CLASS OF 1923
Well, we might as well start off with our Paris correspondent, Harold H. Bishop, who is peddling securities there for the Equitable Trust Company of New York. He jumped Minneapolis for his new field, taking with him Mrs. Bishop, who used to be Dorothy Crewe, and who succumbed to his petitions in November, 1925. Nancy Stuart Bishop, age three, is enjoying Paris with her parents. Bish extends the courtesy of his office, which is directly across the street from the Ritz Bar, for the tenth reunion of the class. He can be reached at 41 Rue Cambon, Paris, France.
Frank Doten of 115 Glenwood Road, Somerville, Mass., is in charge of sales promotion of Frigidaires in Boston, after haying spent some time in Europe with Mustachio Shunt Turnbull and with the Jordan Marsh department store in Boston^
Shiner Beggs, handsome as ever, solicits advertising in New York city and New England for the Farm Journal, and may be reached at 247 Park Ave., New York city. Shiner reports the following items bearing on his life in the big city: first, a sport roadster' second, an engagement to an unnamed party; and third, a lucky break on the curb market and some other information which your correspondent does not deem pertinent for our readers, except that he says he has no children but business is very good.
It isn't often that a man leaves Dartmouth to go to Yale and continues to be a satisfactory correspondent of his Dartmouth class secretary, but there are occasional exceptions, and I point with pride to a communication from John Y. Meloy, Jr., 1210 Astor St., Chicago, who reports that he is busy dodging machine gun bullets and analyzing securities for the Northern Trust Company. Incidentally, Skinny (and he still is) has a Ph.D. from Yale.
Jiggs Donahue is now Dr. Hugh C. Donahue of the Boston City Hospital as interne, having gone through Harvard Medical.
J. Nevin Carson, treasurer of the Carson Crockery Company, Denver, who got married the day he graduated from Dartmouth to Hazel P. Kearney, reports that things are fine and that he wants Bill Gratz to write him a letter; so kindly take care of this, Bill.
Ted Gaver of 784 Lincoln Ave., St. Paul, Minn., is treasurer of the C. F. Albrecht Company, Minneapolis, jobbers of shoe leather, and he married Dorothea Haman four years ago, and they have a son and daughter. Ted says he is bursting with news, but it is of such a nature that he wishes to save the scandal until he sees me face to face. Ted had the best time at the Pow Wow he has had since Hanover.
Chuck Calder is merchandise manager of the William Taylor Son and Company men's store in Cleveland, Ohio, and he reports that he runs across Horace Taylor (now well past 200 pounds) and Carl Reed quite frequently. Chuck urges us to join the Dartmouth Club of New York and to take advantage of the facilities there, even though not members.
Ted Caswell and his wife, Olive, of 518 Lowell Ave., Newtonville, Mass., of pleasant Big-Fifth memory, report the arrival of Mary Olive Caswell on January 4, to team up with Jeanne, who is three years older. Ted is secretary of the F. S. Webster Company, manufacturers of carbon papers and typewriter ribbons, and he acts as assistant to the general manager. He reports that his knee has recovered from its former indisposition.
J. W. (Bus) Dodge is right-of-way engineer for C. H. Tenney and Company of Nyack, N. Y., after having been inspector at New York Reciprocal Underwriters, and assistant engineer for city of Schenectady. Four times Bus has traveled to New Haven to see Dartmouth beat Yale, and will continue to do so all his life, even if his annual "peerade" starts from the Old Men's Home of Manchester, N. H., where he now resides at another address, 880 Union St.
We want to thank Charley Bishop for the following news items and for a nice long and very welcome letter. Bish lives at 2325 Delere Drive, Cleveland, and helps to manufacture automobile doors, curtain rods, etc., for the Bishop Products Company. The contents of his letter follow:
"Heine Bourne was married in September to Jane Mackintosh, Wellesley '24. Phil Smith and Vic Cannon did their best as ushers Heine's brother, Monk '25, was best man (that is, next to Heine). Heine pays his rent by buying space for one of the local advertising companies.
