1931

The NBC "Today" show on May 19 reported on D.D. Bean & Sons Cos., including an interview with the company president, son of Margaret and Jack Bean. On the wall behind the president I saw what I swore was a full length portrait of Jack. I wrote Margaret asking if that were the case. She replied that I probably saw the portrait of "D.D.," Jack's father, and, of course, there was a resemblance. Margaret sent her best to all '31s.

For my comments about Dr.Art Ecker in the class notes in the Winter 1991 issue of DAM, his postcard prescription for me was "Watch out for Mack trucks."

Welcome were a call from Bob Oelman and a letter from Dave Borkum, each doing a great job for the Alumni Fund.

Vic King reported that Chub Hetfield is well and still practicing law. Now a widower, Vic is back in practice with son Ned '59 and is most concerned over the current price of college and grad school. His caustic comments on Washington, D.C. matters were written before the emergence of the Perot candidacy and suggest a straw poll be taken among you for your current choice for President.

Ted Cruikshank sent the bad news that she'd lost Don shortly after his induction into the Canadian Figure Skating Hall of Fame.

Doug Wilson, who continued in the Army Reserve until retirement as a lieutenant colonel, remains active in the Northeast Alabama Chapter of the Retired Officers Association. He edits The Collected. Works (Harvard Press), The Complete Sermons and The Topical Notebooks (University of Missouri Press) of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the newsletter of the R.W.E. Society, and he helps the Friends of the Anniston Public Library.

Also in literary accomplishment, BobBaumrucker sent to press a history of the U.S.S. Tennessee, from which he directed gunnery at Kiska, Tarawa, and Kwajalein.

Charlie Schneider reported his pacemaker and hip replacement working efficiently. He fondly recalled his freshman year in New Hampshire Hall, particularly Fred Breithut '29 selling Dartmouth banners to green '31s for the exorbitant price of ten bucks apiece.

Ralph Maynard, 4211 Coplay Creek Road, Schnecksville, PA 18078