1923
Look over my shoulder a minute at the latest letter from Chet Bixby. He says:
Here is a resume of our Eastern Massachusetts party on January 11 at the University Club in Boston. Sam Home and I were co-chairmen. We divided the work and very much enjoyed the whole affair. It was a very enthusiastic gathering. A number of boys who have not been able to attend the Annual Boston Alumni Dinner for years showed up. The first-string, heavy-weight, quadruple battery of Pudge Neidlinger, Clary Goss, Irish Flanigan and Jules Rippel put across a very impressive barrage of information, facts and figures regarding our 25th Memorial Gift to the College.
A most enjoyable cocktail party preceded the dinner. The dinner itself was excellent. We had a couple hundred Chinese move in on us for a few minutes, but they were soon shuttled into an adjoining room.
A partial list of those attending the dinner includes: Bob Charles, Glen Elliot, Ed Hopkins, Nat Harmon, Sherm Clough, George Fuller, Ed Fairbanks, Morton Stern, Ivan Martin, Phil Segal, Howie Reed, John Read, Frank Doten, Carl Bowen, John Lee, Stuie Knight, Ly Harding, Fred Clark, John Griffin, Howie Bartlett, Phil Bowker, Chick Burke, Sherm Baldwin, Larry Miles, Babe Miner, Sam Home, Chet Bixby, Walt Friend, Pudge Neidlinger, Clary Goss, Irish Flanigan, Jule Rippel.
The financial response that followed the meeting was very encouraging. The '23 boys living in Eastern Massachusetts came through with many substantial gifts.
Good turnout, good results, good report. Thanks, Chet.
And now you can move around and look over my other shoulder at Sherm Clough's letter. Sherm writes:
The Boston Alumni Dinner on February 27 had an "over-size" turnout to meet and greet the new President—and I'm sure everyone came away with the impression that he's a "large bit of all right." The '2sers who helped swell the almost record-breaking attendance were as follows: Stern, Harding, Doten, Sargent,' Bixby, Fortune, Segal, McMillan, Friend, Harmon, Callan, Hopkins, Yeit, Clark, Bailey, Akin, Prouty, Truesdell, Haubrich, Coaker, Fuller, Crowley, Knight, Broe, Morgan and yours truly.
Like the rest of the country, I'm slow "reconverting to peacetime operation" and am still at the shipyard. However, before this month is over I hope to be back at my old job with Frigidaire here in New England. Sherm Jr. is in the Navy- having had his Dartmouth "debut" postponed at least a year by Uncle Sam. Just at present he's at Gulfport, Miss., attending radar school, but if the Navy sticks to its plan of having all reserves out of service by September 1, then I hope he'll be able to start in at Hanover with the Class of 1950 next fall.
Here's hoping you can get in a "plug" to the Class on the Alumni Fund, to get them to send in their contributions early.
Good, sound advice, Sherm—helpful all around. Thanks for the report and the suggestion.
On March 12, your Executive Committee met at the Club in New York. Attending were Clary Goss, Brooks Palmer, Charlie Rice, Joe Schiffenhaus, Irish Flanigan, Pem Whitcomb, Ted Caswell, Bill Whipple, John Moore and myself. Charlie Rice came down from Hartford to discuss plans for 25th Reunion in 1948, and Ted Caswell made the trek from Boston. Pem Whitcomb and Charlie Rice were elected to the Executive Committee. After the meeting we adjourned to the bar and the lounge where we all did some reminiscing with Jim Doyle. Jim's 6'4" son, slated for the Class of 1950, is now in service. Charlie Rice's 6'3" son, Ted, is at Kingswood School in Hartford, and will head for Hanover in the fall of '48.
Charlie says Fred Davis is now Manager of the City Loan Division of the Travelers Insurance Co., lives in West Hartford and has two daughters; Nancy, 15, and Judy, 4.
Hal Fitz, recently elected President of the Dartmouth Club of Washington, D. C., says he often runs into Charlie Zimmerman and George Broadley at the weekly luncheons at the Annapolis Hotel. Hal sends along a clipping of the President's Calling List from the Washington Post of February 28 which reports that President Truman on that day received Wade Kepner, grand exalted ruler of the BPOE. Wade is doing a tour of Elks clubs around the country, another recent clipping showing him at a dinner of the organization in Tampa, Fla.
Rising to contest Ed Roe's claim to a record for continuity in siring four daughters is Ted Caswell, who reminds us that he and Olive have four girls, the eldest of whom will graduate from Smith this year.
More family items. Jules Rippel's daughter is now attending Wheaton. Bill and Vi Whipple will be driving up to Massachusetts in June to take their daughter home from her first year at La Salle. Clary and Priscilla Goss are comparing notes on Andover and Exeter for their son this fall.
Doc Morgan has started his own real estate management company in Boston, with offices on Milk Street.
Brooks Palmer, who is now featured every Friday in the New York Sun in connection with a series of articles on clocks (on which he is a recognized authority), recently addressed the Teaneck Men's Club on the subject.
Arch Giroux of Lexington, Mass., has announced his candidacy for Chairman of the Republican State Committee. Arch served for two and a half years as a Major in the Military Police in Europe. Before entering the Army, he was at various times a county commissioner for Middlesex, Chairman of the Lexington Republican Committee, and Chairman of the Board and President of the Selectman's Association of Massachusetts.
The class of '23 has been well represented at the Hanover Inn lately, by: Bob McMillan: Leon Sargent and his son, David: Lt. Col. and Mrs. Ellis Wilner; Art Little and his son, Peter; Dr. and Mrs. Jim Hennessy.
If you can, keep your engagements for the second week this month tentative, pending announcement of the date of the Annual Dinner in New York.
Sherm Baldwin is hard at work on arrangements for our postponed 20th Reunion in Hanover, July 26, 27 and 28. But all you need to do is hold those dates and be ready to step on the gas, come the last weekend in July.
'23 UP FOR THE 20TH!
Secretary, 84 Hillside Ave., New Rochelle, N. Y.
Treasurer, 32 Ridgeland Terrace, Rye, N. Y.
