1923
Your secretary hereby and herewith commences his ninth year as 1923’s recorder of vital statistics. It has been a highly rewarding experience, one that more or less terrified me in prospect back in 1954 yet has given me many very happy experiences. The mainstay of the column is news and it is my sincere wish that ’23 men will continue to mail in to 170 Washington St., Haverhill, Mass., choice morsels for ’23 consumption. I should list the secretaries of other classes who continually write giving me 1923 news. This pipe line is substantial and is greatly appreciated.
My first privilege is to salute our agent Lou Wilcox, his wife Peg, and the seventy- odd sub agents who amassed $32,451.18 for the 1962 Alumni Fund. The number of con- tributors increased by almost seventy. This is an outstanding job. In July Lou wrote as follows: “We used a low-pressure approach and left it up to each individual to give ac- cording to his ability. The response was wonderful.'ln those cases where a man had not given for a long time we tried to find out whether he had lost interest in the Col- lege and the reason why. I am grateful for the help you have given the College and the Class in connection with this year’s Fund drive. As Head Agent, I’m well aware of the time and effort this has taken on your part. It is the sort of job that could not pos- sibly be done by one man alone, so I am very grateful for your able assistance. I hope that the enjoyment and satisfaction you de- rive from a job well done will be sufficient so that you will be willing to serve again next year.”
Babe and Florence Miner flew out to Ha- waii last March for the wedding of their son “Rich” and Marcia Haynes Peden of Fairfield, Conn. The wedding, a small fam- ily one, was held in Pilgrim Chapel in Ho- nolulu. “Rich” will teach and coach this fall at the Kingswood Country Day School, West Hartford, Conn., and will be a neigh- bor of Blake, Catlin, Craemer, Davis, Rice, and Zimmerman.
Barbara’s and my 1962 vacation consisted of a trip to Florida in May for the purpose of driving Mother Bixby’s car home. We were able to be in Florida only three days and spent this time to very good advantage with the Bill Kimballs at Gulf Harbors, New Port Richey. Bill and Dottie are living in one of Sumner Sollitt’s display homes while their own home is being built in this Sollitt waterfront community on Florida's west coast, 18 miles north of Clearwater. Sum and Bettye Sollitt are building a home within a hundred yards of the Kimballs.
During this visit we spent one full day with the Kimballs cruising along the 120 miles of waterways Sumner has constructed. and out into the Gulf of Mexico —in the Sollitt Chris-Craft.
Twenty-threers looking forward to retire- ment couldn’t do better than to invest in one of the seven thousand lots still available at Gulf Harbors. Three churches are now be- ing constructed in the development, also a thirty-acre shopping center, an 18-hole golf course, and a shuffle board club house.
Already one of the nation’s top real estate men, Jim Landauer became even more prominent in July when he took over di- rection of the Erwin S. Wolfson real-estate investment empire and was named president of Grand Central Building, Inc., the An- glo-American corpora- tion that is building the 59-story Pan Am Building at Grand Central Terminal in New York. Jim is on leave from his own consulting firm, James D. Landauer Associates, and is giving most of his time to the Pan Am Building, sched- uled to be completed in February as the world’s largest commercial building. He will direct construction of another skyscraper in New York’s financial district, and new office buildings in Philadelphia, Denver, and other cities are on the drawing boards.
Bill Fine entered Dartmouth as a wounded veteran of World War I. The sec- ond world conflict found him in Sicily, Italy, and France with an infantry division. Bill has had a long experience in Wall Street brokerage circles. He organized a firm with Francis duPont in 1931, created his own firm five years later and is now, according to the Wall Street Journal associated with Gude, Winmill Cos., 1 Wall Street.
FROM THE DARTMOUTH 43 YEARS AGO
September 25, 1919 Freshmen must wear freshmen caps beginning at 12 noon today. Palae- opitus. . . . Enrollment announced of 590 in class of 1923 104 higher than previous record of Class of 1919.
Oct. 1 1922 baseball team beat 1923 10-2. Battery for 1923: Baldensberger, Schaff, Osborne, Chun. . . . First team: Griffin re, Van Orden rt, Hurd rg, Neidlinger c, Taylor Ig, Scammon It, Lee le, Maynard qb, Burke rhb, Scullion Ihb, Calder fb. .. . Delta Alpha ends tonight. Band starts trip around campus at 8:15. To Webster Hall for Frosh vaudeville show each dorm has act. . . . Freshman Rules announced by Sophomore Vigilance Committee. Oct. 4 designated as Run- ning Day. During the 24 hours, any Frosh ordered to do so by an upperclassman, will run, not dog- trot, until out of sight.
Oct. 9 1923 elects officers: G. Whitelaw, Pres.; C. F. Burke, V.P.; J. T. Taylor, Sec.; L. J. Van Orden, Treas.; C. A. Calder, College Club Rep.
Oct. 11 Exeter beat Frosh in Football 7-0. Punting of Kimball at re keeps score down by long spirals. . . . Freshman enrollment announced at 667, against 378 Sophs, 320 Juniors, 305 Seniors.
Oct. 16 —J. T. Taylor elected captain of frosh football team. . . . Record-breaking crowd of alumni and guests arrive in Hanover for Dartmouth Night and Sesqui-centennial.
Oct. 18 Frosh beat Worcester in last minute. Calder threw several forward passes all were completed. Burke went thru tackle for 10 yds. for touchdown. Foster kicked the goal score Dart- mouth ’23 13, Worcester 7.
Oct. 25—Neidlinger stars in game with Springfield. -o un 4.-—.v n a
Oct. 31 —ln Frosh fall tennis, C. A. Gray defeats G. M. Elliott, thus advancing to semi- finals.
Karl Lundberg ’23 of Pasadena, Calif.,skipped across the Pacific to Hawaii andreceived a native welcome that was by nomeans hard to take.
Secretary, 170 Washington St. Haverhill, Mass. Treasurer, 960 Longmeadow St., Longmeadow, Mass
