CLASS OF 1923
By way of apology for the appearance of absolutely no news whatsoever in this column in the last issue, this issue contains enough to hold you for the summer, we hope.
We lead off with Howard P. Emerson, who is with the DuPont Ammonia Corporation, 412 W. 22(1 St., Wilmington, Del. After Howie got through Dartmouth, he graduated from M. I. T., an electro chemical engineer, after first having instructed in chemistry at Robert College in Constantinople. He was married last November to Fanny Stahl at Boston.
After Douglas C. Manson got through school he went to work for the New York Evening Journal as a reporter and rewrite man. Then Johns-Manville Corporation in the advertising department, and now Batten, Barton, Durstine, and Osborn, advertising agency, in New York. He lives at 21 Fountain Place, New Rochelle, N. Y., and eats and sleeps Armstrong's Linoleum, for which he writes sparkling copy. The high lights in his career which he is willing to mention are (1) The sock over the head which he received during a newspaper strike; (2) Best man at Tommy Burch's wedding; (3) Marrying the sister of Tommy's wife; (4) Finding the Messrs. Sollitt, Metzel, etc., A. W. O. L., in Chicago on his last visit. Occupying the next cubicle to his own at his place of business is Bib Hudgins '25. Doug was married to Elsie Kent about two years ago, and he went through this ordeal in Yonkers, N. Y.
When Jonathan R. Titcomb submits his career to the American Magazine, it will probably be headed "From fish culturist to sales manager." He has been a carpenter, game warden, laborer, lumber-jack, as well as fish culturist, and now is assistant to the sales manager of the Snoqualmie Palls Lumber Company in Washington. Titcomb has built a D. O. C. outpost on the Snoqualmie River, 40 miles from Seattle, and if you are in this neighborhood, you are urged to share a bunk in J. R.'s cabin and help him try to remove the trout which are fast becoming a nuisance in the river which burbles by.
Karl W. Lundberg builds furniture in Rockford, 111. He is vice-president of the Empire Limited, and also vice-president of its subsidiary distributing concern, the Cooperative Furniture Company. On March 23, 1928, he married Marie C. Benezet at Hollywood, Cal. Address him at 948 North Main St., Rockford, 111.
F. Preston Leavitt of 15 Edgewood St., Worcester, Mass., sells bonds for Harris, Forbes, and Company at Worcester. He prefers this to peddling diamonds or lead pipe, both of which occupations have claimed his attention from time to time. He has been married for 2½ years, and the bride was Ethel M. Thompson.
Al Hovey, model husband and perfect father, of 227 Third St., Scotia, N. Y„ is located in the research laboratory of the General Electric Company. From Dartmouth he joined the research staff of the Remington Arms Company of Bridgeport, Conn., and left there to get a M.S. from Union College in 1928.
Fred Merriam instructed in English at the School of Business Administration, Boston University, also at C. C. N. Y., and then went into advertising agency work in New York. He is now assistant general manager of McKinlay, Stone, and Mackenzie, publishers, 114 East 16th St., New York city. He is married, has one daughter, is a second lieutenant in the Military Intelligence Reserve of the U. S. Army, and holds the degree of Sc.B. from Boston University and an M.C.S. from Northeastern University. He lives at 122 21st St., Jackson Heights', L. I., with his particularly charming wife.
1 reasurer of the Griffin Lumber Company, president of Homemakers, Inc., and vicepresident and treasurer of the Kensington Court, Inc. Thus reads the list of the material accomplishments of O. Thompson Griffin of 1 Pearl St., Hudson Falls, N. Y. Aside from this he is the former Margaret L. Knight's husband.
Let Shiner Beggs of 655 Washington St., New York city, tell his own story: "Since college the following occupations have claimed my attention from time to time: (1) For one year day-laborer and mill-hand at Empire Piece Dye Works, Paterson, N. J. (2) One and one-half years floor-walker and salesman for Stroheim and Romann, Fifth Ave., N. Y. (jobbers of beautiful decorative fabrics). (8) Two and one-half years advertising solicitor, covering New England and New York state for Hotel Management, a monthly publication. (4) One and one-half years advertising solicitor for the Farm Journal in New York city and New England territory. My past experiences of more than ordinary interest (at least to me) have been: (1) Keeping up an apartment in Greenwich Village. (2) Taking wifie on business trips through New England. (3) Taking weekends at Southampton, Long Island. (4) Keeping the new Auburn mudguards hammered out and painted. High spots: occasionally seeing Frank Doten, Sherm Clough, Sherm Baldwin, Fred Bailey, in Boston, Steve Kenyon and Charlie Rice in Hartford."
