1923

The Class of 1923 will certainly be saddened when they read of the passing of JoePick on December 8. In the In Memoriam section we are printing a very excellent sketch of Joe's life and a portrayal of what he has contributed to his college and his class by Vince Baldwin, who writes as follows:

"Joe's funeral was a most moving service at the Chapel of Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago and was attended by the following fratres in urbe et uxores: Sumner Sollitt et ux, Bill Kimball et ux, Truman Metzel et ux, Ted Swartzbaugh and your correspondent et ux. Of course I can never forget Joe myself nor ever adequately express my appreciation, because it was through him that I first met Mrs. Baldwin."

Years have elapsed since we have read of the activities of Elijah Allen, whom we all remember as one of an outstanding group of colored boys in our class. Elijah writes as follows:

"Your personal letter was appealing and a tribute to a great class and a great college. I have kept in touch with Dartmouth in a modest way throughout many years and the ALUMNI MAGAZINE means a great deal in my interest in Hanover. There have been several shifts in my program, but I have managed to have a good career in Public Health. I am full time with .the Louisville-Jefferson County Health Department (now completing eight years here). I am director of a district health center which same serves a large part of the Negro population here. My work has given me a chance to rate as somewhat of a substantial figure in health circles in American Negro life particularly. This note is but a hello and to say I treasure and appreciate my Dartmouth life to the fullest."

Dwight Haigh reports on his activities as a manufacturer's representative for several fast-moving lines having to do with brass and bronze. He reports that his two sons are now members of the alumni body: one with Libby Owens Ford in Richmond, the youngest with the Army in France.

Carey Chuck Goddard seems to be doing very well in the field of law and in the education of his two daughters. As to law with the retirement of Mr. Baker he is now the whole firm of Baker & Goddard. And in education, Joan has graduated from William and Mary, and Lois from Smith. Chuck writes as follows:

"According to pictures of alumni, those of us who have any hair have lots of snow in our crowns. And there are so many children and grandchildren that it seems most of us have found a lot of happiness along the way.

"I want to go back to Hanover some day. All through the years I've felt the wild goose urge every September. Meantime the ALUMNI MAGAZINE and Skiddoo have helped so very, very much."

All members of the class will be interested in the following transcript from a letter which arrived New Year's Day from PudgeNeidlinger:

"My job as executive director of the United States Council of the International Chamber of Commerce continues to be interesting and one in which the things to be done seem always to be more numerous than the things that get done. Although I am tied to a desk in New York most of the time, my three trips to Paris each year give my friends the impression that I am about to go abroad or have just returned every time I see them. The trip to Tokyo last spring for the ICC Congress was a very pleasant adventure. Marion went With me on that one and we worked in two weeks of vacation after two weeks of hard work in an office I established at the Imperial Hotel, complete with both an American and a Japanese secretary.

"Stopping off in Honolulu on the return trip I had a very pleasant visit with Johnny Coonley and a telephone conversation with Kanky Chun. Johnny has a delightful home, a charming wife and an interesting job as public relations man for American Factors. Kanky is a very successful investment counselor.

"I find that I see classmates less often in New York than I did when we were in Hanover. Months go by without meeting men who have an office across the street or ten minutes away across town. But I am continually amazed at the numbers of Dartmouth men who stop me on the street to say 'Dean, do you remember when. ...' It happens everywhere I go, including Paris, Rome, London, and Tokyo, as well as in New York, Washington, and Stateside cities. The ten thousand boys who graduated (or didn't!) during the years that I was Dean seem to have spread all over the world. The ten thousand alumni I have met on speaking trips during those years add to the chance that a face that looks familiar has a Dartmouth tag that belongs with it if I could only remember what it was. Once in awhile I find the familiar face traces back not to Dartmouth but to a fellow traveller on the 8:16 from Bronxville or for thirteen hours on a plane ride to Europe out of Idlewild. But on the law of averages it remains safe to ask, 'What class were you in?'"

Sherm Clough, whose picture accompanies these columns, has just recently changed positions, and is now advertising manager for the Boston Division of Admiral Corporation. Since completing his year of graduate work at Tuck School in 1924, Sherm has been in some phase of advertising, except for the period during World War II which he spent in defense work with the shipbuilding division of the Bethlehem Steel Company. After the war, he re-joined the New England branch of Frigidaire Sales Corporation, the firm with which he had been connected since 1937, and therefore has had many years of experience in advertising, sales promotion and public relations work with the major appliance industry in the New England area, which are bound to be of definite advantage in his new affiliation with Admiral Corporation.

Starting back with undergraduate days, Sherm has been active in class affairs. He was chairman for our first big reunion - the Fifth - and with wife Bert has been a regular participant at class gatherings, large and small, over the years. During the time that '23's Alumni Fund activity was operated under the revolving "network" system, Sherm served as Head Agent for the New England group, which every third year organized Fund solicitation for the entire class. Also, for several years after this, he worked closely with Head Agent Johnny Moore in covering New England for the Alumni Fund.

Sherm and Bert have two boys, both of whom were fortunately accepted at Dartmouth. The elder, Sherm Jr., graduated with the Class of 1950 and from Tuck in 1951. Their other son, Galen, is now a junior at Hanover.

The January 6 edition of The Dartmouth carries the following report of Tom Norton's speech at Great Issues the previous day. Tom said in part: "Compulsory arbitration of labor disputes must not be forced on the essential industries of this country. If you eliminate the threat of a strike in an essential industry, you are eliminating collective bargaining."

Sherman M. Clough '23 has recently been named Advertising Manager for the Boston Division of Admiral Corporation.

Secretary, 170 Washington St., Haverhill, Mass.

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

Bequest Chairman,