1923
A letter just received from the Editor informs me that George Whiteside has sent in a very excellent picture of himself, John Foster, and Spike Hamilton which will be reproduced in this issue. Many thanks, George, for a fine contribution to this column. And may it prove an inspiration to others to send in similarly interesting and newsy pictures.
Some time ago Walden Bassett sent me a grand letter, in which he covered 75% of '23's New Mexico delegation. He was going to try and get in touch with Eddie Gumaer, which would have increased the coverage to 100%, but apparently was not successful, so we will have to pass Eddie by temporarily, we hope, and report on the other thee. First Walden himself, who after lea Ting .Hanover tried his luck in a Dallas bmk for a couple of years, and later one year managing a Chevrolet agency in Roswell. In December 1925 he took whit he describes as a leap in the dark, foiming with one partner the accounting firm, Bassett and Johnston, which, he very modestly admits they have built int) a very creditable one and one which, al the same time, has supplied the all-impoitant three squares for himself, and since 1933 his wife, the former Eleanor Thompson of Dallas and a graduate of the U. of Texas. He now has to supply additional three squares for daughter Eleanor, 3 years, and son John 1.
Syl Jolnson, Walden's townie, exposed himself t> further education after graduation fron Dartmouth, in the form of a business :ourse at the University of Chicago. In 1926 he acquired the wholesale oil busin businesses, Johnson-Lodewick, Inc., and Valley Refining Cos. have grown by leaps ind bounds, and Syl now rates as one of thi town's tycoons. He is just finishing his first year as president of the local Chamber of Commerce, and a year ago complete! a year's term as president of the Rotary Cub. Syl was married to Geraldine Ogle in 1927, and now has a daughter Patricia, 9 and a son Syl the 3d, 6.
Both Valden and Syl see Len Marshall at intervals. Len is a full-fledged resident of Silver City, having landed out there about five years ago to manage a gold mine for a group of eastern capitalists, immediately fell in love with the country, the scenery, the mountains, and the trout fishing, so subsequently bought an insurance agency and apparently is settled for keeps. Several years ago Len married a Tennessee girl, whom he presumably met while practicing his previous vocation, that of selling laundry and dry cleaning machinery throughout the South.
Hal Fitz, our Maryland and D. C. scooper, reports the big news with Gus Meleney is a new baby and a new house. The former, a daughter, Jane, making a grand total of four little Meleneys (George 8, Helen 6, and Peter 4), the latter at exclusive Greenwich Forest, 5706 York Lane. George is in the machinery business, and rates himself as a sales engineer, specializing in sales to the government. He has been at it for ten years, and, as Hal puts it, "From his prosperous, well-fed looks, quite successfully so," which statement is corroborated by Sammy White, who dropped in on Gus and family recently while on his way to the South for a vacation.
Of himself Hal says that since 1930 when Miss Wilson Cox (Mrs. Hal since 1932) of Richmond, Va., hove into view he has forsaken the good old Northland and has permanently settled, at least as far south as Washington, his present home. Hal does advertising and customer relations work for the Chesapeake and Potomac Tel. Cos. He claims their 1½-year-old daughter, Barbara Wilson, is just as red-headed as her old gent but considerably cuter.
Burt Ford, our lowa Winchell, had to threaten to consult the Council Bluffs chief of police for Frank Damon's history before he could squeeze this information from Frank himself. Frank is the tax expert of the Conservative Savings and Loan Association of Omaha. He is still single, golfs in the summer, bowls in the winter, and spends his vacations fishing in northern Minnesota.
Al Hovey reports that Wid Bertch is doing a grand job as vice president of Lee Anderson Advertising Cos. and is well on his way to the top in his field. Wid's concern handles the advertising for several of the big automobile companies and between long hours in the office and plenty of traveling Wid hasn't had time to think of getting married, or, which he regrets even more, to get back to Hanover.
Also to A 1 goes credit for the news that Shunt Turnbull is in business with his brother, R. P. Turnbull '22 as agent for several lines of electric refrigerators and radios at 5840 Woodward Ave., Detroit. They handle commercial refrigeration in a big way. Shunt repeats Wid's complaint that he is so busy he isn't able to get East, meaning Hanover, more often.
Wade Kepner writes that his big problem in life is to run two funeral homes and feed one wife, one son, 7, and two daughters, 11 and 9. This apparently doesn't take all his time, as he also is a director of one bank and four other institutions, all but one in Wheeling, W. Va., Wade's home. In addition Wade admits to quite regular attempts to sit on the back of a moving horse. They had Wade flat on his back in a hospital last June, or he never would have missed the 15 th, thereby breaking an otherwise perfect reunion record.
To Art Everit go the congratulations of the month on being made manager of his company's (Osborn Manufacturing Cos., Cleveland—Phil Smith, assistant general manager) Detroit office. Art and Peck moved out there from New York about the middle of May. A nice jump in the right direction!!
