1923

Your correspondent is encouraged to report herewith further doings at Metzel's Folly, the tung nut farm down in Mississippi, because the other day he ran across a fellow who says he reads the stuff I put out on this subject. Well, anyway, the latest is that Sue, the bird dog bitch on the place who was going to get a rest this spring from her annual chore of bringing seven or eight pups into the world, didn't get the rest after all. It seems that Mike busted out of his collar and tore down a fence and successfully thwarted our earnest attempts to control the cosmic urge. So now there are Sue and Mike and the seven pups, Smudgie the runaway preacher's dog, Pickles the fox terrier, and n assorted cats Next month we may tell you the outcome of the current experiments aimed at curing the white bull calf of the "scours" (diarrhea to you city fellers) with a diet of cotton seed hulls and other unsavory stuff. (It all depends on the reaction of our reader "fan" to this month's effort.)

CLASS QUESTIONNAIRE RESULTS

We have been tickled with the outcome of the questionnaire business. This in spite of the chores involved in putting all the dope together, not the least of which was the initial task of copying the answers to the 80 questions in each of the 200 documents.

This is how the marriage data on the Class worked out: married once 81%, married twice 10%, married three times ½%, single 8%, divorced 9%, widowed 6%. Number of children per couple: one 21%, two 40%, three 18%, four 5%, more than four 2%, none 14%.

Here are the results of the question covering political parties: Republican 82%, Democratic 10%, Independent 4%, no party 3%, other party 1%.

The question we asked about liquor habits was poorly phrased, and we feel sure that the results are interesting but hardly reliable, because when you ask how many drinks a man LIKES before dinner, as we did, the answers hardly square with the number a man HAS. Here is what they said: none 27%, one 19%, two 45%, three 16%, four 2%, more 1%. Right or wrong, the figures show a substantial APPETITE exists, and permission is hereby granted to the W.C.T.U. to go to work on the boys.

Forty-two men supplied us with names of other men about whom they would like to read, in this periodical and in the peerless Skiddoo. The dope on nine of these men is at hand, and appears below. We regret to say that we have not heard from the others, and wish we had, and wish they and their friends would get busy and give us their stories, so we can pass them along to the Class. (We suggest you clip this list, as a reminder.) The names are Ed Crowley, Bill Sawyer,George Cook, Ed Hoag, Bob Charles, JimGalletly, Jock Osborne, Kimball Sprague,Fred Fisher, Chet Sweeney, Martin Suydam,Al Stotz, Dwight Heigh, Wormcke, Challoner, Monk Keith, Sherm Windsor, JohnChamberlain, Johnny Harkins, WarrenTryon, Heinz Moore, Don Cobleigh, Si Hamilton, Erp Schultz and Marshall Brown.

Russ Carpenter is married, has a son and two daughters, and lives at 1017 N. Euclid, Oak Park, Ill. He has been associated with Sanford Ink Company for 26 years, and is chairman of the board and Treasurer. His boy has been a Dartmouth football stalwart, like his papa before him, for several years.

Joe Bruning lives on Bethany Pike, Wheeling, W. Va., and divides his time between his wife and two daughters and the Wheeling Coca Cola Bottling Co., where he handles sales. He used to be in the newspaper business and the stock brokerage business. Joe gets in a few licks now and then with rod and reel, and a 12 gauge shotgun.

Harold (Bud) Buell married Helen Hughes way back when, not long after she graduated from the University of Wisconsin, and they live at 3909 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis with their two sons Dickinson and Kent. Bud is general sales manager of P. R. Mallory and Co. Inc., manufacturers of electronic parts, and before that was connected with the American Bank Note Co. Although Bud only spent a year in Hanover, before he transferred to Wisconsin, he is definitely enthusiastic about Dartmouth, even to the extent of planning a trip back to Hanover to take in one of those summer reunions '23 organizes each year.

