1923
Some of the following was gleaned from personal notes on the returned address cards - also with the help of Jim Broe who rounded up some 25 up-to-date addresses for me:
Bill Blake sold his business in 1968 and now as a hobby keeps busy as president and national director of the Arthritis Foundation. Irish Flanigan - whose address and occupation I know as well as I do my own - couldn't let the five cent stamp go unused - avers there's a little scotch in him; Herb Horne says he's retired but busier than ever; Karl and Lee Klaren spent Christmas in Pullman, Wash., with son Peter and his wife Sara where they teach - he at Washington State and she at University of Idaho - eight miles apart; the exotic stamps on John Farnham's card from Tapete, Isle of Tahiti, created a minor sensation in the local post office which closely supervises all mail of the postcard variety; and WoodGauss reminded me of apricot juice corks popping in 54 New Hampshire where he, Nat Austin and I shared lofty fireplaced rooms during junior year.
I was particularly happy to get a return card from Carroll (Red) McPherson. There has been no news of him in these columns since 1941. Red left Dartmouth at mid term during sophomore year, attended the University of Michigan for a year and was graduated from Gettysburg College in 1924. He has been in the newspaper business since graduation and is now an editorial writer for the "Buffalo Courier Express." In the late 30's and early 40's he served as secretary of the Buffalo Dartmouth Club.
Fred Bailey, who is in the family coat of arms business, reports a good business year. Bill Blood has officially retired as a math teacher but is taking substitute teaching assignments. Willard Cousins has made a hobby of antiques and is somewhat of the Pepperell, Mass., town historian.
Ed Crowley has had a bout with surgery and pneumonia and expects to have another hospital session soon. Ed, who at one time headed the Eastern Mass. Street Ry. Co., is now a business consultant and tax advisor.
Lou Grover had a long illness siege last summer and is now in the Rhode Island Hospital in Providence. Cards from a few of you would cheer him up immensely.
Joe Malone has retired as headmaster of Boston English High School. Joe Jr. graduated from Annapolis and daughter Margaret from Trinity (Washington, D.C.). Each has eight children which gives Joe Sr. some kind of a per capita grandchild record.
Ken Robes, who entered Dartmouth with the class of 1924 and graduated with us, is now officially retired from the Westford, Mass., High School where he taught math. Wife Alice continues with her teaching.
Win Temple is top man at the Northboro, Mass., National Bank, a trustee of Wilbraham Academy and president of the Marlboro Hospital. Win has legal offices at 19 Milk St., Boston and in Marlboro.
Bill Welch left in late January for La Paz, Baja Calif., where he met Stuie Knight for their annual ten-day fishing trip Then Bill and wife Ann took off for the Caribbean to island hop until March 30.
Bud Freeman left on March 1 for a three-week fishing trip in Venezuela. Bud has written me in detail about the two undergraduates who are receiving aid from 1923 s Scholarship Fund. I'm passing his letter along to Irish who will fill you in on the details. "
Two good letters came from the Ted Caswells who are currently at Naples, Fla., in an apartment next door to some New Hampshire acquaintances of ours. Ted and Olive called on the Art Events, had dinner and a fine visit with Irish and Alice at Del Ray and then to Deerfield Beach to see Ted's roommate George Scammon and wife Hazel. Unfortunately George was in Exeter, N.H., from where he commutes to Florida. The Caswells' trip back will include a visit with Ruth and Roger Billings in Sarasota.
Phil Segal was elected to the board of directors of Almac's, Inc. at the supermarkets' annual stockholders meeting in January. Phil joined Almacs in 1956 as a store manager and was elected vice-president in
Lou Wilcox has lined up some sixty 1923 class agents to help him with the 1970 Alumni Fund Campaign. The Third Century Fund drive for capital gifts ended on April 1 and we started our drive for gifts from current income. Our goal this year is $44,670 — same as 1968 and 1969. Early gifts and pledges to date come to $11,416.
A fine letter from Pete Hurd with an excellent color photo of Spike Hamilton taken at Pete's New York apartment just a week before Spike died. Pete also enclosed a quarter page New York Times article about Spike's son George whom he knows well says the boy has done an excellent job with very little help and that "Spike would have been proud of him."
I'm indebted to Brooks Palmer for a unique "speed letter" in which he urges that I get together with the 1919 Phillips AnDover class secretary to compile a summary report of the Andover men who went to Dartmouth in 1919. This I plan to do one of these days. Brooks, Pete Jones, and George Scammon attended the class' 50th reunion last June.
I hope Clint Raynor will forgive me for suggesting here that any of you who knew that fine classmate of ours in college or in after years write him a note or send him a card. Clint is in poor health and could use a lot of cheering up. His address is "Fravon," Keswick, Va. 22947. Clint retired in 1964 from Woodward and Lothrop in Washington, D. C., where he was a vice-president. His wife Dorothy passed away a few years ago.
Bill Gates who shared the complexities and the joys of the Mary Smalley eating club with me for some three years writes that he and Catherine are still in Greenfield, Mass. Bill spends less time at the store now and plans to retire in 1971. After that the Gateses will spend their summers in Blue Hill, Me., and the rest of the year at their home in Greenfield. Son Hamilton '50 is in Buffalo with four children and son Dick '54 in Grand Rapids with two children. Bill says the grandchildren grow up awful fast — to which I add amen!
Secretary, Box 2, Francestown, N. H. 03043
Class Agent, Dogford Rd., Etna, N. H. 03750
