1923

On June 17, at the annual banquet of the Alumni Council, Charlie Rice received the Dartmouth Alumni Award in recognition of his service to his community and the College. Charlie's official citation will appear in this or a later issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.

The first alumni award was presented to President Hopkins in 1954. Since that year, 223 loyal Dartmouth men have received it. Included from 1923, in addition to Charlie, are: Chet Bixby, Irish Flanigan, Jim Landauer, TrumenMetzel, Babe Miner, Pudge Neidlinger, LouWilcox, and Charlie Zimmerman.

Present at Charlie's award ceremony were Jean and their son Ted '52, a past member of the council who was back for his 25th, and Ted's attractive family, wife Polly and children Jeanne and Tom.

Every now and then someone asks me how many men were really in the class of 1923 and how many are still with us. With the help of Babe Miner and the College computer, where incidentally we are now all corralled, I have come up with these statistics, which I believe are accurate. I hope they will not depress you unduly. We matriculated 698 men, the largest class by far to have entered Dartmouth up to that time. We now number 304, of whom 257 are active, 39 are inactive, and 8 are "lost." We all wish we could learn some news of the few in the last group: William M. Henry, Robert L.Jonasson, Lawrence F. McDermott, George R.Murphy, Raymond T. Reeve, Donald P.Richardson, Raymond H. Smith, and Alfred E.Stotz.

Ralph and Lois Emerson celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on June 4 at a dinner dance hosted by their daughter and her husband, Dr. and Mrs. Andrew Dillard, and their son George '51 and daughter-in-law. Ralph and Lois moved to Sarasota, Fla., four years ago from Columbus, Ohio, where Ralph was with the Westinghouse Manufacturing Company for 40 years.

Follows part of Go Bliss's recent letter to Babe: "We had a long letter from Jim Taylor a week or so ago. He is back home in Johnstown, Pa., and apparently now has another flood to contend with. Jim says he is on the mend but still pretty weak in the legs. Ruel Smith wrote me of Jim's illness, so I've been writing every so often when I had news of sorts.

"Ed Furey stopped by on his way north in late May and took along some grapefruit to munch on his trip.

"Grandson Tom Bliss is married, and his sister Linnie graduated from Florida State University in June, so it's been a busy year for the grandparents - and rather expensive to boot.

"We are booked on a freighter to South America in early October. At our age it isn't easy to get on a freighter, but we seem to have managed it."

Kidder Peabody announces the appointment of Larry Morand's son Simon J. as assistant vice president. He will be located in the Chicago office.

And from what we chauvinistically used to call the distaff side comes a lovely letter from Brooks Palmer's widow Dyna. Included is a fine color picture of Dyna surrounded by some of Brooks's priceless clocks. She writes: "Brooks's Treasury of American Clocks is now in its eighth printing. I've kept the entire collection intact. There are approximately 450 clocks in all." Dyna keeps busy as vice president of The Paderewski Foundation, which gives scholarships to talented young musicians.

From our California Palmer Cap, come the following words of cheer for those of you who may be stalling off a hernia repair: "I certify that the new technique works fine. Instead of two weeks in hospital plus more time at home I was operated on Thursday morning at 9:30 with a local anaesthetic, walked 100 yards at 12:30, kept walking each hour thereafter, drove my car home on Saturday morning, back full time on Sunday. There was some pain, of course, but not murderous - and God bless Medicare and Blue Shield."

My recent letter to Karl Stadlinger was returned undelivered. I have since learned via Cap's letter that Karl has moved to 111 Country Club Drive, Burbank, Cal. 91501. He is now retired from the practice of medicine. His wife Mildred passed away recently. Karl says his time is truly taken up with an absurd number of things."

Also from Cap comes a copy of a card from Dick Townsend, whom Cap labels as "happy, healthy and thoughtful." Dick and Nan have been traveling in Greece - much impressed by the Acropolis and the Parthenon but not by "the restoration work which in a way spoils the ancient atmosphere."

Both Charlie Rice and Charlie Zimmerman have talked with me recently about JimHennessy. Neither was at all alarmist about Jim, but both did say he had a health setback in early June. This resulted in the apparently minimum standard one week's hospitalization. Jim is now recovering under the care of his sister Kathleen, who keeps house for him. He is in excellent spirits and reasonably good health but has been grounded from playing golf for at least six months.

The summer has brought a heartening accumulation of mail, which I greatly appreciate and will certainly report on in later issues. There are letters from Frank Doten, Burt Prouty, Paul Morgan, Kully Lundberg, Jus Slate, Ed Roe, Phil Segal, John Jennings, and Pete Jones, all of whom have recently celebrated their 75th birthdays. Also from Jack Myers, Joe Millar, Bill Kimball, Bob McMillan, Ted Caswell, Ada Everit, Emma Riddle, Miriam Home, and Louise Howe. Babe Miner has also had the kindest of memorial book acknowledgements from Helen Russell, Marjorie Goldman, Grace Broe, Mary Frothingham, Drusa Moore, and Ella Manson.

The summer months have brought the sad news of the deaths of three more of our classmates: Starr Murphy, February 7; PaulHutchins, June 25; and Art Everit, July 23. Their obituaries will appear in a later issue.

Distinguished Boston lawyer HaskellCohn '22 was tendered last June thecoveted Dartmouth Alumni Award for hislifelong dedication to judicial excellence,high standards of legal education, his service to the College (in particular on theThird Century Fund and the College Committee on Equal Opportunity, and hiswork with the Greater Boston Y.M.C.A.

Illinois' "Mr. Dartmouth," EugeneHotchkiss '22, was honored last June withthe coveted Alumni Award. Cited for avariety of services to the College (includingfathering a good many students for it),Gene was also praised for both businessand civic achievements. His concern for Dartmouth was described as a "remarkable example of deep commitment to the Collegeand the purposeful cause she represents."

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