1931

Last spring, desperate for column news, I launched a mini-campaign by letter and phone, and the results have continued to trickle in, though they may be a bit old by now. Here's some more.

Rose and Hank McCarthy went on the Dartmouth College Abroad trip last year, which took them up the Danube and to Vienna, Munich, and Budapest. They liked it so much they were planning to go again this year, this time to Greece, the Greek Islands, and Turkey in August. Hank sees Bunce Clarkson and Irv Bettman regularly when they do track officiating in Hanover.

Bill Steck closed his previously-reported letter from Cleveland with this: "It's amazing what retirement has wrought. My cellar is immaculate for the first time in 40 years, and I have already sawed up next winter's wood supply. Please don't let these mundane enterprises deter any '31ers from stopping by and enjoying my thousand-record classical collection and my garden."

There will be a 1986 Florida East Coast '31 reunion, if Bill Schuldenfrei has his way. It will probably be in February, and Bill says they will get the word out in timely fashion for all.

Mai Pratt and Lee Andrews must have each gotten a terrific kick from receiving copies of a letter that Harold Ripley, 1929's secretary, wrote to Harris Huston '29, recalling and recounting how the four of them won the One-Mile College Relay Championship of America at the Penn Relays in 1929. Rip was good enough to send me a copy too. He's contributing his championship watch to the trophy room of the new College gym facility, so Mai and Lee can keep theirs.

Margaret and Jean Bean have been fine and are enjoying life. Jack wrote to get some information about the trans-Panama Canal cruise we took last year. They may do it as a change from their usual Jamaica sojourn in winter.

The class of '31 is super proud that BillWendell was named 1985 Class Newsletter Editor of the Year. I wish I had the space for his entire citation, but here are some highlights: "In the transition years since 1975, years both rewarding and wracked, the class of '31 has been fortunate to have you in the sensitive post of editor of the class newsletter, "Thirty-One Up." For a full decade now, you have chronicled with quiet diligence, affection, and the regularity of Old Faithful the comings and goings, gatherings and dispersions, triumphs and trials, pleasures and pains, prides and prejudices, thoughts and fancies, of your classmates. ... You have brought a rare depth of perspective to your understanding of the American experience since the class of 1931 joined its predecessors in the 'wide, wide world.' "

Button-busting proud we are, too, of the job Don Stoddard (with his sterling helpers) did in the 1985 Alumni Fund achievement. As this is written, the final results are not in but we've been leading our Green Derby all the way, and our dollar result is magnificient.

Finally, there's our 1985 mini-reunion in Hanover over the September 21 weekend. See you all there!

Regulars at many Dartmouth-Princeton games are, left to right, Len Clark '31, AnnO'Brien, Russ O'Brien '31, and Dottie Clark. Of late, their attendance has been encouragedby the opportunity to cheer on Dartmouth tightend Doug Keare '86, the Clarks's grandson.

Benedict Hardman '31 represented Dartmouth at the inauguration of Dr. AnitaPampusch as ninth president of St. Catherine College in St. Paul, Minn., in May.

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