1923

Chuck and Catherine Bishops were new comers in the '23 contingent attending Alumni College last August. Mike McGean will ring his school master's bell next August 13 and it is our hope he and Ike Miller '22 will recruit several new '23 families for this 11-day course. Graduation falls on August 24 and that leaves plenty of time for a week or two before Labor Day.

One hundred persons honored Herb Behan on the occasion of his retirement from Travelers Life, at Betty's Old Towne House in Agawam. Employed in the management division of Travelers for the past 24 years, Herb has been in the Springfield office for seven years. Herb has been insuranceminded for as long as he can remember. His father was vice president of Mass. Mutual. It was in the employ of this firm in Hartford, that he began his career, while there he served as president of the Hartford Life Underwriter Association. The Behans now live in West Brookfield, Mass.

Shiner and Edith Beggs are far from retired—in fact they are a very busy pair operating the M. S. Beggs Company with offices at 420 Boylston Street in Boston. Probably Edith is the key in this company which represents several House Beautiful publications - known in the trade as Shelter magazines- and "Bude and Home" as well as the leading interior decorators' magazine, "Interiors."

Howie Bartlett will become professor emeritus of the department of English and History at M.I.T. in June 1967 when he is formally retired. However he plans to teach on a half-time basis for a few years. Howard and Helen spend the summers in South Harpswell, Me., where they are very pleasantly located in a house which Howard built during two summer vacations.

Vic Barney has been with New England telephone Company for forty years. He is now commercial supervisor in the General Operation. Vie retires in the fall.

After 39½ years with New York Telephone, Ted Barstow retired in March and is at the present sitting in his rocking chair on his porch—16s Sheridan Avenue, Hoho-kus, N. J. Ted says any day now he might start to rock a little.

Dean and Helen Baker are still playing a good deal of rubber bridge, both at home in Rumford and in foreign fields. Dean hopes to retire as president of Attleboro Refining Co., Inc. in about a year. Dean plays club golf (11 handicap) and gardens in his spare time. In 1956 the Bakers had the honor of having the class babies. Now these boys are ten and eleven. They have a daughter Penelope living in Japan with her husband and four children, and a daughter Patience living in London, with her husband and four children.

Gardner Akin reported at a recent Mass. bankers' banquet that he and Jeanie flew in April to Italy, Vienna, Innsbruck, Heidelberg, Cologne, Amsterdam, and London. From Cornwall and Devon - then a few days in Ireland and home.

Pete Alpaugh brings us up-to-date as follows: "I am retired from International Paper -eight years ago, on October 4 I gave myself a wonderful birthday present - I got married to my wife Peggy. I have living in New Orleans four married children- they have ten grandchildren - some in college - some wee ones. Most of our social activities are centered around Masonry-Shrine, Amaranths, and Eastern Star. Panama City being noted for its wonderful beaches attracts a lot of people. Our home has been, more or less, filled with out-of-town friends, all summer. We both loved it. They were people we met in the various mill towns we lived in while in I.P.C0., and who made us so welcome in their home towns."

The following letter from George Plant, 1 Washington Square Village, New York City, warmed the cockles of your secretary's heart on his return from South America: "Around the middle of October, I had a surprising and pleasant phone call from one John C. Allen, who was not calling from Oakland, Calif., but from New York City which he had not visited for seven years. With the trouble he had getting taxis he probably won't visit again for eight years. Johnny was here to visit his son Laddy and wife and two grandchildren (the latest a girl of three months). He looked fine and was full of usual zip and inquisitiveness.

"This called for a get-together of some of our good classmates whom we had not seen as often as we wished and culminated . in a most pleasant lunch at the Dartmouth Club on October 21, 1966. Attending was Charlie Curtis, whom I have not seen since leaving college; Dick Kershaw, who comes into New York all too infrequently; JohnnyMoore, and Charlie Rivoire. Ken Quencer happened by and added to the pleasure of the occasion. It was a most enjoyable get-together except for the fact that the Irishman was out of town and could not join us.

"Before we let John off for home, John Moore, Charlie Rivoire, and I captured him again for lunch at the Dartmouth Club on November 21."

In the September 16 issue of "Time" one will find on page 69 a full description of one of Karl C. William's latest projects. Briefly Karl is chairman of a committee organized by the American Bar Association to assist and encourage clients' security funds in all of the states. Karl reports four new states have joined this year making a total of 26 states and 20 bar associations. The basic idea is to give clients some recompense for misconduct of their lawyers. Karl adds: "These clients' security funds are a debt of honor and part of our responsibility to the public. Our success has been excellent."

1923 Class ReunionHanover - June 12-14, 1967

Secretary, 170 Washington St. Haverhill, Mass.

Treasurer, 960 Longmeadow St., Longmeadow, Mass.

Bequest Chairman,