Art informs us that Walt Jarmon is doing a sweet job with Borden Milk Cos. in New York as head of the cheese sales promotion and kindred departments, weighs a ton, has a couple of youngsters to keep him busy, and all in all shows no signs of sixteen years of wear and tear.
Thanks to Heinie Bourne we have a lot of Ohio news this month. Fred Flickinger left us after a couple of years and transferred to U. of Wisconsin, where he received his A. B. in 1923, notwithstanding which he is a true and loyal Dartmouth man. Fred started out in the business world as a copy-writer for U. S. Advertising Corp. and later directed the plan and copy department of L. H. Sanzen-Bacher Cos. of Toledo. Since 1937 he has been secretary of the Industrial Employees Division of the Toledo Community Chest, a twelve-months job in every sense of the word. Fred's hobby is ornithology and bird photography—he has taken over 1,000 photographs, which he uses as lantern slides to illustrate lectures before school groups, luncheons, clubs, etc. In addition to this clegree, the U. of Wisconsin made an even more important contribution to Fred's life, a Miss Ruth Jones, Wisconsin '34, who in 1936 became Mrs. Flickinger.
Ed Stocker, the Cleveland barrister, received his LL.B. from Western Reserve and his M.A. from Columbia, following which he was an instructor at Columbia for two years. In 1929 he returned to Cleveland and entered the law offices of Thompson, Hine, and Flory, with whom he is now connected and going great. Ed remains single, which perhaps accounts for his being able to take occasional ski trips through the Adirondacks and New England and also to maintain a reputation as an A-1 golfer.
Vic Cannon is well on his way to being a capitalist, or do they call them tycoons nowadays? He started out as a foundry man with Chisholm Moore Manufacturing Cos., but in 1925 graduated to the Electric Vacuum Cleaner Cos. of Cleveland, with which concern he has climbed to the position he now holds, that of secretary and treasurer. In addition Vic is very active in the affairs of the Cleveland Better Business Bureau. On his way up the ladder Vic was joined in 1931 by Miss Georgia Gary, and his success is now shared by three more Cannons, Vic Jr. 7, Georgia 5, and Mare 1.
Ray Barker succeeded his father as president and treasurer of S. Barker Sons Cos., and under his most able tutelage it has grown to one of the largest and best office supply houses in Cleveland. In 1928 Ray married Margaret Sprowl (Smith '27) of Cleveland, and they have two Hanoverbound sons, Buddy, (R. W. B. Jr.) 8, and John 6.
The April issue of Insurance Exchange carries a picture of Charlie Zimmerman, who has been nominated for president of the National Association of Life Underwriters. Ward Hilton, who sent along it and the following items, interprets nomination as meaning election without opposition. Great going, Charlie!!
Dud Pope changed positions some time ago, and is now connected with Milbank Corporation Investment Managers, 135 South LaSalle St., Chicago.
Bus Carpenter is still one of the main cogs of the Sanford Ink Company. Ward and Bill Wallace had lunch with him recently after he had returned from a six weeks' business trip through the South, and report that Bus is due to set out again on a similar trip about June 1.
Before signing off for the year I know you will all be interested in reviewing the progress we have made during the past twelve months as a class and unit of the Dartmouth alumni body. We made a creditable showing in the 1938 Alumni Fund with a new record for number of contributors, but rather weak in the matter of quota attainment. The 1939 drive is now on and Sherm Clough, Ward Hilton, and Babe Miner as heads of our three networks and Jim Landauer as major-domo are hard at work, with the knowledge that you can all be counted upon to help put and keep '23 up near the top in any project so vital to Dartmouth's welfare.
Our first year's operation under the ALUMNI MAGAZINE group subscription plan has been highly successful, with full year subscriptions approximately 150% over 1938 and our income statement for the year in the blue by a small margin. Complete reports will be published in the October issue of the MAGAZINE.
In the meantime, best luck, and a grand summer!!
ALL MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1923Enjoying the sweet music of George (Spike) Hamilton in the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas.At left is George Whiteside, roving salesman for the Parker Pen Cos. and at right John E.Foster, personnel director of the W. T. Grant Cos. Spike Hamilton and his music boxmusic are now featured in the Netherland Plaza in Cincinnati.
AT THE SECRETARIES ASSOCIATION MEETINGS IN HANOVER An all 1923 group in Hanover last month, in the usual order: Winfield S. Weser '23,secretary of the Westchester County (N. Y.) Alumni Club; Horace F. Taylor '23, Buffalo;George T. Weston, Springfield, Mass.; Lester E. Richwagen, Vermont Alumni Associa-tion; and Sherman Baldwin, secretary of the class of 1923.
Secretary, 17 Nottingham Rd., Worcester, Mass.
EDWARD AVERY PELTON April 12, 1939 Hartford, Connecticut Thus goeth another of our legion to the beginning. Let his ever be eternal peace.
