Class of 1920

With one representative on the board of governors of the New York Alumni Association, in the person of Art Stockdale, and another. Sherry Baketel, recently given a place on the nominating committee, Twenty's metropolitan contingent assembled in February to test the cuisine of the New Dartmouth Club. The gathered clan proved to be unexpectedly sizable. There was, for example, Warrie Chamberlain, who may be held largely responsible for the increased advertising bulk of the New Yorker; Dr. Shorty Stickney, recently established in practice on no less a boulevard than Fifth Avenue; and Carroll Swezey, now a bank stock broker in his own right, who sneaked out early to meet his wife and, we understood him to say, the baby, at the Ritz or the Waldorf or some such fashionable hostelry.

Many others were there: Stan Rogers, Gerry Stone, expert in the buying of glass-ware, Gerry Baron, recent addition to New York's journalistic ranks, Beardsley Foster, John Felli, and Baketel himself, a most ingratiating master of ceremonies. In all probably no less than 25 of the class partook of the very satisfactory Dartmouth Club fare, not to mention one Orton Hicks, who made himself at home with a purpose. His objective, later disclosed to the multitude, was a combined '20 and '21 dinner, to include such wives as could and would consent to be included. The scheme apparently met with a certain measure of approval, and was forthwith given a place on the calendar. Most important business of the evening, however, was the unanimous election of Jack Mayer to the position of general boss of Twenty's activities in and about the Greater City.

Our news of the month requires the reservation of some little space for comment on the activities of one Frazier or another. Francis Philip Frazier, who did not put in full time at Hanover, came and went without some of us knowing that he is a full-blood Sioux Indian, much less that his Indian name is Humyanmani, translated into English as Buzzing Walker. What is more, Frazier is making a name for himself as a baritone singer. He gave a concert in Jordan Hall, Boston, on February 3, which won praise from the most hardened critics of the Hub. One of them said in part: "Mr. Frazier prefaced each of his songs with an interesting and instructive talk on the Red Man and his ways. By way of music Mr. Frazier listed some harmonized Indian airs, and several songs which transmit the mood of Indian music rather than the actual content ... A rich, unhampered tone graces all his singing, and his texts are clearly enunciated." Don't miss him when he comes your way.

We are also in receipt of the recent biography of Joe Fraser, who reports from Boston and Winchester. He lives in the former, on Massachusetts Ave., and teaches French and history in the Winchester Country Day School. Previously he had been teaching at the DeWitt Clinton School, and before that at Chestnut Hill Academy. Joe was married on December 1, 1923, to Miss I. C. Dawes of Newark, N.J.

Two names have been added to the about- to-marry group. For one of them we can do no better than to quote from the New York Bulletin, which says, "Tom Davidson, rising barrister of Jersey City and coadjutor of Long Jim Erwin, is to marry Miss Myra Lea of Jersey City." George Felicks Winter, whose previously unknown full name shines resplendent on the announcements, rates congratulations upon his coming marriage to Miss Florence Ada Bennett. George is located in Newark now with the New York Telephone Company.

Tudor Whiton Bradley, Jr., arrived in Gardner, Mass., on January 4, weighing eight pounds, four ounces. George Vincent has news of a similar nature in his note on the birth of Suzanne, his third girl, now five months old. George has been with the Gregory and Read Wood Heel Company of Lynn since November, 1925, and reports selling heels "an interesting, hard, and oftentimes discouraging pastime." Duke Bellen, who has two small girls, kindly offers vital statistics on them, showing Barbara, born May 7, 1923, and Katherine, born January 29, 1926. Duke married Miss Elinore Eberley of New York city.

Speaking of children inevitably calls to mind Cy Rounseville, who burst into prominence recently in the columns of the Boston Herald. Some alien corporation had been boasting of the election of the presumably youngest mill treasurer, an old-timer of 33; whereupon the Shove Mills of Fall River pardonably called attention to the re-election of Cy, now 29, for his seventh year as treasurer.

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