Ike Phillips went to Harvard Law with Dick Townsend, Karl Williams, Hi Streight, Freddy Bryan, Shunt Turnbull, Shamus O'Brien, etc. His first connection with a law firm was with Squire, Sanders, and Dempsey in Cleveland until about a year ago when he joined the trust department of the Seaboard National Bank of New York city in the Estates Management Division. (The Seaboard is now merged with the Equitable Trust Company.) Ike married Susan DuBois a couple of years ago, and they live at 45 Dwight Place, Englewood, N. J.
Ed Laventall is factory manager of Kalon Incorporated, Troy, N. Y„ makers of good shirts. He voted for Al Smith, and annually bets on Dartmouth versus Yale. Perhaps these unfortunate wagers have so depleted the old sock that his financial condition precludes matrimony. Be that as it may, he lives alone at 908 Madison Ave., Albanv N. Y.
Let's give ear next to Ruel Smith, by his say-so one of the most successful advertising men in the world. He may be found perching on this pinnacle of fame in the offices of Doremus and Company, New York city. He recites a tearful account of his participation in the Wall St. hurly burly, but why go into that? He has been married since 1926, and lives at 555 Ocean Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Now we have Ellis Wilner, who designs pretty cotton fabrics for Henry Glass and Company. We hope he has recovered from the serious ear trouble which almost laid him low a year ago. The writer remembers with considerable emotion the Sunday afternoons Ellis and he spent during the spring of each year on the roof of Richardson Hall, singing "Irene, your dainty, etc."
A stone's throw from "The Ship," notorious stronghold of Chicago's leading citizen, Al Capone, is the Hawthorne plant of the Western Electric Company. Tucked away in this huge institution is a department called the "Order Planning Department," concerning itself with a new wrinkle in purchasing developed by the gent who presides over it—-Walter L. Jones. If you want to know anything about calculus see Walter. His present job is in the production end of the business, to which he switched from the accounting department after his arrival at Hawthorne from M. I. T. in 1925. Walter lives at 344 Sixth Ave., LaGrange, I11.
Howard Rockefeller, lives at 117 West 9th St., Los Angeles, Cal., is married, and practices law.
Stewie Summers, his wife, and their beautiful twin girls, Nancy Gale and Sally Ann, still live at 661 North 56th St., Omaha, Neb. Stewie is an insurance broker.
Here is a letter from our good friend Go Bliss, paper manufacturer of Mittineague, Mass.:
Dear Metz: There are some heretic utterances in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. I am not a "newsician," but just one of the baldest and probably the handsomest of Springfield's many paper manufacturers. Heine Bourne's reference to my right arm is uncalled for, inasmuch as the only time I moved or bent it, was in an effort to restrain his violent assault on an inoffensive and, as it later proved, delightful concoction. You can check this was Phil Smith, Cleveland's most elusive bachelor.
Unless Ed Lyle's visit to New Orleans antedated that of Mrs. Bliss and myself, his story of Danny Dantzler's loneliness is made up out of whole cloth. Mrs. B.—hereinafter referred to as Liberty—and I drove all the way to Biloxi to see Danny, only to discover that he lived in New Orleans, and in splendor at that. We eventually located him on a quiet Sunday morning, decanting a keg of— alleged—RYE and really too intent on his work to appreciate the amazing honor tendered him by our visit.
One-half of the Pope Twins is now an associate of yours truly, having come with us in November. We think that Ernie is the one we took on, but perhaps it was "Dm" after all. The latter, or perhaps former, is with the Fiberloid Company in Springfield.
George Weston, Howie Brown (Dr.), George Ferguson, and Charley Cooley (atty.) are all married and in Springfield. Charley and I will take on any two members of the class at ping pong, and post forfeits, side bets, or what have you on the outcome.
