CLASS OF 1920
President BAKETEL ably reports Twenty's participation in the annual dinner of the New York Association. Fifteen attended, five others are mentioned as having reasonable excuses for not being there. From'what we hear it was an outstanding Dartmouth gathering, and will be long remembered. Present: SPENCE BLAKE, TED CART, DICK CHARLOCK, TOM DAVIDSON, JOHN FELLI, GENE FISKE, BILL FUGUET, TOM GLINES, JERRY MORSE, CARL NEWTON, AB OSBORN, PAUL RICHTER, SPENCE SNEDECOR, JOHN STICKNEY, and, we assume, Sherry himself. Among those not present for special reasons: DON HARRIS (Ann, recently arrived, previously unannounced, required daddy's presence at home), Russ KEEP, ART STOCKDALE (out of town), TOM AINSWORTH, M.D. (office hours), JACK MAYER (unescapable social obligation).
Many an item appearing in the MAGAZINE is no longer news. Such is the engagement of Gus SONNENBERG, recently chronicled in sports pages from coast to coast. We select one of the shorter accounts appearing in the Boston Herald of January 26:
SONNENBERG WILL WED BELMONT GIRL
Engagement of Miss Elliot Revealed In Giftof $5000 Motor Car
The gift of a $5000 automobile revealed yesterday the engagement of Miss Marie Dorothy Elliot, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Dan Elliot of 71 Payson road, Belmont, to Gus Sonnenberg, former world's heavyweight wrestling champion who is now in a come-back effort to regain his title.
Asked when the wedding would take place, Sonnenberg replied "not for a year and a half anyway."
Miss Elliot, who only recently obtained an operator's license, was presented the automobile as an engagement gift yesterday. She is a graduate of Watertown high school, class of 1929, and is now a junior at Leland Powers School in the Back Bay. Her father is a department store buyer.
Editorial assistance from the class is increasing. Score for the month: two letters, one telephone call. This was from ARCH LAWSON now with the Bankers Trust Company and indeterminately located in the Boston office and living with his wife and two boys in Newtonville. The two boys referred to are aged 6 and 13. So, we feel, Arch is to be trebly congratulated on his marriage of last May. Arch did not arrive on the scene soon enough to deter number one from his determination to become a naval officer, but he assures us that number two is headed for Hanover. For a number of years Arch has been an extensive traveler. Not long ago, in the Southwest, he ran into classmate BILL QUINN, whose stay in Hanover was short but who will be remembered by many by his genial smile and pleasant ways. Bill is learning the oil business from the well up, and has been in Texas and Oklahoma.
Artists and printers have a special advantage over ordinary citizens. They can send out unusual greeting and announcement cards without the trouble and expense usually entailed. Dorothy and FEED HAMM'S "Merry Christmas," borne by a modernistic stork, brought the glad tidings of the arrival on December 6 of Shirley Joy. The Hamms were married on January 29, 1930. Fred is manager of the Blakeley Printing Company in Chicago. As an ex-printer we might add that this unusual card has every appearance of being designed especially for the blessed event.
CHABLIE STEVENS, one time telephone man, has recently been advanced to full professorship in the department of Spanish at Rutgers. He received his A.M. at Middlebury in 1927, and has been teaching for some time.
From real estate and insurance to hotel management is a natural step. Such is the step recently taken by FRED ROBINSON, now located at 18 E. Elm St., Chicago.
Sportswriter CHESTER L. SMITH, we give the full name to avoid possible confusion with any of the seven other Smiths in the class, is now on the Cleveland Press, and was for some time on the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. He was married in 1923.
Former Assistant District Attorney NEWTON, B.S., B.A., B.C.L., has recently become associated with the firm of White and Case, 14 Wall St., and is residing at 315 East 68th St., New York city, of course.
A regular luncher at Thompson's in Boston is KEN HARDY, New England Telephone Company traffic engineer. He was married at Castle Park, Mich., in 1925, and is now living at 11 Appleby Road, Wellesley.
At one time among those missing, JACK ALLENBEKG is among those frequently, but not too frequently, heard from. His residential history bears some slight resemblance to that of a motorman on a shuttle train or the master of a ferry boat: Spokane 1923, Seattle 1927, Spokane 1929, Seattle 1930, and now Spokane for 1931. Air transport will doubtless enable Jack to make even more rapid jumps in the years to come.
Now that we are back in Spokane again we find that BILL FAENHAM has made a recent change to the firm of E. H. Rollins and Sons. Still a bachelor, he has stuck close to the banking field. Old National Bank and then George H. Burr, Conrad, and Brown.
Our mention of DUKE BELLEN in the last issue was untimely. He is not in Albany as reported, but in Long Island City, and is residing at Jackson Heights. (See February issue for longer report.)
We recently recorded an unconfirmed report of the death of FEED RTJISSEAU. We have just learned that it occurred on September 12, 1929, at Gordon, Neb. Further details are lacking. We shall greatly appreciate full report from any one who knows any further facts.
Earlier in our column we mentioned two letters. Sherry wrote one, and the other was from PHIL GROSS:
"The ALUMNI MAGAZINE came today, and I don't see how anyone can resist your appeal for letters. (May there be others equally susceptible. Ed.) However, will someone please tell me what to write!
"The last time I heard from you, I believe, was when I was still in Ithaca, and you were with a laboratory supply house. That must have been seven years ago. Since then I have come to New York (May 1, 1924), and have been with the Air Reduction Sales Company (adv.) ever since. Now we have an associated company, Pure Carbonic, Inc., (adv.) with whom I am also associated. I am like the bigamist who suffered with two mothers-in-law—only I have at least five bosses, three in one company and two in the other.
"All this work with compressed gas probably means I have none left for class letters. This, in spite of the fact I was handed a letter last week by one of the above mentioned bosses with the remark, 'Here, you answer this. You have the best line of bull around here!'
"I see KEL SMITH and BOB DOW probably more than any of the rest. The former is now in Arizona or New Mexico for his health, and the latter teaches at N. Y. U. There is no connection between these two occupations. SHERRY BAKETEL (adv.) drops in to see me at the office occasionally.
"I managed to take in the Dartmouth-Chicago game as well as the Dartmouth-Northwestern affair. At the last I met AL STEINBRECHER, my Wisconsin competitor, and SNAKE CORBIN, who followed my example by marrying a Cornell co-ed.
"Since 1920 I have been in Hanover only once, and then only for a couple of hours. I still have the same wife I started with some eight years ago and one youngster (two and a half years old now), who has at least the right sex for admission to Dartmouth.
"PHIL GROSS"
After three very enjoyable weeks in the ranks of the unemployed, during which we marched to Hanover for a three days' encampment with the Albert W. Freys, the Secretary has become connected with the advertising and sales promotion department of the Carter's Ink Company in Cambridge.
Secretary,