"Another '23 newlywed is Ray Barker, who married Peg Sprowl, Smith '27, this fall. Vic Cannon and self were ushers. Ray works for his father at the S. Barker Sons Company, selling office supplies.
"Vic Cannon, as you may know, is assistant to the president at the Electric Vacuum Cleaner. He is still single, although he makes a very impressive demonstration with the vacuum cleaner.
"Jock Osborne is playing hockey, and when not doing that is running his coal mines, etc.
"Lyman King has made the most of this last year by selling stock for Otis and Company.
"Bill Sawyer is still single, which is probably due to the fact that he is working very hard for Thompson Products, manufacturers of automobile valves and other parts.
"That is about all I can think of right now, as I really came down to the office this evening to price inventory, and I had better get to work.
"For bigger and better Pow Wows.
CHARLIE BISHOP."
(The foregoing items were intended for the March MAGAZINE, but arrived too late.)
The communications selected for your perusal this month are particularly choice, and if you do not think so it is the fault of your editor in their presentation.
To give you an idea how particularly fortunate we are in the type of correspondence dealt with in this issue, we will start out with a typical example, to wit: our old friend Bill Corrigan.
Bill lives at 117 Wallace Ave., Mt. Vernon, N. Y., and has consistently fought off the advances of numberless attractive women around the lower reaches of the Hudson, as far as matrimony is concerned. When he got through school he devoted a year's time to the interests of the New York Telephone Company; another two years to bell ringing for a book publisher; and now devotes his time to the affairs of the same publisher, only there is no more door slamming in his life, and instead he has a nice walnut desk to put his feet on. This publisher is William Morrow and Company, 386 4th Avenue, New York city, and Bill has enough of a drag with this outfit to suggest that he is willing to further the ambitions of anyone in the class who cares to submit something to his organization in the hope of having it printed.
To vary the rather monotonous diet of eye, ear, nose, and throat men, bond salesmen, and busy workers for the Tel. and Tel., we present Robert F. Charles in the role of research engineer of Bird and Son, East Walpole, Mass. This high-grade position was prepared for by the acquisition of a M. S. degree at Boston Tech, and the discharge of the duties of chief chemist for the Craftex Company. Bob is not married, but he has developed two patents that are being used on a commercial scale, and may be- reached in connection with these matters or any others at Box 147, South Acton, Mass.
I think Russ Carpenter has already had his share of attention in this column, but inasmuch as the Carpenters have a scion on the way, and as they have ascertained in some peculiar way that same will be a scion and not a girl child we believe their astuteness is worthy of comment here. Not only that but while heretofore the Sanford Ink Company made only writing ink, paste, and mucilage, we now understand that Russ has added a type-cleaner to this line of merchandise, and we congratulate him. He and his wife, the former Mary Howe, have lived since their marriage in December, 1927, at 858 Washington Boulevard, Oak Park, I11.
Another of our star correspondents, Frank Donovan (Jack O-Lantern, Dartmouth Press), has left Hanover, where he has lived since graduation with the former Mildred Trachier, and where he worked for Frank Musgrove, with their two children, and he is now at 44 TTigh St., Peterboro, N. H., superintending the Transcript Printing Company of that city. We quote from Frank's letter: "Our house here is big enough to care for you or any other '23 man who happens to stray off the main highway." Thank you, Frank.
Paul Carlisle of 17 Oxford St., Springfield, Mass., and 25 Prospect Place, New York city, is now a full-fledged doctor. If his address is confusing, it is your own fault, Carlisle. His office is at 42 Broadway, New York, and he went to Penn Medical School, interned at the Fifth Avenue Hospital of New York and at the New York Lying-in Hospital; then trotted around Europe for six months.
In this day of frenzied finance it is a pleasure to meet a merchant, and such a one as Walter C. Gates who manages the Apparel Shop for W. G. Reynolds Company of Burlington, Vt., after having learned something about the fur business in Hartford for G. Fox and Company. Bill spent the summer of 1923 in Europe with Bixby and Larry Fogg. It was not until four years later that he gave in and married Catherine Hamilton of Greenfield, Mass., and not until a year later that H. Hamilton Gates was born.
