1923
Our New York scout who snoops around the editorial offices of the big metropolitan dailies has tipped us off that The New York Times ran a page captioned: "List of the Champions Who Retained or Won Individual and Team Laurels During 1951," and that the names of Sally Neidlinger and John Lee were included therein. Sally was North American women's slalom skiing champion (Sun Valley) and Jack Lee's boy was National A.A.U. 121-pound wrestling champion. We're proud of these '23 offspring.
An avid reader of Printer's Ink has passed along to us this item he spotted in the February 22 issue: "Wallis E. Howe, Jr., formerly v.p. of Pocket Books, Inc., is now director of sales, New American Library of World Literature, Signet and Mentor Books, N. Y." Pete was one of the organizers of Pocket Books in 1939.
Sherm Baldwin's classic puss showed up in a photo in the Worcester (Mass.) Gazette a couple of months back when the directors of the Bell Company made him assistant vice president of that well-known woolen firm.
Hal Malmquist runs Hal Malmquist & Cos., Cleveland, producers of advertising art. He's been at it for eight years, and has a long and successful career in that field behind him, including the job of assistant art director of Dorrance Sullivan, N. Y., and the art directorship of McCann Erickson, Cleveland. Hal married Grace, a Cooper Union girl, in 1929, and there are two boys to show for it, in their very early twenties. At Dartmouth Hal used to team up, on occasion, with zany Tom McKnight, current radio and TV wheel.
Ivan Martin, the impresario of our big '23 winter reunion success in Hanover the last weekend in February, is no green hand at doing things in a big way. Ex-general manager of Lincoln Stores until 1939, since then he has been owner and prexy of Reid and Hughes Dept. Stores, with units in Massachusetts, Maine, and Connecticut. He and Elinor have produced a couple of sons. Office: Salem. Home: Marblehead.
Hull Maynard is director of admissions and teacher at Loomis School, Windsor, Conn., and has been identified with Loomis for 24 years. Hull was married in 1930 to Margaret Mann, who went to Smith, and they have two boys, although he was with us for only two years in Hanover, and went on to graduate at the University of California, Hull continues to cherish warm memories of his Dartmouth associations. One vivid memory covers the time during the hard-fought Penn State game in 1919... remember? ... when the bleachers collapsed and he and about 20 other guys went plummeting to the ground.
The last we knew of Larry Miles he was an Army Lt. Col., stationed at the Pentagon, a staff officer assigned as Secretary, Joint Communications, Electronics Committee. The Miles, Larry and Ginny, were living in Falls Church, Va. There are two kids, Larry Jr., 15, and Martha, 20.
We were on a speaking tour o£ Indiana not long ago, in behalf of the Air Force Small Business Program, when we bumped into Windy Monger, the "Elkhart Bookworm." He's sales manager of the Godfrey Conveyor Co. Many of you will recall that Windy married a Hanover girl, Ruth Powell. The Mongers have a son and daughter in their middle 20's, and a younger sprout just turned 11. Their father tells me that neither the passing years nor the current shortage of materials for the production of conveyors have succeeded in dimming his ardor for "long hair" phonograph records, an ardor he used to indulge while on the payroll of Johnny Piane, longtime proprietor of The College Bookstore. (Windy was on duty in the south aisle of the store, which was the erudite end of the business, dealing in books and the like; while the writer patrolled the south, or commonpeople side, where you could buy such things as mattresses and base ball bats.)
George and Julie Musk continue at 1043 Washington St., Bath, Me., and George continues to look after the affairs of the Gibbons Cos., fuel people of that town. (As for Julie, we'll never forget how cute she was in 1928 when she and George appeared at our 5th reunion, after having taken the vows seven short weeks before.) There was enclosed in the communication we had from George a piece of 1922 journalism resurrected from his files. This bit was concocted by Pete Howe, was called The Spotlight, and was headed: "We tell what They Don't Confess." A subhead stated: "Thousands Write to Win Roy Brown," and the body of the piece is quoted in full as follows:
"Come on, girls! Smiling Roy Brown is looking for a wife. Daily, thousands of proposals from buxom, bovine beauties pour in to the Contest Editor. The Galloping Hairpin, himself, blushing under his daily mail pile, sets these qualifications: His blooming bride must be: blonde, blue eyes (both of them), sympathetic, kind-hearted (but not to an extreme) and fond of animals. 'You can never tell what time will bring,' says Roy.
" 'My own Roy,'" writes Rebecca Rosenblatt of Yonkers. 'Every night I gaze and gaze at your picture, which I clipped from the Yonkers Gazette. Dear Gazette, for printing it. Them smiling teeth, those mouth. Oh, that we two were alone on a desert isle. Roy, dearest, I can hardly wait.'
