CLASS OF 1923
ALL THE NEWS THAT'S UNFIT TO PRINT
How does this appeal: a portion of each month's notes devoted to contributions by the brethren of things that happened to us seven, eight, nine, and ten years ago, under the heading Do You Remember? The kind of materia] that reminiscences are made of,
the sort of thing we talk about when we run across one another, the happenings in college we like best to remember and laugh about. For instance: Do You Remember Ellis Wilner singing "Alice Blue Gown" on nice spring Sundays, from a perch on the roof of Rich Hall? What happened to Ted Shapleigh when the baseball team went to Atlanta? How Class President Taylor resisted capture in his room early in the morning during the Freshman Picture excitement? The conquest of Massachusetts row by the lads of Reed and Thornton and the other dorms of lesser importance on their side of the campus?—etc. —etc.
It strikes me that kind of stuff would make good reading. If you agree—send them in. You get an autographed photo of Sam Occum for every set of ten you submit.
THE CONQUESTS OF LIONEL STRONGFORT
Dear Metz
This summer I took a boat trip around Panama to Los Angeles to visit Johnny Fleming and returned through South via New Orleans—nearly annexed another southern babe in Texas for our class, but after returning to more frigid climate cooled off, because single-blessedness is much preferred in this game of medicine for several years to come. Hope to be on deck on our 10th reunion with whoever she may be. Incidentally, Metz, put down my address after July 1, as Rochester General Hospital, Rochester, N. Y.
Yours,
WALT RAHMANOP
1025 Sherbrooke St. West,Montreal.
Visited Joe Millar for several days and he has a peach of a baby girl. Have a snap of Joe, wife, and baby if you start in collecting for rogues' gallery. (Ed. note: Watch for this in our forthcoming rotogravure section.)
NORTH AND SOUTH SHORE SHORT SUBJECTS
Dear T. T.: Howie Bartlett lost his mother about a year ago He is now teaching at Mass. Tech. in Cambridge. Says he is working also for his Ph.D.
Sam Home happily married. Chief diversion is hooking rugs. Sam seems to enjoy it. He and his wife live in the same house with Brooks Palmer and wife and dog. George Musk was up this way a short while ago. Looked prosperous. George is in some leather novelty business and is making a go of it.
I'm still practicing surgery and obstetrics out here in Haverhill. Have been here three years now, and business is just beginning to pick up.
Best regards to you. HERB
Herbert Q. Home, M.D.26 Summer St.,Haverhill, Mass.
GOINGS-ON IN MANHATTAN
March 10, 1931
Dear Truman:
Can help you out a little on a couple of these fellows:
Thomas H. McKnight is located at 285 Madison Ave with Young and Rubican in the advertising business. His residence address is 61 West 9th St. He is married to Edith Meisser, who played one of the leads in the Garrick Gaieties last year. He is doing a lot of radio advertising work and making a very handsome income. If you will tune in on the Taylor Tailoring Co. and a number of other small concerns, the skits which you hear have been composed by Tom, and in a great many both he and his wife take certain speaking parts. He has also written some music, and a sketch by Tom appeared in the Garrick Gaieties last year.
Don Cobleigh is an instructor in Hanover and by this time he may be assistant professor. I see him on the golf links during the summer on my annual visit to Dartmouth.
Tom Cullen is single. He is practicing law in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Adrian A. Herz—Hygeria Antiseptic Toothpick Co.,—840 East 134th St. Has been with this concern, which is owned by his father, for some time. He is single and lives in New Rochelle at 133 Overlook Circle. He and I keep bachelor quarters in New York at 150 East 39th St.
Arthur F. Little is located with the Little Label Co., in Pawtucket, R. I. He has been married for several years.
Theodore D. Shapleigh is living at 15 Jenny's Lane, Barrington, R. I. He is working at Gladding's department store in Providence. He is buyer for several women's departments. He married a very lovely girl in June, 1930. I was the best man and Bob Smith, class of 1923, was an usher, as was Howard W. Shattuck of Lyndonville, Vt. Shattuck is employed by the Boston and Maine R. R. He is single, and has lost no weight since he got out of school.
Howard R. Walker is single and lives in Greenwich, and is working in New York city in the mortgage business. The firm is Charles Busher, Bronx, N. Y. You may remember Chick Busher, who was in the class of '2l or '22 at Dartmouth.
Ralph B. Wilkinson is in the investment business in Boston. The name of the firm is William West and Co.—82 Devonshire St. He is still single and will probably remain so for some time. He knocked around the world quite a bit after leaving school, and among other things he enlisted in the Navy while he saw some of the world. In addition to that he has been in the lumbering business, spending several years in lumber camps.
Roger M. Wilkinson. Business address is Standard Oil Co. of New York—26 Broadway, New York city. He is doing very well with them and has a title of sales engineer. He is single, and also has bachelor quarters in New York a short distance from our own.
John C. Zimmerman, Jr., is with the George Smith Co. in real estate and mortgages in Stamford, Conn.; that address will get him. He was married about a year ago, at which time I received a great many congratulations.
