1923

Tru Metzel says "When there's a will, there's a way," and "Time's a-wasting." Let's help Tru add forty new names to the confidential roster of those who have made provision for Dartmouth.

Gordon (Bud) Fisher recently represented the National Y.M.C.A. at ceremonies in connection with the Basketball Hall of Fame at Springfield College. The occasion was the 100th anniversary of the birth of Dr. James Naismith, inventor of the game, while at the college there.

Bob Whittinghill writes that his wife Dot has made the first move towards making their house in Conway, N.H., their permanent home by retiring from the firm she has been associated with. One night when he came home he found the dining room table loaded with farewell gifts.

Bob also writes that he ran into the Kanky Chuns at the Columbia game. Kanky recently retired from his long affiliation with Dean, Witter and Co., and with Mildred,, has been on a European jaunt.

Paul and Jo McKown promise they will be on hand for the 40th.

Gordon Fisher writes that our late classmate, Warren H. Gladstone, never lost his interest in Dartmouth during his long illness at Central Islip State Hospital.

Lyman King is in New York City every week in connection with his activities with Trundle Consultants, Inc. with offices in Cleveland, Ohio, and at 420 Lexington Ave. in New York City. Lymie plans to be in Hanover in June '63.

A letter of interest to 1923 arrived recently from Stan Miner '22 (Babe's brother) writing from Zurich, Switzerland. Stan reported on Jim Kraft, our classmate, who is a retired colonel in the U.S. Army and now resides at 27 Chimanistrasse in Vienna 19, Austria with his charming wife Edith. The Miners spent a few hours with the Krafts. One of their rooms contain his war testimonials etc., including his Bronze Star Medal with oak leaf cluster and the Legion of Merit. Their son Nickolas graduates from U. of Maryland in February and the Krafts hope to attend this graduation if the military transport situation clears up.

From "The Dartmouth," 42 years ago

Mar. 1, "In triangle track meet with Cornell and Harvard on February 28, Allen and Moore showed the way in the field in the freshman sprint, finishing first and second in the 40 yd. dash. The Frosh came in second in their relay race. Moore, running anchor man, set out after his Crimson opponent under a 15-yard handicap but fell short after making a great attempt to catch him." "Yearlings outpoint Williston. The fast playing of Millar and Conley featured the game."

Mar 4, "Following the custom of former years, the seventeen "heelers" who survive the 117 original "heelers" will have their annual banquet. The committee in charge consists of L. B. Nostrand, H. W. Hudson, and D. C. Manson." "In the final game of the year, the Dartmouth Frosh beat Dean 27-6. Cullen was the star of the game, while the teamwork of Millar and Conley were of high calibre."

Roy and Beth Brown returned to the U.S. mainland in December only to find his son Jigger about to leave for Caracas for two years with Colgate-Palmolive. The Asiatic flu prevented Roy's trip to California to look into a consulting mining job. His main interest in consulting is to ease into retirement without too much time on his hands. The Browns hope to eventually settle on one of the islands that stretch from the Bahamas to Trinidad.

Pudge Neidlinger's comments on his turning sixty are interesting — "I still play a fair game of tennis - play paddle tennis every weekend - I am sure I could kick a fifty-yard field goal but I'd hate to try staying in a football game ten minutes to get the chance — I could still survive a full period of hockey because the goalie doesn't have to skate - maybe the extra two inches of girth would help fill up the goal."

Pudge retired as executive secretary of the U.S. Council of the International Chamber of Commerce on January 1. He writes they were very generous in making his disengagement painless and he admits that it is a relief to escape from a job in which all the economic problems of the world have concerned him personally. The career which he abandoned to return to Dartmouth as Dean has been a pleasurable avocation during the intervening years. Pudge and Marion hope to settle somewhere on Cape Cod where he may again work with an architect.

Ted and Olive Caswell had their ninth grandchild when their daughter Pat gave birth to a son in the Community General Hospital of LaGrange. Bill Kimball is Business Manager and President of this hospital and his wife Dorothy is director of volunteer services. Pat named her son, very appropriately, Frederick Caswell Dey.

Mrs. W. W. Kimball, better known as Dorothy Kimball, has been selected by the LaGrange Business and Professional Woman's Club as the Woman of the Year. A dinner was given in her honor at the Spinning Wheel in Hinsdale, Ill., on January 19.

Matt and Elizabeth Jones mailed BabeMiner a Joyeux Noel card with a picture of their cottage, in Beauterne par Houdan, Seine et Oise, France, on it. The secretary is sure Matt will not object to this quotation from his note to Babe. "We find living in France to our great liking. We are forty miles from Paris, on a beautiful, fast road, in a hamlet of five families tucked away under rolling wooded hills and cultivated fields. We have converted this simple peasant's cottage into a very delightful home with three bedrooms and two baths and have begun the conversion of our stables into a small self contained guest cottage attached to the open barn. I've only been in the states six months since November 1953 although Elizabeth and I plan to spend a few weeks there early in January 1962 to get rid of our house in Woodstock, N. Y."

Secretary, 170 Washington St. Haverhill, Mass.

Trea surer, 960 Longmeadow St., Longmeadow, Mass.

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