1923

Not too late in the new year, I hope to "lift" a wish I have always liked and pass it along to you:

May all you hope for come to pass; May joy be yours the while; May life be like a looking-glass, And give you smile for smile.

And, from Johnnie Allen (Lt., USNR at Naval Air Station, Norman, Okla.): "Dear 23-ers—Sorry I can't join you on the fifteenth. Would be great to see the gang again." This note came on a colorful Christmas folder bearing the imprint of Johnnie's post.

In mentioning December 15, John referred to our pre-Christmas evening at the Dartmouth Club in New York, where thirteen of us scorned superstition to rush the season on Christmas wishes. Those present and accounted for: Hocky Hockenson, Al Pierce, Johnnie Moore, Brooks Palmer, George Plant, Jim Doyle, John Guppy, Al Whaley, Mitch May, Ted Taylor, Joe Lombardi, Sid Flanigan, and Sec. Hocky (National Distillers), under some pressure to locate various rare beverages for the boys for the warding-off of holiday colds, undertook to explain the shortage, thereby producing a mightily interesting talk on his industry.

John Guppy, now loaned to the government by the American Bridge Co., gave several sidelights on his wartime construction work. Ted Taylor told us what he could about his job in the office of the Supervisor of Shipping, MCA, at 44 Wall St.

Brooks Palmer, in his off-hours as assistant manager of Equitable Life's Wilson Co. Agency, is fast becoming a national authority on American clocks. If you're anywhere on Park Avenue near 98th Street, you can always locate Brooks' pied a terre at Number 1235 by listening for the insistent sound of what is growing into one of the finest and most complete clock collections in the country. Brooks has been working for some time with the research heads of many prominent clock manufacturers to amplify his own research, and compile authoritative information on the history of American clock-making. Within the past five months, he has talked on the subject to the Society of New England Women, the Averill, Mass., High School, and the Men's Club of the Riverside Church. And now, a tip when you drop in: he keeps the strikes muffled in the early evening, and after you begin to hear the whole collection sounding off fortissimo, it's time to go home.

It was a small party, but there were those who loved it.

Sherm Baldwin writes that Stan Richmond is one of a small group of wool experts selected by the government to go to South America to assemble and appraise practically the entire South American wool clip which this country has bought. Stan was down there some time ago, later returning to his regular position with E. Y. Neill and Co., wool importers of Boston. Alderman Duff Duffy of Worcester now chairmans the city committees on street lighting, parks and recreation, and public utilities; is a member of the committees on police, and charities. In these latter capacities, Duff is the man to see when the Worcester gendarmerie pick you up for speeding, and you need to raise bail.

Appropriately enough, Henry Sullivan's Christmas card illustrates a square-rigger in full sail. Before joining the Navy, Henry composed the score for "Ballerina" and other musical comedies, and had started work on what, after the war, will probably hit the boards as his great American opera.

Doug Manson, for some time advertising copy chief with Paris and Peart, has joined the copy staff of another advertising agency, Benton and Bowles, also of New York. Doug, Else, and their two girls will continue to live in New Rochelle.

And now, fellers, while the rest of your New Year resolutions are still comparatively fresh and intact, how about making another—to drop me a postal card once a month, to keep the class up to date on what you're doing, where you are, and the other '23s you've seen?

Secretary, 84 Hillside Ave., New Rochelle, N. Y. Treasurer, 33 Ridgeland Terrace, Rye, N. Y.