Class of 1920

Earl Thomson, Jr., was born in New Haven, Conn., on September 15.

Although that news should be music to the ears of some fortunate future Dartmouth class, there is even more melody for the present in the name of Martha Mansfield Mills, the recently acquired daughter of Charlie Mills, who is now living in Minneapolis.

And that isn't the half or even the quarter of it Bulletins announcing newly arrived children have literally flooded the editorial desk, so that the only course we feel safe in pursuing is to tabulate the returns. If there exists anywhere a birthday book for the class babies, entries should be made under the following dates, all as of 1926: March 22, Donald Winthrop, son of Bennie Ayres; May 29, Elizabeth Ann, the second girl for Ted Weis; June 6, George Albert, son of Emile Auger; June 20, Barbara Ann, daughter of Dan Bender, retired marine officer and at present alumni field secretary for the Manlius School; July IS, James Irving, son of Irv Blaine; July 29, Audrey Chamberlain, Warrie's daughter (Warrie is now connected with that sophisticated periodical, the New-Yorker) ; August 10, Marion Joyce, second daughter of Les Willard; September 29, Louise, daughter of Rog Pope; and October 4, Ruth Alberta, daughter of Buttons Hill.

Again, as in the past, the daughters of Twenty appear to be outnumbering the sons—in this case, by this margin of seven to four. And if we were asked, as we haven't been, to calculate the most popular class daughter's name, we'd say it's an easy bet on Ann or SomebodyAnn.

Next come the marriages. Not so many as there used to be, for there are very few left for such ceremonies, but what prizes remain are still being disturbed. Tommy Thomson wrote warmly that Laddie Mayer was married to "a very nice girl," and then Laddie spoke for himself, naming the lady as Miss Marion L. Gardner of Galesburg, Ill., and the date, July 14. A Boston Globe headline says, "Dartmouth Coach Wed at W. Fairlee, Vt." Guess who or whom, if you want to, but we can relieve the suspense by quoting some of the rest of the story: 'Miss Rita Hayward, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hayward of West Fairlee, Vt., and Caryl F. Holbrook, former Dartmouth College football' star, a son of Mr. and William F. Holbrook of Keene, were married at West Fairlee, Vt., October 15."

Horace C. Masse was married September 2 at Watertown, Conn., to Miss Justine McGowan; and the Masse family, not to say the Masses, are at home nowc-143 Morris Ave., Summit, N. J. El Cheney went through the ceremony in New York last June, with Bud Weymouth and Jim Frost among those in attendance. But who was given in marriage is still, we regret to state, unknown to us. Cheney is teaching this year at Middlebury College, while Weymouth, his four-year roommate at Hanover, has joined the faculty of the American International College at Springfield, Mass.

Some of the long-lost '2O sheep have strayed back into the fold, or at least, within calling distance of it. Duke Bellen, father of two girls, has been located as New England sales manager for the Tide Water Oil Sales Corporation in Boston. Charlie Crathern, who stole away from Hanover after finishing his Tuck School course last May, turns up with the Hills Brothers Company. While not actuallymaking dates, he confesses to selling a lot of them (the Dromedary brand) in the Cleveland territory. Going still farther West, we learn that Rube Warner has organized "The Warner Company, Inc.," makers of ladies dresses, lingerie, etc., in Minneapolis. And it will take a trip all the way to the Pacific Coast to see Russ Cotner, who is now assistant credit manager for the Sierra Paper Company.

Speaking of traveling, Joe Brewer has stopped it for a while, and come back from England to be an American again; as a matter of fact, an assistant American editor of the Connoisseur, an international magazine for collectors. He is also a member of the publishing firm of Payson and Clarke, Ltd., specializing in fine art books.

To those of us who can bear with equanimity mention of the Daugherty-Miller trial in New York, there will be interest in the news that Carl Newton is one of Mr. Buckner's ablest assistants in handling the case.

Editor, 131 East 23rd St., New York