CLASS OF 1923

Your correspondent, following the practice initiated in the last issue (which will continue as long as the material is at hand), is again in this issue presenting dope about men from whom we have not heard for a long time. When this bunch of material is exhausted, then we will have to rely once more on our star correspondents of whom, thank God, there are quite a number.

The cream of the class, who to a man resided in Thornton Hall ten years ago at this writing, will recall among their number Sol Levine, now of 2075 Walton Ave., Bronx, New York city. Sol went to Columbia Law School and was editor of the Columbia LawReview for two years after graduation. He was admitted to the bar of New York state December 13, 1926, and has done well ever since. Sol was present on Morningside Heights the day the Columbia squad took off for Hanover this fall, and says that the enthusiasm ran high. I wonder if Columbia partisans were just as excited the day before their licking last Saturday, when the score was one point worse than the Hanover rout.

The career of A. J. Merritt has included toil in the refinery of the Roxana Petroleum Corporation. (Shell Products) at Wood River, iLL., assistant purchasing agent of Hartford Machine Screw Co. at Hartford, Conn., and now (from bad to worse) assistant underwriter in group department of the Travelers Insurance Company. Merritt got married on January 11, 1924, and he lives with the former Marjorie Elizabeth Higgins and their daughters Marcia Blakeslee and Joan Webster at 109 Thomas St., West Hartford, Conn.

From Florida comes news of C. F. Goddard whose correct address is Box 406, Gainesville, where he lives with his wife and their two daughters, Joan and Lois. Goddard has sold life insurance, hardware, and a flying service. During the last year, he took a gorgeous trip to Europe and a 5,000 mile air tour in the United States.

Aside from advising your Secretary that lie has been interested in sales and advertising, Vic Short of 7031 Bennett Ave., Chicago, HI., ex-Dartmouth porpoise, writes that he has done a little prospecting in a vain attempt to prove "There's gold in them thar hills, stranger!"

Nothing new about Ivan J. Martin, except that he is all swelled up over his new kid, called Ivan J. Martin, Jr.

S. J. (Starr Jocelyn) Murphy works for the Standard Oil Company down in Columbia, S. C. His address there is 1815 Senate St. For a while he was in Portugal and for another period in Rio de Janeiro for the Standard Oil Company, and he emerged in the United States at Wheeling, W. Va., prior to his present location. The Murphys have three lovely daughters, Edith, Elizabeth, and Dorothy-Maude. We are proud of you, Murph.

Ralph D. Palmer, ex '23 (he insists he was kicked out of the place) lives at 818 18th Street, N. W.,Washington, D. C. He writes that he was the leader of an orchestra of college men touring 44 states and parts of Canada and Mexico for Radcliffe Chautauqua System. He "cut that pronto when radio, roads, and Mencken cut into the racket, and, innocently, went into newspaper work. Job today is as follows: City editor, Washington Daily News, after being cub reporter dramatic critic, and sundry."

Sam Clemens, Jr., is a production engineer with the Corning Glass Works, Corning, N. Y.

B. G. Manning is in the general insurance business at 75 Gothic St., Northampton, Mass.

Phil Judd is assistant cashier for Armour and Company at New Haven, Conn., and he lives at 457 Savin Ave., West Haven,. Conn., with the former Beatrice Brown and a. couple of chubby youngsters.

Walter Kopf builds homes and subdivisions and right now is knocking together ten dwellings in and around Cincinnati in Kopf and Bressler's Subdivision. He still plays a lot of ball. Was on the Oakland-California team in the Pacific Coast League, the Little Rock, Ark., team in the Southern League, and now covers the same old bag with the American Rolling Mills team of Middleton, Ohio. You can reach Walter at 912 American Building, Cincinnati.

J. F. Maycock is sales manager, export division, Pratt and Lambert, Inc. He hasrisen in this organization from near the bottom, no doubt due to the daily encouragement and affectionate support of the former Annie P. Richmond, whom he'married last summer at Buffalo. May be reached at 410 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo, N. Y.

Jack Stanley went to Honduras for the United Fruit Company after graduation. He: was then in the Southeast for five years with Landers, Frary, and Clark of New Conn. In 1929 he stopped traveling, and, in his own words, "settled down" with Harris, Forbes and Company, Lac., at 24 Federal' St., Boston. Jack lives at 757 Washington St., Brookline, Mass. He is married and hashopes.

J. W. Johnson 11, of 39 Ridge Road, Concord, N. H., has been salesman, secretary, and director for Stratton and Company,, flour millers.