The inimitable Les Gutterman, formerly a tanner, left his vats some time ago for the sweeter smelling establishment of James H. Henderson, real estate, 246 Harvard St., Brookline, Mass. Les lives at 20 Park St., Brookline, and he promised to call and see your secretary this winter while checking up on his kid brother Jerome, in the office of Halsey Stuart of this city, but did not show up. This is probably another instance of the effect on our transient business of the unsavory reputation of this fair city, and we regret that we did not see you, Les.
As you will doubtless discover from the last paragraph of the letter which follows from Frothingham, we are a little slow in presenting his communication, but that is not unusual.
"601 Wilmoore Drive,
Charlotte, N. C.,
December 6, 1928.
"Dear Metz: "It was a pleasant surprise to hear from an old '23 man, and it instantly brought back the days of those old college days with the frequent bridge parties. Remember them?
"Unfortunately I have not met any Dartmouth men since I peddled real estate in Florida, back in 1925. At that time we had a Dartmouth banquet at the Soreno Hotel. There were fifty Dartmouth men, and the class of '23 stood foremost. I believe there were eight or ten from our class. Johnny Allen was one of those I saw quite frequently, and he had a little subdivision of his own (I guess it was under water, though). When the bubble burst most of us came back North, and I haven't seen a Dartmouth man since.
"After graduation if spent a couple of years at the Casco Mercantile Trust Company, Portland, Me., working through all the different departments, and then I journeyed to the balmy South, and there met all the rest of the gang in Florida.
"Since then I have represented the above company in this territory, not only fighting the flies and the boll weevil but unfortunately fighting the Civil-War over again. In the rural districts and in certain sections of the larger cities some of the old folks have not forgotten the Civil War, and whenever a "Damn Yank' comes through he is in for a razzing. However, with the influx of Northern capital, broader educational systems, and better understanding, this tendency is on the wane. Again, the final breaking up of the Solid South to my mind is the greatest thing that could have happened, socially and economically. Due to the recent election this state was a hot bed, and I don't mean maybe.
"I married Mary C. Cassidy, January 17, 1925, and have a little girl who will be three years old next month. Her name is Adrienne Parker Frothingham.
"If you are not familiar with this state, let me say that North Carolina is the coming state of the Union, in which Charlotte is the central distributing point. We now have a population of 85,000, which is an increase of about 50% in the past ten years. Going some. Every manufacturing concern of national re- pute has either a branch factory, agent, or representative in Charlotte or near vicinity. Ford, Mack Motors, all have a branch factory here. There are more cotton mills in this state than all the rest put together, and the cotton and tobacco output amount to a billion a year, individually. At present a Dutch Holland Company is building a ten-million dollar rayon plant near Asheville, and, as you know, Pinehurst and Southern Pines serve as a play house or health resort for many of us Damn Yanks.
"In closing I might add that I am permanently settled here, hoping to grow with the city. If you happen to run across any '23 men in this vicinity I wish you would forward me their addresses, as I would like to say 'Hello.'
"May I extend at this time Christmas greetings and a Happy New Year to you and your family, and if you are down this way some time don't hesitate to come in and see us all.
"Yours in '23,
"A. P. FROTHINGHAM."
The following was received from Cap Palmer in December, and it is such a pleasure to receive letters of this kind that I hasten to apologise to Cap and to the rest of you for having been so slow in letting you have it: "Dear Metz:
"This is in reply to your request for information. Rather than let my young man in on the story of my life, I am typing this in person, not a Vitaphone, so skip lightly over the unintelligible sections.
"Immediately after leaving Hanover, I went with the Boston Chamber of Commerce as an assistant secretary in charge of grief in general, municipal affairs in particular. Later was business manager of Current Affairs, a New England business magazine, and editor of its subsidiary, The Center.
