1923
On February 16 Ted SwartzbaugU played host at his Fort Lauderdale home for a group of 1923 tourists. Cocktails and luncheon were enjoyed) Adah and Art Everitt, Olive and Ted Caswell,Alice and Irish Flanigan, Miriam and Sam Horne, Natalie and Bob McMillan, Jean and Charlie Rice and Haze! and George Scammon All pres ent reported they are planning to attend our 50th in June.
Colonial Communications Corp. recently annred the appointment of Pete Howe as editor publisher of the Garden City News. Pete has served the paper as advert,sing manager and editor for the past three years. A Garden City resident for the past 48 years, he has been in the upblishing business since graduation. At Dartmouth he was editor and president of The DailyDartmouth and served The New York Times,Springfield Republican, and Boston Herald as college correspondent.
Pete was advertising manager of the YouthsCompanion and eastern manager of The AtlanticMonthly until 1930 when he moved to the Monthly - newspaper business, working for The NewYork Herald, The Evening Post, and World-Telegram. In 1939 he joined Robert deGraffs new paperback company, Paper Books, Inc. and served as vice president in charge of sales for 12 years. In 1956 he became executive vice president of Henry M. Snyder and Co., overseas sales agency for American book and magazine publishers, and stayed there until his retirement in
During his last five years with Snyder, he bought all the books and magazines (including 100,000 Playboys) supplied by the Post Exchanges to the U.S. Forces in Vietnam. In 1969 retirement paled and he went back to the newspaper business with the Garden City News.
From Len Marshall at 202 Coast Boulevard, LaJolla, Cal. 92037 comes the following: "I have been a bit out of touch because most of the mail has gone to Carrmel. I had expected to be living there but am still delayed. We will get there eventually though. I do have to go to New Mexico on business soon - then perhaps to my real home town Guadalajara for a holiday. I have hopes of seeing you and the gang in Hanover in June." ,
As I reported earlier Ted Barstow, much to the delight of Ike Phillips, has taken on the chore of compiling a 1923 directory to be distributed at Reunion. Ted writes that keeping track of the addresses of our currently rather mobile classmates is presenting some problems. He and his "Hanover Committee" are depending largely on the usually accurate records of the Alumni Records Office and the six issues of the Golden Review. If any of you haven't advised either the College or Ted of a change in address won't you do so as soon as possible?
More or less as a postscript to his recent letter and with the grave possibilty of unfavorable collegiate reaction Ted adds:
In the meantime Winter Carnival has come and gone but with little interest for me. Somehow I don't think the girls are as pretty as they used to be when we were young. Perhaps "D" Coeds are too much the intellectual type." Is that why there was no Carnival Queen this year, Ted?
From The Wall Street Journal we learn that the directors of pay less Drugstore , Northwest, Inc., and Play Less drugstores, Oakland, Calif., have agreed merge the two companies subject to stockholders' approval. Under the proposed plan Hawes, chairman of Pay Less Northwest will be vice chairman of the new company. The - merger would create a company with sales in excess $237 million and operating 93 retail units in five Western states.
Connie and I made a flying trip to Hanover last Saturday and viewed the mouldering remains of the once imposing Cheshire Cat that graced the mid-campus during Carnival - an enormous animal, down whose icy back the Town kids were sliding happily.
Babe Miner has sent me the 1972 Autumn Report of "Friends of the Dartmouth Library." When the 1971-72 academic year closed last June 30 there were 725 individuals enrolled as "Friends." General income for the year was $13,-250. This sum represents direct contributions to the Friends treasury, resulting from response by the membership to annual subscription appeals, and does not include funds given for special purposes which are recorded separately in the report.
Included in the report is mention of the generous gift of Jim Landauer, establishing an endowment to be used to sponsor special programs and projects which will serve to extend, broaden and enrich the present scope of the Library's activities. Also included is a listing of various papers, manuscripts, and books donated by Al Pianca, Herb Home, Jim Landauer, Babe Miner,Ed Roe, George Whiteside, and Charlie Zimmerman.
For many of us a library has meant solely a repository for books. The variety of donations made by the Friends membership and others disabuses one of this notion. It occurs to Babe therefore - and to me - that as some of you contract your living quarters and move into apartments or condominiums and consequently clean out attics and sort out your possessions you may find a painting, an old manuscript, letters, prints, books, political cartoons, professional records, maps, and other items worthy of donating to the Library. If you do, write Babe or write directly to Edward Lathem, Dartmouth College Librarian.
And now as we approach our 50th Reunion it seems appropriate for me to inflict a few 1923 vital statistics upon you:
A total of 698 of us matriculated in 1919. This figure was of course somewhat increased by transfers, particularly during our sophomore year. Most all of us are now retired and probably as a consequence many have recently been on the move. During the past three years 79 have changed their permanent addresses. We now have 33 classmates and 11 widows living in Florida. Twenty-five classmates and six widows have preferred California. Incidentally, and just in passing, Howie Alcorn, Tom Coughlin, and Roswell Jorgensen haven't changed their addresses since July 1923. As far as I can determine they are the only ones of us who can claim that distinction.
My records contain the names and firm addresses of the 378 living classmates who were with us for one or more semesters. They also include the names and addresses of 133 widows. A total of 273 classmates and 19 widows were included in the first six issues of the Golden Review. Ten of these classmates have passed away since publication began a little over two years ago.
In addition to the 378 classmates known to be living there are 15 men of whom neither I nor the Alumni Records Office has any knowledge. None of these men have been heard from for many years. Undoubtedly some of them are not still living. We are both naturally reluctant however to classify any of them as "Presumed Deceased." In the hope that some of you may know where they are, and with no intention of invading their privacy if they want it that way, I am listing their names. Do write me if you have any information about any of them.
L. T. Barnett, Milton E. Carroll, James Craven, John Graydon, George V. Henderson, William M. Henry, Robert L. Jonasson, Raymond T. Reeve, Donald P. Richardson, Alfred E. Stotz, Raymond H. Smith, Henry A. Sullivan, Ralph W. Totman, George R. Murphy, Laurence F. McDermott.
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