1931

The news has just come in that Bill Benger died on November 21. There's not enough time as we go to press to say all that should be said. Full details will appear in the next issue. We have suffered a great loss.

Bill Wilson, still not discouraged by my cavalier treatment of him at the Class picnic, quietly came into, and out of Boston after having addressed the Council for the Advancement of Small Colleges on the subject: "The Interdependence of Business and Education." Bob Dilly is now full-time Director of the Chamber of Commerce, Princeton, N. J. Should be able to do some real scouting from that vantage. Jim Laughton writes about the shore at Makaha, Hawaii where he lives. He goes swimming and fishing every day and still finds time to do his work for the Navy. He has invited us all to be his guests. Let's set up a committee.

Jim Swift, still getting in his spadework, reports about 30 assistant agents have signed up. He had lunch in Indianapolis recently with John Clarke. He also reports that Charlie Hubbard is retiring from the Travelers Insurance Company after 35 years and is returning to Wallingford, Conn. Now what, Charlie?

A copy of the bulletin of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club fell into our hands. Lead story was about Dave Larrabee who has just completed an 18-month tour of duty as Supervisor of Shelters in the Appalachian area between southern Pennsylvania and the Shenandoah National Park. Nineteen shelters were repaired and refurbished with volunteer labor. This work did not interfere with Dave's duties with the U. S. Geological Survey. Sounds like a busy and enjoyable schedule.

Sher Guernsey wishes to be quoted, "It bears repeating again that no effort of this kind really Succeeds without the combined dedication of all classmates; and whatever credit has come to our Class as a result of recent Fund performance is shared by all of us. Of course I am proud of '31 — we all are." OK, Sher, but we're still proud of you.

Joe Linz, my old collaborator, writes that he is out of the jewelry business and into the real estate business in Dallas. Liza and he are building a new home on — of all places - Dartmouth Avenue. Bob Alcorn has written another book "No Banners, No Bands," relating more tales of the Office of Strategic Services during World War 11. This is no 007 - this is for real.

Howard Cross continues to address gatherings of bankers in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. His theme: Meet local credit needs but be conscious of operation costs and make full use of available funds. In other words, keep sharp. Don Cruikshank is vigorously active in Ontario politics, won a hotly contested election in the parliamentary primaries in the North Renfrew district, defeating a strong opponent, a local mayor who had plenty of popular appeal.

Mr. and Mrs. Mel Levison announce the marriage of their daughter Claudia Sue to Ivan I. Robbins in Allentown, Pa. HankMcCarthy seems to be trying to amalgamate Beverly into Boston; his Varian Bomarc Company seems to have commenced the whole "golden circle" of industrial development along Massachusetts' famous Route 128.

Art Marx is involved with the, legal aspects of the General Court of New Hampshire. He had to move to Concord to be nearer the scene of action. Chuck Robinson continues to stir up Dartmouth interest in California. The Glee Club will be out there in March. How times have changed! The only time I ever went out of town with the Glee Club we got no further than Scarsdale!

Johnny Benson is involved with some advance planning of a 1975 Boston World's Fair. Johnny seems to be ready to do anything which will draw money into town! Seriously, this proposed Fair is a very big deal. Dick Henry after spending a year in New York City is now headed for Singapore and Malaysia. Ho-hum.

Luke Watson writes "I could only break 100 at Hanover last August." In Dick Holbrook's 25-year book Luke had said, "I play in the 80's." This is puzzling to me because I always thought that golf was an old man's game. On the other hand, I've never broken 100, so probably I don't understand the problem.

Jim Rice was comfortably re-elected for the third time to the Highline school board, right down on the firing line of community service. Pneumonia kept Len Clark from the Yale game but he expected to attend Princeton's demise. Shep Wolff reports that the following attended the Yale game: Jack Luthner, Johnny Cogswell, Ralph Maynard, Gil Wolfe, Beany Thorne, Doug Woodring, Sher Guernsey, Ed Studwell, Bill Schuldenfrei, Dick Cukor, Spence Miller, Chuck Briggs, and Bill Steck.

COMMERCE DEPT. Delcie Bean sells book matches to the Harvard Club of Boston.

PLANNING DEPT. Peanuts Winslow wants Class reunions held in December, when the ARGO is in the deep freeze.

DEPT. OF FOOTBALL SPORTS. RalphMaynard made Penn, Yale, Columbia, and Princeton games. Dave Borkum made Holy Cross, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton games.

DEPT. OF GRATITUDE. Shep Wolff wrote over 15 letters to Thirty-oners this month, and supplied this scribe with plenty of gossip.

PRESS NOTE. Bill Steck begins his October 29 Newsletter by saying, "This will be a quickie" and then proceeds to fill six pages with class news and names!

MEANWHILE, BACK IN 1927. Abner(Epstein) Dean was elected to the Jacko Board, breaking the college record by qualifying in one issue. Bill Gould was elected captain of cross country frosh. Ed O'Connor was elected captain of football frosh. Thirtyoners led all classes in numbers when 832 Dartmouth men took a freight train to White River Junction to dig out the town after That Flood.

Happy New Year!

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