1923

The banner headline for November should read, "Millar presents secretary with four bound volumes of the Dartmouth And here is the lead story:

Joe carefully preserved each Dartmouth that was left outside his door from September, 1919, through June, 1923. He had these issues bound by year and made the presentation to the secretary a few weeks ago at a dinner party in Weston. We took Volume #1 up to Hanover the weekend of the Holy Cross game and the men visiting our room sure were interested in looking over this priceless record of our freshman year. Needless to say, these four volumes will be of tremendous help to us and all the secretaries who follow.

The second lead should highlight the Chicago Annual Reunion. In Butch Kimball's own words:

"The '23 Night weekend at the Whitesides' home at Janesville, Wise., was a great success. People started gathering shortly after noon, September 24, and the crowd was complete by about 4 o'clock. Time during the afternoon was spent in renewing acquaintances, talking over old times, and some of the men enjoyed watching the Notre Dame-Southern Methodist football game on television.

"Janesville is a very fine old city of medium size whose industries are Parker Pen Company - with which George Whiteside is very prominently connected - and a General Motors Chevrolet assembly plant. It is really a beautiful old town and it is easy to see why George and Ruth Ann enjoy living there. The Whiteside home is an old and comfortable place, containing some very beautiful antiques of which Ruth Ann is very proud. Unfortunately, one or two of us bigger fellows ran afoul an antique chair or two, but were fortunately evicted before complete damage was done.

"After a generous cocktail hour, we all drove over to the Janesville Country Club, where we enjoyed a terrific dinner and incidentally had the opportunity of meeting numerous prominent citizens of Janesville. Returning to the Whiteside residence after dinner, colored pictures of the 30th reunion weekend were shown, together with some I had taken during the last two trips Dot and I took in the Caribbean. Pictures like these latter, are, of course, more interesting with snow on the ground in mid-winter.

"The Saturday program broke up about 1:30 and then on Sunday morning about 11 o'clock we all gathered again at George's house for breakfast and more hours of pleasant visiting. Several neighbors came in who also had Dartmouth connections in other classes, so we really had a good group together. Sunday was an unusually beautiful fall day and the refreshments furnished by the Whitesides were most satisfying. In fact the "stingers" offered as a pre-breakfast pick-me-up were so good they attracted a swarm of bees from nearby, which required the use of liberal applications of insect spray.

"All in all, the weekend was a dandy and each one of us was greatly impressed by the genuine hospitality of the Whitesides. Those in attendance were William F. Juergens, Harold Conley,Vincent Baldwin, Ted. Swartzbaugh, Major Bird,Mr. and Mrs. Sollitt, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Freeman,Mr. and Mrs. Karl Williams, and Mr. and Mrs.Kimball."

Close on the heels of the above report on the Chicago party comes a detailed resume of the '23 Night in Springfield from BabeMiner. Here again I will quote verbatim:

"We had the best time in years with cocktails and a luscious steak dinner at the Longmeadow Country Club on September 28. Those attending were Dr. Howie Brown, George Weston (plugging his "Town Shop"), George Ferguson (who now sells Fords), Hal McKenna, Len Truesdale,Denny Pope, Hull Maynard (director of admissions at Loomis School), Bill Gates, and the guest of honor, Charlie Zimmermann.

"The Class of '23 in this area would like to see more and better boys from around here go to Dartmouth. George Weston and the undersigned conceived the idea of having Charlie Zimmermann come up as a Trustee of the College and tell us where and how we fail and how and where the College fails. In my humble opinion, neither are doing the kind of enrollment job that should be done. We have decided we are going to do what we can to remedy the situation. We had a swell and informative get-together and drank a toast to the Class of 1923, and, of course, the College.

"A little more news of men in our Class around here - Doug Weymouth of Westfield couldn't make it because he had to open up the flooded-out A. & P. Stores in Connecticut which lost all his nice coffee. Gus Ryan, proprietor of the book store at the University of Massachusetts, at the last minute had to attend a meeting called by the University President, but will be on deck next year. Ken Blake was away on a business trip."

On November 14 residents of Brookline and adjacent towns, as well as state, county, and local officials will join in a testimonial dinner to Senator Philip G. (Griggs) Bowker, at the Hotel Statler in Boston. Few members of the Class have been as active in politics as Phil, both in Brookline town government and in the Massachusetts Senate.

Bob Haggart writes that his wife and two sons, aged 14 and 10, made a tour of New England this summer with Hanover as one of the most important stopovers on the itinerary. Bob is the mastermind of the Haggart Construction Company of Fargo, N. D.

Charlie Rice is one of my mainstays on this secretary's job. His most recent letter reports on the two Caswell weddings this past summer: namely, Carolyn on June 18 and Patsy on August 20. At the latter wedding, Charlie drove sixty miles more than normal on account of the big flood and arrived just as the bride and groom came out through the canopy. Sherm and Bert Clough were at the wedding. Over Labor Day with the Caswells at Osterville, he saw the Win Temples, Mettyand Kay Morse. Last May Charlie and Jean became grandparents when their Ted and Polly had a daughter.

I sure appreciate the following letter from John Booth of Danbury, Conn.:

"Your idea of writing members of the Class on the anniversary of their birthday is a unique and very interesting one, and I am sure it will be productive of some class news that would not otherwise be forthcoming. I was interested in learning that Pete Jones' birthday is the same day as mine. It appears that one of our closest friends, WilliamBenjes, is a top executive with Pete, so we hear about him in an indirect way. You might be interested in knowing that at the most recent meeting of the Connecticut State Medical Society, I was elected first vice president, and, needless to say, I considered it quite an honor. I think you already know that I am president of the Connecticut State Medical Examining Board and chief of surgery at the Danbury Hospital. It seems kind of awful to toot your own horn this way, but unless somebody keeps the secretary informed, I presume nobody would know about it."

My first letter from Loosh Ruder arrived this morning. Here goes:

"Many thanks for the birthday greeting. There is something reassuring in birthday greetings from old friends whom you have not seen in many years - the memory reflexes begin to purr, and out come smiles of delight over bygone images and happenings. I seem to remember one bleak and dreary January coming back to Hanover after a most glorious Christmas vacation and finding the Phi Delta Theta house frozen up solid at twenty below zero temperature. It seems that the janitor tried to fire up the boiler as vigorously as he apparently was firing himself up with hootch - and as a result the boiler and the janitor both blew their tubes. At any rate it took several weeks to get a new boiler and in the meantime I would have been perfectly destitute if two very kind and glorious friends by the names of Pinky Bixby and Rusty Sargent had not picked me up and offered me a cot in the living room of their swank South Massachusetts suite, where I thrived under their wonderful hospitality and friendship for several weeks until the new boiler and the new janitor were installed. Many thanks again for your kindness at that time!

I am doing fine - and glad to be enjoying life throughly. Give my very best to your lovely wife, Barbara, and tell her that we hope to have the pleasure of meeting her sometime."

Leonard E. Morrissey, who has the job ofReunion Chairman for the Class of 1922.

Secretary, 170 Washington St., Haverhill, Mass.

Treasurer, Commonwealth Shoe & Leather Co. Whitman, Mass.

Bequest Chairman,