1923
July is always a good month to do nothing, including your class notes, but news has been piling up and now we've got to regain some lost ground in the information department.
May 22 was circled on the calendars of the New York contingent for our Spring Dutch Treat, evening at the Dartmouth Club. Roll call included: Tom Burch, chairman, Bob Siemon, Hocky Hockenson, Sid Silberman, Phil Keigher, Phil Jellison, Joe Schiffenhaus, Woody Gauss, Carl Grainger, Ivan Martin, Charlie Rivoire, Al Pierce, Red Carbaugh, Cy Aschenbach, Bob Whittinghill, Tom Norton, The Irishman and meself. Purposely omitted from this list is Brooks Palmer who was revealed at the last minute as the surprise speaker of the evening.
Brooks wound up and ticked off a swell talk on clocks, a hobby he's been riding hard these many years, and a subject on which he has become a national authority. Later, he said he recently saw Cap Palmer who is Walt Disney's right-hand man and, in addition, has been putting in a lot of time on unidentified war work.
Dr. Carl Grainger showed up for the first time in a long while, making the pilgrimage from Huntington, L. I., where he has established a thriving practice.
Dr. Tom Norton has resigned as regional chairman of the National War Labor Board in New York to accept the post of Dean of the City College School of Business and Civic Administration in September. The New York Sun says, "Dr. Norton has been engaged in mediation and arbitration of labor cases by Government agencies since 1933. Prior to his work with the WLB, he held the Twentieth Century Club professorship in economics at the University of Buffalo. He also taught labor relations at Dartmouth College and Brown University." Tom and his family have moved to 38 Manchester Drive, Tuckahoe, N. Y.
As usual in the good old summer time, Bill and Betty Corrigan are holding forth at their wilderness-with-all-conveniences camp at Job's Pond, Vt. This is their ninth.season.
Kully Lundberg recently moved to 2345 Melville Drive, San Marino 9, Calif. Says he heard Bill Cunningham give a swell talk after the wind-up of the Frisco Conference, and sat with Bevo Beveridge and Stan Summers, neither of whom he had seen since 1923.
Quoting the Brookline (Mass.) Chronicle: "McMillan Wins Bronze Star. Major Robert L. McMillan of Brookline has been awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious achievement in support of combat operations as executive officer of a B-17 Flying Fortress squadron of the 99th Bombardment Group of the 15th Air Force. His unit is credited with destroying more enemy aircraft than any other heavy bombardment group in the Mediterranean Theatre and has twice been awarded the Distinguished Unit Citation." Bob recently arrived home on a 31-day furlough, then reported to Atlantic City for reassignment somewhere in the Pacific area.
Lt. Col. Metz Metzel has been awarded the Legion of Merit, with this citation: "For exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services in North Africa and Italy from July 1943 to 8 May 1945. In July 1943, at Algiers, North Africa, and later at Naples, Italy, where there was a critical need for a centrally controlled system of securing air force technical supplies, Lt. Col. Metzel, largely by his own effort, developed a system of centralized theatre control of procurement and distribution of the vitally needed technical supplies. The fact that these supplies were available in sufficient quantities in the right place at the right time was a decisive factor in the successful application of air power in the Mediterranean Theatre of Operations. In establishing this system, he demonstrated unusual tenacity of purpose and organizational skill in overcoming the handicaps of inadequate personnel, lack of equipment, and adverse working conditions. The satisfactory status of essential technical supplies, the ability of service commands to meet the demands of the Air Forces in the Theatre for supplies, and the pleasant, smooth relationships between this Theatre and related supplies activities in the United States were in a large part due to the efficiency of the stock control activity developed by Lt. Col. Metzel."
Lt. Col. Lou Van Orden has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal. Lou was responsible for making available considerable quantities of captured enemy equipment not only to the U. S. and British Forces, but also to the French; particularly the French Forces of the Interior who were active in reducing pockets of resistance in Brittany and Western France.
Major Miles Mills is one of five Dartmouth men with the 439 th Troop Carrier Group in France who are wearing five battle stars on their European Theatre ribbons. Miles' group also wears the Presidential Unit Citation ribbon along with individual decorations.
If we remember correctly, George Scammon's lovely daughter, Miriam, has the honor of being the 1923 Class Baby. And now 1923 has grandchildren—two of 'em! Linda Jane Dean, daughter of the late Poke Goss's oldest daughter, Betty Jane Goss Dean, was born on December 21, 1944. We haven't yet learned the name or birth date of the child of Lt. Col. Lou Van Orden's son, but as soon as we do we'll let you know which is '23's first grandchild. (By the way, how's your rheumatism, old-timer?)
"Duffy to Run in Ward 10," reports the Worcester Evening Gazette, which goes on to say, "The uncertainty over Republican candidates in Ward 10 at the muncipal primaries July 31 was cleared up when Alderman Ralph E. Duffy announced his decision to seek reelection. Because of the press of private business affairs Alderman Duffy had been considering whether or not to run again, but had been implored by party leaders, including Mayor Bennett, to do so." Duff richly deserves the many political successes he has had, as he has worked tirelessly for many years in the interests of Worcester's civic and charitable organizations.
The class of '23 in and around New York topped off the Spring Dutch Treat evenings at the Club on June 15 with a real, old-time "Sing-Out." Mox Hubert, who takes enough time out from his insurance business to appear regularly on the radio, hummed the pitch and led a more-willing-than-able crowd through a pleasantly reminiscent selection of campus favorites. But we all had a good time, either on or off key. Those who sounded their "a" (or a reasonable facsimile) were: the Mox, Capt. John Meloy, Jim Doyle, Red Carbaugh, Woody Gauss, George Plant, the Irishman, Ed Rowe, Sol Levine, Charlie Rivoire, Dick Rubens, Ted Barstow, Bob Siemon, Joe Lombardi, Lt. Dean Baker. Cy Aschenbach, Sol Cohn, Phil Keigher, Adolph Friedeberg, and your sec. Capt. John Meloy is in the Price Adjustment District Office of the New York Quartermaster. Lt. Dean Baker has just received his discharge from the Navy, and is getting ready to send his two daughters to college—one to Middlebury, the other to Wellesley.
I know you feel like thanking the Alumni Fund Committee—John Moore and his whole hard-working crew—and the Committee thanks you. Just take a look at '23's Alumni Fund contribution in this issue, and if you want to throw out your chest and bust a button or two, go right ahead. Your fine response made it possible for the class to take "Joe Doe" up on his generous, sporting proposition and raise our total to an all-time high.
Be seeing you again in October.
Secretary, 84 Hillside Ave., New Rochelle, N. Y. Treasurer, 32 Ridgeland Terrace, Rye, N. Y.