L. P. Girouard, our next victim, lives at. 5 Depot St., Pittsfield, N. H., and is a merchant and good fellow around town and liststhe following avocations: auditor Chamber of Commerce, president Pittsfield Sunset League (baseball), director of local golf course, adjutant American Legion.

Johnny Meehan tackled the world as an engineer in a coal mine, then went with thePublic Service Corporation of New Jersey, and then to the Central Hudson Gas and Electric Corporation in Kingston, N. Y., asmanager. Today he is division manager of thenorthern territory of the last named company, and insists that he works 24 hours a day, although your correspondent doesn't, see how this is possible, and only offers this fact for publication because Mr. Meehan seesfit to submit it. Johnny wants anyone who is around Kingston to look him up, as he doesn't get a chance to see many of the boys. (In these turbulent times, Johnny, an offer of a meal would go far toward keeping you dated up for a long time.)

A clipping at hand reads as follows

"Couple wed in Rhode Island. Miss Amantha A. Arnold is Charles G. Akin Jr.'s Bride. Newlyweds leave for cruise aboard Yacht; to live in city upon return." The clipping proceeds as follows: "Autumn garden flowers in varied hues made an effective setting for the wedding Monday noon of Miss Amantha Ashley Arnold and Charles Gardner Akin, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Akin, 52 Arnold St. It was a simple ceremony performed at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. Hollis Arnold, Rumstick Point, Barrington, R. I. Mr. and Mrs. Akin left yesterday for a cruise on the yacht Coronia, of which Mr. Akin is joint owner. He is rear commodore of the New Bedford Yacht Club. They will make their home in New Bedford following a brief honeymoon." Advice from Akin himself gives us this information: "I am with the Akin and Denison Coal Company, a 'grate' job, and do a lot of sailing. Made a fine trip from Florida, leaving here the Ist of March and returning by boat the Ist of April. Ray Taber '23 is a successful dentist here in town."

E. S. Pratt is principal of North Kingstown High School at Wickford, R. I. He is married, and can be reached at Box 366, Wickford.

Bob Hess works for the Washburn Company, manufacturers of wire goods, "trucker to salesman and back to trucker," and now is sales manager for this outfit, and no doubt originated the above snappy slogan. Bob's home is 28 Union St., Worcester, Mass.

We quote the following from Carl Gray: "I am very glad to see you are getting after everyone in the class, and wish I could be a contributor toward some class information. I seldom see any of the boys, and would be glad if anyone is on his way through New York if he would give me a buzz either at the Bankers Trust Company or at my home at 1060 Park Ave. We are at present in one hell of a gloom here on the Street, and how long it is going to last nobody knows."

Had a very good letter from Winnie Weser, although certain statements contained in it as to an incident in the past in which your correspondent is reported to have figured were certainly not good reading, and we do not think it the right kind of material to offer up to you clean-cut fellows. Winnie says further that he is helping to build the greatest co-operative organization in the world so far as the personal finance field is concerned, namely the N.C.C.A. He claims Charlie Zimmerman is agency manager for the Connecticut Mutual in New York, and insists that Stan Ungar is a noted physician on Park Ave., New York city; he insinuates that Bobbie Collar owns an interior decorating shoppee-, hints that Bill Corrigan is secretary of a book publishing house in New York, and states without qualification that Dick Kershaw is sole owner of a nice printing business in New Rochelle, N. Y. Contained in Winnie's letter is a proposition that anyone should be glad to get hold of. It seems that someone in college borrowed $900 from Weser, and that half of this amount will be paid to any party who collects this bill. (De tails may be obtained direct from Weser at 8 Maple Ave., North Pelham, N. Y.) It has often been said that Macy's employ young men of more than average acumen, and whether or not this is so may be judged by the following answers to questions addressed to J. J. Werner, late of the live poultry game and now engaged in merchandising ready-to-wear for Macy's.

Question: What impresses you nowadays about Hanover?

Answer: Plumbing and electricity.

Question: Who would you like me to tell to get in touch with you and about what?

Answer: J. P. Morgan.

Question: What changes would you like to see in the 1928 news items in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, either in quantity, quality, or manner of presentation?

Answer: Portrait of Joe Pollard. Question: Would you spend $1.00 for one issue of a '25 newspaper?

Answer: No.

Len Truesdell on last September 12 had a rendezvous with Elizabeth Louise Barrett at the Little Church Around the Corner, and the Truesdells are now cosily installed in Harrisville, R. 1., where Len is plant manager in one of the yarn mills of the Stillwater Worsted Mills. Len says that the college is surely progressing in its building program, and is the same old wonderful school.

