#class of 1931

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Members of the Princeton University Class of 1931 in their beer suits, ca. 1930.

Photo from 1932 Bric-a-Brac.

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A recent acquisition to the archive is a photograph of the Peabody High School twenty year for the class of 1931, which is took place in 1951. The one person who is identified in the photo is Evelyn (Marshall) Lourenco (1913-2001)  who is standing in the back row.

The photo was taken by Earl L. McDonald.

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On August 24, 1930, Princeton University senior Ransom Miller Wilkinson (Class of 1931) tried to protect guests from gunmen in a robbery at a house party he attended in Cleveland. Police arrived and opened fire. In the resultant gunfight, bullets hit Wilkinson. The injury was fatal, making headlines in many major newspapers. The ones shown here are as follows: 1. Trenton Times, August 25, 1930 2. New York Herald Tribune, August 26, 1930 3. New York Times, August 25, 1930 4. New York Sun, August 25, 1930

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Controversy erupted in Princeton, on and off the University campus, in the spring of 1931. The Undergraduate Council unanimously condemned some students who had been seen wearing denim overalls, because they looked too much like beer suits. “Yesterday’s spectacle of a few Juniors and a few Freshmen wearing light blue and dark blue overalls respectively…constituted an attempt to break down a privileged tradition of many years standing which belonged exclusively to the Senior Class.” Some of the underclassmen also bought matching denim jackets. Violence broke out on campus, with seniors attacking underclassmen wearing denim on Prospect Street. The juniors called their outfits “Applejackets.” The store that sold the clothes to the students was threatened, but owners vowed to sell overalls and jackets to whomever they liked in spite of the threats. This ad, which appeared in the April 16, 1931 issue of the Daily Princetonian, suggests how seriously the owners of the store that sold denim overalls to underclassmen took the threats they'd received from members of the Class of 1931.

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Throwback Thursday: The cover of the Princeton University Class of 1931′s 40th reunion book, 1971. Many would be returning to campus for the first time since undergraduate coeducation began in 1969. The contrast between alumni and current students in the early 1970s was stark, as is reflected in much of the reunions-related artwork in this era.

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From 1929 through 1931, Bob Jones, Sr.’s nephew through his first wife, Bernice, attended Bob Jones College. Blinn Davis Sheffield in the fall of his Sophomore year looked positively miserable at his uncle’s school. 

But no worries. He transferred to the University of Alabama and graduated from there in 1933 and lived a long and happy life in Grove Hill, Alabama. 

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1931 Briar Patch- May Queen of the May Day celebration