Class of 1920
To start in where we left off a month ago, we turn to the returned questionnaire cards for further enlightenment about the progress of 1920. There can't possibly be room for all this valuable information in the forthcoming class directory.
New England first (not a slogan, but just the way the cards were dealt). Sam Center, up in Keene, N. H., with the New England Tel. and Tel., signs himself as a "journeyman cable splicer," handling all new construction and maintenance work in fifteen towns of that section. Probably the "journeyman" reflects a note of pessimism at settling down in his twenty-fifth "home town" since his marriage in 1924.
Ben Ayres is also doing a bit of moving around. He goes from Springfield, Mass., where he has been general agent for the State Mutual, back to Worcester to take over a general agency for the Massachusetts Mutual. Among our other insurance men, Charlie Love joy, manager and treasurer of the Rumford Falls Insurance Agency down in Maine, gives out the good word that C. W. Jr. has now passed his first birthday, the lad having arrived on February 28, 1927. Fritz Lord, special agent for the Travelers of Hartford, announces that Miss Melissa Lord was born on December 2 last.
Speaking of children, it has come to our amazed attention that George Benjamin Lent Green, Gainesville (Fla.) insurance specialist, is the father of five, named respectively George Jr., Ronald, Gordon, Harris, and Leslie. That must be the class record, and they seem to be all boys. His namesake, Tom Greene, on the other hand, is still unmarried, and is minding his own business up in Boston—the T. C. Greene Paper Company.
Somebody ought to count up Twenty's population in Florida some day and see how much the class has addea to the aggregate down there. Donald Mac Donald is one of them, located at Coral Gables and giving the neighborhood just what it needs; to wit, ice cream. It should be a profitable business.
Here's another one settled in a business bearing his own name. Theron Millspaugh 2d is office manager for the T. L. Millspaugh Furniture House at Walden, N. Y.; also, president of the local Chamber of Commerce, commander of the American Legion post, and (in red ink) "trying to play golf."
Ray McPartlin finally gives out the exact nature of his occupation as "night copy desk" on the Boston Globe. Not far away, Jim Milne is a feature writer on the Boston Sunday Post, and also the father of three children. The latest in the Milne family is Mary Lisbeth, born January 12 of last year, with two older brothers waiting for her to grow a bit.
While we're on the subject of children, we might as well get at the thing in a systematic way and bring the statistics up to date. According to the information at hand, Richard Hillyer Loehr, son of George Loehr, Cleveland jeweler, is the latest addition to the class roster. His birthday was January 18, not so very much more recent than that of Dana Eaton's daughter, Julia Ann, born last December 9. Dana works with Harry Noyes in the Noyes Buick Company of Boston, and Harry himself has something of a family to talk about. There is Bradley Pluraer Noyes, the youngest, born June 26, 1927; also a Harry K. 2d, an Edward Pike, and a Hope Ellen.
That leads to a partial retraction of our hazardous "class record" statement. Philip Oulton, accountant of Peabody, Mass., ties with George Green by virtue of the arrival of John Oulton on June 9, 1927. John is the fifth in the family, with Robert, Richard, Ruth, and Dorothy ahead of him. And the paterfamilias, when asked to contribute other items of interest, remarks that "the above have been enough interests."
A future Olympic prospect is Laddie Myers Jr., (officially down on the records as E. E. Jr.) born November 23, the day before Thanksgiving. John Moore's second daughter, Patricia, arrived December 16. "When will Dartmouth be co-ed?" John queries, perhaps looking to Cy Rounseville for an answer. And there are many, many others with good news of like nature to contribute: Red Barnes, superintendent of a paper box establishment in Boston, has a daughter Elizabeth, born last May 14; John Carden, a son, George Warton, born June 29; Professor El Cheney of Gettysburg, Pa., a daughter, Carleton; Ed Higgins, a son, Edward Jr., born March 6, 1927; Carl Lenz, a second daughter, Joyce, born March 20, 1927. Carl is branch manager for the state of Ohio of the Chase Brass and Copper Company. Another branch manager, Harold White, who represents the Standard Accident Insurance Company in Dallas, Texas, reports a third child, Kathleen, who arrived last August 27.
Paul M. Canada has a son, Paul Schairer, a little more than a year old, and Ken Emory, Hawaiian ethnologist, is the father of MarieMadeleine Tiare Emory, born June 10, 1927. There are still more, but we will save them for our next.
Editor, 131 East 23d St., New York
