1931

lust to get you all up-to-date, this is my fourth year as your secretary, and, if you'll count ahead, it is just a year from next June that we'll be having our 40th reunion. If you wish to protest this inexorable process, please assemble on October 10 at Parkhurst Hall with suitable placards. October 10, of course, is Dartmouth Night, on the eve of the Penn game. It is much too late to promote further this affair, but I will let you know what hapepned at our '31 fall reunion in the next issue.

The death of Red Rolfe is mentioned elsewhere in this issue, written by people who knew him better on campus during our postgraduate days than I. I was relieved when I heard that'folks in Hanover would handle this story, although I had been prepared to write it. Bob Rolfe has not only been a credit to our Class, but he was a great asset to us in many ways, as those of us who have returned to Hanover well know.

Our gas-fired hermit of South Pomfret, Vt., Shep Wolff, keeps forwarding valuable bits of gossip and information. Like the news that Peanuts Winslow gave his wife a tugboat for last Christmas. How many of us can boast of such a tender gift?

Shep saw Charlie Babbitt in June, testified that he is trim, slim, and full of ginger. Wish I could say all those things about myself.

The Ed Langenbachs have a summer home in West Windsor, Vt., as well as the RogRichardsons in West Woodstock, so these poor unfortunates occasionally get together with Shep and Harriette to commiserate, etc.

Marv Chandler sent along his Aegis to me, and I belatedly realized that I had not said too much about having received the same volume from Larry Allen. Our small house is beginning to look like a miniature Dartmouth reference library, what with the Aegis, Green Book, Daily Dartmouth file from 1927 to 1931, plus your scribe's voluminous files of correspondence. I wrote Marv thanking him, but still have a surplus of Aegises on hand, where once I had a real deficit.

Orrie Hobbs is working on the project of involving the Class sociologically in the various parts of the country where we tend to congregate. This is a long-range plan, quite meaningful to the relationship of Dartmouth to the country's countless communities. I at least should say that we well might bend an ear to Orrie - and think for ourselves how best we may support Dartmouth in our national community. This probably seems like a large order, but there are some of us who are thinking seriously on the matter of college-community relations. We should con- tribute our share in the building that has to be done. Orrie was appointed to this task at the class officers' meeting last May.

Alfred Jones writes: "My wife and I traveled the British Isles this spring and had a fine reunion with Tower and Mardie Snow during a week spent in London."

I received a great letter from SkeetThomas, who lost his wife this spring. He wants to become active in Class affairs in the Long Island and NYC area; has no plans to retire "ever," is now working with US Steel, having taken over the operating department in their Certified Industries Division. I'm not sure what this means, except that US Steel must certainly be aware that Skeet made an outstanding record in the concrete business in Massachusetts before he went to Huntington, L. I.

Bob Baumrucker keeps in touch regularly, and I refuse to quote him out of context any more. He is active in skiing circles nationally, and saw the chairman of the National Ski Hall of Fame recently. He enclosed a clipping of a National Cash Register advt. published in South Africa, where Bob Oelnian (or his advertising agency) has pictured a fast operating businessman attempting to endear himself with a lovely moist-eyed brunette partly hidden by a bottle of champagne. The businessman says plaintively, "My computer doesn't understand me." The advertisement infers, of course, that NCR computers understand everybody.

Bill Waterman avows to Shep that chances of a New England visit are glimmering, although he has a suspicion that he might get away from Davenport, lowa, this fall to see his daughter at Connecticut College in New London.

John Martin is now U. S. Commissioner for the Aging, living in Chevy Chase, Md; I fully intend to write him a letter complaining about my aging condition.

George Nickum's son has been accepted for Dartmouth this fall. Don Ewing retires from "State" (State Dept.) this year and is looking for a second career. Can't keep a Thirty-oner home by the fireside, can we? Luke Watson admits he's still administering and teaching the Florida State University College Program for the Armed Forces at Charleston, S. C. Air Force Base. Sounds confusing, but I'm sure that Luke has a reason for retaining headquarters for Florida U. at Charleston, S. C. Delcie Bean was elected a trustee of Franklin Pierce College, Rindge, N. H. Gay Freeman, in his position as chairman of the First National Bank of Chicago, says to the press that there should be a major overhaul of the international financial system. Arthur Boardman was elected senior executive vice president of the Irving Trust Co. (New York). EdPicken continues as athletic director of Troy High School (N. Y.). Dick Holbrook kindly sent me a Sunshine Credit Card, good only in Arizona.

And so — we all pursue our individual ways as Thirty-oners. I'll bet there isn't a sideburn in the crowd. Any sideburners please report.

Secretary, 23 Coughlin Rd. North Easton, Mass. 02356

Treasurer, Stage Road, South Pomfret, Vt. 05067