1923
This is the time of year when I always wish I were clairvoyant. This perennial desire stems from the fact that April copy will not reach you until early June. At that time, when you have sunk into the easy chair, accoutred in house slippers, with the old cocker spaniel nuzzling the old elbow, I would like to have you read in this column some hot statistics re: our status in the Alumni Fund campaign of 1952. Obviously, it can't be done.
Nevertheless, I do not have to be clairvoyant to know that, come June, we will still have to get in some good licks in order to end up on top where we belong. Let this therefore be a reminder to you to GET YOUR DOUGH IN TO LEE YOUNG RIGHT NOW, if you haven't done it already. To those of you who can afford something more than a modest gift, go ahead on that basis. To those of you who must make it modest, or not make it at all, make it modest. To all of you we urge a gift of some kind, large or small. The College, whose aim is to build better Americans, stands for something no man need hesitate to support, and support as generously as he can.
You will be interested in the following recap of our 1951 campaign. It may assist you in establishing your own contribution for 1952, in case you have not yet made your gift.
Larger gift than 1950 182 men Same gift as 1950 143 men Smaller gift than 1950 38 men Gift in '51; none in '50 29 men Gift for first time 8 men Gifts by "Regulars" (givers every year since graduation) 47 men "Three Figure Men" (gifts of $100 or larger) 59 men No gift 162 men
If you are one of those who made no gift last year, and you can afford a modest gift— ONE BUCK, FOR EXAMPLE—we want you to join the list of those who support the College in the annual budget-balancing effort which is called the Alumni Fund campaign.
What Do '23 Men Do?
Two years ago, via the questionnaire route, we queried the Class as to occupation. Our findings, heretofore buried in the Metzel archives, make interesting reading, we believe. We had two or more of the following: 17 presidents, 11 vice presidents, 11 managers, 8 owners of businesses, 6 president-treasurers, 8 salesmen, 4 account execs., 4 sales managers, 2 treasurers, 3 vice president and treasurers, 2 assistant directors, 2 vice presidents and managers, 2 regional sales managers, 2 advertising agency directors, 2 public relations directors, 2 cost accountants, 2 superintendents, 2 partners, 2 advertising managers, 2 writers, 2 personnel directors, and 2 credit managers.
We had one each of the following: assistant secretary, administration and sales, assistant controller, associate editor, bank officer, buyer, board chairman, chief adjuster, copy chief, college dean, college prexy, chemist, claim adjuster, deputy internal revenue collector, district manager, designer and estimater, dentist, district executive, director of admissions, drainage engineer, director, executive secretary, executive, eye ear nose and throat specialist, factory superintendent, general manager, general sales manager, history professor, headmaster, head of legal department, hospital administrator, high school principal, internist, proprietor, patent lawyer, president and general manager, production manager, plant manager, packaging engineer, pediatrician, office manager, owner-manager, managing partner, new business solicitor, judge, loan officer, manager and treasurer, regional vice president, statistician, secretary-treasurer, senior buyer, sales manager, sports columnist, surveyor, southern sales manager, special studies engineer, sales promotion manager, sales representative, technical director, trust department executive, teacher, team physician, urologist, vice president and general manager, wool broker.
The above two paragraphs cover the more than half the Class which expressed itself in the questionnaires from which we have quoted, about 300 men.
Something About a Treasurer
Walt Maroney, 433 Main St., Winchester, Mass., married a gal named Mahoney back in '26. He and Lucie have three boys and two girls, ranging in age from 10 to 25 years old. Walt has been identified since graduation with the Briggs-Maroney Co., Inc., paint and varnish manufacturers, and Walt is treasurer of the outfit. Roommate of Lee Young our freshman year, Walt was also teamed up with Henry Moore and Red Hoag at one time or another.
About a Business Manager
That's the assignment of Skinny Matless, with Owen-Webber, Inc., Bayonne, N. J. Skinny lives in Cedar Grove, with the Smith girl named Helen he married in 1923, and they have a 27-year-old son Leonard I. Jr. Although he left Dartmouth after three years, and moved on to Stevens Tech., Skinny says: "My years at Dartmouth were one of my finest experiences." (Whether or not he includes his tenure in Reed Hall, which was loaded with ruffians of the first water, compared to the sterling characters who lived next door in Thornton, we cannot say). Among his other observations we would like to quote is this: that the New York gang put together another "Mr. and Mrs. party" like the one Brooks Palmer ran several years ago. Sounds like a good idea, and New York chairman Quencer please note.
About a Circulation Manager
Francis (Nix) Merriam lives in Mountain Lakes, N. J., and labors in NYC for the McCall Corp., with whom he has been hooked up for 20 years. The Merriams have a daughter Virginia, who was 25 this spring. Nix used to be a teacher, at B.U. and at City College, N. Y., and for several years worked for J. Walter Thompson in NYC. After two years at Dartmouth, Nix finished his college work at B.U., but he still recalls, with appreciation, the contribution to his stay at Dartmouth made by Percy Marks, the English prof.
About a Sports Columnist
Henry (Hank) Moore has been doing a wonderful job of covering the hunting, fishing and skiing front for the Boston Herald for a long time (he's been on the paper for 28 years). He and his bride of 21 summers, Crystal, live in Newton. They have one daughter Margery. Thinking about Dartmouth, Hank recalls that Craven Lay cock's influence was very important to his development. He recalls, too, the night Jim Robertson's downhearted football team came home defeated from Penn, at- 2 A.M. on a miserable, cold, rainy night, and the whole College turned out on the Inn corner to cheer them to the echo. Concerning more recent days, and referring to the Great Issues course, he has this to say: "Americans must learn sometime that there is more to the world than the pre-digested opinions available in the slick magazines, making money buying a new car, and keeping up with the Joneses."
. . . AND A PLEASANT SUMMER TO YouALL.
Secretary-Chairman,1425 Astor St., Chicago 10, III.
Treasurer, 5 Tyler R., Hanover, N. H.
Class Agent, 29 E. Main St., Amsterdam, N. Y.
