1931
Trudy and I emptied out the sugar bowl this fall and went to two football games - Penn and Yale. Lack of space precludes my cataloguing all the thirty-oners who were present and these and others, except that I feel I should mention George and Anne Conklin, Sher and Betty Guernsey, Jim and Harriet Lyall, Jack and Margaret Leuthner, Jack and Lucy Cogswell, Rex and Jessie Fall as being at the Yale game, and I probably left someone out. John Boermeester will detail the Penn weekend where over 40 of us showed up.
The one who impressed me most at Penn was George Coley who was sporting a pair of luxuriant gray sideburns.
Beany Thorn writes: "Don't recall that you ever had proper training in the DOC for cooking hot dogs (viz. Penn reunion under tent). Saw George Frankel sitting on the Inn's rocking chair with the missus - he's retired from this crazy insurance game, has been very VIP around Cleveland. Ran into trainee from Boston working at our local boys' club who is under supervision of the national training man, one Ed Pastore. Instructed trainee to give said Pastore hell for neglecting honorable Class of '31. Must admit trainee spoke extremely highly of our wayward bro. Yours truly ended up in the coronary section of the Hanover Stadium at the Penn game and I got hysterical noting those surrounding us, most of whom should not have even attempted to get home again. Greatly enjoyed the story from one bro. and wife of freshman son asking them to bring along freshmen from Yale who turned out to be female, who slept in son's dormitory room, as the thing to do these days with no sex involved necessarily - what a savings from our day, what a life! Ho hum!" Thanks, Beany, and we all sure were glad to see you looking so well after your bout with a coronary last July.
From Monk McCord: "Here are the dues, Shep, and welcome to them. Next year we may not have the dough. Retirement is just around the corner; I am delighted but there is no question about there being a fiscal problem. Have bougnt some acres in Columbia County, N. Y. and Alice and I just may move up there in the near future."
Sher Guernsey has retired into the apple-growing business - just enough activity to keep him from becoming indolent and lazy.
Having sold their property in South Pomfret, Vt., Shep and Harriette Wolff have acquired a small hill in Etna, N. H., and are immediately constructing a cozy nest only a stone's throw from football practice areas. They're going south this winter.
Peanuts Winslow really didn't give the new 96-foot tugboat to his wife for a Christmas present - he merely named it after her. Tug is used to dock oil tankers and assist in moving cargo ships and Navy destroyers at the Bath Iron Works on the Kennebec River. He continues to operate the "Argo" out of Boothbay Harbor during the summer months.
Dr. Ralph Hunter accepted a souvenir album of the new Daniel Webster stamps, elegantly bound in green, from the Post Office Department, for the Hanover Historical Society, on the first day of issue of the stamps.
Short note from Bob Dickey states that he has now retired, has moved to Sudbury, Mass., and spent a weekend with his wife at one of George Gilpatrick's cottages at Chatham, on Cape Cod.
Dave Kelly spotted Red Hanlon at the Harvard game, and found that Red is teaching in Wenham, Mass. Incidentally, following the Harvard game, Johnny Johnson had a few of us to an open house in his delightful abode in Abington. Present were Art and Harriett Birkett, Ken and Billie Sampson, Dave and (daughter) Donna Kelly,Trudy and Roger Burrill. Great time and great conversation.
Chuck O'Neill is reported improving after a hip operation early in the year. He was on crutches for weeks and then graduated to a cane. Chuck's son, Trevor, is '73 and the second member of the clan to come to Dartmouth. Denis '70 is captain of varsity hockey this year - a great defenseman.
Charlie Engstrom was at Alumni College this past summer and left a note of greeting on Parker Soule's desk during the latter's vacation absence.
Ralph Maynard planned to attend Yale and Princeton football games, according to his note to Shep. Ralph has bounced to South America and back just twelve times since last Christmas, but he didn't say why. Why, Ralph?
A note from Bob Dilley states he is also retired, and plans to become active in the British Virgin Islands during the next 12 months. Expects to crew on a 41-foot sailboat on a trip from Long Island, N. Y. to Tortola, B.V.I., taking about three weeks for the trip.
Big article in the Boston Globe about BobTonis, chief of Harvard's campus police, with 63 men under him. He's busy enough, as you can imagine, with all the campus frothing and turmoil. He says "Youth is basically good - perhaps in general better than other generations - yet they are moving into dangerous waters like sailors in a stormy sea." Bob, I hope I quoted this out of poor context so I can get a reaction from you.
Fred Tetzlaft burns some of his spare energy as chairman of the Annual Giving Campaign at Abington Memorial Hospital in Ambler, Pa. He, of course, is presently a vice president and member of the board of directors of Rohm and Haas Co., Philadelphia.
John B. Martin, special assistant to the President on aging, has asked the President for action in our behalf. '31 has done well at this stage of life, as we approach our 40th reunion, to place a man like John in this strategic position, and we trust that he will get the vital information to his classmates on a basis of first priority.
Secretary, 23 Coughlin Rd. North Easton, Mass. 02356
Treasurer, Stage Road, South Pomfret, Vt. 05067
