1923
Secretary, 17 Nottingham Rd., Worcester, Mass.
Foreign news seems to take up most of the space these days, so we'll start right off with an item from Ike Coulter, our foreign correspondent, covering Cuba. In eaily February, Ike, Mrs. Coulter (Barbara), and another couple set sail on the Gypsum Empress" for Minas De Matahambre, Province de Pinar del Rio, Cuba. In case you haven't already recognized it, this is the spot where Roy Brown, Maddy, and their four-year-old son Jigger work and play. After picking up a cargo of dynamite in Norfolk, Va., the Coulters subsequently arrived in the land of palms, pineapples, and Brown hospitality, which latter Ike reports, recognizes no bounds beyond broken el bows and the durability of Roy's banjo fingers. Outside of the radio and the inevitable victrola, Roy and an excellent pianist team up to provide the only real music at the mine and are in great demand at all gatherings. The mine is owned by the American Metal Company of New York, and Roy's position is that of mine superintendent, which Roy told me at last Reunion, involved spending more than 50% of his working hours under ground. Ike snapped this picture of Roy, in what the well-dressed miner will wear, just as he left for one of his tours of the mine. After Dartmouth, Roy attended the Colorado School of Mines and then spent several years in the copper mines of Peru before returning to Cuba to dig for silver.
This is the season for annual meetings of many Dartmouth alumni groups, and we are delighted to report that not only has '23 been well represented at these but also active officially. The Chicago Alumni Association dinner was March 9 with Vice President Bill Juergens, Karl Williams of Rockford, Truman Metzel, Vic Short, Chick Obermeyer, Charlie Zimmerman, Joe Pick, Sum Sollitt, Dud Pope, and Jim Wood in attendance, and Pudge Neid- linger the main speaker and guest of honor.
At the Buffalo meeting on March 11, President Horace Taylor wielded the gavel and Carroll W. (Red) McPherson was elected secretary and treasurer, receiving 100% support from the other '23ers Bill Conrad, Don Crawford, and Dick Thompson.
Bill Corrigan was the only '29er among the group of 27 who had the great good fortune to sit with President Hopkins on Dartmouth night at the Colony Hotel at Delray Beach, Fla. Bill reports that the bookstore in its second season at Miami Beach has run well ahead of last year. By the time you read this their season will be over and Bill and family (daughter born a year ago in Miami Beach) will move northward for a busy session around New York, interviewing prospective Job's Pond Camp guests for the summer. Then on to camp about June 15 with early reservations indicating an excellent season.
Johnny Meehan was due to join Bill for the party, but unfortunately the electric rate case of the People vs. the Florida Power and Light Company is no respecter of Dartmouth nights, and at the last minute he was unable to get away. Johnny is an engineer with this concern and makes his headquarters in Miami.
The Caswells paid Bill a surprise visit in early March, Ted complaining of sunburn and Olive of late hours. Ted was taking in a convention of some kind in Hollywood, Fla.
To "Squeaks from the Golden Gate," the official publication of the Dartmouth Association of Northern California, we are indebted for the following.
"Walter MacBain—here is a man who makes up for the delinquencies of others. He gets around. That is his business. He has worked for many years in a brokerage business in New York. He is now living at 1850 Middlefield Rd„ Palo Alto, wife and daughter gradually getting accustomed to our great northern California climate. They will be here until June, and we hope by that time Walter will have made connection with some business house in this neighborhood so we may have him for keeps."
Dick Townsend won the ski race at the annual snow party in the High Sierra, and is one of the prime movers in the recently announced plan to organize a D. O. C. of California.
You will recall that some months ago we mentioned that Johnny Coonley had forsaken pineappling with Hawaiian Pineapple Company for advertising with N. W. Ayer and Son. A letter from Johnny puts us straight on this, which change was hardly a change at all, as Ayer has handled the Hawaiian Pineapple advertising for six years, and in order to better service the account decided it was necessary to open a Honolulu office with Johnny selected to run things, burdened with the overpowering title of resident manager. Johnny had been with the Pineapple Company for five years, and would not have left under any other circumstances or if the change had involved a transfer to another city; to put it mildly, Johnny is completely sold on Honolulu. Listen to him. "It is the swellest spot I have ever run into, but there is enough of it to share with some of you blokes. And for kids, if you, happen to have gone into this business, it is the greatest place in the world. Mine, in passing, is close to hitting the 14-year mark and will probably be going away to school in a year or two. I feel like such a youngster that I may go with him. No fooling—no hair lost, none gray, and still have all my own teeth. No real news at present, but do drop me a line from time to time, as I get a real kick out of hearing from you boys in the States, and this goes for anyone else you might repeat it to."
A grand letter from Tay Smith, who after leaving Hanover accepted a prearranged job at the Packard plant in Detroit, starting out as an assistant to a good-natured Hungarian in the ignoble task of putting hoods on the cars as they passed down the assembly room. After a couple of months in various departments of the plant and four months in the experimental division, where he helped build the motors that crashed with the old Shenandoah, he moved up to the office. But not for long. In 1924 he left the Packard people and went to Miami, where he joined forces with the single vocation of that city during those boom days, returning North in 1926 with little else but his shirt and some good experience. This same year Helene Young of the old home town Toledo undertook a permanent partnership with him, and they immediately moved to Lafayette, Ind. for a try at the grain jobbing business. After the speculative atmosphere of Miami, the almost equally speculative grain business was no improvement, with the result that Tay went clear to the other extreme, banking, obtaining an unintelligent job in a bank in Indianapolis, their present home. When the F.D.I.C. was organized, Tay was fortunate enough to be accepted on the examining staff, where he feels he is being afforded far more opportunity to learn banking through constantly exchanging ideas with bankers, good and bad, as a matter of regular routine. Tay is constantly on the jump, his office district including Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin, and it was a six weeks' session in Madison, Wis., that prevented his making the 15th, but he is already making plans to be on hand in June 1943. Just recently Tay and Mrs. moved into a house they have been building at 5225 Graceland Ave., Indianapolis.
Burt Ford, this column's lowa correspondent, is the works at the Ford Lumber Company, a retail lumber and coal establishment in Sioux City. This is his first and only business connection since leaving Dartmouth. Burt claims no hobbies, but calls himself a joiner deluxe, for proof of which he lists—Masonic—Blue Lodge-Royal Arch—Consistory and Shrine—Sioux City Boat Club—Chamber of Commerce (board member)— Junior Chamber of Commerce (past president)—Rotary—Elks-Greater Sioux City Committee (chairman). Burt was married in 1929 and has two boys, William, now 9, and Alvin 5, both planning to follow Papa's footsteps to Hanover.
Congratulations—to Bud Freeman, the Racine, Wis., realtor, for an announcement just, received, to wit: Mr. and Mrs. Gustave C. Groth announce the marriage of their daughter Cornelia Christine to Mr. Leon L. Freeman on Monday, January 16.
More congratulations—to Ward and Sally Hilton on the arrival of their second progeny, Jane Hale Hilton, on March 12, making the score in the Hilton family, one to one, Dave 9, being the first.
SUPERINTENDENT ROY BROWN '23 Whose Cuban underground activities aredescribed in class notes this month.
