1923
The class should be proud of the record of our current holder of the Daniel Webster National Scholarship on the class of 1923 Fund. All in all, John F. Krume had a fine freshman year academically and in extracurricular activities. On the academic side his 3.3 average ranked him 229th in a class of 818, despite his taking the rather difficult pre-engineering program. He is currently planning to become a mechanical engineer via the Thayer School. You probably know that he won his numerals in both football and baseball. One term of his sophomore year is already past and he did even better academically with two B's and one C—. He did not win his letter in football, but he saw quite a bit of action and the guess that he didn't miss it by much. We feel sure the class is going to see and hear his name quite often during the next two falls. Just one interesting sidelight: Last year he had an A in physics — his only A so far - despite the fact that he was reported failing it at the middle of the term! He certainly accepted thechallenge.
The class will rejoice when it reads thatJohn Foster is making slow but steadyprogress. He returned to his office in earlyFebruary. John appreciated the letters ofencouragement that came from 1923-ers.Many of whom he had not seen for thirtyyears.
An interesting letter from C. H. "Ken"Hurd, DDS, of Cleveland, Ohio, should begiven a direct quote in this column.
Yes, I left Dartmouth at the end of my sophomore year, entered the class of 1925 at Western Reserve Dental School. My father was a dentist but I never got to practice with him for he died just a year before I graduated. I got married on March 21, the first day of spring, 1936 ("In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to. thoughts of love, etc.", y'know). While my full name is Charles Kenneth Hurd, I have always, been called "Ken" and I remember the unusual coincidence as a freshman at Dartmouth, there was a Kenneth B. Hurd (Pete) there. I was a. Kappa Sig and he was a fraternity man also. Two "Ken Hurds" in the same class! I remember the-Horne boys very well, for they had my roommate at Wheeler (Phil Smith) and me to their home over a long holiday weekend and we dated a Cleveland girl at Bradford. Those were really the happy care free days! Be sure to give my regards to; the "Home Boys."
A mailing recently went out on the Rainbow Lake Estates, Silver Springs Boulevard,. Ocola, Fla. This is one of Sum Sollitt's projects and is on Florida's West Coast, six miles, from Dunnellon. It contains 7000 acres of rolling highland country. The small sum of $695 buys for a 1923-er a 14-acre estate while for $1795 he can have an acre estate.
Helen Heep, Frank's widow, wrote a heart-warming letter to the secretary. "I wish you would express my thoughts to the whole class if ever you have the opportunity. I think, your custom of sending complimentary copies, to widows, of the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE is just the most thoughtful act you could have performed through the years. Each month, when I come home from business to find the familiar cover depicting some scene of the Dartmouth campus to-greet me, I am warmed by the sense of belonging that it conveys, I read it from cover to cover whether or not I know the people featured in that issue. Bless you all for your kind understanding. I am sure I express the feeling of many other bereaved alumni wives."
In Concord, N. H., Pudge Neidlinger, executive secretary of the U. S. Council of the International Chamber of Commerce, recently delivered a powerful address on the under-developed countries of the world and what we should do about them. Pudge warns-that whoever wins the support of the underdeveloped countries will have attained an almost unassailable position and will be the dominant force in the control of the world's resources. Pudge discussed the economic integration of Europe and said that while it would make European producers more efficient competitors of the United States and posed the threat of a tariff war, in the long run it would result in expansion of the world market and while the United States percentage of this market might not be as high as at present the volume of business would be greater.
Bill and Anne Welch spent the week of February 6 at Tahiti on their way to Australia and Hong Kong. Bill is a corporation and bank attorney and a trustee of substance. While in Tahiti the Welches visited JohnFarnham in his beautiful bungalow on the outskirts of town. His home is surrounded by beautiful vegetation. They found him stripped to his waist, his loins wrapped in a red and white pareu. John is now semiretired and his Chinese partner, of whom he spoke highly, is the mainstay of his business. He is very successful, is well liked and respected. He sent the following message home to Pete Jones. "Tell Pete you found a happy if somewhat unambitious man." We do not think anyone who achieves his ambition can be termed "unambitious."
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