1923
Once again we find Pudge Neidlinger as the guest of honor and main speaker at one of the leading Dartmouth alumni meetings, February 2, at Boston. Reports of this meeting will appear elsewhere in this issue, so I won't go into details beyond the fact that Pudge as usual gave an exception- ally fine talk.
Shortly after reunion, Marshall Brown left these shores for Panama. The move must have been quite sudden, because Clarence Goss wrote that he had a date to golf with him in July, but that he didn't show up, and his whereabouts remained a mystery until late in October, when Clarence received a note of apology with "We have moved to Panama" as the reason for breaking the date and not fear of a trimming on the golf course. Just a short time ago, I received a letter from Brownie, which seems well worth-while quoting: "Am here with the Panama Light and Power Company as assistant to the chief engineer. What between being in the power plant in hot weather and out of it in the rain (both of which happens daily), scratching bugs, driving to the left and go- ing southeast to swim in the Pacific, life becomes rather hectic. However, the rainy season will soon be over, swimming in November is impossible in N. Y., the beer is excellent, the crowd of Americans both here in Panama and in the Canal Zone are extremely likable, and I have plenty to do, so I thoroughly enjoy being here." Brownie's address is Bolivar Apt. 6, Calle 52 Este, Panama, R. P.
A grand letter from Don Moore. Don has just completed five years with the government on various work relief programs in Pittsburgh and plans to stay on for a while longer. Keeping a government job this length of time without being a 100% politician speaks volumes for Don's ability. Don mentions feeling a trifle aged at times, especially when he takes his g-year-old son to a football game to have him express a yen to be out on the field (a job Don claims he couldn't handle for two minutes). Don however confesses that except for the rapid departure of his hair, which very definitely gives him the feeling that youth has passed, and leaving out the question of strenuous physical endeavors, he feels in fairly good shape. We might add that no longer ago than June he looked all that plus some. Don adds that Marie is fine and their three youngsters coming along in great style.
Lewis Putnam keeps his Green Mountain boys spot-lighted as follows: Wendell Drown is president of the Drown Motor Car Company, is happily married to Mildred McGue of his native Barre, and they have three splendid daughters. Wendell is a successful and enterprising Chevrolet dealer, and undoubtedly leads the field in this territory. He is therefore substantially blessed with what is commonly known as hard cash.
Ralph Noble came to Barre from Morrisville, where he had been superintendent of schools. After serving two years in this same capacity in Barre, he has recently been appointed supervisor of high schools and assistant deputy commissioner of education for the state of Vermont. He works out of Montpelier, but still keeps his home in Barre at 11 Stafford St.
Hugh "Bum" Jones is one of Mont- pelier's leading citizens. He too is a benedict and the father of two girls. He is treasurer of the Wells-Jamson Quarry Co. in charge of operations at the quarry itself. Bum's home is at 11 Woodrow Ave.
Cy Aschenbach brings himself up to date with a fine letter: "For the first two years after college I was with the Wonolancet Co. (cotton) in Nashua, N. H. Jim'Everett '10 was the head man, and most graciously gave me leave of absence during the fall months so I could serve on the football coaching staff in Hanover. After the 1925 season I left both Wonolancet and Dartmouth football and joined the Crowell Publishing Co., with whom I am now associated. My particular occupation is to inveigle hard-boiled advertisers into buying space in Collier's. Up until 1930 I led the life of a typical New York bachelor, when I discovered a young lady who believed the old man was not past redemption. At that time she was an undergraduate at Barnard, and being imbued with idealism and a firm desire to improve mankind, decided in a foolish moment to show what she could do with me. I needn't add that after eight years her aspirations have been most rudely and sadly deflated. In 1934 the old Teutonic line of Aschenbachs became perpetuated by a daughter Carol, who, much to the astonishment of both parents, seems normal in all respects. At the present time we reside in New York, and up until the hurricane had a cottage at Westhampton Beach."
