1931

Irv Bettman wrote: "Gertrude and I see Bertha and Ted Johnson regularly, sometimes in Etna, sometimes at their place in Bartlett, N.H., and most recently, last May, at their home in Falmouth, Maine. Like so many of our classmates, Ted keeps mighty busy in retirement with a variety of activities. Among other things, he continues to hike the White Mountain trails as he has been doing since college days, and from personal observation, I think he knows all the trails by heart."

Rog Burrill sent along a photograph (see below) and wrote: "Last winter we took a trip to Japan via freighter. We had a most enjoyable visit with Smokey and Reiko Adams in Kamakura, staying overnight, and, next morning, commuting to Tokyo with Smokey. We traveled first class on the commuter train. He helped us get our tickets for the bullet train to Kobe; I don't know what we could have done without him, for we had to go to one office to get the tickets and then to another office to get our seats. Smokey teaches English at the Berlitz School in Tokyo and commutes every day from Kamakura, one hour each way. The drop in the value of the dollar has made it imperative for him to go to work. We visited his villa in the suburbs and met the four dogs which constitute the family."

John Cogswell wrote: "Had a reasonably good turnout here over the Princeton weekend - the McCarthys, Stecks, Babbitt, Maynard and son Steve '79, Leo McKenney and son Will, Ned and Charyl Curtiss, and Ori Hobbs." John also kindly forwarded some notes from others. And, just as this was being sent off, a note from Lucy arrived, explaining that John has been ill. She wrote: "Please mention in your column that he usually acknowledges notes on the class dues statements. But under the circumstances now he cannot and is so sorry."

Among the six notes John passed along was one from Larry Allen: "A week ago, Mary and I returned from a two-week cruise around the Caribbean. Due to Hurricane David, the captain reversed the entire course, with the result that we had two weeks of fair weather and calm seas. Entered, but did not go through the Panama Canal. Visited such places as San Bias Islands, Aruba, Caracas, Grenada, Barbados, Martinique, and St. Thomas. Since return have spent a most pleasant evening with Eliot and Marge Winslow."

Charlie Dwyer: "The Cornell game is a little late for us, so we'll miss you. However, Marnee and I expect to be at New Haven and Cambridge."

Dick Fisher: "Dutch Holland and I are keeping the golf courses busy playing, recovering, and merchandising lost-and-found balls."

George Howard: "Don't believe I will get up to the reunion in October, but am looking forward to 1981. It doesn't seem possible - 50 years. Just had my 71st birthday this month, but feel good and have no serious problems."

Ed Picken: "Hope to get to Hanover to see the Holy Cross or Cornell game. The Princeton score was a wee bit hard to take, since I now live in Jersey."

Bill Walsh: "I'm afraid we won't make the Hanover reunion. It will be the first time in years that we haven't enjoyed those Friday evenings at 21 Valley Road and we will miss it. Hope to get to New Haven. We had a fine visit last weekend with Frank and Alice McCord, our 20-miles-away neighbors. It is good to report that both are doing well and Frank looking hale and hearty again after his surgery last spring."

Bill Little wrote: "We've had so many projects going at our home in Redding, together with developments at my office, which include putting in a computer and further expansion, that we've had to postpone a trip to the Far East. Instead, we leave tomorrow for a week in Bermuda, with a trip to the Orient scheduled for next February."

Bill Minehan wrote: "A good start for the ALUMNI MAGAZINE! Interesting to find four '31ers in the letters column."

Jack Warwick wrote: "I can report progress in my new business efforts. Annual Report Marketing Inc. is beginning to prove its worth, keeping me just as busy as ever. I also enjoy seeing that classmates like Art Boardman pop up here and there in the role of directors on boards of various companies which I contact."

Doug Woodring wrote: "At one time, as you can see from the reverse side of this card, I thought forward-buying of a two-cent stamped postal card would be good to put my money into, and how wrong I was. Have any '31ers found effective defenses against inflation? A couple of weeks ago the Dartmouth Club of Cape Cod had a clambake on a lake here. A good time was had by all, but none better than at one table where John and Mary FranGilmore, Bill and Caroline Fraser, and Bee and I kept the '31 banner high."

Please read Ben Hardman's letter on page six of the September issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. He says that "Wah-hoo-wah," when translated from the Sioux, is "Snow! Come on, Snow!"

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Roger Burrill '3l (left) took a freightertrip last winter to Japan, where he gottogether with classmate Smokey Joe Adams.

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