1923

We were recently very glad to put up for a one night's too-brief-stay one Johnny Allen, en route from the East to his home in Oakland, Cal. John has changed but little since the old days, except that we do not recall that back in '23 he was bald as a hoot owl. We had a lot of good talk about Dartmouth, interspersed with blasts on Allen's Kleenex, brought into frequent use because of the wretched cold which cursed him. When our patrols had exhausted the supply of this material in all the neighboring drug stores Allen finally consented to take some basic treatment for his ills, which were then brought under control by a series of hot toddies, and he was bundled off to bed practically a well man after the treatments had run their course.

Our thanks to Dick Kershaw, our immediate predecessor in this newshawk job, for the following news:

"Last week I spent a day in town with FrankN. ('Nix') Merriam, who was a classmate of ours for the first year or year and a half. His job on McCall's and Redbook is parallel to mine on this sheet (Ed. note: The American Home), though his handle is different, it being Subscription Manager. I learned that Virginia R. Merriam, daughter of Nix and Mildred of Mountain Lakes, N. J., was married last September to John Donald Foley, Brown '42 Phi Bete, and a member of the NBC promotion staff. Virginia is Shopping Editor of Holiday magazine, and a graduate of Mount Holyoke in the class of '4B. While the couple were honeymooning at the Cloisters, Sea Island, Ga., Nix and Mildred spent a few weeks in Florida."

A recent issue of the Stamford (Conn.) Advocate carried a picture of our Joseph P.Zone, a Stamford judge, swearing in a new recruit for the local bench.

It takes us awhile to dig things out, not infrequently, and what follows about Phil Bowker is as good an example as any. Last fall the Bowkers spent a number of weeks in and around the Scandinavian countries. Phil's beautiful wife Margit came from Norway, and the Bowkers spent three weeks at the home of her parents there. They polished off their foreign trek with a couple of weeks in London.

True to tradition, the Charlie Rices, the Bill Wallaces, the Charley Zimmermans and the Ted Caswells got together for their annual party to witness the Yale game in November. Ted C.'s daughter Patricia is a freshman at Colby Junior College, where she rooms with Gail Wilder, Bob Wilder's daughter. The last we heard about the other Caswell chicks is that Mimi is winding up her stint at the Chamberlain School of Retailing in Boston, and that Jeanne and husband have recently moved into a new home in Needham.

A press report at hand which concerns itself with Cap Palmer's Case History of aMovie (the play-by-play on the filming of The Next Voice You Hear), says: "It is a highly interesting yarn, skillfully written, that will prove entertaining to the casual film fan and invaluable as a text for students." Cap has certainly established himself as a topnotcher.

'23's Russell C. Roberts, an associate in the Stamford, Conn., law firm of Curtis, Brinckerhof and Barrett, will conduct the office of Norwalk Attorney, while the former encumbent of that office is in the service. Roberts graduated from Yale Law School after Dartmouth, and has practiced law since that time, except for a tour during W.W.11 with the Red Cross in the Pacific.

Don Cobleigh is head of the department of music at Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Carl Gray gave an address entitled "Small Business" at Babson Institute last fall, which was rebroadcast. One o£ our scouts who heard Carl's talk described it as "excellent."

It appears that our previous mention of the return of Stan Ungar to the Service (medical corps, AAF) was premature. We had lifted this intelligence from the chit-chat column of a Boston paper. Next time we will know better. Thinking about Stan reminds us to remind you that the next time you see him you must insist on his telling you the story about the time his daughter's prize winning horse came into heat at the wrong time. It's a dilly.

There was a recent piece in the Drug Edition of Chain Store Age, by Peyt Hawes, general manager of the Pay Less Drug Stores, Portland, Ore., having to do with the simplified reports which his firm has developed, to ease the lot of the hard pressed store managers. Among other things we noticed in the article was reference to their system of paying their bills within 48 hours after receipt of invoice. In other words, if you are a supplier to Peyt's outfit, you can get your dough even before your goods arrive in the stores, if you shoot the bill in there fast. We pass the word to any readers in position to take advantage of this deal.

