1923
These notes are being composed during the waning hours of i January, 1952. The date suggests two angles to us. One, that we extend our own best wishes, together with those of the other brass in the class hierarchy, to you all, for a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year. And two, that we make a resolution. We, therefore, hereby resolve that we will confine this issue strictly to news of '23 men. No flights of prose about the Metzel farm, no fancy statistics about the Class, no references to the Peerless Skiddoo (either critical or laudatory), no talk about money. Instead, we will reach into our files for biographical data and other information re: the Men of Twenty Three. Using such material, we are likely to turn out the best '23 column of all time... . So, here we go with our MEET THE BOYS program, our first offering being:
Charles Norman ("Nonnie") Fay
Also called Norm occasionally, Fay spent a year at Hanover and graduated from Boston University. He was married in 1928, became a widower in 1948, remarried in 1949. There are three Fay children: Patricia, 22, now Mrs. Watkins; Charles, 19: and Peter, 18. Before Nonnie became a Chrysler mail, he travelled 48 states and 20 foreign countries for Elliott Addressing Machine Co. Today he is president and general manager of C. E. Fay Company, New England's original and oldest Chrysler dealer. For many years he has been one of our most interested Dartmouth people in his area, a staunch supporter of the College and the Class. The latest news we have about him is that he has been elected a member of the Chrysler Dealer Council, a newlyformed body to represent dealers in relation to Chrysler factory matters, presenting recommendations to the factory management for the mutual benefit of both the dealers and the factory.
Burton Lincoln (Burt) Ford
Burt spent two years at Dartmouth, and then took up labors with the Ford Lumber and Coal Co., Sioux City, la., of which organization he is now president. He married a Smith girl, Margaret Jordan, in 1929, and they have a couple of sons, Bill and Alvin. At Hanover, Burt roomed with Freddie Bryan, in New Hamp.
Charles Wendell (Ike) Freeman
Ike is a physician whose specialty is dermatology and syphilology, and who lives and practices in Washington, D. C., and teaches his specialties at Howard Medical School. He's married and there are two Freeman boys, John and Donald. At Hanover, he and JimGriffin were roommates.
Leon Louis (Bud) Freeman
The Freemans, Bud and Connie, live in Racine, Wis., where he is president and treasurer of L. L. Freeman Inc., a firm which deals in mortgage banking and real estate. Bud manages to find a good deal of time to devote to the Freeman son and heir Louis, just going-on-four.
James Joseph (Jim) Hennessy
A bachelor, Jim's an M.D. whose shingle hangs at 50 Farmington Ave., Hartford, Conn. One of that outstanding group of young men who graced Thornton Hall with their presence our freshman year, Jim was roommate and buddy at various times of Baldensperger,Forbush, Booth, Kelly and Haubrich. A great Dartmouth fan, he's the same genial guy now that you all remember way-back-when.
Richard Sherman (Dick) Huff
Dick's headmaster of Waltham (Mass.) High School. He is married and has a daughter Ann, 17. When those school vacations come along he gets in a good many licks at hunting and fishing and movie photography. At Dartmouth Dick was the freshman year roommate of Jerry Werner in N. Fayer.
Charles Kenneth (Ken) Hurd
He's married, lives in Cleveland, and has been practicing dentistry for 25 years, building 00 gauge model railroads on the side for fun. After his two years at Dartmouth, Ken graduated from Western Reserve Dental School. Phil Smith was his roommate at Hanover, in Wheeler.
Luther William Hussey
Luke taught at Union College in Schenectady for a spell, and since then has been identified with Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, N. J. He married Doris O'Brien in 1930, and they have a son and daughter, 16 and 15. His hobbies are gardening, carpentry and playing the pipe organ.
Charles Henry (Pete) Jones
Pete entered the shoe manufacturing business after graduation, and is today prexy of the Commonwealth Shoe and Leather Cos., Whitman, Mass. He was married to Peg French back in 1927, and there are two Jones offspring, C. H. J. 111, age 23, and daughter Leslie, '2O. He relates that his hobbies are: "boats, sailing, hunting, skiing and work." A Dartmouth and '23 enthusiast, Pete has always been one of our stalwarts.
Richard Bement (Dick) Kershaw
Having assumed the mantle of Class scribe from this man, we can tell you, from a knowledge of his work in the Class vineyards in behalf of you all, that there are few who can match him when it comes to devotion to Dartmouth and to '23. And the same goes for his good wife Dolly. Dick is manager of direct mail promotion for American Home Magazine, collects antiques and has a wonderful summer retreat up in New England, quite a piece from the Kershaw diggings in New Rochelle.
James Dittman (Jim) Landauer
Jim lives in Scarsdale .with the tall blonde he captured down in Atlanta 26 years ago, and has fathered three tall blonde girls. After 12 years with Douglas L. Elliman, N. V., and 10 years with Webb and Knapp, N. Y., in the real estate business, he formed his own firm five years ago, James D. landauer Associates, Inc., real estate consultants. On the side, he collects miniature bottles, reads lots of Shakespeare, spends his summers in Hanover in a cabin designed for him by Pudge Neidlinger and sponsors a boys baseball league in Hanover. His roommates back in college days were Dud Harkins, Walt Maroney, Norm Fermoyle,Tex Scaling, Ike Phillips, Joe Bruning and Lief Norstrand.
Edward Samuel (Lav) Laventall
A resident of Albany, Lav is district sales manager for B. T. Babbitt Inc., makers of Babo, Glim and other detergents. Prior to this assignment he was personnel manager for the company. The Laventail's daughter Jane Ellen is eight. Reminiscing recently, Lav expressed a desire to see the movie which was taken at our Senior Barbecue. It seems that during the afternoon Lav chanced to fall, with consequent serious damage to the bottle on his hip and to the hip itself. While making a rather thorough investigation as to the extent of the damage to the latter, the lens of the camera swung his way. To this day, he has been curious as to what was recorded for posterity on that occasion.
News of Poke Goss' family, excerpted from a letter to Lee Young from Poke's father:" . . Parker's oldest daughter, Betty Jane, with her two girls and husband, were with us at our camp in Maine the first part of July. The other daughter, Sally Ann, was married about a month ago. The son, Sherman, is in the Navy, on a sub..."
Bevo Beveridge lives in San Gabriel, Calif., and is Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue in Pasadena. He's been a tax collector for eight years, and before that was with N. W. Mutual Life and Chas. Scribners Sons, in Omaha. There are two Beveridge sons, John and Wendell Jr.
It is with sorrow that I must report the passing away of three classmates: Robert J. Buckley, George B. Horan and E. Harold Stoneman. An In Memoriam notice appears for each of them in that section of this MAGAZINE. A Memorial Book provided by our Class Memorial Book Fund will remain in Baker Library as a testimonial to Bob, George and Harold from 1923.
IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME: The '22 Reunion is still in full sway in the picture above. Left to right, the Charles Harts, Leonard Morrisseys and Francis Hanlons may or may not be drinking Coca Cola.
TWENTY-THREE UP! Three Landauers, Barbara, Barrie, and Papa Jim enjoy the kibitzing of their old friend, Ike Phillips '23, native of South Royalton, Vt.
Secretary and Bequest Chairman, 1425 Astor St., Chicago 10, I11. Treasurer, 5 Tyler Rd., Hanover, N. H.
