Class of 1920
Having just read a California-boosting letter from able correspondent WINSLOW and having just returned from our second total eclipse of the sun in a period of eight years we are tempted to ask ourselves if California is such a wonderful place after all. . . . New England has its compensations for the astronomically minded at least.
If the new ALUMNI MAGAZINE looks as good as the editors told us it would at the meetings last May, you are having a treat. Notice the arrangement of the class notes —italic for quoted letters. We have been asked to keep letters at a minimum partly to save space and partly to preserve the attractive appearance of the new page layout. It will be a big help to the Secretary to have news items sent in story form wherever possible. But send in the news anyway—story or letter. And don't forget your subscription blank. There will be eight more issues just as full of interesting material about Dartmouth as this one.
During the past few years we have heard altogether too little about our number one class artist, PAB SAMPLE. In a recent issue of the Art Digest, we saw the reproduction of a Sample painting reproduced in these columns.
As this cut was made from a half-tone print considerable detail is lost, but the effect of the composition is certainly there, and we are very much in agreement with the comment of the Art Digest, which we quote in part:
"Our artists are waking up to the discovery that we do not live like Frenchpeasants or Munich burghers; that a buildingon 19,orth Broadway or Echo Park avenue is not like a building on Montparnasse.The Metier Brewery looks just as Paul Starrett Sample has shown us in his delightful'Speech ,Near Brewery.' Not one of thesethree pictures looks like a Paris importation.They celebrate the healthiest art trend inyears—a trend as certain to produce a reallocal painting renaissance as was the concentration on local truths practiced by theearly Flemish painters."
Timely, ABE WINSLOW'S letter mentioned above quotes from a letter of Pab's on the letter paper of the California Art Club, Los Angeles, which we print, gladly exposing ourselves to editorial censure for using too much italic: DEAR ABE:
I am heartily ashamed of myself for notanswering your friendly letter sooner—asking for news of myself for the class bulletin. I have no excuses—unless it be that Ihaven't any news. At least no news of thekind one usually expects in class bulletins.I am not growing bald, have no babies, anddo not play golf or bridge.
In fact about all I do is paint, and whennot doing that am trying to teach art students how to do so. The last is rather aquestionable pursuit, especially when onefeels not any too hot as a painter oneself.I have for the past two or three years exhibited throughout the country, New York,Chicago, Washington, Philadelphia, etc.,but don't suppose any of the good classmates have ever viewed a Sample masterpiece, as, with the exception of Al Cate, Ihave never known of any of us (myself included until a few years ago) who everventured into an art exhibition.
True, I did lure WARRY CHAMBERLAIN last spring in New York into the Dudensing Gallery, where on seeing a nude modernistic sculpture he ventured the remarkthat it looked like at wet-down. Inyour letter you especially urge me to singthe praises of Southern California. I amnot a booster for this place by any means.It doesn't make much difference to mewhere I live as long as it isn't in the MiddleWest. One city in the U. S. is, as far as Ican see, much like another. There is apleasant climate here, but too many peopleand too much ballyhoo connected witheverything. The best part of each year forme is the period of a few months spent inNew England, fishing and painting andenjoying the comparative remoteness of it.My wife likes that, too—as she comes fromVermont.
I rarely see another '20 man and wishthis were otherwise. And as I haven't evenseen an ALUMNI MAGAZINE this year I havemissed out on the class news. But I plansoon to gather the back numbers all together and check up on what has been going on. I appreciate your note, Abe, andwish I had more news to send along.Sincerely, PAB SAMPLE.
If the Windy City runs true to form, it and points west to the Rockies should be well represented in Twenty's column during coming months. O. K. California, we in New England thank you for sending Pab's letter without deletion.
Abe's letter also brings news of JIMMINNIS only recently discovered as a Californian: "looking fine, fat, and as handsome as ever; prosperous too, with the firmof Lombardi and Minnis in the FinancialCenter Building."
BINGO WHITAKER has been in the baking business almost all the time since 1920. He has been located successively in Hartford, Somerville, Springfield, Rochester, and Youngstown. Now he is with Hathaway in Dover, N. H.
JOHNNY ALLEN, who has for some time been in the lumber and coal business in Council Bluffs, is now secretary and treasurer of Waterlox Company, Omaha, and is living at 211 Park Ave., Council Bluffs.
PAUL BOWERMAN has a new post: American Consulate, Saloniki, Greece. As nearly all know, he has previously been located at Berlin, Ottawa, and in Jugoslavia.
DICK CHARLOCK has stepped into job number seven. He is with Chas. E. Doyle and Co., New York. He has been in the investment business right along, but always before in Philadelphia.
JACK ALLENBERG, Ph.D. (Columbia, 1925), recently in Spokane, is now with Western Oil and Fuel Co. in Minneapolis.
Welcome, Bill, to the Twenty fold! Listed for a number of years with 1921, BILL SINCLAIR has seen the light and asked to be associated with the class where he has belonged all the time. Now we want some news of what you have been doing in the mean time.
ABE PRESCOTT is back in school again. After a number of years with the Osborn Manufacturing Co. he is studying at Kirksville (Mo.) College of Osteopathy and Surgery.
Fewer and fewer each year are Twenty marriages. We are lucky to have two to report. CHARLIE SARGENT to Arlene Mabelle Gardner, June 10 at Greenwood, Mass., and DR. CHARLIE MCKENZIE to Margaret Elizabeth Hines of Raleigh and Greensboro. In the latter event, to which seven columns in the Raleigh News and Observer were devoted, JOHN FELLI officiated as best man. Charlie Sargent is an official of the Masonic office in Boston. Charlie McKenzie is teaching at Washington University, St. Louis. John is treasurer of General Aviation Corp. in Baltimore, and has recently returned from a trip to Hollywood as guest of Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc.
As a newspaper representative, ROY RUBEL has been jumping back and forth between New York and Chicago. Dates as follows: 1923 New York, 1926 Chicago, 1927 New York, and now back to Chicago with a business address at 360 N. Michigan Ave.
DON MACDONALD has been made the Albany manager of Massachusetts Bonding and Insurance Company after a number of years with the same company in Boston.
BILL FARNHAM has made a change after several years with E. H. Rollins and Sons. He has been made a partner of H. M. Ahlquist and Co., investment councilors, Spokane.
New addresses have been recorded as follows: TOM SMITH, 1239 Del Mar St., Fresno, Calif.; AB OSBORN, Woolworth Building, New York; GEORGE WINTER, 230 Satterthwaithe Ave., Nutley, N. J.; and LEO UNGAR, 311 W. Broadway, Council Bluffs, lowa.
"Young Mr. NEWELL Starts Out to Widen Frigidaire's Market." Thus is captioned a leading article in a recent issue of Sales Management. Nor is this the only story about Hike to appear of late, as every reader of sales and advertising publications knows. In fact it is hard to pick one up without reading something about him. As previously recorded, he is now vice-president in charge of sales of Frigidaire. The writer of the article referred to "could not recall another vice-president in charge of sales of a company selling perhaps $100,000,000 . . . who was only 34."
Proud, the Secretary now holds a private pilot's license, will gladly give rides to any air-minded classmates.
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