1931

President Bill Minehan kindly sent us many items he had received over the summer. From John Milos a clipping from The WashingtonPost of July 1 showing Mr. and Mrs. John B.Martin were luncheon guests at the White House on the occasion of the presentation of Japan's three-million-dollar gift to the Kennedy Center. From Steve Smith: "We had a trip to California in January, this year, to visit two daughters - one in San Francisco and one in Berkeley. I do a bit of fishing in N.H. now and then. Haven't been duck-hunting in a few years." Milos to Minehan from Carl Carlson, income tax consultant: "My chief success has been to find a very good wife and to father three wonderful daughters who gave us three sons-in-law (all "doctors," one M.D. and two Ph.D.s) and eleven grandchildren." From Bill: "John Milos, retired math professor at U.S.N.A., and wife Sue stopped in Hanover the middle of August on way home from Nova Scotia." From John Goodwillie: "I am sailing on the QueenElizabeth II September 29 to meet my youngest daughter, who is in school in Vienna. We will travel to Berlin, London, and Paris as well as Vienna during her school break." From VanceDickerman: "Both Libby and I enjoyed our first Dartmouth reunion together, and we are convinced that the husbands and wives of the Class of 1931 are a very special group."

Steve Williams has a part-time job as a transportation consultant at the Springfield (Hartness) State Airport, Vt. Red Gristede "roared through northern New York and Quebec during September and had a gala adventure." Did Red ever miss having one?

We have recently learned of a very generous gift to the College by Mrs. C. Edward Rhetts "to establish the Charles Edward Rhetts 1931 Memorial Fund in support of the Forensic Union." Marty Zinn has brought to our attention a generous gift for cancer study to the Dartmouth Medical School by Mary Moore, widow of Beedle. Rex Fall and Ed Elmer were also heard from. Thanks, Bill.

Did you notice in The Bulletin for July mention of the retirement of College trustee Robert S. Oelman, retired chairman and chief executive officer of NCR Corporation, who had just completed 15 years on the Dartmouth board? We spoke to Bill Little by phone. He was on his way to Boston to manage a trade show. Then he and Dink planned to visit Doug and Bee Woodring in Craigville, later going to Martha's vineyard and Nantucket.

Bill Wilson writes that he finally broke his working ties with C.I.T. Financial at the end of July. "Edna and I are flying to Milan on September 20 and leaving the following Saturday from Venice for a two-week cruise touching Greece and the Islands, plus a bit of Turkey and Yugoslavia. We'll get home the middle of October and thus" regretfully miss the Harvard game mini-reunion." Bill is secretary of the Dartmouth Club at Princeton and writes, "the Club will have a come-all cocktail party at the Nassau Inn in mid-town after the Princeton game, and we'd welcome any members of the Class at 225 Jefferson Road before the game if we were given advance notice who is coming."

Adolph Silverstein recently was honored by the Republic of Finland with the presidential decoration, Knight First Class of the Order of Finland. Adolph had founded the Finnfacts Institute, representing Finnish export interests. He is a press and marketing consultant who is affiliated with Gross & Associates of New York City.

Anne Conklin, wife of our George, is exhibiting her welded sculpture at the gallery of the Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, Conn., October 2-17. She writes, "I expect to show about 15 pieces - mostly animals - birds and reptiles - including a dinosaur -

"Triceratops," which is one of our favorites. I use steel rods and sheet steel and various other things like washers, flooring nails, etc., that seem appropriate to the particular beast in question. Occasionally, not too often, I use 'found objects' to make a piece if I find something really great (bits of machinery, etc.)! Besides the dinosaur, I'm showing an emu, a lizard, a long-earred Egyptian hedgehog, two giraffes, a bat (which is steel and fiberglas), an owl, and an extinct lizard. All these I weld with an oxyacetylene torch - dressed up in goggles, etc., Co look like a man from Mars!"

Red Rolfe, in addition to being elected posthumously to the hall of fame of The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics on June 21, was one of four honored by the James Lynah Memorial Award of the Eastern College Athletic Conference on September 27.

Finally Jim Swift has asked us to announce the third annual Southeast Florida 1931 Dartmouth Roundup. The date is Friday, February 11, and the place the Sheraton Hotel in Ft. Lauderdale.

Thanks again, Bill Minehan, for much of the news in this column. '31ers and wives, please send us your news.

Vintage 1931: Fred Slaughter dons plusfours,senior blazer, and cane for his 45th.

Bob Oelman '31 (right), who retired in June after 15 years on the Board of Trustees,receives a Paul Sample print of Dartmouth Row from Trustee chairman Bill Andres '29.

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