1920

The 1920 formula for getting a class agent is to find somebody known as Al, whose last name begins with "F," and who is a member of the Dartmouth faculty. Al Frey served long and well. Now, in his first year, Al Foley is off to a flying start. Our compliments to him. The weakness of the class in laying the dough on the line has never reflected the calibre of the class agent, whose personal effort has consistently been magnificent. Incidentally, our happy recollections of Professor Frey are supplemented by a recent bulletin on him: He has transferred (in Washington) to RFC's Office of Surplus Property, heading up their Product and Market Research activities; will sever his governmental connections in December to do a six-months' job for the Ronald Press; and will rejoin the faculty of the Tuck School on July 1, 1946.

Business item No. 2 will make us all feel healthy and wealthy as we swing into the fall season: Pop Rollins, originally Assistant and later Associate, has stepped into the full title of Medical Director for the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Cos. Pop never really did list his honors fully enough for us, so we draw upon the Standard (Boston), and the Insurance Advocate (New York), for the information that he is a member of the medical committee of the Hartford Hospital Executive Committee, a member of the Board of Directors of the Travelers' Aid Society, as well as a member of the Medical Directors' Association and the medical section of the American Life Convention. All of which seems to add up to plenty.

News from four continents figures in the reports which are in process of writing finis to Twenty's part in the war effort: We have word of Stan Conway in the Africa-Middle East Theatre; a letter from Warrie Gault (as of last May) in his bleak Aleutian outpost; transcript of a recent interview with Lt. Col. Charlie Sargent, back from Germany; and a cheerful communication from Lt. Col. Dick Hayes, who was deflected, en route to Tokio, to the Ashburn General Hospital in McKinney, Texas.

Stan Conway, whose sergeant's rank has become known to us for the first time, is coming back soon for discharge from the Army. He has put in seventeen months overseas with the Upper Air Section of the 19th Weather Squadron, most of it at Payne Field, outside Cairo, Egypt. He is quite at home now in such places as Palestine, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, and other hot spots that keep crashing the news headlines.

Warrie had been "all over the Aleutian Islands (APO 944) since January," and wrote "from a bleak and forsaken spot where all the winds begin." Based at Anchorage, he had spent a month at Fairbanks and had also been to Seward and Juneau. He writes, "Another chap and I are the government auditors here for a short contract. We have a jeep to run around in but there isn't any place to run to."

Charlie, the S (e)argent with lieutenant colonel's rank, showed up at New York's Dartmouth Club in mid-September. Now on terminal leave, he will be a civilian by December. Charlie has the unique record of never seeing the rear. With General Patton's spearhead, from the Normandy beachhead to Germany via the breadth of France, he had ten successive months in the front line. He flew from Bavaria to New York and was on his way to Florida for his first vacation in five years.

Our other lieutenant colonel, Dick Hayes, can be quoted direct as he tells of his last months in the South Pacific, his convalescence in Texas, and a California reunion dinner in between:

Originally I went into the hospital with an ear infection but have developed arthritis and that's what I'm fighting right now. Lost 58 pounds in New Guinea, which I guess got my resistance down, but I'm hoping to get it back. Tried to go back to duty once because I was slated for MacArthur's staff on the occupation of Japan and it would have been extremely interesting—but I couldn't keep it up. When I was home on sick leave in June Rus Cotner called up. He arranged a dinner to celebrate our 25th—Zack Jordan, Reu Phillips, Jack Allenberg, Zeke Forbush and Reuben Charles were there. We had a swell evening and it was damned nice of Rus to arrange the affair.

Latest Breaker-into-Print: Carroll Swezey, whose article in the June issue of The Bulletin of the National Retail Dry Goods Association was headed, "Maybe the Smaller Store Hasn't a Chance, but Here's One That Isn't for Sale." Carroll makes a good case for the postwar competition that the independents, with their nationally advertised brands, expect to be able to give the chains.

Latest Picture-in-the-Paper: Hike Newell (N. Y. Herald Tribune sports section, August 12), in the company of Jesse Jones, no less, and a couple of guides, exhibiting a whole school of bass hooked at Cape Vincent, N. Y.

Irv Blaine's fine account of the 25th Reunion affair held at John Carden's place outside Washington, D. C., is being saved in its entirety for the next issue of Twenty. It tells of a grand party, attended by Al Frey, the Sigler, Small, Blaine and Snedecor families, Mary Vail and son Jimmy. Irv's later news of himself places him, as of mid-summer, back on his farm in Wakefield, R.I., where he was "enjoying two whole months of vacation and putting the farm, very much neglected during the war, in shape for profitable operation, I hope." Irv resigned from his government job after three war years in Washington. He and neighbor Clif Aulis have been swapping news since his return to Wakefield, where he finds Clif elected to the town council, widely known and well liked.

A STAFF MEMBER OF McCALL'S; Thomas W. Bresnahan '19 is the magazine's special representative to the Home Furnishing and Building Trades. He is at present writing a series of articles for the "Department Store Economist."

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