1923

7th Annual Class of 1923 Family Reunion

The consensus of opinion was that the gathering in Hanover at the Inn, March 7-8-10, was the most enjoyable and unusual in the memory of the old timers who have been coming back for years. At the banquet in the Ski Hut the following sons of 1923 enjoyed our hospitality:

Stevan B. Little '55 and fiancee, Miss Florence Trumball; Herbert L. Young '57 T1; John C. Durkin Jr. '58; John M. Foster and fiancee, Miss Toni Hetherington; Philip C. Weinseimer '58; Frederick M. Putnam '59; John R. Adams '60; Peter F. Klaren '60; Ford A. Daley '61.

Now for classmates and wives:

Chet and Barbara Bixby, Jim Broe, Chuck and Ida Durkin, Kaub and Joan Haubrick, Sam and Mim Home, Karl and Lee Klaren, Ed and Madelyn Lyle, Joe and Alice Pollard, Art and Edie Little, and Johnny Foster.

Doggie Julian, flushed with pride after hisbasketball team's second Ivy triumph inthree years, was our speaker. He did a terrific job and was rewarded with enthusiastic applause.

We have scheduled a reunion already for next February. The actual date will be announced in the November issue.

Ford Daley wrote the following bread and butter letter:

I sure would like to thank you and all the others of the class of '23 for a most enjoyable evening at the Ski Hut. I know my Dad is very sorry that he could not make it. The food was excellent and the atmosphere warm and friendly. It was a really fine feeling to see the high regard you alumni hold Dartmouth in, and it makes me feel a real attachment for the college. I am already looking forward to next year.

A quick run-down on Al Whaley. Son 26, daughter 22, son 18. Latter went to college last September - others finished. Fully recovered from October 1956 heart attack and thirty pounds lighter. Last summer Al built a ranch type house in Chatham, N.J. He is taking things much easier and surprisingly gets as much done. He works for United States Steel Export Company in New York as Staff Assistant to Vice President and Comptroller. Last fall Al planned the move into a new building recently constructed.

Johnny Allen reports on a "just at dawn" phone call last October:

Phone rang and long distance operator said Los Angeles wanted to speak to "Carlin" Allen. Only friends of my early youth knew me by that name so I was immediately on guard lest my past was catching up with me. It did, but very pleasantly so. I'm sure you will remember the occupants of Thornton Hall, third floor rear, freshman year. One roommate; namely Ralph Staley, initiated the transcontinental telephonic visit with the other. The call came right smack out of the blue since Ralph and I have not had occasion to correspond much and I don't think we have laid eyes on each other for nigh onto twenty years. Ralph is local manager for Encyclopedia Americana. Not a word about - books, however. He recently fathered a newborn son. Does this establish some sort of record?

It is high time this secretary reported on Win Wadleigh. After graduating from Dartmouth, Win taught school for a year in Honolulu. Then he went to Harvard Law School and graduated in 1927. After that he practiced law for two years in Concord, then served as Assistant Attorney General of the State of New Hampshire for two years. In 1931 he went to Manchester to practice law as a partner in the firm which is now known as Wyman, Starr, Booth, Wadleigh 8c Langdell. Three of his partners are Dartmouth men - Bob Booth '22; Ralph Langdell '28; and Bill Starr '33.

Win is engaged in the general practice of law but his particular interests are corporations, estates and trust work. He is a director of the Merchants National Bank of Manchester and Secretary of the Amoskeag Company, which is an investment trust in Boston. At the present time he is a director of the Y.M.C.A., a trustee of Gale Home for Aged Women, on the Advisory Committee of the Manchester Children's Home, a trustee of Pine Mountain (a corporation to provide a religious retreat), and on the Investment Committee of the New Hampshire Congregational-Christian Conference. He has been president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Manchester and also has been President of the Manchester Kiwanis Club. For five years he was a trustee of the Elliot Hospital in Manchester. Win has some wonderful hobbies: Swimming, travel, theater, reading and searching out attractive securities. Incidentally, he does the Charleston whenever requested. He did it for the local Kiwanis show in 1952 and last fall won a prize on the S.S. Independence for doing the Charleston in a dance contest.

Win and wife, Sylvia, are both keen about travel, so in the fall of 1952 they went to Spain and England. Other trips have taken them to Ireland, Greece, Yugoslavia, and Belgium. This next fall they hope to go to Portugal and England.

