1923
Buss Carpenter has helped me greatly in my search for memorabilia of the Smalley Eating Club. Russ graced "her majesty's" kitchen for three years and says of Ma: "Never have I known a soul with a bigger heart than she had. No one knows how many Dartmouth men she helped out with a little cash or sent home goodies for one of her boys who was sick. It's too bad some one hasn't written a book about her for I'm sure she was the best known and best liked of the town folk of our era. I remember you and Bill Hatch, also Kippy Couch who handled the book work for her."
Russ goes on to say that he is semi-retired but still Chairman of the Board of Sanford Ink Company. Wife Mary is quite ill and their younger daughter who is unmarried keeps house for him. His son Bill '50 has a boy entering Dartmouth this fall who Russ says is a fine golfer and will be heard from football-wise in the near future. Russ' other daughter married a Cornell man with a Ph.D. from M.I.T. He is an astro physicist working in the National Center of Atmospheric Research. They have two daughters and a son.
Russ concludes with a paragraph we all should give some thought to: "I'm sure we all owe much to the grand college on the hill. I feel sure our new prexy is going to be great. With my grandson there for four years I look forward to having a closer insight into what is going on."
As one who is long gone from the land of secretaries and typists I greatly appreciate the effort involved in the following from Jim Landauer—written in long hand:
"In August we had a small '23 gathering at our Hanover place. The Lou Wilcoxes,Ted Barstows and Frank Dotens as couples and Irish Flanigan, Bud Freeman and yours truly as caballeros. I can also report having had a visit with GeorgeVandebilt who was up at the Hitchcock Clinic for a check up. Among class items you should know that Kip Couch has retired from business lives in Bridgehampton, L. I. and has become active in local Boys Club and Red Cross work. Also, LiefNorstrand is now life insurance officer of the East River Savings Bank in New York City. Dr. Jim Taylor of Johnstown, Pa., is recovering from major surgery—write him.
"You ask for news of me and I am hard put to it for anything newsworthy. I am not retired and don't intend to be. Although I have just merged my business with Marlennan Corp., the holding company of Marsh and McLellan. Still play tennis (doubles), golf, ride, fish, and hunt. Have plenty of extra curricular activities involving church, hospital, orphanage, school and civic duties. We travel moderately but regularly. Two of our three daughters are married and in addition to the family job have jobs on the outside. The third daughter teaches at the Central Presbyterian Church School in N.Y.C. We boast of three grandchildren, one a junior at Briarcliff College and another a junior at the Loomis School outside of Hartford. In short, I am blessed with a wonderful family and am most thankful for good health."
While he was in Hanover Jim took advantage of the Mary Hitchcock Hospital check-up facilities. All is well I assure you. While there he ran into George Vanderbilt who was pursuing a similar course of investigation. George's wife June wrote Jim that George isn't in the best of health and they can't be sure about the Princeton game.
This reminds me that Babe Miner has again on the receiving end of a surgical experience—this one a minor one. All's well and Babe is back in full circulation again. The October 1 Longmeadow-Hartford 1923 get together came too late for this issue. Babe promises full coverage in a later issue.
TRAVEL NOTES: Ed and MadelynLyle just recently completed what I call the "grand tour"—starting with England, the continent and ending up in Paris—twelve countries in all. Ed says: "We didn't see a single Dartmouth couple. Poor planning on our part no doubt." That it was, Ed, with the way 1923 seems to be moving around these days.
Chet Bixby reports he's now as busy as he was thirty years ago. He and Barbara left Sept. 1 for Europe and the Passion Play and were most recently reported in Dublin. They are traveling with Herb and Bea Home. Word of the Bixby activities also comes to us in the form of a news report that Chet with three other shoe industrialists has purchased the Onco division of Brown Company in Berlin, N. H.
Do remember Jim Landauer's comment about writing to Jim Taylor. His address is 530 Luzerne St., Westmont, Johnstown, Pa. 15905.
And on a very sad note. Ted Shapleigh's widow Marjorie passed away suddenly on September 11. Marge had been in apparent good health since Ted died a year ago last December. She had adjusted well to her loss and was living quietly in the New Haven apartment she and Ted had lived in for several years before his death. Charlie andJean Rice and Jane Wallace attended the funeral. Charlie Zimmerman who was both Marge's and Ted's close friend and confidant was away and unable to attend.
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