JOIN THE RED CROSS

I am still living in the country, doing nothing in particular except try to earn a living. I get to New York every few weeks, where I endeavor to shake off my rural appearance and speech, do a little work, see as many of '23 as possible, and have a good time. I recently saw Jim Landauer and Kip Couch in Scarsdale, where both are causing sensations in tennis circles. On way back by car with wife, I stopped at Williamstown and saw Sam Sammis at dinner. Sam is still living in Pittsfield, now connected with Harris, Forbes and Company.

"Outside activities" of the writer include membership on directorate and officer of local hospital, field director of Red Cross at Plattsburg Barracks, and a little fussing with the local politicians, though little progress has been made.

I would be very happy to expend $1 for '23 paper. I hope everything goes well with you.

Very best of wishes,

LEIF

REMINISCENCES

Dear Metz: For seven long years I have been trying to bring myself to that state of grace where I could forgive you for the sleepless hours I spent listening to you and Shunt Tumbull singing in the (deleted) in Thornton. At last I have conquered my baser nature, and the extent of my forgiveness is shown by terming as singing something that was an awful lot like caterwauling.

In 1923 I was married to Edith DeLoriea of Winchester, and at eight this morning she was still living with me, which should entitle her to a prize one way or another. We have a son, Kendall, who is a little over three and a holy terror.

Ever since leaving school I have worked for the telephone company. I have barnstormed around New England for several years, and have finally lighted here in Cambridge for awhile. Ivan Martin and Red Maloney are located here, and I see them every once in a while. Ivan has recently become a proud father, and I have hopes of Red.

I think I've got a dollar, and if so would be glad to spend it for a copy of a '23 newspaper.

Sincerely,

KEN WAY

HAVE YOU DRIVEN THE NEW BUICK?

30 Webster St., Brookline, Mass

Dear Metz: Received your letter today, and for once in my life I'm going to answer right away. The "personal" side of this picture can be dispensed with in rather short order—no further additions to the family, but Sherm, Jr., now 3%, shows more promise every day of being a future "Big Green" half-back or drawback—I don't know which! I'm still with Noyes Buick, seeing that the new Straight Eight gets the proper amount of advertising in New England. Now for '23 in Boston.

We've started weekly luncheons at the University Club—Mondays at 12:30 (out-oftown papers please copy!)—and although the attendance hasn't reached any startling proportions as yet, Frank Doten, George Fuller, Sherm Baldwin, Pudge Neidlinger, and I are doing our best to give them an excuse for putting a "Dartmouth '23" sign on the table. Fuller is the "traveling delegate" for the crowd—rendering his report each Monday on the previous Saturday's game during the football season! His dope on the Norwich 79-0 "track-meet" was rather encouraging, although he admitted that the opposition was pretty weak. He has a busy fall ahead of him, but he thrives on it-—these bachelors can and do! Says if they'd reduce the Stanford tickets from $3.50 to $3.00 he might even take in that game! The rest of the gang here are fine. You'll probably hear from most of them, so I'll let them tell their own storythen they can stick to it.

Haven't been to Hanover recently enough to give you any very new impressions. Hope to get up this fall for the house-warming of the Tuck School lay-out, which I understand is pretty grand. Fuller says it's "too good!" From his description I guess it has sort of got it over the Daggert A. B. and all that went with it.

I'm all for a class paper. If there's anything we can do from this neck of the woods to help you, sing out. In the meantime, we'll do our best to keep '23 on the map around here. Give my best to any of the crowd that you see regularly. I'm looking forward to seeing the twins at the 10th—hope they and Mrs. Metz are fine. I'll try to be more frequent with my letters from now on. Best of luck to you.

SHERM CLOUGH

MRS. HARMON DAVID MERSEREAUANNOUNCES THE MARRIAGE OF HER DAUGHTERJULIETTETOMR. BROOKS PALMERON SATURDAY, THE TWENTIETH OF SEPTEMBERONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND THIRTYAT SAINT THOMAS CHURCHIN THE CITY OP NEW YORK

Don't forget that movies of the Big Fifth are available upon writing me for them. Also don't forget that June, 1933, is not as far off as it was once, and that this is not too early to start planning to be there. According to President Hoover we will all soon return again to our former high standard of living, and so, if business is punk now don't throw up your hands at the thought of getting to and from Hanover c years hence, but re- flect on the recent crack of Mr. Scharles Schwab, to wit: "Happy days will soon be here again." And on the remark of a few months ago of the president of the Sun Life of Canada, that "common stocks will reach higher levels in 1930 than ever before."

Secretary, 102 North Sheridan Road, Highland Park, iLL.

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