If you are ever in these parts stop in and see us all. With kindest regards,
Go BLISS
The crack we made in the recent issue about Thornton Hall has provoked the following reference from that muscle-bound confrere, Reub Winchester:
Dear Truman: I am extremely gratified to read in the March ALUMNI MAGAZINE your just reference to Thornton Hall as the cream center of the class. Creme de Menthe.
One more note of importance—about Sam White. Sam has had a nervous breakdown, and is but now recovering. It couldn't be from over-work, because Sam works for an English-style institution, the U. S. Trust Company in New York. Tea every afternoon with tarts. The stroke more probably came from waiting too long for a telephone connection between Staten Island and Evanston, 111. Like Columbus, he is dissatisfied with the girls at home. Sam is unusually eager to get mail, as supports P. O. Box 255, St. George, Staten Island, N. Y. Return a few Police Gazette coupons with this address.
George Meleney, the bridegroom, still has phlebitis (like Knute Rockne) but none the less sells many Ingersoll-Rand beer pumps, breast pumps, and biscuit crushers in Washington, D. C. I thank you.
REUB WINCHESTER 1239 Chase Ave., Chicago, 111.
A frequent caller who asks us not to divulge his identity but to whom we are indebted for a great many items in these here pages is responsible for the notes which follow:
Roy Brown has returned from a long stay in Peru in the mines, and is looking for similar work not quite so far from home. His experiences in Peru included famine, fever, strikes, hurricanes, floods, and constant jousting with the jungle, and they tell me that he is looking fine and raring to go. When last seen he was considering a position in New Caledonia and several others. Bobbie Coller of the side-wheeler vocal delivery is running a very prosperous antique business, and has five shops, three of them in New York city and one on a farm in Farmington, Conn., which he calls "The Orchard," where he is wont to lie on the grass and survey the clouds rolling by the while he calculates his growing bank balance. It is said that the antiques are manufactured in the back room of the farm house and offered for sale in the parlor, but we cannot swear to this, and knowing Bobbie as we do, we doubt that he would ever resort to such unscrupulous tactics. Mike May and Irish Flanigan are still selling plenty of insurance. Bob Macaulay, the ex-prof and vacuum oil tycoon, now works a pump handle for the Shell Oil Company on his way to a high executive position with that concern.
This column once reported that Cliff Hart, a prominent store fixture and store front architect in New York city, graduated from Dean Laycock's school for boys in '23. This is not so. Cliff was in the class of '21.
As you all know, Don Moore has been appointed class agent for the Alumni Fund, and the following letters from fellows who have replied to his flock of post cards are now presented through his courtesy.
In response to a wire to Bob Strong, who is the local administrator of the Alumni Fund in Hanover, we are able to list below the record of the participation of our class in the annual Alumni Fund drive since graduation. The high lights in this tabulation are: In
only two years have we reached our quota. In the last five years we have contributed a smaller percentage of our quota each year except 1928. In the last five years the class of '22 has beaten us once and the class of '24 has beaten us four times. In the last six years while the number of classes reaching their quota has steadily increased, our contribution has steadily fallen off.
The space allotted to the class news in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, for the protection of our readers, is closed to all appeals for funds for casual purposes, but it is wide open for discussions and promotion of the Alumni Fund. This is so because our college operates on the money subscribed each year by the alumni and the quota set for the Alumni Fund is the annual budget for the cost of operation of the major functions of the college. Because this is so, when the funds do not reach the quota, some phase of the college operation suffers.
It may result in room rent being raised or some professor being dropped or salary cuts here and there. I believe that these facts are not generally known, and further that the poor showing our class has made since 1925 is not generally known by the members of the class. I hope therefore that you will study the tabulation that accompanies these remarks and respond to Don Moore with contributions to help bring the contribution of our class up to the quota which is set for us. If you will glance at the quota we must reach, it will be plain that it doesn't require much from each man to reach the goal set, and if you can only spare a dollar, it will help a lot. If you have failed to contribute for the last two or three years and can see your way clear to including the subscriptions which you have not made before in this year's check, I hope you will do so.
