1923

Ted Barstow wants me to remind you of our fall reunion over the Harvard game weekend, October 15-16. We have our usual allotment of rooms at Howard Johnsons plus a few spares at a nearby private motel. This will be a very popular Hanover weekend so Ted urges you to send in your requests for reservations as early as possible. He's at Dunster Drive, Hanover, N.H. 03755.

Ted's letter included a news clipping telling of the death on March 16 of John Coyle whom we wrote you about in the April issue. Ted is very happy he located John and had the chance to talk with him.

Had a telephone call early in March from TedCaswell in Naples, Fla. telling me the sad news of the death on February 26 of Ted Swartzbaugh. Ted was Ted Caswell's freshman room mate. No details are available but apparently the immediate cause of death was a heart attack. Ted's obituary will appear in either this or a later issue.

Charlie Zimmerman writes from Florida bringing me up to date on late winter 1923 events. Charlie's two sisters and Opal Marie's sister from Oklahoma City had a long visit with the Zimmermans. Charlie talked with GlenElliott and Miriam Home and saw the GeorgeScammons at a Dartmouth luncheon. He says the Walt Friends, the Ken Quencers, and BobMaxwell were about but he and Bob just couldn't get together early enough to host their usual 1923 party. The Zimmermans also entertained and had as a house guest a young recent graduate, Tom Eggleston, co-captain of the basketball team and a Rhodes Scholar.

Charlie spoke very affectionately of Ted Swartzbaugh whom he saw a great deal of when Ted was in business in Chicago in the late thirties.

Had a good letter from Cal Billings '28 - brother of our classmate George Billings. George's wife Evelyn passed away in the late 1960's and George is now living happily with his sister Dorothy Hickey who is co-owner and administrator of a Williamstown, Mass., nursing home. George's son George Jr. graduated from Dartmouth in 1962 and is with Pitney-Bowes in Stanford, Conn. His daughter Lorrie is married and lives in Quincy, Mass.

Jack Jenning's letter says: "Mrs. Jennings went to Hollins College in Virginia and our daughter to Colby in New Hampshire. As for myself, I retired in 1967 after 42 years with American Car and Foundry (now ACF In- dustries) in the St. Louis and New York offices. I manage to keep busy in retirement. We have a fairly good sized piece of property here (Scotch Plains, N.J.) so I have plenty of gardening to do if the weather is good and if it isn't I work on my stamp collection. I trust that Johnny Durham is in good health. I remember him quite well from days spent in South Fayerweather and Topliff."

By the time you get to this, class officers will again have met in Hanover (April 30-May 1). This year early arrivals have the opportunity of sitting in on several undergraduate class sessions, escorted by a member of Green Key. The highlight of the weekend is the Outing Club Climb and Steak Feed. With we old timers in mind, no doubt, one can participate in climb and dinner - or just dinner.

I also want to again remind you of upcoming Alumni College and note briefly the expanding part in college activities being undertaken by Green Key. It is currently initiating what it calls the "Alumni in Hanover Program." The main objective of the program is to open a channel for candid and informal communication between alumni and undergraduates. Individuals interested in participating in the program are asked to contact the Green Key Society through the College Secretary's office.

The media has recently been highlighting Pecatonica, Ill. - presumably because it's at, or near, the country's population center and is another average small town, or maybe just because they liked the sound of its name. All of which led me to ask Truman Metzel if he'd ever heard of the place. He had not! He did however respond with an update of the Metzel doings as follows: "Your news about Ted Swartzbaugh saddens me. He was quite a guy! At a recent Dartmouth lunch they voted 19 to 5 against change in the male/female ratio at Dartmouth. Again I'm afraid we'll miss class officers meeting but will take in Alumni Council meeting in June. I happen to be in love with my country and want to see some more of it - the Northwest - this summer. Now that you and I are in the 75-year bracket and a part of four per cent of the population we had better be doing the things we want to and can do.

"Bunny and I are in pretty good shape now and looking forward to the remaining month of our stay (in Arizona). It's the best period of the year, with desert plants (of which I have many) in bloom from now on, sunny days - 80-90 - with little breeze and great days to explore Arizona's many wonders."

I have just received a copy of the preliminary material sent to our class officers and class agents by the Alumni Fund. As most of you probably know by now our 1923 fund objective for 1976 is $45,000. We are listed as having a total of 335 living graduates and non-graduates, including 67 who are catalogued as "Lost or Not Interested," leaving us with a fund scoring base of 268 men. My secretary's file very closely approximates this figure with a total of 332 living graduates and non-graduates which however includes only 52 listed as "Lost or Not Interested." Since the 1976 listing for 1923 shows us with the second highest number of "Lost of Not Interested" of all alumni classes I am wondering if there aren't some 15 or more of you who are incorrectly catalogued.

Both Babe Miner and I are checking our records with the College. We are particularly concerned with those who are classified as "Lost." In the rather vague hope that they may see these notes, or particularly that one or more of you may have some personal knowledge of these men I am listing them: George A. Hart, George V. Henderson Jr., William M. Henry, Walter R. Holmes, the Rev. Paul G. Jackson, Robert L. Jonasson, George R. Murphy, Vernon B. Myers, Lawrence F. McDermott, Raymond T. Reeve, Dotjald P. Richardson, Alfred E. Stotz, and Raymond H. Smith.

Secretary, Box 2 Francestown, N.H 03043

Class Agent, The Country Club of Fla. Village of Golf, RFD 755 Delray Beach, Fla. 33444