Class of 1920
At the moment of going to press, the son of '2O most prominently in the public eye is undoubtedly Gus "Dynamite" Sonnenberg, now of Providence, R. I. For the benefit of those who cannot profit by Bill Cunningham's peppery sports writings in the Boston Post, we will break the news that the erstwhile dynamic tackle is now an equally high-powered professional wrestler. The continuance of Gus in the sporting spotlight appears to depend upon his ability to overpower Wayne "Big" Munn of Nebraska, the latter having a trifling advantage of eleven inches in height and 80 pounds in weight. But Gus has pinned something like 30 pairs of shoulders to the mat in the space of a few short months, without once knowing the feeling himself; and the mere matter of an extra foot or two of bone and sinew should give him no great concern.
It is well known that "Sunny" Sunergren, fire insurance engineer of Hanover, Mass., has been holding out for a honeymoon in Hanover, N. H., on the occasion of the Fiftieth Reunion of the class. With his single exception reports have been current that the marital activities of 1920 had practically come to a close. According to gossip, those holding marriage intentions had married, and the rest were all too well content to stand pat. But the time has come for branding such malicious rumors as false. Just recently Jim Stark, premier fountain pen vendor, and Dr. Jack Lappin, ear, nose, and throat specialist of Portland, Me., have given utterance to those vague mutterings that presage matrimony. And Pop Birch has come right out in the open with news of his engagement to Miss Helen Jackson of Schenectady. Most significant of all, a terse announcement has been received from the sphinx of Albany, Joe Lindsey, telling of his marriage on March 31 to Miss Mary Elizabeth Swart of Kingston, N. Y.
We have been hard put to it at times to keep the class roster completely up to date. However, with the reporting of seven 1927 arrivals in Twenty's widely scattered homes, we shall be considerably nearer the mark. Clayt Wallace, who is running a hardware emporium in Wolfeboro, N. H., sends word that his second child, Hugh Scott, made his appearance on May 1 of last year. Of the others, four are boys and two girls, and all are first arrivals in their respective families. Cited in proper order, they line up this way: Mary Carolyn Rassieur, born May 16, daughter of the attorney, George; William J. Tracy (Bill's son, though not a "junior"), born June 8; Robert Evans Fellowes, who landed in the Ted Fellowes' Buffalo home on July 22; David Lyon Southworth, born August 1, whose father is head teller in the savings department of the Atlantic National Bank of Boston; and John Howell Potter, son of Pete, whose December 15 birthday is just a day ahead of Mary Jean Prescott. Abe Prescott appends a note that Mary J. gained from an original weight of seven pounds, five and a half ounces, to eight pounds six in three weeks' time.
Bob Miner writes that he is now engaged in the railway appliance business in Chicago, and intimates that there seem to be a number of other Dartmouth boys thereabouts.
Tom Sullivan, for some time a chronic member of the "lost" battalion, has happily been located in Groton, Mass.
A word or two about the budding executives of the class and their diverse talents. Keith Coombs, grain magnate of Auburn, Me., is manager and treasurer of Coombs and Son Company, receivers and shippers of the wellknown staple. Al Peabody runs his own music store in Haverhill, Mass., but qualifies his report by a note that an o.k. from Frank Johnson is necessary. Norm Richardson, now vice-president of the Charles H. Bacon Company, is also a director of the First National Bank of Lenoir City (Tenn.), and a confirmed Rotarian, assuming as we do that all Rotarians are confirmed.
Both of those Stern boys are cutting no mean figure in the industrial world. Ed holds title as assistant secretary and treasurer for Stern and Stern, metropolitan textile importers, while Fred is president and general manager of Helena Sandwich Shops, Inc., of Cincinnati. Fred avers that he is "getting fat eating good sandwiches, almost as good as Scotty's used to be."
Up in Kenosha we find Al Steinbrecher acting as secretary and treasurer of the Wisconsin Oxygen Hydrogen Company, which collects those handy elements for the purpose of welding and cutting metals. Craig Sheaffer is treasurer and assistant general manager of you-know-what; and, speaking of pens, Craig has aptly named his Fort Madison, lowa, home "High Point."
As manager of the Continental Keller Company of Council Bluffs, lowa, Leo Ungar has been taking an important business trip on the S. S. Roma to North Africa and Europe, with the possibility of a certain amount of pleasure in it as well as profit. Tourists who have not yet exhausted the possibilities in America will be welcomed in northern New York, where Bill Sussdorf will gladly provide them with gas, oil, and information at the Northern Pines Inn and Filling Station, Ausable Chasm.
Since his marriage, Ted Weis of Monroe, Mich., and Toledo, has moved four times, raised three kids (of whom William T., born last June 23, is the latest) and built two houses. He has found time withal to become vice-president of the Weis Manufacturing Company, dealing in office supplies, sectional bookcases, and filing equipment. Paul Weil is advertising and sales promotion manager for the Charles Freshman Company, Inc., which sounds to our carefully attuned ear very much like the radio business.
Speaking of executives of one sort or another, we are reminded that Jimmy Vail is now a member of the executive committee of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Chicago, and that Al Cate has been catapulted back into office on the similar committee, directing the affairs of the class secretaries association.
Dr. Ed Taylor writes from the Boston City Hospital that he is serving a surgical interneship there under Dr. Halsey Loder (Dartmouth '05) to last until July, 1929.
Red Tillson continues to play the part of twins, being a banker with the Harvard Trust Company of Cambridge in the daytime and a prospective lawyer in the evening. Red is now a senior in the Suffolk Law School of Boston. Dick Watts serves full time as assistant cashier of the Adrian State Savings Bank of Adrian, Mich.
Jerry, Kahn puts himself down modestly as "chief errand boy and occasionally sales manager" for Breed, Elliott, and Harrison of Cincinnati.
Another of the banking fraternity, Dean Travis, not only 'officiates as secretary and trust officer of the State Trust Company, Plainfield, N. J., but also lectures betimes at the American Institute of Banking.
Warren Turner must have enough to do to keep himself busy. He has charge of preparing and editing standard methods of engineering for dial telephone offices in all Bell Telephone companies in North America.
Our apologies to Jim Warbasse for this delayed notice of a 1927 arrival in his family. The Warbasses greeted James Richard on October 31. James the elder is doing advertising promotion work for the Magus Magazine Company, which means, to use his own expression, "digging constantly for new sales ideas."
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