1923
Mayor Irish Flanigan called a meeting of your Executive Committee for October first. Fronting for us on arrangements, Pern Whitcomb smuggled us into the parqueted and panelled precincts of the University Club of New York on the strength of his membership. Attending the meeting were: Chairman Flanigan, Treasurer Whipple, Secretary Kershaw, 25th Reunion Chairman Rice, Pem Whitcomb, Joe Schifjenhaus, Bill Gates, Clary Goss,George Plant, Brooks Palmer, Lee Young, and guest Ben Milberg. Charlie Rice outlined plans for the 25th, and it's shaping up to a party no one will want to miss. A last-minute tally was taken of those planning to attend the weekend party in Boston on the eve of the Harvard game. More on this later.
Brooks Palmer, now president of the Life Supervisors' Association, is writing an article on old clocks, which you may soon read in the pages of this MAGAZINE.
George Plant, busier than ever with the affairs of the National Retail Dry Goods Association, reports that his son is now at the University of Maryland. Maybe he'll run into George Broadley there, as George intended to resume his teaching career at the U of M after a serious illness last summer.
Restoration of the Pem Whitcombs' charming old Colonial on Cape Cod is about completed, and they're looking forward to some carefree time there from now on. Other enthusiastic remodellers, you'll recall, are ClaryGoss, Joe Schiffenhaus, George Weston and Go Bliss (to mention a few). Which reminds us to say, if you won't send any news about yourself, let's hear about your house!
Congratulations to Charlie Rice, now a member of the Alumni Council. Charlie's a loyal and effective worker, and the news gets around.
Mail addressed to Si Hamilton at 2410 Raleigh St., Denver, Colo., has been returned. If you know Si's present whereabouts, please divulge.
More congratulations—this time to JimGalletly, appointed early this fall to the position of paymaster of General Electric's Pittsfield, Mass., plant.
Recent visitors at Hanover Inn include: Mr.and Mrs. Lou VanOrden, Mr. and Mrs. RoyHeight and family, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Pope,Mr. and Mrs. Bob McMillan, and Art Little. One thing about Hanover, no matter what the weather may be, it's always good to be back there.
And now for some inside dope on birthdays, contributed by your guest editor LarryEager. Larry's doing research analysis for the International Banking Department, Bank of America, in San Francisco, and has applied some professional technique to the birthday department of 1923, as follows:
"I have record of only about 180 Classmates' birthdays; of these, June leads the list with, appropriately, 25 birthdays. April is at the bottom of the list with 8 birthdays. The other months in descending order are November, January, March, December, October, February, July, August, May, and September.
"About 50 chose the winter months of December, January, and February to put in an appearance. The summer months of June, July and August were favored by at least 46. The football months come along close after, with spring tagging along fourth. The top pairs of months are November and December (38); December and January (37); June and July (35)—with April and May (17) at the bottom.
"The most popular day of the group is the 24th, with the several days around the end or the first of the month following.
"We are distinguished, of course, for our twins—the Popes and the Seymours. But did you know that even this minority of the Class has 23 pairs of 'twins,' 5 pairs of 'triplets,' and a set of 'quadruplets!' Disregarding any possible difference in years—as who does not at our age—the following 'quadruplets' and 'triplets' appear: 24 November: Sherm Baldwin, Ike Coulter,Bob Huff, Bob Whittinghill. 22 March: Ed Lyle, Doc Morgan, Bill Warren. 24 May: Charlie Cooley, Walt Maroney,Bill Welch. 3 June: The Popes and Herb Home. 28 November: George Collins, Pete Jones,Joe Pollard. 29 November: Herb Crook, Bob Col-ler,George Craemer.
"As indicated, the 'twins' are too numerous to mention. Numerous enough throughout the whole Class, no doubt, for double celebrations all through the year.
"Further, some of our Classmates have particularly interesting birth dates aside from those sharing the event. For example, how do R. ]. Buckley (Dec. 31), F. A. Davis and E. W.Peters (Jan. 1) manage to sneak a full (?) birthday celebration in? Though C. E. Suttmeier (Dec. 25) is the one who's really been gypped through the years. Pem Whitcomb (Dec. 22), Pudge Neidlinger (Dec. 23) and Brooks Palmer and Jim Landauer (Dec. 27) must have to struggle with the Birthday-Christmas confusion too.
"Some of our Classmates share a birthday with other notables. For instance, H. V. Barney shares his (Jan. 17) with Al Dickerson '30 and an outstanding professor whom the College honored with a degree, Leonard D. White'14. Dr. M. 5. Stern shares his with Governor Earl Warren of California (Mar. 19)—if I may sneak in a local plug. B. J. Goulet and Carol Aschenbach have the same birthday, March 21. Truman Metzel shares his birthday with two famous government economists who used to teach at Dartmouth: Stacy May and Howard McClure—April 18. For R. M. Udall and Nelson Rockefeller '30, it's July 8. For K. A.Churchill, R. D. Palmer, and Dean HerlufOlsen '22 of Tuck School, the great day is August 2.
"August 30 is gifted writers' day, shared as it is by Irish Flanigan and Wilder Foote who is to be the new director of the U. N. Bureau of Press & Publications.
"None of the group I record shares November 4 with Prexy John Sloan Dickey '29 and Double Coach Eddie J. Jeremiah '30, but EdFairbanks, two days later, celebrates his birthday on the same day as Ernest Martin Hopkins '01 and Kenneth C. Sears, a constitutional law expert. My list, however, is too incomplete
More power to Larry Eager in completing this mighty interesting tabulation—and best wishes for the complete recovery of Beulah, his wife, who has started on the mend after four years of illness, hospitals, and sanitorium regime.
You've all read by now the account Irish published in Skiddoo of '23 Night at the Dartmouth Club in New York; so the following list of attendees is written down here only "for the record": John Moore, Irish Flanigan, PhilKeigher, Woody Gauss, Sol Cohn, Tom Norton, Dwight Keefe, Nick Bernard, CharlieRivoire, Frank Mackedon (still 4-button), JoeSchiffenhaus, Jack Dempsey, Jule Rippel,Paul Soley, Rog Carleton, Sam White, PhilWagner, Mike May, George Plant, RoyHeight, Pern Whitcomb, Henry Estes, FerdFrankel, Ken Quencer, Bob Whittinghill, PhilJellison, Bill Catlin, Kip Couch, Dink Lundquist, Ted Hellwig, Graham Whitelaw,Brooks Palmer, Dick Udall, Russ Carpenter,Johnny Foster, Don King, "Whitey" White,Lew Wilcox, Ruel Smith, Len Bronner, RogWilkinson, John Myers, Sol Levine, Ed Grevatt, Cy Aschenbach, Jim Doyle, Ardie Herz,Bob Buckley, Bill Whipple, Joe Zone, StanUngar, Bus Dodge, Dick Kershaw. Never a better party! Write and tell Irish how you made out that night.
A 1922 FAMILY: Dean Herluf Olsen of Tuck School with wife Elspeth, daughter "Chucky," and son Danny. Olie is one of the new members of the Executive Committee of the Class of 1922.
Secretary, 84 Hillside Ave., New Rochelle, N. Y,
Treasurer, 32 Ridgeland Terrace, Rye, N. Y.
Memorial Fund Chairman, JULIUS A. RIPPEL 744 Broad St., Newark, N. J.
