CLASS OF 1920
Twenty's exclusive little dinner parties in New York have had their ups and downs since the current season started. In any given month, as many as twenty might show up for the regular class dinner; again, a slump in enthusiasm, for no particular reason, would cut the attendance in half. Finally, a compromise plan has gone into effect for staging the dinners every other month instead of once a month. The idea is to make the boys want what they haven't got, and bring them out in hordes.
Among the "regulars" in the metropolitan group are Jack Mayer, who works untiringly as manager of the various '20 celebrations; John Felli and Al Haas, from over the bridge in Brooklyn; Secretary Al Cate, keeping an eye open for new class statistics; Don Harris; Lloyd Smith, marketer of the stimulating Virginia Dare syrups; Beardsley Foster, still an assistant treasurer, but now connected with Electrical Research Products Company up on 57th St., where they make better and better movietone devices every day in the week; Les Willard, who now goes in for chemicals of some sort in preference to piston rings; and Sherry Baketel, provider of enlightening figures on the insurance-mindedness of the class.
Although no extra-serious illnesses have been reported throughout our recent epidemics, doctors hereabouts admit that trade has been unusually brisk. Baketel roamed around for days with a temperature up in the hundreds, before Doc Ainsworth caught hold of him and pulled him back from the brink of pneumonia. Spence Snedecor, Hackensack's new school physician, is specializing in some unique sort of therapy which arouses the plaudits of the older minds and causes them to refer to him as"one of the outstanding young men in the profession." He has already reached the point of writing articles and making speeches with lantern slides.
Tom Davidson, the Jersey barrister, is another who drops in for an occasional dinner, as does Stan Conway. Bob Morse, but recently removed from the Maine woods to the Big City, started off right by putting in an appearance at the first function after his arrival. Sel Mack sailed into New York from Buffalo one day on legal business, and was pleased to learn that he had unconsciously picked the proper date for breaking bread with the rest at the Club. Carroll Swezey, too busy with his bank stocks to go out for lunch at noon, is also kept rather well occupied in the evenings, following the arrival of his second child, Priscilla Learning, on January 15.
This reporter learned a few things about Toledo during a recent visit. For one, Ted Weis lives there, near the district known as Old Orchard, which your correspondent had supposed in his ignorance to be on the coast of Maine, but which is not really quite that far from the business district of the town. Ted has a beautiful self-built home, a charming wife, three handsome and lively children, and two cars. Which would seem to speak well enough for the popularity of card indices these days £
"Several promotions within the ranks of the W. T. Grant Company are announced," says the Boston Globe. "W. S. Gault has been promoted from the Brockton store to Mr. Grant's office. Mr. Gault will assist in the detail of the office of the chairman of the board." And stock in the stores, accordingly, is considerably higher than it used to be.
The fact that William Rose Benet has gone with Payson and Clarke to fill a crucial position on the editorial board may mean little enough to 1920. But there is distinct interest in I. M. P.'s Herald-Tribune comment that "Joseph Brewer, of Payson and Clarke, gave a lunch at the Ritz to show that they meant
Among those taking part in the play, "The Second Puncture," given under the auspices of the Women's Fortnightly Club at Lincoln, N. H., were Mrs. Sherman Adams and Mr. Frederick Marden. If our recollections of Hanoverian drama are correct, there should also have been a place in the cast for Sherm himself.
JoeLindsey sends a good word for "Twenty" from headquarters in Albany, along with a welcome line about himself: "Last summer I kept quiet here in Albany, for the summer before I was traveling quite a bit for about two months on the Pacific Coast from Vancouver in British Columbia to Los Angeles in California. Next summer we are planning a trip abroad to see a bit more. During the year I do my best to impart the German and Latin tongues to some of the younger generation in Albany and try to steer some of the best ones to Dartmouth."
Paul Sample is another whose life story now changes from "I" to "we." His marriage to Miss Sylvia Ann Howland took place in South Pasadena, Cal., on December 1.
Mr. and Mrs. Hal White announce the arrival of six and a half pound Barbara on November 14, last.
Editor, 3226 54th St., Woodside, N. Y.
