note soon!

Sam Groves, president of United-Carr Fastener Corporation of Boston, has been elected a director of the First National Bank of Boston, which enhances his already eminent place in the Hub City's business community. Sam is also a director of his own company, the Monadnock Mills of California, and the Boston Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Co. Since 1957 he has been president of United-Carr, which makes all sorts of fasteners for the automotive, clothing, electronics, appliances, aircraft and furniture industries.

Some one like Jack Weisert should be able to fill this whole column with his doings. His address change just came through USOM/ Lebanon, c/o Dept. of State, Washington 25, D. C. That's a fascinating title and there must be loads of interesting things taking place in a job like that. How about coming through with some news Jack?

Also a change of address for Marty Zinn, Manufacturer's Representative, 9814 Kilarney, Dallas 18, Texas. Marty always had to put up with me in the classes we had together because "W" and "Z" are neighbors. Let's still be neighbors Marty and write and tell me all about it. Manufacturer's representatives are an active group and always get around a lot. What fellows have you bumped into down your way?

A change of address for Howie Mason, 8 Arvid Road, Portland, Conn., goes along with a nice news article. The Middletown, Conn., paper states, "Dr. Howard F. Mason, superintendent of the Portland Public Schools, will be guest speaker at the open meeting of the Portland Odd Fellows. Dr. Mason " will discuss the educational system and the parents relation to the system. Dr. Mason begins his second year as head of the Portland public school system this fall." Howie has been a school superintendent for sixteen years and prior to that was both principal and teacher in high and grade schools. He earned his Master's degree from the University of New Hampshire in 1939, and his doctorate in education from Harvard in 1957. He studied at Teachers College of Columbia and has lectured on education at Dartmouth and at the University of Connecticut. Nice going, Howie, keep it up, our educational systems are invaluable as we all well know and we need fellows like you and Art O'Brien in Framingham, Mass., to keep them at top level.

As most of us know, Tower C. Snow, Suite 300, 3550 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix, Ariz., pulled up his New England stakes and went West and here is his new address."Towdy," you should be a good one to round-up news down that-a-way and relay it back to me for the column. Won't you please do it?

