1923
This may be the last issue of this MAGAZINE you receive, prior to our convening in Hanover for our THIRTY-FIRST REUNION, and accordingly our final opportunity to urge '23s who are still undecided about attendance to make up their minds, toute suite, to be on hand in Hanover June 18, 19, and 20. Harking back, we do not remember any reunion for which the advance planning has been more exhaustive and which promised more in the way of all-round success for the gathering of 235, their wives, offspring and pals. It looks as though at least 400 of same will be on deck. In spite of six yeais of inflation since our 1948 REUNION, the reunion "bite" has been established at the same figures which obtained six years ago: $35 for stags, $50 for couples, $10 for class offspring. This dough buys, among other things: continuous free beer, costumes, cocktail parties, bean pole picnic by Ross McKenney, reception at President Dickey's home, class reception for sons and daughters, alumni dance, guided tour of the College, breakfast for sons and daughters, class meeting, coffee for class wives, general alumni luncheon, class dinner, etc., etc. And for free you will have the priceless privilege of just being in Hanover and environs, wander around and see people, sit. quietly and dream of days of yore, or simply respond to the pull of various nostalgic memories and fondnesses.
We have before us some news items of recent vintage concerning a number of men in the Class, and present them as follows:
Babe Miner has been elected first v.p. of the Hampden District Mental Health Clinic and recently became a member of the American College of Surgeons. Babe was chief of surgery at the Naval Advanced Base Hospital in the Pacific theatre during the war, retiring with the rank of captain.
George Craemer is now deputy manager of the Bureau of Public Works, Hartford, Conn. George graduated from MIT after Dartmouth, and has been connected with the bureau for 27 years, being in charge of operations in his new assignment.
Jerry Riley's been reelected president of the Manufacturers Bank of N. Attleboro. He's also prexy of the Plainville and Attleboro Coal Co., and president and treasurer of Plainville Coal and Oil Co.
Pudge Neidlinger addressed the Cleveland World Trade Assn., in his capacity of exec, director of the United States Council of the International Chamber of Commerce, giving that body the Council's views on U.S. foreign economic policy.
An editorial in the Eugene, Ore., Register-Guard is at hand, full of praise for Jon Titcomb, who recently left that city to take over his new duties in Tacoma as assistant gen. mgr. of Weyerhaeuser Timber Co.'s far-flung operations. Among those paying tribute to Jon was the business agent of the LWA-CIO local, in the plant which Jon operated, and from which he departed to move upward in the Weyerhaeuser hierarchy. Charles H. Ingram, to whom Jon is now assistant, is himself a Dartmouth man, Class of 1915. Jon started with the company in 1924 with the Snoqualmie Lumber Co.; worked at Weyerhaeuser's Longview Branch in 1930; later served as sales mgr. of Snoqualmie Fall and Everett Divisions; was named asst. mgr. at Everett in 1940; and went to Springfield in 1946 to manage the plant being built there until his promotion this year to the general offices in Tacoma.
Howie Emerson recently became head of the Dept. of Industrial Engineering at the U. of Tenn. His immediate prior connection was with T.V.A., for ten years. Upon graduation from Dartmouth Howie taught at Robert College, Constantinople, where, in conformity with a local ground rule which required that every teacher must also coach a sport, he coached basketball. He returned from Turkey to absorb some engineering courses at MIT, and thereafter remained on our shores in the engineering field.
The New York Herald Tribune is our authority for this intelligence: Ken Quencer scored a hole-in-one this spring, with a 150-yard shot over a ravine at the Siwanoy Country Club, Bronxville. Another source advises us that the Quencers had a fine time in Florida last winter, and that they spent a most pleasant evening with Loosh and Louise Ruder, who live in Bellair, hard by the fancy Belleview-Biltmore golf club.
John Read has recently returned to the Boston area and has become pres. and treas. of F. B. Harris Corp., Lynn, a firm which distributes industrial supplies and handles millwright and maintenance assignments.
Jack Myers has purchased the Orford Inn, just north of Hanover, and together with a partner, Robert Jones, opened this establishment for business under the new regime about May 1. Jack is enthusiastic about this new setup, and especially happy about the opportunity he'll have to greet '23s in Orford and/or Hanover on frequent occasions.
Shiner Beggs has joined the back-to-Boston movement, and has moved from N. Y. to sell advertising in Practical Gardener, BuildingManual, and Guide for the Bride - three hot newsstand magazines — in New England and N. Y. state. He lives at Pinckney House, Boston, and offices at 203 Park Square Bldg. Shiner has spent the better part of the past ten years selling space in House Beautiful.
No less than 38 men in our Class were in attendance at the Alumni Assn. of Boston annual dinner, back in Feb., and inasmuch as this was the largest class group on hand '23 succeeded in winning the Hood Attendance Cup, wresting it away from '28 in the process.
Salty Saltmarsh, 24 years with H. P. Hood and Sons, Lynn, purveyors of dairy products, continues as asst. production mgr. After a short spell with Liberty Mutual Ins. Co. as auditor, right after college, Salty was with Concord Dairy Co. and United Dairy Co., prior to the Hood hook-up. There's a Saltmarsh son Roger, age 26, and Natalie, who is 20.
We find it has been entirely too long since news of Phil Segal has appeared in this column. Phil was married in 1925 to Nanette Marks, a Wellesley girl. A couple of sons have blessed this union. John's now 25 and Junior's 28. The Segals live in Newton, and Phil's office, where he masterminds the affairs of the supermarket chain of which he is president, is at 675 Concord Ave., Cambridge. One of the most loyal and active men in '23, Phil can always be counted on for wholehearted participation in Class affairs.
It is now about nine years since Tay Smith took off from the Middle West and moved to Phoenix, Ariz., with wife Helene, to tie up with the Valley National Bank, where he handles commercial banking chores, specializing in term loans to business and industry. He had been with the Lafayette Grain Co., in Indiana, and his banking experience was with the Peoples State Bank, Indianapolis, and the Federal Dep. Ins. Corp. Our archives disclose that in Hanover, Tay, then a brawny ex-Marine sergeant, roomed with Wilner, McKown, Barrett, and Walt Jones, during the course of the idyllic four years he spent at Dartmouth. When last we heard, Tay lived at 121 E. Pasadena Ave., Phoenix.
Another Smith of whom news has been scarce is Walter B. (Bard) Smith, on active duty as a commander. His address is U.S. Navy Section, APO 206, care Postmaster, N. Y., N. Y. Prior to this overseas assignment, we know he was director of training, Potomac River Naval Command, Naval Gun Factory, Washington, D. C.
We are indebted to Paul Soley, urologist and genitourinary surgeon, for the following reminiscence: it seems that Red Dowries and Professor Eric the Red Foster climbed Balcb Hill during one sunny afternoon. At the summit, where they both stood and gazed admiringly down at the lovely Connecticut Valley below, Eric the Red spoke as follows: "It's an old valley, in an old world. Christianity is old, too. Trouble with the latter is, it hasn't been practiced much." The Soleys' twin girls, Margot and Liesel, are 17 now. Kid sister Jennifer's just 14. They were all mighty cute - and quite a handful - when Paul fetched them to Hanover several years ago for a summer rump reunion, from Darien, Conn., where the Soleys live.
The men of '23 will be saddened to hear that Ardie Herz has passed away. His death occurred March 22 in New York.
REUNION ROOMS: Dormitory reservationcards received in late April must be returnedto the Bursar by June 5, after which datespace may not be available.
Secretary, 576 Maple St., Winnetka, Ill.
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