1923
The Big News this month is the story of the whopping big success which was the Fifth Annual 23 Fathers' and Sons' Dinner, back in March, under the aegis of pediatrician and ace Class Treasurer Colin C. Stewart III. Sixty-five gentry were on hand for the groceries and the frivolity, and this included 33 of the potential total of 42 sons, no less than 17 of their beaming papas, and six other '23s without offspring currently at Dartmouth.
We have a play-by-play account of the party from its able Chairman, Colin, and here it is:
"After a little preliminary gathering at the Inn we went to the Outing Club house at 7:30, while Mrs. Freddy Clark, Gail Knight and Edith Putnam joined Elaine Stewart at our house for a cocktail, and later had dinner at the Inn, joined by Mrs. Wade Kepner who had failed to make connections earlier.
"The sons were very well represented at our dinner. George Weston '53 had a very important date at the last minute, and I guess Sam Jefferson '5O, was buried in his medical studies. My son Colin '4B was skiing at Sun Valley, and another boy sent word that a meeting he couldn't miss kept him away. This leaves only four sons unaccounted for. Jim Broe brought Dick Jennison with him. Stuart Fordyce '53 and his father were both guests of Clary Goss. Joe Lombardi was host to the two Riggio boys .Ivan Martin was host to Victor Mahon. Stuie Knight detoured through Hanover with his daughter Gail, for the occasion, on their way to look over the Middlebury campus, where she hopes to join the class of '56. Joe Schijfenhaus was on his way from Florida, but cancelled flights kept him away. Lee Young had planned to come, but couldn't make it. Bob Chaloner was able to be on deck with his boy when a last minute recovery from flu permitted young Bob Jr. to show up.
"The steaks were delicious and so were the lobsters. A can of beer sat by each man, with a supply laid by for after dinner. We adjourned to the big room without any speeches at the dinner, and at that point Horace Taylor took over. He has quite a line, and young Horace filled in as stooge for a couple of acts. Horace managed to keep the gag about the man who was looking for the president of the N. Y., N. H. and Hartford R. R. going for about ten minutes. At the end, he hadn't found him, but was hot on his heels!
"Horace introduced 'Red' Hoehn, the tennissquash coach here, who is really a wonderful guy. He talked a little about the material on magic available at the Library, and showed part of a collection of trick handcuffs which had belonged to Houdini. He then performed a number of tricks—with trick boxes, ropes and cords. After this the group broke up and Red did more tricks for small groups, the kind he particularly likes to do—where the spots on the dice change right under your nose and so on. The boys were interested in examining his exhibits, which were spread out on the table. While this was going on, the supply of beer was reduced to the zero point and the affair shortly came to an end.
"I should have mentioned above that the prize which we had lined up for the father coming to the dinner from the greatest distance, a cocktail shaker, was awarded by Horace to Ralph Emerson, who made it to Hanover from Mansfield, Ohio.
"Unfortunately, a nice letter from Irish, which I would have read at the dinner, was mis-delivered to my son Colin at the S.A.E. house, and was held there pending his return from Sun Valley."
Colin doesn't say it, so we will, but the fact is that this most successful affair was not engineered without a good deal of earnest endeavor on the part of the chairman. The Class hereby votes him another "well done!" for his fine job of work. And our thanks to Horace Taylor, Coach Hoehn, Elaine Stewart, the Outing Club staff, the beer purveyors and everyone else who had a hand in the party. And to the fathers and sons and guests who were there we extend a hearty welcome to '23's Sixth Annual Father and Son Dinner, in 1952
FATHERS AND SONS WHO WERE THERE
Fred Clark and Donald '51, Ralph Emerson and George '51, George Ferguson and John '51, Art Little and Pete '51, Ralph Noble and John '51, Leon Sargent and Dave '51, Pete Jones and Charles III, Bob Chaloner and Bob '53, ClaryGoss and Don '53, John Zimmerman and John III '53, Bill Gates and Dick '54, WadeKepner and John '54, Ivan Martin and Stearns '54, Lew Putnam and Nelson '54, Horace Taylor and Horace III '54, George Weston and Perry '54.
SONS WHO WERE THERE WITHOUT FATHERS
Sherman M. Clough Jr. '50, David H. Hilton '51, Alfred T. Holt '51, Raymond M. Barker Jr. '53, William M. Ford '52, James H. Griffin '52, Bart J. Lombardi '52, Edwin T. Rice '52, Lawrence C. Schiffenhaus '52, Andrew M. Stewart '52, John C. Bishop '53, Dickinson Buell '53, George W. Haigh '53, Arthur F. Little '53, Theodore A. McKown '53, John K. Sargent '53, James N. Clark '54, Douglas W. Dodge '54, Brooks W. Lyle '54, Ruel S. Smith Jr '54, Philip K. Swartz Jr. '54.
