1923
This column will hit your living room tables some three weeks after the 1923 SECOND ANNUAL HANOVER FAMILY WINTER REUNION will have become history. However, the reporting of that event will have to take place, due to the timing problem involved, in the April issue of this MAGAZINE. Doubtless an earlier coverage will appear in the peerless SKIDDOO, inasmuch as The Irishman will be very much in attendance in Hanover for the class party and Alice will be there to prod him to tackle his editorial chores on that occasion. (We doubt if your correspondent will do much prodding, as we are informed that the Flanigan's quarters will be on one side of ours and the refreshment booth established on the other side!)
We recently ran across, in the New YorkTimes Magazine, a discussion which took place among a gathering of retail big wheels. When they got around to talking about the effect of staying open nights on store sales, our own George Plant, a wheel in the Retail Dry Goods Association, got to his feet and said: "Some retailers are simply deceiving themselves. They're not really adding business at night. At this point, anyway, they're not sure that the new business isn't simply transferred from their regular daytime volume." George ought to know; he's an old hand at store-keeping.
And while we are talking about "wheels," we would like to tell you that Pete Jones (Charles H. Jr., if you insist on being accurate) was elected president last October of the National Shoe Manufacturers Assn. Pete runs Commonwealth Shoe and Leather Co., which makes "Bostonians," which all loyal '23s and other discerning shoppers should wear.
A keen-eyed helper has sent us a clipping from a New York paper which describes the activity, in behalf of a prominent church in that community, of Mrs. E. Wood Gauss and Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Palmer. These good citizens were shaping up a benefit for the youth program of the parish.
Jim Young, of Barre, Vt., has been appointed to the legislative committee of the state employees association. Jim is a statistician in the Vermont Social Welfare Department. After graduation with our class he took a year at Harvard and another year at Suffolk Law School, Boston. His career has included stints with N.E. Tel. Co., Dennison Mfg. Co.; and in Vermont he has been connected with John Slack Co., Springfield, and Great American Industries, Rutland.
Bill Welch was elected Commodore of the Corinthian Yacht Club, earlier this year. Bill is a widely known North Shore yachtsman and attorney in Boston and Salem and has been one of Marblehead's most active skippers in the U.S. One Design in recent years.
Pete Howe has been named vice president in charge of special sales, by Avon Publishing Co. During his prior career Pete sold book advertising for the Atlantic Monthly; was book advertising manager for the New YorkEvening Post and New York World Telegram; was sales manager of Pocket Books. He has also been with the New York Herald Tribune and American Book-Stratford Press. He was vice president of Pocket Books for ten years and most recently was director of sales for New American Library.
We were delighted to hear that Bob McAlillan has formed his own advertising agency, McMillan and Marsden, Inc., in Boston. Bob and his new partner were officers of Donald W. Gardner Advertising, Inc., and Bob has previously been associated with Humphrey, Aliens and Richards, Inc., and with Young and Rubicam and N. W. Ayer, being an account executive with the last two concerns. The new outfit opened its doors for business at 45 Newbury St., Boston, February 1, and its staff included a copy chief who is also a Dartmouth man. We wish Bob the very best of luck and seize this opportunity to say hello to wife Natalie and daughter Faith, age 5.
Paul Jackson, former actor who became an ordained minister some years ago, is in frequent demand by Eastern churches, to present his series of six "Gospel Life Portraits." Paul combines the functions of lecturer, minister and impersonator in his portrayals. The series includes "Men who Have Met the Master," "The Bethlehem Innkeeper," "The Scribe of Nazareth," "Nicodemus of Jerusalem," "Pontius Pilate," "John the Aged Apostle," "A Soldier of Rome." Several years ago Paul toured with Walter Hampden in Shakespearean repertoires.
Hip Conley, with a long career as a banker behind him, was aboard the Eisenhower band-wagon which put a Republican governor in the Springfield, Ill., mansion which used to house Adlai Stevenson. Consequently, as of this writing Hip is chief revenue clerk in the office of the Illinois state treasurer's office, for a two-year term, at the end of which his desk at the Continental Illinois Bank and Trust Co., Chicago, will again be available to him.
Lt. Col. Larry Miles, concerning whose current duty in Germany we reported not long-ago, has some positive beliefs about America's responsibilities in this world today:
"I believe we must be as fanatical in our belief in the ultimate purpose of our way of life as the Communists are in theirs. ... I would like to enjoy the plush life the American papers say I am living. So far as the officers and men that I know are concerned, it is a very busy, very interesting and, at times, very difficult life."
Skinny Matless joined the Small Defense Plants Administration last fall as an industrial specialist in the New York regional office. The agency is responsible for getting defense contracts for small business firms and for processing recommendations for financial assistance for such firms, through RFC. Skinny is a consulting industrial engineer by trade. One of his assignments has been chief of sub-contracting for Federal Shipbuilding and Dry dock Co. in Kearny, N. J. He lives at 181 Little Falls Road, Cedar Grove.
Many of us remember Roy Brown, in his early days, as a rather exceptionally skinny bird, exceptionally good at leaping high in the air for various and sundry high jump records, but not given to heavy layers of hard muscle and definitely not the bruising type. We learn that his son Junior is built along beefier lines. At 190 pounds and 6' 3" he won his numerals last fall as offensive end on the freshman team, coming to Dartmouth by way of Kimball Union Academy.
We were recently very pleased to hear from the seventeenth classmate who so far has advised us that he has worked out a bequest for Dartmouth in his will. When you stop to consider that not one of the 90 men whom we have lost by death since 1920 has remembered Dartmouth in his will, and consider the serious implications for Dartmouth's future of a continuation of this unbroken "no-bequest" record, you will understand the keen interest the College and your Class officers are taking in the Bequest Program. Without substantial bequest and increased capital gifts it is literally impossible to see how Dartmouth can ever have an endowment of sufficient size to keep her in the front rank of American liberal arts colleges. For that reason we do not feel we are out of order in urging that every classmate give this situation, as it applies to his own potentialities, his earnest attention.
Shortly after you receive this issue the 1953 Alumni campaign will get rolling. Our Class has a top notch record, especially in recent years. We are so good, actually, that other classes are girding to topple us from our lofty perch in the standings. As one who has scanned, for years, the details of our giving, and collaborated with Boss Man Lee Young in getting out the vote, so to speak, we have a few observations to make at this point in the proceedings. One such observation is that we would do much better than we do if a number of our regular givers, who can do so, would raise their sights and make their gifts more realistic in the light of their capacity. Another observation is that our record is usually short of its potentialities because of those men who want to give, can give and literally forget to give. (You would be surprised to know that the number of such men is really substantial.) Our third, and final, observation as of now has to do with the men who are able to make one dollar, three dollar, five dollar and ten dollar gifts, but do not do so because they consider such gifts to be too small to be of consequence. We commend, to all the men who fall within these three categories, a review of their situations, and a possible change of pace this year.
PRIZE CATCH: Sam Home '23 is happy about the trout he took from the Pigeon River while visiting Art Everit '23 at his fishing camp in Michigan.
Secretary,1425 Astor St., Chicago 10, Ill. Treasurer, 5 Tyler Rd., Hanover, N. H.
