1923

Truman Metzel has sent me the first issue of the 1923 class newsletter. Edited by Pete Howe, Lou Lewinson, John Harkins, and Ward Hilton, it was distributed shortly after graduation and included an urgent appeal from John Foster to pay our two-dollar class dues. Original career choices as reported in the newsletter sometimes held for the duration; many, however, changed radically. For example, I count nine classmates who went to work for various telephone companies. To the best of my knowledge ony two of us held on until retirement; I am still pondering the implications, if any, to be drawn from this article. Another considerable number of us were in professional schools and stayed there with predictable future success. I am not sure just when Irish Flanagan appeared on the scene with "Skiddoo" and began a tradition that Ike Phillips is carrying on so well. I am turning the well-aged first issue of our unnamed news sheet over to him for his comments.

Elsewhere in this or a later issue you will find additional reference to a very scholarly book by Arthur E. Gordon titled "Illustrated Introduction to Latin Epigraphy," published by the University of California Press (Berkeley). Consisting of 264 pages and 64 plates, it has been issued in both hard cover and paperback. Arthur was a Latin instructor at Dartmouth before taking his doctorate at Johns Hopkins. He later had the benefit of three years of Dartmouth Alumni Scholarships, which included two years of study in Rome.

Warren Cook, a prolific researcher and writer on industrial health subjects, spent much of the summer obtaining material for a forthcoming monograph entitled "Permissible Exposure Levels of Workplace Air Con- taminants Worldwide." His travels included a very pleasurable trip to the Geneva headquarters of the International Labour Office and the World Health Organization. An international authority in his field, Warren has written more than 80 publications on subjects relating to industrial health.

Metty Morse writes: "We are still here in Falmouth in pretty good health considering we celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary in September. Saw Pern Whitcomb while he was recuperating from his serious burns. He sure made a great comeback and looks fine. We still rent a couple of cottages in the summer and get a lot of use but of our power boat."

Major Bird says: "Am still around and active every day. Get in traveling notwithstanding arthritis which slows me down a lot. Health otherwise is good. Keep up on reading and piano, which goes a long way to fill my day." And then he makes a comment which I don't remember anyone admitting to before but which must be true of many of us: "So far have not joined the great trek to Florida every winter. What with my books and other interests centered in my house here, I doubt I would enjoy a separation from them every year for several months."

Nick Andretta says, "Still here at 83. If I live long enough expect to shoot my age." We well remember Nick's not-so-long-ago hole in one.

Joe and Alice Pollard have just returned from their place in Maine where they have spent the summer months for the past 46 years. Both love that Maine country, but when the temperature dropped to 22 they had to leave.

Hartley Caldwell wrote a particularly complimentary note about the reunion, the planning, the fellowship, and the pleasure of seeing so many classmates after all these years. He intends to return to Hanover via automobile next summer. Hartley has made almost a lifetime career of the military service. After two years at West Point he transferred to Dartmouth for two years and then to American University, where he was awarded A.B. and LL.D. degrees in 1925. He has held assignments in Japan and several other foreign countries. In 1965 he retired from the U.S. Air Force.

Rusty and Mary Sargent have moved from their Winchester, Mass., apartment to their Center Sandwich, N.H., farm. Rusty plans to spend a day or two in the office each week and stay with his son who lives in Sudbury, Mass.

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