1923
The six-year hitch for which your present class officers and executive committee signed up in June '48 is fast drawing to a close. You will have another team of stalwarts on the job, full of beans and Moxie, come Reunion in Hanover this summer. While it is too early to sing swansongs (which we would only have to repeat at Reunion) it is your correspondent's desire at this time to again say a word of appreciation for the help he's had from all and sundry in his job of general manager, and to say a hearty THANK YOU for the many satisfactions which have come his way in the course of "Operation Twenty-Three, 1948-54."
We have just recently appointed Irish Flanigan chairman of a nominating committee for your new slate of '23 brass for the next term of office. With no intention of muscling in on his job, we make this suggestion to the entire Class: send Irish your ideas for nominees. Your doing so will tend to insure that the men you want will be the men you get, and will help him tremendously in working things out. One more point with respect to new blood: the men who are approached as to their willingness to take on Class jobs should lean over backwards to say "yes," if at all possible. The Class has set a record for the willingness of class members to take responsibility, and the continuation of this spirit among men who are tapped will insure the continued smooth functioning of Class affairs.
We are in almost daily touch with genial Jim Broe, our 31st Reunion chairman. The latest flash from him is to the effect that extraordinary arrangements are being made for the '23 sons and daughters and their friends. The way that angle is shaping up it would seem that the Class children are likely to harbor life-long resentment and bitterness toward their parents, if the latter fail to fetch them along. Reunion, you will recall, is. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, June 18, 19, and 20. Plan on being there, kids and all.
Back in January a group of Chicagoland '23s gathered to do honor to Ray Barker, IrishFlanigan and Bud Freeman, when they were in Chicago for the winter Alumni Council meeting. When we wrote up this story for last month's ALUMNI MAGAZINE, doggoned if we didn't forget to tell you that Marie Moore,Don's widow, and her son Donald were with us that night. Marie is looking grand, and she can be very proud of Don, Doug, and Janet, the Moore youngsters. Janet's a vivacious, good-looking brunette who's married to a pal of Don's at the U. of Ill. Doug — who looks strikingly like his dad - goes to the U. of Wis. Young Don, just back from a couple of years in Korea, in Intelligence, has a couple of years to go at Northwestern U.
Al Merritt, Lakewood, Ohio, graduated from Trinity College after two years in Hanover; was married in 1924 to Marjorie Higgins; has three daughters; and is v.p. in charge of pension and employee benefit plans for White-Wilson-Merritt, Inc., Cleveland. He was formerly with Travelers, in Hartford, and was regional mgr., group sales, for John Hancock, covering Boston, Phila., Cleveland.
We got some valuable — and free — advice not long ago from Joe Millar, who runs the Millar Animal Hospital, Box 318, Monmouth Rd., Deal, N. J. We were recounting to him our experience, down on our farm, Metzels Folly, trying to relieve a cow of her calf. It appears that instead of using baling wire, as we did, there's a contraption you can buy which makes things work out much better. We were all ears, particularly because our clumsy efforts with the baling wire proved fruitless. Besides, Joe said to call him on the telephone the next time we had trouble, and he thought he could help us out. The Millars live at 412 Windermere Ave., Interlaken, N. J.
We get to see the Babe Miners now and then, when they stray from Longmeadow, Mass., to take in some sawbones convention out our way. Babe's father and two brothers preceded him at Dartmouth, and if we're not mistaken, Babe's and Flo's son Ted Jr. followed the old man to Hanover. There's a daughter, too, and she is almost as pretty as her motherl Every year, come Twenty-Three night, Babe sparkplugs the local '23 gathering at the Longmeadow Country Club.
Our dope on Heinz Moore isn't too current, but we suspect he still owns his own commercial art business, 774 Insurance Building, Omaha. He learned his trade in New York, was art director of two advertising agencies in Omaha, was a partner for six years in an art studio, also in Omaha, before setting up his own shop there about fourteen years ago. Away from the office, Heinz' hobbies and special interests are hunting, fishing, horses, camping, guns and gunsmithing, home craftsmanship, building and flying model airplanes with his son, young Quentin. In a note we had from Heinz he expressed himself, as have many others in the Class, in favor of a Class project which would help good boys get to Dartmouth, with financial aid. (Now, of course, we do have the Class of 1923 Scholarship Gift Fund, to accomplish just what Heinz and others have always wanted to do.)
George and Mary Morrell are in Ottumwa, lowa, the GHQ of John Morrell and. Co., meat packers. Some of you will remember the picture of George and Bob Hope, conferring re the Morrell dog food situation, which appeared sometime back. At any rate, the last we knew, George was v.p. and treas. of the company. He's a loyal supporter of Dartmouth and Class and we only wish that he and Mary made their home in a neck of the woods more accessible to Hanover and the bulk of Dartmouth adherents, so that most of us could see them oftener.
One of our most active reporters, CapPalmer, sent us this word the other day: "I had to go East to catch a - magic show that Socony Vacuum was putting on around the country to educate and inspire its sales force on its new gasoline and motor oil. Imagine my pleased surprise when one of the feature attractions named Wilkinson turns out to be our Roger, head of their gasoline and fuel oil division. He's in the top level of the company - and no mean company, that - and very highly regarded. I have a hunch that his baby, the new "Mobilgas Special," is really going to sweeP the market. ... Say hello to Dud Pope and any of the gentry you run into."
Arthur M. (Metty) Morse lives in Larchmont, N. Y., at 39 Maple Hill Drive. He was married in 1924 to Kay White, a Dana Hall girl. Their daughter was a recent graduate from Conn. College. Metty is v.p. of Conover-Mast Publications, Inc., and manager of Purchasing, one of their enterprises. Off-hours, in the winter time, his nose is usually buried in either Yachting or Motor Boating, while he dreams of spring and summer and getting the Morse craft into the water again.
Our Brooks Palmer was down in Williamsburg in February lecturing in the Forum in that Colonial village. His subject was American clocks, quite naturally, inasmuch as our Brooks is one of the top clock authorities of the world.
Soon after graduation, Don Morse hooked up with the N. Y. Telephone Co., where he has remained ever since. The Morses live in Glenrock, N. J., and their two daughters are alumnae of Colby Junior College.
We are indebted to one of our New York City snoopers for a picture he snagged from the Feb. 2 issue of the N. Y. Herald Tribune, which showed our Sid Stevens all resplendent in white tie toggery, escorting the Treasurer of the United States, Mrs. Ivy Baker Priest, to the New York premiere of Hell and HighWater, a benefit performance for the March of Dimes. Both Sid and Mrs. P. were all smiles. So, also, were singer Eddie Fisher and Sloan Simpson, former Mrs. O'Dwyer, who were there, too.
We have an idea for the Class to think about, and here it is: Under the leadership of Lee Young, our Alumni Fund record has been exceptionally good; an improvement over previous Alumni Fund accomplishments. Wouldn't it be a fine tribute to Lee to make our record this year, presumably his final year on the job, a tremendous record-breaker? We'd appreciate it if you'd give that suggestion some thought when you sit down to write your check this year. A little extra, as a complimentary gesture to Lee. That's our idea for today, and we hope you like it!
Secretary, 576 Maple St., Winnetka, Ill.
Class Agent, 29 E. Main St., Amsterdam, N. Y.