Left there to found, in partnership with my father, The Palmer Clay Products Company, handling clay pipe, face brick, and other building materials in the New England states. Gradually got the conviction that concrete pipe would eventually replace clay pipe here, with the result that after considerable preliminary work, in February of this year, the Eastern Hume Concrete Pipe Company was incorporated, of which I am treasurer, and have a majority of the common stock. This company makes pipe by the Hume centrifugal process, familiar to the Detroit boys, for sewage, drainage, highway and railroad culverts, water-pressure lines. Excellent market here, and the product is unbeatable, both in quality and low cost.
"Our first plant will be in operation about January 15, located in Haverhill, so as to give Brooks Palmer a place to loaf. The most pressing problem now is financing (adv.).
"Now for personal details.
"In June of 1925, married Marion Knicker- bocker, Los Angeles, Smith '24. No children or 'heirs apparent.' Live at 58 Dwight St., Brookline, Mass., in an apartment near quite a few of the class.
"See Bob Smith frequently. He is with Hood Rubber, their only representative on rubber floor tile. Travels constantly, all over the country. Good job, I understand.
"George Morrell was East from lowa a month ago, as the Western delegate to a family funeral. He is in much better physical shape than he has been, eyes okeh, although he is not yet back on full time at the plant (Morrell Packing Company).
"Bob Wilder, ex-'23, is a partner with the Grant-Wilder Engineering Company of Boston, whose principal line is the sale and installation of Plibrico, a plastic firebrick. We warehouse his stuff, and he seems to be doing well. He married Verne Edson of Montpelier, Vt., six years ago, and has two mighty cute boys. Lives in Auburndale, and spends most of his summer spare time on a sailboat in the harbor. I spent more than one night last summer slatting around in the boat in the middle of Massachusetts Bay waiting for a wind.
"Sawmill Meleney is with the Ingersoll- Rand Company, contractors' equipment, in Washington, just transferred from Detroit. He is engaged to a Cleveland girl, and it won't be long now.
"This runs me out of news except for the men from whom you will doubtless hear direct. Roger Billings, with Fraternal Protective Insurance Company, married Dot Kelley, lives in Winchester, two sons, one last weeked
"Doc Morgan, Wallie Lord, both married within the past year. Wallie has a youngster, Doc none. The old band is playing in Manchester for Dick Willis Christmas.
"Yours,
"CAP. PALMEH."
Once a ski-jumper always a ski-jumper is the experience of T. Parker Chambers, Thorp Hotel, McCloud, CaL, connected with lumber interests in that section, who finds his greatest delight in climbing up and sliding down the 14,000 feet of Mt. Shasta, which is quite nearby.
The letter you will now read is reproduced exactly as received, except that certain passages which contain slurring remarks relative to your correspondent have been deleted.
"December 18, 1928.
"Dear Metz: "I feel that it is better late than never to reply to your form letter which arrived some time ago. There is not very much in my life which has been exciting since leaving Hanover. However, I am pleased to give you the following information as you requested.
"My correct address at the present time is 45 Prospect Place, New York city. My marriage has not taken place as yet and consequently—or should I say subsequently— there are no children. I left Hanover in February of '24 and started out with N. W. Ayer and Son in Philadelphia, where I held down a position for exactly four years. I left Ayer in March of this year and became associated with Young and Rubicam, Inc., here in New York. This organization is also an advertising agency, although considerably smaller than Ayer. I am doing contact work, and although I have no title the usual description of a position such as I have is referred to as an account executive. Along with another man in this organization I am contacting the seven divisions of the Postum Company's advertising, which we handle.
"Since summer I have been present quite regularly at the '23 class dinners here in New York, and in that way have been able to talk with quite a few of the boys, who all seem to be making out quite well.
"If any time I can be of assistance to you in obtaining information regarding any of the fellows who are located in the Metropolis, please be sure and let me know. In the meantime the best of luck.
"Sincerely,
"ROBERT L.MCMILLAN."
Lyndon U. Pratt lives with the former Emily L. Russell whom he imported from Aberdeen, S. D., and married August 4,1928, at 21 Pleasant St., Danbury, Conn. Pratt is head of the English department of the Danbury High School, and is a very satisfactory correspondent in that he wishes to know to whom to send his 1929 dues, and we hasten to call the attention of our readers to the fact that Frank Doten, 115 Glen wood Road Somerville, Mass., will be glad to receive your money as well as Lyndon's.
