1923*
Nineteen hundred and twenty-three starts its 20th year as an active part of the great Dartmouth family with considerable to cheer about. Even after several years of progressively better results in the Alumni Fund, we beat all previous records this past year with 84% of the class contributing and 89% of our quota attained. Thanks and congratulations for this fine showing belong to Jim Landauer as Class Agent and the thirty Assistant Agents functioning under the able leadership of Sherm Clough, Ward Hilton and Babe Miner.
As a result of operating on the Group Subscription Plan '23 readers of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE increased from 29% the year before, to 67% last year. Your "support has already been enlisted to bring this figure up to 100% this year.
In order to discuss these and the many other matters of class organization it was decided to try the plan used successfully by one or two other classes, of having a meeting in Hanover of the Executive Committee, Class Agents and Sectional Secretaries, over one of the summer week-ends. On Saturday morning August 19th, 14 of us met at the Inn to talk over and formulate our plans for this year. Answering the roll were Bundy, Ted Caswell, Sherm Clough, Don Cobleigh, Hal Fitz, Roy Height, Jim Landauer, Bob McMillan, Babe Miner, Pudge Neidlinger, Hen Perkins, George Vanderbilt, George Weston and Ye Sec. After lunch the crowd split up, the golf course, canoeing, swimming and just plain visitin' getting the biggest play. Jim and Ruth Landauer invited us all up to their "Hanover Shanty" for cocktails which was the social high-spot of the week-end. As hosts the Landauers rate AAAA and their "Shanty" is nothing less than the grandest lodge you can imagine, set on one of these hills, just north of Hanover, with a view extending about one hundred miles in two directions. This picture was taken at Jims and in case the responsibilities of running the class have taken sufficient toll for their physiques not to be clearly identifiable, they are Ted, Roy, Jim, Chick and Sherm. The others were all there but what between soft ball, archery, etc. it was impossible to round them all up in one spot at one time. After cocktails we adjourned to the Haunted House (the scene of our Senior barbequeremember??) for a hamburg roast put on by Ford Sayre, the Manager of the Inn and past master of outdoor cooking. Plenty of food, and close (?) harmony plus ideal weather made it a perfect evening.
There were several grudge golf and tennis matches set for Sunday morning but they had to be cancelled due to rain so by two o'clock we were pretty well dispersed and homeward bound. The whole weekend was so successful that it was unanimously voted to make it an annual affair and in future years to include as many of the rest of the class as could make it. You have no idea how much fun you can have in Hanover over a week-end that is free from the formality of football games, commencements or something of that nature. We will have the plans made up early enough so that they can be included in this column of the July issue-right now we can say definitely that it will be in Hanover, and that it will be in August.
The summer has brought some important announcements and very interesting news of '23ers. We are indebted to Karl R. Maerker '10 of Pittsburgh for sending the announcement of Don Moore's appointment to Head of the Works Department of the Allegheny County Board of Assistance. On August 1, Pennsylvania's "Work-forRelief" law went into effect, by the provisions of which all unemployed employables must earn their relief checks. The job of finding projects which will not come within the scope of WPA and of determining prevailing wage rates for all types of labor falls to the County Works Department so it is obvious that the heads of these departments are the key men in the successful management of the entire plan and that Don's appointment is a great compliment to his ability and his personality.
Chick Burke received a nice step up the Shell Oil Company's ladder, with the announcement late in June that he had been made Sales Manager of Shell's Eastern Division with headquarters in Boston. Nice going Chick!!
Word from the Pacific coast is that on May 1, Dick Townsend and his brother purchased a resort hotel, Canyon Inn, located in Johnsville, Plumas County, Cal., approximately 250 miles from San Francisco. It is situated at an elevation of 5,200 feet in the heart of one of the finest fishing and hunting areas in the state. Two excellent golf courses right near by. Swimming, boating, hiking and horse back riding are also featured along with gold panning which is both popular and profitable in the streams around the Inn—equipment will be provided all guests who want to try to pay their hotel bill with gold dust. Canyon Inn will be open the year round the skiing in this locality is said to be unsurpassed in California. From the folder Dick sent along it is a most attractive layout and as he puts it they "hope to make some money out of it but know they will have some fun running it." In addition to silent partnering the Inn, Dick is of course carrying on his most successful practice of Maritime Law and was recently elected Vice Pres. of the Dartmouth Club of Northern California.
News of our other resort owner Bill Corrigan is that he has had a fine season at his Job's Pond Camp. Ralph and Emily Duffy spent a week-end there after visiting their two sons and one daughter all in Maine summer camps and send along such enthusiastic reports that I am suggesting to Bill that he immediately appoint them to his promotional staff.