I certainly feel that I have done a good job on this stuff. If you ever get to New York get in touch with me and I will be very happy to buy you a drink. (Editor's note: I never touch it.)
CHARLIE ZIMMERMAN
The Fraser Agency,149 Broadway,New York City.
WORLD TRAVEL
April 21, 1931
Dear Metz
The news which will probably be of greatest interest to the class is that Bob Merridith died in California, March 25, 1931. It seems that he and his wife were motoring somewhere in Southern California when he was taken ill with appendicitis. Peritonitis set in and he died a week later. He was buried in Denver, and I think Joe Houston was one of the pallbearers.
Regarding your questionnaire, I will offer the following comments:
I am not married and there is no good reason why not.
This matter of what I did on my last vacation might consume more space than that which you are allotted. The fact is that I started my last vacation the middle of June, 1929, and ended it January 1, 1931. I have figured out that allowing two weeks to the year for each yearly vacation I am now $8 years ahead. I am not sure that I can last 38 years under that plan, but, at least, I have had the vacations should I happen to "kick off" earlier. Probably the most interesting part of this vacation was a visit to Russia. I signed up with a Communistic group in New York, traveled steerage on the Berengaria, and saw lots of things which cannot be described here. Later, I may offer something to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE which will cover this subject more fully.
Heinz Moore is with the American Express Company in London. He was then on his way to Paris to get some new ideas for commercial art.
Warren Gladstone and I have toured the speak-easies once or twice He is in the building mortgage business here, and, as could be expected, has a swell list of addresses.
George Plant is with the National Retail Dry Goods Association, and has a son which George's mother says looks like me. Perhaps it is because he is baldheaded.
Sam White and I cross paths every morning on Wall St. Sam is in the trading department of one of the bigger and better banks and seems to be keeping things in hand.
Howy Walker comes in every now and then with a "tip" on a $4.00 stock, and, "believe it or not," his tips are usually good ones.
John Foster and I saw a couple of hockey games at Princeton this winter. Pudge Neidlinger was on hand, of course, and on one occasion Don Moore and Joe Millar were there.
My present occupation is combinationstatistician and customers' man with DeWittFleitmann and Company, members of theNew York Stock Exchange, 43 ExchangePlace. I am tremendously interested in thiswork, am finding it successful, and suggestthat all those within telephoning distance,writing distance, or long-distance radio, whoare ready and anxious to make back those1929 losses, get in touch with me. (Adv.)
I would be very much interested in receiving a copy of the 1923 newspaper, willspend $1.00 therefor, and hope that it willsoon be published.
With kind regards to all,Sincerely yours, JOHNNY ALLEN
P. 0. Box 14,Wall Street Station,New York City.
TREASURER'S REPORT
Dear Truman
Receiving Don Moore's letter this morning in regard to the Alumni Fund reminded me that some of the good brothers might have been disappointed in the last two years in not receiving an annual class tax. I thought that I would advise you just why this had happened, as it ties in very closely with the Alumni Fund situation.
In view of the low expenses which our class needs to meet between its fifth and its tenth reunions it was decided to discard any plan of attempting to collect annual class dues, at least until such time as we were reaching our quota annually in the Alumni Fund drive.
I think you will agree that it is of primary importance to secure our quota for the Alumni Fund and that the collection of class dues should be subordinated to that more important goal until we reach the point where we can collect both quota and class dues without any interference between them.
Our income has, of course, been very limited since the reunion in 1928, but you may be interested to know that the little money that we did have on hand was not invested in stocks at that time or at any time since then.
We have had two bits of good news this week. In the first place it has been learned that George Fuller is definitely on the road to recovery from a very serious illness. In the second place the Dartmouth-Stanford Game has been re-established on the schedule for Cambridge next fall. In addition to the football game this should mean a good class pow-wow at that time.
I presume you will soon be on your way to the meeting of the secretaries in Hanover, and want you to be sure to get in touch with me if you hit Boston.
Sincerely,
FRANK DOTEN
LAST LINES
I had a wonderful chance to check up on the boys in New York and Boston during a two weeks' stay in those towns not long ago, but was so busy that it couldn't be done. Saw only O'By O'Brien, the old roue, and phoned Pudge Neidlinger.
Your attention is called to Frank Doten's letter near the end of this issue's notes. In connection with his remarks it may be said now that your Secretary did not go to the secretaries' meeting, feeling that conservation of the class funds can hardly be accomplished by paying round-trip expenses between Chicago and Hanover at the rate of 100 bucks a year. If and when good times return (during my incumbency) I will only be too pleased to make this delightful pilgrimage quite often at the expense of our good organization.
There are at hand a great many communications from the boys that I am saving for next year, this present issue being the last you will receive until October. If I ever get to it, they will show up in our class paper during the summer. That they have not already appeared is not evidence that they were not welcomed and warmly appreciated, but it happened that way because I have given preference to news about men whose devious machinations had not been made public since graduation. If there are murmurs of discontent I am sorry, and can only look forward to the elections of 193$ with apprehension.
So, until next fall—many happy landings!
Secretary, 328 North Sheridan Road, Highland Park, Ill.
23 HOOPER DOOPER the siren