1931 Fund Contributors

407 Gifts (Participation Index 86.2) Total Gifts: $9,153.00 (50.9% of Objective) Class Agent

Abbott, Lee K. Adams, George M., Jr. Akerlund, Andrez P. Alcorn, Robert H. Almond, Henry Alton, William H., Jr. Anderson, Kenneth L. Andres, Harold Andrews, Leon F. Ash, Barney Asher, Robert E. Austin, Basil F. Babbitt, Charles A. Bach, Otto K. Ball, Baxter F. Barker, Robert H. 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. Boardman, Arthur G., Jr. Boermeester, John M. Bond, Harold H. Borkum, David N. Boyle, Bernard L., Jr. *Boyce, Charles L. Boynton, Perry S., Jr. Briggs, Charles A., II Bromberg, Gabriel Brooke, Charles W., Jr. Brummer, Edward C. Burge, Edward S. Burnham, Edward T. Burr, Stiles W. Burrill, Edward B. Burroughs, Henry B.1 Buxbaum, Herman S. Campbell, Edmund M. Camph, John A. Caragher, Edwin G. Carrington, Bennett W., Jr. Caverly, Robert W. Chamberlin, John B. Chamberlin, John H. Chapman, J. Robert Charlton, Ralph W. Chase, Richard B. Child, Samuel B. Choate, Joseph E. Clark, Leonard J. Clark, Rodney G., Jr.2 Clarke, John M. Clarkson, Frank B. Clifford, D. Gordon Clisby, Philip J. Clough, Joseph M. Clow, Stephen E. Cogswell, John W. Cole, John N. Coley, 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. Davis, John E. Day, Durfee L. Dean, Abner Denby, Richard A. Denham, Daniel Derby, Gordon H. Dickerman, Vance Dickey, Robert M. Dilley, Robert V. Dingman, Charles W. Donner, Roger B. Douglas, Walter D., II Downey, William H., Jr. Drury, John B. Dwyer, Charles W. Eagan, Thomas F., Jr.3 Eldredge, H. Wentworth Elmer, Edward 0., Jr. Engstrom, Charles G. Esersky, Joseph Evans, Peter B. Ewers, John C. Ewing, Donald F. Ewing, John R. Fall, Kingsley R. Fannin, James C. Farley, Walter L., Jr. Feltner, John B. Findlay, Ronald W. Fisher, Richard Fleming, Kenneth E. Flynn, Edward A. Fox, Keith Frame, James T., Jr. Frankel, George E. Fraser, Kenneth W. Fraser, Robert W., Jr. Frederick, Robert G. Freeman, GaylordA., Jr. Frisby, John D. Gafford, Thomas F., Jr. Galley, H. William, Jr. Garson, Byron J. Gathright, Joseph R. Gavan, Francis M. Gehring, Carl W., Jr. Geiger, William A.4 Gilchrist, Hart D. Gilmore, John A. Gilpatric, George H. Glickman, Harold Godfrey, James B. Goodwillie, John J. Gould, Allison A. 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. HaMenbeck, Millard O. Hamerstrom, Frederick N. Hamilton, Richard A. Hanauer, Edmund M. Hanlon, William E. Hanson, Harry E.5 Harmon, Carlyle H. Harms, Feodor A. Harpin, Richard R. Harris, Clifford E. *Harvey, Howard E. Hase, John H. Hawkins, George A. Hayden, William S. Hayes, William S. Hays, Frank W. Hayward, Oliver S. Hedstrom, Olof H. Henry, Richard M. Herget, John C. 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. Huckins, Joseph G.6 Hunter, Ralph W. Huntley, Robert A. Hutchinson, Edward C. Hyman, Arthur S. Jaquith, Hawley Johnson, Henry L., Jr. Johnson, Theodore S. Johnson, Willard F. Jonas, Ralph F. *Jones, Nathaniel E. Karasik, Monroe Kelley, David W. Kent, Edgar H. Kent, Francis W. Kimball, James A. King, Victor R. Klein, Lester J. Klein, Morton K., Jr. Knight, Richard A. Krider, Paul O. Kyle, Arthur C., Jr. Lane, Harold H. Langenbach, Edward R. Larrabee, David M. Laughton, A. W. Leach, A. Searle Leuthner, John G. Levison, Melvin S. Light, Wilbur R. Linnell, Harrison R. Linz, Joseph S. Little, William E. Loudon, Thomas D. Loveland, David S. Lull, Arthur S. Lyall, James Lyons, William E. Maas, Edward J. McAllister, Charles S. McCarthy,. Henry J. McCord, Frank P. McCortney, John H. McCullough, Brantley C. McDonald, W. Clifford McDonough, John T. McElroy, James F. Mclntyre, William H. McKechnie, John G. McKenney, Leo F. Mackinnon, Tristram