1931

Irv Bettman was the first to identify the mystery member of 1931 pictured in the April ALUMNI MAGAZINE as George H. Burnett, a non-grad.

Bob Blocksom: "We have finally furnished our new home here in San Clemente. The view from our house high on one of the many hills in this town is quite spectacular a broad sweep of the ocean and Dana Point and harbor. Even the sunsets are beautiful. It has now been two years since my open heart surgery. My weight is where I want it, I feel fairly good, and I'm getting good exercise."

Skip Clow: "Ruth and I are enjoying life and are well. We spend our winters in Winter Haven, Fla., and one of our pastimes here is supervising the training of the Red Sox. We have not been proud of our performance. Our son has contributed no grandchildren, but our daughter has three children for us. Jane is a sophomore at Purdue, David a senior in high school, and Stephen a freshman.

Spence Cram: "Art Seepe has recently moved into Hendersonville as a neighbor. Otherwise the only Dartmouth man I know in the area is Ken Macnair '29. Current activities are primarily golf and bridge plus continuing activity with the United States Figure Skating Association as a referee and a member of various committees.

Dick Denby: "We retired 14 years ago to Nantucket and went into real estate, working on Easy Street our first address. Business is great; it's competitive and we like it! Our office is now on Independence Lane. We welcome all who come to our island."

Rog Donner: "Greetings from Kooky Kalifornia, the land of Kamelot. Maryellen and I keep well and enjoy the casual life style here, watching our grandchildren grow up. We're looking forward to our 50th wedding anniversary the last of May. I wish President McLaughlin '54 the best of luck. El toro bravo."

Ed Elmer: "Amber and I have had very little to chuckle about of late with both of us being partially crippled with arthritis."

Rex Fall: "I guess my two most satisfying accomplishments have been holding onto a lovely wife for 46 years, having two kids who have held more than their own down the years, and spending 41 years with the Berkshire Eagle, 15 as managing editor, plus helping the paper to win the Pulitzer prize for editorial writing in 1973, just three weeks before I retired. I'm going to miss reunion for a compelling reason our granddaughter's graduation."

George Frankel: "I am in Sarasota, where I have been loafing, golfing, eating, drinking, and what not. The only thing of note is my golf scores, which average my weight minus two times my waistline."

Hart Gilchrist: "I still work everyday and also swim each day for a few laps before lunch. Alice and I are fine. We try to visit Seattle once a year to see son Jim '6l and his two sons, and Morgantown, W. Va., to see our daughter Janet and her two daughters. They, plus our daughter Ellen and her children, keep us busy."

Frank Hardinge: "I clock 12 to 15 golf games a month and have a 16 handicap, which enabled me to become the champion of those 70 and older in last year's club championship for seniors."

George Hawkins: "The news from here isn't so hot. Briefly, I retired in 1960 after I passed out driving to work on Route 95. Fortunately, I had a passenger and came to enough to pull over to the side. Then trouble started, I had a lung tumor and had three operations. Now I am on my feet, but can't do much. My son Jere was '62 ('3l plus 31)."

Bill Hayden: "We now operate five shops (four in motels, of which two are on the Oregon coast 100 miles from here, two within 20 miles, and the main store here in Oswego). The only way we can keep them properly supplied is to bring all merchandise into this store here, and then truck it out to the shops after it has been processed. I am the delivery boy. In my spare time I do the buying, and keep the books."

Fred Slaughter: "The West Indian Islands are still a treat and retreat for those of us fortunate enough to return. Three weeks on St. Vincent were followed by a trip on a small inter-island cargo/passenger vessel (a genuine rusty bucket) through the Grenadine Islands and ports to Grenada, politically sensitive but exquisitely temperate, colorful, and verdant. We continue on to Eleuthera, the Bahamas, and via Palm Springs to home."

We wish to acknowledge with gratitude the help of the late John Cogswell, his wife Lucy, our editors, and all those classmates who have written, without which it would have been impossible to turn out this column. Good luck to our successor.

"By the light of many thousand sunsets Dartmouth undying."

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