The N. Y. Herald-Trib of March 12 carried headlines on its sports page which read as follows: "NEW HAMPSHIRE SKIER SWEEPS WOMEN'S EVENTS", followed by a story from Sun Valley which ran thus: "Sally Neidlinger, 21 year old ski artist from Hanover, N. H., added the slalom title to her downhill crown for a clean sweep of the women's Olympic trial races." This is nice going for Pudge's and Marian's gal, and we con gratulate the whole family. Incidentally, we saw Sally in a news reel and shuddered to think what would have happened to our old bones had we been whizzing down that mountainside.
The inimitable Irishman has lined up last year's guest editors to again help him shoulder the SKIDDOO load this spring and summer. Sherm Baldwin, Jules Rippel, Pudge Neidlinger and Red (Mayor) Carbaugh are coming up with forthcoming issues of this peerless sheet.
A new lodger at the Dartmouth Club of N. Y. is John Read, doing a stint of purchasing for the Quartermaster Corps.
Divight Keef was recently elected vice president of the Rutherford, N. J., board of education. Dwight used to teach at Rutherford High. Now he's a staff statistician with the N. Y. Bell Telephone Co.
Les Richwagen, director of Mary Fletcher Hospital, Burlington, Vt., was recently pictured in the public prints conferring with other members of a committee of hospital directors who are planning the solution of problems which will arise if cities in New England are brought under atomic attack.
We have in front of us a photo from the Berkshire Eagle, Pittsfield, Mass., which is a likeness of Sammy Sammis, appointed to Pittsfield's civil defense organization.
Our C. Norman Fay is now president of the Boston Automobile Dealers Association. Nonnie is prexy of the C. E. Fay Company, who deal in Chrysler products.
It is with sadness that we have to inform the Class of the death, in February, of Roger H.Dickinson. The In Memoriam section of this MAGAZINE contains an article about Roger. His name will be inscribed on a 1923 bookplate in an acquisition of the Baker Library to be provided from the 1923 Memorial Book Fund.
This is the season of the year when '23 men will be conscious of their opportunity to materially assist the College to operate in the black, by means of their participation in the Alumni Fund. Inasmuch as this column is prepared five or six weeks in advance of its appearance in print, as of this writing we cannot tell you how our Class standing looks in May. We have a hunch, as of this writing, April 2, that May will see us riding high. Before the kick-off Lee Young had added to the corps of lieutenants who aided him last year some fresh new names, among them Tay Smith, GeorgePlant, Joe Lombardi, Dick Kershaw, ClaryGoss, Horace Taylor, Johnny Moore, BabeMiner, Herbie Veit, Chuck Colder, CharleyRice, and Dick Townsend. The thanks of the Class go to these men, and their associates on the job, 43 men in all, for taking on this assignment. While we have no intention of moving in on their work, we cannot resist the temptation to say something about it. We have seen the facts and figures as to the College's financial picture, upon which the size and scope of this year's Alumni Fund campaign was calculated. We urge every man in the Class to acquaint himself with this background picture, so that he will understand the needs of the College, and not wonder about them or speculate as to what they are. Whatever you do, by way of personal participation in the Fund, be sure to get this story. We also want to pay tribute to the 198 men who are "REGULARS" men who have contributed every year for ten years. And we want to give our hat a special doffing to the 48 men in the Class who have given every year since graduation. And we want to give the secretarial skimmer a double-extra flourish in honor of the men who have joined the THREE-FIGURE GROUP—men whose individual contributions have equalled or exceeded one hundred dollars. And, finally, we'd like to say to the 94 men in the Class who have never given: How about hooking up with this sound project in support of a fine, free, American institution THIS year? And we mean it when we say a dollar bill is as welcome as one thousand dollars, if that is what you can afford to give.
PATERNAL PRIDE PLUS DARTMOUTH SPIRIT brought two dozen fathers back for the dinner held for the sons of '23 at the DOC House on March 16. Seated (I to r): Horace Taylor, Art Little, Bill Welch, Ralph Emerson, George Ferguson, Bill Gates, George Weston, Jack Zimmerman, Lew Putnam. Standing: Wade Kepner, Pete Jones, Ed Lyle, Ralph Noble, Ivan Martin, Bob Chaloner, Clarence Goss, Red Sargent, James Fordyce, Pudge Neidlinger, Stuie Knight, Jim Broe, Freddy Clark, Joe Pollard, Colin Stewart, and Red Hoehn. Haub Haubrich was too la te for the picture.
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Treasurer, 5 Tyler Rd., Hanover, N. H.
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