1923
We have before us a long article from the Asbury Park Press, complete with pictures which show how he looked 28 years ago in basketball uniform, and how he looks today, bifocals and all, dealing with the career of Dr. Joseph A. S. Millar, our Joe. We are glad to lift a good deal of this material for your benefit. For example, the paragraph about his undergraduate exploits, off the court. The paper says,
"Joe joined the Beta Theta Pi fraternity at Dartmouth and was a member of the Casque and Gauntlet society. He was one of the organizers of the Green Key, whose purpose was to entertain visiting teams. He belonged to Palaeopitus, student governing council, and upon his graduation in 1923 was named class marshal. During his sophomore year he was class president. He was also a member of the board of directors of the Student Y.M.C.A."
The paper goes on to say, "After graduating with the degree of B.S. he took a year of medicine and then entered the School of Animal Industry at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with the class of 1928. He was class president during his freshman, junior, and senior years, president of the student Veterinary Federal Society, a member of the Phi Zeta honorary society of the National Veterinary Medical Association, and vice president of the Christian Association of Pennsylvania. He declined a proffered position as assistant professor at the university, and joined up with his father and in 1930 they opened the Millar Animal Hospital at Oakhurst, N. J."
The article tells about a verbal exchange between Joe's father and one of the officials working a hotly contested Dartmouth-Penn game. It seems the official was getting a tongue lashing from papa, in the stands, and upon looking up and recognizing the gentleman as an old Penn baseball star of his acquaintance, he hollered at Millar Sr., "How come you're a Penn man and rootin' for Dartmouth?" "Blood's thicker'n water!" shouted Pop, terminating the exchange.
The paper refers to Timmy Cullen, a teammate of Joe's, as "a 136-pound bundle of human dynamite and one of the greatest forwards Dartmouth ever produced. Cullen, now a Superior Court judge in Brooklyn, was an all-collegiate selection three years running and held the league record for foulshooting. In those days, one man could do all the foul-shooting for his team, and Cullen did."
Doctor Joe holds memberships in numerous veterinary associations and has served a term as president of the New Jersey State Veterinary Medical association. Governor Walter E. Edge appointed him a member of the state veterinary examining board, on which he served as secretary. He is a member of the Asbury Park lodge of Masons, and the First Presbyterian Church. For several years he has been president of the Keystone Savings and Loan Association.
A capacity audience o£ almost 700 persons attended the January Educational Meeting of the Life Underwriters Assoc. of the City of New York. The speakers, including '23s Brooks Palmer, tied in their remarks with the slogan "fell Something Simple," and it is said they enthralled those present with their practical, money-making sales ideas.
Not long ago the Massachusetts Council of Automobile Old Timers elected our C. Norman Fay president of that grizzled group.
FLASH!
An unconfirmed rumor has just reached us, from a very unreliable source, that Arc Lie Herz has finally taken the vows. Particulars wanted, inasmuch as this fellow has given the marriage riage altar a wide berth these many moons.
Win Temple presided over the deliberations of the Marlboro, Mass., chamber of commerce which recently wooed and won the C and S Shoe Company. Win was also in the news recently, as trustee of Wilbraham Academy.
Robert K. {Cocky) Lewis continues as director of athletics at Lyndon Institute, of Lyndonville, Vt. In February he broke into the news when the lack of snow on Mt. Greylock brought an invitation from him to bring the New England inter-scholastic ski championships to his bailiwick.
Twenty '23 men got together for a preBoston Annual Alumni Dinner affair of their own at the Copley, complete with private bar and bartender and free drinks—free with the g buck entry fee. The group included HowieBartlett, Herb Behan, Jim Broe, Pinky Bixby,Ted Caswell, Fred Clark, Sherm Clough, EdCrowley, Frank Donovan, Fay, Ly Harding,Nat Harmon, Art Little, Stuie Knight, IvanMartin, Bob McMillan, Rusty Sargent, PhilSegal, Herb Veit and Bill Welch.
TWENTY-THREE OVERSEAS
Sam and Miriam Home have pulled out for several months in Europe. There is some talk that they may meet the Flanigans and the Metzels over there somewhere, probably in some Montmartre bistro.
The Tuck School was host to speaker CarlA. Gray, president of the Grendy Mfg. Co. of Plainfield, Conn., early in the year. Our Carl dealt with current industrial practices of one kind or another.
Back in February, in Chicago, while the road troupe of Hanover Holiday was in that town, some of the local '23s had lunch together. These worthies were Joe Houston,Diamond Bill Juergens, Joe Pick, Dud Pope,Metzel, Bill Ryan and Barrister Karl Williams. This luncheon was the first appearance at a Dartmouth gathering for Joe Houston in some time, we think, and it was very good to have him with us. He looks grand, by the way—a good deal on the "distinguished" side.
Speaking of gatherings, reminds us that when we told you about the Chicago '23s who went to hear Ida Krehm (Mrs. Joe Pick to us here in Chicago) as soloist for the Chicago Symphony orchestra several months ago, we somehow forgot to tell you that Marie Moore, Don Moore's widow, was with us. You will be glad to know that Marie is getting along fine, and that the three Moore children—Don, Janet and Douglas—are all going places and are a credit to their fine father and mother.
