1923

This is proving to be the month of all months when we can report on many men about whom there has been no information for years.

Bill Daley has just finished up five months of complete rest, first in the hospital and then at home. Bill writes it was the old story of doing more than he could take. "It's hard to realize that we are no longer sophomores and that nights are made for sleep and not for promoting human relations. But I feel better than I have for a long time. I walk three to four miles a day, eat anything, and should be all right as long as I don't try to do it all at once."

This message from Al Reinthal of 983 Park Avenue, New York City should make up the banner head line of this March issue. For Al's page in the Secretary's book has been a blank since graduation. Here goes: "Many thanks for your card of congratulations and gracious letter of some months ago." George McLaughlin also shattered twenty-six years of silence by writing in a few days ago.

Len Bronner is now practicing law in his home town of Freeport, N. Y. Len writes that Freeport lacks New York's electric atmosphere, but that the practice of law is more varied because there is less specialization. Tne clients are more appreciative than are most New Yorkers.

Our treasurer, Pete Jones, has just received the to owing communication from Mrs. Jean C. Kellam of Baker Library which is interesting reading:

We have just purchased a copy of Robert Bridges Poems in memory of the following four of your classmates: Ralph B. Wilkinson, AdrianHerz, Lawrence B. Brooks, and Percy W. Wanamaker This book was once the property of Edmund William Gosse, and on the flyleaf he has written, 'Copies of this edition are very rare. The author withdrew it from circulation, and used to disembowel every copy he came across. This particular copy was hidden for many months in a drawer, because he threatened its existence if he round it on my bookshelves.' It was printed in 1873. So you see we are glad to be able to add it to our collection.

In addition our very energetic and efficient treasurer has turned up information right along from men whom we have heard nothing about for years. Here are his latest releases: from Raymond MacKay Billings, Editorial Dept., Tulsa World, Tulsa, Okla.: "I sure appreciated your earlier note and some day hope to be able to renew our friendship on a speaking basis. Will the class observe a 35th reunion at Hanover in 1958? If so, might just possibly make it. Regards — Ray"

Pete also heard from Willard C. Cousins whose letter gave the address - Aetna Life Insurance Co., Hartford, Conn. Bill wrote that he had been in the hospital undergoing surgery. From Craven H. Coulter at 99 Cedar Street, Clinton, Mass., Pete learned that Ike had not been to Hanover this year. He did see the Harvard-Dartmouth game however. Bert Teagle writes Pete as follows:

While on my recent vacation, Rosalie and I visited Hanover on the occasion of the Holy Cross game in company with Howie and BertaAlcorn and my cousin, Leonard Dunn (Class of '21), and his wife. It was a wonderful day. The campus was beautiful except for the construction work on the campus lawn and the cluttered-up effect of thousands of cars parked all over. The latter is quite a change from our days when Som Sollitt had about the only car on the campus. Since leaving school I have spent most of my time in foreign service of the S.O..N.J., first in Europe and since 1941 here in Aruba, where Jersey operates the largest oil refinery in the world. For over seven years I have been Manager of Public Relations and find the work very absorbing.

Having spent most of my life out of the country, I naturally have not been able to keep in contact with my classmates and it is always a pleasure to hear from you.

Russ Perley on the stationery of the Laconia Clinic breaks a long silence with thisinteresting letter:

Thanks for the card. I believe it is the first birthday card I have received from '23 and it was a pleasant surprise....So you have a boy at Dartmouth! I have one there in the Sophomore class and he is in New York tonight debating. I have another who was varsity fullback at Kimball Union this fall and heading for Dartmouth, a third here in High School. My wife was an M.D. and belonged to the American Board of Radiology. She passed away in 1950 and I have been sort of busy bringing up our three sons.

In 1938 five of us doctors in Laconia built a building for the group practice of medicine. The group has grown from five members to twelve and we are all quite busy. This seems an ideal way to treat human ailments, for there is always someone available for consultation, and that is a real help, both to patient and doctor.

Along the way I was made a Trustee of the Laconia Savings Bank, then a Director of the Peoples National Bank, and later President of the latter. What spare time there is I try to relax in, but the phone rings fairly often.

I have written all this because Class Secretaries always seem to be hungry for news and I have not passed along any for a long time. There are several Dartmouth men in this area and we recently had a well-attended meeting, a roast beef dinner, and a speaker from Hanover.

When you are up this way, please look me up.

