1924
As we are having only one dinner and smoker this winter, we hope all the New York classmates will turn out in full force on Wednesday, March 12, at the Dartmouth Club. If there are any visiting firemen in town we hope they'll come around.
Bill Buchanan and Hank Stevens entered Dartmouth in our class from Appleton, Wisconsin, High School. It is interesting to note that these two old friends have recently gotten together in a big business deal. Hank has spent most of his time since graduation in the East. He was married in 1933 and has two sons, who, we hope, are headed toward Dartmouth. At present Hank is vice president of the Betner Paper Mfg. Company in Philadelphia. Recently this firm decided to. set up a factory in Appleton to manufacture paper bags and we've just learned that Bill Buchanan's firm is going to operate this branch factory. After leaving college, Bill returned to Appleton and joined the Appleton Wire Works. He was married in Cincinnati in 1931 and the Buchanans have two sons and a daughter. Since 1938 Bill has been president and treasurer of his company. Through the grapevine we have learned that Bill is very active in all civic projects in Appleton and is also very active in The National Association of Manufacturers. We haven't seen enough of these two prominent; alumni, and let's hope they will be on hand for the 25th Reunion which, incidentally, is only two years away.
Frank Jetter is the only member of our class living in Amsterdam, N. Y. He is director of music for the Public Schools there and has a son, Bob, born in 1931, who will be registered at Dartmouth in the class of 1953 StemRider has a daughter who was married March 9, 1946. He claims this is the first son or daughter of a classmate to be married. We'd like tohear from any other members of the class who have children who were married before or after March 9, 1946 Harry Holmlund and Harl Miller have just completed a year's term, as president and treasurer of the DartmouthClub of Rochester Larry Kugelman, whois with the Canadian International Paper Company in Montreal, Canada, sends an invitation to all classmates to stop in when they, are in Canada on business or pleasure. Larry's, office is in the Sun Life Building which is in. the heart of Montreal. Larry is secretary of theDartmouth Club of Montreal.
Hookey Hagenbuckle went back into theNavy and is now with the Military Government, Saipan, and expects to be in service until July 1948. He writes, "Present assignment is. repatriation and rehabilitation of the Bonin Islands. Best job in the Navy or anywhere in the world today. We have as a starter a nucleus of descendants of Yankee whalers whosettled there in 1830, now a mixture of British, Polynesian, Spanish, Portugese and Japanese blood. Commodore Perry put in there in 1855 and told them to hang on, that some day the U. S. Navy would return to help them. That makes us 100 years late, which according to the Army boys is about right for the Navy. We have to revive their fishing industry, trade with Japan, and a flock of other items. But don't get me started on the Bonins. Like the fertilizer salesman, I'm full of the subject. While at the School of Naval Administrationlast summer at Stanford, I saw Hal Cowley and Larry Hewes. Hal has a chair in education and Larry is doing some work for the Guggenheim Foundation."
If any class members have news of the following classmates, I wish they would send it to me: Cliff Blake, Walt Emerson, HenryGardner, Ford Bowman and Wales Holbrook. A Wah Hoo Wah for Bill Du Bois who was recently promoted to vice president of the Chase Bank Most of the class sent in their class dues to Dick Henry, but here is a plea to the few who have neglected to send in their checks. Please do so at once so the class won't have to go to further expense to send you another reminder Jeff Adams writes, November 23, 1946, "Arrived back in Wellesley with two deer after a three weeks' trip to Canada. Found a-crate with two live turkeys in it upon reaching home, a special gift from that famous farmer, H. Lester Haws. Going to Baltimore next month by auto to bring my elder daughter, Jean, home for vacation from Goucher College where she is a junior this year." .... Congratulations to AI Brown, who has recently been elected vice president of Best Foods, Inc., in charge of advertising and merchandising. Stan Lyon wrote to Dick with his dues check, "Here's the business—your ma had no dumb children. You rig it so I can't get the ALUMNI MAGAZINE without paying my dues. Not that I object much, and you caught me at one of the extremely rare times when I am semi-solvent. I see Learnard and Perry once in a while. Dave is positively sylphlike compared with the approximate two hundred and eighty of those dear college days. If you have occasion to correspond with him, ask him if he still has the rubber pants he wore as a member of the Weston High School hockey team. (Weston is somewhere west of Newton.) Other than that, I don't get around much and see less—sort of a case of crawling into a hole and pulling it in after you. Have a son headed for Dartmouth circa 1952, assuming he differs from his old man and stays out of reform school in the meantime."
A letter from Jerry Wood was especially appreciated as we hadn't heard from Jerry in some time, although he was active in alumni affairs in Denver and was formerly secretary of the Denver Club. He writes, "Have been in the investment banking business for the last ten or twelve years, and am now a member of the firm of Bosworth, Sullivan & Company, Denver. I am really the only '24 member, it seems, in this part of the world. Fred Shaneman stops by, very infrequently, and DonCoyle was here in, I believe, 1942. Jimmy Reed puts in an appearance about once every five years, so you can see we are darn short of direct contact. My road seems to have been unusually smooth the last few years. Have some future Dartmouth material in two sons, Tommy, aged 8, and Nicky, aged 2. If your mathematics are only fair, you can see I'll have a boy in college when I'm a doddering old man of 65." .... Another letter forwarded by dues collector Dick Henry was from CharlieRoberts, who says, "I'm alive and kicking, am married and have one son, Charles Bayard Roberts, Jr., known as 'Bob.' Little Junior (6' and 180 lbs. of meat) who was conceived shortly after Dartmouth swamped Harvard and then beat Yale the next Saturday; who cut his teeth on an old nose guard; who was rocked to sleep with 'Dartmouth's in Town Again' and 'As the Backs Go Tearing By'; who posed for one of his first pictures sitting in his perambulator with a football in his hands;—has hopes of matriculating at Dartmouth next fall and playing a little football on the side. In fact he has been talking and writing Dartmouth so much to his friends in the service that he might even show up with a whole team. The consummation of his hopes and desires are contingent on his release from the Navy and his acceptance by the college."
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NEW YORK SMOKER DATE: Wednesday, March 12th PLACE: Dartmouth Club TIME: Cocktails 6 o'clock Dinner 7 o'clock
ANNUAL NEW YORK DINNER, APRIL 16 HOTEL COMMODORE AT 6:30 P.M.
