1923*
Notice anything wrong? Right, no picture. This is the first issue for which we haven't had a picture. Nuffi Sed!!??
Anyway we have some news of a number of boys who have been out of print for quite a while and needless to say we're glad to get up to date on them.
Dutch Schmidt is, has always been and always will be (he hopes) in the foundry business. His role of employers includes most of the leaders in the field and with each he has gained necessary experience and knowledge. In 1935 he landed with the firm which he says is tops—lnternational Harvester Co., with whom he now is well on his way up, the last step being a transfer, a little over a year ago, from Rock Island, Ill., to Indianapolis, to help set up their new foundry put into operation last July with Dutch as Asst. Supt. Getting the new plant rolling has kept him out of circulation ever since he moved to Indianapolis but now that that job is just about over Dutch, Mrs. Schmidt and their two daughters are all set for '23 callers.
Hugh Shaaf comes to light as Treasurer of Air-Maze Corp., air filter manufacturers of Cleveland with whom he has been connected since 1936. Hugh commutes from Chagrin Falls, 0., where he maintains residence for his wife (Mary Dow of Sidney, Ohio until 1932) and Barbara their 7 year old daughter.
Another Ohioan we are glad to catch up with is Hollis Riddle, who breaks the chain of Smith prospects with a couple of potential Dartmouthers in John, 11 and Parker, io. After Tuck School, Hollis hooked up with Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., of Akron, with whom he has steadily advanced to Manager of the Comptroller's Foreign Department. The accent is very definitely on the foreign angle and already Hollis has journeyed to South America in 1932, India, Sumatra, China, etc. in 1936 and has South and East Africa coming up. Hollis spends his American vacations on the Riddle farm in Center Tuftonboro, N. H.
Another farm vacationist is Les Stevens with a lovely old country place known as Stevens Crossing in Worthington, Mass. This summer when Les and Mrs. Les move up from their winter home in Ridgewood, N. J., they'll have to open up, for the first time, one extra room for Miss Pamela Stevens, born March 10. Les didn't stick around to graduate with us but received a 8.8.A. from Boston U. in 1924 and has been connected with the cable industry ever since, his present position being that of Supervisor of the Paterson plant of Okanite Cable Co.
Thanks to a long letter from Lou Wilcox we can put New Jersey on the map this month—Ed Flindell after 12 years with Yorkshire (Fire) Insurance Co., resigned his position as Asst. Sec. in 1935 to join his dad in Flindell & Co. of N. Y. binding agents for several U. S. Insurance companies. Lives in Summit John Guppy joined American Bridge Co. immediately after his graduation from Thayer School and is now Design Engineer in their N. Y. office. A Short Hills resident Luther Hussey taught at Union College for six years after taking his M.S. at Harvard. Is now with Bell Telephone Laboratories in N. Y., specializing in frequency modulators or something equally mysterious sounding. Commutes from Madison Matt Jones as you all recall taught Sociology at Hanover for several years after graduation, then took a flyer at business and subsequently joined the New York Telephone Co., with whom he is now Directory Production Manager. Has a beautiful home in Madison. The house, built in revolutionary times and appropriately furnished with colonial antiques, is one of the historic landmarks of that section.
Some guys are tough to keep up withlast month we report George Plant in a new position when no more than ten days ago it is announced that he has another, this time returning to his first love the National Retail Dry Goods Assn., as Manager of the Management Division. George has been connected with department and specialty stores continuously since he graduated from Tuck School—l 924 to 1929 with U. S. Chamber of Commerce on the research staff of the Domestic Distribution Department, 1929-1937 N. R. D. G. A. as Manager of the Store Management Group. 1937-1939 Assistant General Manager in charge of Personnel for L. Bamberger and Co. In his new position he will have general supervision over the activities of the four Management Groups, Store, Personnel, Traffic and Delivery. Nice go, George!!
Trust you all noticed the paragraph about Charlie Zimmerman in the Gradus Ad Parnussum Section of the March issue and the Wah-Hoo-Wah in the April issue. If not look them up right away. Charlie is certainly one of our gang in whose great success we all can and do take pride.
Also in the March issue I hope you all read the fine letter from Hal Baker adding more stars to the crown fashioned for Prof. W. H. Stewart by "H" West in the December issue. Hal has recently joined the ranks of '23 authors with The Principles of Retail Merchandising a complete treatise on the subject recently published by McGrawHill Book Cos., and very favorably reviewed by Al Frey '20 in the April number of the MAGAZINE. Hal is Asst. Prof, of Marketing at Miami U.'s business school, having taught there the past seven years following two years at the U. of Chicago where he took his Ph.D.
Our other author Cap Palmer has just completed a book You and the Stars written in collaboration with Norvell, the astrologer who "rules" Hollywood. This was released in March by George Palmer Putnam, Inc. with whom it has just been announced Cap has become associated. He is now at work on Gardening for Fun, also scheduled for spring release and ghosted for Jeanne Marie Consigny. Cap's How ToSing for Money is being serialized in RADIO MIRROR and was selected on the NEW YORKER'S list of the best books of the year. We understand Cap recently visited Dr. Zeeb Gilman 1863, Dartmouth's oldest living graduate and will have a grand story about his visit in this issue.
Ced Swett is a factory man in the Sales Division of Chevrolet with headquarters in his native Portland, Me When not skiing Hen Perkins is a department manager at the Danvers Bleachery of the Pequot Mills From the depths of Dixie comes Charlie Moody, the Superintendent of Dwight Manufacturing Co. (cotton goods). Big concern, big job Two items on Dud Pope—he has forsaken the securities field for A. C. Nielsen Company (Nielsen Marketing Service) a position he has been angling for for some time—won the Cincinnati Raquet Club Invitation Squash Tournament, especially gratifying as in the finals he turned the tables on the fellow who beat him in the Western Championship as we reported in a recent issue. ....Life's article and pictures to the contrary, Jim Landauer is one of the leading paddle tennisists in the country and only a week ago emerged as runner-up in the National Men's Double Tournament Kip Couch has wintered in Palm Beach. He is in business with Killey Kilmarx '22 and they opened a branch there this winter with Kip as majordomo.
MAY 1920
Can you still translate the undergraduate jargon of the twenties which produced such remarks as: "The dope on that paene is that he's wet but to call him snorty is a lot of bushwa."?
Spring brought house parties and Constance Binney at the Nugget in The StolenKiss concurrently with a Gates Opera House play The Kiss Burglar and a lead story in the BEMA, The Second Kiss. Alice Lake, Viola Dana, and Anita Stewart were other screen beauties on the May billboards.
"Troughing" was abolished by joint recommendation of Palaeopitus and Occum Council.
Danish troops suddenly seized German Schleswig Carranza and Obregon played the front pages in a Mexican revolution.
The 1923 baseball team lost to Exeter and Williston, 7-4, and 7-6, but beat Tilton and Goddard Seminary, 10-5, and 8-7. The line-up: Shapleigh, Coller, Vanderbilt, Chun, Caswell, Herz, Lynch, Wilner; and Bird, Meehan, Gallagher, pitchers Howe, Gray, Smith and Couch won places on the freshman tennis team..... The varsity featured the interchangeable battery of Frank Ross and Mel Merritt.
Editorially the class was criticized for carelessly neglecting to salute members of the faculty.
L. K. N.
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