Dr. E. B. Hopkins 33 Highland Ave., Ayer, Mass.
iUdSJ. Dear Don: I just received your letter a few days ago, and as I am at present convalescing from an appendicitis operation, I thought it would be a good time to drop you a note.
I realize that I have been very lax in sending news to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE for the past few years, and I guess as a general rule young medicos are very apt to be like that. After you get into a four-year medical training, followed by a couple years of interning, it is extremely easy to lose touch with the rest of the class.
I believe Russ Perley gave out a little dirt about me in the last MAGAZINE, but hope you won't mind a little repetition.
I graduated from the University of Penn. Medical School in June, 1926, along with Russ Perley and Collin Stewart. That summer I spent on the Floating Hospital for Babies (none of them being my own). In the fall Russ Perley and I took a trip across country, dropping in on Bill Angell at Ogden, Utah. In Los Angeles, we bumped into Jack Booth, Bill Kelly, and Lou Woodruff, and, as you may imagine, we had a regular '23 reunion.
In January, 1927,1 started interning at the Episcopal Hospital in Philadelphia for two years. By this time I was earning my room and board, which of course made me feel almost as though I had become of age.
I started practice at my present address in February, 1929, and last but not least, as you probably realize, I became hitched to Dorothy M. Judd on June 15, 1929, Russ Perley acting as my best man. No additions to the family as yet.
Perhaps this letter should be to Metz—if so will you please forward? As to the check which is mentioned, how much is the damage and I will try to come across even though I have just built a house .and had my appendix out.
Hope your new job doesn't prove too tough.
Best Regards, HOP
Vic Cannon 2535 Hareourt Dr. Cleveland, Ohio
Dear Don: I received your postal card the other day, and it was good to look over the old gang again and, what is more, hear from you.
Knowing just how hard it is to collect money, I am going to do my part to make your job that much easier by enclosing a check for (deleted by your correspondent).
May you have a hearty response from everyone this year, so that we can make our quota and then some.
Sorry to hear that Kip Couch is in poor health, but know the job will not suffer with you as his successor.
I am still in Cleveland with the Electric Vacuum Cleaner Company (makers of Premier electric vacuum cleaners—adv't.). My capacity is assistant to the sales manager, which means I do a little of everything. I like the work exceedingly—my five years there will vouch for this.
Am still single, and the chances of continuing in that state seem good.
I see quite a few of the Cleveland '23 gang every Saturday at our weekly lunches—Ray Barker, Heinie Bourne, Chuck Calder, Ed Stocker, and others. Occasionally see Jack Osborne, Bill Sawyer, Charles Bishop, Lyman King, Halsey Mills, and others.
It seemed good to hear from you again, Don. Here's wishing you every success in your job as class agent.
Sincerely, Vic
H. T. Bourne The Griswold-Eshleman Cos. Terminal Tower, Cleveland, Ohio Advertising
Dear Don: I think your idea of sending out the picture of all the boys in our class is a "corking" fine one. If it hadn't been at the end of the month I would have sent you a telegram complimenting you upon the superior quality of brain work you have displayed.
I don't know just what dues I owe you, but I have gotten so much pleasure out of the picture that I think I probably ought to pay them now.
Very truly yours, HEINIE
Taylor Smith 29 West 28th St. Indianapolis, Ind.
Dear Don:
It was good to get your little written message on the class picture card. Good luck for your new job—anyone who tackles it deserves at least good luck.
How is Kip getting along? I hope someone will advise us soon, through Metzel's chatter in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
I thought you were with Sum Sollitt in Chicago, Don, helping to put up buildings for the gangs to blow up. I'm glad you got out of there with no permanent disability.
Like Will Rogers, all I know about the class is what I read out of the good MAGAZINE mentioned above. The scarcity of Dartmouth men in this foreign country is hard to realize and believe until it's actually seen.
I'm enclosing a check in blank, not remembering just what the annual tax is. Perhaps there are others with a memory as poor as mine, and who will have to be furnished with a flat rate before coming across. If such is the case, don't be discouraged with a return of less than average on the first circular.
The class picture idea was fine, and I only hope that the rest of the gang enjoyed receiving theirs half as much as I enjoyed mine. Of course I don't expect you to acknowledge this—you have much too much to do for that. And please don't take offence because of my having limited the size of the check,—sometimes they go astray in the mail.
