Class of 1920
Al Stillman writes that he is still in Lacyville, Pa., and also still in the lumber business. He reports that very few Dartmouth men come his way.
The '20 dinner on the night preceding the Harvard game was a huge success. The following were in attendance: Blaine, Baketel, Downey, Eaton, Elliott, Fiske, Harvey, Hodgkins, Hutchinson, Lee, Macomber, McGoughran, Merritt, Moulton, Pearson, the Richters, Roland Sullivan, Tillson, and Thompson.
Gardy Fowler has bought himself a 35 acre farm in West Gloucester, Me. (just out of Lewiston, where he works). He has horses, dogs, cats, etc., in fact he's a regular lace-pants farmer. He says he wouldn't trade with Edward VIII.
The Warren Turners have suffered a terrible loss. While bathing last summer their 8-year-old daughter Marjorie suffered a heart attack and died shortly after.
Various news items finally seep down to me, the latest being that on September 7, 1935, Leo Ungar was married. This is all the detail I have, but I suppose I'm lucky to get this much.
Lloyd Smith reports a '20 dinner the latter part of September at the Dartmouth Club in New York. He says he remembers the following being present: Stone, Davidson, Mayer, Foster, Felli, Sackett, and Willard.
John Amsden has been promoted to a full professorship in chemistry at Dartmouth.
Sam Stratton has been promoted to associate professor of finance at the Harvard Business School. He has done considerable writing during the past two or three years.
Pab Sample received fourth honorable mention in the recent Carnegie International Exhibition of Modern Paintings at Pittsburgh. Of the eight artists who received awards only three were Americans. Pab's prize-winning picture "Barber's Shop" was reproduced in the rotogravure section of the New York Times for Sunday, October 18, Edward Alden Jewell comments on it as follows: "The 'Barber'sShop' by Paul Sample proves a genuinecontribution in the field of American genre.Satire remains such; does not broaden outinto burlesque by overstepping the boundsof sobriety that throughout informs thisscene, built up with brilliant resourcefulness and brushed with shrewd affection."
George Page has opened a retail establishment in the old home town, Bellows Falls.
Ed Lindsay has been very active as head of the board of directors of the University of Dubuque. At inaugural ceremonies on October 30, Ed played an important part on the program by inducting the new president, Dale D. Welch, into office.
Tommy Thomson, Ann, and the three youngsters visited Hanover late in the summer.
l1 Cate spoke before the Tuck School classes in October. A group including Sampson, Carter, and Frey took him for a bit of Outing Clubbing at Agassiz Cabin over one night of his visit.
Al Foley is head of the speakers' bureau and Al Frey chairman of the publicity committee in connection with the campaign to raise $300,000 for the expansion of the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover. Foley has probably made more speeches during the past two months than all the other members of the class since they left Hanover in 1920.
Bill Carter was a special assistant in the Attorney Generals' office at Washington during the past summer.
Greg Tobin's engagement was recently announced. He is to be married to Miss Martha Adams of Saddle River, N. J.
Charlie Cowles is leading the typical life of an army officer. He has been transferred from West Point, N. Y., to Fort Des Moines, lowa.
A newspaper clipping has it that "ArthurD. Thomson was a sergeant in the 'StateChampionship Wollaston Legion DrillTeam' which executed the most perfectdrilling formation ever witnessed at a national Legioii convention, at the AmericaJiLegion Convention in Cleveland, and wonfirst honors in the national competition."
Treasurer Beardsley Foster apparently is at odds with Jim Farley. Instead of receiving his mail at his home he advised the College to send it to Box 26, Glenbrook, Conn.
It's been a long time since Hal Huntington has been heard from, but he recently advised that he is living at 25 E. Oak Ave., Morristown, N. J. He is a cultivated blueberry farmer, and does his picking in New Lisbon, N. J., and Atkinson, N. C.
Dean Travis is still a banker but has changed affiliations. He is officer in charge of the Manufacturers' Trust Co., 386 4th Ave., New York City. After business hours you may be able to locate him at 96 Susse Rd„ Tenafly, N. J.
Barrister Tom Davidson's business address is 92 z Bergen Ave., Jersey City, N. J. Ken Hardy's new abode is 55 Grand St., Reading, Mass., and Lowell Holway's is 106 Webster St., Rockland, Mass.
If you get a chance, read Jim Davis' "Dartmouth Nineteen News." It is a sample of what it takes to be voted the best class secretary, as Jim was a couple years ago.
Roc tells me that the dues are coming in fairly well, but that as yet he isn't in a position to reject any contributions.
Secretary, 158 State St., Albany, N. Y.
