Class of 1923

As it has been always our custom to serve up in the beginning and end of these monthly blurbs the cream of the communications on file, we will lead off with the following from Jim Landauer:

"Dear Thwing: "The class of 1923 in New York has gone into the moving picture business. In spite of the finances involved, the first night of the showing of the 1923 movies was a complete sell out.

"However, no arms or legs were broken in the course of the evening, and outside of some of the fellows who saw themselves on the screen for the first time in the barbecue scene, no one felt a bit sorry that he had gone to College.

"Among those present were Dick Kershaw, Dr. Babe Miner, Cy Aschenbach, Lou Van Orden, Kip Couch, Glen Elliott, Ed Grevatt, D.D.S., Bob Lane, Carl Gray, Matt Jones, Tom Burch, Phil Jellison, Ted Hellwig, Phil Wagner, Joe Lombardi, Clint Wells, Hal Eitz, Clarence Goss, Duke Sanchez, Irish Flanigan, Jim Hurley, Shiner Beggs, Johnny Allen, Karl Klaren, Bill Sawyer, Heinie Barrett.

"The only additional bit of information I have for you is the following extract from a letter sent me by Charles William Scaling of Fort Worth, Texas, more readily recalled under the soubriquet of 'Tex.' He says: 'I am entering the matrimonial bond on May 4, and Martha Mae and I are sailing from New Orleans May 8 for New York.'

"Any members of the class of 1923 who happen to be anywhere near New Orleans on or about that date, will please do me the personal favor of seeing that Tex gets started right, as I am very much perturbed over his lack of experience—in traveling!

"The next time you are in New York do not let me catch you snooping around Madison Avenue without having come in to say 'Hello' to me first.

"Hope you and your family are all well, and with best wishes, I am,

"Sincerely yours,

"Jot LANDATJEK."

Leonard Bronner, Jr., to our knowledge the only '23 poet, who lives at 158 West 86th St., New York city, works for Mabel Willebrandt and prosecutes liquor violations and collects taxes in the capacity of U. S. assistant attorney in New York city. He also contributes to a number of leading publications, among them being the American Review and the New York Sun. He is able to be as busy as this owing to being unmarried. Of over 4000 liquor defendants tried since he took over this important job in New York city, none have admitted they were Dartmouth men.

The following tabulation from A. E. Gordon gives a very good idea of his activity, and needs no further comment, except the usual word of appreciation to the writer: Address: 3516 Greenmount Ave., Baltimore. Married to Miss Lena Belloni in September,

1924, at Rome, Italy. One child, a daughter Paola. Since college: 1923-25, graduate work in classics at the American Academy in Rome. 1925-27, instructor in Latin, Dartmouth. 1927-29, graduate work at Johns Hopkins. Fellow, Dartmouth, 1923-24, 1927-28. Johnston Scholar, Johns Hopkins, 1928-29. Student assistant in ancient history, Johns Hopkins, 1927-28. Today my job is in graduate work at Hopkins. Other information: appointed associate professor of ancient history and classics, University .of Vermont, for next year.

Bill Blood, who lives in Pepperell, Mass., with Mrs. Blood, called by her friends, Mildred, and Bill Blood, Jr., who is now about three months old, has been interested in these pursuits in the order as stated: farming, bottling soft drinks, dispensing Pepperell spring water. Bill makes the claim in his letter that a highball built up with Pepperell Pale Dry Ginger Ale is truly a delicious concoction, or that bolted down straight it is a very satisfying drink. Bill and your Secretary both would like news of Wilson C. Blake, Ted Taylor, and Roger Carlton.

So far as we know (and I hope if I am wrong other lumbermen will tell me about it) Nathan Pendleton Carver is our only lumberjack, and Nate is at home at 1708 Knox St., Bellingham, Wash. In 1924 he sought and captured the attention of Mary Louise Rautenberg and carried her off to Bellingham where he has become secretary and treasurer of the Warnick Lumber Company and the father of Nelda Louise and Eugene Pendleton 11. To indicate how up to date this column is, Nate wished your correspondent a Happy New Year.

Freddy Davis, in the mortgage loan division of the Travelers Insurance Company, devotes most of his time to ushering at other gents' weddings. Freddy lives at 18 Cone St., Hartford, Conn.

