1923
There are 33 sons of '23 men in college now, and the March 10th weekend is the date of the TWENTY - THREE ANNUAL FATHER AND SONS WEEKEND AND ANNUAL FAMILY WINTER PARTY, when most of their doting parents and a lot of other ’23s who have a hankering to observe the Hanover winter scene and to gather with their fellows will be there. We urge as many of you as can make it, to do so, particularly because we have always noticed that everyone has a whale of a good time at these affairs. If you haven't signed up yet, get in touch with FredClark, Box 348, Salem, Mass., or Chet Bixby, 6 Lakeview Ave., Haverhill. These gentlemen are in charge of the party, and will hasten to fix you up.
Of course, there is no denying the fact that the BIG weekend of the year will be our 31st Class Reunion and we hope to smash all records with an attendance of men, women and offspring which will exceed the 500 mark. Your correspondent is saving lineage in this and future issues of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE for individual news items concerning the men in the Class, and for that reason this reference to the Big Event is short. We know that massive propaganda has reached you, is reaching you, and will reach you, from tub-thumpers Flanigan and Broe, anent the big June clambake, and that enthusiasm among the returnees is running high.
Herewith a welcome letter from Ed Snyder, received just before Christmas.
"It was nice hearing from you. My reply has been delayed because of a serious illness from which I am now almost fully recovered. ... For the past several years I have been with the Department of the Army, as alternate resident auditor at the K.C. Ordnance Plant until last June, and now I'm at Branch U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Camp Crowder, Mo., as administrative assistant to the Custodian of Funds, and postal officer. Mrs. Snyder, my youngest son, and I are coming East next summer to attend June Week and Commencement at Annapolis, to see our oldest son graduate. If at all possible, I hope to make our '23 reunion. ... Will appreciate being remembered to classmates via your column."
We have it from an unimpeachable source that Jim Landauer's attendance at the Dartmouth southwestern regional conference in Dallas last fall helped to make the sessions the highly successful meetings which they were.
Edward B. (Hoppie) Hopkins is a general practitioner of medicine in Ayer, Mass. He was married in 1929 to Dot Jubb, and there are four Hopkins sons, 16, 20, 22 and 24. In the course of reminiscing a bit about undergraduate days, Hoppie says that he recalls Professor Griggs as the teacher who made the most important contribution to his development, and it is interesting to note that quite a number of '23s have said the same thing about Doc.
The last we knew about the Home brothers, Herb and Sam, Herb was a surgeon in Haverhill, Mass., was married, had a son, and fooled around with cabinet-making projects; and Sam was a retired leather man, junketing about the world. The Flanigans and Metzels saw him during one such junket, in Paris, and he was looking mighty fine.
Our latest on Al Hovey has him located in Anoka, Minn., with wife Bessie and a brace of children, and connected with Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., in research activities in Minneapolis. His first job after college was with Remington Arms, as a chemist. He moved to G.E., in research, and in 1933 was appointed director of research for Reichhold Chemicals, Detroit. Just prior to his present connection, Al was in charge of technical service in the chemical division of General Mills, in Minneapolis.
Our genial freshman-year roommate in 10 Thornton Hall, Charley Howard, reports that he handles public relations for the New Process Gear Corp., Syracuse. It was just about this time of year, back in 1920, when your correspondent was on hand at Charley's wedding to flaming-haired "Mickey" Ross, in Syracuse. The pre and post nuptial ceremonies were on the rugged side, as we recall them, and there was a three-foot snowfall to contend with, too, so that we remember our ride back home to Chicago after we married the kids as the soundest sleep we've ever had, on any railroad, bar none, before or since.
Phil Judd's with the State of Connecticut, as an adjuster in the unemployment compensation division, in Hartford. The Judds live in Rocky Hill, Conn.
The Milwaukee Sentinel, not long ago, had a picture of Swede Swenson, on the occasion of Swede's election to the presidency of the Wisconsin State Chamber of Commerce. The Swensons - and the family includes a son who is just as big and brawny as the old man -live in Sheboygan, where Swede is v.p. and genl. mgr. of General Box Co.
Phil Keigher, the pint-sized ex-wrestler of undergraduate days, has been connected in various sales capacities with companies in the building material field, ever since graduation. He lives in Livingston, N. J., and works for Flintkote Co., E. Rutherford, getting in a good many licks in the Keigher garden when time permits. .
