1923

Hi! It's good to be with you again after the hottest summer in memory.

More high honors, and sincere congratulations, to two of the finest—lrish Flanigan, recently elected to the Alumni Council; and John Moore, new vice-president of the Alumni Association. (Actually, congratulations go to those two august bodies for drawing these tireless workers into their midst.)

Class officers' meetings were held in Hanover last May, giving us an opportunity to catch up on College affairs and get together with some other '23's on Hanover Plain, as Prexy Hopkins used to call it. Your secretary, complete with wife, spent the non-meeting hours in the pleasant company of Vi and Bill Whipple, Irish Flanigan and George Weston. Later in the summer, Dolly and I trekked back again, missing by a narrow margin some other Classmates.

Registered at the Inn during the summer were: Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Haigh, Mr. and Mrs. Ken Quencer, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Rice, Mr. and Mrs. Sid Flanigan, Mr. and Mrs. BillCorrigan, Dr. and Mrs. Henry Hudson, Mr. and Mrs. Ferd Frankel, Ted Caswell and his daughters, Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Pope and their daughter, Dick Townsend, and Jack (Buffalo) Taylor.

The Nashua Cavalier, company paper of the Nashua Gummed and Coated Paper Cos., says: "Don Pope has a fighter's courage. Several years ago, when Don Pope was watching a Dartmouth-Yale football game, a cerebral hemorrhage laid him low. His return to a Dartmouth standard of health has been slow, but his fighting spirit has not been damaged. He not only gives some attention to his work at the office of Mill Brand Papers, Inc., Springfield, Mass., but has had a lot of fun with oil painting. He really has done some remarkable work. He and his brother graduated from Dartmouth in 1923. Their teamwork has been perfect both in private life and in business. We are proud of these good friends of ours." Dud Pope, who wrote before his previously recorded visit to Hanover, said: "My younger daughter is entering Mt. Holyoke this fall, and my wife and I plan to drive down and take a week or two snooping around Boston and Hanover. My older daughter is getting married next Saturday (June 21) and will be living in Lafayette, Indiana, the next year or two while her ex-GI husband finishes up an engineering degree. She spent one year at the University of New Mexico and had a swell time. I'm planning to make the 25th next June."

Chick Burke has given up his direct connection with Shell Oil and has set up a business of his own, distributing Shell products throughout Cheshire County, N. H. He will eventually make his headquarters around Keene, N. H., but is staying in Princeton, Mass., until the housing situation eases.

Sending along some welcome photos, ShermBaldwin writes: "Metz sent me the enclosed examples of his photographic prowess. The Neidlingers were breakfast hosts to the '23 reuners the Sunday morning of that weekend and the bare table will attest to the superlative job done by us guests. Irish, by virtue of his election to the Alumni Council that same weekend, was the (non-breakfast variety) toast of the group."

Sherm is Chairman of the Nominating Committee, which is hard at work selecting the slate to hold the Class reins from 1948 to 1953, and he will welcome any suggestions you may make on the incoming group of Class officers.

From the Boston Herald of June 1: "Lumber concern ends 100th year. The G. Fuller & Son Lumber Cos. of Brighton last week celebrated its 100th anniversary. The occasion was observed at a luncheon served in a huge tent just outside the company's showroom at 19 Market Street. George S. Fuller, president of the company, paid a fine tribute to his father, "Will S. Fuller, who was a member of the firm for 40 years and who passed away in 1939."

Granville B. Fuller, George's brother and treasurer of the company, is also a Dartmouth man, class of 1916.

Hal Baker is co-author with Raymond E. Glos of a new collegiate textbook, "Introduction to Business," designed for use at the Freshman level in schools of business. Hal writes: "I have been teaching summer school here (University Heights 18, Ohio) this year and finishing up on the details of the book, which include the preparation of a teachers' manual and a set of tests to accompany the book. My son is at present in California, on something of a mountain climbing expedition with a group sponsored by the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. The outfit is called the Three Corner Round. What the name means I have no idea, but it is exceedingly well thought of around here."

Here are the highlights of a news-packed letter from Cap Palmer, who frequently takes time out of his full schedule at Walt Disney Productions to be a swell correspondent:

"Doc Morgan was elected president of the Massachusetts Chapter, Society of Residential Appraisers Ken and Jeanette Quencer, with daughter Jean, took time off from legal practice in N. Y. for a honey of a See America First trip. During their stop here, Hollywood touch supplied by a celeb-laden heliocopter landing on the tennis court of their hotel. Jean enters Sweetbriar this fall Portly, impressive-looking tycoon at a recent Hollywood Dartmouth luncheon turned out to be Bill Conrad, who is in charge of public relations and new business for W. A. Simpson, one of the best Coast contractors. Bill now bases in L- A Johnny Allen went through town re- cently, on terminal leave from the Navy. Looks not a hair different from the way he used to. Gang here is conspiring to sell him on settling down out here Had breakfast (the only time he could clear from a star-spangled schedule) with Ottumwa's George Morrell, who was out here with daughter Connie (senior at Carlton, cute as a bug) to tee off the 'Lassie' airshow for his Red Heart dog food Swell long letter from Dud Pope (with A. C. Neilson Cos., market research, in Chicago) who was getting set to marry off his older daughter, Louise, and enter his younger daughter, Virginia, this fall in Mt. Holyoke—with, naturally, a side trip for himself and wife Jinnie to Hanover.

.... After a lot of heartburn in the Palmer household, daughter Gay has sorrowfully torn up her acceptances from Smith and Wellesley, and decided to enter Stanford this fall. I guess it's smarter; she'll live on this Coast, might better make her friends here Liv Bridges (the long blonde fast-chatter menace of Smith '24, who was virtually an ex-officio member of D '23) is staying with us in L. A.: came out on a vacation trip, caught some kind of a bug, drydocked. Sends her best to Brooks, Hockey, at al."

The Class Executive Committee held a meeting at the Dartmouth Club in New York on July 29, attended by Irish Flanigan, BillWhipple, John Moore, George Plant, ClaryGoss, Brooks Palmer, Pem Whitcomb, JuleRippel, and myself. Irish presented a full calendar of business, after which Jule brought us up to date on the progress of the 25th year Memorial Gift fund.

Another Executive Committee meeting was held on October 1, at the University Club in New York, when 25th Reunion Chairman Charlie Rice reported on plans for the Big Event. A dinner meeting will be held in Boston on the 24th of this month, to be continued (non-stop, maybe) on the 25th at the Harvard game.

Larry Eager, who's been delving into coincidences of Classmates' birthdays, has compiled an amount of interesting information that may make him guest editor of your column next month.

Till then, keep the faith.

EDITOR'S POSTSCRIPT: Dick Kershaw, class secretary, rates an orchid for the major share he has had in building up a net paid circulation of 10,000 for the weekly newspaper, Modern Distribution. This is an extraordinary business-paper circulation achievement, at an annual subscription rate of $25 and before inviting a single line of advertising. Dick is in charge of circulation selling by mail. Modern Distribution started three years ago in newsletter format and on September 15 became a weekly newspaper carrying advertising;

Metzel THE ONE AND ONLY: His Honor the Mayor, Chairman, and Member of the Alumni Council—none other than our own Irish Flanigan '23.

Secretary, 84 Hillside Ave., New Rochelle, N. Y. Treasurer, 32 Ridgeland Terrace, Rye, N. Y. Memorial Fund Chairman, 744 Broad St., Newark, N. J.