1923
The Chicagoland '23s celebrated this year's Twenty-Three Night at Sum and Bettye Sollitt's farm near S. Haven, Mich., as their guests at a grand party. Your correspondent has grudgingly given permission to the editor of the peerless Skiddoo, who was there with his diminutive bride Alice, to cover this event in detail, as we lack the space here to do the job justice. Several highlights, in passing: the customers presented the Sollitts with a painting by Pudge Neidlinger of the Wilder Dam in process of construction; they ate a hundred-weight or so of a fat Sollitt steer which was raised for that purpose; and the '23 menfolk present had a class exec. comm. meeting which cooked up a new project for the Class, about which you'll be hearing more as the months ahead roll around.
Before the Flanigans left these parts they spent some time at the new Metzel quarters. We ceased to be cave dwellers last June and are situated in Winnetka now, surrounded by foliage. Much of the time The Irishman was with us he spent in our patch of woods, near an old stump, in communication with a leprechaun who lives there. It turned out that both of them have mutual friends in the old country.
INDUSTRIAL INTELLIGENCE
Wid Bertch, since 1947 a member of N. W. Ayer & Son's Detroit staff, has been elected v.p. in charge of the agency's office in that city.
Paul ("Doc") Morgan, well known to most of us for his hot licks on the piano, has been elected president of the Mass. Assn. of Real Estate Boards. "Doc" heads up his own company, F. P. Morgan and Co., realtors in and around Boston.
Our George Plant, longtime wheel in the front office of the Natl. Retail Dry Goods Assn., made the following comments during a convention of his association last summer:
"The colleges that teach retailing could not supply enough candidates for junior executive jobs to fill existing vacancies last year. Defense plants and other industries have done a fine recruiting job of getting young men of executive potentiality. It's up to our industry to let young people know of the opportunities and rewards of retailing."
Most of us know a lot of fine things about Charlie Zimmerman, most of them unrelated directly to his profession, but having to do with his accomplishments as an outstanding citizen and Dartmouth man. The following, therefore, is interesting as a capsule account of his insurance career, from a recent issue of Life Association News:
"Charles J. Zimmerman, CLU, managing director of the Life Insurance Agency Management Association, is this month's guest columnist. Charley needs little introduction to NALU members He has a record that is outstanding both in field and institutional work. Upon graduation from Dartmouth he became executive manager of the New York City Life Underwriters Association. In 1926 he joined Connecticut Mutual as an agent and subsequently developed highly successful agencies in Newark, New York, and Chicago. He has been trustee, secretary, vice president, and president of NALU. Commissioned lieutenant commander by the Navy in 1942, Charlie attained the rank of captain. He joined LIAMA in April 1946 In May 1951, he succeeded the late John Marshall Holcombe Jr. as managing director. As a testimony to his all-around accomplishments in our business, Charlie was awarded the John Newton Russell Award in 1951."
MISCELLANY
The Sherm Baldwins have announced that their daughter Sally, who is also the niece of Stan Lyon '24, will be married in December to Robert David Utiger. Sally graduated from Middlebury and the prospective groom is a Williams man.
Les Hichwagen, head of the Mary Fletcher Hospital, Burlington, Vt., was a member of the faculty of the ninth annual Institute for Hospital Administrators, at Colby College, last September.
A pal, our old friend Art Everit, sent us a clipping of Bob Considine's column in one of the papers. It seems that Considine was auctioning some gadgets at a country club benefit for some hospital-or-other. Most of the country-clubbers were soused and the rest of them were paying little attention to Considine s efforts to get a decent bid for a high-priced set of matched clubs. The best offer he could get from the assembled merry-makers was a lousy two bucks. The situation was saved, as follows, and here we quote the columnist himself: "... Then a nice guy named MitchMay got the price up to a figure in keeping with the value of the shiny sticks, and another nice guy bought them, fortunately outbidding my wife, who temporarily deranged, had been bidding just to keep the thing from flopping." There seems to be little doubt that the "nice guy named Mitch May" was our Mike, and to tell you the truth, we're not surprised!
Warry Cook, on hand at the Sollitt's party, with his charming wife Marian, satisfied a desire of long .standing when he took his stance at the front of the room last September for the first time, as assoc. prof, of industrial hygiene in the institute of industrial health at the U. of Mich. Warry has a long and distinguished record in the industrial health field. We learn that SKIDDOO has a detailed account of his accomplishments, not the least of which has been the capture of top honors in the American Industrial Hygiene Association for 1953, and we commend to you the reading of this account in the Irishman's sheet.
The fifth annual Summer Camp Softball Tournament was held in Hanover last July, with softball teams entered from 14 boys' camps in the N. H.-Vt. area. More than 300 boys between the ages of 10 and 16 were on hand. Conceived five years ago by Jim Lan-dauer the Dartmouth Summer Camp Tourna- ment has grown in size and popularity and is now one of the high spots of the summer for the camps in the area. It also serves to intro- duce youngsters from all sections of the nation to Dartmouth. This is a great thing Jim has worked out. The Landauers have a cabin up on a fine hill overlooking the river, on the high side of the Lyme road. We peeked in the windows, once, and the place looked mighty cozy.
57 YEARS AGO THIS FALL ...
J. Harkins was elected editor-in-chief of The Bema, succeeding Wid Bertch who resigned to devote all his time to the Jack-O. ... In the tennis tournament semi-finals C. A.Gray defeated 5. J. Lonsdale '24.... The Press Club elected J. Harkins pres., W. E.Howe Jr., v.p., G. H. Musk, secy G. R.McKee took top honors in the qualifying round of the College golf tournament by turning in a 73.... Thirteen men reported to F. Y. Brown, business manager of the Aegis, for the business competition.... Glee Club tryouts found these '23 men selected: first tenors J. E. Moore and W. E. Sands, second tenors C. A. Gray, second basses E. W.Gauss, D. L. Keef. J. A. Rippel, E. H. Schultz,K. P. Studlinger, R. S. Winchester H. D.Sammis, manager, took his soccer team on the road for encounters with West Point and Princeton.
Secretary and Bequest Chairman 576 Maple St., Winnetka, III. Treasurer, 5 Tyler Rd., Hanover, N. H.