We have a complaint from Monk Keith, from his headquarters in San Jose, Costa Rica. He says that '23s seem to prefer the granite of New Hampshire and the cold winters to the lush scenery and soft airs of Latin America, with the result that he seldom sees a familiar Dartmouth face. Having missed meeting Walt Rahmanop and CarlosSanchez when they were down that way, he was delighted to run into Dud and VirginiaPope a couple of years ago, which helped a good deal. Monk continues in his old business; peddling the products of the American Bank Note Co., to the Latin American trade. He was married in 1925 to Ana Clark, in Costa Rica, and this union produced three daughters, a couple of sons-in-law, and several grandchildren.
George Mason, graduate of Harvard Law School, is a partner in the firm of Vaughn, Esty, Crotty and Mason, lawyers of Worcester, Mass. A recent newspaper clipping we came by announced an address which he made in Worcester, on the Taft-Hartley law.
Chet Bixby's son, Ben, was awarded his freshman X-country numerals last fall.
Bill Kelly continues in the general practice of medicine in Carmel, N. Y. Bill and Ann - who was a nurse until Bill removed her from circulation in 1929 - have raised a couple of boys and one daughter. There's a model R.R. in the Kelly home, too.
Addressing the 25th Boston Conference on Distribution, last fall, our Pudge Neidlinger spoke about economic unification of Europe. Pudge, as you know, is Exec. Director of the U.S. Council of the International Chamber of Commerce. His remarks were in favor of unification, which he described as a "revolution which only Europeans can complete and which it would be dangerous for outsiders to promote." He urged encouragement for this great change, and pointed out "the risk of having a more efficient producing unit created in Europe and competing with us in world trade is a risk we should willingly accept. ...” He said the alternative would be "to have as our partners in the cold war against communism ... partners divided in interest, economically inefficient and constantly in need of American aid."
The Class joins with President Eisenhower and Governor Dewey in congratulating Mrs. Harlow Stafford, the 100-year-old mother of Dolly Kershaw, Dick Kershaw's good wife, on the occasion of her birthday celebration last May at Dick's home in New Rochelle.
Stuie Knight, partner in the Geo. Knight Co., of Brockton, mfgrs. of special shoe machinery and cutting dies, an ardent boating enthusiast and fisherman, has a new vessel of which he is mighty proud. He showed us a picture of this craft, the technical description of which we are at a loss to provide. It looked to our unpracticed Corn Belt eye like a sturdy tug boat but we hope this crude word picture does not prevent Stuie from taking us aboard some time for the purpose of catching one of those swordfish Stuie talks about.
Karl Klaren, resident of Summit, N. J., who used to be asst. secy, of Irving Trust Co., N. Y., for the past nine years has worked in management research for the Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., 1 Madison Ave., N.Y.C. Karl married Leonora Flindell in 1930, and the Klarens have two sons, 15 and 19.
We fell to examining a copy of The Dartmouth, dated Sept. 30, 1922, the other day, and the thought came to us that some of you, particularly the "alumni" of Boyd's Restaurant, would be interested in having your attention invited to Boyd's advertisement in the issue of that day, which reads as follows: "FOOTBALL - We could not live without - and so it is with EATING. Just as we like exciting football games and a good seat, so do we like GOOD FOOD and a CLEAN TABLE. You will find these features with quick service and lively music at BOYD'S." Personally, we could get along OK without the memory of those cobble-stone pastries which we, as a bus boy in the establishment, doggedly tried to eat, and it would be just dandy if we would stop waking up nights in a cold sweat dreaming of the Boyd's chef who used to throw knives at his fellow employees, including us. We remember the lively music those shivs used to make as they whistled by our quivering torso!
It is with sorrow that we inform the Class of the death, last December 12, of Ralph B.Wilkinson, of Andover, Mass. The next issue of this MAGAZINE will contain a notice in the In Memoriam section. As it does whenever a classmate passes away, the Class will arrange for a book to be purchased for Baker Library, with a bookplate in Ralph's memory.
The number of '23 men who have been lost to our company is now 99, ten of whom passed away during 1953.
Secretary and Bequest Chairman, 576 Maple St., Winnetka, Ill.
Treasurer, 5 Tyler Rd., Hanover, N. H.