Ralph Staley—biography by Cap Palmer. Looks unchanged, same wave in the hair and just as much of it, due possibly to the fact that his wife is western distributor of Ex-Er-Vac, that tin hat that clamps on the head and with eerie movement resists the encroachment of intellect on the upper forehead (Johnny Allen and Horace Taylor please note). When Ralph finished at Hanover, he returned to Denver and entered the banking business—in 1925 moved in on New York City with American Bond and Mortgage Co.—then back to Denver as secretary of the National Bank and Loan Co. In 1933, when the curtain fell on all companies bearing names like these, Ralph moved to California, where he now teaches dramatics, play production, and public speaking in the Los Angeles schools and has built up a reputation of knowing his trade. His wife is a Tennessee girl, Frances Priestly, whom he married in 1929. Their address, 1945 Cerro Gordo, Los Angeles.
Art Wormcke is with Robert C. Buell & Co. in the investment business in Hartford, and as such is "subject to the continuing gyrations of the business cycle in spite of various well-meaning economic attempts to iron out such fluctuations." Art has a daughter, Georgiana, who was born in February, 1938. Home address—7 Riverview Road, Rocky Hill, Conn.
Alex "Bill" Merchant lives in Highland Park, N. J., at 55 Adelaide Ave., and is an architect in New Brunswick, N. J. After leaving Dartmouth, he was graduated from Syracuse, is married, and has one son.
Johnnie Foster coached football and hockey and taught English at Andover for a year after graduation, following which he enjoyed his last real vacation, taking a group of youngsters on a trip through the West. Then followed several sales and clerical jobs until the summer of 1926, when he went with the W. T. Grant store in Newark, N. J. He was later transferred to Grant's real estate department and in 1927 to the personnel department, where he now holds the position of director of personnel for the entire Grant organization. In July 1930, Johnnie married Isabel Coons, and he now has a son, John Munoz, who was two years old November 23, and a step-son aged 16, both looking ahead to Dartmouth. They live on Cole Rd., Verona, N. J. For some years Johnny was mixed up with collegiate hockey, doing considerable refereeing, but had to give it up in favor of golf (8 handicap) because of the traveling required by his present position. Johnnie is one of the most prominent of our class in alumni affairs, being a member of the Alumni Council and one of the committee of two appointed to draw up the plan of alumni vocational guidance, which was announced in the last issue of the MAGAZINE. The W. T. Grant Co. has a host of Dartmouth men in its employ, all of whom Johnnie is constantly in touch with. '23ers on the roll are: Clarence Goss, one of the head buyers and merchandise men and store managers; Jack Creighton, Waterloo, N. Y.; Charlie Rivoire, Bloomfield, N. J.; Art Harris, Lancaster, Pa.
Ted Barstow is with the N. Y. Telephone Co. and lives at 1075 Abbott Blvd., Palisades, N. J Pete Howe is in the advertising department of Esquire— office, 366 Madison Ave., home, 30 East 37th St., N. Y. Pete was one of the team of four representing the Dartmouth Club of N. Y. in a radio spelling bee against 4 Vassar girls. As the feature of the Energine program, the bee was broadcast on a national hook-up on January 22. Pete stood up until next to last Dink Lundquist, a real estate broker with Ivor B. Clark, Inc., 52 Vanderbilt Ave., N. Y., lives on Knoll St., Riverside, Conn Frank C. Bunting is territory manager of General Motors with office in the Turks Head Building, Providence, home on Sevilla Ave., Hoxsie, R. I. just received word that Freddy Steinhilber is also with the W. T. Grant Co. in their store at 395 Washington St., Boston another gas and oil man, John O'Brien Jr., an agent for the Sinclair Refining Co. in Athol and lives at 55 Blanchard Place, Gardner, Mass Dolf Friedeberg, an importer at 277 Broadway, N. Y add to the list of '23 ski-meisters Stan Richmond, seen recently schussing the hills and jumping the stone walls of Jackson, N. H and I hope you all noticed and read the ad of the Hanover Inn in the February issue—if you didn't, look it up, because very obviously '23 sons and daughters are bidding strongly for places on the 1948 Olympic ski teams.
Secretary, 17 Nottingham Rd., Worcester, Mass.