With best regards to yourself and any other of the boys whom you see.
Sincerely yoUrs, TAYLOR
Ed Lyle 200 Woburn St. West Medford, Mass.
Dear Don: With such an overwhelming appeal as you have made I have decided to give you a break, and forthwith, my contribution is enclosed. I certainly don't want to be the cause of taking more than a fleeting moment from those youngsters.
May I tell you what a darn good idea I think that "composite picture card" is! It has all the appeals that Harry Wellman used to tell us about—it is worth keeping.
And thanks for that little personal greeting on the other side.
Hope one of those two kids is of the sex that will make him a member of the football team at Hanover along about 1943 or so.
Good luck to you in your new capacity, and know that we will all feel very proud to be at or near the head of the list of the classes having the largest percentage of contributors.
Sincerely, ED LYLE
Len Bronner, Jr. Department of Justice United States Attorney's Office New York City
new IWH. Dear Don: I was very glad to hear from you and wonder what you are doing out in Pompton Lakes.
(Editor's note: Don Moore is a superintendent of construction for the Sumner Sollitt Company.)
There's lots of excitement in this office, but not much salary. You ought to drop in sometime and see all the criminals.
I'll send a check in May, but hope to see you before then.
I get a Xmas card from Spud Bray every year.
Cordially, LEN BRONNER, JR.
Frank Smith J. E. Smith & Cos., Inc. 43-65 Benedict St. Waterbury, Conn.
Dear Don: Please find enelosed, etc. As Jim Richardson says, "It is more than a duty—it is a pleasure!"
I am devoting my best efforts to the building supply business, and find business rather poor at this time.
John Moore, Bob Fenn, and George Horan are the other local '23 boys. All of us are neglecting our duty by holding to the state of single blessedness.
Best regards, Don, old boy. I hope the boys come through in good style.
FRANK SMITH
Nathan P. Carver Warnick Lumber Cos. P. O. Box 352 Bellingham, Wash.
Dear Don: I was pleased to receive your letter and post card of our famous class, and I note that your little memorandum on the back of the post card asked for news. As you know, I am very far from most of the boys, and only occasionally see some of them in Seattle (and there are very few there).
My annual contribution will be shortly forthcoming, and I will not miss this year, as I have never done so in the past.
I was certainly glad to hear from you, and I wish you all the best of good luck.
Sincerely yours, NATHAN P. CARVER
Pudge Neidlinger The Common Cohasset, Mass.
Dear Don: I appreciated your note on the back of the Fund Card. Good work, and I hope it brings in the goods for you.
I feel that I might make some effort to ease the burden you have taken over from Kip's shoulders if you can suggest any field of activity in which I might be able to be of material assistance to you.
Was tremendously interested in hearing that you'are located at Pompton Lakes, and sorry I didn't know that this winter when I was a bachelor at Princeton or I would have bummed a week-end from you. Didn't know you aspired to be a builder either, and I am afraid that you are more liable to be throwing me a job if I ever get back in that section than for me to have any work to be done.
At present I am a confirmed Bostonian and rather enjoying it. Since I don't travel any more I miss seeing many of the gang, but I have run into a few new ones here, among others last week the long lost Chick Burke who is a Shell Oil man in Worcester. Wish Carpenter would get another Java Up in the mails, but don't blame the poor guy for being discouraged.
Let me know if I can help you out, Don, and good luck with the collecting.
PUDGE
Chts Sweney 1921 Laurel Ave. St. Paul, Minn.
Dear Don: Received your card and note. Maybe the enelosed check will help out some, and if you want more, why let me know and I'll see if I can find it some place.
Haven't been doing much myself since I saw you in June, 1928. Saw Metzel in Chicago last summer, and he gave me all the dope about you.
Spent a week-end with Burt Ford last summer, in Sioux City. He is married and doing very well. Don't remember an awful lot that happened after the first two or three hours I was there, but it was a grand party.
Have been in Omaha about half of the time recently, and seen a lot of Heinz Moore and Bevo Beveridge. Both of them are married, and Bevo has two children now, or should have.