A. McKnight, Frank B. McLean, E. Allen McQueeny, Charles A. MacVean, Homer G. Marcy, John W. Marsh, William H., Jr. Martin, Albert G. Martin, John B., Jr. Marx, Charles S. Mason, Howard F. Matteson, Willard E. Mecutchen, Edward T. Mendell, Charles S., Jr. Merriam, Joseph P. Miller, Blaine H., Jr. Miller, E. Spencer Miller, George H. Miller, William C. Milos, John F. Minehan, William B. Montgomery, Wilder P. Moore, Ernest H. Moore, G. Bedell Morris, G. Douglas Murphy, William L. Myllykangas, Lauri E.3 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. 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. Pas to re, Edward W. Patterson, J. Thomas Patterson, Reed M. Peacock, John A. Pederson, W. Sherman Peirce, Phillip C. Peterson, Roland F. Phillips, George L. Phinney, William L. Picken, Edward C. Pierce, W. Parker Pitkin, Edgar S. Porter, Richard S. Power, Clifton W. Pratt, Malcolm L. Proctor, George N., III Purdy, James A. Radin, Harold E. Reed, Henry C. Reno, John H. Rhetts, Edward Rice, James W. Rich, Arnold B. Richardson, Roger K. Richmond, J. Henry Rick, James, III Rikkola, Allan A. Roberts, Charles D. Robins, George M. Robinson, Charles L. Robinson, Raymond L. Rockhill, Victor E. Rogers, Nickerson Rolfe, Robert A. Rosen, Ned N. Rosenblum, Elmer M. Rosengrem, Merrill S. Rubin, Sidney S. Rushton, Joseph G. Ruskay, Joseph A. Russell, F. Forsha Rusterholtz, Wallace P. Ryan, M. Thomas Ryder, Charles D., Jr. Sampson, Kenneth E. Sankey, Richard E.7 Schackne, John R. Schneider, Charles A. Schuldenfrei, William H. Schumacher, Albert L. Schuyler, William M. Seder, Harold E. Seepe, Arthur W. Seiden, Milton Seney, Wilson T. Shearman, Keith W. Sherman, Saul H. Sieminski, Edmund 8, 5 Siferd, Willis S., Jr. Simonson, Charles A. Slaughter, Fred A. Sloane, Robert R.5 Smith, Arthur T., Jr. Smith, Elgene A. Smith, Montague T. Smith, Stephen W. Smith, William H., II Snow, Tower C. Soule, Parker F., Jr. Spotts, Robert L. Steck, William F. Stevens, George N. Stevens, William F. Stoddard, Donald A. Studwell, Edwin F. Sudduth, James B. Sullivan, Charles L. Sutton, Allard A. Swift, William B. Symonds, Edmund A. Taylor, H. Lewis Taylor, Millard D. Taylor, Samuel M. Tetzlaff, Frederick W. Thomas, Caleb H. Thompson, Ward E. Thorn, Craig, Jr. Thornley, William F. Thursfield, Richard E. Tonis, Robert Toomey, David E. Torras, Alvaro G. Tucker, Lawrence H. Uglow, George S. Verity, James L. Vernon, Hollis E. Wagner, Robert S. Walker, Clifford R. Walker, William E. Wallace, Robert A. Walrath, William H. Walsh, William J. Walter, Hart E. Wardle, Ralph M. Warne, Charles E., Jr. Warwick, Jack R. Waterman, William B. Watson, Henry P. Watson, Joseph C. Weatherley, John S. Wein, George H. Welch, Frank K. Wendell, William T. West, Edwin A. Weston, Payson G. Whitcher, Wendell J. White, William W. Whitehall, 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 B., Jr. Wilson, William L. Winslow, C. Eliot Wolcott, John J., Jr. Wolff, Allan I., Jr. Wolff, Willard C. Wollaeger, Eric E. Woodring, E. Douglas Woodward, H. Russell, Jr. Zimmerman, Robert E. Zinn, Martin, Jr.

MEMORIAL GIFTS FROM:

1 Brother, Robert P.Burroughs '21.

2 Richard G. Holbrook'31.

3 Edward D. Gruen '3.

4 Robert L. Hale '31.

5 Charles A. Gristede'31.

6 Basil F. Austin '31.

7 Vance Dickerman '31.

8 Income, EdmundSieminski Fund.

* Memorial Gift throughCapital Campaign.

Milt Seiden '31 (r) greets a well-known alumnus, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller '30. Co-directorof the Lido Hotel, Beach Club, and GolfClub on Long Island, Milt was host at a political dinner in October.

Secretary, 36 Shaw Drive, Wayland, Mass.

Treasurer, 40 Water St., Boston, Mass.