Len Bronner writes from New York that the uneventful trend of his life for the past few years was rudely interrupted in May with the announcement of his engagement to Janice Wormser, Barnard '38. The wedding date was set for some time in September so that by now our bachelor ranks have been decreased by one more. Len's life may seem humdrum to him but what between being President of the 9th Assembly Republican Club, having some verse published in the Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Poets and practicing law, it rates "exciting" in our language.
The summer news was unfortunately not without its measure of sadness and you will all be grieved to hear of the death of Cy Gordon's wife in June.
The receipt of the football ticket applications from Hanover reminds us that it is time to think of some '23 football get-togethers. The first of these will be at the University Club in Boston on Friday evening October 27, the night before the Harvard game. '23ers in Boston and vicinity will be postcarded later but out-of-towners should put it on their calendar as a date and notify Sherm Clough, 30 Webster Street, Brookline, Mass. that you will be on hand. Other round-ups will be announced in this column later.
Sam Weed and Howard Emerson, engineers with TVA in Knoxville, Tenn. belatedly report the joint christening last March 19 of a baby boy (Weed) and girl (Emerson) Truman Metzel flew on from Chicago for Hanover Holiday in June and between classes (?) took the entire Neidlinger family flying George Fuller again breaks out in print, this time with his picture in the Boston Herald in connection with his duties as an official of the Northeastern Retail Lumber Dealers Association Ruth and Mox Hubert announced the arrival on June 23 of an 8¼ pound son (their first score) John Newton Hubert Horace Taylor was guest of honor or something like that at his brother's (Col. Stoopnagle) opening program with RCA-Victor on July 3 Cap Palmer's latest release is "Runaround in Reverse" a story in Mac Lean's June 15 issue .... and now for Pudge's much anticipated column on the doings of 20 years ago.
October, 1919
Nineteen hundred and twenty-three matriculated September 25th and took Hanover by storm. 667 men made the class exceed by nearly 200 the previous record size 32 new instructors were appointed, including Messer, Nemiah, Pressey, Murch, Stilwell, Keir, Wellman and others now considered veterans of the Faculty Topliff Hall was being started; Spaulding Pool nearly completed.
President Hopkins' opening address stressed the obligations of those granted the privilege of education A giant mass meeting was held the first night to introduce a new innovation, the athletic tax book. Compulsory recreational athletics was a new required course.
The first issue of The Dartmouth car- ried a notice to secure freshman hats at the Dartmouth Profit Sharing Association be- fore noon, and another for freshman base- ballers to report to Coach E. E. Martin 'l9. It commented editorially on the fine im- provements in Freshman Commons.
Burke, Clough, Flanigan, May, Miner, Evans, Ferguson, Heep, Hubert, Moore and 25 others pledged themselves to frater- nities during the first day of rushing. 6 fraternities announced a deferred rushing plan.
Nineteen hundred and twenty-three won the football rush with A. A. Herz delivering the ball after 30 minutes of lively fighting Freshman football started under Coaches Gile and Bower Delta Alpha ended with a show in Webster Hall featured by N. Bernard's act "Jazz Baby" later carried by the Musical Clubs as a specialty act.
The freshman team beat the varsity scrubs when Burke blocked a kick, Calder converted; lost to Exeter in spite of sensational kicking by Kimball and broken field runs by Pyott. The line-up: Kimball, Scammon, Hurd, Neidlinger, Taylor, Van Orden, Peters, Calder, Burke, Giroux, Hoag. Taylor elected captain.
Graham Whitelaw elected class president before arrival at meeting of the football squad which steam-rollered other offices for Burke, Taylor, Van Orden and Calder.... 112 men reported for TheDartmouth competition Barrett, Friend, Gray, Hutchins, Levy, Little, Mairs, Marden, Merriam, Patterson and Winchester made up freshman cross country squad.
The College devoted three days to celebrating the 150 th Anniversary with speeches, pageants, and a Penn State game. ....Freshman team beat Worcester and Springfield seconds with touchdowns by Mills, Maynard and Swartzbaugh Buell and Jetter were only members of class taken on Musical Clubs trip to Vassar October 30th.... And so the first month ended.
L. K. N.
SUMMER MEETING OF '23 ON PINEO HILL, AUGUST 19TH
Secretary-Chairman, 17 Nottingham Road, Worcester, Mass.
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RICHARD DANIEL O'CONNELL June 12, 1939 Hartford, Conn. Thus goeth another of our legion to the beginning. Let his ever be eternal peace.