Now for a briefing on Phil Keigher. Since graduation Phil has been in the field of building materials, mostly on the sales end for the Flintkote Company. In this capacity he looks after their interests and his own in five counties in New Jersey. To Phil's knowledge, no 1923 man lives or has a place of business in these counties, namely Morris, Warren, Somerset, Hunterdon or Union. If Phil is wrong please set him right. He is secretary of the Livingston, N.J., Rotary Club and hopes some 1923 Rotarian will make up his attendance there.

Charlie Chadbourne is office manager of the Travelers Insurance Company, in Manchester, N.H. He has completed his new home and manages to keep very busy around the house and grounds when not at his office.

Bob Haggart is counting the days till duck hunting season in his native wilds of North Dakota. That sovereign state opens the season for local ducks the last Saturday in September. Bob says North Dakota raises more wild ducks than any other state.

Preston W. (Brick) Pennell attended Dartmouth one year, then graduated from Colby College and Bangor Seminary. Through the years he has been loyal to his three alma maters. In January he attended a Convention at Bangor Seminary. This is a three day affair which is the highlight of the year for men like Brick who work in rural Maine.

Ted Hell wig spent a very enjoyable two days in Clearwater, Fla., in December visiting Loosh Ruder. Ted's son, Ted, was married January first. His daughter, Barbara, is in Europe for most of 1958. Ted and Berta have one son Peter, age thirteen, who is at home with them.

Hal Baker and wife Katherine were in Europe last August on a long-to-be-remembered junket through England and around the continent. He is now hard at work on the biennial chore of revising the textbook of which he was a co-author, "Introduction to Business." A college text that is used in some 500-odd colleges. The text is now in its third edition and the publishers say it is the leading one in its field. Regrettably, it is not used at Dartmouth. Hal is very happy to write that Katherine can again make herself heard and understood quite well through learning the esophageal speech after the operation a year ago which cost her voice.

One of those real newsy letters came in the other day from Len Marshall. This was mailed from Cape Town, Africa on Valentine's Day.

Thanks for your letter — it was forwarded to me from La Jolla. Left there - Mary and I November 23 on a Danish freighter to Japan-Formosa-Saigon-Bangkok. We then took a train to Penang - then a plane to Singapore and now on a Dutch freighter (we sailed from Singapore four weeks ago today). Scotch is thirteen cents a drink and the food is excellent so will hate to get off tomorrow when we land in Capetown. On this ship the "Stratt Bali" of the Royal Interocean Line, we made stops in Portuguese East Africa, Durbar, East London and Port Elizabeth. Will spend some weeks in South Africa, then try to pick up a cargo ship to Europe where we take delivery of a Karman Ghin convertible on April 5 at Chiasso, Italy. Expect to sail for the States the latter part of May. If we should come in by East Coast will come by to see you and Glen Elliott. — I was re-married September 13, 1956 to Mary Neill Washburn who was born in Cambridge, Mass.

An announcement of interest to those whoenjoy fishing offshore was that of HenryMoore of the Boston Herald when he described a recent fishing exploit of StuieKnight. Here is a quote from the BostonHerald:

Broadbill swordfish, most prized and difficult of the North Atlantic big game species to take on rod and reel, have reached the offshore grounds between Block Island and Nomansland. So far all catches reported have been by harpoon. But if the signs read by veteran commercial men are right, this could become a terrific season for those hoping to establish a swordfish and white marlin sport fishery in the Block Island-Nomans-Cuttyhunk "offshore triangle."

F. Stuart "Stuie" Knight, Brockton shoe machinery manufacturer, hit the broadbill jackpot last June on his Gail K. out of Mensha on the Vineyard with three swords boated in a bit over five hours. They dressed 351' 337 and 122 pounds.

"The fish are still scattered," Stuie reported. "But they're taking them all the way from Block Island and to southeast of Nomans. All the way from the Vineyard hooter into Nomans the water is loaded with bait. Big mats of squid balled up all over the place." Stuie says, "Whenever they see that, the commercial men look for a good year." He figures the white marlin fishing could be terrific this summer.

The Rev. Ted Hubbell '24, who has twoEpiscopal parishes in Follansbee, W. Va. Hisregular TV program has made him a well-known religious leader in the area.

Secretary, 170 Washington St. Haverhill, Mass.

Class Agent, 980 Chapel St., New Haven, Conn