"And another: 'Mr. Leroy Brown, Hanover, N. H. Gentlemen: In reply to your advt. of recent date would beg to state that your proposition appeals to me. Would suggest we get together on the details. R.S.V.P. Yours, Sophia Stokes.'
"Azela A. writes: 'Dearest Roy. Have saw your add and hastening to ans. I am a good girl as my old mgr. Sam Cohen of the Queens Burlesque will advice. I aint never married but it don't seem write to be all the time single this away. So I take my pen in hand to hope you will like this pitcher I am sending and right soon to your prary flower. Hoping you are the same, lovingly,. ..'
"Still another beauty writes: 'Roy, ole dear, I pipes your monicker in the local gore sheet t'other day, and, says I to myself, Girl, he's the berries. So I ups and writes this billy Doo to put you wise to a girl that knows her stuff, and that broad is my own blushing self. If you wants class, I'm it. Being distantly related to the Styvesants I natcherly has to keep my peepers open, so send your income tax report in your next. And get this kid—no monkey business. Yours till liquor freezes, Marge.' "
The following account comes through the courtesy of Colin Stewart:—
FATHER AND SON WINTER WEEKEND
Under the guiding hand of Ivan and Elinor Martin, the 1923 Old Home Weekend held February 29 and March 1 was an outstanding success. Following the lead of the Class of 1914, the annual Sons of '23 Night was stretched into a winter weekend reunion. The Inn Ski Hut proved a pleasant and roomy place for informal get-togethers before and after the dinners.
Friday night the annual Sons of '23 dinner was held in Hovey Grill, while the wives had a get-together at the Hanover Inn. No entertainment was planned for the evening following the dinner. Irish Flanigan, back again in his regular, berth as toastmaster for these occasions, said a few words in a serious vein at the fathers and sons banquet. The group then adjourned for an informal gathering at the ski hut and were joined by the wives and daughters.
On Saturday the fathers were free to visit classes with their sons, if they (and the sons) wished. They gathered at the Ski Hut again at 6:00 P.M. and were privileged at this time to have President and Mrs. Dickey as guests. After another of Miss Jeanette Gill's justly famous dinners, the toastmaster read a prayer to be offered by presidents of Dartmouth, which was the Irishman at his inimitable best. President Dickey spoke briefly and then all enjoyed a half hour of singing by the Injunaires, whom Flanigan described as an octet composed of nine men. Those present at some part of the festivities included:
Sherm and Ellie Baldwin, Chesley and Barbara Bixby son Ben, and daughter Elizabeth, Jim Broe, Robert and Millicent Chaloner, Fred and Madeline Clark and daughter Betsy, Bus and Ethel Dodge Frank and Gertrude Downey and sons Paul and Richard Irish and Alice Flanigan, Bill and Catherine Gates, Haub and Joan Haubrich, Sam Home Pete and Margaret Jones, Stuart Knight, Art and Edith Little, Joe and Raffaela Lombardi and daughter Carol, Ivan and Elinor Martin, Joe and Mrs Millar, Pudge Neidlinger, Al Pianca, Ike and Susan Phillips, Joe and Alice Pollard, Lew and Edith Putnam, Charlie and Jean Rice Leon and Mary Sargent and daughter, Mary Elisabeth, Ruel and Helen Smith, Sid Stevens, Colin and Elaine Stewart, Horace Taylor, George and Jo Weston, and John Zimmerman.
John Zimmerman III '53 was laid up with a broken leg, which meant that his father was unfortunately not around as much as had been planned.
The sons of '23, for whom the dinner was given, were:
Sherm Baldwin '52, John Bishop 53, Bruce Carson T1 Frank Carlton "55, Robert Chaloner Jr. '53 Don Clark 'SIM2, Jim Clark '54 Douglas Dodge '54, Francis Downey '55, William Lord '52, Dick Gates '54, Donald Goss '53, George Haigh '53, Alfred Holt 'SIM2, Henry Hudson '55, Richard Jennison '54, Charles H. Jones 'S2T, Arthur Little '53, Stevan Little '55, Bart Lombardi '52, Harry Millar '55, Stearns Martin '54, Sanford Phillips '55, Alvin H. Pianca '55, Nelson Putnam '54, Edwin Rice '52 T-Thl, John K. Sargent '53, Ruel Smith Jr. '54, Andy Stewart '52, Jake Stewart '55, Phil Swartz Jr. '54, Horace Taylor '54, Perry Weston '54, Charles Weed '52.
Secretary - Chairman, 1425 Astor St., Chicago 10, Ill. Treasurer, 5 Tyler Rd., Hanover, N. H. Class Agent, 29 E. Main St., Amsterdam, N. Y.
