1923

News of the various celebrations of Twenty- Three Night which took place around the country is going to be scarce in this column, for the reason that The Irishman has scooped us. The spalpeen worked hard for his "beat," too. He and his diminutive bride of a good many summers came to Chicago for our party, rushed home to New York to take in the festivities there, and took off for Boston to attend their celebration. If those Easterners enjoyed him as much as we did in Chicago we know they had fun.

At any rate, his scurrilous sheet SKIDDOO will have the accounts of all three affairs as seen from the vantage point of his 4 foot 11 inch elevation. We cannot resist, however, a word about the wonderful hospitality of Budand Connie Freeman, who were hosts to the Chicago gang at their hacienda in Racine, Wis. The 22-odd '23s and wives who were there had a grand time. The unfortunates who had to go home and didn't get to have a go at the Sunday morning breakfast which was the crowning touch of the weekend missed something truly wonderful. Your correspondent, ordinarily a man who pricks up his ears every time the bell rings for meal- time, was almost totally disinterested in groceries for days!

Tom Norton, whose last mention in these pages had to do with a charity drive staged by students of City College, New York, has lately appeared in the news as a recently appointed public member of the Regional Wage Stabilization Board in that area. Tom has had an active career in public service while he has also been making a name for himself in academic circles. He became chairman of the regional War Labor Board in 1945. From 1939 to 1946 he was a commissioner with the New York State Board of Mediation. He has also been a member of the Federal Advisory Council on Social Security, was with the Wage Hour Division of the U. S. Dept. of Labor, and was executive secretary of the Shipbuilding Stabilization Commission.

We recently spotted a book review in TheNew Yorker covering On And Off Soundings, a book about sailing edited by our BillTaylor, an old hand at such. The review had this to say: "A compilation o£ articles and stories concerned with shoal and deep water sailing that have appeared in the magazine Yachting. The subject matter ranges from the adventurous, such as the English yachtsman's description of his ordeal in a 37-foot cabin cruiser at Dunkirk, in 1940, to the intensely practical, as exemplified by a chilling but instructive piece entitled 'What If You Lose Your Navigator?' meaning overboard. ..."

It appears that George Ferguson is one of the leading Packard salesmen in the United States, and that is why he joined a group of other top-flight Packard peddlers not long ago in a trip to the Edgewater Gulf Hotel, in Mississippi, where they were each awarded a solid gold Packard Master Salesman's ring.

Karl Williams has been elected second vice president o£ the Illinois State Bar Assn.

Phil Bowker announced his candidacy last summer for renomination by the Republican party for the Massachusetts state senate. Phil represented the Norfolk-Suffolk district (which includes ward 20 and Brookline) for the past six years. His list of accomplishments in public life is a? long as your arm, and dates from 1927 when he became a town meeting member in Brookline.

The Pawtucket, R. I., public prints carried a photo of our Art Little a while back which we had trouble recognizing, inasmuch as the guy whom we recall as being rather a trim figure had a double chin of imposing portions. The picture had to do with a story in connection with his election as prexy of the Rhode Island Dartmouth Alumni Assn. Art, by the way, has a boy who graduated from Dartmouth in '5l, another who is a senior and a third who is a sophomore.

Knucklehead that we are, in the last issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE we ran quite a squib on the subject of our next regular reunion next summer, our Thirtieth. The only thing wrong with this item was that we have no regular reunion in '53; the correct date being 1954. Most of the piece had to do with the opportunity the Class will have to throw out the present Class administration. The correction we are now rushing into print applies to the date only; the opportunity to give us the pitch still exists, except that it will occur a year later than we said it would.

Secretary,1425 Astor St., Chicago 10, Ill. Treasurer, 5 Tyler Rd., Hanover, N. H.