1931

Written June through August:

Jack Bean to Ernie and Angie Moore: "It was such fun to get your warm invitation to look in on you folks in Florida. Our trouble is that we only see Miami for a few minutes en route to Jamaica. However, I have an aunt in Clearwater, whom I'm going to have to visit some day, so maybe we can tie the two things together.

"This spring I had a strep infection in my blood stream which hospitalized me 21 days - the longest I have stayed anywhere! I wasn't really sick, but because they had to flood me with penicillin, I was confined to the! hospital. I'm feeling great now and have been home playing tennis and swimming for a month. Margaret and I are as busy as bees."

Bill Little: "The good news is that Helenaand Harry Townsend will probably come up in the fall. They will visit with us for a few days and go on to Hanover for the Yale game. Brazil doesn't make it easy to travel, because you have to put up something like $1,200 before you can go to any country except the four to the south. You get it back a year later, but rampant inflation has by then taken an immense bite out of it.

"I would not want you to think that Dink and I are jetsetters, but we nipped over to the Riviera and to Provence for a week. Back in the time of Louis XIV, Dink's forebears pretty much ran the show in Aix-en-Provence; even so I don't genuflect to the good woman and not only because of my arthritis."

John Benson: "I was attending a Council meeting last weekend, as a returning exmember. I had a chance to visit a short time with John and Lucy, but that was the extent of my '31 contacts, except, as I've just remembered, seeing Bunce and EleanorClarkson at breakfast one day. Now a poignant miss: on the day I left I lunched with Joe McDonald '20 and left for home without recognizing the couple next to me as Ben Hardman and wife, who discovered my identity after I left and sent me a postcard. The Cogswells had told me of his coming, but in a '31 party the next day, so I was not even on the alert for Ben."

Frank McCord: "As a retired statistician, inter alia, I am interested in knowing how many of our classmates called your attention to the opening gambit of the New York Times crossword a few days back. One across was a five-letter word for Doubleday or Dean. Many of our friends have achieved note or notoriety in many fields, but I submit that Abner is the bestknown of all of us. Nobody else has become a crossword definition."

Ernie Moore: " 'Though Angie and I have few regrets from our lifetime together, she does have one that still lingers - the fact that we were never able to take a year off and spend it together on a working ranch. Horse-oriented, she shares my love of same."

Ralph Wardle: "I'm still teaching part-time at Creighton University, though retired from The University of Nebraska at Omaha. Cornell University Press is publishing my edition of the letters of the pioneer feminist Mary Wollstonecraft in January, and I'm working on a biography of Charles Lamb. We manage to keep moving, too: 21 states, Canada, England, Italy, and the Azores so far this year."

Red West: "I continue to operate a small accounting and tax business, which has been a side line for many years, have the helpful credentials of an IRS treasury card and Pennsylvania state registration as a public accountant, and do volunteer work, particularly during the tax season. Adah, also retired, does volunteer work for the Carnegie Museum, taking a program which they sponsor into schools throughout this county."

Red Gristede: "Here I am in the second phase of my recuperation at Burke Rehabilitation Centre, White Plains, N.Y. Quite a spot but depressing.

"I arrived home last Sunday on a cane after four weeks on crutches. In the last convalescent home I was the youngest at 69 and was the only one not senile, but felt I was qualifying quickly after two weeks stay there. The best things there were the privacy, except at mealtimes, and the aides, especially the ones who gave me a sponge bath and/or a shower. Some of them know me better than Zorah, my wife of 38 years. See you at the Yale game without fail.

"Expect to bring Bob Tonis and maybe the Monroe Karasiks. Moe better make it! I got two extra tickets."

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