Cy Gordon is doubtless the Class champion daddy, since we think that no one can boast of bettering the crop of two sons and six daughters he has fathered. Cy has been with Ditto, Inc., for 20 years, in the sales end. The Gordons moved to a farm last fall and Cy has added apple and vegetable raising to the exercise he still gets (and at his age!) playing tennis. Some day soon we are going to tell you the amusing story he turned over to us about the time he handled his fraternity's dough when Cornell beat Dartmouth 59 to 7. ,

Ward Hilton has two kids, Jane and David, the latter an undergraduate at Hanover now, as a result of his successful courtship of Sarah Donohue back in 1926. (His pal Bill Wallace succeeded in marrying her twin sister, by the way.) Ward has been with the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co. in Chicago since graduation, and he is Superintendent of their Bond Dept. For a long time Ward has been one of those gents who has pitched in to make Class affairs a success, and handled the Class Alumni Fund push around Chicago for some years, and well.

So far as we know, there are three crackpots in the class who like to fly airplanes, and Wide Kepner is one of these. (The other two are Metzel and Teagle.) When he isn't indulging in his favorite pastime of giving the wide blue yonder a bad time, he manages his own mortician's establishment and farm in Wheeling, W. Va., and tends to some chores in the leading bank there. In 1938 Wade was president of the National Selected Morticians, and he was Grand Exalted Ruler of the B.P.O. Elks of the United States 1945-46. He was married in 1924 to Martha Nay, and they have two daughters and a son.

Bob Maxwell maintains bachelor quarters at 60 E. Elm St., Chicago, and is remote control Secy-Treas. of Fort Wayne Metals Inc. in the city of the same name. After graduation from Dartmouth, Bob was an economics instructor at the University of Minnesota, and then joined Lane, Piper, and Saffray, investment house of Minneapolis. Then, in a manner which could well be the basis of a rather spectacular "success story," he became Treasurer of the Greyhound Corporation of Chicago. When the war came along Bob enlisted in the Army Air Corps, and was overseas for a long spell which included a tour of duty in Russia, resisting all efforts, and there were many such, to make him an officer. Last year, to tie in with the national push for uranium ore, he equipped a jeep in co-operation with the Atomic Energy Commission with the latest detection gadgets, and toured the hinterlands for months watching for clicks from his Geiger counterloaded vehicle. All in all, a most interesting guy, who is bound and determined to live an interesting life.

Another of the '23 farmers, Jim McCabe, conducts his hay-shaking near Arlington, Vt. The farming McCabes have a daughter and two sons, and the latter come in mighty handy on the farm. Jim has been in the automobile business, the construction business, and took off five years ago from McCabe Brothers Grain Co., Ltd., Winnipeg, where he was a director and asst. general manager, and here is what he has to say about it:

"As soon as the war was well over, we gathered our worldly goods together and retired from the well-known rat race to start life as farmers in the best climate in the country. We spent all our savings on the place—fixing it up and living expenses—and are now making a go of cattle, com- mercial hay farming, renting wings and cottages, working as an electrician's helper in the winter, logging and custom tractor work. Things are looking up, and we should manage to get the last two kids through college. One son will go to Dartmouth or Amherst next fall. It has been tough but we have one of the finest homes hereabouts and a fine farm. We live a healthy, happy life in a fine community and I have the extreme pleasure of working side by side with my boys. I can think of no one that I envy—anywhere. Our venture has paid off and will continue to do so for many years to come."

Our congratulations to Jim for tackling and licking a tough assignment, and coming up with a life that is so deeply satisfying to him.

Elmer I. {lke) Phillips has retired from the Chase National Bank of N. Y. C., where he ended an active career as a lawyer. The Phillips address is R. D. No. 2, South Royalton, Vt., where Ike keeps very busy farming, with some canoeing and skiing on the side. When we asked him, "Are you glad you went to Dartmouth?" Ike came back fast with a "Hell, yes!" The Phillips have two girls (probably headed for Vassar, where their mother went to college), and a couple of sons.

