1923
Having employed this column last month almost entirely to report the idyllic proceedings in Hanover in February when the Class held its second annual Winter Family Reunion, we show a fast change of pace in this issue and devote our energies to reporting news of the men in the Class. We have a good deal of same to purvey.
A few issues back we ran a photo of CapPalmer conferring with Jesse Lasky re a picture called The Big Brass Band. We now learn that Cap is engaged in writing the show, which will be produced in Technicolor this summer.
Tom McKnight either produces or directs (we don't know which) the TV show Life ofRiley, which features William Bendix. Most of you will remember that Tom has long been associated with The Beulah Show, which he originated.
Jim Kraft, Col., U.S Army, recently took over the command of Fort Slocum, N. Y. An artilleryman, Jim has been ROTC professor of military science and tactics at St. Bonaventure College. His Command is the 1207 th Area Service Unit, which operates Fort Slocum.
Chet Bixby and Barbara cruised the Mediterranean earlier this year on one of those leisurely American Export Line freighters.
Warry Cook, a long-time careerist with the Zurich insurance people, is moving bag and baggage to the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, to take a teaching job which will enable him to train numbers of men in the techniques which have won him acclaim in insurance circles. Not long ago he was awarded a gold medal for his achievements, and the whole story of that award is being presented to the Class in the pages of the peerless SKIDDOO. The Chicago gang is sorry to see the Cooks take off, but proud that Warry has made a big name for himself in his profession and happy that he is so tickled with his new chore.
Frank (J. Francis) Smith, of Waterbury, has been elected a director of the New York, New Haven and Hartford R.R. We have no doubt that the rugged training he experienced as a youth as a member of the Thornton Hall Gas House Gang, helped Frank in his most successful business career. Sol Levine, the eminent tax lawyer, and Cedric Foster, the eminent broadcaster, are others who rose from the rough and tumble of old Thornton to attain noteworthy successes.
The Hall Malmquists, of Chagrin Falls, 0., recently turned out for the wedding of their son Carl to Ann Ellen Kroening, also of Chagrin Falls. Young Carl Jr. was best man. The bridegroom is a graduate of Miami University, and currently is a member of the armed forces.
William L. (Larry) Eager heads up the Dartmouth Association of Northern California and Nevada. Prexy Eager's group, which meets Wednesdays at noon at 140 Battery St., San Francisco, welcomes all comers to its weekly luncheons.
Freddy Davis has been named assistant secretary of the mortgage loan department of the Traveler's Insurance Co. He joined the company in 1926, in the fire insurance end. In 1936 he become an assistant manager of the mortgage loan dept., and was made manager of the city loan division of the mortgage loan dept. in 1946.
We're sorry that we have not heretofore reported the fine turnout of '23 men March 4 at the Boston Alumni Assoc. annual dinner. The 20 men on deck captured the "unofficial" attendance record for the evening. Present were Herb Veit, Rae Taber, Burt Prouty,Babe Miner, Ivan Martin, Joe Malone, BobMcMillan, Pete Jones, Ly Harding, FrankDowney, Ed Crowley, Sherm Clough, FreddyClark, Ted Caswell, Chick Burke, Jim Broe,Phil Bowker, Chet Bixby, Hern Behan, Gardner Akin.
During the Winter Family Reunion we were delighted to bump into Marion Neidlinger in the Inn. She was all breathless from rushing over there to deliver some old '23 mementoes to us, gleaned from various nooks and crannies of the Pudge house in Hanover. Pudge had just arrived from Paris and he and Marion were up to their hips in preparation for their move to Bronxville, N. Y. In his new position as Executive Director of the United States Council of the International Chamber of Commerce Pudge will headquarter in New York City, travelling abroad fre- quently to all points of the compass in the course of covering his world-wide beat. He and Marion may be sure that the best wishes and warmest regards of all of us are directed their way as they tackle this new adventure.
The old golf champ, George McKee, continues in the practice of the law in Burlington, Vt. Mac was married in 1932, and is the father of a brood of four boys and girls who range in age from 8 to 19. A communication from him recollects the day long ago when The Irishman, judging the canine candidates ranged around the Inn watering trough, gave Mac's mangy cur the blue ribbon, and Ted Geisel (Dr. Suess) cartooned the event with a caption which read: "McKee and His Dog, Reading from Left to Right."
Paul McKnown is out in California, as regional vice president of the Pacific dept. of the St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Co., a firm with which he has been affiliated since 1923, at St. Paul, Richmond, and Milwaukee prior to moving west in 1937. Mac and Jo have four boys, 11 to 25 years old, and they live at 524 El Cerrito Ave., San Mateo. He tells us he wishes he wasn't so far from Hanover, as he misses the Class get-togethers up that way, and he adds: "What's happened to Jim Taylor, Horace Taylor, Jack Taylor, John Foster, John Chamberlain, Chuck Calder, Burt Ford?" We suggest these gentlemen get in touch with Paul, and soon.
When last we heard about him, GeorgeMcLaughlin still lived in Minneapolis, and was president and treasurer of McLaughlin Gormley King Co., manufacturing chemists.
Clarence (Robby) Robinson has lived in Cleveland for a good many years. He's director of sales for MV Switch Co., and is also manufacturers representative for five lines of small electrical components. Robby and Alice have a son, Bill, who will be 17 before very 10ng....
Holly Riddle, of 273 Merrimac Rd., Akron, is assistant controller of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. There are three boys and one girl in the Riddle entourage.
It is with sorrow that we have to report to the Class the deaths of four classmates. Louis P. Girouard, Pittsfield, N. H., died January 31, 1952. Marshall W. Brown, Albuquerque, N. M., died January 11, 1953. March 17 of this year George H. C. Marsh passed away in Southport, Me., and William A. Ryan was lost to our fellowship March 19. The In Memoriam section of this May issue contains Bill Ryan's obituary notice and a photograph and later issues will contain notices about the other classmates.
We are anxious to invite the attention of the men (and their wives) who attended the Winter Family Party in February that a dollar sent to the David Pierce Studio, Hanover, will bring you a picture of the group taken in Thayer Hall the same picture we ran in the April issue of this Magazine.
Now is a good time to remember your Alumni Fund contribution, if you haven't made it yet. We think you have few opportunities to make gifts as important as Alumni Fund gifts. Dartmouth uses your money to build good citizens, a use which amounts to an investment in the future of America God bless her!
Secretary, 1425 Astor St., Chicago 10, III. Class Agent, 29 E. Main St., Amsterdam, N. Y.
