1923

Secretary, 170 Washington St. Haverhill, Mass.

Treasurer, Marble St., Whitman, Mass.

Bequest Chairman,

I am still enthusiastic about this job after three rather long years. There is a certain something which one gets out of the fine letters which dribble or trickle in. Much of the contents of these letters is of the non-publishable variety. They are all sincere, however, and are much appreciated. I now begin my fourth year:

Howie and Helen Bartlett sailed on August 7 for six weeks of travel in Europe. On October first they arrive at New Delhi, India for a ten-day visit. They then go on to the University of Roorkee, about 100 miles North of Delhi, for a month. Howard is on a General Education project sponsored by the American Specialist Branch, leaders-specialists Division of the International Educational Exchange Service. Howard says this is just a long name for a cooperative venture of our State Department and the Indian Ministry of Education for arranging exchange visits of many different types of Specialists. About November 15th the Bartletts will go to the University of Bombay for another month. The remaining month and a half of their stay will probably involve a good bit of traveling with short stays at several universities. He has no specific teaching duties but will be talking with the students and particularly faculty members about American programs in general education and offering suggestions for developing similar programs in their universities. The Bartletts come home around the first of February by way of Japan and the west coast. Bart, who 'is Head of the Department of Humanities at M.I.T., promises a newsy letter to the Class from India.

Robert K. (Cocky) Lewis, who has taught history for the last 33 years at Lyndon Institute, Lyndon Center, Vt., has been named Headmaster. Lyndon has a population of 300 persons and is located nine miles north of St. Johnsbury. The institute ranks very high in Vermont in its preparation of boys for college.

Chuck Calder is in the insurance business, the Calder-Gorton Company in Cleveland. His partner, Doug Calder is a member of 1924. Chuck plays considerable golf with Vic Cannon.

And while we are on Cleveland we should not pass over Ray Barker who usually is well publicized in Cleveland when Grand Opera comes to town. This year the Plain Dealer pictures Ray pinning a corsage on his spouse, Peg, on opening night. Ray and Peg are regular attendants each year during the week Metropolitan plays in Cleveland. Ray's oldest son graduated from Dartmouth in 1952, is married, and has two children. Ray's second son, Jack, is at Columbia doing graduate work in business administration. He is a graduate of Williams. Their third son, Jimmy, is in the seventh grade. Ray is president and treasurer of S. Barker's Sons Company, PrintersStationers-Engravers, a firm now 85 years old.

Hal Baker, known in college circles as Dr. Harold A. Baker, has been appointed head of the recently created department of business administration at John Carroll University's School of Business. Hal joined the Carroll faculty in 1946 after a career as a marketing consultant in Chicago. He has written several books on this subject. Hal and his wife, Katherine, live at 2116 Campus Road, South Euclid, Ohio.

In the famous scrap book of 1923 there is repeated mention on Bill Sawyer's pages to his daughter Mary Ann, aged 2, then 4, then 10, then 16. Now Mary Ann is married, on September 7, to Dr. John A. Meyer of Ann Arbor, Mich. Bill continues as credit manager of Thompson Products in Cleveland, one of the largest manufacturers of automobile valves and tappets as well as airplane parts in the world. Bill and Marian live at 2917 Warrington Road, Shaker Heights 20, Ohio.

On the same day your secretary's daughter, Liz, was married at the First Congregational Church in Haverhill to Henry M. Thornton Jr. of York, Pa. Liz was certified at Katherine Gibbs this spring after a two-year turn at Mt. Vernon Junior College in Washington. Henry plans to enter the Dentist Supply Co. of York, Pa., his family's business.

And seven days later several of the 1923 boys in this part of the country attended the wedding of Babe Miner's daughter, Ginny, to John D. Nichols of Bethlehem, Pa., in Longmeadow. Ginny has been a hostess for Amer- ican Airlines1 for some two years. Your secretary has had his eye peeled for her every time he has boarded an American plane but to no avail. John is with the Bank of New York.

Sam and Mim Home sailed September first on the Liberte for Europe. Their itinerary included a three weeks' motor trip to Southeastern France, then into Switzerland, Germany, and Holland. Returning to Paris they stayed ten days in Paris and are spending a month in England and Scotland, returning on the Queen Mary, November 12.

Ed Crowley was elected president of Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Company on August 26. For two and one half years he has been vice-president and treasurer. This transportation company has 1200 employees, 490 busses and serves 114 million people.

1923 Class Officers at the May meetings in Hanover. L to r: Ted Shapleigh, Chet Bixby,Irish Flanigan, Truman Metzel, Jim Broe and Clary Goss.