Raymond T. Reeve is in charge of the Los Angeles office of Community Plate, and Mr. and Mrs. Reeve and little Junior may be found at Oneida Community, Ltd., 600 Roosevelt Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal.

That this column is always first with the news will be apparent in this announcement that George R. McKee resigned from Schraffts, September, 1927, to take up the study of law at Harvard. Prior to these experiences our demon golfer partook of the excitement of the Miami boom with Ray Billings, etc. We think Mac lives at 20 Liberty St., Montpelier, Vt.

It is seldom that we get a letter like the following, which requires no editing of dirty cracks about your correspondent or slanderous allusions to other members of our class, and we therefore take pleasure in presenting this communication from Leif Norstrand: "Dear Truman:

"I regret exceedingly that my correspondence to you as class secretary has been nil. I wish to respond at this time to your last bulletin and give you some news of myself.

"Life moves on in the same more or less humdrum way, tremendously interesting and exciting for myself but of very little consequence to the world at large. Since our 5th reunion, I haven't had the pleasure of seeing many of our class, although I recently spent an evening with Jim Landauer, who is rapidly becoming New York city's leading real estate operator. It is quite possible that within the next few months I shall be moving about the country quite considerably, and I hope very much that I shall have the opportunity of seeing many of 1923.

"Statistical information follows: My home address is Point View Terrace, Plattsburg, N. Y. My marriage to Sarah Jane Withrowtook place October '27, 1927, at Cincinnati, Ohio. At present I am connected with the following companies, etc.: Saranac Pulp and Paper Company, secretary and general manager (asst.); Norstrand Manufacturing Company, Inc., vice-president; American Red Cross, field director, U. S. Military Post.

"Best wishes,

"LEIF B. NORSTRAND.

"P.S. I had charge of the Republican campaign in our county (Clinton) last fall. The Democrats won!"

A letter from Sherm Clough received just a few days ago contains the sad news of the death of Bud Morgan. Sherm's letter inclosed a newspaper clipping which I have since mislaid but which contained only the simple information of the death. The class sent flowers.

Roy Brown, the leaper, writes from the Cerro de Pasco Corporation, Cerro de Pasco, Peru, that his career as mine foreman has not been sufficiently engrossing to keep his mind off a bigger and better "Sixth" next June in Hanover. It may or may not be a coincidence that his transfer to 95 West 183d St., New York city, to become effective June 1, roughly coincides with his reunion plans; but be that as it may, any of us who are lucky enough to be in Hanover in June will certainly be glad to see Roy again.

Heinie Bourne is space buyer for Griswold Eshelman Company, Cleveland, and is married to an ex-Wellesley girl named Jane Mackintosh, and has been since September of last year, and they live at 3559 Latimore Road, Cleveland. Assisting him in the ordeal last September were Vic Cannon and Phil Smith.

Bob Bradish is a member of the occupational group into which the largest number of '23 lads have found themselves, to wit, Medicine, and after the usual long pull which included University of Vermont and the Walter Reed General Hospital, Washington, D. C., he is now in eye, ear, nose, and throat work at the Letterman General Hospital, San Francisco. Bob married Vera G. Sample in 1926. They live with daughter Jane, at 2530 Chestnut St., San Francisco, Cal. Bob reports a splendid time at a pre-Christmas barbecue of Dartmouth Alumni out in that section.

Those of us, in particular, who recall either pleasantly or otherwise our college contacts with Boyd's Restaurant, either as paying customers or scrimes, behind the scenes, will be glad to hear from Art Everit. Art, naturally, is a salesman, and his selling career has embraced these jobs: district sales manager, Osborn Manufacturing Company, 1923-26; district sales manager, Dover Manufacturing Company, Dover, Ohio, 1926-27; district representative, National Cash Register, accounting machine division, Dayton, Ohio. About seven years ago Art married Rebecca Crabbs, and he may be located at 22 Evergreen Ave., Hartford, Conn., Apt. A-6.

