1923

T. T. Metzel's birthday was April 18. He and Bunny had just finished packing their baggage that day at the Hotel Strand in Rangoon when a cable arrived from 1923 wishing Metz a happy birthday.

Lou Wilcox writes he is glad to get home at night and get out of the damn corset the Doc has him strapped up in. There has been a steady stream of letters into the Secretary's mail pouch expressing hope that Lou would engineer our class into at least third place in our Green Derby.

As of April 20, 1962 the offices of Julias A. Rippel and Rippel and Co. will be located at 570 Broad Street, Newark, N. J,

Ruel Smith who retired last year as associate advertising director of Time International continues as sales and promotion consultant after thirty years with Time, Inc. Ruel joined the advertising sales staff of Time in 1931 and for fifteen years principally covered the Wall Street beat, helping develop Time's financial advertising volume from a single account to first place among all magazines. In 1944 he was assigned to supervise travel advertising, increased this business in the following six years by 400% over prewar volume.

In 1950 Ruel moved over to Time International, serving successively for eleven years as eastern ad manager, U.S. ad manager, and finally associate ad director. During this period Time International's advertising volume has grown from $1,500,000 to more than $10,000,000.

Bill Blood teaches the mysteries of math and algebra to his ninth grade pupils in Nashua Junior High School. Bill made a remarkable recovery from his hospital experience in September of last year when he had half of his stomach removed at the Groton Hospital.

Clint Wells writes, "As you may know I am married to a former Bradford Junior College girl who before her marriage was Marjorie Smith of the Class of 1936. She is a lovely girl and we have a daughter age 13 who is in the ninth grade at Maplewood Junior High School. I am still a trust officer at Chemical Bank New York Trust Co. in New York."

George A. Morrell writes:

After a series of attacks which were painful and suspicious, I had my gall bladder removed on June 1, last year, and in case you don't know it, it sure takes some time to get back to normal after that operation! I am still going along at about half speed and am inclined to tire after a few hours of activity.

Prior to my operation we had booked passage on the "Caronia" for a North Cape Cruise from New York June 29 and I just managed to go on board in a wheel chair and gradually regained some of my strength during the course of the 45-day cruise and terminated it with a short visit to England and then returned to New York August 15 on the "Queen Mary."

Howard Emerson seems to be Dartmouth's #1 representative in inaugural processions of college presidents. In 1960 Howie marched in the inaugural procession of Dr. Andrew Holt as president of the University of Tennessee. Howard is a full professor and head of the Industrial Engineering department at this university. He recently represented Dartmouth at the inauguration of Dr. Joseph Copeland as president of Maryville College. Dr. Copeland is a former pastor of the church Howard attends.

John Farnham continues to be the leading importer of French Polynesia both in value and volume. He attributes much of his succ ess to the energy and resourcefulness of his Chinese partners. John suggests that members of 1923 when visiting Tahiti pick out summer months, namely July, August and September, for the timing of their visit to the French Pacific Settlements. January through March are hot and humid months.

Gus Meleney is recovering from a bladder operation in which a one-inch stone was removed. Ten days in Florida did Gus and Betty a lot of good as a follow-up after this experience.

Lou Grover, senior vice president of the Citizens Savings Bank and Citizens Trust Co. of Providence, R. I., has recently served as chairman of an important Rhode Island Savings Bankers Committee on revision of the investment law pertaining to savings banks.

Bill Gates writes that he is expanding his John Wilson & Co., Inc., Greenfield, Mass., retail store to compete with the new types of competition which beset retailers. Bill's two sons followed the footsteps of Bill's father and are in the banking business. Hamilton is in Niagara Falls, N. Y., and Dick is in' Norwich, Conn.

" Our George Plant, longtime big wheel in the front office of the National Retail Merchants Association, has been putting on Special Executive Development Workshops on the campuses of various schools of retailing and business administration such as Harvard Business School, Chicago University, Pittsburgh University, etc. George is planning to put a Workshop at Tuck in the near future and thus renew his acquaintance with his Alma Mater.

Lew Ross carries on as President of E.M. Chase Co., New Hampshire's largest furniture store. In this capacity he takes in all the wearisome furniture exhibits. Lew reports Walter Rahmanop has gained some weight and looks more like the Mr. Muscles we knew in the days of yore.

One of the smartest moves Shiner Beggs ever made was to marry Edith a few years ago. While Shiner keeps very busy being the advertising representative for "Bride & Home," "Interiors," "Building Manual," "House & Plans," etc., Edith handles the family correspondence with your secretary and does a wonderful job.

Len and Mary Marshall could write a book entitled "Seeing the World from the Decks of Freighters." This winter they sailed from San Francisco on December 23 on a Norwegian freighter for Perth, West Australia, via Manila, Hong Kong and Singapore. There they fished and hiked to their hearts' content for a month, then sailed to New Zealand for about the same length of time. On April 19 they sailed from Aukland for home via Honolulu, Vancouver and San Francisco on a six-passenger German freighter.

Secretary, 170 Washington St. Haverhill, Mass.

Class Agent, 218 Wells St., Westfield, N. J.