So far this year I have been on the jump most of the time. First a" mining town in Montana, and then home for a little while, and now up in the woods of Michigan. A dirty little lumber town, which is slowly deteriorating now that most of the timber is gone and the mills are closed.
Sure am looking forward to seeing you in Hanover in June, 1933, if not before. Best of luck to you and the family.
Fraternally, CHES
Al Taylor Metropolitan Life Ins. Cos. 11 North Pearl St. Albany, N. Y.
Dear Don: It was nice to get your note on the back of the card you recently forwarded to all the members of the 1923 class. I assume that you are collecting money for the Alumni Fund. If so, you may be sure that sometime in May of this year, I shall forward you my contribution and it won't be necessary for you to hound me to get it. If the cheque you mention is for anything else other than the Alumni Fund such as class dues, etc., won't you please tell me how much I owe and I shall endeavor to mail a cheque promptly.
You may have noted in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE that at least two members of our class, namely, Tex Forbush and J. 0. Kavanaugh, are selling Metropolitan Group insurance. I am the third, and have been doing it for six and one-half years. It is a great life if you don't weaken, and things have been moving along very nicely for me.
I drive through Pompton Lakes about four or five times every summer, as my folks now live in Glen Ridge, N. J. You may be sure that I shall plan to drop in to see you for a few minutes on one of my early trips this summer. Haven't seen many of the old gang recently, but do bump into some of the fellows occasionally.
With kind personal regards, I am Sincerely yours, AL TAYLOR
Francis Donovan The Northwestern Mutual Life Ins. Cos. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Peterboro, N. H.
Dear Don: Six months ago I resigned as superintendent of the local printing plant to take this Northwestern district agency. It is still a little early to make a permanent appraisal, but so far I am even with where I would have been in the printing business, and the prospects look far better.
Took an awful sock on the chin a month ago today, when my wife was operated for appendicitis only a few hours before my younger daughter was put on the table for a double mastoid operation. Both are up and around, but the financial effects seem to linger. Just to make it unanimous, this appendix business seems to be catching in our family, and I have had to lay off for the last few days to try to make mine behave. Think I'm going to get away with it this time.
Twenty-three men in this section are scarce. In Nashua I see Phil Stevens, one of the Hitchcock gang of our freshman year. He is president of the Main Manufacturing Company, potent refrigerator concern. He had a tough break this winter when he lost his twoyear-old son. Winthrop Wadleigh, New Hampshire assistant attorney-general, seemed to be. doing well when I dined with him the other night in Concord. He is still single. Paul Hutchins, the North Stratford lumberjack, has eased up a bit and is now selling candy out of Boston. Rumor has it that ere long he will marry and settle in Concord.
Peterboro is pretty, partly because it is off the beaten track. For this reason we'd be doubly glad to see you if you get up this way next summer. Lots of luck, Don, and if I can help at all call on me.
Sincerely, DON
P.S. Now that I am out of the printing business, I can with more propriety suggest the value of the class directory in building class spirit. Why shouldn't we have one? D.
(Editor's note: if one is wanted, it shall be produced. What do you say, boys?)
P.P.S. Scarlet fever epidemic in Claremont has been a big help to Bernard Haubrich, M.D., who opened office there first of year.
Don Snyder Moore, Leonard, & Lynch Pittsburgh, Pa.
Dear Don: You're right—it has been a long time since you've seen or heard anything from me. Most people, I think, are backsliders where correspondence is concerned, and I'm far from being an exception. Moreover, this "out of sight, out of mind" business seems to apply to "after-college" letter writing more than anywhere else.
But anyway, I was glad to hear from you. Congratulations on the class agent appointment, even though you do have a lot of work cut out for you. When did you move to N. J.? And what are you doing? And how long have you been married? Here I am asking you questions when you probably want to hear the details of my lurid career. In brief, this is the dirt:
After graduation, I was with the Bell Telephone Company in Pittsburgh for a year and eight months. Didn't like it at allcouldn't stand the deadly routine and took absolutely no interest in the work. I made up my mind to give up the communications racket, and finally landed with Moore, Leonard, and Lynch, and have been here since April 1, 1925. As far as I am concerned, the brokerage business is the most fascinating thing in the world. Really, I don't consider it work. As far as this firm is concerned, I've done everything except clean the office at night, and at present I have a private board room of my own and handle all the listed business for the bond department, as well as my own customers. I also attend to most of the follow-up correspondence. Last year was a good year for me, and this year so far has been rotten. I am not rich—neither am I married, although I think I should bemarried, I mean. In brief, the preceding is my history to date.
