1923
In February, 1931, the MAGAZINE carried an announcement of the marriage of Augustus W. Bartlett to Lucille Chaffin in Salt Lake City. Now we have the interim history of the Bartlett family. Bart embarked in the automobile business in 1932. Bartlett Motor Co. at 2661 Washington Blvd., Ogden, Utah, sells Imperials, Chryslers, De Sotos, Ply-mouths, International Trucks, and Italian Fiats. The Bartletts live in Ogden and have a daughter Mary Louise who completed a year at Katherine Gibbs School, in Boston, last June after graduating from Pomona College in California. Bart roomed with the erudite Windy Monger his freshman year and with Bob Merridith and Joe Houston his sophomore year.
We have to go back to 1949 to read about George Billings. George and Evelyn live at 45 East Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, Conn. Their son George Jr. is in Dartmouth, Class of 1962. Their daughter Lorrie is in the same class at Emma Willard School. George is president of George M. Billings Co., Inc. This firm is mortgage loan correspondent of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company for the state of Connecticut. He is a member of the Greenwich Country Club, Power Squadron, Rotary Club and a trustee and member of the official board of the First Methodist Church of Greenwich and chairman of its Finance Committee. When he isn't soliciting and servicing loans and paying college tuition bills he boats and fishes. He was for four years commodore of the Boat and Yacht Club.
Carl Bowen takes the wraps off his activities and writes as follows:
The news doesn't amount to much but I will bring you up to date and offer a little background. This is my 36th year with Art Metal during which time I was a salesman in the Carolinas, a Branch Manager in Detroit and Boston. I moved to the home office in 1948 and since then have had various assignments including Manager of Branch Sales and Manager of the Product and Markets Division.
I was made Vice President in 1954 and a member of the Board of Directors in January 1957 at which time I was also made President of the Spartan Metal Corporation, a subsidiary in Spartanburg, S. C. I am currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of Art Metal.
We live on Chautauqua Lake a few miles from Jamestown but because of the activities outlined above I am not the fisherman or sailor that I should be and would like to be. Chamber of Commerce and Manufacturers Association activities take up some of the "spare time" in Jamestown but company activities require a considerable amount of travel so recreation is confined to a conditioning program which should keep me in shape to enjoy full scale activities at the end of another nine years!
Russ Carpenter writes that he continues as Treasurer and Chairman of the Board of Sanford Ink Company. He also finds time to be President of the Oak Park Y.M.C.A. and Rotary Club #1, of Chicago.
Fred Clark reports that Paul Carver, his across-the-street neighbor in Swampscott, has purchased a small shop in Marblehead specializing in women's accessories. The Carvers went to the Caribbean last winter on a 22-day trip with the Clarks. Paul and Ruth are expert skiers and golfers.
Again the secretary finds a man whose name has not appeared in this MAGAZINE since 1939, namely Bob Charles. Bob is deep in various research projects at Dennison Manufacturing Company. He served the finance committee of his town of Acton for ten years as chairman. He has just completed twenty years as Treasurer of Corinthian Lodge A.F. & A.M. of which he is a past master and as organist for several masonic bodies. Bob's hobbies are raising flowers and watching ball games.
After nine years of very enjoyable retirement during which cruising, lawn bowling and traveling took much of his time PhilDeBerard is back at work. The assignment is being City Clerk for the city of Deland, Fla. This city hall job plus nine grandchildren keeps Phil very busy, or should it be worded "keeps his wife, Ella, very busy."
Ralph Dunton as well as many other classmates writes that he is planning to drive to Hanover next June for our big reunion.
Dr. Tom L. Norton, dean of New York University School of Commerce, Accounts, and Finance, was recently elected grand national president of Beta Gamma Sigma, business honor society. He succeeds Dean Richard L. Kozelka of the University of Minnesota. Tom, who lives at 2 Rodney Road in Scarsdale, N. Y., will begin his three-year term in September.
He has been dean of the NYU undergraduate business school since 1955. Before that time he served for 10 years as dean of the Bernard M. Baruch School of Business and Public Administration at the City College of New York. A former president of the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business, Tom also is past president and a charter member of the New York State Association of Colleges of Business Administration.
Tom has been an arbitrator of labor disputes since 1933. He also has been regional chairman of the National War Labor Board, regional public member of the National Wage Stabilization Board, special industrial consultant to numerous governmental agencies, and commissioner of mediation of the New York State Board of Mediation. He has written and spoken widely on business and business education subjects. At NYU he also holds the rank of professor of Management.
Jim Dodge's name in these columns is very welcome after 23 years. He and Ethel live at 10 North Broadway in Nyack. N. Y. Jim is with Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc.
Truman and Bunny Metzel have just completed a thousand mile cruise to Guntersville, Ala., from Chicago on Skiddoo II. The itinerary included 300 miles on the Illinois River, 150 miles on the Mississippi River, 100 miles on the Ohio River and 450 miles on the Tennessee River. They left the boat in Guntersville for the winter and plan to return in the spring to continue to Chattanooga and Knoxville. Just a couple of river rats.
On October 29 the Class of 1923 had a cocktail party and dinner at the Dartmouth Club in New York City. George Colton came down from Hanover as guest speaker. He talked on Dartmouth's new three-semester plan. The following were present: Sol C. Levine, Clifford D. Couch, Richard B. Kershaw. Mitchell May Jr., Ted Shapleigh, Phil Jellison, Richard M. Udall, Horace E. Taylor Jr., Sam C. White, Sidney J. Flannigan, Robert Whittinghill, Ted Hellwig Jr., James S. Doyle, Clarence Goss.
Last June Howard (Bart) Bartlett weakened and agreed to serve as housemaster in a M.I.T. dormitory next to Smith House, which houses 570 men.
As a result we spent a good part of July and August cleaning out the junk which had collected at 15 Herrick Street so that we could rent the house to a couple from the University of New Mexico for this academic year.
On September 18 Susie and I moved to 420 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, where we have a very comfortable apartment in the dormitory. Our life is quite different from that in Winchester, but we gradually are becoming accustomed to the antics and noises that start about midnight and continue for two or three hours. It is all kinds of fun and I think it will be good for both of us. For a long time we have been pretty much out of close contact with students and now we have them about us 24 hours a day. We miss our weekends in Maine but that is just one of the adjustments we have had to make. From now until Christmas we have an open house scheduled for Sunday evenings.
Enioying a 1923 houseparty at Sumner Sollitt's farm are (1 to r) seated Truman Metzel Bud Freeman Betty Smith, Dottie Kimball, Ed Juergens, Connie Freeman, Dear Williams, Bettye Sollitt Bunny Metzel, Barbara and Chet Bixby; standing: Stan Smith 25. Ted Swartzbaugh, Sumner Sollitt, Bob Maxwell, Bill Kimball, Major Bird, Irish Flanigan, Karl Williams, and Art Everit.
Secretary, 170 Washington St. Haverhill, Mass.
Treasurer, Commonwealth Shoe and Leather Co. Whitman, Mass.
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