Class of 1920

A belated issue of "Twenty" squeezed itself in as No. 2, Vol. VI of the official class publication during the month of June. It goes on record as notable chiefly for an over-supply of news, which came pouring in from a corps of zealous correspondents scattered all over the country. Bulletins from Hanover, New York, St. Louis, Chicago, San Francisco, and Presi- dent Tommy Thomson in New Haven told the news of Twenty's growth and progress. Boston alone, emulating a former occupant of its state house, kept silent; and Boston perhaps may be excused on the ground of a reputation it has to maintain for that sort of thing.

Jim Vail, as chairman of the Tenth Reunion, won feature honors in this issue with an optimistic forecast of what the rest of the College may expect from this one class four years hence. A 1 Cate pardonably requested by return mail something definite in the way of additions to the treasury. A 1 Frey, as business manager of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, put in his good word for an increased circulation among members of the class.

Among the more important items of interest contained in the sheet was a clipping from the Wall Street Journal to the effect that James D. Vail, Jr., formerly with the Northern Trust Cos., has now associated himself with the bond department of the Chicago Office of Eastman, Dillon, and Cos. There was also a somewhat informal announcement of Frank Dorney's marriage "to a Springfield, Mass., girl." Recognition of the popularity and industry of at least two 20 men was shown in the report from the Far West, which recorded the election of Abe Wmslow as secretary and treasurer of the Pacific Coast Alumni Association, San Francisco, and of Ed Maling to the same offices in the Southern California Alumni Association, Los Angeles.

This same June issue carried the announcement of Carl Newton's engagement; but a more timely story would have told of his marriage on June 12 to Miss Mary Barrow in Christ Church Cathedral, Lexington, Ky.

Dick Southwick was observed early in June jumping from one Boston and Maine train to another in a wild one-day tour of the state of New Hampshire. Dick's idea of spending a strictly Massachusetts holiday is to hurry into some other state and work. He reports increasing prestige 'for "Full-Fashioned Southwick Hosiery," which he distributes; also continued success for the Gault haberdashery at Amherst, with which he has been connected. Twenty's readers of the Boston Globe no doubt noticed the picture of Mrs. Warrie Gault which appeared in the issue of May 1, accompanying a story which told of her singing in the Amherst presentation of "The Pirates of Penzance."

A good letter from Warren Turner tells of the arrival of "a candidate for Dartmouth, class of 1947, on May 22 at Symmes Arlington Hospital, Arlington, Mass. He will be enrolled under the name of Warren Holdsworth Turner." "In order to complete the record," continues Turner the elder, "I will add that I was married on July 14, 1923, to Miss Dorothy Holdsworth at Claremont, N. H. The aforementioned son represents our first contribution to the ranks of either Smith or Dartmouth. The rest of my history is that I am about to complete my sixth year working for the New England Tel. and Tel. Cos., where I am now on the staff of the machine switching traffic supervisor. And yet some people say the phone service hasn't improved a bit."

Five days ahead of Warren Turner the Second class daughter arrived in the person of Elizabeth Anne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sel Mack.

And here's another wedding, the second real June wedding we've collected this year: Benny Farnsworth of Baltimore, married to Miss Lillian Beatrice Currier of Franklin, N. H., at the Christian church, Franklin. Local papers used approximately a column apiece to enumerate the various details, important among which was the inclusion of Harold F. Bidwell as one of the ushers. After a honeymoon in Canada, so » the story goes, the Farnsworths will be at home in Baltimore.

The Chicago Alumni Association will welcome . the message received from George Baron, now somewhere out in Ohio: "Still plugging along with the Pure Oil Company, and may transfer to Chicago in the early fall."

Ben Potter has been having a tough spring, fighting a long list of illnesses in Rock Island, 111., but is now reported in the convalescent stages. Ben is part of the management of "the Rock Island Argus, a thriving better daily of the Middle West."

Twenty figures in the lead story of the June, 1926, bulletin published by the New York Alumni Association. The first paragraph reads: "Arthur W. Stockdale, 1920, is to be congratulated on having successfully engineered the Second Annual Sophomore Fathers Dinner. Not only were most of the fathers who attended last year's dinner present but all expressed a unanimous desire to form a Dartmouth Fathers Association of New York."

One last vote on the time-worn question of compulsory chapel adds a bit more weight to the bare majority in opposition. Here the reason given is that unpopular laws, like the Volstead law, cannot be beneficially enforced.

Editor> . 131 East 23d St., New York