1931

Ed Brummer "in the Monadnock Region of Southern New Hampshire—the nearest mountain resort area to Boston - only five hours from New York City - for sunny days and cool nights - and New Hampshire Country Life Vacation Resort" certainly must rate highly with the State Chamber of Commerce with all those nice statements about the lovely state of New Hampshire on his stationery! After all, you've gotta tell 'em to sell 'em and Ed must sell 'em because he's been going steadily at this resort business now for a long time.

Ed's son graduated last fall from Crushing Academy, Ashburnham, Mass. (near Springfield). He naturally receives the school's publications and in one of them Ed spotted a news item to the effect that Dick Knight has been elected president of their Alumni Association at Cushing. Dick graduated from there and has had two daughters there. BeanyThorn has a daughter there and Dick Chase's daughter graduated a couple of years ago. Cushing certainly must be a nice place and a good school to attract so many nice people. Thanks for the letter, Ed!

1931 is keeping a finger on campus doings since "E. Spencer Miller, prexy of the Maine Central Railroad, has been honored by his Alma Mater with a reappointment to the Board of Overseers of Hanover Inn at Dartmouth College. The term is for three years. The Board, eleven members strong, is responsible for the over-all management of the Inn and Motor Lodge. Spence had previously served four terms as the Alumni Council representative on the Board."

Last July, an article tucked into a Washington paper announced that Charles Edward Rhetts of Indiana was unanimously nominated to be Ambassador to Liberia. I know the Alumni's Records office is pretty slick at keeping track of people, so I therefore suspect that the MAGAZINE gets to Ed remote as he is from Hanover and if this is so, and if Ed reads this column, I hope that he will react favorably to the suggestion that he forward a bit of news to me about himself, his job, and Liberia. Ed's picture in the 25th year book is a dandy he looks real distinguished and ambassadorish - I suggest you take a look at it!

Each time I refer to the 25th year book I can't help but "re-realize" what an outstandingly good job Dick Holbrook did for the Class in its preparation and publication — thanks many, many times over again, Dick.

"Church-State Problems in Public Education" has been a rather ticklish subject going the rounds in Massachusetts in recent months. Not too long ago the Waltham News-Tribune stated that our Albert R.Beisel Jr. led a discussion about it. Hope it all came out all right. After Dartmouth, Al went to Yale Law School, and he is now professor of constitutional law at Boston University Law School and is chairman of the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union.

Our boy, Gaylord Freeman keeps right on piling up the prestige. Os Skinner, secretary of '28, was good enough to send me a notice of the Caterpillar Tractor Company's annual stockholders' meeting. The notice contains a good picture and a write-up a bout Gale's accomplishments and states that he has been a director since January 1963.

A few days ago from out of the wilderness came the friendly voice of Ed Studwell. He used to get to Boston frequently up until a few years ago. Now, however, the visits are few and all too far between, so hearing from him was not only pleasing but doubly surprising. His call was from the Red Coach Inn about five minutes from our house so I ducked down and had a drink with him (since Harriet and I had finished our dinner) while he finished his dinner. He and his business associate then dropped in at our house and Harriet and I had a good time reminiscing with him and getting brought up-to-date. Ed has been crazy about his diesel oil-powered Mercedes for some years. He had a new one this time though and explained that his original one was still percolating fine, was now owned by his son and had some fabulous number of miles run up on it. The flying bug has now caught his fancy and he got his pilot's license about a year ago. As those of you who got to know Ed well at school would expect, he's had some hair-raising experiences! On one occasion he had to make a quickie stop-off at the Kansas City airport so he called our "most handsome classmate," ForshaRussell, and was lucky enough to catch him by phone. Forsh, you were good enough to send me some news last year - how about another bit? Just a shortie will do and it'll take only a minute.

Ernie Moore is still the good news man and reports that he was with the following fellows at the Annual Boston D Club Dinson, Johnny Boermeester, Johnny Benson, Rollie Peterson, Ori Hobbs and Hank Mc-Carthy. Ken Sampson was at the head table representing the South Shore group.

The brevity of this column will be explained next month. Excuse me this time.

Secretary, 36 Shaw Drive, Wayland, Mass.

Class Agent, 227 Wells St., Bridgeport 6, Conn.