CLASS MOVIES
And returning again to the subject of JoePick, he has been tapped by your Executive Committee to build up the Class home movie library. About 30 men who returned questionnaires to your correspondent said they would provide copies of movies of themselves, families, and classmates for the Class custody and use, for free. Joe is going to follow up these generous offers, so that when he has successfully accomplished his job we will have a fine Class film to show at reunions, and to groups anywhere and anytime who may want to borrow them. It seems that once upon a time we had a small collection of such films, but that when an effort was made to exhume them to use at our Twenty Fifth Reunion they were found to have so thoroughly disintegrated, or whatever it is that film does when it goes to hell in storage in somebody's closet, that they were near worthless. An expert at reconditioning film was contacted, and he quoted a very substantial fee for doing the work, and added that the chances of improvement against total destruction were something like 1 in 5, and so the undertaking was never set in motion. The current effort will remedy this calamity which has befallen us. The earnest cooperation of the gentlemen who have offered their films, and Joe Pick, the majordomo of the operation, is sought, and we are sure it will be forthcoming.
Charlie Zimmerman was in Chicago onMarch 31 and the following got together forluncheon with him: Ward Hilton, Bill Juergens, Joe Pick, Sumner Sollitt and TedSwartzbaugh.
SONS OF '23 DINNER
There were 54 people on hand for the March 11 party for '23 men, and their sons in Hanover; 35 undergraduates, 15 fathers, and 4 '23ers without benefit of sons. The fathers and their sons were: Colin Stewart with Colin and Andy, ShermClough and Sherm Jr., Ralph Duffy and George, Bill Gates and Harry, Glen Elliott and John, George Ferguson with Bob and John, Lewis Putnam and Earle, Jack Taylor and Dave, Ralph Emerson and George, Art Little with Peter and Art Jr., Ralph Noble and John, Ken Way and Ken Jr., Joe Lombardi and Bart, Clary Goss and Don, and George Weston with George D. The contingent of sons without fathers on hand included Bill Carpenter, Eugene Carver, Miles Mills, Si Morand, Don Clark, Truman Metzel Jr., John Bishop, John Swenson, George Haigh, Sylvester Johnson, Charles Lundberg, Ted McKown, John Sargent, John Zimmerman, John Taylor and "Win Peters. The '23s who handled this whole affair for the Class were chairman Joe Pollard, Pudge Neidlinger, Colin Stewart and Al Pianca, and the Class has good reason to thank them warmly for a wellorganized and most successful party—another success to be added to the long list of Dad's Dinners the Class has sponsored. Lew Putnam was master of ceremonies, and during the course of the evening read letters from '23 men who had sent their regrets at not being able to attend: Karl Lundberg,Burt Ford, Vic Cannon, Dwight Haigh, Pete Jones,Fred Clark, Ward Hilton, Butch Kimball, RayBarker, Miles Mills, Paul McKown and RustySargent.
We have a communication from-our son, which deals with his impressions of the party, and we will quote some of the passages. "At the DOC house the annual picture was posed by some 50 odd men of Dartmouth, new and old. 'Pudge' Neidlinger was politely asked to pull in his avoirdupois to fit in the picture, and all frustrated thespians grimaced and postured for the birdie. Such exercises whetted the appetities of the multitude and cries of 'when's chow?' rent the atmosphere. The question was answered 'now' and as soon as everyone had found a seat the only sounds that could be heard were the scraping of knives on forks as junior fell to and pop watched with pardonable pride When everyone had only the memory of the roast beef to savor, Lewis Putnam assumed the role of toastmaster, cautioning the sons, 'in fidelis carborundum' (freely translated, 'don't let them wear you down'). Ralph Noble, when his turn came, said, 'I would suggest that there is more loyalty to Dartmouth in this room than exists anywhere else in the United States.' And George Weston, in his talk, said, 'I never ask a man where he went to college, if he went to Dartmouth, he'll tell you within five minutes. If he didn't, I don't want to embarrass him.' .... When the party began there were old boys and young sprouts. Soon there were no more old boys. Everybody was a sprout."
A big hand for the Committee, for the master of ceremonies and the speakers, for Jack Taylor and his pre-dinner cocktail party,_ for Elaine Stewart's hospitality to the visiting ladies!
'23'S ALUMNI FUND CAMPAIGN
This would seem to be a good year, with our own Charlie Zimmerman in charge of the entire Alumni Fund drive for the College, for '23 to do itself proud. To reach our dollar quota, we will need: (1) an expanded group of men who are big givers; (2) a large group of men who will boost, because they can afford it and because they have come to a clearer realization of the needs of the College, their "below average" gifts to "above average" gifts; (3) gifts of very large size from the fortunate men, few in number, who can really lay it on the line; (4) no men at all, who although able to give substantially, forget all about it until too late.
To reach a class percentage of participation of which we may be proud (as against last year's figure of about 75%), the procedure is very simple. If no one will conclude that his dollar, or two dollars, or three dollars, or whatever small sum he can afford, is so insignificant that it isn't worth sending in, then we will have a true picture of the interest of the Class in the College's needs, a percentage close to 100%.
And just to make our position absolutely clear, we do not want a single dollar from any man in the Class which he cannot afford to give. We want all you can afford, and nothing which you cannot afford.
SUMMER REUNION
There is a gathering of the clan shaping up, for sometime in August, details to come through later. The "man on the scene," who is working up the details, is Haub Haubrick, the Claremont sawbones. Dud Pope, representing the Class executive committee, is hand-in-glove with Haub. These two will shortly be bursting into print with the full story. Keep an August week-end free for this clambake.
A SUCCESSFUL EVENING WAS HAD BY ALL: THE CLASS OF 1923 HELD ITS FATHER-SON DINNER AT THE D.O.C. HOUSE ON MARCH 11
Secretary, 1425 Astor St., Chicago 10, Ill. Treasurer, 5 Tyler Rd., Hanover, N. H. Class Agent, 29 E. Main St., Amsterdam, N. Y.
