1923
Resuming our stint with our 1927 Woodstock, model 4, which has been silent since June, we are pleased to hope that all of you had nice summers, full of sunshine, fish, travel and the other things you like most to
do when summer rolls around. And now to give with some news:
Bill Gratz trekked back to his boyhood surSecretary, roundings, the area around St. Paul, Minn., after Tuck School, complete with Phi Bete key and plenty of gray matter inside that noggin of his, and went to work for the First National Bank of St. Paul, where he has been ever since. If you ask him what he does there, you will get a non-committal reply, but the facts are that he has risen to close to the top of one of the largest banking institutions in the Middle West. How he has worked this out, with all the time he takes out to shoot ducks, pheasant and what-have-you and to go fishing at the drop of anybody's hat, is a secret many would give a greenhead or a muskellunge to know. He has promised to send us a photograph and we hope it will include his most attractive bride of three summers, "Maggie" Gratz, whom we very much admire.
John Guppy designs and estimates steelbridges for the American Bridge Company inNew York and lives with wife Ernestine at 21Oak Hill Road, Short Hills, N. J. His ThayerSchool background has been most valuable tohim during the 25 years John has dealt withbridges, and that period includes his stint assecond in command of the outfit which designed the bridges for the Alaska Highwayduring the war.
Nat Harmon is married, has 5 kids and runsa vending machine operation known as Harmon Vending Service, 525 Washington St.,Dedham, Mass. Nat has been bookkeeper,business college instructor, public accountant and comptroller prior to taking on hispresent venture two years ago.
Bob Haggart is president of the Haggart Construction Company, street and road construction firm of Fargo, N. D. He has been married since 1936 and is the father of Gilbert, age nine, and Jimmy, age five. Bob and Bill Gratz were roommates their senior year at Dartmouth. Bob asked us for news of BobMaxwell some time ago, and we hope he read the account we ran of Bob's doings a couple of months back.
Charles Herbert (Bert) Haviland, one-time roommate of Bill Whipple, who passed away three years ago, is in the real estate business in White Plains, N. Y., and lives at 23 Old Mamaroneck Road in that village in bachelor quarters. Bert spent only two years at Dartmouth, but he says he has many fond memories of his stay there. We wish he could stop "procrastinating," as he puts it, and join with other men in the class and the college more frequently in social intercourse, which we think he would enjoy.
Oscar (Hocky) Hockenson and his charming wife Kay live on Circle Lane, at #24, Plandome Manor, N. Y. For a year after graduation Hocky was store manager for Frank Shattuck Cos.; he was salesman for Frigidaire from 1924-27; he worked for Stanley and Stanley, N. Y., 1927-30, and was sales engineer for New York Telephone Cos., 1930-33. Since then, Hocky has been connected with National Distillers Products Corp., and is today regional import sales manager for that company. In giving credit to Dartmouth for help in finding satisfaction in living, Hocky says, "'I gained better appreciation of my fellow man." He writes that he is all for more rump reunions such as the class has held for several years, and ran this year.
TWENTY-THREE KICKS THROUGH
The Class ought to know, even though this notice is very belated, that on March 2 of this year the annual football dinner for the Dartmouth football team was made possible by the contributions of a number of '23 men. It seems that funds were not available for the annual affair, and when our Irishman heard about the situation he said, "Go ahead and have the dinner and Twenty-Three will picl: up the tab." So they went ahead, and Irish put the bite on some willing customers, and that's the story. Here is what Bill McCarter, Director of Athletics,- said in a letter to one of the dinner guarantors, "I want to take this occasion to express both my personal and official appreciation of your thoughtfulness and generosity in making possible the football dinner this year. The party was held on March 2 and was a grand success. Certainly Dartmouth has never had a football team that was any more deserving of recognition than the 1949 team."
SALUTE
It is fitting and proper that the Class should extend its thanks to the men in the Class why volunteered to help Lee Young with the Alumni Fund campaign this year at the grass roots. To lighten each man's load and to secure broader representation around the country the list of these assistant class agents was longer this year than before. Thirty-three men took over responsibility along with Lee. Here they are: Freddy Davis of West Hartford. Conn., George Horan of Waterbury, Conn., Roy Height of New Brunswick, N. J., SkinnyMatless of Cedar Grove, N. J., Henry Bourne of Cleveland, Vic Cannon of Cleveland, ShinerBeggs of New York, Ellis Wilner of New York, Charley Rivoire of New York, Paul McKown of San Mateo, Calif., Art Everit of Detroit, Eddie Lynch of Minneapolis, Red Fitz of Washington, D. C., Nick Andretta of Tuler, Texas, Art Little of Pawtucket, R. 1., Ralph Dunton of Ballston Spa, N. Y., Jack Taylor of Buffalo, Joe Pick of Chicago, Bill Juergens of Chicago, Dud Pope of Glencoe, 111., Warry Cook of Evanston, 111., Jim Broe of Boston, WaltFriend of Melrose, Mass., Stuie Knight of Brockton, Mass., Chet Bixby of Haverhill, Mass., Nonny Fay of West Newton, Mass., Ivan Martin of Salem, Mass., Pete Jones of Whitman, Mass., Bill Welch of Marblehead, Mass., Lew Putnam of Barre, Vt., GeorgeMusk of Bath, Me., George Scammon of Exeter, N. H., and George Weston of Longmeadow, Mass.
