1923

This is the beginning of Column 8 of Bixby as secretary. I do not know where the seven years have gone. They have flown. Each summer I have approached the September first deadline with anxiety as to how much news would accumulate during the vacation months. A few like Broe, Cannon,Caswell, Metzel, Miner and Palmer always come through. The New York corner is particularly quiet. Keep this in mind, 1923, your class notes are only as interesting as the letters to the secretary make them. And the secretary has taken on added responsibilities at Bradford Junior College that will cut down the hours available for class notes.

They say encouragement is essential for class officers who have assumed difficult jobs, essential for their morale while in office and for their willingness to accept a second or third term when the chairman of the nominating committee comes around. This corner thinks the time has come for more realistic Alumni Fund giving on the part of 1923. Think what it would do for Jim Landauer's morale if the $5 men should give $10; the $lO men $20 or $25; the $25 man $5O in next spring's fund campaign. This department knows how hard Jim worked last spring. We must never be in seventh spot again in our seven-class group in the derby.

It is the fond hope of every man in 1923 to visit Honolulu, and particularly KankiChun and John Coonley. If one can engineer a business trip like Paul McKown did last spring the financial strain is lessened. Now that Johnny has retired from American Factors, Ltd. he is available as a host and guide.

A wedding on June 20 which made all of the headlines was that of Sid Stevens to Ivy Baker Priest, the former treasurer of the United States. This occurred on June 20. Cap Palmer was there with John Lyman '28 and Mrs. Lyman and an eye witness report is always the most enlightening.

The wedding was in the Presidential Suite (not the Treasury Suite) of the Beverly-Wilshire Hotel, and it was very nicely done indeed. A goodly showing of celebrity guests; a lot of them young actor and actress friends of Mrs. Sid's actress daughter, but one name that the readers of your column will remember from The Nugget - Sue Carroll (with husband Alan Ladd) still looking very interesting indeed. A string trio serenaded everybody, and the champagne flowed like Western Airlines, particularly down Lyman and me. I hadn't thought of it until this moment, but I wonder if anybody had the crust to tie a bunch of tin cans on the back of the getaway car (I had to get back to the studio and direct a much less exciting scene). Sid looked great, and why shouldn't he with 58 years of carefree bachelor living behind him, and Ivy is, as the pictures indicate, a very good looking woman indeed - also she is charming and gracious and pleasantly extroverted, and since the same three adjectives fit Sid, we may find here an answer to the Question "Will Nixon run again?"

Another wedding of great interest to 1923 was that of Arthur Mansfield Everit and Edith Horton Fegley on June 28. Details of this wedding are missing but will be supplied in a later issue.

Art Scullion made page 1 in the Palisadan of Cliffside Park, N. J., this summer when he was elected president of the United National Bank. Art was born in Cliffside Park. After his graduation from Dartmouth he earned his M.D. at University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1926. He served a two-year internship in St. Vincent Hospital where he roomed with JimHennessy. Art specialized in surgery and in 1942 was made a Fellow in the American College of Surgeons. Due to personal health reasons he retired in 1948.

Sam Horne has been keeping in close touch with George Musk who has had a tough summer. Priscilla says she doesn't know what she would have done without Sam's help. She showed the secretary a stack of cards and letters from '23 men. She is extremely grateful to Jim Broe for his memo to the class which had a tremendous response.

Here's cheering news: Johnny Foster is now at his office at Boyden Associates three days a week. However, his left arm is still pretty useless.

Sid Stevens '23 is probably the first Dartmouth man in history to pay for a marriagelicense with U. S. currency signed by his bride. He was married June 20 to Mrs. IvyBaker Priest, Treasurer of the United States from 1953 to 1961. Shown at the wedding in Los Angeles are (l to r) Cap Palmer '23, Ivy and Sid Stevens, and Mr. andMrs. John Lyman '2B.

Secretary, 170 Washington St. Haverhill, Mass.

Treasurer, 960 Longmeadow St., Longmeadow, Mass.