Joe Baldwin has finally found a fountain pen with some ink in it and a sheet of letter paper. And this is his history — Joe has been in Waltham since 1943 and has been active in most community affairs, such as the Community Red Feather and the Red Cross. He has decided, however, to pull out of all town involvements except Rotary, the Chamber of Commerce, and his duties as president of a mutual investment fund to which he has been re-elected. (Sounds like a full "part time job," Joe.) As for business, here's the news in his own words: "For several years I have been working on the development of a fuel injection system for automobiles. It has taken about every dime I could scratch together. Right now we think we have the last bug licked. If we have, we really have got something. The market for such a thing is tremendous. So - wish me luck."

Warry Cook is still looking for that ivory tower that is supposed to exist on university campuses for purposes of detached meditation and leisurely handling of correspondence. Warry finds life very full in his University of Michigan connection. He summarizes his activities as follows:

This past year I served as the first chairman of the newly organized greater Detroit Chapter of American Society of Safety Engineers and as a member of the Executive Committee of the National Materials Committee on air sampling and analysis with its sixty active committees of Chemistry and Toxicology of the Industrial Hygiene Foundation of America, and of maximum acceptable concentrations of toxic dusts and gases of the American Standards Association, The Awards Committee of the American Industrial Hygiene Association and the Occupational, Health Section Council of the American Public Health Association all keep me from any approach to boredom.

Life in Ann Arbor is most pleasant. Good music comes all during the winter at Hill Auditorium, only a fifteen minute walk from home. A faculty play reading group is fun. Visitors drop in from all over the world. The Boy Scout troop takes me on overnight camp-outs here and there, with David, age fourteen, our grandson, an explorer.

We are particularly glad to quote portions of a letter that came in from Fred Barstow in December:

Perhaps one reason I've been a poor source of news for your column all these years is that there just hasn't been anything unusual in the way of news to report. No Nobel Awards, no honorary degrees. Not even a vice-presidency. After a couple of years at school teaching and a year on the road as a salesman, I settled down with the New York Telephone Co. in New York City, where I'm currently a member of the Personnel. Personnel work, as you know, covers a multitude of sins. It's the ultimate goat for all the problems that nobody else knows what to do with, always something different and always interesting.

As far as the College is concerned, my activities have been limited to a couple of years on an Alumni Fund Committee and several years at interviewing Dartmouth applicants. The last three years as an area Chairman for New York City. Now that my stint at that is over, I plan to get back on to a local committee again. Incidentally, I'd like to put in a plug for that activity for the benefit of any who haven't tried it. Besides being an important Alumni contribution to the College, the experience of working with these boys and helping them with the big decision about choosing a college has obvious rewards of its own. Furthermore, the necessity of becoming well informed on the College as it is today opens up an area of loyalty...and enthusiasm for the terrific opportunity it offers to the boy that goes there that is far more effective, for me at least, than a few lingering memories of undergraduate days. Even if I had never gone to Dartmouth, I would get a lot of satisfaction from steering a boy there now.

Ted's history is briefly this: in 1928 he married Miss Jane Henderson of Cincinnati, Ohio. She was a graduate of the University of Cincinnati. They have two daughters, one an Oberlin graduate and the other a Sophomore at the University of Rochester. (Her second choice to going to Dartmouth.)

As these notes go to press, it looks like a pretty good gathering of 1923 families at the Inn. Once a year we print the roster of the sons of 1923 in Dartmouth and their addresses. These addresses may be helpful in case you want to communicate with one of these boys.

Class of 1955 - Steven B. Little, 25 School Street. Class of 1956 - Henry W. Holt, 53 Wigwam Circle. Class of 1957 - Benjamin C. Bixby. Theta Delta Chi; Lester K. Little II, address unknown; Richard J. Mason, 111 Gile Hall; Alson P. Taylor Jr., 409 Massachusetts Hall; and Herbert L. Young, Sigma Chi. Class of 1958—John Charles Durkin Jr., 305 Fayerweather Hall; John Munoz Foster, 102 So. Fayerweather Hall; John Pierce Travell, PhiTau, and Philip Charles Weinseimer, Kappa Kappa Kappa. Class of 1959 — John S. Perley, 102 No. Fayerweather Hall; Frederick M. Putnam, 209 So. Massachusetts Hall; and William D. Robinson, 305 Gile Hall. Class of 1960 — John R. Adams, 404 Streeter Street; Fred C. Marsh, 7 Topliff; and Peter Klaren, 109 Ripley.

Just a year ago, according to this photograph belatedly received, Butts Lamson '24 (r), RalphThompson '25 (c) and Rog Salinger '27 got together on a West Indies cruise.

Secretary, 170 Washington St. Haverhill, Mass.

Treasurer, Marble St., Whitman, Mass.

Bequest Chairman,