Class of 1920
There can be no more alibis from the writer of this column. Not for a while. Such a driving rain of post-cards poured in, following Secretary Cate's appeal for solid information to fill the class directory, that all drawers of the editorial desk bulge with entertaining items. Our proper space in the MAGAZINE is taken for the balance of the collegiate year. By that time there will probably be more postcards, and so on ad infinitum. We have nothing but gratitude for a task made easy by something approaching unanimous co-operation.
But, before recounting the results of a record-breaking questionnaire, we must make reference to a Twenty turn-out that set a new record for the class in the metropolitan district. The occasion was New York's annual Dartmouth dinner, staged at the Biltmore January 31. Thirty-five of the boys were there, putting up a hot fight for high scoring totals among the classes and finishing, so the referee claimed, in fourth place. There were Sal and Breg, whose names followed Prexy Hopkins, Owen Young, and Dean Bill on publicity notices describing the affair as "the greatest Dartmouth program in New York history." There was Norm Richardson, called up from Tennessee for 24 hours, more or less, of extremely important business, and Eddie Bowen, recently back from India for what seems likely to be a permanent stay.
Jack Mayer, demon fact-finder for 1920, gives out the remainder of the attendance list as follows: Spence Blake, Dick Kimball, Bill Shea, Rog Nutt, Warrie Chamberlain, John Felli, A 1 Cate, Johnny Stickney, T. R. Carpenter, A 1 Osborn, Jack Brotherhood, Tom Davidson, Jim Chilcott, Roy Rubel, Art Stern, Gene Fiske, Ted Cart, Jerry Stone, Don Harris, Sherry Baketel, Paul Canada, Gerry Baron, Bill Metzger, Russ Keep, George Sackett, Boots LeBoutillier, Bob Van Iderstine, Harold Clark, Spence Snedecor, Tom Ainsworth, and Jack himself.
And now, says New York, bring on your Chicago Pow-wows and your Boston Potlatches.
Not a few of the above mentioned have also contributed the latest data about themselves in writing. Dick Kimball's card, for a starter, shows that he is still connected with the Kimball Fruit Company, Inc., and White's Fruit Agency, despite the fact that New York sees less of him than in the olden days. The exact business of these various corporations, as described by Dick, is the distribution of fresh fruit and vegetables in domestic and foreign markets.
Tom Davidson writes that he is "recently but thoroughly married," and his wedding of December 2 to Miss Myra Lea at Englewood, N. J., proves the fore part of his statement. His appearance at the dinner might tend to belie the "thoroughly," depending, of course, on what he may have meant. Gene Leonard supplements Tom's somewhat terse comment with the news that the Davidsons went to Bermuda on their honeymoon. Back home again now, they are safely settled in Jersey City, where Tom is practicing law. Gene, by the way, sticks to Bellows Falls, where a huge sign proclaims to most of the Main Street that the Eugene S. Leonards, pere and fils, are in the insurance business.
George Sackett's active interest in New York affairs is explained by his temporary assignment to that territory by the Eastman Kodak outfit. George gives the name of his business as the Kodascope Libraries, Inc., and the nature of his own work as auditor. He complains a bit of being "on the road" too much to suit his taste, but nevertheless commutes by "choice to 100 Brookside Ave., Mount Vernon.
Sal Andretta, as versatile an entertainer as ever, keeps himself busy enough day-times as secretary of the Riverside Trust Company of Hartford, counsel for the bank, and officer-in-charge of the trust department.
A Westchester resident who does not commute is Jack Brotherhood, who has settled in New Canaan, Conn., and makes a living persuading other people to do the same thing. The bulletin published every so often by the Dartmouth Club of New York carries alluring advertisements of Jack's bargains in real estate. There is a Jack, Jr., by the way, now a little more than fifteen months old.
Other New Yorkers with growing families are Dr. Tommy Ainsworth of Brooklyn, whose daughter, Helen Louise, arrived December 12; and Public Accountant Tom Carpenter, whose second daughter, Mary Eames, was born June 6 last.
Ed Bowen, to insure an extended stay in this country, has signed up with Edward B. Smith and Company, investment bankers. And the rest of our story may best be continued in our next.
Editor, 131 East 23d St., New York
