1923
Your Secretary Chet Bixby, treasurer PeteJones and vice president Jim Broe attended the meetings in Hanover of the Class Officers on May 4th and 5th, while Barbara, Peg and Harriet graced the ladies' events.
As I write this report on the Monday after, I am impressed with the fact that this was a very worthwhile weekend. We learned the latest news on the Class of 1960; the new dormitory development which is to be located on the old Clark School playing field (a large model and many architects' drawings of which were installed in the Inn lobby), and the plans which are being formulated by the Trustees for the period leading up to Dartmouth's bicentennial celebration in 1969.
The Class Officers meetings on Saturday morning and the panel discussions that followed gave your secretary his first insight into many secretarial duties.
It is high time the Class was informed of the change in Ed Lyle's business interests. As of last November he became a manufacturer's representative, specializing in packaging. This consists of continuous vacuum forming, and packaging machinery, polyethylene bags and tubings, laminated plastic films, "Scotch" industrial tapes, pressure sensitive labels, cushion-pack packaging materials, molded foam polystyrene and industrial incinerators. Ed has his office in his home in Hamden, Conn. After seventeen years of traveling throughout the East for the Spencer Company, he is extremely happy that he is now in New England most of the time. The Y.M.C.A. is one of Edgar's main outside interests. He is V.P. of the New Haven Club, local and state chairman of World Service, and a member of the executive committee of the Y.M.C.A. International Committee.
His sons Brooks, 24, graduated from Colgate last June, and Ned, 21, from University of Chicago in February.
Inadvertently, we forgot to mention in our writeup of the February reunion that Ginny and Rich Miner were very much in attendance. Ginny graduated in April from the American Airlines Stewardess School in Chicago. Rich attends Middlebury College. All members of 1923 should watch for Miss Virginia Miner when they board their next A. A. plane.
We have found another wife who is willing to co-operate with the secretarial department. Rona Nay, Hart's wife, sends a few notes on his doings - "something Hart is always planning to do":
"Divisional engineer in State Highway department — a job which keeps him a bit more than busy. As in all small towns, the willing find plenty to do in a civic way, and he's taken his turn in many ways. Is currently active on Hospital Board of Directors. Has for many years been active in Masonry and last fall was honored with 33° in Detroit, Mich. A son, John 8., teaches at Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, N. H. A daughter, Nancy L., is a senior at Plymouth Teachers' College."
Don Morse retired from the New York Telephone Company in November, 1953, after thirty years of service. Two daughters, both alumnae of Colby Junior College, two grandsons and a granddaughter keep Mr. and Mrs. Don plenty busy.
Ed Peters breaks a silence of exactly twenty years in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. He writes that he is extremely busy in the personnel and labor relations department of Pratt and Whitney Aircraft, East Hartford, Conn. As to his son, Scott, he writes as follows:
"Scott and Liz had their first baby last June, a boy. While Lyd and I were in Acapulco last fall, I made a swell deal on a burro for him for a Christmas present; but when Lyd caught up to me, she promptly squelched the whole deal. She said it was as asinine as the purchase of an electric train I made for Scott on his second Christmas. As I look at it now, perhaps she is right. I probably would look foolish riding on Chris's ass.... Our Edward is a first lieutenant, pilot, with the Marine Corps; and last Saturday he had his younger brother Fritz (who is a senior at Ohio University) deliver his convertible, his speedboat, his dog Brandy and his tomcat Alexander, to us for safekeeping until he returns from the Mediterranean next fall. One minute we were footloose and fancy free and the next minute we have obligations."
It is very fitting and proper to make mention in this column of the very handsome bequest to the College which our classmate, Joe Pick, made in his will, which was recently read. Joe's bequest becomes the first, the number one, of our classmates who have passed away. Ida, his widow, has closed their Chicago home and has moved to Toronto where she plans to make a base with her parents there and continue her travels and concert tours. As Ida Krem she has been playing before European and Central American audiences for many years, and often accompanied by Joe who was himself an accomplished musician and composer. Just before she left Chicago, Ida had a dinner for a few of Joe's closest friends.