Tomorrow, March 5, the annual Dartmouth dinner is being held at the University Club. President Hopkins will speak. Big time. By the way—ridiculous as it may seem to ask—what are the class dues? Have written this at the office, hence the disjointed style. Will give" you more at another time.
DON SNYDER
L. A. Putman Rochester, Vermont
Dear Don: Kan across your post card among my mail on returning from a trip. Have already sent my meagre contribution to the Alumni Fund, which is what I suppose you are soliciting for.
All my Tuck School training has got me so far is titles, troubles, a wife, and one boy. You notice I attribute it all to Tuck School, whose illustrious Professor Peisch still visits me once a year to keep me from absconding with company funds. Am still fussing around with a group of Vermont "short line" railroads and find the work congenial. Some day, I'll get released and be forced to tie up with "big business" and go to work.
Best regards, POT
Clarence E. Goss W. T. Grant Cos. 1441 Broadway New York City
Dear Don: I just got your card and want to congratulate you on being our class agent. I have thought about you many, many times since last I saw you in Pittsburgh, and have often inquired about you when I have been in Chicago. I am now buyer of all women's wear lines for W. T. Grant Company—when I was in Pittsburgh we only had about 70 stores, but now we have over 300 stores, and it's very interesting. I am located at the above address as a permanent business address. I was married last August 26 to Miss Priscilla Carpenter of Boston, and live at Alden House Apts., Apt 2H, Larehmont, N. Y.
Johnny Foster is here in the office as our personnel director and is doing great work. You may perhaps know this already. I was in Chicago a few weeks ago and saw Truman Metzel, and he gave me some news about you. Don, old man, I would be very much interested to hear from you from time to time, if you can catch a moment.
With kindest regards and wishing you all the good things this old world has to offer.
"GOSSIE"
P.S. Give my best to any of the boys you may see—if you are ever in New York would likfe to have you giyp me a ring.
Res. Phone—Larchmont 3313 Bus. Phone—Lackawanna 0300
H. Carleton White 209 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, N. Y.
Dear Don
Enclosed is my check for the Alumni Fund. I received your card and note that you crave both money and news. It just happens that I'm very short of both. However, it's so long since I have paid any class dues that it's beginning to worry me. Let me know the worst, and I'll try to help keep you in postage stamps.
Best of luck, "CARL" WHITE
Some questions have come in as to class dues. Brother Doten (the financial genius of the class) has some money in the bank and has accordingly not believed it necessary to dun the class for money for which there is no immediate need. However, during the summer, if enough of the boys request it, I will produce and mail to each member of the class who asks for it a class directory which will include as well as names and addresses news items of interest, etc., at a charge which will cover the cost of production and show a small profit to the treasury. I think that such a directory might prove of value for a lot of us during the summer to have in our pockets on vacation trips, and if you agree and tell me so, I will get to work.
Secretary, Sycamore Place, Highland Park, Ill.
No. of classesYear reaching quota 1923-24 29 1924-25 30 1925-26 31 1926-27 30 1927-28 31 1928-29 34 Year Class Quota Subscription % of quota 1923-24 1922 $1,011. $1,165.50 115 1923 1,456. 1,740. 119 1924 — — — 1924-25 1922 1,159. 1,229.85 106 1923 1,786. 1,808.50 101 1924 — 1,507.50 — 1925-26 1922 1,690 1,211.44 72 1923 2,557. 2,082.10 82 1924 2,115. 2,060. 97 1926-27 1922 1,851. 1,243.12 67 192$ 2,911. 2,214. 76 1924 2,425. 1,906.69 79 1927-28 1922 1,902. 1,440.30 76 1923 2,993. 2,436.50 81 1924 2,507. 2,243.50 89 1928-29 1922 2,270. 1,558.50 69 1923 3,466 2,392.75 69 1924 2,886. 2,963. 103
