1923
Ken Quencer, reunion chairman for our 44th, announced the reunion tax as being $27.50 per person or $55.00 per couple. Children are $20.00 each. Ken asks that checks be made out to Dartmouth 1923 Reunion, and mailed to: Kenneth C. Quencer, 60 East 42nd Street, New York, New York 10017.
John Read retired from the F. B. Harris Corporation. He and Caye are good bridge players and on occasion take on Fred andMadelyn Clark. They will be on deck for reunion.
Sol Cohn is now a gentleman of leisure. He and Phyllis have seven grandchildren ranging in age from 3 to 18. The Cohns reside at 5 Riverside Drive in New York City.
George Coaker intends to keep active until his son, James, finishes his schooling. He is now a junior at Lafayette College (engineering). Last summer George and Margaret spent several weeks sightseeing along the Pacific Coast.
Freddie Reed retired from the Jordan Marsh Company a year ago. The occasion was marked by a party at the Boston Army Base Officers' Club, 140 people including his family being in attendance. Freddie was divisional credit manager of the company for fourteen years. Freddie's wife, Marie, is suffering with Parkinson's disease.
Sherm and Bert Clough are certainly enjoying Sherm's retirement. They are very much on the go, first visiting Galen and his family in Indiana and then Sherm Junior and his family in Chappaqua, New York.
Carl Reed has had a busy and interesting life, running the Niagara Lithograph Company, playing golf, fishing and serving as president of the Wanahah Country Club, the Buffalo Club, the Country Club of Buffalo, and the Windfall Lake Fish and Game Club. During intermissions he has headed United Fund, church and hospital drives.
Jean and Al Reinthal are still horseback riding in New York's Central Park.
Les Richwagen is now executive vice president of Mary Fletcher Hospital in Burlington, Vermont.
Tommy Chambers now lives in La Jolla where he enjoys the natural air conditioning. Tommy is retired.
Charlie Chadbonrne retired after almost 42 years in the insurance game, the greater part of which was spent being office manager of Travelers in Manchester. He is surprised how easy it is to keep busy.
Holly Riddle retired from Goodyear last June after 38 years of the most interesting work one could wish for. The full time was spent in the financial side of international business where he was involved in all of Good years expansion moves in some 36 countries. This work took Holly abroad continuously since 1936. In all he has traveled close to a million miles, been seven times around the world and visited over 100 countries. Last summer Holly visited the WalterDodges in Francestown and it was your secretary's privilege to reunion with him on that occasion.
Paul Carver seems to keep himself busy running his Elizabeth Bell Shop Inc. from 9:30 to 11:45 a.m. Then he is off to the club for lunch and golf. He and Ruth do quite a bit of traveling.
Your secretary is quoting from a very interesting letter from Russ Carpenter: "Two years ago I retired from active duties at the plant but spend a day or two each week at my desk keeping in touch and am still active
chairman of Board. Free time is spent with civic jobs and have been quite wrapped up for many years with YMCA and Boys Club work. The good Lord has blessed me with good health, as he has for all my family so I still enjoy golf, swimming and less strenuous forms of athletic exercise. Have not been back to Hanover for many years but did relish that great victory at Princeton last fall. My brother Tom lives in Scars dale. New York, and now that we have the time Mary and I are planning at least one trip a year to old New England. Shall hope to take in some of the class reunions which I have missed for much too long a time. Hope anyone coming out to the Windy City will pay us a visit."
Steele Roberts is president of H. S. Roberts, Inc. contractors who specialize in asphalt paving and tennis courts. He and Mary live at Westhampton Beach, Long Island.
Robby Robinson still operates his manufacturers representative business in Cleveland. His lines are small electrical components.
Leon Sargent keeps himself very busy directing the trial work of Powers, Hall, Montgomery & Weston, 30 Federal Street, Boston. Leon says he plans to gradually withdraw from appearances in court and let the younger men carry this load. He and Mary are finding their farm in Center Sandwich a great place for relaxation. The Sargents have neighbors at this spot by the name of Wilfred and Elsie Catlin.
John Moore retired March 1 as vice president of Monroe International, a division of Litton Industries, manfacturers of computers and communications components. He had worked for Monroe for more than 40 years and was well known throughout the organization. John started with their offices in New Haven and Norwich, before moving to New York City in 1930. In 1948 he became northeastern regional manager and in 1954 was named to manage the company's largest "sales office on Park Avenue.
Eddie Rowe is still practicing law, 95% in trademarks before the patent office. The balance of his time involves patents. Eddie says he has a fine associate, an Amherst man and incidentally a Phi Delt.
Hip Conley retired last June from Continental Illinois Bank after 44 years of service. Conley, a vice president, had returned to Continental after his normal retirement a year ago and most recently was on assignment as a specialist in banking relationships with state and local governmental bodies.
In 1953 and again in 1957 he served, on leave of absence from the bank, as chief revenue clerk in the state treasurer's office for two-year periods.
On retiring Hip bought himself a Cadillac. This he and Viva are going to use traveling around the country and to Hanover in June. When Sammy and Nancy Sammis are not traveling on the Holland American line, Sam is busy in the real estate appraisal field. His office is at home and if one should call him in the morning it is "easy to reach over his Beautyrest and take the call." When Sam has a difficult appraisal he asks advice from the Dean of Appraisers in Boston, F.
Paul Morgan.
Vic Cannon retired several years ago and manages to keep busy with golf three or four times a week and looking - the investments of relatives as well as his own. Vic and Georgia's traveling has been curtailed the past few years owing to the illness of Georgia's mother.
At least once a week, while the Great Lakes are open to Navigation (April to December), Vic works as a volunteer for seaman's service. This is a local organization made up of non-paid volunteers.
Their function is to greet the foreign ships that come into Cleveland. In addition to giving them literature, etc. regarding the city they offer free movie tickets, bowling, baseball games, football games. This work Vic has found most interesting. On a recent Monday he greeted four ships: two German, one English, and one Norwegian. Their ships were large ones with excellent quarters.
Stuart Robinson is retired from active management of Robinson Clay Products Company, in Akron, but still a director of the company. This gives the Robinsons free time for travel.
Carlos Sanchez, alias "Duke,' alias Red Carlos," now resides at 8 Avenue 12-18, Guatemala City, Guatemala. He writes that he is sure we will be happy to learn that he has 915 grandchildren.
1923 Class ReunionJune 12-14, 1967
Secretary, 170 Washington St. Haverhill, Mass.
Class Agent, Dogford Rd., Etna, N. H. 03750