The In Memoriam section of this MAGAZINE includes a biography of Ernest Smith, whose untimely death was reported in last month's issue.

MISCELLANY

We have before us a newspaper photo of Ralph Duffy working at his job of city councilman in Worcester..... Wallis E. HoweJr., more commonly called Pete, is on leave of absence from his job of vice president of Pocket Books, Inc., nation's largest 25 cent reprint book house Sherm Baldwin continues active in Y.M.C.A. work in Worcester. .... Charley Rice, Alumni Councillor, recently reported in Hanover for the committee of the Council of which he is chairman Joe Zone, senior judge of the Stamford, Conn, city courts, recently received a wrist watch from admiring friends in that city, during a testimonial dinner-dance.

TWENTY-THREE'S ALUMNI FUND CAMPAIGN

The high brass of your Class make no bones of the fact that we are out for outstanding results from this year's campaign. The main reason, of course, is that the College needs the money, and as a top-notch member of the Dartmouth family it is clearly our chore to come up with a top-notch contribution, not just an also-ran job. The facts are that our Alumni Fund record the past several years is not exactly in line with the very high regard in which we hold ourselves as a Class. A good deal of research into the matter of how our performance compares with other contemporary classes discloses a record which is not too good. Let us be specific. Last year, for example, we were in sixth place in the list of classes 1920 through 1926, in percentage of contributors to men in the class. In this same group of seven classes 1923 was in fourth place in percentage of objective, our 93% comparing with 112% for 1921, 103% for 1922, 102% for 1926. Looking back over the record for five years, we find that our participation has slumped from 83% in 1945 to the 194.9 low of 74%. and that our dollar percentage of quota has slumped from 123% in 1945 to 93% last year. You all know that year after year all the classes combined have managed to exceed the total Fund quota—they have accomplished this for 11 straight years, to be exact. We don't think that many of you know that while this annual plus-performance has characterized the alumni body as a whole, our Class has consistently lagged behind. The comparison for the past five years is as follows, for percentage of quota: 1945 ALUMNI TOTAL 112%, our Class 123%; 1946 ALUMNI TOTAL 119%, our Class 99%;1947 ALUMNI TOTAL 106%, our Class 93%; 1948 ALUMNI TOTAL 102%, our Class 100%; 1949 ALUMNI TOTAL 100%-plus, our Class 93%.

We think there are several reasons why our Class has slipped in comparison with the whole alumni and with our contemporary classes. In the first place, we think many men in the Class have not been aware of the record. In the second place, we are sure that many men who could give more substantial sums than they have given should re-appraise the situation and give more realistically in view of the really critical needs of the College and the worthwhileness of the college purpose in the scheme of things. In the third place, we feel sure that many men who have not given at all, and who could make modest gifts, have not done so because they have mistakenly believed their modest contributions were not substantial enough to count.

We bespeak the wholehearted support of ALL the men in the Class for Lee Young and the henchmen who are helping him in this year's campaign. To the men, 26% of them, who did not contribute at all last year, we say: a dollar gift is MOST welcome, if that is what you can afford to give.

SUMMER REUNION

WE ARE ESTABLISHING A DATE IN JULY OR AUGUST FOR THE SEVENTH ANNUAL '23 SUMMER REUNION. WATCH SKIDDOO FOR DETAILS, AND PLAN ON A WEEK-END FOR A BIG TIME UP IN GOD'S COUNTRY.

TIME OUT from his duties as Commander, USNR, is taken by George (Bud) Fisher '23, strolling at the Lake Placid Club with his father, Dr. George J. Fisher, National Boy Scout Commissioner.

Secretary, 1425 Astor St., Chicago 10, Ill. Treasurer, 5 Tyler Rd., Hanover, N. H. Class Agent, 29 E. Main St., Amsterdam, N. Y.