As far as known Edward M. Grevatt is our only dentist and oral surgeon, and his office is located in the Trust Company Building, Glen Ridge, N. J., only a stone's throw from his residence at 2OO Franklin St., Bloomfield N. J. Grevatt's experience includes: resident dental, and oral surgeon of Misericordia Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa., and New Jersey State Hospital for the Insane. Grevatt's training was received at the University of Pennsylvania, and he also has received considerable training at home since he married Edith DeGraw Yereance on December 21 1928.
To our knowledge John Cummings is our only minister, and he had his pastorate in Hampton, N. H., and is now chaplain of the State Hospital in Tewksbury, Mass. Cummings went to Harvard Graduate School of Theology, and married Ethel J. Skoog in 1924, and the Cummings family have a son, Donald McCloy, three years old.
We reproduce below the good letter of Owen M. Smith, another of our star correspondents.
"Dear Metz: "My past year has been so full of operations and recovery that I'm afraid I am in disgrace with the class of '23, but if you will send me a notice of my dues to date I shall be glad to pay them promptly.
"Hear you want some dope. This is some. After leaving Dartmouth took the business course at Harvard, conducted tours in Europe the following summer and then started work with the textile concern of Dering, Millikin, and Company, New York city, as a statistician. Then took up photographic advertising. Next came a year frolicking with the doctors, and now I'm selling life insurance with the Provident Mutual at 33 Liberty St., New York city.
"With best wishes for 1929 and those to come.
"OWEN M. SMITH."
Charley Chadbourne contributes the letter which follows. We commend this to you in its entirety.
"Dear Metz: "Have just finished reading the '23 section of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, and it sure had a lot of news about the boys.
"Well, Metz, it's been quite some time since you, Sum Sollitt, Vin Rogers, and myself have had a bull league like we used to have in Hitchcock. It doesn't seem possible that five years have elapsed since that time.
"Like yourself I have acquired a wife, and hope for the best in the years to come. Although not many of the boys are around these parts, I took a few minutes this good Sabbath mora to jot down a few of the boys I've heard from or seen in the last few months.
"Walter Dodge is affiliated with the Tinney Company of Boston, who have a plant in New York, and he is at present doing civil engineering for them. He isn't married yet. but I have my doubts about his being single many more years.
"Fred Reed, ex-'23, is here in town with his father in the Daniels-Cornell Company, wholesale grocers, while his brother Howard is with the Lincoln Stores at Newburyport—still unmarried, but causing many fluttering hearts among the fair sex.
"Ivan Martin acquired a wife this summer, and is manager of the Cambridge, Mass., store of the Lincoln Stores.
"Bill Gates of Springfield and Hartford is now located in Burlington, Vt. He is connected with a large department store, having charge of some departments in same. He is also the proud father of a young son, Harry Hamilton Gates.
"Al Taylor dropped in for Christmas with his wife, and he is still connected with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, selling group insurance.
"Vinnie Rogers is teaching in our high school and coaching'the basketball team. He is putting out fine teams and is well liked. In the summer he goes up on the farm in Sanbornville. The rest of the time he is giving the feminine sex.a run for their money.
"Understand Don Monroe is working in the indemnity department of the Travelers with some official title.
"Ernest Smith of Sarasota, Fla., and way- stations came up North:this summer for a short visit, and then went South again. Was single while here, but there is no telling if he is now or not.
"Guess that ends the chapter in this book. Imagine most of the information is old to you, but some of it may come in handy. If I run across any more of the boys up here in the woods will let you know.
"With best of luck and a happy New Year to yourself, wife, and the twins.
We find Ed Plindell enrolled in that great army of insurance men that makes life so little worth living for most of us. Ed lives at 338 Dennison Ave., Elyria, Ohio, with the former Katharine Darby and son, Edwin P. 111, and daughter, Katharine Reid. He is state agent for Yorkshire Insurance, London, and Provincial Insurance Company, and York shire Indemnity Company.
Secretary, 102 North Sheridan Road, Highland Park, I11.
