1923
From Ted and Olive Caswell comes news of Russ and Mary Carpenter. Russ partially retired three years ago but gets to his Sanford Ink Co. plant at least once a week and still gives a lot of time to the local YMCA and Boys Club. The Carpenters go to Colorado each year to visit their daughter Carlie and report their son Bill '50 who played varsity football has a boy who Russ describes as - "entered in the Class of '74. He is 6 ft. 3½ at 195 and a darned good end if his Grandad's judgement is still any good."
Fred and Betty Davis, who very generously supply your Secretary with those incomparable Travelers calendars each year, have just returned from visiting their daughter Julia in Wisconsin. Glad to get back to the temperate zone of New England after minus 15 degree weather and took off for St. Croix in February.
It was good to hear from Walker Leach whose doings were last reported in this column in 1950. Walker is now chairman of the board of the Glenwood Range Company in Taunton, Mass., and reports as follows: "I do not have any news that would be of interest aside from the fact that I am still at work with the company where I started immediately after graduation. I hope to continue for some years and I also hope to be able to attend our fiftieth."
Just a couple of paragraphs from Hollis Riddle's letter from Absarokee, Mont. - wherever that it. "We are staying out here till after New Year's and then home to Akron. We have this place in fair shape and will have our little housewarmmg next weekend. And this is just like your Francestown. We invite the butcher, the hardware man, the druggist, the doctor, the people who run the liquor store and a few ranchers who include Tom Frost '25 - old Doc Frost's son at Hanover, who was one of our big skiers. Weather not bad here. We have about eight inches of snow and then the old Chinook comes in and it's gone in a day doesn't melt, it just disappears no puddles and not much ice. They never salt or sand the roads and with the low humidity the wetness just gets absorbed.
"For New Year's a group of us is going over into Yellowstone - there is a small part of it they have to keep open. I suppose I'll tend to keeping the bar attendance up to par and I may get on a snow mobile for a minute or two." Sounds like a good life!
As you all know by this time Ike Phillips is under full sail as our 50th reunion chairman. Ike is also busy writing weekly columns for the Granite State Gazette and the Vermont Standard, two weekly newspapers based in Hanover and Woodstock. KarlKlaren sent me a copy of Ike's product for the week of January 9, 1969. It's in the form of a daily weather report interspersed with observations, reflections, and comments that range all the way from the feats of Apollo 8 to the peregrinations of the Phillips' cat. It's real good!
Barbara and Chet Bixby recently capped a three weeks' Japan trip with an eleven-day visit with John Farnham and his family in Papeete, Tahiti. Chet writes: "We were royally entertained by John and his family. We alerted him well ahead of time which he greatly appreciated and he a round of entertainment the likes of which we have seldom experienced." John has three daughters on the island and a son in Texas. All three daughters were present at a gala dinner party John staged for the Bixbys and one of them served as their chauffeur. John, who incidentally is a great-great-grandson of Eleazar Wheelock would like to have his classmates visit him in Papeete. An 8 or 10-hour plane layover isn't long enough to do justice to the island's hospitality and advance notice enables him to really swing into action.
Brooks Palmer regrets that a pre-arranged speaking date at the fall meeting of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors conflicted with the Princeton game. His first book on American clocks is now in its ninth printing and his more recent work in the second printing. He and Dyna are collaborating on a third book this one on watches his two previous publications having told beautifully all there is to say about clocks. Brooks tells me the Exeter, N. H., George Scammons are also ardent clock collectors.
I am still receiving changes of addresses - some temporary to be sure - but here's a couple for starters. Just so you won't let him off the hook Irish Flannigan will be at 1009 Casuarina Rd., Delray Beach, Fla. 33444 until April 1. Carl Gray at Chalet Ptomaine, Sun Valley, Idaho 83353, which intrigued me.
The January issue carried an invitation from Charlie and Margaret Moody to visit them at their retirement home in Gadsden, Ala. Charlie passed away recently after a short illness and Margaret sent me the following: "My Husband, Charles Herbert Moody, passed from this life on January 3, 1969 after a short illness. The message from him in the '23 column of the January ALUMNI MAGAZINE still holds good to Dartmouth friends who would care to come by to see me."
The Office of Alumni Records has been checking over its lists of 1923 men from whom nothing has been heard for many years. They have sent me the names of the following: Walter D. Baker, Henry B. Carpenter Jr., Dupree A. Carter, Adolph Feuerlicht, Joseph E. Gilbert, Piatt Kissam, Hobart Olson, Leland R. Smith, and John A. Thompson. All of these men matriculated with the rest of us in the fall of 1919. None stayed with the class for more than two semesters. None have been heard from for nearly fifty years and the addresses of all are unknown. Do any of you know where any of these men are, whether or not they transferred to another college and if they would again want to be identified with the Class of 1923?
Secretary, Box 2, Francestown, N. H. 03043
Treasurer, 960 Longmeadow St. Longmeadow, Mass. 01106
Bequest Chairman,
