Class of 1907
Bob Stokes, whose address is 233 Broadway, New York City, contributes the following melange of philosophy, history, and reminiscence:—
"Wish you could do something aboutthis habit on the part of the 'babies' of 1920and 1923 of referring to themselves (in the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE) as 'oldtimers.' Makes me feel like Methuselah. Thepractice should be interdicted, not to sayestopped Your mention of FrankMcDonough, Joe Mahoney, and RalphKnight—all of Denver—recalls to mind ajovial reunion with these three classmates inDenver in the year 1926. Three moreMethuselahs If you ever meet yeoidde chemist Ted Glattfeld in Chicagoand he offers you a home-made Martini,there's only one thing to do ... . run! . ... Also I hereby make another resolveto call on Vic King, who lives only twentymiles from me. Nothing but a mountain between us So Sam Barnes graduateda daughter from Mount Holyoke last June.So did I. Sam has another daughter inHolyoke. So have I."
The Office of Alumni Records lacks a good address for Howard M. Judson, better known (thirty years ago) as "Pink." It would be very gratifying if "Pink" himself would supply the missing address.
The following interesting paragraph in a recent issue of the Association of NationalAdvertisers News Bulletin makes reference to two of our classmates:—
"Exactly twenty-five years ago on December i, the A. N. A. opened its first office.This fact is recalled by one of our chartermembers, Mr. W. A. Martin of the Munsingwear Corporation. 'You might be interested in knowing that the attorney who incorporated the Association,' writes Mr. Martin, 'was a Dartmouth classmate of mine,then just out of Harvard Law School,George H. Howard, now president ofUnited Corporation and one of the foundersof Atlas Corporation. Of him the September issue of Fortune said:—
" 'ln the Simpson, Thacher, if Bartlett offices, Mr. Odium (now president of Atlas)made some of his best friends. Among themis George Henry Howard, now president ofUnited Corp., the Morgan-Drexel-Bonbright sponsored utilities holding company.Mr. Howard was then a junior partner ofthe law firm. A socially experienced NewYorker, he brought Floyd Odium of Utahmany valuable city contacts, and he wasone of the participants in the original Atlaspool It started in 1923 as a privatepool into which Mr. Odium and his friend.George Howard and their wives put $10,000 apiece for speculation in utilities andgeneral securities.'"
Bill Cummings, associated for many years with the woolen business in Maine, has recently acquired a small mill in Newport, Me., and another one in a neighboring town. Runt Martin, who has recently been in communication with Bill, writes that Bill is planning a trip West this winter or next spring. Bill grew up in South Dakota and Nebraska and has never been back to that section of the country. One of these days the story of Bill's large and interesting family must be told!
On behalf of the class the Secretary extended its sympathy to Mrs. A. L. Kibling, whose husband passed away on December ss> '935' at his home in West Lebanon, N. H. In another column of the MAGAZINE will be found a fuller statement of Kibling's activities and associations since graduation.
Secretary, 80 Federal St., Boston
