1923
A recent item on Ted Fellows brings a note from Ward Hilton enclosing a picture of the 1923 Phi Psi delegation taken during our senior year. Ted is one of the group, most of whom are wearing knickers and those very stylish Norfolk jackets which I feel sure will reappear one of these days. Personally I am torn between the nostalgia of seeing us as we used to be and the more newsworthy approach of depicting us as we are now. The ALUMNI MAGAZINE understandably prefers the latter approach.
Word comes from Len Bronner as follows: "Yesterday I got off the critical list - some sort of coronary occlusion, but they had bought a job lot of drugs from some huckster in Washington and saw a chance to dump them on me at a good profit. Though I'm still capable of writing I feel my prose style may suffer." Len's misfortune hasn't cost him his sense of humor which in prose and verse has endeared him to all of us over the years. His letter goes on at some length to describe his recent hospital and ecumenical experiences which I will be glad to pass on to you privately some time.
Dud Pope reports that he and Jinny will be at 315 Sylvan Drive, Winter Park, Fla. 32789 from December to May and at 225 Sylvan Road, Glencoe, Ill. 60022 the remainder of the year. Dud's letter ends with "Will you please pass this along as we'd like to have any classmate in this area look us up."
Many 1923 men have represented Dartmouth at collegiate presidential inaugurations. The most recent of us to experience this distinction are Babe Miner and Howard Sammis. Babe was the official representative of the college last October at the induction of President Thomas Hedley Reynolds of Bates College. The Miners have known Dr. Reynolds since the mid-fifties when their son Rich was at Middlebury College. In February Howard was the college's representative at the inauguration of Andrew S. Flagg as the new president of North Adams State College.
From Eleanor Lewis comes the following note of appreciation: "At long last, much to my chagrin, I wish to thank the class of 1923 for the memorial book which you have placed in Baker Library. Bob would have been so pleased and I most certainly am and do appreciate such a nice gesture on the part of 1923."
Memorial books have also been recently added to the library in remembrance of BobC harles and Everett Lyon.
Indirectly we learn that Steele Roberts returned recently to his home in Remsenberg, Long Island from a Florida visit. Steele is still active in the contracting business, has two children, and was recently written up in "Sports Illustrated" as a leading sportsman and authority on game pheasants.
We hadn't seen Walt Rahmanop since last June and feeling a little guilty and antisocial about it we took the liberty of dropping in on him a few days ago in the midst of his very busy office hours. The place was filled with patients and his secretary kept looking nervously in on us while we talked so I didn't get much news about him or Martha and the family. Suffice it to say he is still a very busy, active, and successful Manchester, N.H., physician who sure doesn't look his presumed age.
Billed recently as Business Man of the Week in the Nashua, N.H., Broadcaster is Phillip Ellis Stevens. Phil was with us in 1919 and 1920 and later attended Harvard. He is currently chairman and treasurer of the Maine Manufacturing Company. This long-time manufacturer of refrigerators now produces White Mountain Kitchen Cabinets and sells and installs steel furniture for schools and laboratories. Phil also is active in church work, president of the Charles H. Nutt Surgical Hospital, director of the Second National Bank and a member of several clubs including the Mill Reef Club in Antigua.
Ike Coulter is actively supervising extensive building renovations of the quarters of the "Clinton, Mass., Item" of which he is publisher. This work, which coincides with the 75th anniversary of the paper, includes exterior refurbishing, ceiling lowerings, acoustical changes and the addition of much glass, vinyl and new carpeting - all of which is a welcome indication of Ike's return to good health.
I am in receipt of a bit of very scholarly research on the part of Ed Stocker into the association of Everett Stanley Lyon with the class of 1923. Everett, whom some of us did not know well during his undergraduate years, valued highly his ties with the Class during the long period of his Christian ministry which succeeded a B.A. degree in 1923 and an M.A. from Dartmouth in 1924. I appreciated Ed's letter.
Connie and I are back safely and happily from our four weeks Florida pilgrimage. Some of the highlights: Lunch at Lauder-dale-by-the-Sea with Betty and Fred Davis, who are undeviating East Coast enthusiasts, and dinner with Ruth and Roger Billings and later their guests at the Dartmouth Glee Club concert in Sarasota. I wonder how many of you know the extent of the Glee Club's spring schedule. Starting on March 20 in Philadelphia, they undertook twelve onenight stands which included Norfolk, Charlotte, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Sarasota, Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Baltimore, Washington, Fairfield County, Conn., and finally Cape Cod on April 5.
The Billingses entertained two of the Glee Club boys, David Strauss and Dana Waterman, who joined us at dinner in Sarasota. You need have no fears for either the musical or personal qualifications of these fine representatives of the college.
Leaving Florida we moved on to Akron, Ohio, for a few days of alternating entertainment and relaxation with Lois and HollisRiddle. Hollis, now retired from Goodyear, and Lois are enjoying a full life of golf and bowling, with however a weather eye on their son who graduates this year from Cornell and their daughter who is a sophomore at Valparaiso - Lois' Alma Mater. The Riddles are just completing a summer home in Montana where they will undoubtedly be as you read these lines.
Another reminder, Fred Davis is back home at 17 Gloucester Lane, Gloucester Village, West Hartford, Conn. 06107. He will be happy to hear from you about reservations for the Princeton game. Please don't delay. October is surprisingly near!
The program for the class officers meeting has just arrived and we are looking forward to a weekend in Hanover. John Moore will preside over the session of the Class Presidents Association after which he will pass along the leadership of 1923 to Karl Williams. John has served our Class well for five years. It has been my privilege during the last one of these years to have been closely associated with him. I have come to admire him greatly. Some of us perhaps do not fully realize how long has been his devotion to the Class and to the College. His election last June as president of the Class Presidents Association was an appropriate recognition of many years of unselfish service to Dartmouth.
This is my final secretarial effort during the 1967-68 season. It has been a truly rewarding experience. Thanks for your letters, your suggestions, and your never ending help in a job with which I was all too unfamiliar and inexperienced. I wish every one of you and yours a happy summer and I hope to be back at the same stand come September.
Secretary, Box 2, Francestown, N.H. 03043
Class Agent, Dogford Rd., Etna, N.H. 03750
