CLASS OF 1920

Another year starts, or another football season, and what has the class of 1920 to contribute to either? Secretary Cate and Class Agent Frey, interviewed during the month of September, shook their well-tanned heads regretfully. No news, unless it be the grim determination of Norm Richardson to stay in Lenoir City, Tenn., it may be for years and it may be forever. If anybody can make that desolate corner of the South popular or famous, Norm is the boy to do it, but the task is one to try the hardiest soul.

Perhaps it was recollections of the South that prompted the diligent class agent to draw forth from his mass of correspondence a long and welcome communication from Paul Stevenon, none other. Steve, now safely moved from New Orleans and settled in Anderson, S. C., has this to say in part: "I am still in the textile business, being at the present time affiliated with the southern branch of the Appleton Manufacturing Company, which is located here. I am not married yet nor have any intentions that way for some time to come. I sure wish that I were nearer you all so that I could see the old boys once in a while."

Such informative communications, unfortunately, have been few and far between. Truth to tell, for the moment Steve's is all there is. But the news columns have been more considerate, and we can turn to them for a bit of nourishment. The long arm of the Associated Press reached out and spread the alarm to every hamlet in the nation when the chimes of New Haven tolled Tommy Thomson's departure for Annapolis. Tommy is no longer assistant to anybody. The Grand Sachem of the Order of 1920 is Imperial Kleagle or something of the sort at the U. S. Naval Academy, where official announcement of his engagement as track coach was made on August 24.

Among our business men, we note the resignation of Tudor Bradley from the position of secretary of the Chamber of Commerce in Gardner, Mass., to accept something similar, only more so, in Tarrytown, N. Y. Tudor's work in Gardner, so say the scribes, "had been of a high order."

Phibby Bennett's transfer of business affiliations is complicated enough to require verbatim quotation, so here goes: "Philip E. Bennett of the firm of Hale, Fall, and Bennett of Lynn, who for three years was in the management department of C. W. Whittier and Brother, has joined the National Shawmut Bank in the trust department, to be in charge of real estate management, assuming his new duties as of October 1."

Almus Russell skidded into the limelight again when he took part, as did Governor Spaulding of New Hampshire, in the Old Home Day festivities at Mason, N. H. As a representative of one of the oldest families in the town, Almus contributed to the program with a recital of several Indian legends of the Granite State.

Where we have bachelors, we have possible marriages. As in the case of Len Davis, for instance, the lad who had been striving these many years to draw the Western Electric outfit up from obscurity in Chicago. Len married Miss Marie Peterson on July 25, at Stillwater, Minn., the bride's home town. LaGrange, 111., will be the home town of both from this point on. Also, from down in the oil country, comes the announcement of Eric Stahl's marriage on July 9 to Miss Mary Sweetser Smith. "At Home," says the records, "Orcutt Apartments, Tulsa, Oklahoma." And while we are spreading glad tidings, we should surely make mention of the arrival on Augus| first of David Lyon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lyon Southworth.

Glancing through the bulletin published by the thriving Dartmouth Club of N. Y. C., we find Dan Bender's name inscribed as a member of the Dartmouth committee which is gathering in the contributions toward the Verdun Memorial Monument. The Club, by the way, has gone in for standardization in the matter of class dinners, and has assigned '2O the fourth Thursday of each and every month. Figure it out and you'll find that the first affair of the current season gave the boys a bargain in the shape of dinner plus radio returns on the fight. And for all we know, some of them may still be down there on 38th St., waiting for the end of the "long count."

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