We present now the very fine letter of John D. Booth, M.D., 173 Main St., Danbury, Conn., and Jack certainly covers a lot of ground which otherwise your correspondent would have to dig out. Thank you very much, Jack. "Dear Metz:

"Since leaving Hanover, the fortunes of the writer have been somewhat varied—always however have my footsteps trodden in those of Aesculapius and about one month ago the long grind ended and I was launched out into that awful void called the private practice of medicine.

"Two more years hitting the books more or less in New York with Bill Kelly and Jim Hennessy all went into the process of this medical education. Then Bill and I spent six months or so in Los Angeles doing obstetrics; and without boasting a bit I really believe we increased the Mexican population of that fair city considerably, professionally speaking.

"And then our ways parted: Bill to King's County Hospital in Brooklyn, Jim to St. Vincent's in New York, and I to Bellevue.

"I should have mentioned that while in Los Angeles we saw a good bit of Lew Woodruff, who was interning there, and darned if Russ Perley and Ed Hopkins didn't blow in on us one day. Four Dartmouth men of the same college of medical school class meeting 3000 miles from Hanover!

"Jim had rather a tough break in winding up his houseship at St. Vincent's by getting diphtheria, but he's kicking around now as well as ever, doing some part time work in the clinic of John Wanamaker's store.

"And that reminds me—a medical course is most discouraging to matrimony. Some of the boys do it of course and are quite happy, but neither Jim, Bill, nor I have seen our way clear. Jim has been in and out of love I guess at least six times during the past five years, and now he is hit pretty badly again.

"I haven't heard anything of engagements, however. Bill, I guess, is whole hearted and fancy free, as is your humble servant, but of course we're looking around.

"Saw a good deal of Babe Miner in Bellevue. He and I were the only Dartmouth men in the crowd with the exception of Ridlon '22. Babe finishes up there in July.

"Another medic you might be interested in is Kerch Holt. After finishing at Yale Medical he interned at the Hartford Hospital, and is now getting some obstetrics at Providence Lying-in.

"John Perley likewise finished up at Yale and interned at Hartford Hospital. His course was temporarily bumped into by his having to be operated upon for a gastric ulcer. I believe he went up to Laconia, N. H., to recuperate—he I believe intends to practice there.

"One of the medics has returned to Hanover for some interning—Bernard Haubrich. I believe he ultimately intends to roost in Claremont, N. H.

"I'm afraid that is about all the news I can think of at the moment. I have rambled on for longer than I had intended, and I'm afraid by now you must be bored stiff.

"It has been a real regret that I have been unable to take a more active part in things Dartmouth during the past five years, but now that this so-called 'private practice' has begun I hope to have more time to myself. Needless to say I shall, during the first year or two. It was certainly a real disappointment to all of us not to be able to get back for the 'Fifth,' but I can promise that fire, water, and all other acts of God won't keep us away from the 'Tenth.'

"Sincerely,

"JACK BOOTH."

Sherm Clough is married and rather proud of Sherm Clough, Jr., now a little more than two years old, and in addition to showering his attention on the kid and his mother, the former Bertha Young of Brookline, Mass., he turns out some high grade advertising for the Noyes Buick Company, New York, distributors of Buick cars. This happy family may be located at 30 Webster St., Brookline, Mass.

H. L. (Bus) Barnett sold insurance and made biscuits, and is now selling corrugated boxes for the General Fibre Box Company, Springfield, Mass. He has had other experiences of an interesting nature which he refuses to divulge. One of these however is not his marriage to Mae E. Dolan last fall at Forest Hills, L. I. Bus and Mae live at 1006 Main St., Worcester, Mass. Incidentally, any of you gents who are able to gain admittance to this family will certainly be struck with the beauty of Mrs. Barnett, unless time and distance have affected your correspondent's original impression of the charming Miss Dolan.

I had the pleasure of dining with "Windy" Monger and the little woman a few days ago, after which we attended a very good show. Many of you will remember Mrs. Monger as the beautiful but not dumb paying teller in the Hanover National Bank who refused to cash your bum checks.

When you are in trouble, and within reach of the Trench Building, New York city, go there at once and look for the name of A. F. O'Brien in the lobby. Then hurry upstairs and give him the dope. A good lawyer, O'by, and not too high priced.

Secretary, Sycamore Place, Highland Park, Ill