BACK IN THE BIG LEAGUES AGAIN!
What kind of a come-back '23 made in our 1950 Alumni Fund campaign and it was a lulu!—compared to our record of the last few years may be clearly discerned without any rose-colored glasses from a study of the FIVE STAR FINAL Class Agents Bulletin put out by the Fund headquarters August 2. We take great pleasure in dishing up some of these highlights: (1) TWENTY-THREE was one of 29 classes which equalled or excelled their objectives. We were 20th of these 29. (2) TWENTY-THREE raised the largest dollar figure of ANY class, leading the list of 13 classes which raised more than $10,000. (3) TWENTY-THREE was "high man" in thr list of the 13 classes with the greatest number of contributors. (4) TWENTY-THREE was the third highest class on the basis of improvement over last year, in contributors and money. (5) TWENTY-THREE was one of 7 classes which set new highs in both contribuutors and dollars. (6) Our Lee Young was one of 8 class agents selected for "a salute for outstanding service and accomplishment" by the executive secretary of the fund campaign, George Col ton All this just goes to show that when we get really hot and rarin' to go we're a hard bunch to stop! As your secretarychairman I am delighted to pull the firing pin on a whopping big salute to Lee, his stalwart assistants, the peerless Skiddoo and the 412 gentlemen whose allegiance to Dartmouth made all these achievements possible!
TWO CLASSMATES LOST TO '23
We are sad to report that Kerchival R. (Kerch) Holt and E. Donald (Um) Pope died this past June. The In Memoriam section of this issue contains the accounts. Both men were loyal Dartmouth alumni, and their passing is a sorrow to us all.
4-th ANNUAL '23 NIGHT
The story of what happened in celebration of '23 NIGHT, during the week of Sept. 1823, under the over-all management of Genial Johnny Moore, will have to wait for next month's issue. The peerless SKIDDOO may beat us to the punch, however. In fact, we are hoping The Irishman will scoop us on this affair.
OUR 7th ANNUAL RUMP REUNION
From Haub Haubrich comes a report on 1923's Rump Reunion at Lake Sunapee, N. H., in August. Here's his story of that pleasant event:
DEAR METZ:
I first want to say that we missed the presence of Bunny and yourself, the Dud Popes and all the others whose plans at the last minute prevented them from being with us.
I imagine Irish will be breaking out shortly with a story on the party in a "Skiddoo," but in the meantime here's the roll call" Johnny Allen, Ellie and Sherm Baldwin, The "Red" Carbaugh's and daughter Connie, The George Coltons, Alice and Irish Flanigan, Joan and Haub Haubrich, Adeline, Ray and Sally Height, Jim Landauer, Connie and Skin Matless, Betty and George Meleney, Marjorie and Paul Morgan, Pudge Neidlinger, Nancy and Howie Sammis, Elaine and Colin Stewart, Millie, Tinker and Stan Unger.
The above all met Friday afternoon for cocktails at the 19th hole of the Grandliden Hotel on Lake Sunapee, N. H. After dinner the 19th hole was again our rende2vous. The famous CarbaughFlanigan campaign feud was on with all its vim and vigor. Not to be outdone by the Carbaugh promises, the Irishman scored a hit when he announced from then on the drinks were on Dartmouth. This tactical move won many votes at the evening rally, but the state of the exchequer the next morning made it evident that any such further gestures would necessitate the drafting of H.S.T.'s famous million dollar campaign collector.
Saturday's activities consisted of golfing, swimming and old-fashioned bull sessions by the arm chair brigade on the veranda. Tinker Unger represented the class at the Mt. Sunapee Horse Show and came home loaded with blue ribbons and trophies. The weather man smiled upon us to make our outdoor clambake, on' top of Mt. Sunapee Saturday evening, most enjoyable. Tapering off that night we spent a few relaxing hours down at our cottage. Sunday was spent in a leisurely fashion with a few of us staying over through Wednesday.
It seemed swell seeing so many of the gang and the usual letdown feeling of departure was offset by the hope that we'll have a bigger and better one next year.
Secretary, 1425 Astor St., Chicago 10, 111.
Treasurer, 5 Tyler Rd., Hanover, N. H.
Memorial Fund Chairman, 744 Broad St., Newark z, N. J.