This is the month for new names in these columns. Will Fine breaks a long silence. His very welcome letter as of April 25 follows:
"My 59th birthday was last Monday - the 23rd. As you might remember I went to Dartmouth as a wounded veteran of the first war. It was only the beginning. The second war found me in Sicily, Italy, France with an infantry division. Believing in early marriages, I signed up last July.
"My brokerage career started with Fenner & Beane in New Orleans back in 1924. While manager of their uptown office I met Mr. Francis I. duPont and organized and managed a firm with him late in 1931. After five years his desire to have his sons run it caused me to leave and form my own firm."
Colin Stewart writes that he would like the name of the lady in his Nurses Training School at the Mary Hitchcock. Hospital who is reported to be the daughter of a '23 classmate.
Monk Keith, under dateline of April 23, gives us some interesting information concerning the picture in the May issue of the luncheon party in honor of Joe and Ida Pick in Costa Rica last August:
"At our reunion I was talking to Joe Pick and inquired after his wife. He said she was on a concert tour. I said my wife was connected with the Symphony Orchestra here in Costa Rica, so why not get together and have Ida Krem come give a concert here. Those casual reunion remarks bore fruit and Joe and Ida came to Costa Rica and we renewed friendships and became acquainted with Ida's wonderful musical talent. From here they went on to Guatemala and Mexico. The U. S. Ambassador gave a party for the Picks here and invited Ana and me and I suppose that is the picture you expect to run in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. (This picture was published in the May issue: ed.) I heard about Joe's passing from a friend of mine I had him look up in Mexico City, and I believe Ida went back there. It was certainly a shock to us to hear of Joe's passing.
"Thanks for your invitation to visit you in Haverhill - who knows but that we shall show up there some day. I have a sister whose husband, Winslow Hatch '30, was recently made Dean at B. U. in Boston so I expect to get up there on my next trip to N. Y.
"Ana and I have three daughters, all married. One lives in South America (Peru), another in Central America (Costa Rica), and another in North America (U.S.A.). Between them they have eight kids and the ninth coming. Since Ana naturally has to go receive the grandchildren as they keep coming, and she flies from continent to continent, I call her the 'international midwife'. Her next trip with the stork is to New York but I do not yet know whether I shall make it, too, on this trip.
"I am afraid the spirit of adventure has completely vanished from my dear classmates as hardly a one has come down these parts. Now one can fly here in a few hours and also come by road if one has the time and energy. What do you say we work up a tourist agency for '23 to drop in and have a look-see at these Tropics."
The entire Class will mourn the passing ofStan Ungar, on April 19. Most of us will recallwith considerable pleasure the extreme andradiant charm of Mildred, who in those longpast and cherished undergraduate days, usedto appear in Hanover with Stan. Well, Stanmarried Mildred. He finished his medicaleducation in Bellevue, honeymooned in Europe, and studied medicine in Vienna, returning to St. Vincent's Hospital for his internship.
In World War II Stan was a lieutenant colonel, flight surgeon with the 9th Air Force, was in both the African and European campaigns, had 29 missions over Germany, Belgium and France before D-Day, went over on D-Day to Normandy. Stan was wounded at the "Bulge" in Bastogne and finished up his army career as surgeon for the Air Forces in the rehabilitation center which was located in the south of France. Stan's medical career has been equally notable, a review of which is included in the In Memoriam section.
Brooks Palmer writes as follows: "Stan was quite a guy. A fiction writer giving his story of a full and vital life wouldn't be believed."
Shown in London, at the dinner given by theDartmouth Club o£ England on April 25 forits distinguished visitors from Hanover, are(l to r): S. Dickson Moyse '24, club secretary,Mrs. Dickey, Mrs. Moyse and PresidentDickey.
Secretary, 170 Washington St., Haverhill, Mass.
Class Agent, 79 Spring Glen Terrace, Hamden, Conn.