Our Hanover correspondent, who takes a periodic gander at the Inn register, advises that the following '23s have lately been there: John C. (Baldy) Allen, the Harold Bakers, the Vic Cannons, the Bob Chaloners, Frank Donovan, the Walt Friends, Pete Howe, Mr. and Mrs. Wade Kepner, the Ed Lyles, Dr. and Mrs. Joe Millar, Henry Moore, the Quencers, the John Zimraerraans, and the Charley Zimmermans.

SPECIAL REQUEST

Your correspondent directs an urgent appeal to each and all of you to send me whatever you know about any of the men whose names are listed below. The list consists of 18 men about whom the secretarial files contain absolutely no information whatsoever, a condition we are most anxious to rectify. We know that if every man in the class who reads this will give us a hand in this chore, and tell us whatever he knows about any of these men, we will come up shortly with the dope. The names of the 18 shrinking violetsare: Nat Austin, A1 Bomeisler, Ronald Briscoe, Wilfred Catlin, Charley Curts, Paul Dame, George Fleming, Art Frothingham, Joe Goldman, George Goodyear, Art Gordon, Carl Granger, Eddie Gumaer, W. C. Henderson, Perry Joslin, Jesse Ludington, Ernest Mathews and Leonard Morse.

CLASS QUESTIONNAIRE DATA

We have heretofore presented some of the data assembled from the questionnaires, in this column and in SKIDDOO, and here are some more.

QUESTION: ARE YOU GLAD YOU WENT TO DARTMOUTH? ANSWERS: YES 95%, NO ANSWER 3%, NO 1% NOT SURE 3½%,No 1%

QUESTION: WHAT PROFESSORS DO YOU BELIEVE MADE THE MOST IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION TO YOUR DEVELOPMENT? ANSWERS: l-Kier, 2-Wellman, 3—Stewart, 4—Stillwell, 5—Griggs, Mecklin, 7 Richardson, 8—Bruce, 9-Emory, 10-Laycock. (Note: these were the first 10 listed in order. Others named: Mathewson, Lambuth, Adams, Nemiah, Lingley, Hull, McCallum, Kelly, Eric the Red, Anderson, Kerwin, Gordon Bill, Lord, Urban, Moore, Marks, Robinson, Husband, Hopkins, Scarlett, Proctor, Tesreau, Frey, Tanch, Pressey, Holben, Raffalovitch.)

QUESTION: THE WORLD BEING WHAT IT IS TODAY, WHAT KIND OF COURSES WOULD YOU RECOMMEND TO A BOY GOING TO DARTMOUTH NOW? AN-SWERS: Humanities 26%, Business 25%, Science 21%, Government 16%, Liberal Arts 6%, depends on boy 5%, miscellaneous 1%.

QUESTION: IN YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE HAS A COLLEGE EDUCATION BEEN AN ASSET TO YOU? ANSWERS: YES 91%, NO 8%, NOT SURE 1%.

SOCIETY NOTE

Just before Christmas we had the pleasure and the privilege of providing scrambled eggs and bacon at our establishment for the Sumner Sollitts and the Joe Picks, whom we corralled at a performance of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and fetched home with us. The Picks are Symphony "regulars," and Mrs. Joe, whose professional name is Ida Krehm, was piano soloist when Ernest Bloch recently conducted the orchestra during the Bloch Festival. As for the Sollitts, we are able to report the Christmas-time christening of their daughter Bettye, born last October, with ourselves and the W. W. {Butch) Kimballs on hand as god-parents.

LEADERS OF THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GENERAL COURT: Shown with their wives as they prepared to take over as legislative heads of the State are Blaylock Atherton '22 of Nashua (left), President of the Senate, and Lane Dwinell '28 of Lebanon, Speaker of the House. Mrs. Atherton (left) and Mrs. Dwinell saw their husbands sworn in as the 1951 Legislature convened January 3.

Secretary, 1425 Astor St., Chicago 10, 111.

Treasurer, 5 Tyler Rd., Hanover, N. H.

Memorial Fund Chairman, 744 Broad St., Newark 2, N. J.