1923

Winter is just around the corner—behind us that is—as I put together these notes which will reach you in mid-June. With this issue I will have completed one more year of reporting the news of the Class. It has been a pleasant and gratifying year and again many thanks to all of you for your letters and your friendly assistance.

At intervals since last January many of us in the New England area have been receiving mysterious postcards from Babe Miner urging us to reserve Tuesday, April 25 at all costs. The promised big event-Austin and it was just that—turned out to be a dinner meeting of the Springfield, Mass., Dartmouth Club with an attendance of 170 and Charlie Zimmerman as the featured speaker. This was no ordinary stop on the chicken dinner circuit. Charlie, of course, did an outstanding job of filling us in on the background of Trustee thinking, studies, and soul-searching that resulted in coeducation and the four term plan. Also Art Little's son, Art Jr. '53, was inducted as President of the Club. Both Art and Edith had looked forward to being with us but Edith's unexpected illness, from which she is now recovering nicely, made this impossible. Included as guests of the Club were thirteen Springfield area high school juniors who received awards for outstanding scholastic and athletic accomplishments, together with thirteen seniors who have already been accepted in the Dartmouth Class of 1976. Three of the latter are young ladies. Much of the credit for bringing these young people together with our alumni goes to Dr. Kenneth Nicholson '45 whose daughter incidentally is transferring to Dartmouth this fall. As you might expect, 1923 was well represented. Present were Howie and Berta Alcorn, George and Jo Weston, Chet and Barbara Bixby, Babe and Florence Miner, Clarence and Priscilla Goss, Walt and Connie Dodge, Charlie and Jean Rice, Walter and Catherine Gates, Jim Hennessy, Len Truesdell, Charlie and Opal Marie Zimmerman, and Charlie's secretary, Jean Colby, who over the years has so ably processed huge amounts of Dartmouth correspondence.

John Harkins writes Bob McMillan from San Bias Puerto, Nayarit, Mexico that all four issues of the Golden Review have finally caught up with him. The problem was—and this may have been the misfortune of others of you—that third class mail is not forwarded from the original address. A couple of weeks ago John ran into George Broadley who said he was returning to the States the following month. According to John however, George has made this assertion regularly over the past two years. There must be something about Mexico, however, for John goes on to say, "I don't think I could survive another summer in San Bias, though somehow I lived through three. Still there is talk now of developing the place, but they have been saying that for more than 400 years."

A good letter from Gunhild Hurd with a fine color picture of Pete, together with a copy of the eulogy read at Pete's funeral. Guntiild is now in her New York apartment and plans to come to Concord and perhaps Hanover for a visit soon and later a trip to Sweden and Monte Carlo for a visit with her family and friends.

Recently at a cocktail affair at our son's place in Washington one of the guests told me she had a "Fashion" clock and wanted to know if it was worth anything. My son, who now has more old clocks ticking around the place than I do, got out BrooksPalmer's latest book and quickly identified the clock as a rather rare calendar clock manufactured by Seth Thomas. For some obscure reason the word "Fashion" appears in large letters on one of the dials. Any of you who have an old clock and can't identify it will probably find it included among the some 500 illustrations in Brooks' masterpiece on old time pieces.

Clarence Goss says the new auto train from Virginia to Florida is wonderfulsaves a 1000 miles of monotonous driving each way. He and Priscilla visited with Roger and Ruth Billings, Sherm andBert Clough, Phil and Ella DeBerard and Irish and Alice Flanigan. In St. Petersburg Clarence called Roy Height on the phone and learned he is now confined to a wheel chair with arthritis. Roy's subsequent letter to Clarence says in part: "Yesterday Rog Billings stopped by to see us. In our sophomore year Rog roomed next door in Middle Mass. with TomBreen. I roomed with Don Gallagher who died that year of tetanus. I am very happy with my life. I have swimming and bridge for recreation, a fine wife in Adeline, two fine children and three grandchildren. I should love to get back for the 50th but without a miracle that is out. So I do hope that any of the Class—whether or not we were pals in College—will stop to see Adeline and me. We still feel that Dartmouth and 1923 were the best things that could have happened to us."

Class officers will have met in Hanover by the time you read this. Ike Phillips and his reunion committee will by then have still further firmed up our 50th plans. You have already heard from him about the possibility of a post-reunion gathering. Since the Alumni Magazine won't reach you again until after the Princeton weekend, may I remind you again of it and of Ted Barstow's availability re reservations—Dunster Drive, Hanover 03755. Hope to see you there on October 13 and 14. So long until then and have a good summer!

Secretary, Box 2, Francestown, N. H. 03043

Class Agent, 3 Sealand Drive Newtown, Conn. 06470