1923
When this reaches you, the TWENTY-THREE ANNUAL FATHER AND SONS WEEKEND AND WINTER FAMILY PARTY will probably have become history, as it is scheduled for the March 12th weekend. We'll endeavor to have the play-by-play account in next month's MAGAZINE. If the affair ran true to form, it was a happy occasion for fathers, sons, mothers, assorted unattached '23s and guests.
The College has completely lost track of four men in our Class. They are Milt Carroll, George Collins, Don Richardson and Gordon Seymour. Will you please, any of you who know the whereabouts or a clue to the whereabouts of any of these men, let us know?
Included in the list of long-lost brethren, so far as news is concerned, was Harford Nay. Until today, the last dope we had on him was dated 1932. He's been connected with the N.H. Department of Public Works and Highways since 1932, and just recently received an award from the American Assn. of State Highway Officials for his long and meritorious service. A graduate of Thayer School, Harford is a past prexy of the N.H. Good Roads Assn., the Lancaster Rotary Club, and the White Mts. Region Assn.
Pres Leavitt's been gen. mgr. of the Hartford Better Business Bureau for about six years, after a career in the securities business in Boston, Worcester, and Portland, Me. He was married in 1927 to Ethel Thompson, and there are a couple of Leavitt youngsters in their early twenties.
The Class of '23 continues to be represented in R.I. by one of Pawtucket's distinguished citizens, Art Little. There are four Little sons, and the last we knew this allmale cast had absorbed a couple of Art's grandsons. He is treas. of John W. Little Co., label printers. He's a frequent visitor to Hanover, and an active participant in all Class affairs.
Many of you know that Cap Palmer's father, Cap Sr., is a Dartmouth man, by adoption. It turns out that last August he was riding a sightseeing bus from Paris to Versailles with "a splendid young man for a seatmate, whose name was Rollin B. Norris." They became fast friends, and discovered that Rollin's dad is Whit Norris '23. The last we knew about Whit, he was living in Washington, D. C., was a teacher, had a couple of boys in addition to Rollin, and a daughter. Perhaps Cap Sr. will do some more running around soon in the course of which he will discover, and report upon, more details of the Norris clan.
Ted Caswell, v.p. F.S. Webster Co., participated January 9 in the forum panel of the New England Sales Managers Conference. Subject: "Are Your Sales Costs Too High?"
So far as we know, Joe Lombardi is the only member of our Class whose hobby is stone masonry. Perhaps this unusual extracurricular activity springs from Joe's work, which is real estate. For about ten years he's been with Brown, Harris, Stevens, Inc., NYC, negotiating mortgages and sales.
Carl (Kully) Lundberg pulled up lifetime stakes in Rockford, Ill., in 1944, where he operated a furniture factory, and moved Marie and the kids to Los Angeles, where he was with the woodworking pricing section of O.P.A. until 1946, when he took over the management of his ranch in Indio. About three years later he started to divide his time between the ranch and Conrad, Bruce and Co., securities and investment counseling establishment, in L.A. Kully recalls - perhaps "recoils from" would more aptly describe the reactions of a southern Californian to ice and snow - the first Christmas vacation of our Class; the day the temperature dropped to 30° below as we huddled in the R.R. station waiting for the frozen "specials."
Congratulations to Trundle Engineering Co. and to Lyman King, on the occasion of Lyman's selection by the company to head its N.Y. office. The Trundle people are management consultants with hq. in Cleveland, where Lyman has been located as v.p. and director. Prior to tying up with Trundle in 1947, he had a broad background in the investment field and in manufacturing. In World War II he served on the War Production Board, the Smaller War Plants Corp., and the Dept. of Commerce.
Al (Dink) Lundquist, oldtime roommate of Ed Wackerhagen and Eddie Lynch, hooked up with Electrolux Corp. about ten years ago, and went to live in Riverside, Conn. Before that he used to be a mortgage broker with various concerns, in NYC and in Buffalo. He's married, and there are a couple of Lundquist daughters.
Ed Lyle was married in 1929 to Madelyn Williams. There are two sons, one of whom, Brooks, entered Dartmouth in 1950. Ed started out in the shoe business, with Crossett, switched to Frigidaire (where he wound up as district representative), and then allied himself with Spencer, Inc., New Haven, manufacturers of corsets. He's been there about sixteen years, and is regional sales mgr.
Since 1929, Howie McClure has been iden- tified with Chilean Nitrate Sales Corp., 120 Broadway, NYC. He's asst. gen. sales mgr. of that concern and commutes from Asbury Park, N.J., where he and Pauline live at 100 Fifth Ave.
News of Mac McKenna is scarce. Sorry we can't furnish any details beyond the intelligence that he's a civil engineer and for a number of years has been married and at home at 686 Union St., W. Springfield, Mass.
At a wedding this past summer we bumped into John (Skinny) Meloy, a Chicagoan who left Dartmouth for Yale after his freshman year, but who continues to enjoy his Dartmouth associations. We absented ourselves, from the wedding reception long enough for your correspondent to learn that he (Skinny) has been with the Chicago Title and Trust Co. for about 23 years, where he currently is spotted in the trust dept., as asst. v.p., supervising trust accounts.
In January of this year the Dartmouth Alumni Council had its winter meeting in Chicago, and the Chicago '23 contingent was delighted that Councilmen Ray Barker and Bud Freeman, along with ex-officio Councilman Irish Flanigan, were in town. We got together a little dinner in honor of these three, with Sum and Bettye Sollitt as hosts, at the Chicago Yacht Club. In addition to the Sollitts and our honored guests, the Metzels and Karl and "Dear" Williams were there, and Bill Juergens and Joe Pick. At the Chicago Alumni Association annual dinner, which was the following day, the same gang got together, plus the Russ Carpenters and the Dud Popes. The '23ers were gratified to hear the Class mentioned by Ken Henderson, who repre- sented the Alumni Council at the speaker's table, as the first Class at Dartmouth which had raised $100,000 for its Memorial Fund, an act, which as most of you know, stimulated later classes to emulate our example, and in several cases, to surpass our record.
Sometime within the two weeks or so which follow your receipt of this issue of the MAGAZINE, the 31st REUNION COMMITTEE will be in touch with each of you to spell out the story of our coming reunion in June, and assist you in making reservations and other plans. We are in close touch with these operatives and can tell you that a tremendous amount of planning and hard work has already produced firm plans for a wonderful time! Your officers and exec. comm. and the Reunion Committee ask each and every one of you, graduates and non-graduates, men who have been active in Class and College matters and those who have not (for one reason or another), to plan on joining your classmates in June in Hanover.
In the In Memoriam section of this issue is a notice of Ralph Wilkinson's passing, which was reported in the last issue. We think the Class will be interested in sharing with us the note we received from Ralph's widow, Priscilla. She writes: "Thank you so much for your kind letter regarding Ralph's passing. I shall like to think that there will be a book in the College Library dedicated to him."
Secretary and Bequest Chairman, 576 Maple St., Winnetka, Ill.
Treasurer, 5 Tyler Rd., Hanover, N.H.
